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Bronze the runner-up.", "Disability campaigners say it was \"bizarre\" to limit video views to reduce bullying on the app.", "A Welsh Tory election candidate criticises Boris Johnson's language after the London Bridge attack.", "More than 93,000 suspects of crimes including rape and murder have been freed without restrictions.", "Tensions with Russia and Turkey give Nato stress as it shapes its new role, Jonathan Marcus writes.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The screening programme, launched after the disease killed a woman, will now include children.", "A fashion industry executive is hoping to make clothing rental a popular trend in the UK.", "The singer says she turned to alcohol after struggling to cope with life in the spotlight.", "A minister said the show \"was not Malaysian culture...the majority 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fought in the street.", "The Tesla boss is due to appear in court accused of defaming a British man during a 2018 cave rescue.", "Provisional data suggests the decade from 2010-2019 is the warmest yet recorded.", "Leader Jo Swinson says her party has taken \"swift action\" following an \"unacceptable\" incident.", "As wicketkeeper for England Geraint Jones won the Ashes but is now facing a very different challenge.", "Four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman were also struck by a Ford KA outside a school in Essex.", "Liam Whoriskey was found guilty of the manslaughter of three-year-old Kayden McGuinness.", "A lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and others of using cobalt mined by child labour.", "Nora Quoirin's family say that many serious questions remain about her disappearance.", "The jobless rate now stands at 3.7%, just below the UK figure of 3.8%, according to official figures.", "Elizabeth Steel left the Collie cross without food or water while she went away for the weekend.", "Irish Rail said concerns over scalding meant customers could not refill reusable cups on the Enterprise.", "A judge's ruling over the IT system comes after the Post Office offered a £58m deal for workers.", "Cutbacks to the justice system mean more rape victims are being let down by the courts, says a report.", "AC Milan say they \"strongly disagree\" with, and were not consulted about, the use of monkeys in a Serie A anti-racism campaign.", "The Committee on Climate Change says the 2045 date for net-zero emissions is a \"step-change in ambition\" for Scotland.", "Discounting by retailers in the run-up to Christmas is predicted to reach record heights in 2019.", "The shadow foreign secretary told the BBC in September a pro-Remain stance would help its election chances.", "Stephen Cottrell, the current Bishop of Chelmsford, will take over from Dr John Sentamu next summer.", "Natalie Elphicke says French authorities must do more to \"stop illegal departures from shores\".", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan in the heart after they brushed past each other at a shopping centre.", "Employment rises to all-time high, while wage growth slows less sharply from August to October.", "The body of former British soldier James Le Mesurier was found near his Istanbul flat in November.", "The Northern Ireland secretary met the leaders of the five biggest parties at Stormont on Monday.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "He succeeds Alun Cairns who resigned amid a row over an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Stickers bearing the slogan \"It's okay to be white\" appeared throughout Perth city centre at the weekend.", "RCN nurses in NI are set to strike for the first time on Wednesday amid complaints about pay.", "There may be outrage in Boris Johnson's planned changes, but there is unlikely to be surprise.", "Several mobile phone providers offer handsets that cannot easily be transferred to a new network.", "Admiral Tony Radakin describes Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in June as \"outrageous\".", "The Love Island host has been the subject of a \"witch hunt\", partner Lewis Burton says.", "The Reverend Richard Coles said his partner David had been \"ill for a while\".", "The presenter won't host the next series of the ITV2 show after being charged with assault.", "Gwybodaeth am Etholiad Cyffredinol 2019, gan gynnwys canlyniadau a dadansoddi.", "Firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue the boy who was trapped between two buildings.", "Fallon Sherrock is the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship after coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.", "PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as the administrator while the troubled firm looks for a buyer.", "Global gender inequality will take a century to eradicate and the UK's ranking has fallen six places.", "An ex-pro talks about pressure in the sport amid a rise in footballers seeking mental health help.", "The names and nationalities of 17 people have been released, including two who remain missing.", "Russia's state media reports that the matter was resolved after Twitch removed pirated recordings.", "Pope Francis lifts the secrecy rule that critics said protected some abusers from investigation.", "A former insider tells Panorama that SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, \"has to be shut down\".", "Sian Tarrant's job is to maintain a 13-mile wall which keeps North Ronaldsay's rare sheep on the beach.", "John Worboys is given two life sentences for drugging women with intent to sexually assault them.", "A review also says the house builder's corporate culture needs to change.", "A charity says the deaths are \"not acceptable\" and urges visitors to keep their distance.", "The 30-year-old was on the phone outside her work when the three-seater sofa landed on her.", "Aston Villa overwhelm Liverpool's youngest-ever starting line-up 5-0 at Villa Park to cruise into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.", "Jeff Noel says it is unfortunate timing, but after problems with some machines, customer safety comes first.", "Serie A is criticised for a \"misguided\" anti-racism campaign using posters of monkeys, with anti-discriminatory body Fare calling it \"a sick joke\".", "Boris Johnson is cheered by his triumphant party, while Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to Labour MPs who lost their seats last week.", "Far-right interior minister Mart Helme described Finland's PM Sanna Marin as \"a sales girl\".", "The Amazon-owned streaming giant is facing claims it illegally broadcast matches.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "Compared with last year, 20,000 fewer people were in work, but the rate is close to historic highs.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The Labour candidate appears with her baby daughter at the count in her Walthamstow constituency.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Promises have been made and plans put in place that will have an effect on your finances after the election.", "Seats held by Labour for generations across the Midlands and north of England are won by the Tories.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The Tories win their biggest majority since the 1980s, as Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead Labour into the next election, and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson loses her seat.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Read the full text of Boris Johnson’s first speech after his landslide general election win.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Manchester United seal top spot in their Europa League group with a comfortable win over AZ Alkmaar at Old Trafford.", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Sinn Féin unseats the DUP's Nigel Dodds but both main parties suffer a big drop in votes across NI.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Brian Taylor gives insight into the results of the 2019 general election in Scotland.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Talks in Madrid enter their final day with serious divisions between large emitting countries and small island states", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The veteran actor, best known as Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, dies after a short illness.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Ian Levy got 17,440 votes to win the seat which has been held by Labour since it was created in 1950.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "With all seats declared, the Tory party have a majority of 80 - the largest since 1987.", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "A study of North America's only native parrot confirms its disappearance was down to humans alone.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "European newspapers welcome clarity after the result, but many remain wary of Brexit promises.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Voters in Leigh are happy to have a Tory MP and are \"hoping that there's going to be a big change\".", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "TV presenter Caroline Flack was charged with assault after an incident at her Islington home.", "The SNP makes big gains across Scotland, including the defeat of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Researchers say the rock star did not introduce the non-native species in Carnaby Street in the 60s.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The results demonstrated the SNP's argument that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The public has granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power, and he will need to spend it well.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "He said the teenage activist - who won Time Person of the Year - had an \"anger management problem\".", "Nigel Farage claims the Brexit Party is responsible for the Conservatives' majority in Parliament.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Jailed banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva says she has been unfairly targeted by the National Crime Agency.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith are among those to lose their seats.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Boris Johnson's strong win provides only temporary relief for EU leaders wrestling with Brexit.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The jury found Holly Strawbridge guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Election night could be a long one for financial traders, with sterling the most sensitive market to political events.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The PM meets the Queen to ask to form a new government, following the Conservatives' election victory.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Olivia Wilde says she did not intend to suggest the late reporter she plays \"traded sex for tips\".", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The shadow chancellor says the exit poll predicting large Conservative gains has come has a shock.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The Labour leader's decision comes as the party faces its worst election performance for years.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Johnson's historic win has redefined the electoral map, but he will be hoping it doesn't break the union, writes Nick Watt.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The so-called phase one deal will see billions of dollars in tariffs removed or delayed.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "How well do you remember the campaign? Try Richard Osman's election quiz and find out", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Rohingya refugee Hasina Begun says Myanmar troops set her village alight and opened fire.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "If the exit poll is correct Boris Johnson will have the backing to take the UK out of the EU next month.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Asia stocks rose after the two sides reportedly reached a deal days before new tariffs were due to start.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "New primary school league table data for England has been published by the Department for Education.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The DUP's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his seat to Sinn Féin.", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "A busy night of vote counting and election results.", "Katherine Jenkins had been in London to perform at a carol concert when she was attacked.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "Britain's Anthony Joshua regains his heavyweight world titles by beating Andy Ruiz Jr over 12 rounds in Saudi Arabia.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Manchester United dent neighbours Manchester City's Premier League title hopes with a superb counter-attacking victory in the Manchester derby.", "Party pledges more government funding for amateur football as it eyes a 2030 tournament bid.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "The use 21 separate electronic record systems in NHS hospitals across England 'could lead to errors'.", "The latest developments on the last weekend of campaigning before voters go to the polls on Thursday.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "Friends of the Earth rates the party above the Greens and Lib Dems in its environment policy survey.", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "The last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "The BBC's David Shukman returns to the Sermilik glacier that he last visited in 2004.", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "Stolen Lottie is a therapy dog and \"best friend\" to 11-year-old Chloe Hopkins.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Journeys over the two Severn Crossings have increased since the £5.60 toll was axed a year ago.", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "They make up 51% of the population but what are the parties offering to women this election?", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "The award-winning actor, best known for playing Rachel's dad in Friends, had a decorated career.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "Hiker Audrey Schoeman's heart stopped beating for six hours - but doctors saved her life.", "The number of Scots registered to vote in the general election is up by 120,000, new figures show.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "Jo Swinson's party would scrap business rates and provide greater support for entrepreneurs.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would \"scrap vital new roads\".", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "Albanian boys who jumped to safety and lost family members delight in meeting Juventus stars.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "Action 4 Equality Scotland said the move followed an approach by the Financial Conduct Authority.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "The US president vowed to label Mexican drug gangs as terrorists after US citizens were ambushed.", "The groups, including two children, are rescued in the English Channel in five separate incidents.", "The actor posts a clip in which he appears to deny wrongdoing while in character as Frank Underwood.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says there is \"no more celebration\" than before despite a four-point lead at the top of the Premier League.", "A day-by-day breakdown of the allegations made against the actor and the various responses to them.", "A government source said Sussex Police accepted that there had been \"poor communications\".", "Alex Alley raised money for yacht Pixel Flyer by selling 5cm squares on the side and corresponding pixels on his website.", "Prof Abbas Edalat returns to the UK, eight months after he was arrested in Iran on security charges.", "Paul Gait and Elaine Kirk were arrested and released without charge over the drone chaos at Gatwick.", "The woman seized about 32 years ago by people traffickers was rescued in Bolivia after a tip-off.", "Two boys, both aged 15, are charged with murdering boxer Wilham Mendes in north London.", "About 90 people competed in this year's Peter Pan Cup, as bathers around the UK braved chilly waters.", "A man died in hospital after suffering injuries in Stockton early on Sunday.", "Residents reported a loud \"cracking noise\" in the new building at Sydney Olympic Park.", "The Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Cornwall were not among the royals attending church.", "PCs James Ireland and Dan Bellingham took the mother to hospital when she got stuck in traffic while in labour.", "The US central bank raises interest rates again despite pressure from the US president.", "More than 350 employees had to be freed after a gun and explosive attack at a government building.", "A crowdfunding appeal is raising cash for hundreds of staff who lost their jobs at a computer factory in Livingston.", "The US president asked the question to a child who called the White House on Christmas Eve.", "The man was knocked down on Christmas night by a police vehicle responding to an emergency.", "Footage shows the dog chasing after a car after he was dumped in a street in Stoke-on-Trent.", "Richard Odunze-Dim, was shot dead in a street in Edmonton, north London, last week.", "The Queen says the Christian message never dates and recalls a \"busy year\" as a grandmother.", "Some of the best images from around the world as Christians mark the birth of Christ.", "The former JLS star scores a perfect 40 in Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special.", "In his Christmas Eve Mass homily, he urged people to ask themselves if they needed to own so much.", "The suspect was flown out of the US by private plane on an illegal passport, officials suspect.", "\"My wish for a happy Christmas is a wish for fraternity among individuals of every nation and culture.\"", "The UK's Christian leaders use Christmas messages to highlight action against poverty.", "Lawmakers across party lines are upset about General Mattis' departure from the Trump administration.", "Eduard Zigar took his own life less than a week after beginning his hospital placement.", "Guacho, wanted for the murder of two journalists, has been called \"one of the most horrendous criminals\".", "Andros Townsend smashes home a sublime 30-yard volley as Crystal Palace stun defending champions Manchester City.", "Retailers banking on last-minute Christmas shoppers to boost December sales may end up disappointed.", "A charity single about sausage rolls steals the festive top spot from Ariana Grande and Ava Max.", "It's now 10 years since the ubiquitous Woolworths stores disappeared from Scottish high streets.", "Vets say they treat more animals in December than during any other month of the year.", "The Dow Jones and the Nasdaq recorded the biggest falls since 2008, led by tech giants.", "The ex-chancellor says the party must adapt to modern Britain to survive in government.", "A man and a woman from Crawley, aged 47 and 54, are in custody as the airport aims to return to normal.", "The actor, who is straight, says he doesn't want to deprive gay actors of potential roles.", "A rail firm says very few evening trains will run \"at a vital time for businesses\".", "A Royal Navy presence in the Black Sea will show solidarity with Ukraine, the defence secretary says.", "Alba, the world's only known albino orangutan, has been through many months of rehabilitation.", "The US president says any measure that funds the government must include border security.", "Former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown has died aged 77.", "The latest work by the street artist appeared on a garage in Port Talbot earlier this week.", "Robert Dawes, originally from Nottinghamshire, brokered deals with gangs in South America and Europe.", "The procedure can reduce the likelihood of illnesses later in life and improve walking ability.", "Leading political figures pay tribute to Lord Ashdown, who has died following a short illness.", "Their host families had feared the shutdown would prevent the children from enjoying two weeks of TLC.", "The star has tweeted at length for the first time after a reported overdose earlier this year.", "Gareth Jones was jailed for a crime he did not commit - but told his niece he had gone to work for Santa.", "LadBaby describes reaching Christmas number one with We Built This City On Sausage Rolls as 'mind blowing'.", "The reasons why the US president may never get to build his promised barrier ", "Former Royal Marine who led the Liberal Democrats and spearheaded a peace initiative in the former Yugoslavia.", "The vessel had been sailing in circles in the Thames Estuary after the crew were threatened.", "The Labour leader says he would pursue Brexit if his party won a snap election next year.", "The island also denies having refused food to 300 other rescued migrants it did not allow in.", "A man and a woman are being questioned as inquiries continue into drone use that grounded flights.", "A rampant Manchester United beat Cardiff in caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first game in charge.", "Chase Bishop accidentally shot a bystander in the leg while dancing in a Denver bar in June.", "A third of train services running on a line between two towns in the north west of England have been cancelled since May.", "This 400-year-old work by the greatest female artist of the Baroque period feels incredibly modern.", "Home ownership rates for the young rise after 30 years, but buying remains a far-off dream for many.", "Ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig is being denied a lawyer and cannot turn lights off at night, sources say.", "'See, we get along,' the president joked during testy exchanges with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.", "There was a new sighting of a drone at 17:10 GMT, causing the airport briefly to suspend flights.", "Recent days have distilled all the chaos, drama and conflict of his presidency down to its purest form.", "TV presenter Caroline Flack was charged with assault after an incident at her Islington home.", "Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.", "Lawyers for Quadriga users say there are \"questionable circumstances\" behind Gerald Cotten's death.", "This time the opinion polls called it correctly, says BBC political analyst Peter Barnes.", "Boris Johnson tells Nicola Sturgeon in a phone call that he has \"unwavering commitment\" to the union despite the SNP's election success.", "Promises have been made and plans put in place that will have an effect on your finances after the election.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "The kids laughed a lot, shouted a great deal and talked through the bits they found boring.", "New rail timetables come in on Sunday, with more and speedier services promised on some routes.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "Boris Johnson was in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's former constituency, after the Tories' biggest election win in more than 30 years.", "Boris Johnson visits Sedgefield in north-east England, which has returned its first Conservative MP for 84 years, following the party's general election victory.", "Patrick Reed's caddie is thrown out of the Presidents Cup in Melbourne after he \"shoved\" a fan who had been directing abuse at his player.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "Why did the Conservatives win a seat they did not target and one they had never won before?", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "The veteran singer beats Robbie Williams and The Who to the UK number one spot in a close race.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "Dennis Skinner, known as the Beast of Bolsover, has lost his seat after 49 years. What went wrong?", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "Finnish Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni deletes her poll on repatriating IS-linked women and children.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "The results demonstrated the SNP's argument that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.", "One of the women is seriously injured in hospital, police say.", "From Nigel Dodds in North Belfast to Elisha McCallion in Foyle, the main parties suffered some blows.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "The veteran actor, best known as Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, dies after a short illness.", "More than three-quarters of consumers who haggled were offered a better deal, according to Which?", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "The star, who played Annie Sugden, was part of the soap from its launch as Emmerdale Farm in 1972.", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "Fire warnings are in place for many areas including Perth, where temperatures are set to remain high.", "Brian Taylor assesses the significance of the Scottish National Party's success in the general election.", "Arsenal distance the club from comments made by midfielder Mesut Ozil on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "The jury found Holly Strawbridge guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "Boris Johnson's strong win provides only temporary relief for EU leaders wrestling with Brexit.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "Voters in Leigh are happy to have a Tory MP and are \"hoping that there's going to be a big change\".", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "The body issuing refunds to customers of the tour operator has apologised for payment delays.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "Boris Johnson's Brexit U-turn on Northern Ireland is being downplayed as the election looms.", "Updates as politicians continued to seek voters' support, ahead of Thursday's poll.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "The economy sees the weakest three months for more than a decade as growth flatlines.", "One of New Zealand's most active volcanoes has erupted, claiming the lives of tourists.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "After the release of another all-male nominee list for Best Director at the Golden Globes, we look at why women are not getting accolades in directing", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "Rob Brydon had no clue there were plans for a Christmas special until the script was written.", "Tuition fees in England would also be scrapped as part of a plan to make education \"free for life\".", "Carl Roberts visits a Swansea primary school to find out what pupils think about the election.", "John Allen, who is already serving a life sentence, abused five boys between 1976 and 1992.", "Drax, which generates 5% of UK power, says it will capture more carbon than it produces by 2030.", "Indigenous people come to COP25 to protest plans to expand oil production in the western Amazon.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "The \"grandmother effect\" was even stronger with grandmothers that had gone through the menopause.", "The patient said she was \"traumatised\" after feeling a cut in her belly button during surgery.", "With just two days until the general election, Scotland's main party leaders faced questions from a live studio audience.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Banksy praises Brummies' generosity as he reveals a Christmas-themed work in the city.", "Dave Merritt accuses Boris Johnson of using his son Jack's death to \"score points\" in the election.", "The chief executive and executive chairman at the High Street fashion retailer are to step down.", "Climate change could make the problem worse, multiplying the misery for displaced people.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "More than half the people on the island were Australian, with others from the US, the UK, and elsewhere.", "The PM's bizarre response to questions about hospital photograph was a gift to Labour.", "The 33-year-old is arrested at a property in Bristol as part of a planned operation, police say.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "What happened when young voters challenged politicians representing the main seven parties?", "Police in Chicago say the rapper suffered a seizure as they questioned his entourage in an airport.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "Locals report the \"worst day yet\" of a haze that has sparked health problems and forced evacuations.", "Joe Ousalice was discharged in 1993 when there was a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "Volunteers have been working since the 1970s to rebuild a railway line between two towns.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner?", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "The fire broke out on Glasgow's Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the Clyde on Monday evening.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "Twitter abuse of election candidates has escalated during the campaign, with Conservatives seeing the biggest rise, research suggests.", "House Democrats bring two charges, obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, against the US president.", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "A minute's applause is held at Harley Watson's school, a week after his death.", "The man opened fire at the hospital in Ostrava before going on the run and shooting himself dead.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "The Brexit Party leader says his party can win seats if people vote \"tactically and sensibly\".", "Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping back from the day-to-day running of Google's parent company.", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "Boris Johnson insists the alliance is \"the most successful in history\", despite tensions between members.", "Harley Watson's family say the 12-year-old was a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".", "The body is believed to be Claire Hockridge, according to Northern Territory Police", "Firefighters faced \"challenging conditions\" and took just over four hours to tackle the fire.", "Nurses are taking the unprecedented action following a four-week ballot of members.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Nato continues to provide \"peace and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people.\"", "Jasmine Francis-Smith gave birth after her fertilized egg had been incubated by her wife Donna.", "The TV advert received the third highest number of complaints this year, the regulator says.", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 women and children aged 11 to 71.", "The Tesla founder says his tweet about a British cave diver was responding to \"an unprovoked attack\".", "The family of Usman Khan express condolences to his victims, as a man who fought Khan speaks out.", "The energy giant went to court to stop any repeat of an occupation which targeted North Sea installations.", "Mr Trump labelled the French president's comments over the defence grouping \"nasty, insulting, and disrespectful\".", "Launching the UUP manifesto, Steve Aiken says he hopes party MPs will stop the current Brexit deal.", "Election campaign updates - including interviews with Boris Johnson, Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "Nicola Sturgeon, Jackson Carlaw, Richard Leonard and Willie Rennie debated on STV ahead of the general election.", "The greetings card chain will be sold back to its existing owners, saving 2,500 jobs.", "Manchester United move up to sixth in the Premier League as Tottenham suffer their first defeat under Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.", "Farieissia Martin's mental health was not evaluated when she was convicted of murdering her ex.", "It is believed to be the final member of a group of three who went missing two weeks ago, police say.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "Launching his party's manifesto, Colum Eastwood says \"decisions are made by those who show up\".", "The party promises new spending on trains, buses and trams outside London.", "Usman Khan went on counter-terror schemes in prison which have not been evaluated, the BBC finds.", "The prime minister set out his plan just hours after the US warned France of import tariffs.", "Lisa Smith from Dundalk is charged with committing a terrorist offence outside of Ireland.", "The Nordic nation's PM says modern governments need to value green energy and family welfare more.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "The Reunion Nugget, a 121g lump of pure gold, was discovered in a Scottish river in May this year.", "A bread roll was thrown at The Mash Report star after his Brexit jokes went down badly.", "Emissions of CO2 have risen in 2019, say researchers, as oil and gas use continues to grow.", "Former England captain Bob Willis, who took 325 Test wickets and was a hero of the 1981 Ashes, has died at the age of 70.", "A Welsh Tory election candidate criticises Boris Johnson's language after the London Bridge attack.", "It is believed the patient contracted the infection while visiting Nigeria, Public Health England said.", "Five men are on trial accused of sexually abusing and raping a girl in Telford.", "More than 93,000 suspects of crimes including rape and murder have been freed without restrictions.", "Tensions with Russia and Turkey give Nato stress as it shapes its new role, Jonathan Marcus writes.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "A Christmas ad for the exercise bike firm has been mocked on social media as being \"out of touch\".", "The bank says it makes payments above £30 without a bank card or mobile possible for the first time.", "Police say the INLA and Óglaigh na hÉireann were behind the killing of Jim Donegan a year ago.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Julian Smith is in Belfast where he met the NI Civil Service and unions over ongoing industrial action.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "Key dates in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization", "Les Rutherford escaped the bombing in Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "As wicketkeeper for England Geraint Jones won the Ashes but is now facing a very different challenge.", "The move will as much as quadruple the rate it charges some customers.", "There seems to be little evidence of any foreign policy strategy being followed in the White House.", "It is clear that a high proportion of abuse gangs have Pakistani heritage, the home secretary says.", "Analysts say footfall has dropped for the third year, although London appears to have bucked the trend.", "Labour says it will consult on jailing those who break laws in England and Wales banning hunting with dogs.", "The groups, including two children, are rescued in the English Channel in five separate incidents.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says there is \"no more celebration\" than before despite a four-point lead at the top of the Premier League.", "The nun became an unlikely star in the 1990s, hosting BBC shows from galleries around the world.", "Police are investigating after a car drove into \"several people\" following a suspected theft.", "The Queen's Christmas Broadcast wins the overnight battle, though Call the Midwife is the ultimate victor.", "Liverpool extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to six points after a comprehensive win over Newcastle United.", "The Dow Jones is up by nearly 5% and the technology-focused Nasdaq rises by nearly 6%.", "Trent Alexander-Arnold gave his time to less fortunate Liverpudlians, in between training sessions.", "For the past two months, two men have been racing nearly 1,000 miles (1,600km) across a frigid void.", "It is probably the one issue that brings more international condemnation on Japan than any other. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield- Hayes asks why Japan keeps on whaling?", "Two earthquakes have left buildings damaged and people injured following the eruption of Mount Etna on Monday.", "The Home Office finds evidence of organised criminal activity behind illegal migration attempts.", "The woman seized about 32 years ago by people traffickers was rescued in Bolivia after a tip-off.", "Two boys, both aged 15, are charged with murdering boxer Wilham Mendes in north London.", "About 90 people competed in this year's Peter Pan Cup, as bathers around the UK braved chilly waters.", "The strongest tremor since Europe's most active volcano erupted on Monday injures 28 people.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says \"we can and must do more\" to help Christians around the world.", "The Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Cornwall were not among the royals attending church.", "Silke Sollfrank is a professional athlete who turned her back on gymnastics and found parkour.", "Casper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, were killed by drug-driver Robert Brown.", "It says the alleged attack was \"provocative\" and threatened two airliners coming into land.", "Jason Francis was run over after a day out with friends, and his partner Alice Robinson died hours later.", "The young women sent into crowds to blow themselves up.", "A crowdfunding appeal is raising cash for hundreds of staff who lost their jobs at a computer factory in Livingston.", "The man was knocked down on Christmas night by a police vehicle responding to an emergency.", "A mum whose photo of the Royals went viral last Christmas does it again with a snap of Meghan.", "The 13-year-old has ignored the taunts to carry on litter-picking and now has fans worldwide.", "The Queen says the Christian message never dates and recalls a \"busy year\" as a grandmother.", "Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal died earlier this month after being detained by the US Border Patrol.", "Ellie Lacey: 'I wanted to tell my organ donor's family I was pregnant, but where did I start?'", "The former JLS star scores a perfect 40 in Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special.", "Tony Carroll, 70, was knocked down on Christmas Day by a police vehicle responding to an emergency.", "A new date in mid-July or early August is to be announced on Thursday, sources tell the BBC.", "Labour accuses government of hypocrisy, saying it complained about a lack of trains in opposition.", "Japan is trying to convince the world the time has come to make commercial whaling legal again.", "The UK's Christian leaders use Christmas messages to highlight action against poverty.", "A ceremony has been held in a project to reconnect inter-Korean railways and roads, almost 70 years after they were severed.", "Nora Quoirin's family say that many serious questions remain about her disappearance.", "Cutbacks to the justice system mean more rape victims are being let down by the courts, says a report.", "Healthcare workers across Northern Ireland are set to strike on Wednesday.", "The shadow foreign secretary told the BBC in September a pro-Remain stance would help its election chances.", "PC Amjad Ditta, a serving officer at the time of his alleged offence, has been suspended from duty.", "An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.", "The three Extinction Rebellion activists halted services by gluing themselves to a train in London.", "Former prime minister Tony Blair says Labour \"let our country down\" at the general election.", "Jordan Davies, 23, is described by his family as a \"loving son, brother and father\".", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan in the heart after they brushed past each other at a shopping centre.", "Scientists say it's 'not a myth' that people on a vegan diet need extra vitamin B12.", "Super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor says he is \"ashamed\" and will take time off to reflect on his actions.", "Nearly half of GPs now work part-time with a drive to increase numbers under threat, regulators warn.", "The Stepney-born entertainer became a TV regular after enjoying musical success in the early 1960s.", "The prosecution had argued the 28-year-old was in a \"drugged-up state\" after taking tramadol.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "Anne and Julia care for husbands who have dementia and face agonising decisions about the future.", "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit policy left voters \"without guidance and leadership\".", "RCN nurses in NI are set to strike for the first time on Wednesday amid complaints about pay.", "British American Tobacco and three other vaping companies have posts promoting e-cigarettes banned.", "Ex-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley performed a sex act in front of a mother and her daughter.", "We did nothing wrong, Donald Trump tells supporters in Michigan after historic vote in House.", "Emma Dent Coad says she chose not to reveal her condition to prevent it becoming a campaign issue.", "It may be Wales' smallest school, but it still plans a Christmas show to remember.", "Fallon Sherrock says female darts players need \"more opportunities\" after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "Talks in Brussels end with agreement that 2020 will see far fewer fish landed from the North Sea.", "Christine Edwards lost \"everything\" when her husband Vaughan was killed in a Christmas party attack.", "Homeowners, including former customers of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, claim they have been overcharged.", "The presenter won't host the next series of the ITV2 show after being charged with assault.", "Influencers including Lauren Goodger are filmed about promoting a drink containing cyanide.", "Ryan's World is ranked number one for the second year in a row.", "Fallon Sherrock is the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship after coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.", "Stephen Graham, Charlotte Riley and Joe Alwyn discuss the darker, more psychological take on Charles Dickens' classic novel.", "Lady Hale warns against moving towards a US-style Supreme Court, in her last speech as the UK's top judge.", "Swearing in of new MPs concludes as ex-PM Tony Blair weighs in on how Labour should react to its election defeat.", "The comments from the UK's official climate come ahead of a global climate conference in Glasgow.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "As charity Médecins Sans Frontières warns of a health emergency in refugee camps, one expectant mother living in Lesbos spoke to BBC of her fears.", "The party's candidates won \"unwinnable\" seats in the North East - but they have a lot to prove.", "Harris James was mistakenly treated for pneumonia when he had a heart condition.", "John Worboys is given two life sentences for drugging women with intent to sexually assault them.", "Dancers at Vienna State Opera's academy were encouraged to smoke to stay slim, a report finds.", "Holders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-finals.", "Jeff Noel says it is unfortunate timing, but after problems with some machines, customer safety comes first.", "Action by UNITE health workers and NIPSA ambulance staff will continue into Thursday morning.", "The Ministry of Justice said Ali Zahawy faces disciplinary action over the message filmed in jail.", "The co-founder of the Bet365 website receives another huge pay award as online gambling booms.", "Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.", "The Hotpoint and Indesit washing machine recall starts in January, but some customers are still waiting for answers.", "Hundreds of passengers struggled to get home from Victoria and London Bridge stations following a major signal failure.", "The party's choice to head a probe into Islamophobia and other prejudices does not \"bode well\", Tory peer says.", "The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had been postponed in October because of unrest.", "Pupils were asked to imagine themselves being a parent of a Manchester Arena bombing victim.", "The shadow foreign secretary tells the BBC she can win the contest \"from the heart of the party\".", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "Performance artist David Datuna caused a stir at Art Basel in Miami after he ate the banana used in an art work by Maurizio Cattelan.", "Kamil Biecke has not been seen for a year and police fear he may have been killed.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "Police have arrested hundreds of people on drug charges, but a charity says the same issues remain.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "The Brexit Party will get a new name and \"change politics for good\", its founder and leader says.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "The last Virgin train left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "State media did not give details of the test, which comes amid new tensions with the US.", "The singer has been accused of fetishising bisexuality on his new album.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "The vicar said he discovered the thieves smashed one of the church's stained glass windows earlier.", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "The PM says a leaked Treasury document that says there will be customs checks is \"wrong\".", "The Norwegian-South African duo met up with a rescue team as they were dangerously low on food.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "An investigation has been launched into an alleged six-figure fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "Leaders make fresh appeals to voters, saying the stakes are higher than in any recent election.", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "James Cleverly says an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.", "Events in cities including London, Edinburgh and New York aim to raise £38m to help rough sleepers.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "The last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Thomas Griffith Jones, 82, whose first language is Welsh, could be cared for 135 miles from home.", "A study by a Beijing-based body indicates many are worried about their biometric data being hacked.", "Everton dismiss manager Marco Silva after 18 months in charge with the club in the relegation zone.", "Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku and Roma defender Chris Smalling condemn the 'Black Friday' headline used by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport.", "The neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of murdering the black teenager who he shot dead in the US in 2012.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "The party promises to recruit nearly 20,000 extra teachers in England over five years if it wins power.", "Gareth Delbridge and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis were killed on 3 July after being hit by a train.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "The men claim they were wrongly convicted of assaulting a police officer nearly 50 years ago.", "Robert Pugh, 75, has also been found not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "One in three of the first Thomas Cook customers to claim refunds will not be paid within the 60-day target.", "The Brexit Party leader says three of his MEPs who quit have strong links to the Conservatives.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "Managerless Arsenal's season hits a new low as they are beaten at home by struggling Brighton in interim boss Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "Seventy former and current officials submit evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Former England captain Bob Willis, who took 325 Test wickets and was a hero of the 1981 Ashes, has died at the age of 70.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "With a week until polling day, party leaders continued to tour the country in the hope of winning votes.", "The Chinese company filed the case after it was labelled as a security threat by Washington.", "Manchester United move up to sixth in the Premier League as Tottenham suffer their first defeat under Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.", "British heavyweight Anthony Joshua fields questions about Saudi 'sportswashing' human rights abuse claims with his re-match against Andy Ruiz Jr.", "Stormzy's Vossi Bop topped the charts in the UK, but Latin Pop ruled around the world.", "Andrew Dymock, who faces 12 terror charges, is accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels to call for \"total war\".", "Lucy Edwards is one of 35 new guest presenters on Radio 1 and 1Xtra over the Christmas period.", "Steve Brooks and Matt Jones return back to Britain after a record 27,000-mile flight around the world.", "The corporation's boss Tony Hall outlines the plan to place its \"BAME talent\" in top positions.", "The first minister denies opposition claims of a \"crisis\" after Susan Deacon resigns as chairwoman of the SPA.", "Vittorio Grigolo admits there was \"a brawl between colleagues\" after a performance on tour in Japan.", "The move will as much as quadruple the rate it charges some customers.", "Officials say a US sailor opened fire at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii.", "Debts including credit card debt and personal loans have risen 11% to £119bn in two years.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "The boss of Scottish Power says nationalising the energy industry will delay reaching a zero carbon future.", "The oil giant's listing is the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba in 2014.", "Searches are carried out after a man's body was found in the wreckage of an Andover home.", "France's Vinci is to buy 50.01% of the UK's second-busiest airport for £2.9bn.", "Entertainer Arron Hough, 20, went missing off the coast of Puerto Rico, the US Coast Guard says.", "Three children were among one group to arrive in Folkestone at night aboard a dinghy.", "The UK tourists, including a child, were in a vehicle which crashed while crossing a bridge in Iceland.", "There seems to be little evidence of any foreign policy strategy being followed in the White House.", "Analysts say footfall has dropped for the third year, although London appears to have bucked the trend.", "Celebrity Big Brother, Love Island and Loose Women were among the programmes viewers objected to.", "The nun became an unlikely star in the 1990s, hosting BBC shows from galleries around the world.", "Police are investigating after a car drove into \"several people\" following a suspected theft.", "Liverpool extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to six points after a comprehensive win over Newcastle United.", "Carl Davies estimates that the cost of the presents was over £1,500.", "Judges close a contentious case over the downing of the president's jet, which sparked the genocide.", "The Dow Jones is up by nearly 5% and the technology-focused Nasdaq rises by nearly 6%.", "Wall Street shares recover after dropping 2% amid political and economic uncertainty.", "Residents are told to leave for a second time so investigators and engineers can work around the clock.", "For the past two months, two men have been racing nearly 1,000 miles (1,600km) across a frigid void.", "Two earthquakes have left buildings damaged and people injured following the eruption of Mount Etna on Monday.", "Santas get a well-earned rest in Brazil and celebrate with a trip to the barber.", "The remarkable story of Lev Yashin, the greatest goalkeeper of all time and a hero of the Soviet Union.", "Casper Platt-May, two, and his brother Corey, six, were killed by drug-driver Robert Brown.", "The government wants to double the charge and extend it to all shops in England, to cut plastic use.", "Jason Francis was run over after a day out with friends, and his partner Alice Robinson died hours later.", "Chinese state sometimes acts in a \"malign way\", Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is reported as saying.", "Aqib Imran, who has learning difficulties, told an MI5 officer he wanted to travel to fight in Libya.", "After a picture of the aircraft was posted, the secret flight was tracked online.", "The young women sent into crowds to blow themselves up.", "EU's competition commissioner says tech firms must become more transparent about their use of data.", "A mum whose photo of the Royals went viral last Christmas does it again with a snap of Meghan.", "A research group says Britain's black and ethnic minority staff are paid less than white counterparts.", "The 118 service to Brixton ploughed through a fence and hit the front of a house in south London.", "Some NHS trusts doubled the cost of certain stays in 2017-18, freedom of information requests show.", "The American pop star confirms her marriage to the Australian actor on social media.", "A murder investigation is under way at the scene in Margate, Kent.", "A woman is still in a serious condition after being injured in a supermarket car park.", "The commissioner says the public could be at risk if the UK and EU stop co-operating on security issues.", "People donated £67,000 to pay for Sophie Wilson's hospital bills and medical flight from Thailand.", "The blast destroyed the building in Andover, Hampshire, and led to other homes being evacuated.", "Tony Carroll, 70, was knocked down on Christmas Day by a police vehicle responding to an emergency.", "The video and image sharing site apologises after a test was accidentally rolled out to millions of users.", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "Investigators say a genocide may have been committed in Myanmar. This is how they came to that conclusion.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "A ricochet bullet from the London Bridge terror attack could have gone straight through a bus.", "The party leaders are making a last-ditch attempt to win support ahead of Thursday’s general election.", "Ryan Sessegnon marks his first Tottenham start with a goal but cannot prevent Spurs from losing to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "Jaden Moodie's mother explains the despair of losing her 14-year-old son in London's drug gang war.", "The system for resolving world trade disputes grinds to a halt after the US blocks any new WTO judges.", "A jet that skidded off the runway at Liverpool Airport was carrying one of the owners of Liverpool FC.", "Genaro García Luna, architect of Mexico's \"war on drugs\", is accused of taking bribes from a cartel.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "The main messages of the leaders are clear - but it is uncertain they can convince the public.", "The raids took place in Luton as part of a human trafficking investigation into modern day slavery.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "The gifts were for an event in Bristol at the weekend but it was cancelled due to high winds.", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Castles and mirrored ceilings attracted clicks among window shoppers on a property website.", "He gives the leather jacket back to Olivia Newton-John after buying it from her for $243,000.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "BBC Wales' correspondents share their views on the policies that could make a difference.", "Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.", "Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.", "Over to you...", "In 2017-18, the average school in London raised £43,000 from donations. In Yorkshire, it was about £13,300.", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "The six-week election campaign has seen politicians working hard to win your votes.", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "Nikki Birgit Campbell and her 23-month-old daughter, Rhea, were pulled from their car as it filled with flood water.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Brazil, China, India and Saudi Arabia are criticised as anger grows at a UN climate change meeting.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "A number of birds at a chicken farm in Suffolk are found to have the H5 strain of avian flu.", "The stabbing of a 47-year-old man took the number of killings in the capital to 142 since 1 January.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "The Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.", "Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations in court in The Hague.", "The singer has amassed a combined run of 12 number one singles and albums between 2010 and 2019.", "Tributes are paid to the \"larger-than-life\" TV broadcaster, scientist and conservationist.", "Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is pictured on the seabed for the first time.", "Riot police fire tear gas and rubber bullets as anti-government protests continue in Lebanon.", "The victim, in his 40s, was found with fatal injuries at a property in east London.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "The driver of the truck apologises ahead of the fifth anniversary of the crash which killed six people.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "How a photographer captured a traumatic journey through chemotherapy. Then had to do it all again.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "Boris Johnson visits Sedgefield in north-east England, which has returned its first Conservative MP for 84 years, following the party's general election victory.", "Residents in Bedfordshire have been queuing for bottled water after supplies were cut off on Friday.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "Karina, a Danish-French actress, was the muse of director Jean-Luc Godard.", "An 18-year-old is accused of killing Alex Rodda, 15, whose body was discovered on Friday.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "China's state broadcaster CCTV has removed Sunday's Arsenal-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil, state media has reported.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "Samantha Morton says she still does not feel justice has been done despite a major inquiry.", "The government is to examine whether failure to buy an annual TV licence should remain an offence.", "Guymon, Oklahoma, was on its way to becoming a ghost town. Then Mexican immigrants arrived 20 years ago.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "The public has granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power, and he will need to spend it well.", "Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the party's election defeat but the shadow chancellor says: \"This is on me\".", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Toni-Ann Singh was given the title on Saturday's event in ExCel London.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "Nine people are arrested on suspicion of murder and abuse of power after last month's deadly tremor.", "The phenomenon was filmed by firefighters in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales.", "Labour reflects on defeat and a new leader, as the SNP and government clash over a Scottish referendum.", "Kevin de Bruyne scores twice and sets up another for Raheem Sterling as Manchester City produce a masterful display to beat Arsenal.", "Staff had contacted police with concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "The Scottish first minister tells the BBC that if the union is to continue, \"it can only be by consent\".", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "The pop star will make her Glastonbury debut on the Pyramid Stage this summer, organisers say.", "Johnson's historic win has redefined the electoral map, but he will be hoping it doesn't break the union, writes Nick Watt.", "Grieving parents say including their children's names \"acknowledges the little life that was\".", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "Why mainland China insists there is a sinister hand of foreign meddling in the protests.", "Anti-government protesters hurled objects at police and chased after them in central Paris.", "More than 750 people sign a petition accusing discount site boss Josh Rathour of inappropriate behaviour.", "Multiple deaths have been reported and the death toll is expected to rise.", "More than 80,000 people attend as Emperor Akihito gives a last birthday address before his abdication.", "Der Spiegel is to file a criminal complaint against its rogue reporter Claas Relotius.", "The group were among 13 found in the back of a lorry in Corby in June 2017 and taken into care.", "The men were arrested on board the cargo ship in the Thames Estuary.", "The lack of major earthquake tremors in the Sunda Strait tsunami meant that many did not flee in time.", "A man and a woman from Crawley, aged 47 and 54, are in custody as the airport aims to return to normal.", "The actor, who is straight, says he doesn't want to deprive gay actors of potential roles.", "Josh Warrington beats Carl Frampton to retain his IBF world featherweight title in a thrilling fight at the Manchester Arena.", "A record 172,000 golf fans attended the tournament which was staged at Carnoustie in July.", "Here are the eight most popular news stories on the BBC website this year. What could be number one?", "Hundreds of children were lost after a deadly tsunami hit Indonesia, but there have since been some extraordinary reunions.", "The latest work by the street artist appeared on a garage in Port Talbot earlier this week.", "Angel \"Baby\" Etchecopar must give guests 10 uninterrupted minutes to speak each week for five months.", "Leading political figures pay tribute to Lord Ashdown, who has died following a short illness.", "The way childcare is funded under Universal Credit prevents parents working and leads to debt, MPs say.", "Hollywood actor Michael Sheen is helping pay for security and protection of the garage wall graffiti.", "Former Royal Marine who led the Liberal Democrats and spearheaded a peace initiative in the former Yugoslavia.", "The Labour leader says he would pursue Brexit if his party won a snap election next year.", "The island also denies having refused food to 300 other rescued migrants it did not allow in.", "Manchester United's interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is greeted by familiar songs but could have found a new attacking intent.", "Residents of Heilongjiang in China spray hot water into freezing air to mark the shortest day.", "A rampant Manchester United beat Cardiff in caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first game in charge.", "Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, imagery shows how affected towns and villages have been rebuilding their shattered communities.", "Live coverage as large waves hit Indonesia soon after the Anak Krakatau volcano erupts.", "The fishing vessel with 14 adults and two children on board was sailing towards the UK.", "A man and woman are released as police say 67 reports of drone sightings are being investigated.", "Heavy discounting has not been enough to get shoppers to High Streets for last-minute Christmas gifts.", "Services at Birmingham Airport were temporarily suspended due to an air traffic control fault.", "Plans aim to improve flood defences and see more woodland planted to combat climate change.", "The Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride arrived back in Dublin on Sunday morning.", "The incident took place in the early hours on the well-known Canal St, police said.", "University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, described by his father as a \"beautiful spirit\", was one of two people killed by Usman Khan.", "Watford sack manager Quique Sanchez Flores after the 2-1 loss to Southampton on Saturday.", "The social media giant says the Tory video infringed the BBC's intellectual property rights.", "Joe Root and Rory Burns score centuries for England but the second Test in New Zealand remains in the balance.", "Boris Johnson pays tribute to the bravery of members of the public and to the emergency services.", "Royal Air Force Typhoons went supersonic on Sunday morning to investigate an unresponsive aircraft.", "Senior figures from seven political parties also exchanged views on the NHS and terror legislation.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall describes how his staff fought back during the London Bridge attack.", "Boris Johnson says they are being supervised 'to make sure there is no threat.'", "Jo Swinson says Labour's plans to take utilities back into public ownership are \"not the way forward\".", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The NHS Digital figures show a rise in patients having to wait more than two weeks in October.", "England are drawn against Croatia and Czech Republic in Group D at Euro 2020, with Wales alongside Italy, Switzerland and Turkey in Group A.", "The mammal, believed to be a minke whale, was found below Battersea Bridge in London.", "Witnesses to the London Bridge attack describe a sense of chaos as the incident unfolded.", "Andrew Marr asks Boris Johnson about his refusal to commit to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.", "Footage shows members of the public using a fire extinguisher and a tusk to confront Usman Khan.", "The Doctor Who star has cancelled shows at the start of a UK tour after being rushed to hospital.", "Australian Timothy Weeks says he thinks US special forces tried to rescue him six times.", "About 8,000 homes in the Falkirk area are without heating after a gas main failure.", "The BBC says it's in the public interest, but it still wants him to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.", "The families of the two people killed in Friday's attack issue tributes as they are officially named by police.", "Royal Air Force Typhoons go supersonic over south-east England to intercept an unresponsive plane.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel clashes with Labour's Yvette Cooper over Usman Khan's prison release.", "Jack Merritt spoke to the Law in Action podcast about his work helping prison inmates in Suffolk study law.", "Lewis Hamilton takes dominant victory in season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Charles Leclerc set to be investigated by stewards.", "The 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate was fatally stabbed alongside Jack Merritt.", "Members of the public pinned down the attacker and took a knife away from him.", "Loved ones remember \"funny, kind\", \"empathetic\" friends and colleagues Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.", "The party vows to slash rail fares and make travel free for young people under the age of 16.", "The party is proposing a \"one-stop shop\" for fares with no booking fees if it wins the election.", "Met police say attacker Usman Khan was complying with 'extensive list' of conditions.", "Becky's discovery led thousands of other women to find their information had been posted.", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "How closely have you been following the comings and goings in the run up to the general election?", "Electricity supplies are restored after gales cut power and bring down trees across Wales.", "It had previously been mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men.", "A woman captured the moment the White Island volcano erupted in New Zealand.", "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered - with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "One of New Zealand's most active volcanoes has erupted, claiming the lives of tourists.", "Political posturing is harming attempts to address key issues at the UN climate talks, participants say.", "At least 12 fire engines are sent to the fire at Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the River Clyde.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "China's Ding Junhui beats Stephen Maguire to win the UK Championship - 10 years after he last lifted the title.", "The 7m tree was removed less than two weeks after being put up outside Broadcasting House.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "The \"grandmother effect\" was even stronger with grandmothers that had gone through the menopause.", "Maurice Mounsdon was one of the last surviving members of \"The Few\", who fought the Nazis in WW2.", "Ms McShane, who worked as a a community midwife in Ballycastle, is described as \"kind and dedicated\".", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "Chris Hopson says election debate has \"fallen short\" with regard to long-term solutions for the NHS.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Banksy praises Brummies' generosity as he reveals a Christmas-themed work in the city.", "James Cleverly says an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "Which business sectors will be winners and losers when, and if, climate change policies take affect?", "\"Creative genius\" Nell Gifford died from breast cancer on Sunday surrounded by her family.", "The YouTube star, who landed last year's Christmas number one, is back - sausage rolls and all.", "A leaked government document says customs plans for Northern Ireland may not be ready in time.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "Nearly 4,000 bottles of rare whisky owned by a US businessman will go on sale in an online auction next year.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "Exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing for the past three years, research suggests.", "Ex-Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson speaks to the BBC about the attitudes and issues she encountered during her pregnancy.", "Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge are among those up for prizes.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "Chris Davies is being sued for constructive dismissal by Sarah Lewis, who discovered false invoices.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "Russia is handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events - including the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics - by the World Anti-Doping Agency.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "The prototype underground tunnel is designed to transport cars at speeds of up to 150mph.", "It involves thousands of messages in which diplomats discussed Trump, trade and other issues.", "The prime minister teases the Labour leader about his bid for a confidence vote, and he does not look impressed.", "Colgate-Palmolive has had nine ads banned in seven years, five of which were for dental products.", "The House of Commons debates official figures showing nearly 600 homeless people died in England and Wales last year.", "Manchester United name former player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as caretaker manager, following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.", "The financial regulator fines the bank for \"serious failings\" over processing deceased customer accounts.", "The Court of Appeal upholds a ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers, not self-employed.", "Notes were attached to the coats with a message inviting the finder to take the clothing if they needed it.", "Wildlife officials think the seals were killed elsewhere before being dumped from a boat.", "The Italian architect agrees to lead a €200m construction after the collapse that killed 43 people.", "Tottenham's Dele Alli is struck on the head by a plastic bottle thrown from the crowd during the Carabao Cup quarter-final with Arsenal.", "Thousands of Britons were sent abroad between 1945 and 1970, some were physically and sexually abused.", "A newly discovered creature that buries its head in the sand is named Dermophis donaldtrumpi.", "The leaders of the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments meet for Brexit talks at Downing Street.", "Sgt Anthony Pasco had not seen his teenage twins in months as he was based away from home.", "Tens of thousands of migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under proposed new rules.", "Office workers are rewarded for showing off in meetings rather than working hard, says study.", "The Bank of England did not follow procedures and had too many empty desks, government auditors say.", "Bethan Roper was killed leaning from a train window as she headed home from a Christmas shopping trip.", "The US central bank raises interest rates again despite pressure from the US president.", "With data privacy is in the spotlight, how do retailers use the data gathered from loyalty cards?", "Charles Michel's resignation letter comes days after a coalition partner quit over migration.", "The pop star will return to the festival 14 years after cancer forced her to cancel a headline slot.", "How is the government getting on with getting ready to leave the European Union?", "'Doting' late neighbour leaves a Christmas present for every year until the girl turns 16.", "Products for conditions such as eczema can leave people at risk of setting themselves ablaze, experts warn.", "Regulars have learned Makaton sign language to perform five-year-old Oliver Callis's favourite song.", "It marks the first significant US attempt to punish Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.", "Amid heated scenes and calls for an apology, the Labour leader said he was saying \"stupid people\".", "Removing the temptation stops unhealthy impulse buying, a large UK study suggests.", "The UK risks \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society, a report on the future of money concludes.", "Lewis Hamilton says he is \"super proud\" of hometown Stevenage after his faux pas at the SPOTY awards.", "A couple who named their child Adolf in honour of Hitler are sentenced alongside four others.", "Yorkshire Tea's new biodegradable bags leave users steaming after they split open in their cups.", "See if you agree with the results of a survey of 7,000 people by The Radio Times.", "The Great British Bake Off winner was 19 when she first wed her husband in an arranged marriage.", "A project providing portable shelter is turned down for a Welsh Government grant.", "Firms pledge a crackdown on \"excessive\" differences between premiums for new and existing customers.", "Businesses are told to put contingency plans in motion while 3,500 troops will be put on standby.", "A video posted to social media showed a man dressed only in his underwear being led away by police.", "With 100 days to go before Brexit, firms say they need \"practical steps\" not political infighting.", "Former Manchester United forward Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set to be named the club's interim manager on Wednesday.", "Men and women put on a different voice if they are trying to pull someone, a study suggests.", "TV presenter Simon Thomas met with Joe, who also lost his wife to cancer, to speak about grief over the festive season.", "Mark Livermore, who worked for singer James Arthur, has admitted taking the money.", "BBC reporters were easily able to buy nitrous oxide over the phone, over the counter and online.", "There would be a case for another referendum if Parliament is deadlocked, Amber Rudd says.", "A Labour Party spokesman says Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya is suspended and \"should now resign\".", "German magazine Der Spiegel apologises after an award-winning reporter is accused of fabricating stories.", "A rise in immigration from Asia is helping fill the gap, as EU arrivals drop in the run-up to Brexit.", "UK inflation fell slightly to 2.3% in November, driven mainly by a big fall in petrol prices.", "The leader of the Labour Party says he is opposed to \"sexist or misogynistic language in absolutely any form at all\".", "Survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire had called for Dany Cotton to step down.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "The star, who was on her way to a carol concert in Chelsea, had come to the aid of an older woman.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "The victims' barrister tells the inquiry London Fire Brigade bosses were not fit to run the service.", "Ten people were inured when a carriage fell to the ground at the M&D's theme park in North Lanarkshire.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he has taken a neutral stance because \"the country has to come together\".", "Police footage shows Joseph McCann trying to outrun officers after stealing a car belonging to one of his victims.", "A series of failures in the justice system meant rapist Joseph McCann was not recalled to prison.", "The figures come as the ride-hailing company is under intense pressure globally over safety issues.", "It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would \"scrap vital new roads\".", "The oil giant's listing is the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba in 2014.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "The former PM encourages voters to back three independent candidates running against his own party.", "It is the first time in over a year North Korea has been openly critical of the US president.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "The 24 and 28-year-olds were found at what is believed to be a holiday home in Aberdeenshire.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "Managerless Arsenal's season hits a new low as they are beaten at home by struggling Brighton in interim boss Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Sikh couple Sandeep and Reena Mander have won nearly £120,000 in damages from a council.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson, who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "The Democratic presidential hopeful reacts after being challenged over his son's Ukraine activities.", "After being tipped for success, the singer will get to perform at the 2020 Brit Awards in February.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head-to-head in a live debate on the BBC.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "The boss of Scottish Power says nationalising the energy industry will delay reaching a zero carbon future.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn square off in a live BBC debate, less than a week out from polling day.", "They'll be the rapper's first UK festival appearances since he was banned from the country in 2015.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "Thomas Griffiths stabbed his ex-girlfriend Ellie Gould repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\".", "The 3.2 magnitude tremor caused houses to shake, says the British Geological Survey.", "A replacement bus service can take up to two hours to travel the 40-mile journey.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are still adored by their supporters but the rest of the public are not so sure.", "Sally-Ann Hart defends an article suggesting people with disabilities could be paid less.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "Two men are killed overnight, in Knightsbridge and Deptford, after another man died in Hackney.", "The cooling towers finally come down after 50 years, as hundreds of people watch from surrounding hills.", "Llinos Môn Owen says she spiralled into addiction after she started taking cocaine aged 18.", "Steve Brooks and Matt Jones return back to Britain after a record 27,000-mile flight around the world.", "The Labour leader says he has \"hard evidence\" disproving claims there will be no border in the Irish Sea.", "Christina Tham won silver in the Southeast Asian Games aged 12 - and has now won gold aged 50.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "The centuries-old specialist insurance market has faced a raft of complaints about bullying and sexism.", "Hundreds of people gather to watch as a former power station's cooling towers are brought down.", "The brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly, an earlier inquest heard.", "An environmental charity finds 95% of Christmas jumpers on sale this year are made with plastic.", "Dany Cotton says the \"utter devastation\" of the Grenfell Tower fire will never leave her.", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "Reporter Mark Edwardson witnessed the end of game of the huge manhunt for rapist Joseph McCann.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "\"I'd like to thank my wife Natasha, my gravity, my compass, my guiding light.\"", "The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday after four previous launches were cancelled.", "The volcano in Indonesia is now entering a new, deadly phase, writes US volcanologist Jess Phoenix.", "After a torrid week for US stocks, the Treasury secretary seeks reassurances from big banks.", "Sadiq Khan makes a plea for a British-Iranian woman to be freed and returned home for Christmas.", "More than 750 people sign a petition accusing discount site boss Josh Rathour of inappropriate behaviour.", "Multiple deaths have been reported and the death toll is expected to rise.", "The actor posts a clip in which he appears to deny wrongdoing while in character as Frank Underwood.", "A government source said Sussex Police accepted that there had been \"poor communications\".", "More than 80,000 people attend as Emperor Akihito gives a last birthday address before his abdication.", "It will allow the bank to continue operating freely across the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit.", "Paul Gait and Elaine Kirk were arrested and released without charge over the drone chaos at Gatwick.", "Recently released documents show Queen Victoria's daughter owed a tobacconist 15 shillings when she died.", "The victim, a man in his 20s, was shot dead in a street in Edmonton, north London, on Tuesday.", "The lack of major earthquake tremors in the Sunda Strait tsunami meant that many did not flee in time.", "The PM highlights the military's work in Syria, while the Labour leader applauds those who help others.", "Residents reported a loud \"cracking noise\" in the new building at Sydney Olympic Park.", "Here are the eight most popular news stories on the BBC website this year. 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Only ocean trenches go deeper.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "She is one of Scotland's biggest film stars, but Karen Gillan says her young dreams took a few knocks.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil flies close to White Island, while it continues to spew toxic gas.", "Researchers say the rock star did not introduce the non-native species in Carnaby Street in the 60s.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "Millions of people are casting their vote in the third general election in less than five years.", "He said the teenage activist - who won Time Person of the Year - had an \"anger management problem\".", "PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, have been unable to form majority coalitions.", "Find out how to stay in touch with live election results on TV, radio, online, and on social media.", "Jailed banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva says she has been unfairly targeted by the National Crime Agency.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "They're among 10 acts tipped for success in the annual BBC list, previously won by Adele and Sigrid.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Election night could be a long one for financial traders, with sterling the most sensitive market to political events.", "Non-medicinal CBD is now on sale in High Street shops across the country, including chemists.", "The picture of a family dressed in finery features in an exhibition charting 150 years of visitors.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "A factory in France is trialling a more efficient way of packaging orders, Emma Simpson reports.", "How well do you remember the campaign? Try Richard Osman's election quiz and find out", "We visit a constitution law class a few miles from where the US president faces an impeachment inquiry.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "If the exit poll is correct Boris Johnson will have the backing to take the UK out of the EU next month.", "Former Beatle Sir Paul says he has no plans to release his demo of traditional carol instrumentals.", "Asia stocks rose after the two sides reportedly reached a deal days before new tariffs were due to start.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "One firm lets employees work from the comfort of their own sofa, even after they've been out drinking.", "Premier League interim chief executive Richard Masters has been given the job on a permanent basis.", "The Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.", "Tributes are paid to the \"larger-than-life\" TV broadcaster, scientist and conservationist.", "Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.", "The Northern Ireland secretary met the leaders of the five biggest parties at Stormont on Monday.", "It is the first week of Boris Johnson's new Conservative government following the election.", "Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is pictured on the seabed for the first time.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, expresses fears over the direction the UK is travelling in.", "A charity says the deaths are \"not acceptable\" and urges visitors to keep their distance.", "A lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and others of using cobalt mined by child labour.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "Commuters criticise rail firms Northern and Transpennine Express over the cancellations and delays.", "He succeeds Alun Cairns who resigned amid a row over an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.", "The blaze in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow has closed roads and \"devastated\" shops and restaurants.", "The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.", "Food systems are behind poor growth and over-eating in many low-income countries, a report says.", "Firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue the boy who was trapped between two buildings.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "Sports Direct says it will be closing 'unprofitable' House of Fraser stores in the next 12 months.", "A judge's ruling over the IT system comes after the Post Office offered a £58m deal for workers.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "Residents in Bedfordshire have been queuing for bottled water after supplies were cut off on Friday.", "Amy Dalla Mura called Anna Soubry a \"traitor\" on live television and interrupted interviews.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "The AI will tell users to reconsider their words before publishing, if they are deemed offensive.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The actor, who was 74, appeared in the classic sitcom as well as EastEnders and Downton Abbey.", "Accusers react to the movie mogul's claims that his female empowerment legacy is being destroyed.", "The government is to examine whether failure to buy an annual TV licence should remain an offence.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "Discounting by retailers in the run-up to Christmas is predicted to reach record heights in 2019.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "A vehicle pulling a trailer full of the Christmas dinner vegetable overturned in Queensferry Road in Rosyth.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "The city says the buildings, built in 1913, are unsafe - but some locals want them preserved.", "Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the party's election defeat but the shadow chancellor says: \"This is on me\".", "The regulator announces a cap on investor returns as it cuts the average bill by £50 over five years.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "Nicholas Woods and Simon Marshall are charged over an alleged scandal involving tagging criminals.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. 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police say no remains were taken.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "The body of former British soldier James Le Mesurier was found near his Istanbul flat in November.", "Police confirm a \"high value of jewellery\" was stolen from Tamara Ecclestone's home in Kensington.", "Mother of five Sarah Wellgreen was last seen near her Kent home on 9 October.", "The prototype underground tunnel is designed to transport cars at speeds of up to 150mph.", "Russia's president says the US and UK political classes do not want to accept voters' choices.", "The Russian president accused the British political establishment of \"disrespecting\" the public", "Runners who did the Great North Run using charity places but did not raise any money have been described as \"fraudulent\" by the race organisers.", "Centrica objects to how regulators calculate the energy price cap, saying it is unfair to suppliers.", "A further drone sighting again disrupted Gatwick Airport", "Former US President Barack Obama plays Santa - 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He has been remanded to appear before Medway Magistrates' Court on Friday, police said.\n\nThe search for Ms Wellgreen is ongoing.\n\nOfficers previously searched a property, believed to be Ms Wellgreen's home, after receiving fresh information.\n\nIt is understood to be the third time the property has been searched since 11 October.\n\nThe beautician's family celebrated Ms Wellgreen's birthday in her absence on 14 December.\n\nSon Lewis Burdett has said the family was living a \"never-ending nightmare\".\n\nAbout 2,000 hours of footage has been received by police, while more than 1,300 volunteers have joined searches of the surrounding area.\n\nOfficers have searched woodland near Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford and areas in Greenhithe near the River Thames.\n\nDivers also searched the River Darent in Dartford town centre, while the fire service has provided a drone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in parts of Australia are picking up the pieces after summer hail storms wreaked havoc across New South Wales.", "US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will be departing his post in February\n\nThe abrupt resignation of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has alarmed an already tense Capitol Hill, causing lawmakers on both sides to speak out.\n\nDemocrats decried the latest Trump administration departure as a \"crisis\", but Republicans also voiced concern.\n\nSenators Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio called the move distressing and damaging to the US on the world stage.\n\nGen Mattis appeared to clash with Mr Trump over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Gen Mattis, 68, said the president had the right to appoint someone \"whose views are better aligned with yours\".\n\nThe announcement of his departure came amid two major military decisions Gen Mattis had opposed: withdrawing troops from Syria and reducing US presence in Afghanistan.\n\nUS allies were not consulted or informed ahead of time about the president's decisions, US media reported.\n\nThe respected general will leave the job in February, though it remains unclear who President Donald Trump has in mind to replace him.\n\nOn Capitol Hill, Gen Mattis' resignation - and his reason for doing so - shocked lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.\n\nDemocratic Senator Mark Warner, who is vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, labelled the development \"scary\".\n\n\"Secretary Mattis has been an island of stability amidst the chaos of the Trump administration,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, ranking member on the Armed Services committee, said, \"President Trump is leading the country in the wrong direction and Secretary Mattis isn't willing to go along with it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Leo Shane III This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also described Gen Mattis as a \"comfort to many\" who were concerned about the Trump presidency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Nancy Pelosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Representative Adam Schiff of California, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the White House would \"not see his like again while Trump remains in office\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Adam Schiff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer vice-president Joe Biden also weighed in, saying Gen Mattis' presence would be missed and his exit makes it \"clear this administration has abandoned those core American beliefs\".\n\nRetired Army Gen Stanley McChrystal, the former top US commander in Afghanistan, told CNN: \"The kind of leadership that causes a dedicated patriot like Jim Mattis to leave should give pause to every American.\"\n\nEven top lawmakers from Mr Trump's own Republican Party have criticised the administration over Gen Mattis' departure.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was \"distressed\" to hear the resignation was reportedly due to \"sharp differences\" with the president on \"key aspects of America's global leadership\".\n\nThe Kentucky Republican also urged Mr Trump to choose a replacement \"who shares Secretary Mattis' understanding\" of American principles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Leader McConnell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlorida Senator Marco Rubio, who ran against Mr Trump for the Republican nomination in 2016, said the letter \"makes it abundantly clear that we are headed towards a series of grave policy errors which will endanger our nation, damage our alliances & empower our adversaries\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham, who has been a vocal critic of the administration's decisions to withdraw troops in Syria and Afghanistan, tweeted his \"great sadness\" about the news, saying Gen Mattis had \"provided sound and ethical military advice to President Trump\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Graham also called for Congress to hold hearings regarding Mr Trump's military decisions \"to understand implications to our national security\".\n\nIllinois Representative Adam Kinzinger said of Gen Mattis' resignation: \"That's what happens when you ignore sound military advice.\"\n\nHe added Gen Mattis' departure was \"an act of patriotism, standing for our American principles above all else\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse, who has criticised the president before, said it was a \"sad day for America because Secretary Mattis was giving advice the president needs to hear\", US media reported.\n\nOther Republicans have not been as dire in their reactions, expressing disappointment while urging the president to find a capable replacement, US media reported.", "Eduard Zigar was working as a locum in Birmingham\n\nThe body of a junior doctor lay undiscovered in a hospital storeroom for two days, an inquest has heard.\n\nEduard Zigar, 25, took his own life at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham less than a week after beginning his placement, the city's coroner's court heard.\n\nThere had been difficulty identifying him as missing because hospital staff were looking under the wrong name.\n\nIn a statement, the hospital trust described the death as a \"tragedy\" and said it hoped the conclusion of the inquest would \"bring some sense of closure\".\n\nDr Zigar, a Lithuanian living in Wolverhampton, was a locum at the Birmingham hospital, allied to the upper gastro-intestinal surgical team.\n\nHe was last seen on the site's CCTV at about 19:00 BST on Saturday 25 August and found in the ambulatory care unit at about 22:00 on 27 August.\n\nDr Zigar had begun to work at the hospital on 20 August and appeared \"detached\" and \"quiet\" on 25 August, colleagues said.\n\nConsultant John Whiting told the hearing that he found Dr Zigar to be a little nervous, which he said was not unusual and gave him no concerns for his mental well-being.\n\nWhen he did not turn up for his shift on Sunday, staff were not initially worried as they assumed there had been a rota error.\n\nDr Zigar was found in the ambulatory care department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital\n\nWhen Dr Zigar's friends and family became concerned, the locum agency contacted the hospital but, because of entering his name into the system incorrectly, it could find no trace of him working there.\n\nSince the death, the hospital has introduced a supervisor for the locum team.\n\nDr Zigar's mother described him as \"tolerant and loving\" and said his death had come as a \"massive shock\".", "England's top doctor has accused the food industry of \"failing the public\" and is calling for taxes on unhealthy food high in sugar and salt.\n\nChief medical officer Prof Dame Sally Davies said her dream was to make fruit and vegetables cheaper for everyone from the proceeds.\n\nIn her annual report, she also urged the government to ban added sugar in jars of baby food.\n\nThe food industry said taxes would not change consumer behaviour.\n\nDame Sally Davies' report details plans to create a more healthy nation by 2040, with the focus on improving the environment we live in to make it easier for people to be healthier.\n\nThis means tackling the preventable causes of 50% of chronic diseases and 40% of cancers - namely, unhealthy diet, smoking, physical inactivity, drinking too much alcohol and air pollution, she said.\n\nBased on the success of the tax on sugary drinks introduced in April, Dame Sally wants the government to do more to force the food industry to cut sugar and salt in our everyday food.\n\nParents would be surprised what is contained in baby food jars, Dame Sally said\n\nDame Sally said \"industry had not delivered\" on voluntary targets set by Public Health England to make their products healthier and called for them to do more.\n\n\"Those sectors that damage health must pay for their harm or subsidise healthier choices,\" her report says.\n\nShe hinted she would like to see a tax on chocolate and junk food, with the proceeds going to subsidise fruit and vegetables, which should be on offer in obvious places in shops.\n\nBut she recognised this was \"a dream\".\n\nAnd it urges the government and NHS England to set targets to reduce inequalities in childhood obesity and smoking in pregnancy, which predominately affect poorer communities.\n\nDame Sally said obesity was an issue of inequality, with children and adults in the poorest communities more likely to have diseases related to their weight at an earlier age, and lasting for longer.\n\nShe said she would be accused of being \"chief nanny\" of a nanny state but it was her job to shape the environment for children who could not make their own choices.\n\nDame Sally hinted that she would like to see taxes from unhealthy foods subsidise fruit and vegetables, but acknowledged this was a \"dream\"\n\n\"We should not be adding empty calories to baby food,\" Dame Sally said.\n\n\"It sets the taste for sweeter food and results in children gaining unnecessary weight before going to primary school.\"\n\nThe report says a health index for the UK is needed to measure all the factors which affect our health and its outcomes in order to see if progress is being made.\n\nA spokesman from the Treasury said it would not shy away from further action, including tax changes, if the food industry \"fails to face up to the scale of the problem through voluntary reduction programmes\".\n\nKate Halliwell, head of UK diet and health policy at the Food and Drink Federation, said some manufacturers had been reducing sugar and calorie content in shopping baskets for more than a decade.\n\nBut she cautioned that changing recipes for food products could not happen overnight.\n\n\"Sugar plays a variety of roles beyond sweetness in food including colour, texture and consistency.\n\n\"It is for these reasons that we have long said that the guidelines are ambitious and will not be met across all categories or in the timescale outlined.\"\n\nAnd she said portion control and product reformulation, rather than taxes, were policies more likely to change consumer behaviour.\n\n\"Food and drink companies should focus efforts where they can have the maximum impact, instead of managing the impact of wrong-headed legislation.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £3.13bn will be given to councils in England next year for public health initiatives, such as stop smoking services, weight management services and exercise support.\n\nIt represents a real terms cut of 4.6% since last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At his year-end news conference, the Russian president was asked about Brexit and accused the British political establishment of \"disrespecting\" the public", "British Gas owner Centrica is to mount a legal challenge against Britain's upcoming energy price cap, arguing it has not been calculated fairly.\n\nThe energy provider said it would apply for a judicial review against the regulator Ofgem, saying it had set the threshold too low.\n\nThe firm said it wanted not to delay the cap, due to come in on 1 January, but to change how it is set.\n\nThe regulator said it would defend its proposals \"robustly\".\n\nOfgem proposed a cap on energy bills in September, following concerns that consumers were not getting best value for money from suppliers' default rates, or standard variable tariffs (SVT) .\n\nIt means an average dual fuel customer who pays by direct debit should pay no more than £1,137 a year, £68 lower than British Gas's SVT.\n\nHowever, the policy has rattled some suppliers who say it will damage their profits and it has also been blamed for some smaller providers going bust.\n\nIn November Centrica warned the cap would cost it £70m in lost operating profits in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nThis was after British Gas shed 372,000 household accounts in the four months to the end of October as customers left its SVT.\n\nCentrica says that Ofgem had not properly taken into account the wholesale energy costs that \"all suppliers incur\" when it devised the cap.\n\nExplaining its decision to seek a judicial review, it said: \"Through this action Centrica has no intention to delay implementation of the cap, and does not expect the cap to be deferred in any way.\n\n\"As we have previously said, we do not believe that a price cap will benefit customers but we want to ensure that there is a transparent and rigorous regulatory process to deliver a price cap that allows suppliers, as a minimum, to continue to operate to meet the requirements of all customers.\"\n\nOfgem told the BBC that it \"carried out an extensive consultation process when setting the price cap and we believe that it offers consumers on poor value tariffs a fairer deal.\n\n\"In the event of a judicial review we would defend our proposals robustly.\"\n\nThe regulator says the new energy price cap could save 11 million customers an average of £76 a year on their gas and electricity bills.\n\nBut it has already said that the level of the cap is likely to rise in April 2019, to reflect the higher cost of wholesale energy. As a result, the average annual saving in 2019 is likely to be lower.", "'They couldn't have cared less'\n\n“They couldn’t have cared tuppence to be honest” Ruth Kent, 80, from West London was forced to borrow $1,000 from friends to buy a flight home from Florida via Dublin after Gatwick grounded flights. “I was completely and utterly panic stricken when I found out,” she said. Ms Kent said that she tried getting in touch with both Norwegian Airlines and her insurers but neither responded. She said that she even told Norwegian Airlines in an email that she was a woman on her own and in her 80s but: “They couldn’t have cared tuppence to be honest.” “Luckily I had friends here,” Ms Kent said. “I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have friends because to be honest I was in a complete panic because I wanted to get home before Christmas.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ladbaby beat Ava Max and Ariana Grande to reach Chistmas number one\n\nYouTube star LadBaby has pulled off a festive upset by winning the race to this year's Christmas number one spot.\n\nThe UK blogger - real name Mark Hoyle - has reached pole position with a cover of Starship's We Built This City called We Built This City... On Sausage Rolls.\n\nThe charity single, in aid of food bank network The Trussell Trust, beat Ava Max and Ariana Grande to the top spot.\n\n\"Thank you everybody in the UK who has got a sausage roll to the top,\" the Hertfordshire-based 31-year-old said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by LadBaby This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I don't think anyone really gave us a chance at the start of the week,\" LadBaby told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba on Friday.\n\n\"The public support has been absolutely unbelievable. It's mind-blowing, it really is - it's amazing.\"\n\nHoyle - who was also named Celebrity Dad of the Year in June - said his original aim had simply been \"to make everyone laugh\".\n\nHe said he hoped Starship would enjoy his version of their song, which originally reached number 12 in the UK in 1985.\n\n\"If they want to share a sausage roll and do a duet, let's make it happen,\" he joked.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by JeffersonAirplneVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLadBaby's version of We Built This City notched up 75,000 combined sales this week to finish 18,500 ahead of Ava Max's Sweet But Psycho at number two.\n\nLast week's chart-topper, Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande, dropped to number three.\n\nLadBaby's track is the first novelty song to claim the festive top spot since Bob the Builder's Can We Fix It? in 2000.\n\nThis was despite many commentators - including BBC Music reporter Mark Savage - writing off his chances.\n\n\"Sorry, but LadBaby won't be Christmas number one,\" he predicted on Tuesday, citing the track's \"almost negligible\" performance on streaming platforms.\n\nThanks in part to a last-minute push, though, the track ended up triumphant, with downloads representing 93% of its total combined sales.\n\nEarlier this week, I said LadBaby hadn't a snowball's chance in hell of being Christmas number one.\n\nAt the time it seemed to be true. The song was doing good business in downloads, but it was seriously behind the competition on streaming services.\n\nWhat I missed was the powerful combination of LadBaby's charitable intentions and the public's love of an underdog.\n\nOver the next three days, Chris Evans championed the track on BBC Radio 2, while Mark and his eminently likeable family cropped up on MTV, Channel 4, The Sun and BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe result? We Built This City sold more than 75,000 copies - up from about 15,000 when I wrote the article.\n\nI met LadBaby on Friday to congratulate him on his Christmas miracle. He assured me there were no hard feelings, although his wife did delight in calling me \"the Grinch\".\n\nIt's a fair cop. I'm off to eat some humble pie. Or should that be humble sausage roll?\n\nOfficial Charts chief executive Martin Talbot said: \"It is a truly fantastic achievement by LadBaby to claim the 2018 Official Christmas number one.\n\n\"In doing so, he has also shown once again the enduring power of campaign singles, especially at this time of year.\"\n\nThe last charity single to be number one at Christmas was A Bridge Over You by The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir in 2015.\n\nThe song - a mash-up of Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Coldplay's Fix You - got a helping hand when Justin Bieber told his fans to support it instead of his own track Love Yourself.\n\nBob the Builder's was the last novelty single to top the chart at Christmas\n\nEd Sheeran topped the festive singles chart last year with Perfect, a song he released in three separate versions in a bid to clinch the Christmas crown.\n\nThere is no change at the top of this year's album chart for Christmas, with the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman spending its 23rd week at number one and registering its strongest week of sales to date.\n\nThis week's top 40 also sees Bruce Springsteen claim the week's highest (and only) new entry at six with Springsteen on Broadway, a live album taken from his Netflix special.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In July, the world watched on as a group of footballers were dramatically rescued from a cave in Thailand.\n\nSix months on, one of their rescuers - Briton Vern Unsworth - praises the \"close-knit\" group for their strength and recovery.", "The alert began at Stuttgart airport in south-west Germany\n\nGermany's biggest airports are on alert after four suspected terrorists were spotted staking out Stuttgart airport, reports say.\n\nPolice are said to be hunting for a son and father from North Rhine-Westphalia and two others seen taking photos of the airport's terminal and grounds.\n\nDetails of the suspects were passed to German police by Morocco's secret service, reports say.\n\nThis comes a week after a terror attack across the border in France.\n\nThree people were killed by Cherif Chekatt near a Christmas Market in Strasbourg, which is some 150km (93 miles) from Stuttgart.\n\nPolice told public broadcaster ARD that security forces were on alert at German airports, while Bild website said warnings had been extended to all 14 major hubs.\n\nSince the Strasbourg attack, suspicious activity had been spotted at both Stuttgart Airport and at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, public broadcaster SWR reported.\n\nThe father and son were captured on surveillance cameras taking photos around the airport, but had disappeared by the time police arrived.\n\nThe Stuttgart airport suspects' names as well as details of their communications were reportedly given to police by intelligence officials in Morocco.\n\nGerman police would not confirm the reports, with spokesman Roman Strohmayer saying only \"we have information that for the moment cannot yet be judged conclusively.\"\n\nBut, he told Bild website: \"We have detected spying attempts at Stuttgart Airport and have massively tightened our security measures at the airport in cooperation with the state police. \"\n\nGermany was targeted just before Christmas in 2016, when Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving dozens more wounded.", "US stocks suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade as trade tensions with China, interest rate rises and a possible government shutdown rattled markets.\n\nAll three indexes closed lower, with the technology-focused Nasdaq down 20% since its peak, placing it in so-called \"bear market\" territory.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its biggest weekly drop in percentage terms since 2008.\n\nThe S&P 500 fell 7% for the week.\n\nIt is the biggest weekly percentage drop since August 2011 while the Nasdaq's 8.36% decline is the sharpest since November 2008.\n\nThe Dow Jones fell 6.8% during the week.\n\nAfter years of gains, US investors are fleeing stocks, worried about a range of factors likely to hit corporate profits, including slowing economic growth domestically and abroad.\n\nEarlier this week, the US Federal Reserve lifted the interest rate and signalled that it would continue to rise next year, albeit at a slower pace.\n\nThe Fed also cut its forecasts for economic growth in 2019 to 2.3%, down from the 2.5% predicted in September.\n\nMichael Hewson, chief markets analyst at CMC Markets, said: \"China is cooling and the eurozone is slowing down, and some of the economic indicators from the US have been a bit soft recently, but yet the Fed hiked rates and suggested that two more interest rate hikes were lined up for 2019.\"\n\nElliot Clarke, economist at Westpac, the banking group, added: \"Political brinkmanship in Washington is further heightening market uncertainty.\"\n\nMarkets were also unnerved by comments from President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro who told the Nikkei newspaper that it would be \"difficult\" for the US and China to reach a long lasting trade agreement that would end the tensions between the two.\n\nShare trading started Friday on an upswing, boosted by stronger-than-expected quarterly sales at sportswear giant Nike.\n\nInvestors also appeared soothed after John Williams, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said the central bank would consider market turmoil as it weighs future interest rate decisions.\n\nFacebook's stock was one of the biggest fallers on Friday\n\nHowever, selling set in by afternoon with some of the major technology firms - that led the market's rally earlier this year - experiencing some of the most bruising falls.\n\nFacebook and Twitter both tumbled more than 6%, Amazon dropped more than 5%, and Apple and Microsoft slipped more than 3%.\n\nFor the day, the Nasdaq index fell almost 3%, the S&P 500 tumbled more than 2%, and the Dow slid 1.8%.\n\nSome economists argue that the steep Wall Street sell-off does not reflect conditions in the wider economy, which grew at an annual pace of 3.4% in the most recent quarter.\n\nConsumer sentiment also remains strong, according to the most recent data.\n\nHowever, the fears on Wall Street could spread in the event of a prolonged downturn, analysts warned.\n\n\"If these expectations begin to shift, then we would expect to see more downward pressure on sentiment and spending patterns in early 2019,\" Oxford Economics said.", "Christina Abbotts died at a friend's flat in Crawley where she had been house-sitting\n\nA City banker has been found guilty of murdering a 29-year-old sex worker by bludgeoning her to death with a pestle.\n\nZahid Naseem, 48, admitted killing Christina Abbotts at a flat in Crawley, West Sussex, in May, but denied murder.\n\nNaseem stayed in the flat for 12 hours after Ms Abbotts died and pretended to be unconscious when police broke down the door, the court heard.\n\nJurors at Lewes Crown Court heard Ms Abbotts suffered more than 13 wounds to her head and 20 other injuries.\n\nNaseem, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, claimed he was acting in self-defence after Ms Abbotts tried to strangle him during a sex game.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nZahid Naseem claimed Ms Abbotts held his neck \"and didn't let go\"\n\nPolice were called to the flat when no-one had heard from Ms Abbotts after midday on 25 May and she failed to turn up to her own birthday party.\n\nShe is thought to have been dead for about 12 hours before she was found, the court heard.\n\nOfficers found Naseem lying motionless on the sofa with his eyes flickering, but a paramedic was \"sceptical\" he was unconscious.\n\nHe only \"woke up\" fully when he was arrested in hospital, claiming to have no idea what happened.\n\nWhen he gave evidence in court, he admitted striking Ms Abbotts but claimed it was in self-defence as he feared she was strangling him to death in a sex game gone wrong.\n\nHe also said a \"red mist\" may have come over him.\n\nMs Abbotts, who was born in the West Midlands and lived in London, was described as a \"socialite\" who led a party lifestyle in London and told relatives she worked in IT.\n\nBut she lived a secret life as a high-class escort, who advertised her services online under the pseudonym Tilly Pexton.\n\nNaseem paid her up to £3,500 a time when they met.\n\nIn a statement read out after the trial, Ms Abbotts' family said: \"This has had a tremendous impact on our personal and professional lives as we have not been able to meet commitments due to the level of stress and shock we have been experiencing.\n\n\"She was beautiful inside and out, and also very kind to others, putting everyone else's needs first.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victims of the Lockerbie disaster have been remembered\n\nA service has taken place in southern Scotland to remember the victims of the Lockerbie bombing 30 years on.\n\nWreaths were laid at a memorial garden in the town to honour the 270 people killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up on 21 December 1988.\n\nJeff Brown, moderator of the presbytery of Annandale and Eskdale, paid tribute to those lost in a \"senseless act\".\n\nEleven people in Lockerbie died along with 259 passengers and crew on board the plane bound for New York.\n\nIt was the biggest mass murder on British soil in recent history.\n\nThe majority of those on board the plane which fell on the town in south-west Scotland were American.\n\nA new permanent memorial to the victims has also been unveiled at the FBI headquarters in Washington DC.\n\nServices were later held at Syracuse University in New York State and Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.\n\nThe Lockerbie wreath-laying saw victims' relatives join members of the community who assisted in the aftermath of the atrocity.\n\nMr Brown, who conducted the ceremony at Dryfesdale Cemetery, said: \"We remember loved ones taken in a senseless act of violence, we remember lives, families and communities torn and broken.\n\n\"We stand together in the silence and peace of this place in our act of remembrance to keep faith with them.\"\n\nHe also offered thanks for the \"simple acts of kindness\" which had helped to \"ease the pain of loss caused by this callous act\".\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant for Dumfriesshire Fiona Armstrong read out a message from the Queen and paid tribute to the \"remarkable community\" in the town.\n\n\"Please convey my warm thanks to the people of Dumfriesshire for their kind message, sent on the occasion of their Remembrance service to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, which is being held today,\" the Queen said.\n\n\"I send my prayers and good wishes to all those who will be marking this solemn anniversary.\"\n\nScottish Secretary David Mundell, who is from the town, also attended the service and laid a wreath.\n\nThe Lockerbie bombing claimed the lives of 270 people on 21 December 1988\n\n\"Lockerbie lost its anonymity that night,\" the MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale said.\n\n\"We went from a quiet small town to a centre of global attention in a few seconds.\n\n\"That was the scale of the challenge local people have faced, aside from the horrors of the air disaster itself.\"\n\nHe said the people of Lockerbie had retained their \"dignity and stoicism\" throughout and said \"strengthening and deepening\" the relationships forged with the US should be a priority.\n\nA memorial cairn to the victims stands in the Arlington National Cemetery\n\nA ceremony will be held at the site in Virginia\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the victims of the bombing would always be remembered.\n\n\"Thinking today of Lockerbie and all those whose lives were lost or deeply affected by what happened on this day 30 years ago, \" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May also tweeted: \"Today we remember those who died in the Lockerbie bombing 30 years ago.\n\n\"On this tragic anniversary, my thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives and the Lockerbie community.\"\n\nEleven people in Lockerbie died along with 259 passengers and crew from the plane\n\nA Walk of Peace has also been arranged to mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster\n\nIn the US, a plaque unveiled at a ceremony at the FBI headquarters in Washington revealed the bombing \"transformed how the FBI investigates terrorism, works with international partners and cares for victims\".\n\nScotland's top law officer Alison Di Rollo was among 400 guests at the service, where she pledged to work in close co-operation with the US authorities if new evidence on the attack became available.\n\nIt is still under investigation by a team of Scottish prosecutors.\n\nMs Di Rollo, Scotland's solicitor general, said: \"As a prosecutor I cannot guarantee that the current investigation will uncover enough evidence to support criminal proceedings but I can - and do - promise that the Lord Advocate and I, along with the prosecution team and the Police Service of Scotland, will remain committed to this investigation and to working as closely as we ever have with our US colleagues.\"\n\nSyracuse University remembered its victims at a memorial service and there was also a service at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, where a cairn made from Lockerbie stone stands in memory of those who died.\n\nBack in Scotland, a Walk of Peace has been arranged by the Church of Scotland on Saturday to remember those who died.\n\nPeople will climb Burnswark Hill near Lockerbie in silence following a special service at Tundergarth Parish Church the previous day.\n\nThe only person ever to be convicted of the bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, died in 2012 after being released from Greenock jail on compassionate grounds.\n\nHis family is currently making a third attempt to appeal against his conviction.\n\nThe Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is considering whether there are grounds to refer his case to the appeal court.\n• None Lockerbie - The town scarred by Pan Am flight 103", "Boris Johnson has been cleared of breaking the Tories' code of conduct with comments he made about women wearing burkas.\n\nHe had written that they looked liked \"letter boxes\" or \"bank robbers\" in a Telegraph column in which he argued against a ban on full-face veils.\n\nIt prompted dozens of complaints but it is understood an independent panel said he had been \"respectful and tolerant\".\n\nTory chairman Brandon Lewis and Theresa May had called on him to apologise.\n\nResponding to the news, the Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella body for 500 mosques, schools and associations, said it failed to see how Mr Johnson's comments \"were 'respectful' and 'tolerant' as the panel has concluded\".\n\nThe group claimed Mr Johnson's column had led \"to copycat verbal assaults against Muslim women\".\n\nThe founder of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Lord Sheikh, wrote to Mr Lewis after Mr Johnson wrote the column in August, demanding \"serious action\".\n\nThe Conservative Party has been accused of not doing enough to tackle anti-Muslim prejudice in its ranks, despite an initiative to boost tolerance and diversity.\n\nThe party's code of conduct states that Tory officials and elected representatives must \"lead by example to encourage and foster respect and tolerance\" and not \"use their position to bully, abuse, victimise, harass or unlawfully discriminate against others\".\n\nThe complaints were looked at by an independent panel which could have referred Mr Johnson to the party's board, which has the power to expel him. But the panel has cleared him of breaching the code.\n\nFriends of the former foreign secretary said the inquiry had found his newspaper article fostered \"respect and tolerance\" for the wearing of the burka. The Daily Telegraph also quotes allies of Mr Johnson urging Brandon Lewis to apologise.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"The investigation into complaints received regarding an article written by Mr Johnson has concluded.\n\n\"A panel, chaired by an independent QC, concluded that there had been no breach of the code.\n\n\"No further action will be taken.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teddy, seven, tells Victoria Derbyshire of his sadness at having to cancel a trip to Lapland\n\nDrones flying over Gatwick Airport have caused Christmas travel chaos for thousands. Among them is a couple hoping to honeymoon in New York and a little boy who wants to go to Lapland.\n\nInstead of celebrating her marriage in the festive fairytale of New York, newlywed Hope Lauren Eder is stranded at the airport.\n\n\"We haven't heard anything from our airline, by text or anything, so we thought we'd head to the airport,\" she said.\n\n\"There weren't any queues at the desk, so we managed to get through quickly.\"\n\nShe said the scenes at the check-in lounge were \"awful.\"\n\n\"I saw a woman crying, someone had collapsed at the bottom of the escalator, it's just an absolute shambles.\n\n\"No-one's really saying what's going on. They're just checking you in and then once we're through you've just got to wait and hear. It's not a guarantee that it's going to take off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Stewart had been due to fly to Lapland with her seven-year-old son Teddy, who she said was being \"very brave\".\n\nHe said: \"My dad, he walked to the front desk of the airport and he asked what was going on, and the lady gave him a letter and it said the flights would be cancelled. I was just sad and upset.\"\n\nMrs Stewart said: \"I just feel so bad. I wanted it to be a day to remember for Teddy, one that he will treasure forever.\"\n\nBut optimistic Teddy insisted: \"We can do it next year.\"\n\nAlison Battle, one of the founders of Lapland UK, heard Mrs Stewart on BBC 5 Live earlier and has invited Teddy to go and help Father Christmas and the elves at Lapland UK.\n\nMrs Stewart cried on air. She said: \"I don't know what to say. Thank you so much. That's made our Christmas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Victoria Derbyshire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGordon in Blackheath, London, texted BBC Radio 5 Live and said: \"My wife and seven-year old boy are going to Greece to visit a very ill grandmother. It will break her heart if they can't make it. It may be her last chance to see them.\"\n\nMichelle from Guernsey told the radio station her daughter Caitlyn was stuck in Spain as her flight home via Gatwick had been cancelled.\n\nEmilie-Kate Owen from Dorking had planned to fly to Edinburgh for her grandfather's funeral on Friday but is now travelling with her father by train in the hope of making it on time. She said her ticket had been accepted on LNER so she did not have to pay extra.\n\nCaitlyn is a third year foreign exchange student who is spending a year living and studying in Barcelona.\n\nHer mother said: \"It's going to be a big family Christmas, all four of my children are coming home and I would like her to be here, we don't want her stuck there on her own.\"\n\nGeoffrey Grove is trying to get to the Swiss Alps with his wife and five-year-old twins\n\nGeoffrey Grove, 42, is stranded on a plane at Orly airport in France after his flight from Boston, USA was grounded.\n\nThe plane has been on the runway since 08:05 GMT and passengers are not allowed off the plane.\n\n\"There is no air conditioning. Babies are being stripped because it is so hot,\" Mr Grove said.\n\n\"We are trying to get to the Swiss alps. So this will definitely slow things down.\n\n\"The unfortunate thing is the utter waste of time just sitting on the plane for four hours.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justice Secretary David Gauke has said he would be \"very surprised\" if the prime minister was prepared to back a no-deal Brexit, if her deal fails.\n\nMr Gauke also said he would find it \"very difficult\" to stay in cabinet, if that became government policy.\n\nCabinet splits have emerged over what should happen if the PM's withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next month.\n\nAndrea Leadsom has suggested a \"managed no deal\" Brexit while Amber Rudd said a new referendum was \"plausible\".\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna, who campaigns for another EU referendum, said the justice secretary had \"effectively admitted that all the talk of leaving the EU without a deal is nonsense and a false threat designed to scare MPs into voting for the government's Brexit plan\".\n\nHe added: \"At a time when our schools, hospitals and police are desperately underfunded, the £4.2bn being spent preparing for Brexit would be far better spent on our public services.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but an agreement on the terms of its withdrawal and a declaration on future relations will only come into force if the UK and EU Parliaments approve it.\n\nThe Commons vote was due to be held earlier this month but Theresa May postponed it, once it became clear it would be defeated by a large margin.\n\nMPs are due to start debating the deal again on Wednesday 9 January.\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is rejected, the default position is for the UK to leave in March unless the government seeks to extend the Article 50 negotiating process or Parliament intervenes to stop it happening.\n\nMr Gauke, who was interviewed on the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast, was asked about comments he reportedly made at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, in which he dismissed the idea of a \"managed no deal\" Brexit as a \"unicorn\".\n\nMrs May is seeking assurances from EU leaders to address MPs' concerns about the deal\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I think making a conscious decision to proceed with no deal would not be the responsible course of action and I think we would have to look at what other choices were available to us.\"\n\nAsked if he would remain in the cabinet, he said: \"I think it would be very difficult for me in those circumstances.\"\n\nHe said there was a risk of an \"accidental no deal\" and that \"the best way of stopping no deal is to back the prime minister's deal, in my view\".\n\nBut Mr Gauke said: \"I think if it came down to the government saying, consciously, we will just have to do that, I don't think there would be a lot of support for it. I would be very surprised if the prime minister would be prepared to go down that route.\"\n\nMrs May has suggested the choice facing MPs is one between her deal, no deal or potentially, no Brexit at all. She has refused to rule out a \"no deal\" Brexit - under pressure from many MPs to do so.\n\nOn Thursday, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom told the BBC a \"managed\" no deal did not have to mean no withdrawal agreement at all.\n\nThe Leave campaigner said it could be a stripped-down agreement incorporating some of the EU's no-deal preparations.\n\n\"What I am looking at is trying to find an alternative so that in the event that we cannot agree to this deal there could be a further deal that looks at a more minimalist approach but enables us to leave with some kind of implementation period.\n\n\"That avoids a cliff edge, that avoids uncertainty for businesses and travellers and so on.\"\n• None What happens now that a deal's been done?", "\"Gravy day\" has its origins in a 1996 song by Australian musician Paul Kelly\n\nIt's not exactly a national holiday - yet - but \"gravy day\" is being well celebrated in Australia, thanks to a song and plenty of internet jokes.\n\nWhat is gravy day? It began with a 1996 song called How To Make Gravy by popular Australian singer Paul Kelly.\n\nIts lyrics tell a fictional tale of a man in jail writing to his family about longing to be with them at Christmas.\n\nThat letter is penned on 21 December - a date that, in real life, has been deemed increasingly worth celebrating.\n\nAnd many Australians did on Friday, especially on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Johnston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"GravyDay\", \"Paul Kelly\" and \"the 21st of December\" were trending terms on Twitter, with many posts playing off How To Make Gravy's narrative.\n\nJoe, the song's made-up protagonist, sings about his family's traditions, such as relatives \"driving down from Queensland\" and \"flying in from the coast\".\n\nThe song has even been likened to \"an Australian Christmas carol\". Instead of northern-hemisphere references to cold things, Joe anticipates a hot Christmas Day.\n\n\"They say it's gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe,\" the lyrics read, \"but that won't stop the roast\".\n\nHis emotional messages to family - such as \"give my love to Angus and Frank and Dolly\" - have become a particular focus of fun.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Timothy Fernandez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRadio stations also picked up on the celebrations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by 3AW Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Angus Randall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIts popularity has inspired media outlets to investigate the protagonist's possible back story and the key question in the song: \"Who's going to make the gravy?\"\n\nAnd just what is the best gravy recipe? According to the lyrics, it is: \"Just add flour, salt, a little red wine, and don't forget a dollop of tomato sauce, for sweetness and that extra tang.\"\n\nSome said they would follow that advice, but others questioned the recipe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by F Onthemoon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"You never know what's going to happen to the song after you write them,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last year.", "The boy, whose photo has been blurred, was admitted to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children to treat an undescended testicle\n\nA two-year-old boy has been left infertile after surgeons operated on the wrong testicle, his family says.\n\nThe boy was admitted to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children earlier in the week to treat an undescended testicle.\n\nHe had one healthy testicle and one that did not function. His father said surgeons operated on the wrong one by mistake and have \"castrated him\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Bristol has apologised and said it has launched a serious incident investigation.\n\nThe boy's father, whose name has not been used to protect his son's identity, said his son's undescended testicle was discovered during a routine check up.\n\nThe toddler boy was referred to a specialist and on Monday he was booked in for an operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nThe family said they were told it was \"just a minimal operation\" with \"minimal risk\" and it would be over in around 30 minutes\n\n\"We were waiting and waiting,\" his father said.\n\n\"After two and a half hours the manager, surgeons and consultants they came and I knew something was not right.\n\n\"Me and my wife started panicking, they called us into the office and told us things didn't go right and the operation wasn't a success.\"\n\nThe operation took place at the Bristol Children's Hospital\n\nThe couple said they were told a surgeon had mistakenly inserted a camera \"into the wrong side\" and now their son's healthy testicle would \"never work\".\n\n\"I was very distressed, it was an awful disaster for a simple operation they destroyed everything and they ruined my son,\" his father said.\n\n\"They castrated him and now my son's future life has dramatically changed.\"\n\nThe boy's mother said it was \"absolutely horrible\" what the surgeons had done.\n\n\"They broke my heart and they basically destroyed his future,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't find the words to explain how I'm feeling - there are no words. Even tears, I have no more tears.\n\n\"We just hope for a miracle, this is what we hope.\"\n\nIn a statement, University Hospitals Bristol apologised saying it was \"deeply sorry\".\n\n\"As soon as our staff members realised what had happened, they met with the family, told them what happened, and apologised again at that point,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"I would like to re-iterate that we take patient safety extremely seriously here and also the quality of our clinical care.\n\n\"As a result, a serious incident investigation has been launched. We will keep the family informed and involved in this process.\"\n\nIt is estimated that about one in 25 boys are born with undescended testicles, according to NHS online.\n\nAround one in 100 boys has testicles that stay undescended unless treated.\n\nThe NHS said the \"relatively straightforward\" operation to move testicles into the correct position in the scrotum has a \"good success rate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US justice department has indicted two Chinese men accused of hacking into the computer networks of companies and government agencies in Western countries.\n\nThe pair are allegedly part of a \"hacking group\" known as Advanced Persistent Threat 10, affiliated with China's main intelligence service.\n\nThey have not been arrested.\n\nThe US and UK have accused China of violating an agreement relating to commercial espionage.\n\nZhu Hua and Zhang Shilong worked for a company called Huaying Haitai and in association with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the US court filing says.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that from at least 2006 until 2018, the two extensively hacked into computer systems with the aim of stealing intellectual property and confidential business and technological information from:\n\nThe FBI said they had also hacked into US Navy computer systems and stolen the personal information of more than 100,000 personnel.\n\nFBI director Christopher Wray said the two men were at present \"beyond US jurisdiction\".\n\nAnnouncing the unsealing of the indictments, US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said China had violated a 2015 agreement under which it had pledged to not engage in commercial cyber-spying.\n\nUS Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: \"We want China to cease its illegal cyber activities\"\n\nMr Rosenstein said his department's move had been co-ordinated with US allies in Europe and Asia to rebuff \"China's economic aggression\".\n\nHe added: \"We want China to cease its illegal cyber activities.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was joining allies in holding the Chinese government responsible for a global campaign targeting commercial secrets.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: \"This campaign is one of the most significant and widespread cyber intrusions against the UK and allies uncovered to date, targeting trade secrets and economies around the world.\n\n\"These activities must stop. They go against the commitments made to the UK in 2015, and, as part of the G20, not to conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property or trade secrets.\"\n\nAustralia and New Zealand said they too held China responsible for the global hacking campaign and joined their \"like-minded partners\" in condemning the activity.\n\nThis is the latest salvo in Washington's attempt to pressure Beijing on a range of issues, with economic espionage one of the most high-profile.\n\nUS and UK officials are reluctant to name the companies that have been hit but they say the economic damage has been significant.\n\nThe hackers, officials say, work under the direction of China's Ministry of State Security - one of the country's intelligence organisations.\n\n\"It is organised more like a corporation than a gang,\" one UK official says, adding that British intelligence has the highest level of confidence in their assessment of who was responsible.\n\nThe UK and US believe China is breaking a 2015 agreement not to steal commercial data to help its companies. There was a dip in activity after the deal was signed (which followed a period of pressure by Washington, including the indictment of Chinese military hackers and the threat of sanctions).\n\nBut US and UK sources both say that recently they have seen Chinese hackers return, now operating more stealthily, whereas in the past they were easier to spot.\n\nWhere the US has been vocal in recent months, this is the first time the UK has spoken out - perhaps because it has been concerned about risking trade ties and getting pulled into the Trump administration's broader confrontation with Beijing.\n\nUK officials say they have raised the matter privately a number of times with Beijing over the last two years, including during the prime minister's visit earlier this year, and officials are keen to stress that they think the relationship with China is strong enough to allow them to address these issues without causing wider problems.", "Host families waited at Gatwick airport on Friday to welcome the slightly delayed group of children\n\nA group of children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster have defied the Gatwick chaos and landed in the UK in time for Christmas.\n\nHost families were at the airport to welcome 30 children, who live in areas of Belarus contaminated with radiation.\n\nThe children, aged between seven and 12, will now enjoy two weeks of respite and play, thanks to the Friends of Chernobyl's Children charity.\n\nThey feared it might be scrapped when drone activity closed the airport.\n\nThe children travelled to Minsk airport on Friday morning, hoping their flight would not be cancelled\n\nVolunteer Sue Platts said: \"Anya, the little girl I'm hosting, is so excited to put the Christmas tree up. She's been waiting since August to do it. It would have been heartbreaking it they missed this break,\"\n\nMs Platts began to worry on Wednesday that the flight from Minsk, in Belarus, would be cancelled as hundreds of flights were affected.\n\nBut when Gatwick re-opened on Friday morning, Ms Platts and other families gathered in Santa hats in the arrivals lounge to welcome the children just a few hours after their original scheduled arrival time.\n\n\"These children have been coming to us for five years or more, so we have strong bonds with them,\" Ms Platts said.\n\nAnya, 11, lives in Mogilev, Belarus, with her grandparents\n\nThe trips, which take place in summer and at Christmas, give 300-350 children living in areas suffering the economic and social impact of the nuclear disaster the chance to have a holiday abroad.\n\n\"Many have no running water or proper sanitation at home, living in wooden homes or high-rise flats with several generations in a couple of rooms,\" Ms Platts added. \"One of the most exciting things for them is having a hot bath.\"\n\nThe Christmas visit is funded by volunteers, who pay for flights and visas, after the children visit in the summer for English lessons, dental treatment - paid for by the dentists themselves - and fun activities, such as going to the zoo.\n\nWhile in the UK, they enjoy clean air, fresh water and a good diet in contrast with their food at home, which might be contaminated.\n\nSue, with Anya (left) and Katrina, who is on the same programme\n\n\"For them, it means two weeks of creature comforts of living at home. And it's Christmas - every child loves a party.\"\n\nAround 200,000 sq km (77,000 sq miles) of land - 71% of which are in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - were contaminated with radiation after a series of explosions in one of the reactors at the nuclear plant.\n\nSome new-borns in a region close to Ukraine's border still have serious deformities, while an unusually high rate of people have rare forms of cancer, according to charity Bridges to Belarus.\n\nThere were other heart-warming stories among the thousands of tales of disrupted or cancelled journeys.\n\nUniversity student Rebecca Bradley, 20, was comforted by home-made mince pies offered by a pilot when her flight home from Canada was diverted to Glasgow.\n\nThe annoyance of a long wait was alleviated by a pilot's offer of mince pies\n\n\"He said to take a few because I might get hungry while waiting,\" she said. \"We wished each other good luck on our travels and a happy Christmas. The mince pies were fruity and spicy with crumbly pastry - delicious,\" Ms Bradley added.\n\nThree tickets to see musical Matilda were donated by Leonie Lachlan to a family affected by the Gatwick shutdown after she advertised them on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leonie Lachlan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd one private jet company advertised on Twitter a free flight from Madrid to Blackbushe airport, Hampshire, for anyone trying to get home for Christmas.", "\"I've lost almost 11 years of my life, I'm not going to get that back,\" says Gareth Jones\n\nWhen Gareth Jones was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, he told his little niece that he was going away to work with Santa Claus.\n\nThrough his three and a half years behind bars he kept this story going, telling her he was at an airport waiting to fly to Lapland while speaking to her from the prison phone.\n\n\"I feel sick that I've lied to her…when I was away she kept asking, 'when are you coming back?',\" said Gareth.\n\n\"I'm thinking, I can't explain to a five year old kid that I'm in prison, so I just lied and lied.\"\n\nGareth was 22 when he was convicted and imprisoned for sexually assaulting an elderly woman with dementia while he was working at a care home near Brecon.\n\nGareth, who has learning difficulties, said he was depicted at the time \"as a monster\", who had carried out a \"vicious and sadistic attack\" on a vulnerable elderly woman.\n\nNow Gareth and his family have had the best Christmas present they could have wished for.\n\nHis conviction has been quashed by the Court of Appeal, thanks to a team of Cardiff law students who started working to clear his name back in 2012.\n\nAt his trial the jury heard how the woman lost about a litre of blood - but no DNA evidence was found on Gareth or his unwashed clothes\n\nWhile it has been years since he left prison, Gareth has been far from a free man.\n\nMore than a decade later the guilty verdict, and being on the Sex Offenders' Register, has made it hard for him to do simple things, like see his family, travel, get a job, and rebuild his life in the close-knit community of Llandovery, where he now lives.\n\n\"I appreciate those close friends I was in school with, who believed I was innocent,\" said Gareth, now 33.\n\n\"But it's taken a while for this town to believe my side of the story because I've been beaten up, I've been jumped, I've been called a granny rapist, a paedophile, a nonce.\n\n\"I just bite my lip and say 'you believe what you want to believe - I know that I'm innocent at the end of the day'.\"\n\nThis belief has kept him going ever since his life changed when he helped a 77-year-old dementia patient to bed at the nursing home where he had worked for two years.\n\nGareth, from Trecastle, was initially employed as a kitchen porter, but with the manager's blessing he \"swapped\" jobs with a care assistant who fancied a change of role - an action later condemned by the judge at his trial as inappropriate and \"astonishing\".\n\nIt was when he was changing the patient's incontinence pad he realised she was bleeding heavily, and says he pressed an emergency call button for help.\n\nWhen colleagues arrived he left the room, as he could not stand the sight of blood, but later accompanied the woman to hospital, before returning to the home and offering to speak to police.\n\nBut it was not until he was preparing to leave for work the following evening, that the police arrived at his home.\n\nAt their request, he gave them his unwashed uniform from the previous night's shift. He was then arrested for sexual assault.\n\n\"That's when my life just crumbled. I felt like my heart had just been ripped out of me,\" he said.\n\n\"I was shocked, all over the place…I'd done nothing wrong.\"\n\nAfter 28 hours of questioning, Gareth was charged and was remanded before standing trial at Cardiff Crown Court in July 2008.\n\nHe denied the allegations, but was found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a patient with a mental disorder.\n\nGareth now hopes to be able to travel\n\nGareth, who was diagnosed as a child with a learning difficulty which impairs his understanding, found the trial incomprehensible.\n\n\"I couldn't understand most of what they were going on about,\" he said, \"I kept asking the security guard what was happening but he kept telling me to shush\".\n\n\"I thought my solicitor and barrister, they've been in court before, they know what they're doing, I'll just listen to them.\"\n\nAfter less than three hours of deliberation, he was found guilty by the jury.\n\n\"I just broke down, crying and shaking,\" he said. \"I remember my dad kicking off when the security people were taking me down.\n\n\"I went to try and give him a hug and say goodbye, but I didn't get the chance because the guard yanked me away.\"\n\nGareth - who had no previous convictions - was sentenced to nine years in prison, but this was reduced on appeal to seven years after a judge condemned as it as \"manifestly excessive\".\n\nHe served three and a half years at Usk Prison, before being released on licence in January 2012.\n\n\"There were a lot of sex offenders and some lifers in there, and I thought right, this is my new home now,\" said Gareth.\n\n\"I know you hear it all the time in prison, but I just kept on telling (the other inmates), I've done nothing wrong, I'm innocent.\n\n\"There's no point kicking and screaming, until you leave those prison gates: then you can fight it…and that's what I did.\"\n\nThe law students worked for six years to try and overturn Gareth's conviction\n\nGareth contemplated suicide - but then the Cardiff University Innocence Project took up his case.\n\nA hearing at the Court of Appeal in London in November marked the culmination of six years of work by students to uncover grounds to challenge his conviction.\n\nIt is the second time the project, which brings law students together with experts to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice alongside their studies, has cleared a man's name.\n\nThey are the only university-based innocence project in the UK to achieve such a result.\n\nThe group made history in 2014 when former gang member Dwaine George - jailed for life in 2002 after teenager Daniel Dale was shot dead in Manchester - was cleared of murder.\n\nIf not for the determination of his carer Paula Morgan, the law students who have worked on the project would most likely never have heard of Gareth.\n\nPaula Morgan, who lives with Gareth, said she could not believe his case had ever gone to trial as there was no evidence\n\nPaula has known Gareth since he was a child. She never doubted his innocence and was delighted when the students took on his case.\n\n\"It took months of searching before I came across them... it was amazing because I'd tried several barristers and organisations but unless you have money there's no justice,\" she said.\n\n\"It's gratifying that there are people out there who care about justice; they're going to go into their professional lives with that knowledge, in a better place to help people like Gareth who can't afford legal representation.\"\n\nHis appeal team argued the medical evidence at his trial was weak, as the elderly patient could have been injured another way, and there was no forensic evidence found on Gareth or the unwashed uniform he handed to the police.\n\nThey also suggested he was not given the right support for someone with his learning difficulty, which hampered his understanding of the trial.\n\nGareth describes the Innocence Project team as \"like a second family\" and Paula as like a \"second mum\", adding, \"I owe my life to them, basically\".\n\nNow that his name has been cleared he will be removed from the Sex Offenders' Register and he now hopes to get on with his life.\n\n\"I've lost almost 11 years of my life, I'm not going to get that back,\" he said.\n\n\"But I want to go back out and work, earn a living, a decent minimum wage,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd like to go to Canada, go fishing there with my father and some friends - things like that, go travelling, spend time with my nieces and nephew without needing the police's permission first... move on and do things I want to do without asking the police's permission, following their rules.\n\n\"It's a new life, a new chapter.\"", "Rogue drones \"deliberately\" flown over one of the UK's busiest airports caused travel chaos before Christmas.\n\nHeathrow, among the world's busiest airports, was also briefly disrupted by drone activity in January.\n\nAt Gatwick, incoming planes were forced to divert to airports up and down the country as the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), repeatedly appeared over the airfield.\n\nThe situation was so serious the Army was called in to support the local police in tackling the issue, with the runway finally re-opening several days later.\n\nFor some time now, governments around the world have been looking at different ways of addressing the dangers of drone use in areas where they pose safety risks.\n\nHere we look at some of the solutions - ranging from bazookas to eagles.\n\nLondon's Gatwick Airport was forced to close after drones were spotted over the airfield\n\nRogue drones can be detected or located using cameras, radar and radio frequency sensors.\n\nSuch technology can be integrated into existing airport systems and can have a reach of several miles.\n\nIt can then be used to effectively \"jam\" the communication between a device and its operator, causing it to initiate a default mode that sends it back to where it came from.\n\nOne company that has developed this method is Quantum Aviation, which provided the technology to counter possible threats from drones targeting the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nChina has also developed a signal-jamming gun that can reportedly down drones from half a mile away.\n\nThe SkyWall100 bazooka allows users to physically seize drones in high-risk areas\n\nOne way, and perhaps the most obvious, is to shoot them down.\n\nBut police dealing with the issue at Gatwick Airport have said they will not use this method because of the risk of stray bullets.\n\nHowever, a number of companies have produced hand-held or shoulder-mounted devices that can be used to fire nets at rogue drones, trapping them and preventing the blades from rotating, causing them to fall from the sky.\n\nBritish engineering company OpenWorks has also developed a large bazooka, the SkyWall100, which fires a net and parachute at a target, using a scope for accuracy.\n\nThe SkyWall100 system has been issued to security forces and government agencies in Asia, Europe and North America.\n\nSecurity firms have also found a way of using \"interceptor drones\" that can lock onto a target, release a net and disable it in mid-air.\n\nThis type of system was deployed at the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February, and has been used by police in Tokyo for the last three years.\n\nFrance has also used this technique, successfully demonstrating that one drone equipped with a net can catch another.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLasers are another option: both the US and China have experimented with technology that can shoot down a device within seconds of locating it.\n\nEngineering company Boeing has developed a high-energy beam that locates and disables small drones from several miles away. It is said to use infrared cameras that can work in low visibility, such as fog.\n\nEarlier this year, China demonstrated a laser gun at a weapons exhibition in Kazakhstan. The so-called \"Silent Hunter\" was claimed to be effective in helping police intercept drones and other small aerial targets with \"high accuracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has been given access to the airbase where Dutch police are training eagles to take down unauthorised drones\n\nMeanwhile, the Netherlands has discovered a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem.\n\nPolice there have trained eagles to bring down \"hostile\" drones by latching on to the propellers with their talons, instantly disabling them.\n\nTrainers say the eagles see the drones as prey and are not interested in attacking anything else when released.\n\nDutch police are believed to be the first in the world to have implemented this method.\n\nIt is already illegal to fly a drone within 1km (about 1,100 yards) of an airport or airfield boundary in the UK - but regulations in other countries vary.\n\nDrone users in the US have to notify air traffic control in advance if they plan to fly their devices within 8km of an airport. All drones must also be registered, according to the drone community website UAV Coach.\n\nIn Canada, drones cannot be flown within 5.6km of any airport, seaplane base or area where aircraft can take off and land. This is reduced to 1.9km for heliports. Similar laws apply in Sweden.\n\nPermits are also required in Germany - although the restrictions for airport boundaries are similar to those in the UK, at 1.5km - and Spain, where devices must also be insured.\n\nLaws in South Africa, however, are strict. It is illegal to fly devices within 10km of an airport, helipad or airstrip, and they can only be operated elsewhere during daylight hours and in clear conditions.\n\nIn 15 countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, it is illegal to fly a drone at all.", "Passengers at one of the UK's busiest airports are stuck in massive queues as their flights have been halted.\n\nDrones were seen over Gatwick's airfield prompting the suspension of outgoing flights, while incoming planes have been redirected - with some landing in Paris and Amsterdam.\n\nThe airport said 110,000 passengers were due to either take off or land at the airport on 760 flights on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he will \"get the players enjoying football\" again following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.\n\nUnited appointed their former striker as boss until the end of the season on Wednesday, a day after Mourinho was dismissed.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, takes over with United sixth in the Premier League.\n\nThe Norwegian told MUTV that he wanted to see the players \"express themselves\" during the rest of the campaign.\n\n\"We will get the players enjoying football and looking forward to seeing the supporters again,\" he said.\n\nMourinho was sacked after no progress with results or style despite spending nearly £400m on 11 players in two and a half seasons in charge, while many of United's performances this season have lacked fluency.\n\nUnited will look to appoint a permanent boss at the end of the season.\n• None 'Solskjaer has chance of becoming full-time Man Utd manager'\n• None What can Man Utd expect from Solskjaer?\n• None Title winners to 'rotten to the core' - where did it all go wrong for Man Utd?\n• None Why Man Utd need a director of football - and is Mitchell the ideal candidate?\n\nSolskjaer spent 11 seasons at Old Trafford, scoring the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final, and said his return \"feels like coming home\".\n\nWhen asked about his status as a fan favourite, he jokingly replied: \"How long will that last?\"\n\nHe also promised fans that he would \"give everything\" to \"bring the club success\" and get players \"enjoying football\".\n\n\"We have to get used to winning again and challenging for trophies,\" he added.\n\n\"Whatever has happened has happened and everyone starts with a clean slate.\"\n\nSolskjaer's first match in charge will be at Cardiff - where he had an eight-month spell as manager in 2014 - on Saturday at 17:30 GMT.\n\nHe was relegated from the Premier League with the Bluebirds in 2014, then sacked after a poor start to the Championship campaign.\n\nIn his first spell as manager of Molde from 2011 to 2014, he won the Norwegian league twice and Norwegian Cup once. He returned to the club in 2015 and signed a new deal there earlier this month.\n\n\"The more mistakes you make, the more you learn and I've made a few mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"I've won the league, I've won the cup but I've also been relegated so I'm getting to know the occupation.\"\n\nMichael Carrick and Kieran McKenna, both part of Mourinho's coaching staff, will continue to work under Solskjaer.\n\nSolskjaer said he felt he needed to bring in the \"experience\" of Mike Phelan, who returns as first-team coach having previously worked as United assistant manager alongside Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\n\"He's done it all, is an incredible calming influence on me and his football knowledge is really good,\" added Solskjaer.", "Businesses that trade with the EU need to take steps now to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, a government minister has warned.\n\nFinancial Secretary to the Treasury Mel Stride told the BBC's Today programme \"there is a call to action now\".\n\nHMRC has published an update to its advice on how firms should prepare for a no-deal scenario.\n\nHowever, Mr Stride called the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal an \"unlikely event\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Stride said: \"The time is now, there is a call to action now.\n\n\"Those who are importing or exporting into and out of the EU 27, in the unlikely event that there is a no-deal at the end of March, will need to take certain steps. They need to do that now.\"\n\nMr Stride said businesses needed to \"get a customs agent on board\" or \"look at software they can use to make sure (of) their import and export declarations\".\n\nHe added that firms should register for an Economic Operators Registration and Identification Number (EORI number) - a system of unique identification numbers used by customs authorities throughout the European Union.\n\nBusinesses should also be prepared to pay custom duties in the event of a no-deal Brexit, he warned.\n\nThe latest HMRC update marks a shift in tone, with businesses being urged to take action now.\n\nThe new version of the partnership pack also includes details about government funding for new IT systems and staff training, which is available to customs brokers, customs intermediaries and traders.\n\nOn Wednesday, British business groups criticised politicians for focusing on infighting rather than preparing for Brexit, warning that there was not enough time to prepare for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe groups said companies had been \"watching in horror\" at the continuing rows within Westminster.\n\nNimisha Raja, chief executive and founder of Nim's Fruit Crisps, says businesses need to be prepared for a lot more paperwork, if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nNim's Fruit Crisps sometimes has to import fruit from the EU to make its products, when fruits such as apples and pears are out of season in the UK.\n\n\"I hadn't realised quite how much we would need to do,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPreparing for the changes in the import procedure was \"quite an onerous task, and possibly [involving] extra cost in admin staff\".\n\nShe would definitely be interested in applying for grants to ease the load.\n\nAt the moment, in order to import any item from outside the EU, importers need to locate the specific commodity code relating to each specific product.\n\nIn a no-deal scenario, this would mean British businesses would need to be able to locate commodity codes from HMRC's database, which would be time-consuming.\n\n\"Having access to funding and not having to devise it from scratch, that's brilliant. At least it would be something to start off with,\" said Ms Raja.\n\n\"There are possibly lots of costs involved that we haven't planned for.\n\n\"What will have a huge impact on cost will be whether you do all this yourself or whether you get an agent - but an agent will cost a lot.\"", "Carlos Ghosn will for now remain in detention\n\nFormer Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has been re-arrested on fresh charges, Japanese media report, dashing any hopes he could be released on bail.\n\nMr Ghosn has spent the last month in prison, accused of misusing funds and hiding more than $40m (£31m) of income.\n\nBut on Thursday a court rejected a request by the prosecution to extend his detention, which meant he could apply to be released on bail.\n\nFriday's arrest is on a new charge of aggravated breach of trust.\n\nAccording to Japanese broadcaster NHK, prosecutors now accuse Mr Ghosn of shifting a private investment loss of over $16m onto Nissan in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nA towering and revered figure in the auto industry, Mr Ghosn has not yet responded to the latest allegation - but he has consistently denied all prior accusations made against him.\n\nHe was first arrested in Tokyo in November as allegations of financial misconduct surfaced.\n\nThe BBC's Mariko Oi says that ever since Carlos Ghosn stepped off his private jet only to be taken into police custody, the case has gripped Japan with speculation rife over what could be behind such a stunning fall from grace.\n\nThe case has been highly unusual - not least for a high profile chief executive to be spending time in jail - but also because of its legal twists such as yesterday's when the court rejected an application to extend his detention, our reporter adds.\n\nMr Ghosn was a towering figure in the auto industry\n\nIf found guilty of the financial misconduct charges he could face up to 10 years in prison as well as a fine of up to 700m Japanese yen ($6.2m; £4.9m), according to Japanese regulators.\n\nThis latest move means he will remain in prison so prosecutors can question him further.\n\nMr Ghosn's detention has also put into doubt the future of the Alliance - a global car manufacturing group that includes Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi.\n\nNissan and Mitsubishi both sacked Mr Ghosn as chairman after his arrest last month.\n\nBut Renault has held off, choosing instead to appoint a temporary deputy chief executive to take over the running of the firm.", "The Grande Tema was due to dock at Tilbury\n\nFour stowaways found on a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary have been detained after the vessel's crew was threatened.\n\nThe Grande Tema's crew had to lock themselves in the vessel's bridge for safety, a spokesman said.\n\nEssex Police said the vessel was boarded and secured shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday - almost 14 hours after the force was first called.\n\nFour men who were on the ship have been held under the Immigration Act, the force added.\n\nA police spokesman said they would be handed over to UK Border Force.\n\nThe stowaways had demanded to be taken to the coast, according to the ship's owner.\n\nPolice previously said the situation was not being treated as a hostage, piracy or terror-related issue.\n\nGPS trackers showed the 71,000-tonne ship sailing in circles in the Thames Estuary. It had set off from Lagos, Nigeria, on 10 December. It docked at Tilbury just before 04.30 GMT.\n\nGrimaldi Group, which owns the vessel, said the four stowaways were discovered on board four days ago.\n\nThey were put under surveillance in a cabin but escaped earlier and made threats to the ship's master as the vessel approached Tilbury, urging him to get close to the coast.\n\nA map showing the Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary at 17:00 GMT\n\nGrimaldi spokesman Paul Kyprianou said: \"The vessel was coming from Nigeria and was bound to Tilbury and those four stowaways were in the cabin.\n\n\"Today they managed to escape from the cabin and they started threatening the crew, requesting the master of the vessel [navigate] very close to the coast.\n\n\"That request was probably because they wanted to jump and reach the British coast.\"\n\nHe said the crew had locked themselves in the command area of the vessel.\n\nMr Kyprianou added: \"It's a small group but obviously you can understand it would be scary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Users whose IP addresses connected to Slack in countries like Cuba are reportedly affected\n\nSome users of communication service Slack have reported their accounts have been closed over visits to countries under US sanctions.\n\nThe move, which Slack says is to comply with US regulations, is believed to be affecting users who have visited nations including Iran and North Korea.\n\nBut many on social media say they were not warned in advance.\n\nSome have said they had not visited the countries in recent years, and believe their bans were in error.\n\nCuba, Syria and Crimea are other countries and regions where Slack says its systems may not be used.\n\nSlack said it would individually review cases if users thought their account had been wrongly targeted.\n\nThe business messaging service is used by about eight million people every day in thousands of companies, including large firms like Airbnb and Ticketmaster.\n\nOne user, on website Hacker News, complained that his wife's sudden ban meant she had now lost access to years of work data including messages and files.\n\nSlack allows colleagues to easily communicate as a group\n\nHe said she had been flagged for travelling, \"legally\" to Cuba \"years ago\" and seemed unable to appeal against the sudden closure.\n\nAnother series of tweets, by a PhD student in Canada, said he believed he was included in the ban because of his Iranian ethnicity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople have been sharing their experiences using the hashtag #SlackBan.\n\nSome have questioned whether the move goes beyond the remit of US sanctions, which punishes firms in violation.\n\nIn a statement to website Mashable, Slack said they \"prohibit unauthorized Slack use in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea region of Ukraine\" to comply with US regulations.\n\nIt added that its systems \"may have detected an account and/or a workspace owner on our platform with an IP address originating from a designated embargoed country\" but said it would \"review further\" cases where people feel their ban is in error.\n\nIt added: \"If users think we've made a mistake in blocking their access, please reach out to feedback@slack.com and we'll review as soon as possible.\"", "A third of train services running on a line between two towns in the north west of England have been cancelled since May.\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham says Northern Rail should be stripped of its franchise, unless it improves.", "Police say they are still searching for those responsible for the unprecedented disruption at Gatwick Airport.\n\nBut the drones that were flown over the airfield have not been captured and have not been seen since Thursday night.\n\nEndangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence that can carry a prison sentence.\n\nSo how will police find those responsible?\n\nIf the drones were being operated by a typical remote control unit, it would be possible to establish the controller's position.\n\nPolice could pick up the controller's radio signal and \"drive around and look where the signals are coming from\", said cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey.\n\nThat would only be possible if the drones were being controlled by somebody in the area, which Prof Woodward thinks is a likely scenario.\n\nPolice have suggested that the operator moved when officers got close, which points to \"someone in a van\".\n\nPolice helicopters have been searching for the drone operator\n\nA drone was seen so regularly that somebody must have been changing its batteries. Unless, of course, there was more than one drone.\n\nHowever, there have been no sightings since Thursday night. If the operator has fled, there will be no signals to track.\n\nDrones and their controllers emit radio signals, which the police can capture and analyse.\n\nWhile Prof Woodward says there is \"not much forensic information in the signals\", there are \"some identifiers\" in them. This lets two drones work next to each other without signal interference - and could let police identify the drone or controller used, if they managed to record them.\n\nIt is also possible the drone operator was not at the airport and was controlling the devices over the internet.\n\nIf a drone was receiving its instructions using a mobile data connection, the network operators may be able to provide useful information.\n\nIf they were able to locate a device switching between mobile masts as it flew over the airfield, they may be able to identify the account holder.\n\nBut Prof Woodward says this would require a lot of technical knowledge, and thinks it is less likely that the drone was remotely controlled this way.\n\nThe police have not managed to capture a drone. Now the operator has gone, the \"evidence has gone with them\", says Prof Woodward.\n\nIf one reappears, they could \"follow it with another drone\", although there have already been helicopters flying around the airfield looking for people.\n\nThe police have also appealed for any photos or videos the public have managed to capture of the drones. They could reveal whether the device is off-the-shelf or custom-made.\n\nBeyond that, police will be searching Gatwick CCTV - both in the airport and the surrounding area.\n\n\"Gatwick Airport has a lot of CCTV inside the perimeter and on the edge looking outwards. But outside the airport it's quite a rural area, so I doubt there will be that much CCTV around,\" said Prof Woodward.\n\nIt could be like looking for a \"needle in a haystack\", he warns.", "Grandad Jimmy Murphy has transformed the loft of his one-bedroom flat into a Christmas grotto.\n\nMr Murphy, 87, builds the grotto as a festive treat for family and friends in Prestwick, Ayrshire. Wife Betty, also 87, provides the carol singing.\n\nEvery year he decorates the small loft with toys, ornaments, train sets and hundreds of fairy lights.\n\nGranddaughter Claire McGahon filmed this year's grotto and shared it on Facebook to spread their Christmas joy.\n\nMs McGahon said: \"He has always been doing it for as long as I can remember, he is so creative.\n\n\"The Grotto has been growing every year and it gets better and better.\"\n\nMr Murphy begins planning and building his grotto in November, taking weeks to add all the small details.\n\nAs well as his loft project, he also builds the Christmas manger at his local church.", "The chief coroner for England and Wales has called for armed police on all gates of Parliament following the 2017 Westminster terror attack.\n\nIn his report Mark Lucraft QC said Scotland Yard should order that there is a constant armed presence.\n\nThe coroner also urged MI5 to improve how it records the reasons why it closes investigations.\n\nSolicitors for the families called for all of the recommendations to be swiftly implemented.\n\nKhalid Masood killed four people on 22 March last year after hitting them with his car on Westminster Bridge - American tourist Kurt Cochran, retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, mother-of-two Aysha Frade and Romanian designer Andreea Cristea.\n\nHe then ran into Parliament's grounds and stabbed to death unarmed PC Keith Palmer before he himself was shot dead by other officers.\n\nCoroners have the power to write reports to the government and other public bodies that make recommendations aimed at averting further similar tragedies.\n\nIn his report, Mr Lucraft said: \"It was a matter of concern that, at the time of the attack, one of the most vulnerable and public entrances to the Parliamentary Estate was not protected by armed police.\n\n\"In my view, the Metropolitan Police Service should consider imposing a standing order that there should be armed officers stationed at all open public entry points to the Palace of Westminster and introducing a provision that this standing order may only be varied with the written approval of an officer of very senior rank.\"\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquests, Mr Lucraft ruled that PC Palmer's death could have possibly been prevented if armed police officers had been nearby.\n\nAnd he recommended that officers be trained to deal with \"lone actor or multi-actor marauding attacks\".\n\nDuring the inquests, a senior MI5 officer revealed that the security service had once investigated Khalid Masood - but discounted him as a threat many years before he ultimately attacked.\n\nMr Lucraft urged MI5 to begin recording reasons for closing a file on a suspect - so that if a case were to be reopened in the future, investigators would have a full picture of what was known about the individual and why they had been discounted as a threat.\n\nGary Cassidy and Helen Boniface, solicitors for some of the victims, said: \"Swift application of all these recommendations is crucial in demonstrating that the many lessons arising from this attack have been learned.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scotland Yard said that there had been an immediate review of parliamentary security following the attack - and further work was continuing.", "Miley Cyrus sang the song on Jimmy Fallon's US TV talk show\n\nMiley Cyrus has overhauled the lyrics to Santa Baby, turning the festive classic into a feminist anthem.\n\nThe pop star sang her version on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon after pointing out that the lyrics ask Santa for \"a car, a yacht and cheques\" in exchange for a \"hook up with Santa\".\n\nIn her version, she said she doesn't need Santa's presents because she can buy her \"own damn stuff\".\n\n\"Listen Santa to what I say, a girl's best friend is... equal pay,\" she sang.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\n\nThe track was originally recorded in 1953 by Eartha Kitt and features a woman telling Father Christmas her gift list because she has been \"an awfully good girl\".\n\nIn her updated version, Cyrus sang: \"Don't want diamonds, cash or stocks. Nothing that comes in a box. No more fluff, I've had enough. And I can buy my own damn stuff.\"\n\nShe went on to sing that she bought a car \"all by myself, Santa baby, with zero help from Elf on the Shelf\".\n\nShe finished with the line: \"Santa baby, I'd love to know my ass won't get grabbed at work, by some ignorant jerk.\"\n\nAt the start of the sketch, she also told Fallon she objected to the line \"slip a sable under the tree\".\n\n\"Do you even know what that is?\" she asked the talk show host. \"It's a fur and I'm vegan.\"\n\nSanta Baby is not the first Christmas song this year from Cyrus.\n\nShe has also released a version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Christmas War is Over, recorded with their son Sean Ono Lennon and Mark Ronson.\n\nTheir new version only had a slight lyric change, replacing \"yellow and red ones\" with \"left and right ones\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The drone was spotted shortly after 17:00 GMT\n\nA further drone sighting has again disrupted the UK's second biggest airport, with flights grounded and passengers unable to fly.\n\nAircraft were left circling above the area during the latest alert, which came at about 17:10 GMT. Flights resumed less than 90 minutes later.\n\nA spokeswoman for the airport said the suspension was only as a precaution.\n\nShe said military measures had been put in place that meant it was safe to reopen.\n\nGatwick had reopened earlier on Friday, after drones flying over the airfield closed it for more than a day.\n\nThe airport was initially closed on Wednesday at about 21:30, following the first drone sighting.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the latest incident was a \"confirmed sighting of a drone\".\n\nEleven inbound flights were diverted to other airports during the latest suspension and, while outbound flights would experience a \"knock-on delay\", none had been cancelled, she said.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been contacted by people claiming their flights were cancelled.\n\nPolice believe more than one unmanned aircraft has been used and are investigating the possibility of multiple culprits.\n\nEarlier, officers said they had identified \"persons of interest\".\n\nIn a statement, police confirmed operations were suspended for safety reasons.\n\nThe force said: \"Sussex Police is supporting the airport and is proactively deploying significant resources to seek and locate the drone and its operator and to ensure the safety of the travelling public and all those in and around the airport.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Symonds reports on the measures police appear to be taking to catch the Gatwick drone\n\nPassengers have hit out at the people behind the disruption.\n\nOne woman, called Poppy Smithers, hoping to fly to Doha and then Auckland, said it was \"very disruptive, kind of selfish\".\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel since Wednesday\n\nNewlywed Emily Pointer had just arrived at the airport to go on honeymoon in Argentina. She and her husband Charlie Woodall had expected to fly out at 21:30.\n\n\"It's a little bit heartbreaking, really, because we've been looking forward to this for a long time,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It doesn't sound too promising right now,\" she said.\n\nNikkita Sartori-Sigrist and Oliver Vaff were flying to Cologne\n\nNikkita Sartori-Sigrist, 24, and Oliver Vaff, 22, from Loughton, Essex, were stranded on the runway on a grounded BA flight to Cologne.\n\nThey were due to take off when the captain announced there had been another sighting, they said.\n\nThe pair were heading to Cologne to visit the Christmas Market and then fly back on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"We've been planning it for a really long time and don't want to miss it but now I'm worried if we go we might not come back,\" Ms Sartori-Sigrist said.\n\nRavi Bhatnagar, 47, from Hastings, said it will be at least a week before he and his partner can travel to Alicante after their 17:45 Easyjet flight from Gatwick was cancelled.\n\n\"There's nothing for three days so it's Christmas in London for us,\" he said.\n\nSussex Police were called in after a further drone was seen\n\nDuring disruption on Thursday, 760 flights had been due to arrive or depart from the airport but all were grounded.\n\nGatwick's chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe said on Friday morning, that 120,000 passengers due to arrive or fly had not travelled since Wednesday night.\n\nFlights resumed earlier but passengers still had to wait\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Indian man has been arrested for allegedly raping and robbing a British tourist in the western state of Goa.\n\nThe woman, 48, was attacked around 4:00 local time (22:30 GMT) on Thursday as she was walking to her hotel from a railway station, police told PTI news.\n\nThe accused is a man from the southern state of Tamil Nadu. He fled after also taking three of her bags.\n\nGoa is one of India's top tourist destinations and its beaches attract thousands of foreigners every year.\n\nThe woman is a regular visitor to the state. Police said she had been going there every year for the last 10 years.\n\nPolice were able to track down the suspect with the help of CCTV footage from the railway station as well as the area where the crime occurred, according to the NDTV news website.\n\nThis is one of several crimes against foreigners in the state.\n\nAn Irish woman, Danielle McLaughlin, was raped and murdered while on holiday in Goa in 2017. Vikhat Bhagat, 24, was arrested soon after her murder and his trial, which began in April, is still under way.\n\nScarlett Keeling was killed in Goa in 2008\n\nIn 2008, Scarlett Keeling, a 15-year-old British teenager was raped and killed while on a trip in Goa. Her killers are yet to be caught. Two men who had faced charges of culpable homicide and grievous sexual assault were both cleared in 2016.\n\nPublic outrage over sexual violence in India rose dramatically after the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.\n\nThis year has seen the issue become a political flashpoint again, after a string of high-profile attacks against children.\n\nHowever incidents of rape and violence against women continue to be reported from across the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nInterim Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he would love to remain manager but has not discussed taking the job on a permanent basis.\n\nUnited appointed ex-striker Solskjaer until the end of the season after Jose Mourinho's sacking on Tuesday.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, is contracted to return to his role as manager at Norwegian club Molde next summer.\n\n\"I understand there are so many managers that would love to be manager of Manchester United,\" he said.\n\n\"I am one of them, but it is not something we have talked about.\n\n\"I didn't think twice when they called me to sign me as a player and this is an honour and privilege to be helping the club for a few months.\"\n• None Man Utd players 'got away with murder'\n\nThe Norwegian takes over with United sixth in the Premier League, 11 points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea and 19 behind leaders Liverpool.\n\nAsked if he wanted to finish in the top four, Solskjaer said: \"I want to get the players to understand how I want to play as a team, then let's take the results after and see how many points we can gather.\n\n\"This club has made up many points before, but I am not going to set that target now.\"\n\nSolskjaer said he will have an input during the January transfer window, but will first concentrate on getting to know the current squad.\n\n\"The club has the recruitment and scouting in place and I am sure they have their targets, but I have not sat down and talked about that because my job is to get them playing,\" he added.\n\n'At Man Utd there are standards we set'\n\nMourinho's time at Manchester United was marred by rifts with first-team players, especially club record signing Paul Pogba, who was an unused substitute during Sunday's 3-1 defeat by Liverpool.\n\nSolskjaer, who spent 11 seasons at Old Trafford as a player, says he learned much from his time under manager Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\n\"My job is to help the players and make them grasp the opportunity - they all want to be part of Man Utd,\" Solskjaer said.\n• None What can Man Utd expect from Solskjaer?\n\n\"It's down to man-management. I have had the best man-manager. I learned how he dealt with people.\n\n\"It's about communication. Of course I will sit down and speak to the ones who are not playing.\n\n\"When you are at Man Utd there is set of demands and standards we set and one of those is to be a team player.\n\n\"I don't think anyone has been on the bench more than me! That's always my comeback to players - you never know, you might come on and make an impact and grab the opportunity when you get it.\"\n\nSolskjaer scored 126 goals for United, including the winner in the 1999 Champions League final - and worked on the coaching staff for three years after his retirement as a player in 2006.\n\nHe said he began to take notes on Ferguson's management style when sidelined through injury.\n\nSolskjaer, who has spoken to Ferguson since taking the job, said: \"He's influenced me with everything - the way he's dealt with people, the way he was manager of the club, how he kept 25 international players happy and hungry, wanting to improve, but also the staff in and around the place.\n\n\"He's been my mentor but I didn't understand early on that he'd be my mentor. Ever since my injury in 2003 at least, I was making all the notes what he did at different, certain situations.\n\n\"Of course I have already been in touch with him, because there's no-one to get better advice from.\"\n• None Why Man Utd need a director of football\n\nSolskjaer's first game in charge will be on Saturday against Cardiff, where he had an eight-month spell as manager in 2014 in which they were relegated from the Premier League.\n\nSolskjaer is currently in his second spell as Molde manager, having led them to the Norwegian title in 2011 and 2012 during his first spell.\n\n\"I have had 300-400 games as a first-team manager,\" he said.\n\n\"The period at Cardiff was a huge step for me and I learned a lot. I have evaluated and reflected on it. Unfortunately, I made a few mistakes, but if you do not make mistakes you do not learn.\n\n\"And Cardiff are in the Premier League now so I don't think they're too unhappy about it.\"\n\nThere was something vaguely reassuring about Solskjaer's appearance in front of the media this morning.\n\nHe spoke in the same tones as Sir Alex Ferguson used to, talking about the pride he felt at representing Manchester United and why his players should feel the same.\n\nThe smile he broke into as he walked into the media room was in stark contrast to the expressionless manner in which Jose Mourinho made the same short journey a week before.\n\nSolskjaer spent just over 20 minutes answering questions. The whole experience was more relaxed than it has been under Mourinho.\n\nHe didn't criticise anyone, he didn't complain. He underlined, time and again, how his job was to get the players to express themselves, to remember they are a team and belong to a club.\n\nIt was a very similar kind of news conference to the ones Ryan Giggs gave when he stood in for David Moyes after the Scot's dismissal almost five years ago.\n\nSolskjaer was speaking to an audience, the one that pays to watch United at Old Trafford.\n\nThis is all very well. The problem is this is not Ferguson's United. This is the United who are 11 points off a top-four spot less than halfway through the season.\n\nSolskjaer knows he has a major job on his hands just to halt the downward slide, let alone reverse it.\n\nAs first appearances go, this was a good one, but what happened on Friday doesn't really count. What happens at the Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday certainly does.", "Nearly three million road journeys are expected to be made on Friday as people begin their Christmas getaway, motoring organisations have warned.\n\n\"Significant\" congestion is expected on major roads, with delays likely on the M25, M6 and M40, the RAC said.\n\nThe RAC's Matt Dallaway said travelling in the evening would miss the busiest time on major roads and motorways.\n\nThe M49 near Bristol - which links the M5 with the M4 - has reopened after a major gas leak closed the motorway.\n\n\"Plan your journey, everyone is a hurry to see their loved ones and friends and family, but please think about when you're going to travel,\" Mr Dallaway told the BBC.\n\nThe RAC says the number of leisure journeys will peak on Boxing Day, with 6.8 million trips.\n\nMr Dallaway said: \"We're at this time of year when everyone is frantically trying to get their Christmas presents done, e-commerce is through the roof so there'll be delivery drivers all over working through to Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It's obviously a lot milder this year… so that will take a lot of people to the roads.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a further drone sighting again disrupted flights at Gatwick airport on Friday evening. The latest sighting at Gatwick came at about 17:10 GMT, but flights resumed less than 90 minutes later.\n• None How to avoid the Christmas traffic jams", "NHS England is making up to £300,000 available over the festive period to fund dozens of \"drunk tanks\".\n\nThese supervised units are places where revellers who have over-indulged can be checked and allowed to sleep it off.\n\nThey should help take the pressure off hospital and 999 services over the busy Christmas and new year period.\n\nSome will open later for \"Booze Black Friday\", the last Friday before Christmas, when drink sales usually peak as many office parties are held.\n\nMany will be operational on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe areas that are getting funding for drunk tanks include Soho in central London, Exeter, Bristol, Oxford, Hereford, Norwich, Blackpool and Southampton.\n\nMost of these areas already provide drunk tanks in their city or town centres on Fridays and Saturdays and the funding will enable them to expand their services over the holiday season.\n\nDrunk people who need more urgent medical care will still be taken to hospital when necessary.\n\nAbout one in seven patients who go to an accident and emergency unit is very drunk and caring for them takes staff away from other patients.\n\nThis rises to as many as seven in every 10 patients on a Friday or Saturday night.\n\nNHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: \"NHS does not stand for 'National Hangover Service', which is why we want to help other organisations take care of those who just need somewhere safe to get checked over and perhaps sleep it off.\"\n\nA number of cities have already introduced drunk tanks\n\nBristol launched the UK's first drunk tank four years ago.\n\nSince then, services have been rolled out to other cities and towns across the UK, including Cardiff and Belfast, but not in Scotland.\n\nNHS England soon could roll out more of them.\n\nA study looking into how effective they are is due to come out in 2019.\n\nDrunk tanks are often funded by charities and run in partnership with the police, the ambulance service and local hospitals.\n\nThe South Central Ambulance Service is again running its SOS Service in Oxford using a dedicated \"jumbulance\", or large ambulance.\n\nLast year, the team saw 63 patients. Of these, only 14 required further treatment and/or assessment at the John Radcliffe Hospital.\n\nParamedic and team member Craig Heigold said: \"The SOS Project provides a valuable service at a time of peak demand for all local NHS and emergency services in Oxford city centre.\n\n\"By doing so, we can reduce the demand on our colleagues at A&E, as well as ensure that more Oxfordshire SCAS staff and vehicles are free to respond to non-alcohol related illnesses and injuries elsewhere in the city and surrounding areas.\n\n\"We can also provide a faster and more effective response to patients in the city centre who need us.\"", "Artist Banksy confirmed he is behind 'Season's greetings' in Port Talbot\n\nThousands of people have made a Christmas pilgrimage to view the latest piece by the elusive artist Banksy.\n\n\"Season's greetings\" appeared this week on a garage's walls in Port Talbot - depicting a child in snow, which is in fact ash from a skip fire.\n\nVolunteers protecting the piece said as many as 2,000 visitors have turned up - some in the middle of the night.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council officials have appealed for art fans to respect the local community.\n\nIt has also brought in staff to help control traffic at the Taibach site where the piece was daubed.\n\nBanksy confirmed it was his handiwork when he posted a video on his social media Instagram channel.\n\nAn estimated 2,000 have been to see the piece in just two days\n\nPlastic protective sheeting will be put up over the artwork on Saturday - with the Welsh screen star Michael Sheen contributing to the costs.\n\nThe actor is also helping towards the bill for security in his home town, and help cover media and legal costs.\n\nSheen's office said the TV and film star wanted to ensure that the financial burden of safeguarding the art did not fall on the owner of the garage, Ian Lewis.\n\nA local businessman who wants to remain anonymous will install the protective covering for free.\n\nGarage owner Mr Lewis said he only had three hours sleep when the news broke overnight on Wednesday that the graffiti had appeared.\n\n\"I am very pleased, I think it is a smashing bit of artwork. It is good for the town and I just want to protect it, and it is here for everybody,\" Mr Lewis told BBC Wales earlier in the week.\n\nThe council has also urged visitors to respect the area and those living nearby.\n\n\"We understand the excitement but we want to remind visitors this is a residential area and would ask that people coming to photograph or view the Banksy do their best not disturb those living nearby,\" said an official.\n\n\"I just want to protect it, and it is here for everybody,\" said garage owner Ian Lewis\n\nPrevious Banksy works have attracted their fair share of controversy, as art dealers descend, vandalism - and legal battles.\n\nIt includes a long running dispute that ended up in court when one of the artist's pieces was dismantled in Kent and flown to the US.\n\n'Art Buff' was eventually returned after a High Court ruling over the graffiti that was daubed on a wall in Folkstone.\n\nArt critic Estelle Lovatt told BBC Wales that the latest offering at Taibach in Port Talbot was clearly valuable - though difficult to put a definitive price on.\n\nSome of Banksy's work has sold for £1m - including the image of a girl with a balloon that was dramatically shredded as it went under the hammer at an auction.\n\nMs Lovatt said among the factors determining its worth were \"who falls in love with it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe also questioned if its value would fall if the garage was removed, because Banksy meant it to be seen on the streets of Port Talbot.\n\n\"Regardless of its value, is that it brings people together, it brings communities together, and that's worth more than its weight in gold,\" she added.\n\nShe also said it would put Port Talbot on the map: \"Banksy's fans don't know who he is nor care who he is and they are going to travel far and wide in order to see his work.\n\n\"It will increase Port Talbot footfall, the coffee shops and restaurants had better stock up because as people come, make pilgrimage to see this magnificent Banksy, they are going to need to be fed and watered.\"", "Kathy Griffin has criticised the lack of women on Forbes magazine's latest list of the world's best-paid comedians.\n\nThe Emmy Award-winning comedian tweeted the top 10 of Forbes' list along with the words: \"No Women.\"\n\nJerry Seinfeld topped the rankings with estimated earnings of $57.5m (£45.3m).\n\nAmy Schumer was the first woman to make the list last year but has dropped back out this time. Ricky Gervais is the only British comedian on the list.\n\nHe is a new entry in fifth place with earnings of $25m (£19.7m). Forbes said that was thanks to Humanity, his first stand-up tour for five years. Humanity was also on Netflix, and he has signed up for another Netflix special.\n\nGriffin, meanwhile, was unlikely to make the list herself. She was fired by CNN and said she lost a number of other jobs after she posed with a fake decapitated head of President Donald Trump in May 2017.\n\nJerry Seinfeld and Kevin Hart are in first and second places\n\nAnother comedian missing from the list is Louis CK, who was in last year's top 10 with $52m (£41m) earnings.\n\nBut after he confirmed sexual misconduct allegations against him in November 2017, his second Netflix special was cancelled and he has only performed a handful of dates since.\n\nSeinfeld has topped the list in all but one year since it was first compiled in 2006. Kevin Hart took the top spot in 2016.\n\nForbes attributes Seinfeld's earnings this year to his 2017 Netflix deal and Hulu's streaming rights to all nine seasons of Seinfeld, as well as more than $30m (£23.6m) from stand-up.\n\nHart is close behind in second place with $57m (£44.9m). The comedian, who recently pulled out of hosting the Oscars due to controversy over homophobic tweets, also earned more than $30m from touring and starred in the Jumanji film remake.\n\nSource: Forbes. All earnings estimates are from 1 June 2017-1 June 2018.\n\nAt number six, Gabriel Iglesias, AKA Fluffy, is known for his shows I'm Not Fat… I'm Fluffy and Hot & Fluffy.\n\nTerry Fator, a ventriloquist, impressionist and comedian who won season two of America's Got Talent, is in seventh.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the drone which caused chaos at Gatwick?\n\nPolice hunting those responsible for the Gatwick drones chaos have identified \"persons of interest\", the BBC understands.\n\nThe UK's second busiest airport has reopened after drones flying over the airfield closed it for more than a day.\n\nPolice are exploring \"a number of lines of inquiry\", including environmental activism and \"high-end criminal behaviour\".\n\nOfficers are focusing on \"likely locations in and around the airport\".\n\nThey said there was \"no evidence\" the use of the drones was state-sponsored.\n\nGatwick's runway reopened on Friday morning and 837 flights were scheduled, but there were still delays and cancellations.\n\nThousands of passengers - including some attending funerals, honeymoons and Christmas reunions with their families - remain stranded at Gatwick.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSteve Barry, Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable, told the BBC \"persons of interest\" had been identified as part of the investigation but officers were keeping an open mind over the motive.\n\nWhile terrorism has been ruled out, environmental activism is one line of inquiry.\n\nMr Barry said there was no evidence of involvement of a foreign power, but described the drone activity as \"really high-end criminal behaviour\".\n\n\"This is a really significant criminal offence,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working on the assumption that there was more than one drone operating around Gatwick in the last 48 hours.\n\n\"In terms of how many perpetrators, there's a number of lines of inquiry, there's an ongoing investigation, we're pursuing that trying to find out who has been responsible for this really malicious criminal behaviour.\"\n\nExtra \"mitigating measures\" from the government, police and military have allowed Gatwick to reopen\n\nMr Barry said a drone had last been seen at 22:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nHe added measures to tackle the threat ranged from \"technical, sophisticated\" options to \"detect and mitigate drone incursions\" right through to \"less sophisticated options\", including using shotguns.\n\nHe said the drones could have been operated from a fair distance away, but police were focusing on \"likely locations in and around the airport\".\n\nAsked when measures were first put in place, Mr Barry said: \"There were always some measures in place. The additions to those took some time to request and to arrive here at Gatwick.\"\n\nHe said it took \"hours rather than days\" to request extra measures, but added: \"Coordinating that, deploying that, getting it set up at Gatwick has taken some time but we've learnt from that.\"\n\n\"This incident has been really unusual in the concerted and malicious and really criminal level of the behaviour of the drone operator and that did cause us some challenges,\" he added.\n\nGatwick boss Chris Woodroofe said \"mitigating measures\" from the government and military had given him \"confidence to reopen the airport\".\n\nThe airport is expected to be \"back to normal\" by the end of Saturday.\n\nIt could not operate while the drones were in flight in case they hit and damaged a plane.\n\nPilots' union Balpa said it understood detection and tracking equipment had been installed around Gatwick's perimeter and that if the drones reappeared the airport would close again.\n\nOne family said their Christmas holiday plans had been ruined.\n\nKevin and Lisa Haynes, and their daughters Aphea, eight, and 11-year-old Jayda, were due to go on a cruise, but their flight to Madrid was cancelled, which meant they would miss their connecting plane to Miami.\n\n\"What can you do about it?\" Mr Haynes, from Wolverhampton, said. \"You can understand the airport's view. They've got to ensure health and safety.\"\n\nThe Haynes family (left) and Garron Akushie-Stevens (right) have had planned trips ruined due to the chaos\n\nGarron Akushie-Stevens, 26, said he was going to miss his uncle's wedding in Ghana.\n\nHe had been due to travel as part of a four-strong party for the wedding on Christmas Eve.\n\nMr Akushie-Stevens, from Neasden, north-west London, said: \"He's a close uncle to me.\n\n\"It's unacceptable. I feel traumatised, I feel let down and as if I've been thrown to the wolves.\"\n\nRuth Knudsen, 63, from Hythe, in Kent, has been trying to get back to the UK with a \"limited supply of chemo medication\" - she said she was worried she would run out of medicine.\n\nHer Gatwick-bound flight from Tenerife South should have left on Thursday. However, after a six-and-a-half hour wait she was told to retrieve her bags and join a queue to rebook her flight.\n\nShe said she had been given two options. One was to return to Gatwick on Sunday. The other was to return to Luton or Southend on Saturday.\n\nShe said: \"I chose Luton as I could not risk rebooking to go to Gatwick in case the airport was not operational still.\"\n\nIt is illegal to fly a drone within 1km of an airport or airfield boundary and flying above 400ft (120m) - which increases the risk of a collision with a manned aircraft - is also banned.\n\nEndangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence which can carry a prison sentence of five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they are stepping down from top roles at the online giant's parent company.\n\nThey will leave their respective roles as Alphabet's chief executive officer and president but remain on the board.\n\nGoogle's CEO Sundar Pichai will become Alphabet's CEO too, a statement said.\n\nAlphabet was created in 2015 as part of a corporate restructuring of Google, which Mr Page and Mr Brin famously founded in a California garage in 1998.\n\nThe parent company was intended to make the tech giant's activities \"cleaner and more accountable\" as it expanded from internet search into other areas such as self-driving cars.\n\nThe pair moved from Google to Alphabet when it was formed - saying they were making the jump to focus on starting new initiatives.\n\nBut in a blog post on Tuesday, the co-founders, both aged 46, announced they were stepping back from the day-to-day management of the company.\n\nA joint letter said they would remain \"actively involved as board members, shareholders and co-founders\", but said it was the \"natural time to simplify our management structure\".\n\n\"We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President,\" their letter said.\n\nThey also declared it was time to \"assume the role of proud parents - offering advice and love, but not daily nagging\" and insisted there was \"no better person\" to lead the company into the future than Mr Pichai.\n\nThe 47-year-old was born in India, where he studied engineering. He went on to study in the US at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Google in 2004.\n\nSundar Pichai will now serve as CEO of both companies\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"excited\" about the transition and paid tribute to Mr Page and Mr Brin.\n\n\"The founders have given all of us an incredible chance to have an impact on the world,\" Mr Pichai said. \"Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values, and a culture of collaboration and exploration that makes it exciting to come to work every day.\n\n\"It's a strong foundation on which we will continue to build. Can't wait to see where we go next and look forward to continuing the journey with all of you.\"\n\nThis move represents the most significant shake-up of leadership at Google since its inception - the first time the dynamic duo of Brin and Page, a legendary Silicon Valley partnership, won't hold important management roles in the company they founded.\n\nIn reality, though, that's been the case for some time - the public face of the firm has been Mr Pichai and, to a lesser extent, YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki. But Tuesday's announcement makes it absolutely clear - Mr Page and Mr Brin aren't running the company.\n\nYet while the pair are apparently relinquishing management duties, it won't mean giving up ultimate power. Between them, they control 51% of voting rights on Alphabet's board. This won't change. They likened their new role to being \"proud parents\" to the company, looking on with close interest and care.\n\nBut should they feel the need, they can override any decision Mr Pichai makes - with little more than a parental \"because we said so\".\n\nMr Page and Brin are ranked the 10th and 14th richest individuals in the world by Forbes, with each of them estimated to be worth about $50bn (£38bn).\n\nThe American business magazine ranks Alphabet as the 17th largest public company in the world, with an estimated market value of $863bn.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nThe family of a 12-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run near his school say they are \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHarley Watson was struck near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nA 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, as well as the attempted murder of four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Loughton school crash survivor 'blacked out' when hit by car\n\nEssex Police said the 51-year-old man was arrested in a pub car park in Fiddlers Hamlet at 23:00 on Monday.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman said there \"may be connections\" between the crash near Debden Park High School and an earlier incident of a car mounting a pavement near Roding Valley High School in Loughton, 10 minutes before the fatal collision.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct based on \"previous contact\" it had had with the arrested man.\n\nHarley's death has been described as a \"young life so tragically lost\"\n\nIt is understood all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected. The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students. We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock... battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit, but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could. It was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nDebden Park High School opened on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nEssex Police said officers are looking for a silver Ford Ka \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Tuesday for a Nato summit - the second visit he has made to Britain this year. What will the security operation involve and what hardware and staff will the president bring with him?\n\nWhenever the US president arrives in the UK, a multi-million-pound security operation is brought into action.\n\nMr Trump's three-day state visit in June, which involved more than 6,300 officers, cost the Metropolitan Police £3.4m, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. A previous four-day working visit in 2018 cost more than £14.2m.\n\nHere are some of the incredible vehicles and entourage the president could be bringing with him this time around.\n\nThe president is likely to arrive in the UK on his customised, high-spec aircraft Air Force One.\n\nAir Force One isn't actually a specific plane but instead refers to one of two specially adapted Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which carry the tail codes 28000 and 29000.\n\nWith its advanced avionics and defences, Air Force One is classed as a military aircraft, designed to withstand an air attack.\n\nIt can jam enemy radar and eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.\n\nIt is also capable of refuelling midair, allowing it to fly for an unlimited time - crucial in an emergency.\n\nAir Force One is also equipped with secure communications equipment, allowing the aircraft to function as a mobile command centre.\n\nThere are 85 onboard telephones, a collection of two-way radios and computer connections.\n\nInside, the president and his travel companions enjoy 4,000 sq ft of floor space on three levels, including an extensive suite for the president, a medical facility with an operating table, a conference and dining room, two food preparation galleys that can feed 100 people at a time, and designated areas for the press, VIPs, security and secretarial staff.\n\nSeveral cargo planes, including C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, carry the president's fleet of armoured vehicles and helicopters, usually landing in advance of his arrival.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying an emergency satchel known as the \"football\", which contains the \"gold codes\" for launching the country's nuclear weapons and options for their use.\n\nThe military aide must be nearby the president at all times, as the commander-in-chief is in possession of personal identification codes required to order a strike.\n\nThey are carried on a plastic card known as the \"biscuit\", which can be read only when its opaque plastic covering is snapped in two and removed.\n\nThe presidential motorcade, which includes two identical limousines and other security and communications vehicles, are transported ahead of the president by United States Air Force transport aircraft.\n\nOn the ground, the president travels in Cadillac One - a bullish, enhanced limousine dubbed the \"Beast\" for obvious reasons.\n\nThe spare, decoy vehicle that accompanies it has the same Washington DC licence plates - 800-002.\n\nPresident Trump's generation of presidential car debuted in 2018 - with the US Secret Service tweeting ahead of the UN General Assembly that it was \"ready to roll\".\n\nBut the service and vehicle's designers at General Motors have remained tight-lipped about the vehicle's special security features.\n\nWeighing in at about nine tonnes (20,000lb) - with an armour-plated body and bulletproof windows (which don't all open) - the car is reported to have tear gas grenade launchers, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone.\n\nReinforced tyres surround steel-rimmed wheels, which mean the car can still be driven if the tyres are flat.\n\nThe passenger cabin is said to be sealed, to fend off a chemical attack, while special foam would surround the fuel tank in case of impact.\n\nThe vehicle also has extensive electronic equipment, Reuters reports.\n\nThe car can hold at least seven people and has a wide range of medical supplies on board, including - NBC News suggests - a fridge full of blood matching the president's blood type, in case of emergency.\n\nWhen the president's on the move - you know about it.\n\nOther vehicles in the cavalcade include a parade of police outriders, secret service backup vehicles, counter-assault and hazardous attack teams, an armoured SUV communications vehicle, known as Roadrunner, medics and the press corps.\n\nThe president could also bring a fleet of helicopters with him to the UK.\n\nAmong them Marine One, which, like Air Force One, isn't a specific aircraft but instead refers to any US Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president.\n\nHowever, Marine One usually refers to one of the president's large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings or the newer, smaller VH-60N White Hawks.\n\nThe specially adapted helicopters are known as \"white tops\" because of their livery and are fitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defences and hardened hulls.\n\nIt was Sea King versions that met the president at Stansted Airport and carried him to London, accompanied by tandem rotor chinook aircraft.\n\nAs a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.\n\nIt is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22 escort aircraft, referred to as \"green tops\".\n\nThese tilt-rotor aircraft carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.\n\nThe Ospreys, capable of vertical landings and high-speed flight, were heard circling around London during President Trump's last visit to the UK in 2018.\n\nStaff are also transported around in CH-46s Sea Knight helicopters.\n\nBritish forces' aircraft are also likely to be part of the security operation during his visit.\n\nSome estimates put the number of people in Mr Trump's entourage for his UK visit in 2018 at 1,000, including more than 150 US secret service agents.\n\nStaff included military communications specialists, White House aides, a doctor, a chef and members of the media.\n\nSome 750 rooms were booked out to accommodate his entourage, according to Matt Chorley, of the Times newspaper.\n\nFor his 2019 state visit, the president was reported to have booked a floor of the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster for his family and entourage.\n\nThis time around Mr Trump will be in London and Hertfordshire between 2 and 4 December for the Nato summit.\n\nHe will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace on 3 December, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "Nurses voted to take the action by an overwhelming majority with the result announced on Thursday.\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have voted to strike over staffing numbers and pay disputes.\n\nIt is the first time in the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 103-year-history such action has been taken in the UK.\n\nIn a ballot which lasted four weeks, nurses were asked if they were willing to take industrial action, including strike action.\n\nRCN NI director Pat Cullen said nurses had \"spoken clearly\".\n\n\"Nurses are no longer willing to see patients being denied the health care services to which they are entitled,\" she said.\n\n\"The 3,000 nursing vacancies that currently exist within Health and Social Care (the public health body in Northern Ireland) are having a detrimental impact upon patient care and adding enormous pressure to the existing nursing workforce.\"\n\nMs Cullen said pay in Northern Ireland had \"fallen significantly\" behind the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said this made it \"difficult to recruit and retain the nurses that we desperately need\".\n\nThe total number of those balloted was around 8,000, with turnout of 43.3%.\n\nThe union now has four weeks to inform employers how they plan to proceed.\n\nAnalysis - Strike will be embarrassing for election candidates:\n\nStrike action is always significant but this one is particularly so as there is no devolved government or health minister in place for the nurses to negotiate with.\n\nUnless a resolution is found, it will play out during an election. It is unprecedented and somewhat incredible.\n\nSo why bother? Sources tell me there is never a good time to strike and things are so bad the RCN could not backpedal.\n\nThe strike will make the doorstep chats for politicians even more awkward and for some parties equally embarrassing.\n\nNorthern Ireland is used to unique predicaments, but potentially this could prove to be the most difficult to negotiate and to settle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said it would be holding \"detailed discussions\" with the RCN and other trade unions on Friday.\n\n\"Dialogue remains the only way forward,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"With a Northern Ireland public sector pay policy now in place for 2019/2020, we plan to table a formal pay offer as soon as possible.\n\n\"The budgetary pressures across health and social care are clear for all to see.\n\n\"Despite claims to the contrary, there is no separate or untapped source of funding for pay increases.\"\n\n\"It all comes out of the one health budget. Every pound spent on one priority area is a pound not available for another.\"\n\nThere are almost 3,000 unfilled nursing posts across the system in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe department added that it accepted staff felt \"deeply frustrated\".\n\nAccording to the RCN, nurses' pay within the health service continues to fall behind England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt argues that the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nDue to nursing shortages however, the cost of securing nursing staff via agencies has increased to over £32m last year.\n\nThere was a campaign of strike action over NHS pay in 2014, but while some nurses from other unions took part, the RCN did not.", "An artists' impression of Sky's Elstree development, which will have 14 sound stages.\n\nMedia giant Sky is to build huge new film studios near the existing Elstree production site outside London, creating 2,000 jobs.\n\nThe 32-acre development will be used by Sky, other Comcast-owned firms including NBC Universal, and be open to third parties.\n\nSky predicted up to £3bn would be invested in new production at the site over the next five years.\n\nThe UK's film and television sector has performed strongly in recent years.\n\nHit shows such as The Crown and Games of Thrones have been filmed using UK facilities as the battle between Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services has intensified.\n\nSky spends £7bn a year on production in Europe, including football rights, and plans to double the amount it spends on making its own content to £1bn per year by 2024.\n\nSky Studios chief executive Gary Davey said it was hard to keep up with the increasing demand for high quality content, given that it typically takes three years to bring a project to the screen.\n\nChernobyl, a Sky HBO joint production, took 10 years to make, Mr Davey said.\n\nMr Davey said recent successes, such as the Sky-HBO joint production, Chernobyl, and HBO smash-hit Game of Thrones, had a high proportion of European actors, and showed US audiences were ready to embrace productions made overseas.\n\nChoosing to build the new studios at Elstree meant there would already be a pool of UK production talent available, he added.\n\nThe UK now boasts a world-leading film industry, supported by wide-ranging tax relief, including for television and animation. According to the British Film Institute (BFI), UK films grossed $9.4bn (£7.2bn) in 2018, a 23% share of the global box office take.\n\nThere is a long history of film making at Elstree. The existing studios, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, date back to 1925, and were used by George Lucas when he filmed the original Star Wars trilogy.\n\nThe new Sky studies will be located close by on land owned by Legal and General, which will fund the development and lease the studios back to Sky.\n\nThe studios, which will cost hundreds of millions of pounds to build, will have 14 sound stages.\n\nNigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, said the plans were \"another development in the modernisation of British industry\".\n\nOver the last five years Legal and General has made £20bn of investments in similar projects.", "The family of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan have said they are \"saddened and shocked\" by what happened and \"totally condemn his actions\".\n\nIn a statement, they expressed their condolences to the victims' families\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nSeparately, a porter who tried to fight Khan said he was coming to terms with the incident.\n\nLukasz, who works at the Fishmongers' Hall venue where Khan began his attack, said he \"acted instinctively\" by grabbing a pole to try to stop Khan.\n\nUsman Khan's family said in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police: \"We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done.\n\n\"We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured.\n\n\"We would like to request privacy for our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLukasz, who was among those praised for his bravery during the attack, also issued a statement through Scotland Yard.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively. I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family,\" he said.\n\nThe statement confirmed Lukasz was stabbed by Khan and taken to hospital but has now returned home.\n\n\"I would like to express my condolences to the families who have lost precious loved ones. I would like to send my best wishes to them and everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack,\" he added.\n\nLukasz said, contrary to some reports, that he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk in an attempt to stop the attack.\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the women remain in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut in 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his subsequent release in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS police tag.\n\nHe was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nIt comes as Leanne O'Brien, the girlfriend of Cambridge University student Mr Merritt who was killed, paid tribute to her partner on Facebook writing: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\nMs O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge on Monday to remember the victims.\n\nMr Merritt's father, David, also wrote a piece in the Guardian dedicated to his \"absorbingly intelligent\" and \"fiercely loyal\" son.\n\nAlso killed was Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who was a volunteer on the Learning Together programme, which was holding an anniversary event where the event took place.\n\nShe has been described as a \"lovely, lovely woman\" who was \"fearless\" by her former tutor.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were both involved with the Learning Together programme, which was holding an event when the attack took place\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nHe said he felt \"a huge amount of sympathy\" for the relatives of the victims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has insisted the US wants \"nothing to do\" with the NHS in post-Brexit trade talks as he sought to repudiate opposition claims that the health service would be \"up for sale\".\n\nOn a visit to the UK, the US President claimed he had no interest in increased market access to the NHS for US firms even if handed on a \"silver platter\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he still had \"very serious concerns\".\n\nAnd the SNP said MPs should pass a law to exclude the NHS from discussions.\n\nBoris Johnson said the Conservative election manifesto had \"categorically ruled out\" any NHS services, or drug prices, being up for negotiation.\n\nIn June, the US president suggested the health service would form part of negotiations over a possible future trade deal after the UK leaves the EU, saying: \"When you're dealing in trade, everything is on the table.\"\n\nBut speaking on Tuesday morning as he and other world leaders prepared for a summit to mark the 70th anniversary of Nato, he issued a different message.\n\n\"I don't even know where that rumour started,\" he told journalists. \"We have absolutely nothing to do with it. If you handed it [the NHS] to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at hugely sensitive time, with less than 10 days to go before the election - and with the issues of Brexit and the NHS having largely dominated the campaign so far.\n\nThe US President insisted he would be \"staying out\" of the election. While he remained a \"fan of Brexit\" and thought Mr Johnson was \"very capable\", he said he would be prepared to \"work with anybody\" in No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: \"Our NHS will not be put up for sale to anybody\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: Trump is \"not someone who shares our values\"\n\nIn October, he suggested Mr Corbyn would be \"bad\" for the UK and declined an offer to meet the Labour leader during his state visit.\n\nMr Corbyn has repeatedly claimed that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" if the Conservatives hold onto power. At a campaign event last week, the Labour leader showed an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials.\n\nThe document shows the US is interested in discussing drug pricing - mainly extending patents that stop cheaper generic medicines being used - and refers to the US policy of making \"total market access\" a starting point in any trade talks.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed Mr Trump's latest comments but said he was far from reassured by them.\n\n\"I'm pleased that he's said that but, if that's the case why have these talks gone on for two years?\" he told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.\n\n\"Why have they been kept secret? I think there is very very legitimate grounds for very very serious concern here.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said if he was introduced to Mr Trump at a reception at Buckingham Palace later, which both are attending, he would impress on him how \"precious\" the NHS was to the British people and make clear a Labour government would discontinue trade talks if it was not excluded.\n\nOn a trip to Salisbury, the prime minister described the opposition's claims as \"pure Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda triangle stuff\".\n\n\"I can categorically rule out any part of the NHS will be on the table in any trade negotiation... including pharmaceuticals.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested Labour was only raising the issue because it had \"no plan for Brexit and no plan for the economy\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab ruled out any privatisation of the NHS \"under the Conservatives' watch or this prime minister's watch\". Trade decisions would be made by the next government \"in the best interest of patients and consumers\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says Donald Trump should comment on the NHS\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, Chuka Umunna, said Mr Trump's comments should be taken \"with a lorry load of salt\".\n\nHe added: \"Trump has repeatedly made clear in the past that everything including the NHS will be on the table in future negotiations.\"\n\nAnd SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said its MPs would be pressing for legislation to ringfence the NHS from any involvement in a future deal.\n\n\"I don't want the future of our NHS to be dependent on trusting the word of Boris Johnson or Donald Trump,\" she said at a campaign rally in Perth.\n\n\"Let's have legislation that explicitly and in statute takes any risk of trade negotiations to the NHS away, and make absolutely clear that the NHS not just will not be on the table but could not be on the table in any trade negotiations.\"\n\nNigel Farage called on the US president to challenge the \"complete fib\" that the Tories would \"sell the NHS\" to him in a trade deal.\n\n\"He has been accused by the Labour Party of wanting to buy the National Health Service,\" the Brexit Party leader told BBC Breakfast. \"It isn't true, I know it isn't true, and I think it would be wholly appropriate for him to say that.\"", "Speaking in London at the 70th anniversary of Nato, Donald Trump said that the UK's National Health Service, the NHS, is not on the trade talk table.\n\nBut during a news conference with Theresa May in June, he said something very different.", "An 82-year-old woman killed her best friend in a \"tragic\" parking blunder after a school reunion.\n\nJoyce Nainby was standing by the side of Patricia Tulip's car when her friend mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake.\n\nThe 80-year-old was hit by the open car door and knocked unconscious. She died of a head injury 10 days later.\n\nTulip admitted causing death by careless driving and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court was told the pair had gone to school together about 70 years ago and had been best friends.\n\nThe pair had just returned from a reunion when Tulip parked the car outside Mrs Nainby's home in Gosforth, Newcastle, and had to jump back in when it started to roll backwards.\n\nBut instead of braking, she accidentally pressed the accelerator and hit the grandmother of six.\n\nThe defendant, who wept in court, felt a \"great deal of remorse\" for the accident on 18 September 2018 and had written a letter of condolence to the family, the court heard.\n\nWitnesses said Tulip, of Seghill, Northumberland, was a trusted and competent motorist with many years' experience.\n\nIn addition to the community order, she was banned from driving for three years but the court heard she had voluntarily given up her licence.\n\nJudge Amanda Rippon said the loss had \"completely devastated\" the Nainby family.\n\n\"As a result of a series of careless errors, your car very sadly became the implement responsible for your old and great friend's tragic death,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no sentence that I can give that will bring back Joyce Nainby for her family, or for you.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began\n\nAn American academic has given a graphic account of the moment the London Bridge stabbing attack began, saying it \"felt like a warzone\".\n\nBryonn Bain told the BBC that victim Jack Merritt had been the first person to confront Usman Khan when he launched his knife assault during a prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday.\n\n\"I saw people die, I saw things that I will never be able to unsee,\" he said.\n\nVigils have taken place for Mr Merritt, 25, and second victim Saskia Jones, 23.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the two women are still in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProf Bain said former offenders attending the University of Cambridge-linked conference \"stepped up and intervened\" to tackle Khan, and people at Fishmongers' Hall owed their lives to the actions of those who had previously spent time in jail.\n\nHe said two men from his performance poetry workshop immediately ran towards shouts from elsewhere in Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London as the attack began, and as shouts grew louder he also went to assist.\n\n\"That's when I ran down and saw the scene unfolding there,\" he said. \"I was able to see the attacker.\"\n\nHe added: \"It felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nProf Bain said course co-ordinator Mr Merritt was \"the first line of defence\".\n\n\"I want to honour him,\" Prof Bain said of Mr Merritt. \"I want to honour his father's wishes which have been explicit to not have his life be used for political purposes to ramp up draconian policies, because that's not what he was about.\"\n\nMr Merritt's father criticised newspaper coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to review the early release of convicted terrorists.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, David Merritt says his son \"would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\".\n\nThe article calls for a justice system that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than revenge, and criticises indeterminate sentences, saying his son worked for \"a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key\".\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\nProf Bain added: \"I want to make sure that as much as possible that we uphold the heroes of the day, were formerly incarcerated people, some of the folks who are often easiest to dehumanise.\n\n\"They stepped up and many of the folks in that space would not be here today if it weren't for these guys who did time in prison and literally saved lives.\"\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\nVigils for the victims of the attack were also held in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, which Ms Jones had previously attended.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones both studied for masters degrees at the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nMr Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a volunteer\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones at the weekend.\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal justice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nA group of hall staff, ex-offenders, prison and probation staff are believed to have drawn Khan out on to London Bridge where he was subsequently shot dead by armed police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in an update on Monday night that detectives were continuing extensive inquiries but had so far found nothing to suggest other people were involved in the attack.\n\nKhan, who admitted preparing terrorist acts in 2012, was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relieves pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nFriday was the first time that Khan, who wore a GPS tag, had been permitted to travel to London since he left prison. The BBC has been told that - earlier in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke-on-Trent, which is where he grew up, in order to attend a social event.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early would have their licence conditions reviewed..\n\nPolice said two terror-related arrests following Friday's incident, in Staffordshire and north London, were not directly connected to the London Bridge attack.\n\nIt came after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".", "Years have been knocked off official projections of children's life expectancies in the UK, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report shows.\n\nA baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations.\n\nOfficial 2014 data thought that girl would make it to 93.6. Now the figure is 90.4.\n\nThe report also slashed the likelihood of children reaching 100.\n\nAlthough life expectancies have been and are still improving, experts say previous estimates were too high.\n\nThe improvement is much smaller than previously thought, as part of a widely acknowledged slowdown in life expectancy since 2011.\n\nIn 2018, life expectancy growth stalled for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nThis has led statisticians to re-evaluate their assumptions about future improvements in life expectancy, resulting in the figures released today.\n\nThe ONS report calculates the impact of this less-rosy picture on children's prospects of a long life.\n\nSo a boy born in 2019 is now expected to live for 87.8 years.\n\nBut the 2016 data thought he would reach 89.7 and the 2014 data said 91.1.\n\nAnd looking to the future, to children born in 2043, there is a dramatic drop in the chances of reaching 100.\n\nBut the projections two years ago thought:\n\nThe ONS said: \"There has been considerable public debate about the causes of the slowdown in life expectancy improvements.\n\n\"Researchers have suggested a range of possible explanations for the slowdown... several factors are at play, none of which can be singled out as being the most important with any certainty.\"\n\nMany reports, including by Public Health England and the Health Foundation think tank, have attempted to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nA lack of a recent blockbuster moment in medicine could be an issue.\n\nLife expectancy in the 20th Century improved with the creation of the NHS, falls in smoking, childhood immunisation (the last case of polio in the UK was in 1984) and medical advances particularly for the big killers - heart disease, stroke and cancer.\n\nBut now dementia is listed as the leading cause of death and it is incurable.\n\nPublic Health England says a more elderly population - with dementia and other long-term health problems - may also be more vulnerable to diseases like flu.\n\nBut there are issues affecting life expectancy well before old age. Deaths from drug misuse, with Scotland having the highest drug death rate in the EU, are also quoted.\n\nOne of the most politically charged questions has been around austerity - the programme of government cuts that coincides with the slowdown in life expectancy.\n\nThe evidence either way is hotly contested.\n\nBut Public Health England's report says the poorest people have felt the impact on life expectancy the hardest and that \"could indicate a role for government spending\".\n\nStalling life expectancy in the UK has attracted plenty of attention from academics, but they offer no definitive answers on the causes.\n\nWhen you are talking about shifts in predictions of lifespans, it needs more than a few years of data.\n\nBut there is concern about why it's a different story to that in most other developed economies.\n\nAn analysis by the ONS last year concluded that the slowdown in life expectancy growth in the UK since 2011 was one of the largest of the countries analysed.\n\nThat's led to speculation on UK specific factors.\n\nCuts in government spending in the policy period dubbed by some as \"austerity\" might, according to some commentators, have been a factor.\n\nIt's worth noting, though, that cuts in social care in England were not replicated to the same extent in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe decline in living standards and the reduced ability of some households to pay for heating and food in the decade since the financial crisis in 2008 have also been mentioned.\n\nThe gap between life expectancy in the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in England has increased according to research last year.\n\nThe debate will continue though it may take a while before firm trends and causes can be identified.", "Mental As Anything were inducted into the Australian recording industry's Hall of Fame in 2009 (L-R: Reg Mombassa, Greedy Smith, Peter O'Doherty and Martin Plaza)\n\nMental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew \"Greedy\" Smith has died after suffering a heart attack in his car. He was aged 63.\n\nThe band confirmed Smith's death on its Facebook page \"with an incredibly heavy heart\".\n\n\"Our grief and confusion at this time are little compared to what Andrew's family will be feeling,\" they added.\n\nAccording to Australian media, Smith was moving into a new home with his fiancee Fiona Docker when he fell ill.\n\nAn ambulance attended the scene, but attempts to revive him failed.\n\nThe singer, songwriter and keyboardist was currently on a tour with Mental As Anything, and was the last original member still performing with the band.\n\nAffectionately known as \"The Mentals\", they were one of Australia's most popular bands in the 1980s, scoring hits with songs like Too Many Times, If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? and The Nips Are Getting Bigger.\n\nThey scored a UK hit in 1987 after their single Live It Up featured in the soundtrack to Crocodile Dundee.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFormed as a party covers band in 1978, Smith always maintained their success had been a fluke.\n\n\"We didn't have any ambition at all!\" he told NQ Music Press in 2014. \"It was someone else's idea to record us, they started an independent record company and they needed someone to record and they picked us, and it was just luck and everyone liking The Nips Are Getting Bigger that started it all off.\n\n\"So we said, 'this is easy! We weren't even trying!'\"\n\nThe band were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2009. Last month, Smith was added to the Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nOutside music, the gregarious, articulate frontman was a well-loved TV personality, appearing on Australian shows like Hey Hey It's Saturday and Tonight Live.\n\nHe played his last show with Mental As Anything on Saturday night, and had been scheduled to perform in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nThe band were a regular fixture on Australian music programme Countdown\n\nOne of the band's founding members, Reg Mombassa, said the group was in shock that their friend had died so suddenly.\n\n\"We are all totally shocked. He seemed like such a healthy, energetic guy,\" he said.\n\n\"He wasn't the kind of guy who partied too hard. He enjoyed a drink when we were younger but he was a very serious performer.\"\n\nSmith is survived by his son Harvey, fiancee Fiona Docker and brother Stuart.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government's rules on gender-neutral passports are \"unlawful\" and breach human rights, a court has heard.\n\nJudges at the Court of Appeal are hearing the case of campaigner Christie Elan-Cane, who wants passports to have an \"X\" category for those who do not identify as fully male nor female.\n\nThe campaigner believes the UK's passport process is \"inherently discriminatory\".\n\nLawyers representing the home secretary are contesting the legal challenge.\n\nThe case centres on whether the current policy run by the UK passport office - which is part of the Home Office - is lawful.\n\nCurrently, all UK passport holders have to specify whether they are male or female.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane believes the policy breaches the right to respect for private life, and the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of gender or sex, under the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThe campaign for recognition of non-gendered identity in UK law and society started more than 25 years ago.\n\nLast year, a High Court challenge calling for gender-neutral passports was lost but the case has now been taken to the Court of Appeal.\n\nOn Tuesday, Christie Elan-Cane's lawyer, Kate Gallafent, told the three judges: \"There is little which is more fundamental and deeply personal than an individual's gender identity.\"\n\nShe said those affected by the government's current passport rules \"face a choice between the degrading experience of applying for, bearing and using a passport that does not accurately reflect their gender identity, or forgoing the use of a passport at all.\"\n\nPeople who do not consider themselves as exclusively male or female include members of the trans community and intersex people.\n\nThe UN says up to 1.7% of the world's population are born with intersex traits - about the same number of people with red hair.\n\nThe \"X\" stands for unspecified for people who do not identify as male or female.\n\nEarlier this year, Canada introduced gender-neutral passports with an X category.\n\nAustralia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, India and Nepal already have a third category.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organisation - the UN agency in charge of air travel - also recognises the \"X\" option.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's legal action, Christie Elan-Cane said: \"Legitimate identity is a fundamental human right but non-gendered people are treated as though we have no rights.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that someone who defines as neither male nor female is forced to declare an inappropriate gender in order to obtain a passport.\"\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to publish its response to a consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004, the piece of law that sets out the legal process by which a person can change their gender.\n\nThe government said it had more than 100,000 responses to the consultation, which it called \"exceptionally high\".\n\nIn October, the minister for women and equalities, Liz Truss, said it needed time for consideration and she wanted to study it closely.\n\nDuring last year's High Court proceedings, Christie Elan-Cane's lawyers challenged the lawfulness of the policy administered by Her Majesty's Passport Office.\n\nJames Eadie, acting for the home secretary, said the policy maintains an \"administratively coherent system for the recognition of gender\" and ensures security at national borders.\n\nRuling on the case in June, a judge said that although he was not at that time satisfied the policy was unlawful, part of the reasoning for the decision was that a comprehensive review had not been completed.", "Ms Thunberg has spent more than two weeks crossing the Atlantic in a catamaran\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg said that adults should stop making young people \"angry\" over global warming.\n\nMs Thunberg was speaking after her arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, after a two-weeks-plus journey across the Atlantic from her starting point in Virginia, US.\n\n\"People are underestimating the force of angry kids,\" she told reporters.\n\nThe 16-year-old is on her way to the COP25 climate summit in Madrid.\n\nShe is taking a stand on more polluting forms of transport by sailing, rather than flying or travelling in cars.\n\nResponding to a question from a journalist who said some adults viewed her as \"angry\", Ms Thunberg said: \"We are angry, we are frustrated and it's because of good reasons.\n\n\"If they want us to stop being angry, maybe they should stop making us angry.\"\n\nShe had originally planned to travel from the US to a UN climate summit in Chile.\n\nBut the South American nation had to give up the event due to civil unrest.\n\nThe venue changed to Spain, and so Ms Thunberg hitched a ride on a 48ft sailing catamaran called La Vagabonde.\n\nShe travelled with Australian YouTubers Riley Whitlum and Elayna Carausu, as well as Briton Nikki Henderson - who is a professional yachtswoman.\n\nTheir boat uses solar panels and hydro-generators for power. However the emissions impact of the voyage has been called into question by reports that suggested Ms Henderson flew to the US from Britain to undertake the trip.\n\nMeanwhile, in a report released on Tuesday during COP25, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on countries to prioritise funding to deal with the effects of climate change on human health. In coming decades, global warming is expected to cause thousands of additional deaths each year from malnutrition, insect-borne disease and heat stress.\n\nWHO researchers surveyed 101 nations to find out which had already developed health and climate change strategies, and whether these plans had sufficient financial backing.\n\nIt found about half of the surveyed countries had drawn up a national strategy. But of 45 countries subjected to more detailed analysis, less than 40% said their current health budget fully or partially covered the estimated costs of implementing their national plans. Only 9% had allocated enough resources to carry out their strategies in full.", "The UK's troubled retail sector has been given a boost by Black Friday promotions, figures indicate.\n\nBarclaycard, which processes nearly £1 of every £3 spent in the UK, says that sales volumes from 25 November to 2 December were up 7.1% compared with 2018, while sales value rose by 16.5%.\n\n\"Consumers have not only been buying more, but also spending more than last year,\" said Barclaycard's Rob Cameron.\n\n\"This will no doubt come as welcome news to the retail sector.\"\n\nIt has been a tough year for the retail industry in the UK, with a net 1,234 stores disappearing from Britain's top 500 High Streets in the first six months, according to accountants PwC.\n\nBlack Friday, which is an American tradition, started in the UK in 2013, but is remembered for fights breaking out as shoppers hunted for bargains in some stores.\n\nMore retailers have taken part in the following years and the sales period has started to stretch out over a long weekend to include Cyber Monday. These days, some retailers offer discounts for a week or more.\n\nShoppers have also increasingly decided to grab discounted deals online rather than visiting shops themselves.\n\nFootfall across UK High Streets, retail parks and shopping centres fell every year from 2015 to 2018 - with 5% fewer people going out to shop last year compared with 2017, according to data provider Springboard.\n\nHowever, this year has bucked the trend with a rise of 3.1% in physical shoppers. The highest rise was seen in shopping centres, which attracted 5.2% more visitors than 12 months ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of fashion retailer Missguided discusses the importance of Black Friday.\n\nBarclaycard's Mr Cameron said: \"Shoppers took full advantage of the discounts on offer. On Black Friday itself, sales volumes were 7.2% higher compared to last year.\n\n\"This continued right though to Cyber Monday where we saw sales increase 6.9% compared to 2018 data.\"\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, commented: \"This positive result may well 'seal the deal' for retailers in terms of their commitment to Black Friday moving forward, as they will have claimed shoppers early on in the Christmas trading period, giving them the opportunity to steal a march on their rivals.\"\n\nThe company added that it expected the busiest trading day before Christmas to occur on Saturday 21 December. It also expects football on the three days after Christmas to be busier than on Boxing Day.\n\nKyle Monk, head of insight and analytics at the British Retail Consortium, said that despite Black Friday being a week closer to Christmas than in 2018, it was still expected to outperform last year.\n\nHe added: \"It remains to be seen how this change in timings will affect sales over the next few weeks, particularly with the added election disruption that consumers will be contending with.\"\n\nHowever, not everybody agrees with the idea of Black Friday.\n\nWorkers at Amazon distribution centres in France and Germany also used Black Friday to stage a walkout in dispute over pay and conditions.", "The woman was knocked off her bicycle close to Park Hill Drive\n\nA heavily pregnant woman has been seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash.\n\nThe victim was cycling in Aylestone Road, near Park Hill Drive, Leicester, at about 21:30 GMT on Monday when she was hit by the vehicle.\n\nA 40-year-old man from Leicester, is being held on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of alcohol.\n\nDet Sgt Paul Hawkins said: \"We are continuing to provide support to the woman injured and her family as the investigation continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew have very different accounts of what happened in March 2001 - so how do they differ?\n\nFive women who accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them say Prince Andrew witnessed how people were given massages at the sex offender's homes.\n\nThe lawyer for the women has told BBC Panorama he plans to serve subpoenas to force the Duke of York to testify as a witness in all five cases.\n\nHe says the prince could have important information about sex trafficking.\n\nThe prince says he did not witness or suspect any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe lawyer for victims of the US financier, David Boies, said: \"One of the things that we have tried is to interview Prince Andrew and to try to get what his explanation is. He was a frequent visitor. They ought to submit to an interview. They ought to talk about it.\"\n\nThe subpoenas - court summonses to give testimony - have been prepared for all five cases and would have to be signed off by a judge once the prince was on US soil.\n\nHe would then be able to challenge the subpoena in court if he did not want to give evidence.\n\nAnother lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, who questioned Epstein a decade ago and now represents several of his unnamed alleged victims, made a personal plea for Prince Andrew to give a sworn testimony.\n\n\"Be a man, stand up for what you believe and what you're saying is the truth and come forward,\" said Mr Kuvin on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Kuvin said he is not planning to serve a subpoena but added: \"If he truly wants to help these victims, then step forward.\"\n\nPanorama also uncovered new information about the infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre - then called Virginia Roberts.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, went to Tramp nightclub in London.\n\nMs Giuffre said that in the car on the way back \"Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick\".\n\nWhen they got back to the house, she said she asked Epstein to take a picture of her to show her family. She then carried out the instructions to entertain the prince.\n\n\"Well there was a bath and it started there and then it led into the bedroom and it didn't last very long, the whole entire procedure.\n\n\"It was disgusting. He wasn't mean or anything, but he got up and he said thanks and walked out.\"\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nOn Tuesday, lawyer Lisa Bloom - who represents five other Epstein accusers - told ITV's This Morning that she has a witness who says she was at Tramp nightclub on the night when the alleged incident happened, and \"saw Prince Andrew with Virginia\".\n\n\"She remembers it vividly because she was told 'this is a member of the Royal Family',\" said Ms Bloom. \"That was a very big thing to her, she was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him and so I'm going to take her to the FBI.\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew\n\nThe photo of them together was first published in 2011 after the Mail on Sunday tracked down Ms Giuffre and paid her $160,000 for her story.\n\nThis year palace sources started suggesting the photo was a fake - but Prince Andrew stopped just short of that in his interview with BBC Newsnight.\n\nHe said: \"You can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it's a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.\"\n\n\"It's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph being taken. That's me but whether that's my hand… I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.\"\n\nThe prince also said he thought he had never been upstairs in his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's house, where the photo appears to have been taken.\n\nBut Ms Giuffre told Panorama the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011.\n\n\"I think the world is getting sick of these ridiculous excuses. It's a real photo,\" she said. \"I've given it to the FBI for their investigation and it's an authentic photo. There's a date on the back of it from when it was printed.\"\n\nShe said the date on the back of the photo is 13 March 2001 - two days after she left London on her trip with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nPanorama also spoke to the freelance photographer Michael Thomas who first copied the picture in 2011.\n\nHe is convinced the picture is genuine because he found it in the middle of a bundle of photos that Ms Giuffre handed him from her travels with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nHe said: \"It was nothing sophisticated. These were 5x7 photos that looked like they had come from Boots the chemist. They were typical teenage snaps.\"\n\nThe programme also found evidence that supports Ms Giuffre's claim that she gave the original to the FBI.\n\nA redacted court document shows she gave 20 photos to the FBI in 2011 and they were scanned front and back.\n\nBut there are only 19 photos shown in the public version.\n\nPanorama has been told the Prince Andrew photo was removed from the public document to protect his privacy.\n\nThe news that five women say that Prince Andrew witnessed Epstein and his guests receiving massages and have prepared subpoenas should he travel to the US is bad for the prince on several fronts.\n\nHe says he had at no time seen, witnessed or suspected suspicious behaviour at Epstein residences. This flatly contradicts that.\n\nThe existence of subpoenas - court-backed demands for sworn testimony - makes any visit to the US by the prince vanishingly unlikely. It's pretty extraordinary: the Queen's second son is now effectively unable to travel to the US, unless he fancies being forced to give a deposition.\n\nThe subpoenas can be challenged, but it would be a huge risk getting embroiled in the US legal system.\n\nThis news, and the rest of the programme, with a powerful interview by Virginia Giuffre, puts Prince Andrew, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and his denials, back into the spotlight. The controversy refuses to go away; instead, it grows.\n\nAnother Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome told Panorama Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Prince Andrew's oldest friends, worked hand in hand with Epstein.\n\n\"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the Madam,\" she said.\n\n\"She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation and she would always visit Jeffrey on the island to make sure the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing.\n\n\"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell could not be reached for comment but has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nAllegations of sex abuse against her were first made public in court documents in 2009, but Prince Andrew has maintained the friendship.\n\nPanorama uncovered an email from 2015 which suggests he even asked for Ms Maxwell's help in dealing with Virginia Giuffre's claims. She was known at the time by her maiden name Virginia Roberts.\n\nIn the email the prince told Ms Maxwell: \"Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.\"\n\nShe replied: \"Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.\"\n\nPrince Andrew declined to answer Panorama's detailed questions but he said in a statement that he deplores the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour.\n\n\"The Duke of York unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein's suicide left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims. The duke deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\n\n\"It is his hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. The duke is willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.\"", "Andreas Dowling admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent at a previous hearing\n\nA computer enthusiast who made 107 hoax bomb threats to targets including schools, the Palace of Westminster and the Super Bowl, has been jailed.\n\nAndreas Dowling from Torpoint, Cornwall admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent.\n\nHe was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to four years and five months.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice May said the 24-year-old's actions were \"pernicious and nasty\" and calls targeting Jewish schools were racially motivated.\n\nDowling made threats to about 70 schools in the UK, affecting more than 44,000 pupils, and various locations in the US and Canada.\n\nHe was fascinated by computers from the age of six and studied network and software development at Cornwall College. The court was told he also had a good knowledge of security systems.\n\nHis motivations varied and included racism, punishing the US Government for perceived corruption, and closing schools for pupils in return for payment, the court heard.\n\nHe lived with his mother and used software to disguise his voice.\n\nIn 2015 he made repeated bomb threats to the Super Bowl in Arizona but the event went ahead.\n\nThe following year he targeted the Palace of Westminster - his only non-education target in the UK - saying a bomb was attached to a parked vehicle and there was 30 minutes to evacuate, but it was correctly identified as a hoax.\n\nThe court heard Jewish schools were \"over-represented\" as targets in the UK-based hoaxes and were selected \"based on racial or religious identity of the students\".\n\nThe prosecution said threats to the Jewish schools referred to bombs going off at \"4.20pm\", which was a reference to Adolf Hitler's birthday of April 20.\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice May said: \"One has only to imagine the extreme anxiety head teachers must have felt receiving news of a bomb threat and how pernicious and cruel it was to make those calls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Essex Fire Service said the dog was a husky (similar to the type pictured here)\n\nA dog started a house fire when it managed to turn the microwave on, a fire service said.\n\nThe husky-type animal, which was left on its own in the house in Stanford-le-Hope, turned on the appliance, which was on a worktop in the kitchen.\n\nA packet of bread rolls, which had been placed inside, began to burn and caused a small fire, Essex Fire Service said.\n\nThe owner, who was not at home at the time, was alerted to the fire by an app on their mobile phone.\n\nThe fire service said the owner's device allowed them to view live feeds from a camera that was set up in their house on Kingsman Road.\n\nGeoff Wheal, watch manager at Corringham Fire Station, called it a \"very strange incident\" and said firefighters found the kitchen filled with smoke, but they made sure the flames did not spread to the rest of the house.\n\n\"It demonstrates that microwaves shouldn't be used to store food when they aren't in use,\" he said.\n\n\"Always keep your microwave clean and free of clutter or food and any packaging.\n\n\"Animals or children can turn them on more easily than you might think - so please don't run the risk.\"\n\nThe dog was not hurt, the service added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day five of five):\n\nNew Zealand sealed a 1-0 series win over England as Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor centuries helped secure a draw in the second Test in Hamilton.\n\nCaptain Williamson made an unbeaten 104 and Taylor 105 not out as they guided New Zealand to 241-2 - a lead of 140 - before rain ended play early.\n\nEngland were unable to take a wicket in the 41 overs possible in the day.\n\nThe tourists, who lost the first Test by an innings and 65 runs, have not won in New Zealand since 2008.\n\nAlthough England - under new coach Chris Silverwood - won the Twenty20 series that preceded the Tests, they end the year without a Test series victory for the first time since 1999.\n\nThey travel to South Africa for a four-Test series starting on 26 December.\n\nWilliamson and Taylor had fought their way through a difficult evening session on the fourth day, but the inconsistent bounce that England had found then all but disappeared overnight.\n\nDespite that, Williamson offered two chances - both straightforward - but England were unable to take them.\n\nHe gloved a Ben Stokes short ball down the leg side on 39 but Ollie Pope, keeping for only the sixth time in a first-class match, could not hold on as he dived to his left.\n\nMuch worse was Joe Denly's miss with Williamson on 62. Outfoxed by a Jofra Archer slower ball, Williamson lobbed the tamest of catches to mid-wicket, where Denly let the ball slip out of his fingertips in what was described by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew as \"possibly the worst drop in Test history\".\n• None 'Your 95-year-old grandma would catch that in the dark'\n\nWilliamson and Taylor grew in confidence against England's short-ball tactics, putting on 213 with a mixture of pulls and gentle dabs to the third man boundary.\n\nThe skipper, who would have been run out for 97 had Sam Curran not missed with a throw from mid-off, reached three figures first by gently flicking Joe Root off his pads for his 21st Test century.\n\nTaylor reached his hundred by hitting Root for successive sixes shortly after becoming the second New Zealander to reach 7,000 Test runs.\n\nRain forced the players off two balls later, and play was abandoned at 03:00 GMT, the scheduled start of the final session.\n\nEngland still with questions to answer\n\nThe two-match series was not part of the Test World Championship and, although England remain third in the International Cricket Council rankings, there is plenty to ponder given that they have won only four of 11 Tests this year.\n\nRoot's 226 at Seddon Park was a welcome return to form, while Rory Burns continued to show the maturity he demonstrated in the summer with his second Test century.\n\nHowever, England's middle order is still far from settled, and their bowling attack once again failed to take 20 wickets in a match, albeit in placid conditions and in a rain-affected match.\n\nChris Woakes, recalled for the second Test, was the standout bowler and fellow all-rounder Sam Curran showed he can use his variations to good effect.\n\nBut Jack Leach was dropped for the final Test after struggling in Mount Maunganui for the consistency that England want from their spinner.\n\nArcher also had a difficult series, finishing with two wickets at an average of 104.50, and there are concerns over Ben Stokes' long-term fitness after he was limited by a knee injury in Hamilton.\n\nEngland began this tour saying they would show more patience with the bat. While they did that to an extent in the second Test, there are still frailties there that may be exploited on the bouncier South African pitches.\n\n'We want to be harder to beat' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We are a side that wants to learn quite quickly and wants to become quite resilient in these conditions.\n\n\"We want to become a much harder side to beat, first and foremost, and then go on and win games. Similarly, we want to make really big totals and put sides under pressure.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash on BBC Test Match Special: \"Chris Silverwood will reflect on England getting some good, hard cricket under their belt against a good New Zealand side.\n\n\"That will stand them in good stead for the South Africa series.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson: \"It was a great series for us. It was a great fighting effort over the last couple of weeks. We know how strong the England side is.\n\n\"To lose both tosses but to keep showing that fight was really pleasing to see.\"", "Ariana Grande and Drake were the most-streamed female and male artists of the decade\n\nSpotify has revealed its biggest songs, albums and artists of the last decade, with Drake emerging as the most-streamed artist of the 2010s.\n\nThe Canadian star has racked up more than 28 billion streams, with his most popular song, One Dance, played 1.7 billion times alone.\n\nIt was dwarfed by Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You, whose 2.4 billion streams, made it the decade's most listened-to track.\n\nReleased in June, the island-flavoured duet has already been played one billion times. Billie Eilish's Bad Guy isn't far behind, on 990 million streams.\n\nEilish's debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go, was also the year's most popular album - the first time a female artist has topped Spotify's end-of-year survey.\n\nIn the UK, however, Eilish played second fiddle to Lewis Capaldi whose debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, topped the chart.\n\nHis ubiquitous ballad Someone You Loved was also the year's most-streamed song.\n\nSpotify's data also revealed some quirky facts: Modern Bollywood was the year's fastest-rising genre; the most popular mood-based playlist was \"feel good,\" followed by \"lit\"; and the top podcast genre was comedy.\n\nHere are the music charts in full.\n\nThe end-of-decade charts are presumably skewed towards more recent songs because of the growth in Spotify's user-base. The service had just 7 million users in 2009, but now boasts 248 million monthly active users, of which 113 million are paid subscribers.\n\nLater this week, Spotify will unveil the latest incarnation of its \"Spotify Wrapped\" feature, allowing users to generate a personalised breakdown of the music they listened to in 2019.\n\nOther streaming services, including Apple Music and Amazon Music, are expected to reveal their own data later this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ch Supt Tracey Harman: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nThe crash happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and a 53-year-old woman were also hurt but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police, said officers were looking to speak to Mr Glover, from Loughton, \"in connection with the investigation\".\n\nMs Harman said officers were investigating whether the crash was linked to \"another incident nearby\" and made a \"direct plea\" to Mr Glover to contact police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force has appealed for help locating a silver Ford KA, with registration number LS08 OKW, which was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\" and failed to stop at the scene.\n\nIt is thought all the injured children were also pupils at the school on Willingale Road.\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was hurt told the BBC he believed the driver had deliberately targeted the group.\n\nSpeaking from an east London hospital, he said he was walking on the pavement with a friend when he heard a car revving behind him.\n\nHe described how the Ford KA sped up, mounted the pavement and hit the pair of them, throwing his friend over the bonnet.\n\nThe GCSE student, who is awaiting treatment for injuries to his arm, back, leg and head, said all those hit by the car were walking near to him.\n\nPolice said there was likely to be a \"serious and prolonged investigation\"\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne said she was \"devastated\" to confirm the boy who died was a student at the school.\n\nShe said: \"It is with great sadness that we must report that a 12-year-old student from our school has sadly died.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected....The school will be open tomorrow with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, called the crash \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dash-cam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he added.\n\nPolice have called the crash \"truly shocking\"\n\nInsp Rob Brettell said: \"We are trying to locate and find a silver Ford KA which is likely to have damage to the front of the car.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who has seen the car or knows where it is to contact the force, and said it was likely to be a \"prolonged and serious investigation\".\n\nWillingale Road cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and the area remains cordoned off.\n\nSebastian Fontanelle, who lives near the scene of the crash, said police arrived \"rapidly\" and he saw the air ambulance land at about 16:00.\n\nFather Sam Stuart said St John's Church in Loughton would also be open on Tuesday \"for prayer, lighting candles and if anyone needs to talk\".\n• None Murder probe as boy killed and five hurt in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 3.6 million people are living in the UK who were born in other parts of the EU and very few of them have a vote on 12 December, where the fate of Brexit could be decided.", "Iceland and other Nordic nations are widely admired for family-friendly policies\n\nIceland's prime minister has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures.\n\nKatrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern to promote a \"well-being\" agenda.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir called for \"an alternative future based on well-being and inclusive growth\".\n\nShe said new social indicators were needed besides traditional GDP data.\n\nNobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is among several economists arguing that gross domestic product - measuring a country's production in goods and services - fails to capture the impact of climate change, inequality, digital services and other phenomena shaping modern societies.\n\nIn a Guardian article last month, Prof Stiglitz said the 2008 global financial crisis \"was the ultimate illustration of the deficiencies in commonly used metrics\".\n\nGDP failed to reveal distortions in the bloated US housing market which triggered the crisis.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said environmental devastation was a key factor driving Iceland to incorporate new social indicators besides GDP in its budget planning.\n\nShe began a speech at London's Chatham House think-tank by highlighting the disappearance of Iceland's Okjokull glacier. Scientists say the retreat of glaciers is clear evidence of global warming, which is blamed largely on CO2 pollution.\n\nAsked if a \"well-being\" budget was equally appropriate for developed and developing nations, she said: \"It's about how you prioritise in the public budget - you can always have an emphasis on well-being.\"\n\nDeveloping countries \"need to take a leap\" to embrace renewable energy, she said, rather than repeat the developed world's carbon-based industrialisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGDP's focus on economic performance means it tends to undervalue quality of life and the social damage caused by inequality.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said an Icelandic poet had joked that \"having sex with your wife doesn't count in GDP, but with a prostitute it does\".\n\nA Left-Green politician, Ms Jakobsdottir formed a coalition government in 2017 with the conservative Independence Party and centre-right Progressive Party.\n\nWhile acknowledging Iceland's progress in family-friendly policies, she said her nation - with a population of just 350,000 - still had big challenges, such as improving public transport and tackling depression.\n\n\"Iceland uses more anti-depressants than neighbouring countries,\" she said. \"We need to strengthen prevention [of depression], through sports and the arts.\"\n\nIn a TED talk in August, Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon made a similar plea for modern economies to put more resources into mental health, childcare and parental leave, and green energy.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said Iceland's adoption of universal childcare and shared parental leave was the product of grassroots women's activism, regardless of political differences.\n\nShe said the \"well-being\" initiative promoted by herself, Ms Sturgeon and Ms Ardern should not be seen as a gender-based backlash against populism.\n\n\"It's very important to have all genders at the table - it affects the way you think, and then different decisions are made,\" she said.", "Jack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nThe girlfriend of London Bridge attack victim Jack Merritt has called him \"phenomenal\" and promised: \"Together, we will make a difference.\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, Leanne O'Brien said he \"opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on\".\n\nShe also shared an article written by Jack's father urging people to \"extinguish hatred with his kindness\".\n\nMr Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed by Usman Khan at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge.\n\nIn the article published in the Guardian on Tuesday, Jack's father David Merritt paid tribute to his son, who worked for a programme that links university students and prisoners.\n\n\"Jack believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, and felt a deep social responsibility to protect that,\" said Mr Merritt.\n\nHe accused politicians of using his son's death to \"perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\" - and that his son would be \"seething\" at how his death was being used.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt took part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge on Monday\n\nOn Monday, Ms O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge to pay tribute to him.\n\nWriting online later, Ms O'Brien said: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\n\"Together, we will make a difference.\"\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan - who was a convicted terrorist - and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nDavid Merritt previously said he would not wish his son's death to \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nAnd writing in the Guardian, he said: \"If Jack could comment on his death - and the tragic incident on Friday 29 November - he would be livid.\n\n\"We would see him ticking it over in his mind before a word was uttered between us. Jack would understand the political timing with visceral clarity.\"\n\nHe added: \"What Jack would want from this is for all of us to walk through the door he has booted down, in his black Doc Martens.\n\n\"That door opens up a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key. Where we do not give indeterminate sentences, or convict people on joint enterprise.\n\n\"Where we do not slash prison budgets, and where we focus on rehabilitation not revenge.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"", "Virginia Giuffre says she was brought to London for sex with Prince Andrew in March 2001, when she was 17 years old.\n\nPrince Andrew says of the claim he had sex with her he can \"absolutely and categorically\" say \"it never \"happened\". He says he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nMs Giuffre's first interview for British television has been given to the BBC as part of a special hour-long Panorama.\n\nIt includes an account of how she was trafficked to London by the sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHer claims have put the sex life, judgement and honesty of a senior member of the Royal Family under intense scrutiny.\n\nBuckingham Palace says the Duke of York \"emphatically denies having any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and that any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\"", "The Reunion Nugget is in two parts and weighs a total of 121.3g\n\nA gold hunter claims to have discovered the UK's largest gold nugget in a Scottish river.\n\nThe lump of pure gold, which weighs 121.3g (4.2 oz), was unearthed in a mystery location in May this year.\n\nThe two pieces form a doughnut shape and could be worth £80,000. The previous largest find, in 2016, was the 85.7g (3oz) Douglas Nugget.\n\nHowever, gold panning experts are remaining sceptical until its provenance can be confirmed.\n\nThe treasure was discovered in two pieces but fits together perfectly, earning it the name The Reunion Nugget.\n\nThe gold-panning community is renowned for its secrecy, and the name of the river where it was found has not been revealed. The lucky finder is also remaining anonymous.\n\nThe finder brought the discovery to the attention of author Lee Palmer who was researching his book Gold Occurrences In The UK.\n\nMr Palmer, 50, said: \"This is now the largest nugget in existence in the UK. When you look at it, it's doughnut-shaped.\n\n\"There are no impurities in it, it is just pure gold nugget of about 22 carats. It really is a remarkable find.\"\n\nThe nugget was found using the method of \"sniping\", which sees gold hunters lying face down in a river while wearing a snorkel and dry suit.\n\nThe enthusiast unearthed the larger piece first, which weighs 89.6g (3.1oz), before finding the other half, weighing 31.7g (1,1oz) 10 minutes later.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"The man just threw the bigger piece in his bucket with the rest of his stuff - he knew it was big but didn't realise how big.\n\nThe Reunion Nugget could be the largest unearthed in the UK\n\n\"He found the second nugget 30cm (12in) away and chucked that in his bucket too.\n\n\"It wasn't until a couple of days later that he had a look at them and realised how big they were and that they fitted together.\"\n\nHe added: \"The hole in the middle could have been caused by a strike off a rock or glacier.\n\n\"One mineralogist thought it looked like an entry and exit hole that could've been made with a neolithic antler pick, which were used by farmers in the Iron Age.\"\n\nBoth the finder of the nugget and the owner of the land where it was discovered are keeping their identities secret due to its magnitude.\n\nMr Palmer hopes it will be purchased by either the National Museum Of Scotland or the Natural History Museum, but legally it may have to be handed over to The Crown Estate.\n\nHe believes the fact it is in two pieces should not affect its value.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"From the top you could say it looks like two bits, but when you see it from underneath, it's a perfect fit.\n\n\"It's like an exact jigsaw, there's no disputing it.\n\n\"Even if you took the largest individual piece, it is still the biggest one in the UK.\n\n\"Add together the second piece and the story behind it and you've got something amazing.\"\n\nThe Douglas Nugget holds the current record for the largest gold nugget found in the UK for 500 years.\n\nBoth the Reunion Nugget and the Douglas Nugget were found in Scottish rivers using the process of \"sniping\"\n\nIn a similar story, it was discovered in a Scottish river by a man in his 40s.\n\nHe kept quiet for two years before publicly revealing his incredible find.\n\nGold panning expert Leon Kirk said he was not going to get too excited just yet.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Unfortunately the world of gold is very divisive. If someone finds a nugget it is not necessarily true.\n\n\"This has come out of the blue and there is no confirmed provenance.\n\n\"I would like to think it is real but it can take many months to establish if it is genuine and at the moment there is no proof.\"", "Comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage after making Brexit jokes at a charity event on Monday night.\n\nKumar, who hosts the BBC's Mash Report, was performing at the Lord's Taverners annual charity cricket lunch.\n\n\"You are the only audience in my entire 13-year history of performing that have actually thrown something at me,\" Kumar said, after a bread roll hit the stage.\n\nRadio 1 DJ and Taverners' ambassador Greg James said the behaviour of some of the crowd was \"appalling\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames added he was \"embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe event, at London's Grosvenor House, was raising money to give vulnerable children a start in life through sport.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian on Tuesday, Kumar said: \"I made what I considered to be some extremely mild jokes about Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Theresa May and the Brexit process for not going well.\"\n\nHe said the audience was more \"easily offended\" than he thought they might be.\n\nVideo footage of the event showed Kumar being interrupted by hecklers, one of whom shouted \"don't do politics\".\n\n\"It's an election season and I thought it would be interesting to spark a conversation here,\" explained the comedian, \"but clearly the conversation I've sparked is, 'this guy is a bit of a dickhead.'\n\n\"I did think it would be nice to come here and talk to some people who had a different political outlook to me, and I thought it'd be interesting for me to share my perspective - but clearly that's not been the case.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I don't want to do is to detract from any of the fantastic work done by the charity,\" for which he received a round of applause.\n\nBut as the routine continued, the audience began a \"slow clap\", after which Kumar refused to leave the stage.\n\n\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Kumar said. \"Absolutely not. I'm full Bercow-ing it,\" referring to the former House of Commons speaker John Bercow.\n\n\"I know you want me to do it but I'm not gonna leave. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.\"\n\nKumar was eventually joined by the host of the event, who escorted him off stage.\n\n\"Can I shake your hand, sir?\" he asked. \"Ladies and gentlemen, Nish gave his time to come and support this charity today, and I think the very least we can do is say thank you for doing that.\"\n\nAfterwards, the comic took to Twitter to make light of the crowd's reaction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nish Kumar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also posted a 1966 clip of Bob Dylan mocking newspaper reports claiming that his latest concert inspired mass walkouts.\n\nReflecting on the incident, he told the Guardian: \"I'm sort of amazed by how fascinated people are by the whole thing. It's not the first time I've been booed off stage … I consider it the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.\"\n\nLord's Taverners said in a statement: \"This event alone raised a staggering £160,000, which will go towards helping to empower disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential through sport and build foundations for a positive future.\n\n\"We are not, and never will be, a political organisation and we don't endorse the views of the guest speakers at our events, which are their own.\n\n\"However, nor do we endorse the reaction of a minority of audience members at yesterday's event.\n\n\"Nish Kumar's attendance was arranged in good faith and he gave his time for free to support the charity and our work. He follows a long tradition of comedic special guests at the event.\n\n\"We are extremely proud that in the past year we have raised over £4m, with nearly 12,000 young people having participated in our cricket programmes all over the UK, and just over 31,000 items of sports kit having been recycled across 20 countries. We will continue to focus all our efforts on developing sporting chances for young people in 2020 and in many years to come\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jerk tells the story of Tim (second right), who uses his cerebral palsy to get away with things\n\nThe BBC has promised a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nThe corporation has announced a string of new shows and said there will be an \"enhanced portrayal in existing programmes\".\n\nThe Last Leg's Alex Brooker will tackle \"the true nature of his disability for the first time\" in Disability And Me.\n\nMeanwhile, actor and writer Mat Fraser will curate \"challenging\" monologues, all performed by someone with a disability.\n\nComedy Jerk, which follows a man who knows having cerebral palsy means he can get away with almost anything, will return for a new series.\n\nAnnouncing the \"concerted drive to go further on representation\" in 2020, the BBC also said there would include better \"incidental and integrated\" representation in existing shows.\n\nBlind broadcaster and entrepreneur Amar Latif will join the line-up of Pilgrimage, and actress and comedian Liz Carr will delve into her family tree in Who Do You Think You Are? Disabled panellists will also appear on Celebrity Mastermind and Would I Lie To You?\n\nFrank Gardner will front Being Frank, 16 years after he was shot by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia\n\nThe broadcaster has also put forward new measures to give disabled people more opportunities behind the scenes.\n\nA scheme called BBC Elevate is designed to allow production staff to get experience on hit shows like Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice and EastEnders.\n\nIt is intended to \"make a tangible difference to the careers of many talented disabled people in TV, who face some particular challenges with progression\", the corporation said.\n\nAlison Kirkham, controller of factual commissioning, said the industry \"hasn't always done enough to offer opportunities for disabled people and so has missed out on their talent\".\n\n\"We want to set the bar forever higher, for the entire industry, both with off-screen talent and on-screen representation,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has committed to increasing the number of disabled people in its workforce to 12% by 2022. The latest official figure, from March 2018, stood at 10.4%.\n\nThe broadcaster will also introduce a \"BBC Passport\" to ensure staff with disabilities get the right support when they change jobs.\n\nDisability equality charity Scope welcomed the BBC's commitment, which was made on International Day Of People With Disabilities on Tuesday.\n\n\"Disability remains hugely underrepresented on our screens and behind the scenes, particularly as one in five people are disabled,\" Scope's head of communications Warren Kirwan said.\n\n\"When disabled people don't see themselves represented, talent and potential go unrecognised and negative attitudes and stigma goes unchallenged.\"\n\nAwareness of how the media portrays disability has grown in recent years. This ranges from the increasingly vocal outcry over non-disabled actors playing characters with disabilities to the embracing of Paddy Smyth, recent winner of reality show The Circle, who openly addressed his cerebral palsy throughout.\n\nThis means the BBC's commitment is timely, spurred on as it is by last year's damning industry representation findings. It also marks a natural progression at a time when The Travel Show host and ex-Paralympian Ade Adepitan recently visited Africa to front an eponymous prime-time series for BBC Two, alongside his Children in Need presenting duties.\n\nWhile it is one thing to use recognised disabled talent for disability-related stories, the true test will be how deep-rooted and wide-reaching the integration becomes.\n\nHow much narrative control will be afforded to journalists who live the stories we want to tell? How far will disability representation seep into mainstream storylines, and how many disabled staff will become permanent fixtures off screen?\n\nAs a journalist who entered the BBC through its Extend scheme two years ago, I am aware of the efforts being made.\n\nThis latest commitment marks a promising start for broader change, but there's more work to do. And disabled talent needs to be trusted to lead this change across the industry as a whole, not simply be a part of it.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMegan Rapinoe of the United States has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.\n\nWinger Rapinoe, 34, co-captained the US to victory at this summer's World Cup, where she was named player of the tournament and finished joint-top scorer with six goals.\n\nBronze, 28, the Uefa Women's Player of the Year, played a key part in England's run to the semi-finals.\n\nRapinoe's compatriot Alex Morgan came third in the Ballon d'Or ranking.\n\nLyon striker Ada Hegerberg, who became the first winner of the women's version of the award last year, finished fourth, while Arsenal and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema rounded out the top five.\n\nThe men's award was won by Argentina and Barcelona's Lionel Messi for a record sixth time.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Another Messi milestone and Rodgers to Arsenal?\n\nRapinoe, who was not in attendance at the awards ceremony, said in a recorded message: \"I'm so sad I can't make it tonight. It's absolutely incredible, congrats to the other nominees.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm the one winning in this field, it's been an incredible year. I want to thank my team-mates and the US federation.\"\n\nRapinoe has had a memorable 2019, becoming a global star for her performances during the World Cup but also for her willingness to use the spotlight to speak out on causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and equal pay.\n\nShe also made headlines after saying she would refuse to visit the White House if the US won the World Cup and joined the national team squad in suing their federation over equal pay.\n\nAfter winning the women's award at the Best Fifa Football Awards in September, she was the favourite to become the second ever recipient of the Women's Ballon d'Or.\n\nA runner-up spot for Bronze is an impressive achievement, finishing ahead of star forward Morgan and Women's Champions League record scorer Hegerberg.\n\nRegarded as the best right-back in the world, Bronze will be familiar with finishing second to Rapinoe, having won the Silver Ball for second-best player at the World Cup.\n\nThe months since the World Cup have been tough for Bronze in an England shirt, having been played out of position in an experimental midfield role and being part of a side that has won just two of their last six games.\n\nBut she has experienced an incredible 2019 with club side Lyon, winning the French league and cup double and the Women's Champions League.\n\nBronze's Lionesses team-mate Ellen White was ninth in the Ballon d'Or ranking after finishing as joint top scorer at the World Cup with six goals.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Videos made by disabled users were deliberately prevented from going viral on TikTok by the firm's moderators, the app has acknowledged.\n\nThe social network said the policy was introduced to reduce the amount of cyber-bullying on its platform, but added that it now recognised the approach had been flawed.\n\nThe measure was exposed by the German digital rights news site Netzpolitik.\n\nDisability rights campaigners said the strategy had been \"bizarre\".\n\nA leaked extract from TikTok's rulebook gave examples of what its moderators were instructed to be on the lookout for:\n\nSuch users were \"susceptible to bullying or harassment based on their physical or mental condition\", the guidelines added.\n\nAccording to an unnamed TikTok source quoted by Netzpolitik, the moderators were told to limit viewership of affected users' videos to the country where they were uploaded.\n\nAnd in cases where the creators were judged to be particularly vulnerable, it reported that the moderators were ordered to prevent the clips from appearing in the app's main video feed once they had reached between 6,000 to 10,000 views.\n\nThis video feed is auto-generated and personalised for each member. It accounts for where most people spend their time watching others' content.\n\nNetzpolitik reporter Chris Koever suggested the result was that the Chinese-owned firm had further victimised those affected \"instead of policing the perpetrators\".\n\nA spokesman for TikTok admitted it had made the wrong choice.\n\n\"Early on, in response to an increase in bullying on the app, we implemented a blunt and temporary policy,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"This was never designed to be a long-term solution, and while the intention was good, it became clear that the approach was wrong.\n\n\"We have long since removed the policy in favour of more nuanced anti-bullying policies.\"\n\nTikTok has not confirmed when it abandoned the measure, but Netzpolitik reported that it was still in force in September.\n\n\"It's good that TikTok has ended this bizarre policy,\" Ceri Smith from the disability equality charity Scope said.\n\n\"Social media platforms must do more to tackle cyber-bullying, but hastily hiding away a group of users under the guise of protecting them is not the right approach at all.\"\n\nAnti-bullying charity Ditch the Label added that it hoped valuable lessons had been learned.\n\n\"It is concerning that young people with disabilities have been actively excluded from participating on a platform that prides itself as being fun and inclusive,\" said chief executive Liam Hackett.\n\n\"This approach is discriminatory and further demonises disability, which we already know attracts a huge amount of abuse and intolerance.\"\n\nThis is the latest in a series of controversies to affect the short-form video app in recent weeks.\n\nIn September, the Guardian reported that the app used to restrict or ban political content, including footage of the Tiananmen Square protests, that could be used to criticise the Chinese government.\n\nThe firm's parent company Bytedance subsequently declined to testify to US Congress about its ties to China saying it had not been given enough warning.\n\nThen last Wednesday, TikTok apologised to a US teenager for removing a video in which she had accused China of mistreating its Uighur Muslim population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Feroza Aziz rejected TikTok's explanations for blocking her from its app\n\nAnd it has since emerged that it is being sued by a US student who alleges that the firm surreptitiously transferred \"vast quantities of private and personally identifiable user data\" from the international version of its app to China. TikTok maintains it only stores US user data in the United States and Singapore.\n\nFor its part, Netzpolitik said it hoped the latest revelations would encourage the app to consult users before imposing potentially discriminatory changes.\n\n\"Basically any time you try to make a policy, ask those who will be affected by it,\" said Ms Koever.\n\n\"That would be a good start.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fay Jones said nobody should be \"using this as a political exercise\"\n\nBoris Johnson was \"wrong\" to use the language he did after the London Bridge terror attack, a Welsh Conservative election candidate has said.\n\nTwo people were killed by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister blamed Khan's early release from jail on legislation introduced by a \"leftie government\".\n\nWelsh Conservative election candidate Fay Jones said the prime minister should not have used the terrorist incident \"as a political exercise\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release, David Merritt - whose son Jack was one of the victims - said he would not wish his death \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales Live election debate in Wrexham on Tuesday, Ms Jones said: \"I don't think the prime minister or anybody should be using this as a political exercise.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was wrong, she replied: \"Yes, he was.\"\n\nMr Johnson has denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"\n\nKhan had served half of his sentence and the prime minister claimed scrapping early release would have stopped him.\n\nMr Johnson blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", insisting the automatic release scheme was introduced by Labour.\n\nHowever, he has been challenged about what the Conservatives had done to change the law over the past 10 years in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says about 74 convicted terrorists have been released early from prison\n\nLabour's David Hanson, a former policing and counter-terrorism minister, said the police had struggled following a reduction in the number of officers and he had concerns about the probation service.\n\n\"We need to have the 40% cut that was taken to the probation service put back in place because that's one of the issues that's led to the high risk on this particular case and others,\" he said.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said it was \"bonkers\" that convicted terrorists were being released early.\n\n\"If you plot mass murder of people, a terrorist attack, I want to see you go to jail for your whole life,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not understand that when the death penalty was taken away. We were told life would mean life, and now people serve just five or ten years and then they're let out.\"\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nPoliticisation of terror attacks like London Bridge was wrong, said Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, \"because it affects every one of us\".\n\n\"These are our communities\", he said, \"intolerance between different groups is something we should all condemn\".\n\nWhen pressed on whether Khan should have been released, Mr ap Iorwerth stressed each case was different.\n\n\"It was clear that Boris did play games on this and he saw an advantage,\" he said.\n\n\"We have people risking their lives and showing their bravery and he's essentially dodging questions and avoiding stepping up to the plate and answering interviews.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight: Kay Richardson was killed by her estranged husband, after he was released under investigation\n\nMore than 93,000 suspected violent criminals and sex offenders have been released without restrictions by police in England and Wales since 2017, figures obtained by BBC Newsnight show.\n\nPeople suspected of offences including rape and murder have been among those \"Released Under Investigation\" (RUI).\n\nRichard Miller of the Law Society said a \"major scandal\" was brewing over the way RUIs are being used.\n\nThe Home Office said the cases must be regularly reviewed and managed.\n\nIn 2017, the rules on pre-charge bail changed, making it more difficult for police to keep suspects on bail beyond 28 days.\n\nThe overuse of RUIs, Mr Miller said, is the unintended consequence of the changes.\n\nUnlike pre-charge bail, RUIs do not impose a limit on suspects' movements, stop them from contacting certain people or require them report to a police station.\n\nEarlier this month the government announced plans to review the 2017 changes.\n\nIn September 2018, Alan Martin, 53, was released under investigation by police in Sunderland, after his estranged wife Kay Richardson had gone to the police accusing him of rape.\n\nNo conditions were imposed and the police gave Martin the keys back to the home he had shared with Ms Richardson.\n\nMartin let himself into the house and waited for Ms Richardson, 49, before attacking her with a hammer and strangling her.\n\n\"They might as well have gone and opened the door for him,\" said Audrey Richardson, Kay's mother.\n\n\"He killed her,\" she said. \"We've got to accept this and the police is not taking a little bit of responsibility... We are haunted by what happened.\"\n\nMr Martin had a history of domestic violence. But Northumbria Police said, because he had not been bailed, officers had no legal right to keep the keys from him. The force were cleared of misconduct by The Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nViolence against the person and sexual offences account for almost 100,000 of the cases where an individual was Released Under Investigation since April 2017\n\nNewsnight's data - obtained under the Freedom of Information Act - revealed there were 322,250 RUI cases between April 2017 to October this year. Of these, 93,098 related to violence against a person and sexual offences cases.\n\nThe figures were provided by 20 of the 44 police forces in England and Wales - meaning the total number of RUIs since 2017 is likely to be much higher.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, said there were people being released without \"any form of judicial control or indeed police bail control\" which \"can be dangerous\" for victims.\n\nNewsnight found 2,772 of the cases involving violent and sexual offences had been classed as RUI for more than 12 months.\n\n\"It's unfair on defendants and complainants if these cases are not resolved quickly,\" said Mr Miller, head of justice at the Law Society.\n\n\"It also means that the quality of the evidence is impacted as the longer a case is left the more memories fade.\"\n\nNewsnight spoke to a man who was released under investigation for more than two years, after he was accused of rape.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC anonymously.\n\n\"Your life is effectively put on hold. You're put into this limbo where everything starts falling apart around you, you've got no control of it whatsoever,\" he said. \"I felt suicidal.\"\n\nHe protested his innocence and was eventually told he would not be charged.\n\n\"I would expect, with the nature of the crime I was accused of, to have been placed under specific instructions,\" he added.\n\n\"But there were no restrictions at all.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) released guidance to frontline officers this year stressing the importance of using pre-charge bail where necessary and proportionate, including in high harm cases.\n\nThe NPCC's criminal justice lead, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, said since the bail legislation was amended, \"a number of unintended consequences have followed\".\n\n\"To address the emerging issues, we issued operational guidance encouraging timely investigations and the proactive use of pre-charge bail to protect victims and vulnerable people,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will always give the police and the criminal justice system the full support and powers they need to protect the public from harm.\n\n\"We launched a review of pre-charge bail legislation to prioritise the safety of victims and empower the police investigating all types of offences, whilst continuing to make sure cases are dealt with as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy years of existence is clearly worth celebrating, but Nato is strangely low-key about this week's brief gathering of alliance heads of state and government outside London.\n\nNato spokesmen reject the label of \"summit\", insisting that this is really a lesser affair; that there was a full-scale summit only last year; and that this gathering will not release the traditional lengthy communiqué of conclusions and future plans.\n\nWhy so reticent? This is after all what many Nato advocates call, with some justification, the most successful military alliance in history.\n\nNato was founded in 1949 for the collective defence of its members, linking the security of the United States with its European allies against the Soviet Union. It witnessed the end of communism, defeating the Soviet bloc without firing a shot.\n\nIt went to war for the first time in the Balkans in the 1990s. It then set out on a new path - so-called \"out of area\" operations beyond Nato's frontiers, notably its operations in Afghanistan and the wider war against terror.\n\nNato also set about a programme of expansion, nearly doubling in size. Today it has 29 members and North Macedonia is soon to join its ranks.\n\nUS troops on a Nato exercise in Lithuania in June 2018\n\nNato - which is as much a diplomatic as a military alliance - has played a key role in stabilising the new democracies of Europe, whether it be in the Baltic or the Balkans, giving them a new self-confidence and locking them into a formidable security framework.\n\nBut has this actually produced a stronger Nato?\n\nThe respected British defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke says \"no\".\n\nUS President Harry Truman marks the beginning of Nato in 1949\n\n\"Nato is indeed the greatest alliance the world has ever seen,\" he told me, but \"today with some thirty members, it is less than half as strong as it was when it was half this size.\n\n\"Nato is in trouble\", he argues, \"even though it's still got lots of capabilities\".\n\nNato expansion is seen within the alliance as a good thing. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described it to me as a \"historical success\", the alliance helping to spread democracy and the rule of law.\n\nCountries once occupied by the Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union, like the three Baltic republics, or former Warsaw Pact allies of Moscow like Poland, are now firmly in Nato's orbit, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin does not like this.\n\nRussia is pushing back in every way it can, bolstering its nuclear arsenal and seeking to renew its influence abroad. Its controversial but successful campaign to prop up the Assad regime in Syria is a case in point.\n\nNato led a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo after bombing Yugoslavia in 1999\n\nIn Europe, Russia is criticised for cyber attacks; information operations to try to influence elections; even political assassination in the wake of a radiological and a chemical weapons attack - the former in London, the second in Salisbury in southern England.\n\nThe latter attack in Salisbury - which Moscow strenuously denies - prompted a mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers from Nato countries.\n\nMany have spoken of a new Cold War. But this one is very different from that of the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nRussia's power and influence is a shadow of that of the former Soviet Union's. This is a kind of shadow conflict waged below the threshold of combat, in what analysts call \"the grey zone\", where it is hard to assign blame for intrusive actions like cyber attacks or hacks against computers.\n\n\"There is a problem of political consensus in the western world and so we make it easy for Mr Putin,\" Mr Clarke says.\n\n\"Russia,\" he argues, \"will be a real nuisance to Nato for the next ten or twenty years.\n\n\"But they should not be a strategically important challenge to us unless we let them.\"\n\nPresident Putin has warned the West not to cross \"red lines\", meaning Russia's national security interests\n\nRussia is simply using the intrinsic weaknesses of the West to further its own goals, he says.\n\n\"If the Western world and if the Western democracies are not sufficiently cohesive to deal with this threat - and at the moment I have to say they're not - then the Russians will actually play a big role in European security for the future.\n\nThey'll dominate the agenda. They'll constrain people's choices. They'll intimidate and they'll use a certain amount of not very subtle blackmail.\"\n\nThis Nato \"summit\" is all about demonstrating solidarity and resolve and also about charting a path for the future. But in the days leading up to the meeting there has been more than a hint of the problems behind Nato's ceremonial façade.\n\nNato has proudly announced new spending projections which show that the defence budgets of its European allies will grow further in the years ahead.\n\nIt has also agreed a new formula to spread the costs of Nato's central budget between its members; a budget that covers its headquarters in Brussels and other commonly funded programmes.\n\nThe US in this case will pay less and Germany, which lags behind in the proportion of its resources that it devotes to defence, will pay more.\n\nIt is all an effort to mollify President Donald Trump and to avoid another embarrassing tirade from him aimed at his Nato partners. The burden-sharing debate has long dogged Nato. Mr Trump did not invent it.\n\nBut he seems to take a peculiarly transactional approach to the alliance, and often does not seem to share a fundamental sense that the survival of a healthy Nato is as much in Washington's interests as it is in those of its European allies.\n\nNonetheless, Nato governments have committed to spending at least 2% of their GDP on defence; and many of them are still far from that benchmark.\n\nDonald Trump: The uncrowned leader of the Western alliance or a divider?\n\nBut this focus on funding obscures other problems. Frustration is growing and this is what prompted the French President Emmanuel Macron recently to describe Nato as strategically \"brain-dead\".\n\nFar from regretting his comments, he amplified them last week, insisting that the alliance needed to stop talking about money all the time and spend more time dealing with its fundamental strategic problems.\n\nOnly days before this week's summit, a row erupted between France and Turkey. It illustrates how events in north-eastern Syria are straining relations within Nato.\n\nPresident Macron has repeatedly criticised both Washington's abrupt withdrawal of support for the Kurds and Turkey's related offensive into Syria - two strategic decisions that were taken without consulting other Nato allies.\n\nMr Macron (R), pictured with Mr Stoltenberg, criticised Nato's failure to respond to Turkey's offensive\n\nTurkey sees France as far too friendly towards the Kurds. It wants Nato as a whole to back its position in Syria.\n\nThis episode underscores another fundamental problem for the alliance: what many see as Turkey's drift away from Nato and the West.\n\nAnkara's purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system is an extraordinary step for a Nato ally.\n\nThe problem is that Turkey's size and geographical position make it an important, albeit for many troublesome, partner in Nato, despite some analysts questioning if it really should still be in the alliance at all.\n\nSo, Turkish and US unilateralism; rows over money; a resurgent but ill-defined Russian threat - there's plenty for Nato leaders to talk about when they meet in a luxury resort hotel near Watford, a town best known by many for its nondescript railway junction.\n\nNato too is at a kind of a junction itself. It has many of the problems of success. Many of the decisions it has taken - its expansion to bring in so many new members for example - were driven as much by politics as by strategy.\n\nTurkish and Russian forces are carrying out joint ground patrols in northern Syria\n\nBut the world has changed dramatically since Nato's founding. It is very different again from the world of the 1990s, in which Nato basked in its victory in the Cold War.\n\nPresident Macron's label of \"brain dead\" may be going a bit far. But he has a point.\n\nNato leaders need to get back to strategy, to the big thoughts about where the alliance should be heading.\n\nHow will it contend with the Russian threat? Does it need to rethink its strategy? Should Nato have a common approach to a rising China? What should be Nato's priorities in the 21st-Century world?", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police said: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences.\n\nKhan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence when he launched his attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nKhan was shot dead by officers after members of the public restrained him.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"saddened\" by the attack.\n\nShe thanked the emergency services \"as well as the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted for terrorism offences in 2012. He was released from prison on licence in December 2018, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying he \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nAfter leaving prison he had moved into a Stafford property on the \"approved premises\" list.\n\nThe attack began at 13:58 GMT on Friday at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge, at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nThe Learning Together scheme, which featured in the BBC's Law in Action programme earlier this year, allows university students and prisoners to study alongside each other.\n\nKhan had been one of dozens of people at the event.\n\nMr Basu said the attack is understood to have started inside the building, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nPolice are carrying out a search, believed to be linked to the attack, at flats in Stafford, close to the town centre.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nMr Basu added police were not actively seeking anyone else in relation to the attack, although they were making \"fast time enquiries\" to make sure there was no outstanding threat to the public.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on London Bridge\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nThere is a general feeling of shock and disbelief here in Stafford, where a top floor flat is being searched.\n\nBlue screens and forensic tents are outside the front of the semi-detached property within a 50m police cordon.\n\nI've seen evidence bags being taken out of the house and the garden also appears to be part of the search.\n\nThe property is believed to be privately-owned and used, in part, as a halfway house. Local residents have told me it has a high turnover of tenants and Khan had only been living there for about six months.\n\nA man and a woman were killed during the attack. Three others - a man and two women - were also injured and remain in hospital.\n\nNHS chief Simon Stevens said, on Friday, that one person was in a critical but stable condition, another was stable and the third had less serious injuries.\n\nNone of those killed or injured has so far been named and officers were still working to identify those who died, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Friday.\n\nPolice believe the attacker had acted alone, the commissioner added on Saturday.\n\nThe actions of the public have been widely praised, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Ms Dick, who said they had shown \"extreme courage\".\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show passers-by holding Khan down, while a man in a suit could be seen running from him, having apparently retrieved a large knife.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tour guide Stevie Hurst told 5 Live he kicked the suspect in the head\n\nOne of those who rushed to help during the attack was a convicted murderer who was attending the prisoner rehabilitation event on day release, the Times reported.\n\nJames Ford, 42, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years in 2004 for the murder of Amanda Champion, a 21-year-old woman with learning difficulties.\n\nMr Basu said Khan was wearing what was believed to be a hoax explosive device.\n\nThe prime minister put election campaigning on hold on Friday to hold a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nMr Johnson visited the scene at London Bridge on Saturday with Met Commissioner Ms Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible\" response by members of the emergency services and the \"sheer bravery\" of members of the public who intervened.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"immediate takeaway\" from the attack was to \"toughen up sentences\" for serious and violent offences.\n\n\"When people are sentenced to a certain number of years in prison, they should serve every year of that sentence,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited the scene on Saturday alongside Met Commissioner Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan he was \"in awe of the bravery, the courageousness of ordinary Londoners\" who stopped the attacker.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there would be an increased presence of armed and unarmed police officers in London over the weekend, adding they were there to \"reassure us - not because there is an additional or heightened threat\".\n\nThe London mayor also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK had to make sure the \"right lessons\" were learned from the attack.\n\n\"You can't disaggregate terrorism and security from cuts made to resources of the police, of probation - the tools that judges have,\" he said.\n\nBut security minister Brandon Lewis told the programme funding for counter-terrorism policing had consistently increased since 2015.\n\n\"We will make sure that the police has got the resource that it needs,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says the system that allowed the killer out on early release \"does not make sense\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings will fly at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Einar Orn was on his lunch break when suddenly he saw police cars and heard gunshots\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories of the 2017 attack.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThis latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nSome of the early debate about the London Bridge attack has focused on the sentence imposed on Usman Khan.\n\nThe sentencing judge thought Khan should be freed from prison only when it was safe to do so, as part \"indeterminate penalty\" scheme (IPP).\n\nBut the Court Of Appeal replaced Khan's IPP with an extended sentence, which required his release at the halfway point of his 16-year custodial term.\n\nThe IPP regime was scrapped in 2012 - a decision that was widely supported at the time.\n\nSince Khan's conviction, legislation has been put in place for the Parole Board to determine when offenders on extended sentences should be let out.\n\nThe attack also raises questions about the extent to which people convicted of terrorism offences can be de-radicalised.\n\nKhan was one of 51 inmates with terror links let out of jail in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, so it's inevitable that the role of those monitoring him will now be scrutinised.\n\nDid the authorities pick up any warning signs about Khan? Was he meeting people he shouldn't have done or plotting the attack? If no signs were detected, why not? And if the authorities did spot concerns, what did they do?\n\nFriday's horrific attack was the second fatal stabbing at an offender rehabilitation event this month, after Hakim Sillah died at a knife awareness course in Hillingdon, west London.\n\nThese events will likely fuel concerns about safety at such venues and whether checks need to be strengthened.\n\nDid you witness what happened? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "More than 1,400 people have already been screened in Carmarthenshire\n\nChildren are to be tested for tuberculosis (TB) in a mass screening amidst an outbreak of the disease.\n\nMargaret Pegler, 64, from Llwynhendy, Carmarthenshire, died five days after being diagnosed in September.\n\nMore than 1,400 people have so far been tested by Public Health Wales and 29 cases identified.\n\nIt is now widening its programme to test young people and children in the area who may have been exposed to TB, which is communicable but treatable.\n\nParents and carers are being urged to check if their children are eligible.\n\nMore than 200 cases of latent TB infection have so far been identified, including a \"small but significant\" number in children. Screening is set to continue into early 2020.\n\nThose being urged to come forward are:\n\nIn Wales, there are about 100 cases a year of tuberculosis - the lowest rate in the UK, according to Public Health Wales\n\nRos Jervis, Hywel Dda University Health Board's director of public health, said it was the \"next step in an ongoing community screening programme\".\n\nShe added: \"We understand this time of year can be extremely busy but please do not let that put you off making inquiries through the dedicated contact line.\n\n\"Our services are working to ensure the screening and after-care for children is as quick and easy as it can be.\"\n\nPublic Health Wales said TB remains rare in Wales and urged people to contact a helpline if they have concerns - 029 2082 7627, before Friday, 13 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Broughton says she loves to rent as she can try new looks\n\nEmily Broughton, 24, a lifestyle blogger and entrepreneur, spends £200 a month on clothing on average, but she now spends part of that budget on renting clothes.\n\n\"I love to rent because you can get such amazing high quality items and try new looks,\" she says.\n\nOnce a regular High Street shopper, buying lots of cheap outfits, she now prefers to buy either second-hand designer clothes from vintage stores and charity shops, or to rent fashion from a range of platforms such as By Rotation, Hirestreet and My Wardrobe HQ.\n\n\"A few years ago I'd be going round to my friends' houses and sharing clothes with them from their wardrobes, and rental is opening that up,\" says Ms Broughton, whose blog Saving the Grace focuses on sustainable living.\n\nNot all the outfits are expensive - she says she has rented clothes for as little as £10 for three days and typically rents one item of clothing a month.\n\nShoppers like Ms Broughton, could help drive a shift in how we shop, claims retail veteran Jane Shepherdson.\n\nShe's the new chairman of a high-end fashion rental start-up called My Wardrobe HQ, which is hoping to make renting clothes rather than buying them popular in the UK.\n\nMs Shepherdson, who has spent 35 years in the industry and is credited with building Topshop into a global brand, sees renting designer clothes as an opportunity for people to be able to wear beautiful clothing, shoes and accessories that they wouldn't typically be able to afford.\n\nFor example, she envisages women renting a dress or a fancy pair of Jimmy Choo shoes for £60 to wear to a wedding or fancy function, rather than buying them for several hundred pounds. But she also sees the service as a way for people who have bought expensive garments to earn some money by hiring them out several times in a season.\n\n\"Anything we can do to slow down the mass purchasing of clothes and share each piece a little bit more, the better. It's kind of trying to reward a more conscientious way of purchasing,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't think it's going to solve the fast fashion problem immediately. What I hope is that in the longer term it will start to change people's behaviour slowly.\"\n\nJane Shepherdson is credited with building Topshop into a global brand\n\nIt's a potentially lucrative sector. US rival Rent the Runway, which claims to have pioneered the fashion rental concept in 2009, was recently valued at $1bn (£770m). It has a subscriber base of about 100,000 people who pay a subscription fee of $160 a month for unlimited rentals.\n\nHowever, at £60 per dress, handbag or pair of shoes from My Wardrobe HQ, you'd still need to have a reasonable amount of disposable income in order to be able to afford such a lifestyle. It therefore seems unlikely that renting clothes at this level would appeal to Generation Z and younger millennials who are buying £5 dresses online.\n\nMs Shepherdson acknowledges that it will take a while before the British consumer is ready to spend this much on clothing that they don't get to keep.\n\nThe idea of renting clothing is not new in itself - in the West, men have rented wedding suits for years, while in Southeast Asia many women now rent several wedding gowns for photoshoots and ceremonies.\n\nHowever, it has never really been a particularly popular option for womenswear, as consumers prefer to own garments, whether they be brand new or secondhand.\n\nIs fashion rental only really applicable to people who have a lot of disposable income?\n\nPopular mainstream brands such as American Eagle, Urban Outfitters and Ann Taylor are already offering retail rental services, while in Europe, major fast fashion retailer H&M recently begun a trial of renting out clothes at its flagship store in Stockholm, Sweden.\n\nAccording to retail expert Natalie Berg, the future of retail is for products to become services, because it helps retailers to retain customer loyalty, as well as staying relevant.\n\nShe cites several examples of this, such as Ikea renting out furniture, electronic retailer AO renting out washing machines, and sports brand Adidas asking consumers to bring back old worn-out shoes and then trading up for a newer model.\n\n\"It's about consumers prioritising access over ownership,\" Ms Berg explains.\n\nH&M is also using its clothing rental service to offer a new personal styling service, which serves to tie customers to its brand.\n\nAnd although consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious, Ms Berg doesn't think that fast fashion will ever really go away, because cheap clothes are always in demand.\n\nShe said: \"The reality is that fashion is a remarkably wasteful industry, and I think there's just this growing awareness across demographics that we need to do more as a society to address our culture of waste.\"", "Ellie Goulding has revealed she turned to alcohol after struggling to adjust to life in the spotlight.\n\n\"I had to be a fake person to deal with the surreal situation I was in,\" the pop star said.\n\n\"Usually for me it involved alcohol. I assumed I couldn't be good enough, smart, funny, or crazy enough to be with certain people without it.\"\n\nThe singer made the comments while appearing on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellie Goulding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as admitting to drinking alcohol prior to interviews, the 32-year-old also revealed she turned to booze before appearing on Radio 1's Live Lounge - which is usually recorded in the morning.\n\n\"Live Lounges used to be the most nerve-wracking, I even drank before those.\n\n\"I would say, 'Right, I've got to drink this morning because I've got this interview and I don't really know how to answer the questions, because I don't really know who I am any more.'\n\n\"I thought drinking would at least make me a bit more funny, or interesting,\" Ellie Goulding said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBCRadio1VEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHowever the double BRIT Award winner - who performed at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding reception in 2011 - says she never had an alcohol problem.\n\n\"I wasn't an alcoholic,\" she said. \"I could go months without a drink, too.\"\n\nEllie Goulding released her chart-topping debut album, Lights, in 2010 which was followed by Halcyon in 2012 and Delirium in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, she announced she would be taking a break from music but not quitting permanently.\n\nThe singer also told Fearne Cotton that she'd had therapy to try and deal with anger issues.\n\nShe revealed her marriage to old Etonian Caspar Jopling in August has helped calm her emotions.\n\n\"When I met Caspar, this anger thing just went away.\n\n\"At first it didn't. I did that thing we all do when we first meet someone you really like and you....don't possibly show any of your bad traits.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues in this article there is help via the BBC Advice pages.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Pictures from the Tattoo Malaysia Expo have gone viral online\n\nA Malaysian minister has called a tattoo exhibition \"obscene\" and ordered an investigation after pictures of half-naked men and women went viral.\n\nThe minister for tourism, arts and culture said that while a permit was issued, there was no green light for any form of nudity at the event.\n\nMohammadin Ketapi said the show \"was not Malaysian culture...the majority of Malaysians are Muslim\".\n\nRecently, there has been more debate about Islamic conservatism in Malaysia.\n\nThe Tattoo Malaysia Expo drew participants from some 35 countries and was held over the weekend in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.\n\nThe show has taken place since 2015, but only this year drew criticism from the government, which announced \"firm action\" against the organisers.\n\n\"It is impossible for the ministry to approve of any programme that contains obscenity such as this,\" Mr Ketapi said in a statement.\n\nPictures showed heavily-tattooed participants in semi-nude poses. Malaysian media blurred some of the images.\n\nMr Ketapi said: \"We will wait for the full investigation report and will not hesitate to take legal action if they are found to have been in violation of set conditions.\"\n\nAround 60% of Malaysia's 32 million people are Muslim, and critics say the country has been moving towards more religious conservatism.\n\nA religious court this year sentenced five men to jail, caning and fines for attempting gay sex.\n\nIn 2018, two women were caned for lesbian sex in the conservative state of Terengganu.", "Jo Swinson has been campaigning at a farm near Chelmsford this afternoon Image caption: Jo Swinson has been campaigning at a farm near Chelmsford this afternoon\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson confirms a member of the party’s staff has been suspended for allegedly “faking” an email.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to an arable farm near Chelmsford, Essex, Ms Swinson says the incident was “completely unacceptable” and an investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Guardian reports an unnamed person was suspended for forging an email to back up a legal threat against the media platform, Open Democracy.\n\nMs Swinson does not confirm the identity of the staff member but says: “There was an email that was sent which was inaccurate, which was faked. That’s not acceptable, there’s an investigation, the member of staff has been suspended and I’m not going to comment further on staffing matters.”\n\nShe says the action was \"unacceptable... and it’s right that we have taken that action\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have been accused of distributing misleading information during this campaign - read our Reality Check piece about some of the accusations.\n\nMs Swinson says: “Obviously we communicate with people across the country through our 'focus' newsletters, through newspapers that we put out, through letters that we send to people, through a wide variety of campaigning methods and that is common not just for Liberal Democrats.\n\n“That is what other parties do as well so I'm not going to apologise for communicating with the electorate\"", "The First Lady Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe elaborate decorations were put on display with the help of over 100 volunteers and include displays made from gingerbread.", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "Ofcom has decided not to investigate a Conservative Party impartiality complaint about a Channel 4 special.\n\nThe party complained ahead of the Climate Debate on 28 November about C4's intention to \"empty chair\" the Conservatives with an ice sculpture.\n\nIt criticised the channel's refusal to accept Cabinet Minister Michael Gove as the Tory representative if the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, didn't attend.\n\nBut Ofcom concluded the Conservative viewpoint had been given due weight.\n\nThe one-hour programme went on to \"empty chair\" both Mr Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who was also replaced with an ice sculpture.\n\nMichael Gove appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show last month\n\nIn a statement, the media watchdog said: \"Ofcom's election committee concluded that, across the one-hour debate and a subsequent news programme, Channel 4's use of editorial techniques ensured that the Conservative's viewpoint on climate and environmental issues was adequately reflected and given due weight.\"\n\nThe Conservative complaint had described the use of the ice sculpture to replace Mr Johnson as \"a provocative partisan stunt\".\n\nBut Ofcom said: \"The committee also took into account that the globe ice sculpture was not a representation of the Prime Minister personally, and little editorial focus was given to it, either visually or in references made by the presenter or debate participants.\"\n\nChannel 4 told Ofcom the programme was intended to be a party leaders' debate from the outset.\n\nIt added that the leaders of the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the co-leader of the Green Party, all agreed to participate in the programme on the understanding it was a leaders' debate.\n\nChannel 4 said Mr Gove arrived unannounced at the ITN building ahead of the debate and requested the channel ask the other party leaders in attendance if they would agree to him participating instead of Mr Johnson.\n\nChannel 4 said it did so but they declined.\n\nBroadcasters have editorial freedom in determining the format of any election debate. Depending on the circumstances, they may choose to proceed without having agreed the participation of a particular political party or politician, providing they take steps to ensure the programme complies with Ofcom's due impartiality and election rules.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School said \"accusations of coercion\" against it were \"entirely false\"\n\nTwo Orthodox Jewish secondary schools in London have been accused of pressurising parents into taking their children out of sex education lessons.\n\nThe BBC has seen an email and heard a recording of the state-funded schools explaining how to withdraw pupils from mandatory relationships and sex education classes, which begin in 2020.\n\nOne school referred to a wish to stop the teaching of LGBT issues.\n\nBut it said \"accusations of coercion\" were \"entirely false\".\n\nThe email, sent to the Victoria Derbyshire programme by a mother who wished to remain anonymous, shows her daughters' school - Lubavitch Senior Girls' School in north London - asking parents to \"prevent\" relationships and sex education (RSE) classes.\n\n\"The problem is the government is making the subject mandatory in September 2020. However, parents have the right to opt out,\" it reads.\n\n\"Please exercise your right to prevent it being taught by responding to this email and saying that you do not wish your daughters to receive lessons in RSE.\"\n\nThe woman told the BBC she was \"disgusted\".\n\n\"I thought that my kids' school was pretty open as Orthodox schools go,\" she added.\n\nThe email was sent to parents of children attending Lubavitch Senior Girls' School\n\nParents across England will have the right to withdraw their children from the sex education element of the secondary school lessons, but that decision should not be influenced by pressure from a school.\n\nPupils cannot be withdrawn from relationships lessons.\n\nIn primary schools, only Relationships Education (RE) is to be taught.\n\nThe mother believes the email was \"designed to put a stop to RSE being taught\" as a whole at the school, including the teaching of LGBT issues.\n\n\"The fact that people with different sexualities exist in the world is something that they don't want to expose their children to. I don't think they want to expose them to the concept of sex,\" she said.\n\nLubavitch Senior Girls' School told the BBC that if the parent concerned lodged her complaint according to its complaints policy, then it would be fully investigated. But she said she was too scared to do that.\n\nThe programme also obtained a recording from a different woman, after she was contacted by her child's state-funded school.\n\nIn the phone conversation, the staff member can be heard telling her: \"We need parents to formally say, 'I do not want you to teach my child about single-gender relationships or sex education within the school', unless you do as a parent want that.\"\n\nThe mother - who did not wish to be identified - was asked to write a letter confirming this, which she said she did as she was \"too scared\" not to.\n\n\"Even though I thought it was imperative for my children to be given sex education, I felt I had to write it because I didn't want the school to think I don't agree with them on this.\"\n\nShe said she feared that within the community she'd \"be thought of as not Jewish or completely weird, and I know I'd be alienated or ostracised.\n\n\"The truth is our children need sex education more than any other child in the country because our community is so insular,\" she added.\n\nThe school, Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, said in a statement: \"The vast majority of our families expect sex education to be given privately, within the family, at home. They do not expect their children to be given sex education in a school classroom.\n\n\"It is therefore very important that we let parents know that their child will be given sex education at school - unless they opt out.\"\n\nIt added it was merely giving parents information on how to withdraw pupils were it their choice, adding: \"Accusations of coercion against our school are entirely false.\"\n\nOne woman, now in her 20s, who attended Yesodey Hatorah, said textbooks had been redacted when she was a pupil, with words \"blacked out\".\n\n\"In science, we didn't learn about evolution, we didn't learn about reproduction, we didn't learn anything regarding sex ed at all.\"\n\nShe was taught about sex only weeks before her wedding at age 19, by a woman sent to give her bridal lessons.\n\nShe eventually fled before the marriage and left the community.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' Layla Moran said the schools were running \"counter to the spirit of the Equality Act\"\n\nLayla Moran, the Liberal Democrats' education spokesperson, called for the Department for Education to \"have its own investigation into these schools\".\n\n\"They clearly don't want to teach these subjects. That is counter to the guidelines, but it is also counter to the spirit of the Equality Act which is the very same act that protects religious freedoms,\" she added.\n\nMs Moran said that if further investigations did find either state-funded school to be refusing to teach the national curriculum or \"unduly influencing its own parental community\", it would need to be \"seriously looked at\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Les Rutherford escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door\n\nA veteran who escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door has died at the age of 101.\n\nLes Rutherford became trapped while fighting a rear-guard action during the evacuation of the port.\n\nHe and a fellow soldier used the door, which had been blown off a shed, to escape out to sea, where they were picked up by a French trawler.\n\nTributes paid to Mr Rutherford described him as \"a wonderful man who will be sorely missed\".\n\nTalking previously about his exploits in Dunkirk, Mr Rutherford said: \"The place was being bombed to bits.\n\n\"There was absolutely no hope, so another chap and I decided to take this big door which had been blown off a shed and we put out to sea.\"\n\nAfter being picked up, he said he was given a glass of rum and returned to England wearing only a blanket and socks.\n\nHe later joined Bomber Command and served as a bomb aimer in the RAF.\n\nHis role was to lie flat in the nose of the aircraft, directing the pilot during a bombing-run as the bombs were released.\n\nLes Rutherford in a Lancaster bomber on his 90th birthday\n\nMr Rutherford, who was based at RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire, served with Bomber Command\n\nDuring a raid over Germany in December 1943, Mr Rutherford was shot down and captured.\n\nHe was taken to Stalag Luft III shortly before the Great Escape took place in March 1944, although he was not part of it.\n\nWhilst there, he exchanged chocolate for a notebook which he used to record life in the camp.\n\nOne of the images in his notebook depicted the Great Escape\n\nAnother showed the withdrawal of troops from Stalag Luft III in 1945 in response to the Russian advance\n\nAt the end of the war he was repatriated to the UK.\n\nPaying tribute, a spokesperson for the International Bomber Command Centre, said: \"If ever a man served his country to the highest standards it was Les.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Kenyan fisherman has been airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.\n\nVincent Musila had gone fishing at a river near Thika town in central Kenya when it burst its banks.\n\nCrowds watched helplessly for three days as they waited for emergency services to rescue him.\n\nWhy the floods in East Africa are so bad", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lil Thomas and Amy Winifred Hawkin - are they Wales' oldest sisters?\n\nShe may be turning 100 years old - but Lil Thomas is still the youngster when it comes to her sister.\n\nLil, of Newport, has just become a centenarian, following in the footsteps of her 108-year-old sister, Amy Winifred Hawkin.\n\nWith a combined age of 208, they are thought to be among the oldest living sisters in Wales.\n\nBetween them, they have received six birthday cards from the Queen.\n\nBoth sisters have received one to mark their 100th, while Amy - known as Win - was also sent a card when she turned 105 and has had one every year since.\n\nBorn a year after the end of World War One, Lil was Wales' first female bus conductor in World War Two between her career as an entertainer.\n\nHaving grown up in the Pillgwenlly area of the city, she was a natural performer.\n\n\"I was fortunate to have a pitch perfect voice at the age of two,\" she said.\n\n\"It was like Katherine Jenkins - but just not trained.\"\n\nLil (second from right) during her days as a performer\n\nIt was little surprise that she was soon a regular on the stage of Newport's Empire Theatre, singing, tap dancing and playing the accordion while her older sister was part of a dance troupe and known as \"the highest kicker in Wales\".\n\nWith the outbreak of war in 1939, Lil volunteered to be a bus conductor.\n\n\"Conductresses were needed during the war because of the black out and there were a lot of Irish boys working here who didn't know where they were going,\" said Lil.\n\n\"We had a small lamp on our front which was the only light inside the bus.\n\n\"It was so dark that you had to call out every stop, whether you could see it or not.\n\n\"But we used to have a laugh on the last bus, singing songs with the boys on their way home from the pub.\"\n\nThe couple lived in South Africa for 23 years\n\nAfter the war, Lil married and moved with her husband Donald, a deputy post master, to South Africa.\n\nHowever the couple still loved entertaining and travelled the country performing for charities.\n\n\"We travelled from Durban to Johannesburg playing in church and town halls for the elderly who could barely afford to live,\" she recalled.\n\n\"My husband played the piano and could sit from 7 o'clock and not play the same song twice all night.\"\n\nLil said it was vital to 'keep your sense of humour'\n\nLil continued to sing until she was 93\n\nThe couple returned and a three-month caretaker job in charge of the Bridge Inn in Llangwm, near Usk, Monmouthshire, turned into a 12-year stay.\n\nShe said she was the only publican in the area who would welcome blind people, as others turned them away as they believed visually impaired people would spill their drinks.\n\nIt was only when she was well into her 90s that Lil stopped singing but, now living in a care home in Bettws, she still loves to dance.\n\nLongevity is clearly in the blood with her sister, who goes by her middle name Win, thought to be one of the oldest living Welsh people.\n\nBut what is Lil's best advice, after a century?\n\n\"Never lose your sense of humour because if you can't laugh, especially at yourself, you will never get through it all.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Win will turn 109 in January, when she can expect her sixth letter from the Queen.\n\n\"I got a stack of them there, a boxful!\" she added, saying it was \"great\" the sisters could still celebrate birthdays together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ITV's Philip Schofield asked Jeremy Corbyn several times on This Morning whether he would apologise or not\n\nJeremy Corbyn has apologised again for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nThe party leader said sorry twice in 2018, but was criticised for refusing to do so four times in a recent interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.\n\nAsked repeatedly on ITV's This Morning by Phillip Schofield to apologise, Mr Corbyn said: \"Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened.\"\n\nLabour has been dealing with the row over the extent of anti-Semitism within the party for more than three years.\n\nIt was reignited during the election campaign after the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, claimed \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - had taken root\" in Labour.\n\nIn response, Mr Corbyn said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\" and would not be tolerated in any form under a future Labour government.\n\nHe said internal processes for dealing with anti-Semitism cases were \"constantly under review\" and his door would be open to Rabbi Mirvis and other faith leaders to discuss their concerns if he entered Downing Street.\n\nIn the interview on the mid-morning programme, Schofield said: \"Here is your opportunity now to apologise to the Jewish community for any anti-Semitism by Labour members\".\n\nMr Corbyn began to answer, saying, \"can I make it clear...\", but was interrupted by the presenter who said, \"no, just say sorry\".\n\nThe Labour leader replied: \"Our party and me do not accept anti-Semitism in any form. Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened, but I want to make this clear - I am dealing with it, I have dealt with it.\n\n\"Other parties are also affected by anti-Semitism. Candidates have been withdrawn by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, and by us, because of it. We just do not accept it in any form whatsoever.\"", "Sixteen men have been sentenced for their roles in a \"terrifying\" street brawl after an England World Cup match.\n\nThe fight broke out in Park Street, Bristol on 24 June last year, after the Three Lions beat Panama.\n\nTables and signs were thrown, with several men injured, including one who suffered a broken leg.\n\nAfter the 16 men were sentenced for affray Avon and Somerset Police said: \"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThirteen of the men were jailed, with three receiving suspended sentences.\n\nThe brawl was witnessed by families with children, with one bystander describing it as a \"vicious attack\".\n\n\"[I] found it distressing to watch that level of violence in real life, watching people get hurt and bleeding in the street,\" they said.\n\n\"What I was seeing really disturbed me. I felt terrified.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver the past week, the defendants have all been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nSupt Rhys Hughes said: \"This incident of violent disorder was quickly brought under control on the arrival of police officers.\n\n\"However, those few minutes were enough to put many of those enjoying a Sunday afternoon in the city in fear of being injured.\n\n\"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lawyers for British diver Vern Unsworth (L) said Mr Musk's tweets were \"vile and false\"\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk is due to take the stand in a Los Angeles court and face the British diving specialist he accused of being a paedophile.\n\nVern Unsworth was among the team credited with co-ordinating the July 2018 rescue of 12 boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.\n\nMr Musk, in a now-deleted tweet, described Mr Unsworth as a “pedo guy”.\n\nThe entrepreneur gave no evidence to support the comment. He is being sued for defamation.\n\nLawyers representing Mr Unsworth have described Mr Musk’s tweets as “vile and false”. The British diver is seeking punitive and compensatory damages.\n\nThe outburst last year appeared to be in response to comments made by Mr Unsworth in an interview on CNN, in which he criticised Mr Musk’s decision to send a purpose-built mini-submarine to the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai Province to help with rescue efforts.\n\nMr Unsworth described it as a “PR stunt”, later adding that Mr Musk could \"stick his submarine where it hurts”.\n\nTaking to Twitter, Mr Musk said: \"Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the allegation by other Twitter users, Mr Musk replied with “bet ya a signed dollar it's true”. That tweet was also later deleted.\n\nAfter Tesla’s stock price dipped by as much as 4%, Mr Musk sent a tweet expressing an apology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\n“His actions against me do not justify my actions against him,” he wrote, explaining that his comments were \"spoken in anger after Mr Unsworth said several untruths and suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness and according to specifications from the dive team leader”.\n\nHowever, Mr Musk went on to repeat the claim in an email exchange after being contacted by Buzzfeed reporter Ryan Mac.\n\n“Stop defending child rapists,” Mr Musk wrote to the reporter. He had apparently intended the comments to be off the record but did not agree that with Mr Mac prior to emailing his response.\n\nMr Unsworth is seeking damages for the content of the tweets only, not the email exchange - though Los Angeles District Judge Stephen Wilson said it could be used to illustrate Mr Musk’s state of mind when sending the scrutinised tweets.\n\nMr Musk’s legal team insisted he would not be seeking an out-of-court settlement. Instead, he will argue that “pedo guy” was not an insult suggesting Mr Unsworth was a paedophile.\n\n“Pedo guy was a common insult used in South Africa when I was growing up,” Mr Musk said in a court filing as part of a failed request to have the case thrown out of court. \"It is synonymous with ‘creepy old man’ and is used to insult a person’s appearance and demeanour, not accuse a person of paedophilia.”\n\nDiver Vern Unsworth (R) helped bring top international cave rescuers to the mission, including Rob Harper (C)\n\nMr Unsworth’s legal team referred to the explanation as “offensive to the truth”.\n\nAs well as agreeing to hear the case, Judge Wilson denied the defence’s request to define Mr Unsworth as a “public figure” - meaning lawyers for Mr Unsworth do not have to prove Mr Musk acted with \"actual malice\", lowering the bar necessary to win the case.\n\nJury selection is due to begin on Tuesday at 09:30 local time (17:30 GMT), with the first witnesses - Mr Musk among them - likely to be called later on Tuesday.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The warming experienced over the past decade is taking its toll on the natural world\n\nScientists say that average temperatures from 2010-2019 look set to make it the warmest decade on record.\n\nProvisional figures released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever.\n\nIf those numbers hold, 2015-2019 would end up being the warmest five-year period in the record.\n\nThis \"exceptional\" global heat is driven by greenhouse gas emissions, the WMO says.\n\nThe organisation's State of the Global Climate report for 2019 covers the year up to October, when the global mean temperature for the period was 1.1 degrees C above the \"baseline\" level in 1850.\n\nMany parts of the world experienced unusual levels of warmth this year. South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania were warmer than the recent average, while many parts of North America were colder than usual.\n\nThe impacts of climate change play out through extreme and \"abnormal\" weather\n\nTwo major heat waves hit Europe in June and July this year, with a new national record of 46C set in France on 28 June.\n\nNew national records were also set in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the UK. In Australia, the mean summer temperature was the highest on record by almost a degree.\n\nWildfire activity in South America this year was the highest since 2010.\n\nThe WMO clearly links the record temperatures seen over the past decade to ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases, from human activities such as driving cars, cutting down forests and burning coal for energy.\n\nIn 2018, concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs.\n\nThe WMO says the warming experienced over the past decade is taking its toll on the natural world. The ice is melting at both poles and sea level rise has accelerated since the start of satellite measurements in 1993.\n\nMuch of the heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions is going into the oceans, says the WMO. The waters are more acidic as a result and marine heat waves are becoming more common.\n\nAs well as hurting nature, the increased heat is also affecting humans, with heat waves posing a particular risk to the elderly.\n\nOnce in a century events are becoming more common, says the WMO's secretary-general\n\n\"On a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and 'abnormal' weather. And, once again in 2019, weather and climate-related risks hit hard,\" said the WMO's secretary-general Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"Heat waves and floods which used to be 'once in a century' events are becoming more regular occurrences. Countries ranging from the Bahamas to Japan to Mozambique suffered the effect of devastating tropical cyclones. Wildfires swept through the Arctic and Australia,\" Mr Taalas continued.\n\nSince the 1980s, every successive decade has been warmer than the one that preceded it.\n\nOther scientists reacted to the release of the report with concern.\n\n\"It's shocking how much climate change in 2019 has already led to lives lost, poor health, food insecurity and displaced populations,\" said Dr Joanna House, from the University of Bristol.\n\n\"Even as a climate scientist who knows the evidence and the projections, I find this deeply upsetting. What is more shocking is how long very little has been done about this. We have the information, the solutions, what we need now is urgent action.\"\n\nThe report has been released at global climate talks taking place in Madrid. Negotiators here have started two weeks of talks aimed at improving the world's pledges to cut carbon.\n\nSome of those attending the meeting say the WMO report would help concentrate minds on dealing with the root causes of climate change.\n\n\"Now we know that global temperatures are rising to record levels and without action we can expect more climate suffering. It's vital we phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible,\" said Dr Kat Kramer from Christian Aid.\n\n\"The good news is this is a timely wake-up call at the start of the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. Delegates have no excuse to block progress or drag their feet when the science is showing how urgently action is needed.\"", "Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has confirmed a member of her party's staff has been suspended for \"faking\" an email.\n\nThe email was reportedly sent as part of a legal fight between the Lib Dems and news site Open Democracy.\n\nMs Swinson said the \"unacceptable\" incident had led to \"swift action\".\n\nThe row between the Lib Dems and Open Democracy relates to a story about the party selling personal data - something the party denies.\n\nThe Lib Dems accused the website of not including a response from the party in its story.\n\nThe website insists one of its journalists had contacted the Lib Dems for a response ahead of publication, but the party had not replied.\n\nAccording to Open Democracy's editor, the party then produced a copy of an email, through its lawyers, to back up its claim that it had sent a response.\n\nBut the email was dated 18 hours before Open Democracy had asked for a response, suggesting it was a fake.\n\nMs Swinson did not confirm the identity of the person involved.\n\nBut she said: \"As has been reported, there was an email that was sent which was inaccurate, which was faked.\n\n\"That's not acceptable, there is an investigation, the member of staff has been suspended and I'm not going to comment further on staffing matters.\"\n\nOpen Democracy reported that it had seen evidence held by the UK's privacy watchdog about the alleged sale of data by the party to Britain Stronger in Europe, the official Remain campaign in the EU referendum.\n\nIn a 2018 report, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had \"obtained information\" to show that the personal data was sold by the Lib Dems to the Remain campaign for £100,000.\n\nThe ICO said the Lib Dems and the campaign group denied that party members' data had been sold.\n\nBoth insisted that Britain Stronger in Europe had bought information on the official electoral register from the Lib Dems, the ICO said.\n\nA Lib Dem spokesman said: \"The Liberal Democrats refute allegations made in Open Democracy's piece of 13 November.\n\n\"However, we have been made aware that the information Open Democracy subsequently received from the Liberal Democrats was incorrect.\n\n\"We have suspended a member of staff involved and are following due process.\"", "As first-choice wicketkeeper for England, Geraint Jones was a member of the side which won the Ashes in 2005.\n\nSince retiring in Kent, the county he represented for most of his professional career, he's become a teacher.\n\nHe's also taking on a new challenge - by becoming a retained firefighter at his local station in Sandwich, Kent.", "Essex Police urged the public not to speculate on the circumstances of the crash\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 12-year-old boy who died in a hit-and-run outside a school.\n\nThe 51-year-old was also detained on suspicion of the attempted murder of four other teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nIt happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nEssex Police said officers were looking for a silver Ford KA that was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nIt is understood that all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nFlowers have been laid outside the school\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected.\n\n\"The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described the boy's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh said the dead boy had been \"liked and loved by staff and pupils\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock\", \"battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a bit scary, very scary for him.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could, it was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nThere is likely to be a \"prolonged investigation\", police said\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby described the crash as \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dashcam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he said.\n\nWillingale Road, where the crash happened, cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and remains cordoned off.\n\nPupils arriving to school this morning knew today was not going to be an ordinary day.\n\nMany of them may have witnessed some of the events that unfolded on Willingale Road as they left school last night, many more who may not have seen it firsthand will probably have seen reports on social media.\n\nThe school has decided to open in order that pupils can come in, can be with their friends, fellow pupils and teachers and can receive counselling if they want or need it.\n\nA number of students have laid floral tributes, some with cards and messages for the family.\n\nChris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said any parent who had heard about the crash would have been \"devastated and shocked\".\n\nSixth-form student Scarlett Bearman, 17, said exams had been cancelled for the day and counselling was being provided to pupils.\n\nShe said: \"From my point of view the school has handled it extremely well. I expect the mood there to be quite low today.\"\n\nDebden Park High School will open on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liam Whoriskey had been initially charged with murder: Mid-trial the charge was amended to manslaughter\n\nA man found guilty of killing of a three-year-old boy in Londonderry is to appeal against his conviction.\n\nKayden McGuinness was found dead in his bed in his family flat at Colmcille Court in the Bogside in Derry in September 2017.\n\nLiam Whoriskey, 25, from Glenabbey Gardens in the city, was convicted of his manslaughter and on Monday was jailed for 15 years.\n\nWhoriskey has instructed his lawyers to lodge appeal papers at the High Court.\n\nKayden was described as a \"happy, smiling and much-loved child\"\n\nWhoriskey, who had denied killing the toddler, is due to serve half of his sentence in prison and the other half on licence.\n\nHe was also found guilty of one charge of child cruelty.\n\nDuring the trial the court was told a post-mortem examination carried out after Kayden's death in September 2017 revealed he had sustained multiple injuries and bruising.\n\nThere were at least 15 non-accidental bruises to his scalp, the examination found.", "Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living\n\nApple, Google, Tesla and Microsoft are among firms named in a lawsuit seeking damages over deaths and injuries of child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe case has been filed by the International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 Congolese families.\n\nThey accuse the companies of knowing that cobalt used in their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nDR Congo produces 60% of the world's supply of cobalt.\n\nThe mineral is used to produce lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars, laptops and smartphones.\n\nHowever, the extraction process has been beset with concerns of illegal mining, human rights abuses and corruption.\n\nThe lawsuit filed in the US argues that the tech companies had \"specific knowledge\" that the cobalt sourced for their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nThey say the companies failed to regulate their supply chains and instead profited from exploitation.\n\nDR Congo produces more than 60% of the world's cobalt\n\nOther companies listed in the lawsuit are computer manufacturer Dell and two mining companies, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Glencore, who own the minefields where the Congolese families allege their children worked.\n\nGlencore said in a statement to the UK's Telegraph newspaper that it \"does not purchase, process or trade any artisanally mined ore\" adding that it also \"does not tolerate any form of child, forced, or compulsory labour.\"\n\nThe BBC has sought comment from Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are people in mineral-rich DR Congo among the world's poorest?\n\nThe court papers, seen by the UK's Guardian newspaper, give several examples of child miners buried alive or suffering from injuries after tunnel collapse.\n\nThe 14 Congolese families want the companies to compensate them for forced labour, emotional distress and negligent supervision.\n\nIn a response to the Telegraph, Microsoft said it was committed to responsible sourcing of minerals and that it investigates any violations by its suppliers and takes action.\n\nA spokesperson for Google told the BBC that the company was \"committed to sourcing all materials ethically and eliminating child mining in global supply chains\".\n\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company was \"deeply committed to the responsible sourcing of materials\" and \"if a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. We've removed six cobalt refiners in 2019\".\n\nThe BBC has also sought comment from Tesla.\n\nUpdate 18 December: This article has been amended to include the comments from Google and Apple.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nora Quoirin's parents speak publicly for the first time since her death\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died on a family holiday in Malaysia believe there was a \"criminal element\" involved in her disappearance and death.\n\nNora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from her accommodation, 10 days after she disappeared in August.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the 15-year-old died from internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress.\n\nHer parents told RTÉ that they are determined to get the truth.\n\nIn an interview with the Irish broadcaster, Meabh and Sebastian Quoirin said that many serious questions still remain about Nora's disappearance.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents said that they will push for an inquest and to find some answers\n\nMeabh said that it would have been \"impossible physically, mentally to imagine that she [Nora] could have got any distance at all\".\n\n\"She never even walked as far as our neighbours' front door by herself,\" she added.\n\n\"For us something very complex happened. We have insisted from the beginning that we believe there was a criminal element to what happened.\"\n\nSebastien said then when they could not find Nora in the vicinity of the hotel they realised something serious had happened.\n\n\"To think that Nora might get up in the middle of the night, naked, barefoot, get out of the bungalow into the jungle, bearing in mind the terrain is extremely steep and dangerous, in total darkness, makes absolutely no sense,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"We think it is absurd to think about this possibility.\"\n\nThe Quorins said they do not believe their daughter would have wandered off alone\n\nHer unclothed body was found after a 10-day search in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers.\n\nShe was described by her family as vulnerable having been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nMalaysian Police said there was no suspicion Nora was the victim of foul play.\n\nThe Quoirins said they are still waiting on the full post mortem results from Malaysia.\n\nAnother post-mortem examination was carried out in London - they are awaiting the results of it as well.\n\nSebastien said they can get \"some degree of closure\" if they can understand what happened.\n\nMeabh Quoirin said Nora is with them every day\n\n\"We are determined to fight for her rights as a human, as a child with special needs,\" said Meabh.\n\n\"We really believe that if they'd listened to what we were trying to explain, in terms of what Nora was capable of and not capable of, then we might have been able to achieve more while we were still in Malaysia.\n\n\"But with all the right support we will push for an inquest and hope that we can still find some answers.\n\n\"I think we will be living with the horror of what happened in Malaysia for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I think we will seek justice in so far as we can. We have to find peace in our own hearts.\n\n\"We will carry Nora with us forever. She's with us here every day. I talk to her every day. She holds my hand. We hear her, we see her in all that we do at home. We will forever be a family of five.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of Scots seeking work fell by 9,000 to 100,000 between August and October, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless rate now stands at 3.7%, just below the UK figure of 3.8%.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics also showed that the number of Scots in employment fell by 21,000, to 2,648,000.\n\nAt the same time, there was a rise of 30,000 in the number of people counted as unavailable for work, including the ill, students and unpaid carers.\n\nMeanwhile, UK-wide wage growth, excluding bonuses, slowed to 3.5% from 3.6% from July to September.\n\nScotland's Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said the Scottish labour market was resilient, despite uncertainty raised by Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"These statistics indicate that Brexit may be negatively impacting employment in Scotland.\n\n\"However, there are signs of resilience in our labour market and positive results for those out of work.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"It is encouraging that Scotland's unemployment figures have fallen slightly, with the overall UK rate now at its lowest since 1974.\n\n\"However, I remain concerned that employment has also fallen in Scotland.\"\n\nThe job numbers vary from one quarter to another, but the broader picture, by historic standards, is that they look strong.\n\nHowever, they fail to tell us anything about the quality of jobs. There is now some help with that, highlighted in the latest commentary from the Fraser of Allander Institute.\n\nIt reports on new \"exploratory\" statistics which seek to measure the \"good jobs\" market. A good job is one where employees work 48 or fewer hours a week, without wishing to do more hours; the employee has either a permanent contract or a non-permanent contract out of choice; and pay is above two-thirds of median earnings.\n\nOne interesting finding, when the analysis is broken down to council areas, is that the more prosperous parts of Scotland are not the ones with the \"good jobs\". Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, South Ayrshire and Stirling have the lowest proportion of quality jobs.\n\nThe highest ranked include South Lanarkshire, Clackmannanshire, West Dunbartonshire and West Lothian. Why? The Strathclyde University economists say they'll get back to us on that.\n\nMy guess: the higher the share of manufacturing, the higher the share of quality employment. Those with insecure jobs seem more likely to be in cleaning and catering on the urban margins.\n\nGood news, meanwhile, for Scottish earnings. Growth is muted, but survey evidence suggests a turnaround for Scottish pay - growing at a faster rate than earnings across the whole UK.\n\nHowever, that is much clearer at the upper end of the earnings range, so it doesn't look so good for reducing income inequality.", "Elizabeth Steel covered the dog's face face with a taped-on muzzle so it could not bark\n\nA dog owner who gagged her pet with duct tape to go on holiday for the weekend has been banned from keeping animals for 15 years\n\nElizabeth Steel abandoned the Collie cross without adequate food or water after covering its face with a taped-on muzzle so it could not bark.\n\nNeighbours in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, alerted police after hearing the animal whimpering.\n\nSheriff Alistair Watson placed her on supervision for 18 months and also imposed an 80-day tagging order.\n\nHe said: \"Ordinary members of the public would be absolutely shocked about what you did here, and when I heard the circumstances I was disgusted.\"\n\nPolice forced entry to Steel's home after the neighbour spotted the dog, called Rio, through a window.\n\nHe was found to be infested with fleas and suffering from sores and a skin condition, the town's sheriff court heard.\n\nSteel admitted causing unnecessary suffering by taping a muzzle to the dog's face, denying it food, water or a means of escape, and failing to provide adequate care and treatment between 18 and 19 July.\n\nBlaire Ford, prosecuting, said an upstairs neighbour could hear whimpering below and knew Steel had left the day before for a weekend away.\n\nMiss Ford added: \"He looked through the kitchen window and observed the dog locked within the kitchen with a muzzle on, which was wrapped with black tape, and noted that there was no food or water.\"\n\nThe man called the Scottish SPCA, which was unable to respond initially, before contacting police the following day. Officers broke in using a battering ram after seeing Rio lying motionless.\n\nMiss Ford said: \"The dog was alive and had begun to move around and police noted there was no food or water in the dog bowls.\n\n\"The dog was wearing a muzzle wrapped in black tape and had a collar on which was too tight.\"\n\nRio was taken to a vet for treatment, found temporary refuge and has since been re-homed.\n\nSheriff Watson told Steel: \"On reading the terms of the report I am persuaded you are a foolish person who has behaved disgracefully towards the animal, but not with a cruel intention.\n\n\"You are clearly not a suitable person to own or have charge of an animal for the long-term.\n\n\"You and animals will not be coming close for the near future.\"\n\nScottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: \"Whilst we always look for a lifetime ban on keeping animals in cases of neglect like this, we are pleased the accused has received a 15-year ban.\n\n\"We hope Steel will seriously consider her ability to care for any other pets in the future.\"", "Cross-border rail service passengers have criticised its operator over not being able to refill reusable cups.\n\nIrish Rail, which jointly operates the Belfast to Dublin Enterprise service with NI's Translink, said the policy was due to concerns over scalding.\n\nA spokesperson for the service said staff and customer health and safety was a \"top priority\".\n\nThe company is trialling its own reusable cup which is compatible with its on-board catering trolley.\n\nA spokeswoman for Irish Rail told BBC News NI it was a \"bespoke cup that is designed to fit under the spout of the trolley and the lids have been tested for safety purposes\".\n\nShe said there were safety concerns with recyclable cups that customers bring onto the train, as they do not correctly fit underneath the nozzle of the hot drinks machine.\n\nThe company said concerns over the speed of the train was also a concern.\n\nThe story, which was first reported by the Irish Times, has seen Irish Rail's social media inundated with queries about the policy.\n\nIt also applies to Irish Rail inter city trains in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe company stated it was not banning the use of reusable cups customers brought on board, but would not refill them using its own machines.\n\nResponding, Dublin City Council Green Party councillor Hazel Chu said it was a de-facto ban.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hazel Chu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Realistically you're preventing them from using it for the purpose which they brought it on board for which in effect is banning their usage,\" she said.\n\nPreviously, customers said Irish Rail staff had used disposable cups to transfer drinks into a reusable cup.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Isabel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company has also faced criticism on social media for not recycling cups which have been designed for recycling.\n\nAfter saying its cups were 100% recyclable, the company was asked whether it was currently recycling the cups, and stated \"we are ready for when recycling becomes available\".\n\nIt clarified the cups are not currently recyclable in Ireland, but it was \"ready for when they are\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne social media user wrote: \"Recyclable material that cannot be recycled in Ireland, you may as well just make it out of plastic, that's how useful that is.\"\n\nIrish Rail confirmed to BBC News NI the cups are currently put into non-recyclable waste.\n\nThe reusable cup being sold on the Enterprise service costs £2.50/€3.00, which covers the cost of the drink purchased, and allows customers to receive a 10% discount for reusing their cup.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seema Misra is fighting to overturn her conviction.\n\nHundreds of post office workers have won a key victory against the Post Office and the controversial accounting software they were forced to use\n\nIt is the first step towards overturning the convictions of postmasters accused of fraud or theft after using the Horizon IT system.\n\nTheir lawyer said they could \"now walk with their heads held high\" after the ruling which ends years of campaigning.\n\nIt comes after the Post Office had said it would pay £58m to settle claims.\n\nLast week the Post Office had acknowledged problems with the IT system but Monday's judgment has been made as part of a court case launched before that settlement was reached.\n\nIn the case, brought by six lead claimants, the judge looked at allegation that the system contained a large number of software defects, which caused shortfalls with sub-postmasters and postmistresses' accounts.\n\nIn Monday's High Court judgment, Mr Justice Fraser said the Horizon IT system was not \"remotely robust\" and even when improved it had a significant number of bugs.\n\nHe said there was a \"material risk\" that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by the system.\n\nThe Post Office workers blame the system for creating big shortfalls in their accounts, discrepancies which led to some being made bankrupt and others prosecuted and sent to prison.\n\nHomes, businesses and reputations have been lost, as well as years spent in prison.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high,\" said James Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm\n\nAmong those involved in the case is Seema Misra, who was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010.\n\nShe was accused of theft after using the Post Office Horizon IT system, which is provided by Fujitsu.\n\nSeema became a sub-postmistress in West Byfleet in Surrey in June 2005 and was suspended in January 2008 after an audit found a discrepancy of £74,000 in her accounts.\n\nShe had been feeding at least £100 per day from her shop into the Post Office tills, because of discrepancies in balancing the accounts. One day there was a £10,000 hole.\n\nRubbina Shaheen hopes her conviction will be overturned\n\nThis went on for two years, she said, with very little support from the Post Office.\n\n\"If I hadn't had been pregnant, I definitely would have killed myself,\" she said. \"It was the worst thing. It was so shameful.\"\n\nShe is now focused on trying to get her conviction overturned.\n\nAnother worker, Rubbina Shaheen is also among those fighting to clear her name. She ran the Greenfields post office in Shrewsbury and was convicted and jailed in 2010 and while she is not one of the 557 Post Office claimants, but is now hoping her conviction will be overturned.\n\nThe 400-page judgment comes after the Post Office had agreed a payout with 557 claimants after a long-running dispute over the system.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriages for justice, is looking into more than 30 criminal convictions of former sub-postmasters.\n\nJames Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm which represented the claimants, said: \"This judgment is vindication for the claimant group of postmasters - they have finally been proved to have been right all along when they have said that the Horizon system was a possible cause of shortfalls in their branch accounts.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high after all these years.\n\n\"This judgment, together with the settlement reached last week, are important stepping stones to achieving much-needed closure for these postmasters.\n\n\"They can now start to move on with their lives.\"\n\nMr Justice Fraser said he would refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions after evidence given by employees of Fujitsu, which developed and maintained the Horizon system, in previous court cases.\n\nHe said: \"Based on the knowledge that I have gained, I have very grave concerns regarding veracity of evidence given by Fujitsu employees to other courts in previous proceedings about the known existence of bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon system.\"\n\nPost Office Chairman, Tim Parker, said the judgment acknowledged that the current Horizon system was robust and related to previous version of the systems.\n\n\"In reaching last week's settlement with the claimants, we accepted our past shortcomings and I, both personally and on behalf of the Post Office, sincerely apologised to those affected when we got things wrong.\n\nWe have given a commitment to learning lessons from these events, and today's judgment underlines the need to do so.\"\n\n\"Importantly, our new chief executive [Nick Read] has made clear the need to reset our relationship with postmasters and started the process to build a much better relationship with them.\"", "Campaigners have criticised prosecutors over the failure to charge many rape cases\n\nRape prosecutions are being delayed for years in a justice system close to \"breaking point\", says a report into record-low conviction rates.\n\nA \"damning\" number of cases are lost amid \"under-resourced\" investigations, the prosecution inspectorate said.\n\nThe government said the findings were \"deeply concerning\". Women's groups said the review failed to explain \"woeful\" conviction rates.\n\nBut the report rejected claims that prosecutors only charge \"easy\" cases.\n\nBut Sarah Green, a campaigner from End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was increasingly risk-averse and its handling of cases was causing unnecessary delays.\n\nShe highlighted a recent rape case in Liverpool case where the CPS delayed a prosecution for more than six month while they requested a victim's school records.\n\n\"They asked for those school records in a case where a woman was unconscious when she was raped, when there was a recording of part of the rape by her friends and where there was forensic evidence. And there was indeed a conviction,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe presiding judge on the case expressed concern about the amount of time between the attack and charges being laid, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nThe report, published by HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate, found an average of 237 days elapsed between the first report of an offence to police and the police's first submission of the file to the CPS.\n\nIncomplete police files caused further delays and the CPS is currently not meeting its own time targets to make decisions, the Inspectorate said.\n\nFigures published earlier this year showed there were a record 58,657 allegations of rape in the year up to March, but only 1,925 successful prosecutions.\n\nIt is the lowest number in England and Wales since records began in 2008.\n\nBut the report said fewer rape cases are being referred by police to prosecutors - a fall of 23%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Annie Tisshaw spoke about her experience earlier this year\n\nSeveral women who say they were raped have waived their anonymity to complain about the charging decisions made by crown prosecutors.\n\nAnnie Tisshaw told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the police investigation into her case took many months and, after being passed to the CPS, requests for further evidence led to it being dropped altogether.\n\nThe former North West chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said it seemed as though Ms Tisshaw was the subject of the investigation rather than the alleged perpetrator.\n\n\"Resources are really, really poor. We are at breaking point,\" he added.\n\n\"We're beyond breaking point, actually, I think. We've got to the stage where cases are not being prosecuted with any speed.\"\n\nPolice and prosecutors were criticised over their handling of a case in 2017 when a student was acquitted on 12 counts of rape and sexual assault because text messages which undermined the complainant had not been disclosed.\n\nThe inspectors said cases have become more complex due to the volume of evidence from mobile phones and social media, placing more pressure on an overstretched system.\n\nChief inspector Kevin McGinty said the justice system as a whole is \"under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point\". For police, he said \"it may have gone beyond that\" and \"the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning\".\n\nTo address claims that the CPS was being too selective about the cases it prosecutes, inspectors examined a sample 250 cases.\n\nIn five of these (2%), the decision was found to be \"wholly unreasonable\". In 2016, the inspectors found that applied to 10% of decisions.\n\nThe inspectors said that this suggested prosecutors were improving the way they apply the test for charging or releasing suspects, rather than selecting \"easy cases\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the findings were \"deeply concerning\" and that \"victims deserve to know they will be supported\".\n\nThe government has promised more police officers, an extra £85m for the Crown Prosecution Service and longer prison sentences for sex offenders.\n\n\"Clearly there is more to do, but this government is committed to restoring confidence in the justice system and providing better support for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said investigators were \"under huge strain\" and rape is \"one of the most complex crimes\" they deal with.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, the NPCC lead for adult sexual offences and rape, said police were working with prosecutors to address these issues, while the government's promised 20,000 additional police officers would \"ease the pressure\".\n\nAnd crown chief prosecutor Siobhan Blake, a CPS lead for sexual offences, told the BBC that the report demonstrates there is \"no evidence that prosecutors are risk averse or that we at the CPS are choosing to prosecute easy cases\".\n\nSome women's campaigners disagree. Sarah Green said the report was \"profoundly disappointing\" and failed to uncover the real reasons for the decline in successful prosecutions.\n\nThe report left \"many questions at the police front door\" she said.\n\nIn particular she pointed to the number of cases which the CPS had decided to prosecute, which had declined faster than the number of cases referred by police to prosecutors.", "AC Milan say they \"strongly disagree\" with and were not consulted about the use of monkeys in artwork for a Serie A anti-racism campaign.\n\nThe 'No To Racism' posters show three monkeys with painted faces.\n\nIt comes less than three weeks after clubs pledged to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\".\n\n\"Art can be powerful, but we strongly disagree with the use of monkeys as images in the fight against racism,\" said an AC Milan statement.\n\nThe club added they were \"surprised by the total lack of consultation\" over the artwork, which will be displayed at Serie A headquarters in Milan.\n\nAS Roma also expressed their \"surprise\", adding: \"We understand the league wants to tackle racism but we don't believe this is the right way to do it.\"\n\nMilan chief executive Ivan Gazidis said the images \"came as a surprise, were insensitive and badly timed\".\n\nThe former Arsenal chief executive told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake: \" It is quite obvious that those subtleties would be lost in the communication and it is a very clumsy way of trying to launch what is actually what we hope will prove to be an affective campaign to drive racism out of Italian football.\n\n\"There is a real lack of process around these images. I find it difficult to explain. It does speak to a lack of self awareness and awareness of the sensitivities of the history.\n\n\"The Italian league needs to listen to the victims of this behaviour, needs to listen to experts in this field and needs to understand that these are not answers that can be imposed from some kind of theoretical leadership in the sky that has no experience of them.\n\n\"You have to listen and understand and engage with others that are on the same journey.\"\n\nFormer Premier League defender Sylvain Distin says he does not understand \"how you can fight racism with something that looks like racism\".\n\n\"It just doesn't make any sense to me, to the point that I went and tried to read as many interviews with the artist as I could,\" Distin told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's true that he did a lot of portraits and painting and art around monkeys for five or six years and, from what the artist was saying, it was just his way to say that we are all monkeys - but it just doesn't look right.\n\n\"I just really don't get it. Are they trying to make things so big that all the little incidents that happen every weekend in Italy just look normal? I don't understand what they expect, what kind of reaction do you expect with this kind of act? I just don't get it, I don't see the point.\"\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, artist Simone Fugazzotto, who always uses monkeys in his work, said: \"For an artist, there is nothing more important than trying to change the perception of things through his own work.\n\n\"I decided to portray monkeys to talk about racism because they are the metaphor for human beings. Last year, I was at the stadium to see Inter v Napoli [a match in which Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly was racially abused] and I felt humiliated. Everyone was shouting 'monkey' at Koulibaly, a player I respect.\n\n\"I've always been painting monkeys for five to six years, so I thought I'd make this work to teach that we're all apes. I made the western monkey with blue and white eyes, the Asian monkey with almond-shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the centre, where everything comes from.\n\n\"The monkey becomes the spark to teach everyone that there is no difference, there is no man or monkey, we are all alike. If anything, we are all monkeys.\"\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare said it was left \"speechless\" and the campaign looked like a \"sick joke\", while Kick It Out added the use of monkeys was \"completely inappropriate\".\n\nSerie A chief executive Luigi de Siervo said the league's commitment against all forms of prejudice was \"strong and concrete\".\n\nHe added: \"We know that racism is an endemic and very complex problem, which we will tackle on three different levels: the cultural one, through works like that of Simone; the sporting one, with a series of initiatives together with clubs and players; and the repressive one, thanks to collaboration with the police.\"\n\nIn November, Brescia's Mario Balotelli called fans who shouted racist abuse at him \"small-minded\" and \"imbeciles\".\n\nInter Milan's Romelu Lukaku said the abuse he suffered in September, when Cagliari fans made monkey noises after the Belgian scored a penalty against their team, showed the game was \"going backwards\".\n\nThe Sardinian club were later cleared of racist chanting, leading the head of Fare to say that Italian football authorities and their disciplinary systems to combat racism were \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nThis month Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport was criticised for the headline 'Black Friday' alongside images of Roma defender Chris Smalling and Inter striker Lukaku prior to a match between the sides.", "Action across the economy is needed in the next 12 months if Scotland's new target for greenhouse gas emissions is to be met, a report has warned.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said Scotland's 2045 date for net-zero emissions was a \"step-change in ambition\" for the country.\n\nIt said Scotland now needed to \"walk the talk\" ahead of the COP26 summit.\n\nCCC suggested ending sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2030 and supporting low carbon farming.\n\nThe independent government advisory body said the UK's presidency of next year's UN climate talks in Glasgow - known as COP26 - will rest on \"real action at home\".\n\nThe CCC annual assessment said new policies must now begin to deliver meaningful emissions reductions and be extended to all areas of the economy.\n\nMost of the rapid reductions achieved in recent years have been explained by the ending of coal-fired power stations at Cockenzie and Longannet.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Deben said: \"Scotland has set an ambitious world-leading net-zero target of 2045. Now Scotland needs to walk the talk.\n\n\"The new legally-binding target for 2030 - a 75% reduction in emissions compared to 1990 - is extremely stretching and demands new policies that begin to work immediately. The spotlight is now on Scotland's plan to deliver meaningful reductions across all sectors of the economy.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will bring forward an updated Climate Change Plan next year.\n\nScotland's reduced emissions can be partly explained by the ending of coal-fired power stations at Longannet and Cockenzie\n\nIn November 2020, Scotland will host the UN climate conference, where world leaders will be asked to make strong commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe goal is to limit global warming to between 1.5C and 2C.\n\nThis year's talks in Madrid ended on Sunday, after two extra days, with a compromise deal agreed but with some issues left unresolved.\n\nThose issues - including carbon markets - may have to be revisited when the UK hosts negotiations.\n\nAhead of those talks, the CCC report said the Scottish and UK governments must now demonstrate to the rest of the world a \"clear and credible commitment\" to achieving net-zero by the middle of the century.\n\nIt said much more work still needed to be done by the Scottish government, especially in agriculture where it said plans to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lag behind both England and Wales.\n\nThe committee called for the new framework of incentives for low carbon farming and said it needed to be completed next year.\n\nOn transport, it urged ministers to consider bringing forward the target for ending the sale of new fossil-fuel cars and vans from 2032 to 2030.\n\nScotland's target is already eight years ahead of the UK's 2040 date.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the global climate emergency was at the centre of its programme for government.\n\nHe added: \"We recognise that even more will need to be done for Scotland to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.\n\n\"The committee's advice for the UK government is also clear - they must 'step up and match Scottish policy ambition in areas where key powers are reserved'.\n\n\"Scottish ministers have written to their UK counterparts on several occasions to call for such action.\"\n\nGina Hanrahan, head of policy at WWF Scotland, said 2020 was a \"huge test of Scotland's climate leadership at home and abroad\" and \"rapid, transformational action and funding\" was required to maximise \"influence on the global stage\".\n\n\"Scottish agriculture is already at the frontline of climate change and emissions from the sector remain worryingly high,\" she said.\n\n\"But we can be at the forefront of climate-friendly farming if we transform rural policy and support, while providing new advice and training for farmers and land managers.\"", "Sales discounts on clothing and products in the lead up to Christmas could be the biggest in almost ten years, according to one consultancy.\n\nDeloitte, which has monitored the prices of 800,000 products online and in shops since 2011, expects average discounts to hit 50% by Christmas Eve.\n\nIts forecast came as data provider Springboard said shopper numbers were lower than the same time last year.\n\nThe firm said shoppers were waiting for deeper discounts before buying.\n\n\"Consumers clearly took advantage of early discounts to purchase Christmas presents, and are now waiting for discounts to deepen once again in the days immediately before Christmas as retailers do their best to shift unsold stock,\" said Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard.\n\nDeloitte said current discounts ranged from 8% to 78% with the biggest discounts on clothing, but said the coming weekend - the last before Christmas - could see \"a tipping point in promotions\".\n\nThe consultancy said the price cuts had been driven by UK shops discounting earlier in the season due to Black Friday - the day after the American holiday of Thanksgiving, when retailers drop their prices for 24 hours. The tradition has increasingly been adopted by UK retailers too.\n\nDeloitte said this had created a long run-up for pre-Christmas discounting, with prices falling steadily in the lead up to Christmas Day.\n\n\"Consumers have come to expect an increasing amount of pre-Christmas discounting. The result is a blending of promotions, one seeping into the next, and a steady price decline rather than a steep Boxing Day drop, reminiscent of Christmases past,\" said Jason Gordon, consumer analytics partner at Deloitte.\n\nPost Christmas, Deloitte is expecting deeper discounts, with average reductions of up to 54% on Boxing Day.\n\nRetail expert Natalie Berg said the current retail environment is worrying: \"This is the most important time of the year for retailers, and this is a sign of distress.\"\n\nShe added that retailers have become worried and started discounting earlier due to consumers buying less, and once a few big brands start discounting, it is difficult for the rest of the High Street not to join in.\n\n\"It's a combination of pent-up demand and the late timing of Black Friday being on 29 November, not 23 November,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Generally, there's been a lot of political and economic uncertainty this year so consumers have been quite cautious about spending. That pent-up demand has been released at Christmas, when you spend, but consumers have cottoned on to the fact that there will be pre-Christmas discounts now.\"\n\nBut consumers might not even have to wait for the Boxing Day sales. Deloitte predicts that many Boxing Day discounts could go live online on Christmas Day itself, and on Christmas Eve in bricks and mortar shops.\n\n\"The operational challenges that sales present in-store mean some retailers could be offering Boxing Day sale prices on Christmas Eve, for those willing to hit the shops early,\" says Mr Gordon.\n\nWhen's the best time to get a bargain? What's the best bargain you've ever purchased? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Emily Thornberry warned privately in September that Labour's election chances would be hampered by taking a neutral position on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference, for a BBC film being broadcast on Tuesday, she said she was worried about Jeremy Corbyn saying he \"didn't have a view\" on the biggest decision facing the UK.\n\nShe was \"really pushing\" at the time for Labour to openly back Remain.\n\nLabour's defeat has led to a bitter internal row over its Brexit policy.\n\nSome Labour candidates who lost their seats have blamed the party's offer of another referendum for their defeat alongside doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nMs Thornberry, the re-elected MP for Islington South who is expected to be a candidate in the contest to succeed Mr Corbyn, revealed on Monday that she had begun legal action against a former colleague who claimed the shadow foreign secretary called some Leave voters \"stupid\".\n\nShe said Caroline Flint's claim she had told an MP from a Leave-voting area \"I am glad my constituents aren't as stupid as yours\" was \"a complete lie\". But Ms Flint, who lost her seat at the election, has stood by her remarks.\n\nLabour went into the election offering another Brexit referendum on a new withdrawal deal it hoped to negotiate if it won power.\n\nAt its conference in Brighton, the leadership saw off an attempt by party members to force it to campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Corbyn went further by saying that he personally would not take sides in any future public vote, arguing this would make it easier for him to implement whatever choice the people made.\n\nWhile Ms Thornberry has never hidden her view that she thinks Brexit is a mistake, an interview she gave to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg during the conference makes clear the extent of her doubts.\n\nIn the documentary, entitled The Brexit Storm Continues, she warned that a neutral position on Brexit would be politically dangerous.\n\nShe also revealed she had privately urged the leadership to take a much more overt pro-Remain stance.\n\n\"I think Jeremy is trying to find a compromise but if he goes into an election saying 'I don't have a view' on the single biggest decision that we have to make - I think - what worries me is that every single interview he does will all be about Brexit.\"\n\nAsked if Labour could win an election with that position, she said: \"Well, I think it makes it more difficult and that's why I'm really pushing this because I want Jeremy in Number 10.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the Labour leadership's position on Brexit seemed to thwart the views of the party's traditional supporters.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Labour Party had always been a coalition between supporters in working-class communities and \"university educated liberal left\" and Labour \"had not been speaking to both sides of that coalition for some time\".\n\nBefore he became mayor, Mr Burnham was the MP for the Labour stronghold Leigh, which elected a Tory MP last week.\n\nIt would \"help\" if the next Labour leader was from the North, Mr Burnham added, and he said he would lend his support to a candidate that supported devolution.\n\nHowever, Labour's Jenny Chapman who lost her Darlington seat in the election said it was \"patronising\" to think that \"presenting someone who speaks with a northern accent means you are going to win support in the North\".\n\n\"I don't think you need a particular accent to have empathy and compassion,\" she said explaining she wants shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to run in the Labour leadership contest.\n\nMr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have apologised for Labour's \"catastrophic\" performance, which saw them lose 59 seats.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"sorry that we came up short\", while Mr McDonnell told the BBC: \"I own this disaster.\"\n\nThe Brexit Storm Continues was broadcast on BBC2 on 17 December at 21:00 and is available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Bishop Stephen Cottrell has published a range of books on evangelism and spirituality\n\nThe new Archbishop of York to be appointed when Dr John Sentamu steps down next year has been named as Stephen Cottrell.\n\nThe current Bishop of Chelmsford will become the 98th Archbishop of York and the Church of England's second most senior clergyman.\n\nBishop Cottrell was ordained priest in 1985 before starting his ministry at Christchurch in Forest Hill, London.\n\nHe will take up his new role when Dr Sentamu retires on 7 June.\n\nDr John Sentamu said he is \"full of joy and expectation\" for the future\n\nAfter beginning his ministry at Christchurch in Forest Hill, south east London, Bishop Cottrell moved to the Dioceses of Chichester and Wakefield.\n\nHe was nominated area Bishop of Reading in 2004, where he served for six years before becoming Bishop of Chelmsford in 2010.\n\nThe married father of three, who has previously called on the CofE to shed its middle class \"Marks and Spencer\" image, said he was \"humbled and excited at the prospect\" of becoming the new Archbishop of York.\n\n\"Archbishop Sentamu and I have worked together in mission on many occasions and I hope to build on the work he has pioneered,\" he said.\n\n\"Working alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, I hope to help the church be more joyful and more effective in sharing the Gospel and bringing hope and unity to our nation.\"\n\nThe Bishop added he was looking forward to \"being a voice for the North\" and \"helping to address the discrepancies of wealth and opportunity that too often favour the South.\"\n\nHe said that restoring faith in the Church in the wake of historic child abuse allegations would be his \"top priority\" in his new role, adding it is important \"survivors' voices are heard\".\n\nReferring to the new appointment, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Bishop Cottrell \"writes beautifully, thinks deeply and communicates superbly\".\n\nDr Sentamu said Bishop Cottrell nomination as his successor had \"gladdened my heart\".\n\nHe added: \"His greatest passion is to share the Gospel with everyone in a friendly and accessible way.\"\n\nDr Sentamu, who was born near Kampala in 1949 as the sixth of 13 children, was the the UK's first black archbishop and will be stepping down three days before his 71st birthday.\n\nHe was enthroned at York Minister in November 2005 in a ceremony that broke with tradition and included drums and dancers.\n• None Evangelist reaching out to the 'unchurched'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natalie Elphicke won the Dover & Deal seat for the Conservatives with an increased majority\n\nThe newly elected Dover and Deal MP is seeking talks with the home secretary after 69 migrants in five boats were picked up off the Kent coast.\n\nNatalie Elphicke said she would be telling Home Secretary Priti Patel that the French needed to do more \"to stop illegal departures from their shores\".\n\nThe migrants, including 10 children, have all been given medical checks.\n\nOn 4 December, 79 migrants, including children, were intercepted in five separate incidents.\n\nMrs Elphicke said: \"The French have been given tens of millions of pounds of British hard-earned taxpayer money... I want to know where the money has gone.\n\n\"Because while much has been done, it is clear there is more to do.\n\n\"More to do tackling the people traffickers behind this shocking trade in people.\n\n\"More to do making sure anyone found in the Channel is immediately sent back to France.\n\n\"More to do by the French to stop these illegal departures from French shores.\"\n\nThe migrants will now be interviewed by immigration officials, a Home Office spokesman said.\n\nMore than 1,700 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats during 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver as he was walking home from work has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nEwan Ireland was 17 when he attacked Peter Duncan, 52, at the entrance to a shopping centre in Newcastle in August.\n\nA court heard the two brushed past each other when the teenager pulled out a screwdriver he had shoplifted and stabbed Mr Duncan in the heart.\n\nIreland admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nThe killer, who was able to be identified after he turned 18 in October, had 17 previous convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nAt the time of the murder he was on bail for an offence of affray, was under investigation for a robbery and still subject to a 12-month conditional discharge for a battery offence the previous summer.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Duncan's widow Maria said her life \"was ruined by a senseless and unprovoked act\".\n\n\"The person who did this had convictions. Nothing stopped him. He continued and he murdered my husband,\" she said.\n\nPeter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nMr Duncan came into contact with Ireland at the entrance to Eldon Square shopping centre when they were walking in opposite directions.\n\nThe court heard the teenager was looking for another youth with whom he had previously argued about cigarettes.\n\nMr Duncan, who was an in-house lawyer for an international maritime firm, raised his arm to let Ireland past, but \"the defendant took exception to that\" and a struggle ensued, prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said.\n\nAfter pushing him off, Mr Duncan was stabbed once through the heart and collapsed a short distance away near a Greggs outlet.\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan's 15-year-old son was in the city centre that evening for a cinema trip and saw the cordoned off area without realising his father had been attacked.\n\n\"I am angry he was out free, and cannot understand why he was not locked up,\" he said in a victim impact statement.\n\n\"If he had been we would still have my dad to this day.\"\n\nEwan Ireland had a string of convictions when he murdered Mr Duncan\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender said it was Mr Duncan's \"bad luck to bump into you that day on his way home from work\".\n\n\"You started a fight, in the course of which you took out a screwdriver and stabbed him through the heart,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Ireland's offending started at the age of 14, with a string of convictions including theft, battery and making threats with knives.\n\n\"All too often, young men like you, who get into the habit of carrying weapons and using them to threaten others, move on to using those weapons to harm others, as you have done,\" he added.\n\nIreland also admitted stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, defending, said the teenager \"had spoken of his absolute remorse and devastation at the act he occasioned which was needless and senseless and took away from the family their father\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Fairlamb said Ireland had been a promising young footballer who had been offered a lot of help to change his criminal behaviour.\n\n\"I think one of the most shocking elements of this crime is that it was in such a public place in a major shopping centre in our city and we probably all had that feeling that it could have been any one of us walking home from work,\" she said.\n\n\"With every contact that Ewan Ireland has had with the police and criminal justice system he gets opportunities to change his behaviour - support from different agencies to change that life of crime - he's had those opportunities.\"\n\nShe also said Mr Duncan's family was devastated by the loss and she did not have the words to express how deeply they were grieving.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK unemployment fell to its lowest level since January 1975 in the three months to October this year.\n\nThe number of people out of work fell by 13,000 to 1.281 million, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show.\n\nThe employment rate rose to an all-time high of 76.2%, with an increase of 24,000 taking the number of people in work up to a total of 32.8 million.\n\nHowever, annual wage growth, excluding bonuses, slowed to 3.5% from 3.6% from July to September.\n\nONS head of labour market David Freeman said: \"While the estimate of the employment rate nudged up in the most recent quarter, the longer-term picture has seen it broadly flat over the last few quarters. However, unemployment among women has reached a new record low.\n\n\"Vacancies have fallen for 10 months in a row and are now below 800,000 for the first time in over two years.\n\n\"Pay is still increasing in real terms, but its growth rate has slowed in the last few months.\"\n\nThere were an estimated 794,000 vacancies in the UK for September to November 2019. That is 20,000 fewer than in the last quarter and 59,000 fewer than a year earlier.\n\nThe estimated employment rate for men was 80.4% and for women was 72%.\n\nThe increase in women's employment in recent years is partly a result of changes to their State Pension age, which has meant fewer retiring between the ages of 60 and 65.\n\nThe slight slowdown in wage growth is partly caused by the fact that in October 2018, some unusually high bonuses were paid to some workers. Bonuses given this October returned to more expected levels.\n\nFor October 2019, average regular pay, before tax and other deductions, was estimated at £509.68 per week.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said: \"There's talent up and down this country - three-quarters of employment growth in the last year has been outside London and the South East.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to getting Brexit done and unleashing Britain's potential, levelling up opportunity across the country.\"\n\nTej Parikh, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: \"The UK's jobs boom continues to be a big plus point for the economy, but it is slowly losing momentum.\n\n\"Businesses have shown a strong appetite to take on staff in recent years, and climbing employment levels have boosted household incomes, adding buoyancy to the economy. However, firms are now cutting back on new hires as it becomes harder to find the skills they need.\n\n\"Uncertainty and slowing global growth have also made businesses a bit more cautious in their recruitment plans, and vacancies are expected to continue falling into 2020.\"\n\nEmployment is at a record high and unemployment at a record low in October's figures, but the Office for National Statistics says that both are broadly flat.\n\nThese records involve the kind of tiny changes we're used to seeing with new records in the 100-metre sprint.\n\nOctober's estimate is 76.15%: an improvement of 0.02 percentage points.\n\nFor unemployment, the record has gone down from 3.797% in May to 3.757% in October's figures - a change of 0.04 percentage points.\n\nSo the estimates haven't been better in a long time, but the improvements are tiny and certainly smaller than the margin of error in any figures like these.\n\nCoupled with the substantial fall in job vacancies and a hint of slowing wage growth, the emerging picture is less of rampaging record highs and more of decelerating demand for new workers.", "James Le Mesurier received an OBE for his work with White Helmet volunteers in Syria\n\nA British ex-soldier who helped found Syria's White Helmets volunteer group died as a result of a fall, Turkish forensic experts have concluded.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street below a window of his flat in Istanbul's Beyoglu area on 11 November\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was \"general body trauma linked to a fall from height\", state broadcaster TRT said on Monday.\n\nNo DNA belonging to another person was found, it added.\n\nThe private news channel NTV meanwhile said a toxicology report showed Le Mesurier, 48, had taken sleeping pills.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street in Istanbul, outside his home\n\nLast week, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Le Mesurier's Swedish wife, Emma Winberg, had told police that he contemplated suicide in the days before his death and had started taking medication for a \"stress disorder\".\n\nShe said that on the night of his death Le Mesurier had taken a sleeping pill at 02:00, Anadolu cited a police statement as saying.\n\nHe awoke when she went to bed about two-and-a-half hours later and asked her if she wanted a sleeping pill as well, it added.\n\nMs Winberg reportedly said she woke up between 05:30 and 06:00, when the police knocked on the door of their flat. She then saw her husband's body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the bombs go off in Syria, the White Helmets go in\n\nMr Le Mesurier was widely considered a founder of the White Helmets.\n\nThe organisation, which is also known as the Syria Civil Defence, helps rescue civilians caught up in attacks in areas of Syria controlled by the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIn 2016, the White Helmets received the Right Livelihood Award in recognition for \"outstanding bravery, compassion and humanitarian engagement in rescuing civilians\". Later the same year the group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nBut the Syrian government and its allies Russia and Iran have accused the White Helmets of aiding terrorist groups - something the organisation has denied.\n\nA week before he died, the Russian foreign ministry accused Le Mesurier of being a former agent of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. The UK's ambassador to the UN said the claim was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nLe Mesurier received an OBE from the Queen in 2016 for \"services to the Syria Civil Defence group and the protection of civilians in Syria\".", "Northern Ireland has had no devolved government since January 2017\n\nNow is the moment to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, Julian Smith has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after talks aimed at restoring the assembly began on Monday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said the biggest issue in the negotiations should be dealing with the current crisis in the health sector.\n\nHe met the leaders of Northern Ireland's five biggest parties.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Simon Byrne, wrote to the leaders on Monday calling on them to agree on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles and requesting support to hire more officers.\n\nThe British and Irish governments will work \"night and day\" over the next few weeks to restore devolution, said the Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney.\n\nThe Irish deputy PM was speaking after a meeting with the NI Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be \"intensive\" discussions between the parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with the five parties on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not \"want to bounce\" the parties into an agreement - but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n\"This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don't want to move into,\" he added.\n\n\"But we've had a reality check with the nurses' strike, and I think it's a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.\"\n\nRound-table talks are set to happen later in the week which will involve the parties, Mr Smith and Mr Coveney.\n\nSeveral rounds of talks to restore the executive have ended in failure, with the two parties unable to resolve differences over issues such as the Irish language or how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nIn the general election last Thursday both the DUP and Sinn Féin saw their share of the vote fall.\n\nMr Smith said the results had given the five parties \"serious issues\" to reflect on - but maintained he is obliged to call a fresh assembly election if a deal is not reached by 13 January.\n\nThe Sinn Féin team speak to the media after fresh talks at Stormont on Monday\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Smith, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said their discussion was \"constructive and positive\" but she added her party would not go back into an assembly that was \"a stop-start mess\".\n\nMrs Long also said there was a draft document regarding a deal but that it is not complete.\n\nShe said discussions between the parties over the next week would seek to build on it.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the general election result showed people were \"sick of the Stormont standoff\".\n\nAfter meeting Mr Smith, he said the British and Irish governments should, in the next couple of days, publish a document detailing what has been agreed so far.\n\n\"They should force the parties to say yes or no,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said he did not believe a deal was likely before Christmas.\n\nHe called for reforms to be made, and said the \"core issues which undermined devolution previously\" must be addressed.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she hoped there would be an assembly up and running at the beginning of the year.\n\nShe added that all politicians had to take responsibility for the lack of devolution.\n\nArlene Foster was first minister before the assembly collapsed\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said the Stormont talks process was at a \"crucial and pivotal moment\".\n\nShe said the talks needed to be about resolution and delivery, but that Sinn Féin had also asked for a \"big cash injection\" for public services.\n\nShe did not say how much exactly the party had asked for, or what the government's response was.\n\nShe also said her party would not be drawn into publicly discussing negotiating red lines - but would enter into the talks with goodwill.\n\nOne by one the parties emerged optimistic from talks, claiming a deal is possible.\n\nThe general election results have changed the mood, and Julian Smith maintains if power sharing is not restored by 13 January, a fresh assembly election will be called.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are unlikely to relish that prospect, and seem to be softening their respective negotiating stances.\n\nAlliance and the SDLP say they do not fear another election while the Ulster Unionists wants direct rule, if a deal isn't reached soon.\n\nThe five parties will hold a roundtable meeting with the British and Irish governments on Wednesday, but so far it seems unlikely that a pre-Christmas compromise is on the cards.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call his top priority was the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Simon Hart only became a junior minister under Boris Johnson in July\n\nSimon Hart has been named the new Welsh secretary after Boris Johnson's election victory for the Conservatives.\n\nHe succeeds Alun Cairns, who resigned at the start of the campaign amid a row over what he knew about an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.\n\nThe Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP was previously a junior minister in the Cabinet Office.\n\nMonmouth MP David TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office and will be deputy to Mr Hart.\n\nMr Davies, the former chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee, will also serve as an assistant government whip, No 10 confirmed on Monday evening.\n\nHe is the sixth person to hold the ministerial role in the past two years.\n\nMr Hart said: \"It's great to have this opportunity. I've got my orders and I'm going to try and do it as best I can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson led the Tories to their biggest election win in more than 30 years with a majority of 80, after pledging to \"get Brexit done\" by the end of January.\n\nThe Welsh secretary oversees relations between the Welsh Government and Whitehall departments.\n\nThe appointment was welcomed by Welsh Assembly Conservatives - Senedd party leader Paul Davies gave him his \"huge congratulations\".\n\nSouth Wales Central Assembly Member David Melding said it was an astute appointment \"which promises much for Wales as we begin a new political chapter\".\n\nDavid TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford, from Welsh Labour, said he was \"pleased to see a new Secretary of State for Wales appointed so quickly\".\n\n\"I hope to meet soon to discuss Welsh Government priorities and ensure they are heard at the UK Government's cabinet table,\" he added.\n\nMr Hart came to Parliament in 2010 with a background in rural affairs as chief executive of the Countryside Alliance and a former master of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.\n\nA chartered surveyor by profession, he served on the backbenches until July when Boris Johnson took power and appointed him as a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.\n\nHe backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, but later emerged as leader of the Brexit Delivery Group, made up of MPs from both sides of the argument who sought a pragmatic approach to Brexit.\n\nHe has also been prominent in calls for greater protection for candidates and activists, claiming abuse was driving people out of politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA German shepherd belonging to a YouTube star and his mother is set to be destroyed after it seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has nearly 10 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog after it bit the woman when his mother let it out on 23 July 2018.\n\nA court heard a later assessment found the animal, named Tank, \"didn't come across as a friendly, sociable dog\".\n\nOlatunji was fined and his mother was ordered to pay the victim compensation.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, of Holme, near Peterborough, previously admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nOlatunji, 23, also of Holme, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI, Olatunji posts videos of pranks and gaming and has 2.5 million followers on Instagram.\n\nOlatunji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized in September last year\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told Cambridge Crown Court that Ms Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nThe dog, which was then 13 months old, bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nOlayinka Olatunji was given a community order and ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid work\n\nAfter Tank was seized by police it was assessed by Candy D'Sa, who told the court she did not feel able to take the dog off a lead.\n\nShe said while most dogs accept a muzzle, she found Tank \"was very frightened with the attempts to muzzle him\".\n\nAs well as ordering the destruction of the dog, Judge Farrell ordered Ms Olatunji to pay £8,000 of compensation to the victim.\n\nHe also gave her a 12-month community order and 80 hours unpaid work.\n\nOlatunji was fined £2,500, while both were also ordered to pay kennelling costs and given a restraining order from contacting the victims for four years.\n\nThe Olatunjis have 28 days from Friday to appeal against the decision to destroy the dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The stickers appeared throughout Perth city centre at the weekend\n\nScotland's deputy first minister has condemned the appearance of stickers bearing the slogan \"It's okay to be white\" in Perth city centre.\n\nThe stickers were posted on lampposts and drainpipes throughout the city at the weekend.\n\nJohn Swinney, who is also MSP for Perthshire North, said the \"atrocious\" stickers had \"no place in Perth or any other part of our country.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it was \"currently looking into the matter.\"\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mr Swinney said: \"We must stand together to resist this unacceptable material.\"\n\nStickers bearing the same slogan appeared in Dundee in September.\n\nThe message originally appeared as a 2017 poster campaign in the US organised by an internet message board, with the aim of provoking reactions.\n\nIt was later picked up and spread by neo-Nazi groups.\n\nLocal group Perth Against Racism said it has been contacted by local people who said the appearance of the stickers had made them feel unsafe.\n\nOne person told the group: \"I am certainly worried now for my daughters who are not white but are from Perth.\n\n\"It's sickening and disgusting to know that people think like this.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Although no complaint has been made to police regarding these posters, they have been brought to our attention and officers are currently looking into the matter.\"", "Four of Stormont's main parties have criticised Julian Smith after refusing to meet with them\n\nStormont parties have criticised the secretary of state for not meeting them on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming healthcare strike.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP all hit out at the decision. The NIO said health is a devolved matter.\n\nAbout 9,000 nurses are to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday from 08:00 GMT.\n\nThe five main Stormont party leaders have sent a letter to Julian Smith, which they said \"provides cover\" for him to intervene.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said the strikes pose a \"major challenge\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nRepresentatives from the five parties met with with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, David Sterling, and Department of Health Permanent Secretary Richard Pengelly on Tuesday afternoon in a last-minute effort to avert the strike action.\n\nThe parties had hoped they could then meet with Mr Smith, but the Northern Ireland Office said health remained a devolved matter.\n\nSDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon said she is \"angry\" Mr Smith did not meet the parties.\n\n\"On the eve of significant strike action in our health service by healthcare workers who have been left with no other choice, it is unacceptable that the secretary of state chose not to engage with parties this evening.\n\n\"What message does that send to healthcare staff?\" she asked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the decision not to meet was \"regrettable\".\n\n\"The pay and staffing issue must not be used as a political football within the talks,\" she said.\n\n\"Party leaders restated there is consensus if the Executive is restored by 13 January that we will adopt a policy to award pay parity.\"\n\nThe letter to Julian Smith, signed by Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Steve Aiken, said there was \"collective support for the restoration of pay parity\".\n\n\"In our view this statement, making clear that any health and finance ministers in any future Northern Ireland Executive formed before 13 January 2020 would restore pay parity, provides cover for you as secretary of state to intervene to ensure that pay parity is restored independently of the ongoing talks to restore the Executive,\" the letter said.\n\nSteve Aiken, leader of the UUP, said: \"Here we had today an opportunity for both politicians here and for the secretary of state to do what was right.\"\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said: \"It is disappointing that on such an important issue, one that effects people in Northern Ireland directly and could have serious consequences tomorrow, he wasn't willing to actually come into the room and have the conversation with us this evening.\"\n\nNurses and other healthcare workers have been taking industrial action for several weeks amid complaints of poor pay and staffing levels.\n\nParamedics are set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said \"major challenges are expected across all health and social care services in Northern Ireland tomorrow\".\n\nThe HSCB announced that the South Tyrone Hospital Minor Injury Unit (MIU), Mid Ulster MIU, Bangor MIU and Ards MIU will all be closed on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted about their Trust then they should attend their appointment/ service as normal.\n\nAll emergency departments remain open, but \"significant pressure\" was expected within the departments.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first. Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in NI is within 13%, compared with about 11% in England and about 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nLast year, the local health service spent £52m on agency nurses to fill these gaps in the workforce.\n\nThat money, the RCN argues, could be better managed to train and pay health service nurses.\n\nThese are exceptional times which require an exceptional intervention.\n\nThe RCN says no time is a good time to strike but years of negotiations between various health ministers failed and years of warnings were ignored.\n\nKevin McAdam from the Unite union said the trade unions were \"working hard\" to ensure there was necessary staff cover.\n\n\"All of the local reps (of the trade unions) have been given authority to ensure that where critical care is required it is delivered,\" he added.\n\nTrade unions have said they are working to ensure there is necessary staff cover\n\nAnne Speed from Unison said joint meetings were taking place with employers on Tuesday and that it had provided an exemption from striking for staff working in \"cancer treatment and children's homes\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it was working with management to ensure there is enough staff cover in \"critical departments\".\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.", "Boris Johnson held the first cabinet of his new government on Tuesday\n\nSurprised that Boris Johnson's new government is raising eyebrows already? Don't be.\n\nThe new clause in the Brexit bill might rattle business - and the opposition parties - because it is, in theory, making it more likely that we could exit the EU departure lounge without a full trade deal in place.\n\nWhatever metaphor you want to use, be it a trap door or a new cliff edge, there is outrage already in some quarters of Westminster at the move.\n\nBut if you are taken aback, then the last few extraordinary months must have passed you by.\n\nMost straightforwardly, the government, with its new whopping majority, promised in their manifesto that after we leave the EU, the trade talks would be wrapped up in a year and we will have left the transition - the period when we live more or less with the status quo.\n\nThe new clause in the bill would put that vow into law (although as ever, until we have seen the bill in black and white it's worth reserving a bit of judgement).\n\nOn the basis of the manifesto, Boris Johnson's opponents can hardly argue that they weren't warned. But with a majority of 80 at his back, it's not exactly likely that Parliament would have forced him to extend if he didn't want to.\n\nSo this is a political signal, a moment of early chest beating too, designed to disappoint those who might have been hoping No 10 might slide to a softer Brexit over the next few months.\n\nAnd designed to gratify those who are adamant that Brexit must be completely \"done\" as soon as possible.\n\nSecond of all, Boris Johnson seems to have concluded that if the talks are to go anywhere fast, there has to be a convincing clear deadline.\n\nIt was his vow of a Halloween deadline that got him to Downing Street in the first place, and although it was broken in the end, there's little question that his attitude towards extending again and again changed the dynamics of the talks with the EU that got the revised deal done.\n\nPutting the deadline into law may also be designed to focus minds in Brussels. How effective that might be? That's a different question.\n\nBut it's worth noting too that getting a trade deal done is not binary. There are potential \"patches\", as described by Rupert Harrison, George Osborne's former advisor.\n\nHe suggests, for example, that a bare bones deal could be done covering goods, with ongoing talks covering other areas.\n\nIt may not be as simple as an all singing, all dancing deal, or leaving the transition dramatically and suddenly on World Trade Organisation terms.\n\nLastly, if the Brexit Bill is passed with this extension block in it, there is nothing, save a sense of potential embarrassment, to stop No 10 passing another law to undo it if they need to later on.\n\nCynical? Perhaps. But with an 80 seat majority that SW1 is only barely beginning to understand, Downing Street is going to be able to change its mind, miss targets, go back on its word, without there being an immediate cost that puts their position in jeopardy.\n\nThat doesn't mean shifting position would be desirable, or that it would be trouble free. But we are now in a different era.\n\nWhether you are delighted or devastated by the result, the new government is insulated from political shocks in a way that none has been since Tony Blair's last general election in 2005.\n\nDuring the coalition years, David Cameron could rely on a solid majority in Parliament, but only after careful, negotiation with the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Conservatives have the chance here to govern in the way they please.\n\nBoris Johnson now has a majority of 80 in Parliament\n\nIt's a total contrast to the last last three years, when the Tories have lived permanently on the edge of a government meltdown.\n\nRemember too, this government also includes some people who enjoy goading their opponents - just as they did during the Vote Leave campaign, just as they did in the summer and autumn in No 10, just as they did during the election campaign, and just as they may well do in government.\n\nIt will be fascinating to see if, secure in Downing Street, Boris Johnson curbs his and his team's enthusiasm to court controversy.\n\nEven with a hefty majority, there's a limit to the amount of sabre rattling and reform the government machine can handle.\n\nBut at least for now, there's plenty of political capital available to be used to follow the pattern of provoke and repeat (then retreat if necessary) while the opposition can only really look on.\n\nAnd if you're frothing at No 10's plan for the Brexit bill, be warned, as the prime minister told his cabinet this morning, maybe \"you ain't seen nothing yet\".", "Telecoms watchdog Ofcom is proposing a ban on the sale of locked handsets, to make it easier for consumers to switch between mobile phone networks.\n\nIt says BT/EE, Tesco Mobile and Vodafone are among providers that sell mobiles that cannot be used with alternative operators without being \"unlocked\".\n\nThis requires a code provided by the original network.\n\nAnd Ofcom says \"nearly half\" of customers find the process difficult.\n\nSome operators charge for the service. Tesco, for example, charges £10 to unlock a pay-as-you-go handset that is less than a year old.\n\nO2, Sky, Three and Virgin do not restrict customers to locked devices.\n\n\"By freeing mobile users from locked handsets, our plans would save people time, effort and money - and help them unlock a better deal,\" Ofcom consumer group director Lindsey Fussell said.\n\nOfcom is now running a consultation on the proposals.\n\nThree said it welcomed the plan and \"urged\" Ofcom to introduce it as soon as possible.\n\nThe watchdog also wants to make switching broadband provider easier, in line with new EU regulations.\n\nLast week consumer group Which? said customers could save £120 a year by making a change.", "Admiral Tony Radakin officially replaced Sir Phillip Jones as head of the Royal Navy in June\n\nIran's threat to British shipping in the Gulf \"hasn't gone away\", the head of the Royal Navy has told the BBC.\n\nIn July, Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized British-flagged tanker the Stena Impero in the Straits of Hormuz.\n\nAdmiral Tony Radakin - giving his first interview since becoming First Sea Lord in June - described it as \"aggressive\" and \"outrageous\".\n\nHe said that the UK wanted to \"de-escalate\" tensions with Iran following the release of the Stena Impero.\n\nBut for now, he added, the navy would maintain a heightened military presence in the Gulf.\n\nAt the time of the seizure, the UK had one frigate - HMS Montrose - stationed in the region. She has since been joined by the destroyer HMS Defender.\n\nOn a visit to the region, Adm Radakin said: \"We have to react to when a nation is as aggressive as Iran was.\n\n\"It was an outrageous act that happened on the high seas and that's why we have responded the way that we have.\"\n\nThe Stena Impero was released two months after it was seized by Iran for allegedly breaking maritime rules\n\nMore controversially, Adm Radakin also made clear that the UK would continue to work with a US-led coalition, known as \"Operation Sentinel\", to provide maritime security in the Gulf, rather than join a rival European operation being set up by France.\n\nWhile he welcomed the French initiative, he said there were \"very simple practical reasons\" for the UK to remain part of the US-led operation, including existing strong military ties.\n\nHe added that the UK had \"been very clear\" it did not support the Trump administration's policy of maximum pressure on Iran.\n\nThe Gulf isn't the only region where the Royal Navy is looking to have a more permanent presence. Adm Radakin said he was also discussing plans to station ships in the Caribbean and in the Asia Pacific region.\n\nHowever, he suggested his greatest challenge was in the North Atlantic, where he said Russian underwater activity was at a 30-year high.\n\nThat could be a potential threat to Britain's nuclear armed submarines - which must operate undetected. He admitted that the job was becoming harder with Russia's own investment in quieter submarines.\n\nAdm Radakin was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony for the HMS Prince of Wales\n\nThe First Sea Lord has set himself the ambitious goal of transforming the Royal Navy to meet new threats, including \"from space and cyber\", which would mean investing in new technologies.\n\nHe said his hope was that the new government would soon conduct a comprehensive defence review to properly assess the threats.\n\n\"That may mean we have to adjust the shape and size of the armed forces to enable that new investment, or it might mean we need to invest more,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?", "Lewis Burton said Caroline Flack is \"loyal and kind\" and \"doesn't deserve any of this\"\n\nThe boyfriend of Caroline Flack says the Love Island host has been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since she was charged with assault at their home last week.\n\nOn Thursday, police were called to the 40-year-old TV presenter's house in Islington, north London, where she lives with tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nMr Burton described her as \"the most lovely girl\" on Instagram on Monday.\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nCaroline Flack is a TV presenter and also won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nMs Flack is due to host the winter series of Love Island next month in South Africa, but has found herself in the spotlight for a different reason since being charged with assault by beating.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday, 23 December.\n\nMr Burton's message comes after Ms Flack's former fiance Andrew Brady posted screenshots of what appeared to be a heavily-redacted non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on his social media.\n\nBurton wrote: \"I have not signed any NDA. Why would I?\n\n\"Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Reverend Richard Coles announced the death of his civil partner, David, on Twitter\n\nThe civil partner of the Reverend Richard Coles has died, the broadcaster has announced.\n\nThe Rev David Coles died after a long illness, the former musician said on Twitter.\n\nColes also thanked the \"brilliant teams\" who looked after his partner at Kettering General Hospital.\n\nThe couple, both priests, lived together with their dogs in their vicarage in Northamptonshire, according to his website.\n\nColes, 57, was the keyboard player in the 80s band The Communards and is now vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire.\n\nHe wrote: \"I'm very sorry to say that @RevDavidColes has died. He had been ill for a while. Thanks to the brilliant teams who looked after him at @KettGeneral.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Coles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nColes is a co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4, was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 and also regularly appears on shows such as Have I Got News For You and QI.\n\nThe couple met in 2007 after a sermon and Coles has spoken openly about their celibacy.\n\nHe previously told Christian Today. \"Of course it has its challenges and sacrifices ... We live in good standing with the teaching of the Church, but I wouldn't wish that to imply that I saw that as a good and noble thing, because I don't, but it is currently where we are.\"\n\nHis post on Twitter prompted messages of condolence.\n\nDianne Buswell, his former dance partner on Strictly, wrote: \"I am so sorry to hear this. Sending all my love to you rev! My prayers and thoughts are with you.\"\n\nRadio presenter Simon Mayo added: \"What devastating news. So sorry to hear this Richard.\"\n\nAuthor Philip Pullman posted: \"Richard, I'm so sorry to hear that. You have all my sympathy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has stood down from the show after being charged with assault by beating.\n\n\"I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six,\" she said, describing ITV2's Love Island as \"the best show on telly\".\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, London, last week, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear before magistrates on Monday.\n\n\"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life,\" she said in her Instagram story on Tuesday.\n\n\"While matters were not as have been reported, I am committed to working with the authorities and I can't comment further on these matters until the legal process is over.\"\n\nThe star, who was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January - added: \"However, Love Island has been my world for the last five years, it's the best show on telly.\n\n\"In order not to detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six. I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town.\"\n\nFlack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"ITV has a long-standing relationship with Caroline and we understand and accept her decision.\n\n\"We will remain in contact with her over the coming months about future series of Love Island.\"\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nOn Monday, Burton wrote on Instagram that his girlfriend had been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since being charged, describing her as \"the most lovely girl\".\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt, this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nThe TV star mentioned him personally online, writing: \"My boyfriend Lewis... I love you.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "", "Firefighters smashed through this wall to rescue the boy\n\nA teenage boy is \"unbelievably lucky\" to be alive after he fell 30ft from a shopping centre roof and got trapped in a cavity between two buildings.\n\nFirefighters smashed through the wall of a shop at the Thames Centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to free the 13-year-old at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nHe had become trapped in the 1.6ft-wide cavity three hours earlier.\n\nThe boy, who sustained a broken ankle, has been taken to Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital.\n\nIncident commander Rob Cherrie, of County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said the boy had been on the phone to his mother at the time of the fall.\n\nHe added: \"We used cutters, grinders and hammers. Essentially you had the cladding then the plasterboard through to the breezeblocks and external bricks.\n\n\"We managed to get some oxygen down to him and reassure him. By the time we got to him he was very cold and very tired.\"\n\nPolice and fire services were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock, the BDO Women's World Championship runner-up in 2015, fell 2-1 behind but rallied to make history.\n\n\"I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,\" she said.\n\nSherrock ended the night in joyful tears after a thrilling victory over 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts, also from England.\n\nShe had secured one of two places for female players in the 96-strong field. The other qualifier - Japan's Mikuru Suzuki - took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday.\n• None I can use crowd to my advantage - Sherrock\n\nCanadian Gayl King - in 2000 - was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to this year's event.\n\nAfter her victory, Sherrock was serenaded with the chant \"we love you Sherrock, we do\" by fans and was the top trend on social media. She faces Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" she said. \"I don't know what to say. Thank you every one. I feel really happy because I have made something for women's darts.\n\n\"I can't believe it. To do that on the biggest stage, wow. I am so happy that I can continue it rather than go out.\n\n\"This is definitely one of the best moments I've had. I'm just so happy. I've just made history. I can't believe it. I've made a great achievement for women's darts.\"\n\nSherrock, having won a leg with 106 checkout, left herself on 80 for the first set - but did not manage to leave herself a shot at a double with her final dart, allowing Evetts to take a 1-0 lead.\n\nWith the throw, she started the second set with a 13-dart leg, was on a nine-dart finish with six perfect throws but missed the seventh before taking the set with a cool 80 finish.\n\nIn the third set, Sherrock punished Evetts' miss at double eight to break twice, but a missed dart at double eight and three more at double four proved extremely costly, as Evetts took the next two legs to go 2-1 up.\n\nBut she forced a decider and broke Evetts in the final set and held her throw to go 2-0 up, and though Evetts pulled a leg back, Sherrock coolly finished off the contest with double 18.", "Book retailer The Book People has filed for administration with just one week to go before Christmas.\n\nPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as the administrator while the troubled firm looks for a buyer.\n\nFounded in 1988 in Godalming, Surrey, The Book People has faced stiff competition from Amazon and other online retailers over the last decade.\n\nThe business will continue to trade and there are no plans to make any of the 393 employees redundant, PwC said.\n\nAs a result, customers should receive their orders in time for Christmas.\n\nThe majority of the business's employees - 229 - are based in Bangor, Gwynedd.\n\nThe firm sells books, gifts, toys and stationery online and via a catalogue, often at discounted prices. It has an annual turnover of £50m and sells more than 17 million children's books a year, PwC said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to get kids to read books\n\nThe company, one of the UK's largest independent book retailers, was acquired as part of a rescue deal in 2014 by private equity group Endless.\n\nJames Woolley, partner at Endless, said it had \"worked hard\" to secure the firm's future and was \"disappointed\" not to have succeeded.\n\n\"The well-documented challenges in the retail environment, compounded by the strength of global online booksellers, has severely impacted operating cash flows over recent years,\" he added.\n\nToby Underwood, joint administrator and restructuring partner for PwC, said it was now exploring a sale of the business.\n\n\"I appreciate the obvious concerns that staff in particular will have as we move towards Christmas,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the administrators have funding to meet the payroll for December, the longer-term prospects for the business, staff, customers and suppliers will clearly be dependent upon whether a sale can be secured.\"\n\nIt has been a tough year for the retail industry in the UK, with a net 1,234 stores disappearing from Britain's top 500 High Streets in the first six months, according to accountants PwC", "The gap between men and women, measured in terms of political influence, economic gain and health and education, has narrowed over the last year, but will take another century to disappear, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said.\n\nIn the WEF's latest report the UK has slipped from 15th to 21st place.\n\nIt said that while more women were entering government in many places, the economic gap has widened.\n\nThe WEF predicted it would take 99.5 years for women to be on an equal footing with men, despite women taking high-profile leadership roles at the European Central Bank and the World Bank, and at the head of several countries including Finland, Germany and New Zealand.\n\nProgress in the political sphere remained slow, the WEF said, with women still holding only 21% of ministerial positions worldwide. But it hoped the \"role model effect\" would encourage faster change.\n\nThe organisation said the economic gender gap had grown compared to last year, partly because women are under-represented in almost all of the fastest-growing job sectors, such as cloud computing and AI. Women are more likely to be displaced by automation, it added.\n\nBritain's new ranking leaves it behind a few developing countries and most rich ones, although it is ahead of the United States.\n\nThe WEF said the fall in 2019 in the UK's position partly reflected a decline in the number of women in ministerial positions.\n\nBut the UK also has a persistent economic gender gap, putting the country at 58th in the rankings, due to big differences between men and women's earned income. In the UK men dominate sectors such as AI, engineering and computing and many more women than men work part-time.\n\nThere are several specific areas where Britain is in joint first place, including literacy, enrolment in tertiary education and the proportion of professional and technical workers who are women, WEF found.\n\nFinland's new government, led by prime minister Sanna Marin (centre), could provide role models\n\nIceland came in top place in the world ranking in 2019 as it did last year. Bottom of the list were Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen.\n\nLast year the WEF's report suggested it would take 108 years to close the inequality gap.\n\nKlaus Schwab, founder of WEF, said the report highlighted the growing urgency for action.\n\n\"At the present rate of change, it will take nearly a century to achieve parity, a timeline we simply cannot accept in today's globalised world, especially among younger generations who hold increasingly progressive views of gender equality,\" he said.", "Rhodri Jones: \"I do think it's important for young people to develop their character\"\n\nThe pressure of trying to become a professional footballer can come at a high price, a former player has said.\n\nRhodri Jones, 38, said injury, leaving home and self-imposed pressure began to take a toll after he signed a youth contract with Manchester United at 14.\n\nThe association which supports players said it has seen a rise in requests for help for mental health support in 2019.\n\n\"Despite the injury I would argue the psychological effect was more serious,\" said Mr Jones, from Cardiff.\n\nHe moved to Manchester as a trainee, leaving his school, friends and family, which he said was a \"hard time\".\n\n\"Who could I tell that I was worried about moving because everyone was saying... 'you're going to play for Manchester United',\" he told Newyddion 9.\n\n\"The pressure came from myself. That voice that says 'don't let anyone down, you have to succeed'.\"\n\nWhen he was 20 and playing for the reserve team, he was called to a meeting with then-manager Sir Alex Ferguson to be told he would be released from his contract.\n\n\"When you hear the words from Sir Alex Ferguson, someone you've admired since you were small, saying 'sorry son, we won't be renewing your contract', the fall is much greater,\" he said.\n\nHe then moved to Rotherham but became increasingly unhappy and was eventually diagnosed with depression.\n\n\"The pitch was like a prison,\" he said.\n\n\"I was on the pitch playing for Rotherham reserves just thinking 'I don't want to be here'. You just start building this prison for yourself.\"\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said there had been an increase in the number of people requesting mental health support this year.\n\nIn 2016, 160 people received counselling sessions, but between January and September 2019 the number seeking help rose to 544, with more than half being former players, it said.\n\nMr Jones moved to Manchester to pursue a professional career when he was 14\n\nDr Carwyn Jones, professor of sport ethics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, said the industry was \"competitive and no-one wants to show any weakness\".\n\n\"There are a lot of factors that go into the problem and also maybe make it difficult for players to ask for help,\" he said.\n\nBrian Davies, chief executive of Sport Wales, added: \"We want to do more research. If there was an increase in investment I'm sure we would put much more money aside for things like this.\"\n\nDespite not playing football any more, Mr Jones thinks young people who aspire to become professionals should think seriously about the career.\n\n\"I had committed so much of myself to football that when the fall came it was much harder,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think it's important for young people to develop their character.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The majority of the victims come from Australia\n\nNew Zealand police have completed the identification of the 18 victims of the White Island volcano, more than a week after it erupted.\n\nThe names and nationalities of 17 people have been released, but one person who died in an Australian hospital was not publicly named.\n\nTwo of those named are still missing - presumed to be dead near the island.\n\nBut poor weather has forced police to postpone the search for them.\n\nThere were 47 people on the island when the eruption took place last Monday.\n\nAbout 20 people still remain in intensive care with severe burns, including 19-year-old Jesse Langford, the only member of his family who is thought to have survived.\n\nThe victims who died as a result of the incident range from 13 - 53 in age and hail mainly from Australia and the US, police said.\n\nThe two people who have been named missing - but are presumed dead - are:\n\nPolice say they are still searching for the remaining two and more search missions could be carried out later on Tuesday, subject to weather.\n\nOne man from White Island, also known by its Maori name Whakaari, told Radio New Zealand that conditions around the island made it hard for searches to be carried out.\n\n\"It's an extremely rough coast line around White Island, lots of rocky outcrops, inaccessible areas,\" Phil van Dusschoten said.\n\nAn investigation into the disaster has been opened, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying there were still \"questions to be asked and answered\".\n\nMs Ardern, along with her cabinet, led the country in a minute of silence on Monday in respect for the victims.", "A Russian watchdog no longer plans to block Twitch over a dispute concerning pirated Premier League football games, according to the country's state media.\n\nTass reported telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor had dropped its threat after the Amazon-owned service removed the offending content.\n\nThe proposed ban had been prompted by a complaint from a firm that owns the local online rights to the matches.\n\nA lawyer acting on Rambler's behalf had said on Monday that it was suing the US firm for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) in damages. But another spokesman for the company subsequently said that sum needed to be \"clarified\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Twitch said that Rambler had withdrawn its claim and was no longer seeking any financial compensation.\n\n\"Twitch will continue to, as has always been the case, effectively and swiftly address any violation of its terms of service with the removal of unlicensed copyrighted content,\" said a spokeswoman for Twitch.\n\n\"We look forward to working together with Rambler to achieve this. We remain focused on delivering quality content to our Russian audience.\"\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch. The platform's focus is video games but it also offers other live video streams and pre-recorded content.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for three seasons of the English Premier League from the Russian sports broadcaster Match-TV earlier this year.\n\nAmazon has its own interest in restricting access to the Premier League since it recently bought exclusive rights to a number of matches for its own Prime Video service in the UK.", "Pope Francis has faced pressure to address the sexual abuse crisis in the Church\n\nThe Pope has declared that the rule of \"pontifical secrecy\" no longer applies to the sexual abuse of minors, in a bid to improve transparency in such cases.\n\nThe Church previously shrouded sexual abuse cases in secrecy, in what it said was an effort to protect the privacy of victims and reputations of the accused.\n\nBut new papal documents on Tuesday lifted restrictions on those who report abuse or say they have been victims.\n\nChurch leaders called for the rule's abolition at a February Vatican summit.\n\nThey said the lifting of the rule in such cases would improve transparency and the ability of the police and other civil legal authorities to request information from the Church.\n\nInformation in abuse cases should still be treated with \"security, integrity and confidentiality\", the Pope said in his announcement. He instructed Vatican officials to comply with civil laws and assist civil judicial authorities in investigating such cases.\n\nThe Pope also changed the Vatican's definition of child pornography, increasing the age of the subject from 14 or under to 18 or under.\n\nCharles Scicluna, the Archbishop of Malta and the Vatican's most experienced sex abuse investigator, called the move an \"epochal decision that removes obstacles and impediments\", telling Vatican news that \"the question of transparency now is being implemented at the highest level\".\n\nThe Church has been rocked by thousands of reports of sexual abuse by priests and accusations of cover-ups by senior clergy around the world. Pope Francis has faced serious pressure to provide leadership and generate workable solutions to the crisis, which has engulfed the Church in recent years.\n\nPontifical secrecy was designed to protect sensitive information such as communications between the Vatican and papal embassies - in a similar fashion to the secrecy applied to diplomatic cables. But it was also applied over the years to judicial cases, to protect the privacy of victims and the identities of those accused.\n\nCritics said pontifical secrecy had been abused by some Church officials to avoid co-operation with the police in abuse cases.\n\n\"Certain jurisdictions would have easily quoted the pontifical secret ... to say that they could not, and that they were not, authorised to share information with either state authorities or the victims,\" Archbishop Scicluna said. \"Now that impediment, we might call it that way, has been lifted, and the pontifical secret is no more an excuse.\"\n\nUnder the new instruction, the pontifical secret no longer binds those working in offices of the Roman Curia to confidentiality on other offences if committed in conjunction with child abuse or child pornography. Witnesses, alleged victims, and the person who filed the report are also be unbound from obligations of silence.\n\nOn his 83rd birthday, Pope Francis has responded to a longstanding complaint from survivors by announcing that any testimony gathered by the Church in relation to cases of sexual violence, the abuse of minors and child pornography will now be made available to state authorities.\n\nIn the past, the Church has been accused of using secrecy laws as a justification for not reporting cases of abuse. The consequence of breaching the pontifical secret was excommunication from the Church, so there was little incentive to be open to state authorities. That prohibition has now been abolished.\n\nIt is the latest attempt by the Roman Catholic Church to address the scourge of clerical abuse that has manifested itself across continents and in a range of religious institutions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conned by My Church: Young worshippers left in debt\n\nAn evangelical church praised for helping ex-gang members has been accused of financially exploiting young people from its congregation.\n\nOne member of charity SPAC Nation said she was persuaded to commit benefit fraud by a trustee, while another said she had a £5,000 loan taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nA former senior insider told the BBC that the church \"has to be shut down\".\n\nThe church's leader, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview\n\nKurtis, 23, was one of the church's trusted inner circle until his departure in January this year.\n\nHe appears in a BBC Panorama investigation into SPAC Nation, which is accused of leaving young people with debts of thousands of pounds.\n\n\"Certain leaders shouldn't be around youth, they shouldn't be around anywhere where people are vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe church's leader Pastor Tobi Adegboyega \"has to be held accountable\", Kurtis added.\n\nKurtis was one of the church's inner circle until his departure in January\n\nGracy was 21 when she joined SPAC in 2017. She told Panorama she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit after her Pastor Ebo Dougan - who is also a trustee of the charity - noticed she had stopped giving money to the church.\n\nShe handed over her details to Pastor Dougan and someone filled out an online application form on her behalf. She then attended a meeting at the job centre.\n\nThe BBC has seen messages and documentation that confirm her version of events.\n\nGracy's online application shows that after she left the appointment someone changed her details to show that she had two children. This made her eligible for a £1,200 payment.\n\n\"Even sometimes when we know things are wrong, in that moment I'm just thinking like 'OK, my father figure would not tell me to do something bad',\" she said.\n\nGracy was told to pay £900 of the sum into two accounts. She kept the rest, but was later investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions, who fined her £600 and ordered her to repay the £1,200.\n\n\"I can't afford it obviously,\" she said. \"I feel heartbroken because I thought this was supposed to be a family.\"\n\nGracy said she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit\n\nLovis was 18 when a loan was taken out in her name and without her knowledge, she said.\n\nShe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in November 2017.\n\nThe illness left her unable to continue working as an assistant sous chef and she began looking for a job with less demanding hours.\n\nShe was invited to an interview at a firm called Zuriel Recruitment. The agency was run by Tobi Adegboyega's second in command Samuel Akokhia, who has a conviction for attempted robbery.\n\nAt the interview Lovis provided Zuriel Recruitment with personal details including a photocopy of her passport, her home address, her mobile number and bank account details.\n\nAt the end of the process, her interviewer - a pastor at SPAC Nation - encouraged her to attend a service that week.\n\n\"It was a bit weird,\" she said. \"But at the end of the day it's church - so I didn't really think much of it.\"\n\nLovis started going to SPAC Nation services and several months later moved into a safe house - known as a \"TRAP house\" - run by Pastor Samuel Akokhia.\n\nIn March Lovis discovered a £5,000 four-year loan had been taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nThe money never reached her, instead being transferred to a company called E. R. Management Group. That company is run and owned by Emmanuel Akokhia, Samuel's brother.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen paperwork confirming the money trail. It is not known what happened to the money after it arrived in E. R. Management Group's account.\n\n\"They basically said the loan was for the greater good and they were going to use the money to buy a bigger TRAP house to accommodate more people,\" she said.\n\n\"And I was thinking 'that's all well and good - but why did I not know about it?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SPAC Nation has been praised for helping people to leave gangs\n\nOn Friday the charities regulator revealed it had opened its own investigation into SPAC Nation's safeguarding and finances.\n\nThe Charity Commission also ordered SPAC Nation to \"bank its money\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reviewing allegations of possible fraud and other offences before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nSPAC Nation denies that the church's lead pastor Tobi Adegboyega is financially exploiting young people.\n\nIt said the church had a \"robust complaints procedure\" and \"a well run disciplinary system\".\n\nSPAC Nation told the BBC that the church \"is not responsible what goes on inside individual leaders' or members' houses\".\n\nTobi Adegboyega ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview.\n\nWatch the full investigation on Panorama at 19:30 GMT or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sian Tarrant will look after North Ronaldsay's historic sheep dyke\n\nA warden has been appointed to look after a historic dyke which keeps a rare breed of seaweed-eating sheep on the beach of an island in Orkney.\n\nSian Tarrant secured the job on North Ronaldsay after a search which prompted interest from around the world.\n\nHer job will be to maintain the 19th Century stone wall.\n\nIt used to be maintained by the community, but that has become more difficult due to recent weather damage and a falling population on the island.\n\nSian, 28, said the job was \"quite daunting\" because so much of the dyke was in an \"unfavourable state\".\n\nBut she said: \"There's such a long history linking the islanders with the dyke. I hope that I can continue the labour of love, and repair it.\"\n\nThe structure, which is 6ft high and 13 miles long, was erected in the 1800s using beach stones.\n\nIt encircles the entire island to keep the sheep on the rocky foreshore.\n\nThe sheep are seen as a vital part of the island's economy due to the popularity of North Ronaldsay mutton and their wool.\n\nNorth Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed which eat only seaweed for most of the year.\n\nIt is thought that they may originally have evolved to thrive on the diet due to the difficult winters and isolated location, which could have left them without grass for months on end.\n\nAs a result, they have adapted to absorb more of certain minerals, especially copper, from the seaweed.\n\nThe dyke was built in 1831 to preserve the island's inland pastures for other domestic animals.\n\nThis has prevented the sheep from mixing with other breeds, making them rare. They also feature on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist due to the low number of breeding females.\n\nThe sheep are only allowed inland during lambing season, which runs from May to August - but even then, some still stick to their seaweed-only diet.\n\nSian, who is originally from East Sussex, studied marine biology at St Andrews University and had been volunteering with the National Trust in North Devon.\n\n\"I wanted to find something outdoors because that's what I love doing, and I saw this come up,\" she told BBC Radio Orkney.\n\nSian said she had fallen in love with island life while working with seals in a number of places in Scotland, including the uninhabited Orkney island of Eynhallow.\n\nShe secured the job with an interview which took place over Skype while she was sitting in a car park in Snowdonia with her phone.\n\n\"It was really surreal. I don't know what the interview panel thought,\" she said.\n\nVolunteers come to work on the dyke during a sheep festival\n\nAlison Duncan from the North Ronaldsay Trust said Sian was \"very well suited to the job\".\n\nShe says the post, funded through the North Isles Landscape Partnership, will make \"a huge difference\" to maintaining the dyke.\n\n\"Pieces of it do come down every year, through weather or sea, and in the past there were many people around to build these places up again,\" she said.\n\n\"But in more recent years we've had bigger breaches of the dyke, and it's more difficult for just the folk on the island to build that up.\"\n\nThe community has tackled that problem by running an annual Sheep Festival, when volunteers come to work on the dyke.\n\nSian will work with the Sheep Festival, and said she also wanted to enlist people outside Orkney through things like volunteering and working holidays.", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\nBlack cab rapist John Worboys has been handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more women.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London.\n\nThe four victims came forward after a public outcry caused by a Parole Board ruling that he was safe to be freed.\n\nSentencing Worboys, Mrs Justice McGowan said she did not know when \"if ever you will cease to be a risk\".\n\nIn 2009, Worboys was locked up indefinitely for the public's protection with a minimum term of eight years after being found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.\n\nIn January 2018, the Parole Board said Worboys would be freed after serving 10 years but victims challenged the decision.\n\nThat decision was later overturned by the High Court, leading to a review of the decision where the Parole Board decided Worboys must remain in jail.\n\nAmong the reasons given for refusing Worboys parole were his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and a need to control women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becki Houlston told the BBC that Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC told the Old Bailey that psychiatrist Philip Joseph found Worboys had been \"fantasising\" about attacking women since 1986.\n\nA probation report in August this year found \"he is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence\".\n\nAfter the four women came forward, Worboys, of Enfield, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.\n\nMr Penny said the first victim was targeted in 2000 or early 2001 after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street in Soho.\n\nThe second victim, a university student living in north London, was picked up after a night out with friends at a club on New Oxford Street in 2003.\n\nWorboys' third victim was picked up after a night out on King's Road in 2007 where he told her he had won £40,000 at a casino and offered her champagne.\n\nWorboys would win victims' trust before pouring them a glass of drug-laced alcohol\n\nThe court heard Worboys told the fourth victim he had won the lottery and offered her and her friend miniature bottles of champagne.\n\nMr Penny said: \"She woke up in bed the following morning. The bedclothes had not moved and her hands were crossed over her chest, which was unusual.\n\n\"She was sufficiently unnerved to check herself. There were no visible signs she had been touched.\"\n\nMr Penny told the court: \"The consistent themes throughout, together with the content of what took place, seems to be the profound effect not knowing what happened has had in each of these women throughout their lives, as a result of having been unfortunate enough to get into the defendant's black cab.\"\n\nIf an offender tells lies, does that increase their risk to the public? That's the key issue at the heart of this case.\n\nJohn Worboys lied to psychologists before his parole hearing in 2017, giving a carefully-crafted account that tallied only with the crimes he'd been convicted of.\n\nHe was assessed as safe to be released from prison. But, when more victims came forward Worboys changed his story.\n\nDespite this Dr Jackie Craissati, an experienced clinical forensic psychologist, told the court she believes Worboys poses a low risk of sexual reoffending.\n\nShe says she doesn't expect offenders to give \"truthful and full\" accounts of their behaviour when assessing how dangerous they are.\n\nThe judge clearly did not agree, and many others may baulk at the idea that someone who can't be trusted to tell the truth about their crimes can nevertheless be trusted in the community.\n\nThe black cab used by Worboys in his attacks\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London.\n\nBecki Houlston, who has waived her right to anonymity, said Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth.\n\n\"He was pretty pre-meditated from the get-go, and I was a woman on my own,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"He is highly manipulative and relentless. It becomes easier to just accept a drink to shut him up.\"\n\nIn Ms Houlston's case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\nReacting to the sentencing, the CPS's Tina Dempster said: \"John Worboys is a dangerous predator who still poses a clear threat to women.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's second biggest housing firm does not have an agreed minimum standard for all the homes it builds, an independent report has found.\n\nA report into Persimmon says that a lack of a group build policy increases the risk of defects in its houses.\n\nPersimmon has been under pressure after a number of buyers complained about the safety of its homes.\n\nThe review found that some houses did not have fire-stopping cavity barriers or they had been wrongly installed.\n\nIt said that the issue of missing or improperly fitted cavity barriers was \"a systemic nationwide problem\", which it said was \"a manifestation of poor culture coupled with the lack of a group build process\".\n\nPersimmon's chairman Roger Devlin commissioned the report in April after complaints emerged about the quality of its new homes.\n\nOne couple, Phil and Nicola Bentley, said that they had discovered 700 defects in the Persimmon home they paid £280,000 for in 2017.\n\nThe independent review into Persimmon, led by barrister Stephanie Barwise QC of Atkin Chambers, said that there were no agreed procedures to supervise or inspect its employees or sub-contractors' work and that staff were only given limited training.\n\nIt recommended that the firm \"should take sufficient time to formulate and embed a 'Persimmon Way' of building\".\n\nIt also said that the company's corporate culture needed to change.\n\nPersimmon's former chief executive Jeff Fairburn was forced out last year amid criticism of a pay deal which awarded him £75m.\n\nMr Devlin said that the \"very thorough and comprehensive review\" \"found that Persimmon had focused on policies around inspections immediately before and after the sale of a home, rather than those governing build quality inspections\".\n\n\"In my view, this is one of its central findings and I am encouraged that the company is already embracing the review's recommendations in this area through significant operational investment and procedural change,\" he said.\n\nMs Barwise said: \"The board of Persimmon deserve significant credit for commissioning this review and publishing its findings.\n\n\"It demonstrates their willingness to confront some difficult truths as they focus the business on rapid change and improvement.\n\nIn February, the company announced that its annual profits had passed £1bn for the first time - up from £966m in 2017.\n\nAt the time, a source close to Housing Minister James Brokenshire said the minister was \"increasingly concerned\" by Persimmon's practices, including its use of leasehold contracts, the quality of its buildings and its leadership.\n\nHe said this meant its inclusion in the Help to Buy scheme was under review.", "The pup was surrounded by people and had to be abandoned by its mother\n\nBeachgoers have been blamed for the deaths of three seal pups in three days at a colony on a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe Friends of Horsey Seals said one of the animals drowned on Sunday after being chased into the water, while another was abandoned by its mother after being surrounded by people.\n\nA third died after being attacked by a dog two days earlier.\n\nThe charity said deaths due to \"human intervention\" were \"not acceptable\" and urged visitors to keep their distance.\n\nA spokesman said in one case on Sunday \"two young children were allowed by their mother to chase the young unweaned, non-waterproof pup into the water where it drowned\".\n\nAnother seal pup died on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, after its mother was unable to reach it after it was surrounded by visitors, he said.\n\nProf Ben Garrod, from the University of East Anglia, said: \"The action of visitors to Horsey and Winterton are killing seals. Actually killing them.\n\n\"The vast majority of people are amazing it's just a handful of absolute idiots. It is a criminal offence to cause death to any protected species.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edita Butkeviciute: \"When I woke up the second time I saw the sofa just in front of me - a burgundy, three-seater leather sofa.\"\n\nA woman left seriously injured by a sofa which fell from a building has said she is \"glad to be alive\".\n\nEdita Butkeviciute, 30, has been in hospital with injuries to her spine, legs and lungs since the incident in Aberdeen city centre on 7 December.\n\nShe said she faces three months more in hospital as \"everything is broken inside me\".\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 31, have been charged after the sofa was allegedly thrown from a building.\n\nMs Butkeviciute, from Lithuania, had stepped outside at the rear of her work to speak to her boyfriend Daniel Ferreira on the phone when the sofa fell.\n\nShe said: \"I remember just waking up, I screamed really loud for help and started feeling cold. I couldn't move.\"\n\nShe said she was probably unconscious for some time.\n\nThe incident happened at the rear of a building\n\n\"When I woke up the second time I saw the sofa just in front of me - a burgundy, three-seater leather sofa,\" she added. \"I didn't know that had come on top of me.\"\n\nMs Butkeviciute said she then heard police and ambulance crews.\n\nHer colleagues put warm covers over her, as she had started getting \"really, really cold\".\n\nShe recalled: \"All the way to hospital I was asking if I was going to be paralysed. I was telling them 'please call my boyfriend'.\n\n\"I remember being in a lot of pain, a lot of x-rays. Everything is broken inside me. I have a lot of broken parts.\"\n\nShe said: \"It's like little simple stuff I cannot do now - I will be in here for three months until I fully recover. Thankfully I am not paralysed.\n\n\"The doctor said 'you are so lucky'. I am very lucky, I will still be able to live my life as normal. I am alive.\"\n\nEdita said she is now looking to the future\n\nAsked about spending Christmas in hospital, she joked: \"I don't really care - my boyfriend said he will come and sing me Jingle Bells.\n\n\"I am very glad I am alive. I am very lucky to be alive.\"\n\nShe has now been moved to Woodend Hospital from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nSpeaking about the coming months, she said: \"I know it will be hard but I am staying positive. I am very very positive, stubborn. I will try my best.\n\n\"I know I will be able to walk again.\"\n\nA report on the case has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nAston Villa overwhelmed Liverpool's youngest-ever starting line-up to cruise into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.\n\nWith the Reds' senior players in action at the Club World Cup in Qatar on Wednesday, under-23s boss Neil Critchley led a side containing five debutants and which had an average age of 19 years, six months and three days.\n\nWhile Villa made 10 changes from their Premier League defeat at Sheffield United, their vastly superior experience ensured they lived up to their favourites tag at Villa Park.\n\nLiverpool began brightly - and indeed enjoyed significant spells of possession throughout the match - but conceded two freak goals in the space of three first-half minutes to allow the hosts to settle.\n\nFirst, Conor Hourihane's free-kick from the right deceived Caoimhin Kelleher, and the Reds keeper then saw an Ahmed Elmohamady cross deflect off Morgan Boyes and loop over him into the left corner.\n\nJonathan Kodjia added Villa's third with a cool finish after Jota's through ball, before the Ivorian swept in Elmohamady's cross from the right.\n\nWesley completed the scoring for the hosts, who reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first time since 2012-13.\n\nFive-times winners Villa head into a two-legged semi-final in January against Leicester City, although manager Dean Smith might view forthcoming league matches against Southampton, Norwich and Watford - the three teams below them in the table - as arguably of greater significance.\n• None 'Try telling those players it was a bad evening' - Critchley defends naming young Liverpool side\n• None Why you should watch Liverpool in the Club World Cup on the BBC\n\nSignificant statistics were plentiful as the teams were confirmed.\n\nAt an average of 19.48 years, it was the youngest line-up in Liverpool's history, eclipsing the 21.81 in an FA Cup tie against Plymouth nearly three years ago.\n\nThe starting side boasted a paltry 16 previous first-team appearances for Liverpool between them while their shirt numbers added up to 737.\n\nNone of the Liverpool players were alive the last time Villa won a trophy, when they beat Leeds to win this competition in 1996.\n\nBy the final whistle, there was a more sobering statistic. This was Liverpool's heaviest League Cup defeat, eclipsing a 4-1 loss to West Ham in 1988 and a 6-3 reverse by Arsenal in 2007.\n\nOf course, given the unique circumstances, the result should almost come with an asterisk. Football statistics do not work like that though, so into the record books the result will go.\n\nWhen Harvey Elliott made his first EFL Cup appearance, he was so young he had to get changed away from his team-mates on child protection grounds as he was still to reach his 16th birthday.\n\nHe is still not old enough to drive and can't turn professional until his 17th birthday in April but Elliott is clearly talented and against Villa underlined why Liverpool were so keen to persuade him to move north from Fulham in the summer.\n\nIt was Elliott's early shot that forced Orjan Nyland into a one-handed save when the game was still goalless and he provided a terrific pass that allowed Isaac Christie-Davies to go close later in the half.\n\nHe played on the right wing but it is his cultured left foot that is his key weapon, making difficult passes look easy and always offering a threat to the opposition - even when they are seasoned professionals - when on the ball.\n\nWatching from Liverpool's team hotel in Doha, Jurgen Klopp is sure to have been impressed, as was Critchley, Elliott's boss in Birmingham.\n\nThis was a fixture Villa knew was a 'no-win' scenario.\n\nAssuming it turned out as it did, it was always going to be dismissed as exactly the result that was expected. If they had lost, though, ridicule would inevitably have followed.\n\nAs it turned out, Smith's side were professional and clinical, ensuring there was no need to call on substitutes Jack Grealish or John McGinn.\n\nIt was a good night for Villa's £11m striker Kodjia too, who has been restricted to 41 minutes of action in the Premier League this season.\n\nWith first-choice forward Wesley struggling for form - the Brazilian's injury-time effort was his first in 10 games going back to 5 October - Kodjia's two-goal contribution was well timed.\n\nThe Ivorian's first goal in particular required a calm finish after he raced clear following a mistake by Boyes.\n\n'I thought we were magnificent' - what they said\n\nLiverpool stand-in manager Neil Critchley talking to Sky Sports: \"I thought we were magnificent. We were fantastic from the start, we had a couple of chances from the first whistle. We were really unfortunate to concede and then find ourselves 2-0 down. It was an incredible night and no-one wanted it to end. The support we had was unbelievable.\n\n\"The conduct of the Villa players was first class. For Dean Smith and John Terry to come in to our dressing room after the game and say the things they said... They said 'keep going, good luck' and wished us the best. A moment I will remember and the players will remember for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"Some of them showed the potential to one day play for us, or in the Premier League. They will know it was just part of their journey. My overwhelming feeling is one of immense pride.\"\n\nAston Villa manager Dean Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was probably the weirdest major competition quarter-final I've seen or been involved in. They started brightly, they've got some technically gifted young players. We were clinical, professional and showed a good attitude. It was a bit of a no-win for us apart from getting through to a semi-final.\n\n\"I must credit the players. Before the game I used the word 'attitude' - it had to be right today. Everyone expected us to win, we expected to win, but you've still got to do the job. Even though we were playing a young Liverpool team, we had James Chester who hadn't played for 11 months, it was Jonathan Kodjia and Orjan Nyland's first game of the season too. I thought Jota was a bit of a Rolls Royce for us tonight.\n\n\"Wesley needed that goal. He's got a little bit of unfair stick. He's a young player, he's got great honesty and attitude. It was a good finish. It will do him the world of good.\n\n\"I was brought up coaching U18s and U23s, Liverpool played really well tonight but they'll be disappointed with the result. They've got some starlets that will be performing at Premier League level in the next three or four years.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Aston Villa have reached the semi-finals of the League Cup for the first time since the 2012/13 campaign, while Liverpool have been eliminated at the quarter-final stage of the competition for the first time since 2007/08.\n• None Aston Villa's 5-0 victory was just their second win in their last 21 home matches against Liverpool in all competitions (D5 L14), ending a run of six consecutive defeats against the Reds on home turf.\n• None Liverpool's defeat was their first in 20 games across all competitions (W16 D3), with Aston Villa becoming the first side to beat them since Napoli in the Champions League back in September.\n• None Liverpool suffered their biggest margin of defeat in any competition since September 2017, when they lost 5-0 against Manchester City in the Premier League.\n• None Liverpool conceded four first-half goals for the first time in any competition since May 2015, against Stoke in the Premier League.\n• None The average age of Liverpool's starting side against Aston Villa was 19 years & 182 days, the youngest starting line-up the Reds have ever fielded for a competitive fixture.\n• None Only Burton's Liam Boyce (five) has scored more League Cup goals this season than Aston Villa's Conor Hourihane (four).\n\nLiverpool play Mexican side Monterrey in their Club World Cup semi-final in Qatar on Wednesday. They next play in the Premier League on Boxing Day, when they travel to Leicester (20:00 GMT). Villa host Southampton on 21 December (15:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 5, Liverpool 0. Wesley (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Trézéguet with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ahmed El Mohamady with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Leighton Clarkson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Tony Gallacher (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt missed. Leighton Clarkson (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. James Norris replaces Ki-Jana Hoever because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Neil Taylor tries a through ball, but Henri Lansbury is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Henri Lansbury (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Trézéguet.\n• None Attempt missed. Herbie Kane (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt saved. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Douglas Luiz.\n• None Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Herbie Kane (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harvey Elliott. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Whirlpool have decided to recall machines after identifying a safety issue with some Hotpoint and Indesit machines made since 2014.\n\nBoss Jeff Noel said they understand how important washing machines are to family life, especially at Christmas, and apologise to customers, but say safety comes first.", "Serie A has used images of monkeys in an anti-racism campaign less than three weeks after its clubs pledged to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\".\n\nThe 'No To Racism' posters show three monkeys with painted faces and will be shown at Serie A headquarters in Milan.\n\n\"Once again Italian football leaves the world speechless. It's difficult to see what Serie A was thinking,\" said anti-discriminatory body Fare.\n\nArtist Simone Fugazzotto, defended his creation, saying \"we are all monkeys\".\n\nFugazzotto, who always uses monkeys in his work, added: \"For an artist there is nothing more important than trying to change the perception of things through his own work.\n\n\"I decided to portray monkeys to talk about racism because they are the metaphor for human beings. Last year I was at the stadium to see Inter v Napoli [a match in which Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly was racially abused] and I felt humiliated, everyone was shouting 'monkey' at Koulibaly, a player I respect.\n\n\"I've always been painting monkeys for five to six years, so I thought I'd make this work to teach that we're all apes, I made the western monkey with blue and white eyes, the Asian monkey with almond-shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the centre, where everything comes from. The monkey becomes the spark to teach everyone that there is no difference, there is no man or monkey, we are all alike. If anything we are all monkeys.\"\n\nHowever, Fare said: \"In a country in which the authorities fail to deal with racism week after week, Serie A have launched a campaign that looks like a sick joke.\n\n\"These creations are an outrage; they will be counter-productive and continue the dehumanisation of people of African heritage.\n\n\"It is time for the progressive clubs in the league to make their voice heard.\"\n\nAnti-discrimination body Kick It Out added: \"Serie A's use of monkeys in their anti-racism campaign is completely inappropriate, undermines any positive intent and will be counter-productive.\n\n\"We hope that the league reviews and replaces their campaign graphics.\"\n\nIn November, Brescia's Mario Balotelli called fans who shouted racist abuse at him \"small-minded\" and \"imbeciles\".\n\nInter Milan's Romelu Lukaku said the abuse he suffered in September, when Cagliari fans made monkey noises after the Belgian scored a penalty against their team, showed the game was \"going backwards\".\n\nThe Sardinian club were later cleared of racist chanting, leading the head of anti-discriminatory body Fare to say that Italian football authorities and their disciplinary systems to combat racism were \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nEarlier this month Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport was criticised for the headline 'Black Friday' alongside images of Roma defender Chris Smalling and Inter striker Lukaku prior to a match between the sides.\n\n\"Question for the league is how they can't see what a loaded and misguided collaboration this is for an anti-racism initiative,\" he said.\n\n\"If you wondered why a select group of Serie A clubs are taking anti-racism into their own hands, faith in the league is sub-zero.\"\n\nSerie A chief executive Luigi de Siervo said: \"The League's commitment against all forms of prejudice is strong and concrete, we know that racism is an endemic and very complex problem, which we will tackle on three different levels; the cultural one, through works like that of Simone; the sporting one, with a series of initiatives together with clubs and players, and the repressive one, thanks to collaboration with the police.\"", "Today has brought back the familiar sight of green benches as MPs return to the Commons for the first time since the election.\n\nThis morning Boris Johnson chaired his first cabinet meeting since the country went to the polls, and this afternoon he addressed the Commons - you can read what he said here. The remainder of the day has been spent swearing in MPs one-by-one, in a lengthy process that will run well into tomorrow.\n• For a full recap of the day, see this post.\n\nAll that, and we're still not even halfway through Parliament's first week back. Here's what's left to come:\n\nWednesday There'll be more swearing in. To recap, MPs are required to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown, or, if they object to this, a solemn affirmation. Two to three days are usually set aside for this. (Those who speak or vote without having done so are deprived of their seat \"as if they were dead\" under the Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866.)\n\nThursday The state opening of Parliament. The Queen's Speech is the centrepiece of this, when she will read a speech written by ministers setting out the government's programme of legislation for the parliamentary session. A couple of hours after the speech is delivered, MPs will begin debating its contents - a process which usually takes days.\n\nFriday Depending on how rapidly Boris Johnson wants to move, the debate on the Queen's Speech could continue into Friday. The government will introduce the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament.\n\nMPs in the previous Parliament backed Mr Johnson's bill at its first stage but rejected his plan to fast-track the legislation through Parliament in three days.\n\nAfter the debate on the Queen's Speech is concluded, MPs will vote on whether to approve it. Not since 1924 has a Queen's Speech been defeated.\n\nThanks for joining us, see you again tomorrow.", "Sanna Marin worked as a sales assistant before going to university and entering politics\n\nEstonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as \"a sales girl\".\n\nPresident Kersti Kaljulaid said she was \"embarrassed\" by the comments of Mart Helme, 70, who leads the populist far-right party Ekre.\n\nShe heads a centre-left coalition with four other parties, all female-led, and has been a rising star for some years.\n\nMr Helme made his controversial remarks on his party's radio talk-show.\n\n\"Now we see how one sales girl has become a prime minister and how some other street activists and non-educated people have also joined the cabinet,\" he said.\n\nMs Marin has spoken about growing up in a disadvantaged family. She worked as a sales assistant before going to university and embarking on a political career.\n\nShe was the first person in her family to finish high school and attend university.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Ms Marin said she was \"extremely proud of Finland\".\n\n\"Here a child from a poor family can get educated and achieve many things in their lives. The cashier of the shop can become a prime minister,\" she wrote.\n\nMr Helme said his comments had been misunderstood, but offered an apology to Ms Marin.\n\nHe said he had intended to \"acknowledge that it is possible to work oneself up from a low social level also into top politics\".\n\n\"If someone has misunderstood it... then indeed I want to say that I am offering my apology to the prime minister of Finland,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, Estonia's President Kaljulaid said she had called her Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, and asked him to convey her apologies to Ms Marin and her government.\n\n\"I also admitted to him how embarrassed I am for all this,\" she said.\n\nEstonian opposition parties called for Mr Helme to resign, or for Prime Minister Jüri Ratas to sack him.\n\nEstonia is the most northerly of the three Baltic states and has linguistic ties with Finland, which lies just across the Gulf of Finland.\n\nEkre (The Conservative People's Party of Estonia) entered the coalition government in May after taking 17.8% of the vote in a general election. The party promised to protect an \"indigenous Estonia\".\n\nMr Helme has become known for his outspoken statements and controversial behaviour.\n\nWhen he was sworn in, he - along with his son Martin - made the \"OK\" hand sign - a symbol that has become an alleged dog-whistle for white nationalists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Finland's Sanna Marin described how her new role might impact her life", "Russia's third-largest internet company is suing streaming service Twitch for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League games.\n\nRambler Group alleges its exclusive broadcasting rights were breached by the service more than 36,000 times between August and November.\n\nIt is seeking to permanently ban the Amazon-owned platform in Russia.\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch, which has more than 15 million daily active users worldwide.\n\nIts terms and conditions state users cannot share content without permission from the copyright owners, including films, television programmes and sports matches.\n\nThe streaming giant's lawyer, Julianna Tabastaeva, told Russian-language news website Kommersant Twitch \"only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations\".\n\nShe added the company took \"all necessary measures to eliminate the violations, despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler\".\n\nThe Moscow City Court will hear the case on 20 December.\n\nIt has ordered a temporary suspension of English Premier League streams on Twitch pending the outcome.\n\n\"Our suit against Twitch is to defend our exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League matches and we will continue to actively combat pirate broadcasts,\" said Mikhail Gershkovich, head of Rambler Group's sports project, in a statement.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for the English Premier League in 2019, for three seasons.\n\nIt is holding talks with Twitch in the hope of reaching a settlement agreement.\n\nAmazon holds the exclusive rights to a number of Premier League matches in the UK over the next three years.\n\nThe company bought Twitch for $970m (£585m) in 2014.", "US aviation regulators allowed Boeing's 737 Max aircraft to continue flying despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nAnalysis after the first crash last year predicted there could be up to 15 disasters over the lifetime of the aircraft without design changes.\n\nDespite this, the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the Max until a second crash five months later.\n\nFAA chief Steve Dickson, who started in August, said this was a mistake.\n\nThe FAA risk assessment was revealed during a US congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lawmakers are investigating Boeing following fatal 737 Max crashes in Indonesia in October 2018, and Ethiopia in March. The disasters killed 346 people in total.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the crashes have identified an automated control system in the 737 Max 8, known as MCAS, as a factor in both accidents.\n\nBoeing has said the system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nThe FAA's investigation of the October Indonesia crash called for Boeing to redesign its system, warning of a risk of more than a dozen crashes over the 45-year lifetime of the roughly 4,800 737 Max planes in service.\n\nRegulators also issued an alert to airlines, but the agency did not ground the aircraft until after the 10 March Ethiopia crash, several days after action by other countries.\n\n\"Obviously the result was not satisfactory,\" said Mr Dickson. In response to later questions, he admitted the agency had made a mistake at some point in the process.\n\nBoeing is revising the MCAS software, but lawmakers say their investigation has shown that the aircraft manufacturer was aware of flaws in the system.\n\nBoeing staff have also raised concerns that the company was prioritising speed over safety at the factory that produced Max 737s, contributing to the crashes.\n\nEd Pierson, a former senior manager at the factory, told Congress he repeatedly warned Boeing's leadership of the safety risks caused by what he described as a \"factory in chaos\", but it had little effect.\n\nHe also said that, after the crashes, US government regulators have shown little interest in his concerns.\n\n\"I remain gravely concerned that... the flying public will remain at risk unless this unstable production environment is rigorously investigated and closely monitored by regulators on an ongoing basis,\" he said in prepared testimony.\n\nMr Dickson said the FAA is probing production issues. He also said he is considering further actions against Boeing.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing said Mr Pierson's own account showed the company took his concerns seriously.\n\n\"Company executives and senior leaders on the 737 programme were made aware of Mr Pierson's concerns, discussed them in detail, and took appropriate steps to assess them,\" it said.", "The employment rate in Wales fell slightly between August and October, according to the latest figures.\n\nThey suggest there were 8,000 fewer people in employment in Wales than the previous quarter, and 20,000 fewer compared with the same time last year.\n\nWales has a relatively low level of people employed at 74.3% of 16 to 64-year-olds, compared with the UK.\n\nOnly Northern Ireland, the north-east of England and Yorkshire and Humber have lower levels of employment.\n\nDespite the fall, the rate remains near historically high levels.\n\nHowever, unemployment in Wales fell during the quarter, with the jobless rate going down to 3.6% of people over 16.\n\nThat is below the UK rate of 3.8% and lower than the previous three months.\n\nThere were 4,000 fewer unemployed in Wales compared with May to July.\n\nThe fall in both employment and unemployment is in part explained by an increase in the number of \"economically inactive\" people - working-age adults who are not employed and not available to work because of factors like sickness, early retirement or being a full-time carer or student.\n\nIn Wales, the figures suggest 22.9% of working age adults were economically inactive, up from 22.3% in the previous quarter and 21.1% in the same period last year. This is higher than the UK average, as has historically been the case.\n\nThere were 12,000 more people in Wales counted as economically inactive between August and October, and 34,000 more than 12 months ago.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Labour's Stella Creasy has been re-elected as the MP for Walthamstow, and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter Hettie sleeping in a sling.\n\nMs Creasy is the UK's first MP to have a \"locum MP\" to provide maternity cover.\n\nShe won with 36,784 votes, far ahead of her nearest rival, Conservative Shade Adoh with 5,922.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Money may go further for those on Christmas holidays overseas this year\n\nAs the country contemplates the election results, people's thoughts will turn to the potential effect on their finances.\n\nMoney matters are often to the fore at this, expensive, time of year. The December election is likely to mean some changes to the pound in your pocket before the winter is out, with other changes more long-term.\n\nHere are some of the key issues, based on the Conservative Party's manifesto, its plans before the campaign and its promises during it.\n\nThose who are heading abroad for Christmas will see their holiday money go a little further.\n\nThe value of the pound improved against the US dollar and the euro when the Conservative victory became clear, and this will now have fed through to the rates at bureaux de change.\n\nHowever, travelling overseas at this time of year can be very expensive, so this will only bring a little relief.\n\nThe big set-piece financial event of the year had been planned for November, but was postponed as the prime minister pushed for an election.\n\nDuring the campaign, Boris Johnson promised a Budget within 100 days of the polling day if the Conservatives were elected. This is likely to mean a Budget in February or March, setting any changes to taxes, benefits and allowances in time for the start of the new financial year in April.\n\nMr Johnson promised that a tax break for workers, through a change to National Insurance, would be confirmed in that first Budget.\n\nThe current threshold sees workers paying National Insurance contributions once they earn £8,628 a year. The Conservatives said this would rise to £9,500.\n\nEconomists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated this would be worth about £85 a year for all those with earnings above £9,500 a year.\n\nThis Budget - and any subsequent ones during this five-year Parliament - will see no income tax or VAT rises (nor any National Insurance rises), according to a promise in the Conservative Party's manifesto. However, this was described as \"ill-advised\" by the IFS owing to the potential lack of room for financial manoeuvre it creates.\n\nThe Budget is likely to confirm the biggest increase in the state pension since 2012, with pensioners expected to receive a 3.9% boost.\n\nThe full, new state pension is expected to go up from £168.60 a week to about £175.20 in April. However, most pensioners get the older basic state pension, which is likely to go up from £129.20 to £134.25 per week. They may also get a Pension Credit top-up.\n\nThe rise is the result of the triple-lock system, which means that the state pension rises in line with inflation, earnings or 2.5% - whichever is the highest. The Conservatives have pledged to keep this in place, as it has with the winter fuel payment and free bus passes for older people.\n\nA Pensions Bill is, to use one of Mr Johnson's phrases, oven-ready. It had been prepared before the election was called and includes new protection for those with workplace pensions, and reforms to allow a new type of shared-risk pension scheme to be made available.\n\nThere is also a longer-term promise in the manifesto to look at a pension \"loophole\" that has seen workers, disproportionately women, who earn between £10,000 and £12,500 missing out on pension benefits.\n\nDespite a number of pension changes in the offing, it is hard to see how they will include any compensation for women born in the 1950s who believe they unfairly missed out on the state pension.\n\nThere have been no promises made to the so-called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality), although they will continue to put pressure on the government to address the issue.\n\nThe separate Backto60 group, which campaigns on the same issue, recently lost a high-profile court case.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference in September, Chancellor Sajid Javid pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 an hour within the next five years. The current rate for over 25s is £8.21.\n\nThe age at which workers qualify for the National Living Wage - the highest level of minimum wage - is set to drop from 25 to 21 within five years.\n\nCommentators have suggested that there is pent-up demand in the UK housing market - particularly in London. Buyers and sellers have been put off making such a big financial commitment owing to political and economic uncertainty.\n\nNow the first of those is off the table, to a degree, given the size of the Conservative majority, there may be more transactions. More demand could push up prices - which is good for sellers, but bad for first-time buyers.\n\nHowever, one commentator says it may be a short-term phenomenon.\n\n\"We suggest only modest price growth in 2020 on the basis that, despite domestic political uncertainty receding, some economic uncertainty will remain until a trade deal is agreed with the EU,\" says Lucian Cook, director of residential research at Savills.\n\n\"This could mean a bounce in demand in the first part of 2020 proves difficult to sustain through the summer months and into the autumn market.\"\n\nThere is a promise in the manifesto to look carefully at the \"thoughtful\" suggestions in the review into student finance and university and college funding, led by Philip Augar.\n\nIn the short term, this suggests the current freeze of tuition fees in England at their current level of £9,250 will continue.\n\nUniversal Credit has been one of the most controversial benefit reforms of a generation. A Conservative victory means the roll-out across the country will now continue.\n\nUniversal Credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits including Income Support and Housing Benefit and merging them into one payment.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions announced in November that working-age benefits such as Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance would rise by 1.7% from April.\n\nIt ends former chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze which, according to the IFS, has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto promised free parking at hospitals for people with disabilities, those who attend outpatient departments frequently, parents of sick children staying overnight and staff working night shifts.\n\nIt also promises to pave the way for longer-term mortgages, more similar to a US system, although there will be some regulatory and practical hurdles to clear before that becomes reality. There are questions too over whether there would be demand for such products among people who may wish to move more frequently.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke a during the campaign, and prior to it, of a plan to abolish the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products once the UK has left the EU, which he called the \"tampon tax\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative win announced in Blyth Valley, breaking Labour's 50-year hold in the former mining constituency\n\nLabour's \"red wall\" across the Midlands and the north of England - the bedrock of the party's support for generations - crumbled as the Conservatives claimed key marginal seats.\n\nLeave-voting former mining towns like Workington, which was seen as representative of the voters parties needed to win over, backed the Tories.\n\nTony Blair's former constituency of Sedgefield went blue, as did West Bromwich East, vacated by former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nThe Conservatives carved a path from Greater Manchester to Lincolnshire, the Black Country to Northumberland, as Labour strongholds fell.\n\nSome of these seats have not had a Tory MP in decades, and in the case of Burnley it had been more than a century.\n\nBolsover in Derbyshire, which has been Labour since it was created in 1950 and Dennis Skinner's seat since 1970, confirmed Boris Johnson's Commons majority at just after 05:00 GMT.\n\nCan't see the map? Click here\n\nDennis Skinner was not present at the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, having recently undergone hip surgery.\n\nHis absence held a sad irony, given that he has been very much an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades.\n\nLike him or loathe him, his memorable public image - the famous finger, the voice raised above the Commons cacophony - struck a chord with many.\n\nRead how the Beast of Bolsover was beaten.\n\nThings began to unravel at about 23:30 with Blyth Valley, a Labour seat since 1950.\n\nAcross the night and into the following morning, the Conservatives seized 54 seats from Labour, and although some of these have been marginal in recent years, many were considered to be safe by the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Promises from the new Tory MPs\n\nShadow justice secretary Lord Falconer said Labour had lost \"our most heartland support\" with long-term supporters no longer feeling connected to the party.\n\n\"The big question is what do we do to start having a conversation again, both with the people in the marginals, the floating voters that could be one or the other, but also our heartland,\" he said.\n\n\"If we don't do it quickly, it will be too late to put it together again.\"\n\nPhil Wilson, who stood for Labour in Mr Blair's old constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham, said the Labour leader went down \"like a lead balloon\" with voters on the doorstep.\n\n\"For Labour leadership to blame Brexit for the result is mendacious nonsense. Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was a bigger problem. To say otherwise is delusional,\" he tweeted.\n\nOne of Mr Corbyn's closest allies - the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone - said it \"looked like the end\" for the Labour leader, and he would probably \"have to resign\".\n\nBut Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who retained his Wansbeck seat in Northumberland by 814 votes, said the party had suffered a lot of \"hostility\", \"resentment\" and \"nastiness\" because of its position on Brexit.\n\n\"People feel let down, that's the reality of it,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, citing Labour's support for a second EU referendum having previously said it would accept the result of the first.\n\n\"We lost trust and we cannot as a party continue to promise one thing and do another.\"\n\nCaroline Flint said she was fighting on \"two fronts\"\n\nLosing her Don Valley seat in South Yorkshire, Caroline Flint - never a fan of Mr Corbyn and Leave supporter - blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership and Remain-backing MPs for the party's performance.\n\nThe former Labour minister's former seat has existed since 1918 and had never before had a Conservative MP.\n\nShe claimed she had been \"fighting on\" two fronts; the first being voters not wanting to support Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister and the second of Labour \"being more like a 'stop Brexit' Remain party.\"\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\".\n\nNow he's the local MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nAs the Conservatives took Stoke-on-Trent Central, defeated Labour candidate Gareth Snell described the loss of seats such as his as \"the start of 20 years of Tory rule\".\n\nEven in the seats that Labour retained, the party's majority and vote share were severely dented.\n\nIn Halton, Cheshire, Derek Twigg won a majority of 18,975, down from 25,405 at the last election, with the Brexit Party winning more than 8% of the vote.\n\nTom Watson stood down as West Bromwich East MP ahead of the election\n\nThe red wall did not crumble on Merseyside or in London, however.\n\nLabour saw Liverpool's first black MP, Kim Johnson, elected in Riverside, while the party also held Wirral West, despite forecasts that it would be a close-run contest.\n\nIn London, Labour secured a victory over the Tories in Putney, the seat vacated by former education secretary Justine Greening, with Fleur Anderson defeating Conservative candidate Will Sweet.\n\nLabour retained 39 other seats in the capital but lost Kensington, which it had won by 20 votes in 2017, back to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour's Chi Onwurah was the first MP to be declared when her Newcastle Central results were revealed at 23:28 on Thursday.\n\nConservative Derek Thomas was the last with his St Ives seat declared at about 14:40 on Friday after bad weather on the Isles of Scilly delayed the collection of ballot boxes.\n\nDo you have a question about the election results? Use the form below to let us know and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nBoris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nWith just a handful of seats left to declare in the general election, the BBC forecasts a Tory majority of 78.\n\nThe prime minister said it would give him a mandate to \"get Brexit done\" and take the UK out of the EU next month.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour had a \"very disappointing night\" and he would not fight a future election.\n\nThe BBC forecast suggests the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and the Brexit Party none.\n\nThat means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election victory.\n\nLabour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.\n\nMr Johnson has addressed cheering party workers at Conservative headquarters, telling them there has been a political earthquake, with the Tories winning a \"stonking\" mandate, from Kensington to Clwyd South.\n\nSpeaking earlier at his count in Uxbridge, west London, where he was elected with a slightly higher majority, Mr Johnson said: \"It does look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nHe added: \"Above all I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson became prime minister in July without a general election, after the Conservative Party elected him as leader to replace Theresa May.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nLabour's vote is down around 8% on the 2017 general election, with the Tories up by just over 1% and the smaller parties having a better night.\n\nThe result so far is remarkable for the Conservatives - better than many of them had hoped for.\n\nThey have won a majority which will allow Boris Johnson to make sure Brexit happens next month.\n\nThere were some astonishing results, with a number of historic Labour heartlands falling to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour, by contrast, could hardly be in a worse position.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has made it clear he will go before the next election - but he wants to stay for a period of reflection. Many in his party want him to go immediately.\n\nIn Scotland, the picture is quite different.\n\nThe SNP have come close to sweeping the board - gaining seats from all their rivals.\n\nA Tory majority at Westminster means one constitutional quarrel - Brexit - might be over, but another - on Scottish independence - will be back with a vengeance.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional night\" for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in an another independence referendum, she added.\n\nLabour looks set for one of its worst election results since World War Two.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nLabour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories, in a rare bright spot for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"I think most people thought the polls were narrowing\"\n\nA row has already broken out at the top of the Labour Party, with some candidates blaming Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity on the doorstep and others blaming the party's policy of holding another Brexit referendum.\n\nLeave-supporting Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who held his seat with a reduced majority, said he was \"desperately disappointed\", adding that voters in Labour's \"heartlands\" were \"aggrieved\" at the party's Brexit stance.\n\nDowning Street said earlier that if Mr Johnson was returned to Downing Street, there would be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill, paving the way for Brexit on 31 January, would have its second Commons reading on Friday, 20 December.\n\nA major reshuffle would take place in February, after the UK has left the EU, No 10 added, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nThis is the UK's third general election in less than five years - and the first one to take place in December in nearly 100 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Stella Creasy was re-elected - and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter in a sling\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message, to \"get Brexit done\", while Labour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services and the National Health Service.\n\nNigel Farage said his Brexit Party had taken votes from Labour in Tory target seats, although he himself had spoiled his ballot paper \"as I could not bring myself to vote Conservative\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the election result?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.\n• None When do we find out who has won the election?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Boris Johnson has delivered his first speech after his Conservative party won a landslide majority in the December 2019 general election, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London.\n\nYou can read the full text of the speech below.\n\nWell my friends, good morning everybody.\n\nMy friends, well we did it. We did it. We pulled it off didn't we - we pulled it off, we broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock.\n\nIn this glorious, glorious pre-breakfast moment, before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want first of all to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own in the elections just gone by.\n\nAnd I of course want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980s. This was literally, literally, as I look around, literally before many of you were born.\n\nAnd with this mandate and this majority, we will at last be able to do - what? (Audience: \"Get Brexit done\".) You were paying attention.\n\nThis election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people. With this election I think we've put an end to all those miserable threats of a second referendum.\n\nAnd I say respectfully to our stentorian friend in the blue, 12-star hat - that's it. Time to put a sock in the megaphone, and give everybody some peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will work \"night and day, flat out\" to prove his backers right\n\nI have a message to all those who voted for us yesterday, especially for those who voted for us Conservatives for the first time.\n\nYou may only have lent us your vote, you may not think of yourself as a natural Tory. As I think I said 11 years ago to the people of London, when I was elected in what was thought of as a Labour city - your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the Conservative box, and you may intend to return to Labour next time round.\n\nIf that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me and you have put your trust in us.\n\nI, and we, will never take your support for granted. I will make it my mission to work night and day, to work flat-out to prove you right in voting for me this time, and to earn your support in the future.\n\nI say to you that in this election your voice has been heard - and about time too.\n\nBecause we politicians have squandered the last three-and-a-half years in squabbles about Brexit, we have even been arguing about arguing, about the tone of our arguments. I will put an end to all that nonsense and we will get Brexit done on time by the 31 January.\n\nNo ifs, no buts, no maybes - leaving the European Union as one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money, our trade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people.\n\nAt the same time, this one nation Conservative government will massively increase our investment in the NHS. The health service that represents the very best of our country with a single beautiful idea, that whoever we are - rich, poor, young, old - the NHS is there for us when we are sick. And everyday that service performs miracles.\n\nThat is why the NHS is this one nation Conservative government's top priority. So we will deliver 50,000 more nurses, and 50 million more GP surgery appointments. And how many new hospitals? (Audience: \"40\".) We will deliver a long-term NHS budget enshrined in law, £650m extra every week.\n\nAnd all the other priorities that you, the people of this country, voted for.\n\nRecord spending on schools. An Australian-style points-based immigration system. More police - how many? (Audience: \"20,000\".)\n\nColossal new investments in infrastructure and science, using our technological advantages to make this country the cleanest, greenest on earth, with the most far-reaching environmental programme.\n\nAnd you the people of this country voted to be carbon-neutral in this election - you voted to be carbon-neutral by 2050. And we'll do it.\n\nYou also voted to be Corbyn-neutral by Christmas by the way, and we'll do that too.\n\nYou voted for all these things, and it is now this government, this people's government, it is now our solemn duty to deliver on each and every one of those commitments.\n\nIt is a great and heavy responsibility, a sacred trust, for me, for every newly-elected Conservative MP, for everyone in this room and everyone in this party.\n\nAnd I repeat that in winning this election we have won the votes and trust of people who have never voted Conservative before, and people who have always voted for other parties.\n\nThose people want change. We cannot, must not - must not - let them down. In delivering change we must change too.\n\nWe must recognise the incredible reality that we now speak as a One Nation Conservative party literally for everyone from Woking to Workington; from Kensington, I'm proud to say, to Clwyd South; from Surrey Heath to Sedgefield; from Wimbledon to Wolverhampton.\n\nAs the nation hands us this historic mandate, we must rise to the challenge and to the level of expectations. Parliament must change so that we in parliament are working for you, the British people.\n\nThat is what we will now do, isn't it? That is what we will now do. Let's get out and get on with it. Let's unite this country. Let's spread opportunity to every corner of the UK with superb education, superb infrastructure, and technology.\n\nLet's get Brexit done. But first, my friends, let's get breakfast done.\n\nThank you all very much for coming. Thank you all very much.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nMason Greenwood scored twice as Manchester United got four in 11 minutes to defeat AZ Alkmaar and secure a seeding for the Europa League knockout phase.\n\nAfter a mundane first half, the game burst into life in the 53rd minute when Ashley Young drove home Juan Mata's cross for his first goal since February.\n\nGreenwood stole the headlines though, firing home from the edge of the box before producing a fine left-footed finish to end the scoring frenzy.\n\nIt was the first time the 18-year-old had scored two in a first-team game and took his overall tally for the season to six. He is now United's leading scorer in Europe this season and only Marcus Rashford has scored more in all competitions.\n\nIn between the striker's double, Mata converted a penalty for the Spain midfielder's first goal of the season.\n\nThe victory was United's biggest in Europe since 2016 when they beat another Dutch side, Feyenoord, by the same score and means they will avoid Benfica, Ajax and Inter Milan in Monday's last-32 draw.\n• None 'A killer in the box' - how good can Greenwood be?\n\nThe victory was United's third in a row in all competitions, coming after impressive triumphs against Tottenham and Manchester City.\n\nIt is only the third time United have done that since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer began his spell as United manager with eight successive wins after he replaced Jose Mourinho on 19 December last year.\n\nThe opening period lacked a competitive edge but Solskjaer will be delighted at the way it turned out, particularly as, from the team that started against Manchester City, only Harry Maguire and Martial kept their places.\n\nThis is crucial as, with a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Colchester in which they are overwhelming favourites, Solskjaer's side were starting what could turn out to be 19 games in 77 days, which will end with the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie.\n\nThe volume of fixtures is one of the reasons why it is still felt United need to make signings when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhen they entertain Everton on Sunday, United will reach an astonishing 4,000 consecutive games where a player they have been responsible for developing has been part of their matchday squad.\n\nIt is a staggering statistic, one that dates back to October 1937 and a game against Fulham at Craven Cottage.\n\nTwo of their modern-day products are Tahith Chong and Greenwood, who shared the memorable experience of being introduced as late substitutes in the memorable Champions League victory at Paris St-Germain in March.\n\nGreenwood has bounded along since then. Against Alkmaar he made his seventh start in 18 overall appearances that have now yielded six goals. He is an automatic member of Solskjaer's matchday squad and in October signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2023.\n\nBy contrast, Chong has stalled. A Netherlands Under-21 player, he came on as a substitute here, his sixth appearance of the season - and only his second since 6 October. The midfielder's contract runs out at the end of the season and an extension offer remains unsigned amid rumours of excessive demands that United officials do not feel justify his performances.\n\nAt 20, Chong is nearly two years older than Greenwood and the suspicion is growing that an impactful United career might prove beyond him. He tried hard enough on Thursday but the quality showed by Greenwood was missing.\n\n'Greenwood is different class as a finisher' - what they said\n\n\"I told them to be more us [at half-time], be more Man United. I know it's difficult for players when you change but in the second half we just found a rhythm, made more passes forward, more runs forward, were pressing and got our goals.\"\n\n\"He's different class as a finisher, if there's anything around the box you expect him to get a shot off and on target, he's good at creating space for himself and right foot, left foot it doesn't matter. I'm very pleased with his performance.\n\n\"He's a different type to Wazza [Wayne Rooney] and the good thing about Mason is he is just going to look forward to Sunday. It's natural for him to score goals, it doesn't matter what level it is.\"\n• None Manchester United have won seven of their nine previous home games against Dutch sides in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in the last three.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals (one goal, two assists) in a single European match for the first time since March 2013, scoring once and assisting twice for Chelsea against Steaua Bucharest.\n• None Ashley Young has scored his first European goal for Manchester United since February 2012 when netting against Ajax.\n• None Only Marcus Rashford (13) has scored more goals than Mason Greenwood (six) in all competitions for Manchester United this season.\n• None Greenwood is the youngest player to score a double in major European competition for Manchester United, aged 18 years and 72 days.\n\nManchester United return to action in the Premier League on Sunday (14:00 GMT) when they welcome Everton to Old Trafford.\n• None Offside, AZ. Jordy Clasie tries a through ball, but Ferdy Druijf is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Teun Koopmeiners (AZ) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ethan Laird (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Calvin Stengs (AZ) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ferdy Druijf with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "From the Conservative Party winning a big majority by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands, to Jo Swinson losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nHere are the key highlights from the 2019 general election results day.", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane pays tribute to his murdered father after his victory in North Belfast\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a bruising night of general election results, losing two MPs including its Westminster leader.\n\nNigel Dodds lost his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin's John Finucane while Emma Little-Pengelly was defeated by Claire Hanna of the SDLP in South Belfast.\n\nSDLP party leader Colum Eastwood won Foyle with a thumping majority, while the Alliance Party took North Down.\n\nA total of 803,367 votes were cast in Northern Ireland - a turnout of 62.09%.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin both saw their share of the vote drop significantly compared with the 2017 general election - by 5.4% and 6.7% respectively.\n\nThe cross-community Alliance Party is set to come third in terms of vote share, with about 17%.\n\nNorth Down's new MP Stephen Farry was congratulated by his party leader Naomi Long\n\nIts deputy leader Stephen Farry won North Down, the first result declared in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin retained her seat after a recount, holding off Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) by just 57 votes.\n\nThe graph below shows the vote share change in North Belfast. If you can't see it click here.\n\nMr Dodds' defeat in North Belfast, a seat he had held since 2001, was symbolic of a torrid election for the DUP.\n\nThe party's deputy leader - a high-profile supporter of Brexit - will not be returning to Westminster.\n\nThe DUP also had high hopes of winning North Down for the first time but the constituency elected its first ever non-unionist MP with Mr Farry's victory for Alliance.\n\nHe defeated Alex Easton of the DUP by just under 3,000 votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Dodds says his defeat leaves North Belfast unrepresented in the Commons\n\nLater, Ms Little-Pengelly's loss to the SDLP in South Belfast capped a disappointing night for the party.\n\nShe had won the seat from the SDLP two years ago by 1,996 votes but Ms Hanna took it off her this time with a big swing and a majority of 15,401.\n\nThe DUP propped up a minority Conservative government after the 2017 general election but has not been rewarded by voters.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Mr Dodds' defeat was down to a \"pan-nationalist front\" after the SDLP opted to stand aside in the constituency.\n\nIt was noticeable that the DUP MPs who retained their seats used their victory speeches to urge the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAfter the last general election the DUP and Sinn Féin were riding respective waves of success at Westminster and felt no need to go back to Stormont.\n\nTwo and a half years on, with devolution still not back in place, perhaps some voters used their ballot to punish the big two parties this time.\n\nAnother round of talks aimed at kick-starting Stormont is due to begin shortly - the government has insisted a new Northern Ireland Assembly election will be called if that fails.\n\nGiven the latest results the DUP and Sinn Féin might not be keen on facing the wrath of some voters at the ballot box again so soon.\n\nRead more from Jayne: 'Some bruising defeats for DUP and Sinn Féin'\n\nThere was better news for the DUP in East Antrim, East Belfast, East Londonderry, Lagan Valley, South Antrim and Strangford where its candidates were all re-elected.\n\nIn Upper Bann Carla Lockhart won, retaining the seat for the DUP after its previous MP David Simpson stepped down.\n\nIan Paisley won in North Antrim but saw his majority cut from 20,643 to 12,000.\n\nMr Finucane's victory was a high point for the party - he secured a majority of 1,943 votes and it is the first time a nationalist has ever held the constituency - but it was a mixed picture elsewhere.\n\nThe SDLP won Foyle, which it lost to Sinn Féin in 2017, with a huge majority while Sinn Féin's majorities in South Down and West Belfast were cut.\n\nÓrfhlaith Begley and Francie Molloy were re-elected for Sinn Féin in West Tyrone and Mid Ulster respectively and their party colleague Mickey Brady held Newry and Armagh.\n\nClaire Hanna celebrated with her husband Donal Lyons after she took the South Belfast seat\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said she was confident her party would compete to win Foyle in the future.\n\nMr Finucane is Lord Mayor of Belfast and his father Pat was a solicitor who was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989.\n\nHe said: \"We have taken the opportunity to say North Belfast rejects Brexit, North Belfast is a remain constituency and wants a future as part of the European Union.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party had a strong performance this year in the council elections in Northern Ireland and then at the European Parliamentary elections when it won a seat for the first time.\n\nThe party last won a Westminster seat in 2010 before losing it five years later but it will once again have representation in the House of Commons after Mr Farry's victory.\n\nHe won 18,358 votes to Mr Easton's 15,390 to take the seat formerly held by independent MP Lady Hermon.\n\nNorth Down was represented by Lady Hermon from 2001 until she stepped down this year.\n\nCount staff in Fermanagh and South Tyrone had a long night that included a recount of the votes\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Farry said \"voters had sent out a clear message that North Down wanted to remain [in the EU]\".\n\nHe said there was no such thing as a good or sensible Brexit and that \"all forms of Brexit are damaging for Britain\".\n\nThe party came second in the DUP safe seat of Lagan Valley.\n\nSorcha Eastwood won 13,087 votes, slashing Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's majority from 19,229 to just over 6,000.\n\nYou can use the feature below to search for your constituency and see results. If you can't see it click here.\n\nThe SDLP went into the night hopeful of taking South Belfast and Foyle but the scale of their victories in those seats was unexpected.\n\nIn Foyle, the seat once held by Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume, Mr Eastwood won by 17,000 votes.\n\nThe graph below shows the vote share change in Foyle. If you can't see it click here.\n\nSinn Féin won the seat two years ago but the party's vote halved from 18,256 to 9,771 this time.\n\nMr Eastwood said Foyle voters had returned \"someone to go to Westminster to fight your case and to stand up to Boris Johnson\".\n\nIn South Belfast Ms Hanna overturned a DUP majority of 1,996 to win by more than 15,000 votes.\n\nWith one constituency left to declare, the Conservative Party has secured a majority of 78 at Westminster.\n\nAs a result the party will not require the DUP to help it achieve a working majority as it did in 2017.\n\nBut the DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said as Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought a trade deal with the EU there would still be opportunities to influence proceedings.\n\nVotes ahoy - a ballot box from Rathlin Island was taken by boat to Ballycastle harbour\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey said the result would take the \"dead hand\" of the Tory-DUP relationship away from the political process in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe predicted it would make it more likely that the DUP would do a deal with his party to restore devolved government.\n\nThe power-sharing executive at Stormont collapsed in January 2017 after a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin over a flawed green energy scheme.\n\nNew talks aimed at restoring the executive are due to start on Monday.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Brian Taylor gives his analysis of the 2019 general election in Scotland as the results unfold.\n\nThe Lib Dems say Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will act as joint leaders of the party, given Jo Swinson's constituency defeat. A leadership contest will take place in the New Year.\n\nAlistair Carmichael (third left) retains his Orkney and Shetland seat\n\nAnd so Alistair Carmichael wins Orkney and Shetland. The Lib Dems end up with net four in Scotland. Gained one, North East Fife. Lost one.\n\nThe snag is the one they lost was held by their federal leader.\n\nTalking mandates. When it comes to governance, these involve victory for a manifesto in an election.\n\nBut, when it comes to issues such as referendums, especially when their possibility is disputed, they are partly about momentum.\n\nIn which regard, the Tories entered this election in Scotland, declaring their aim to stop indyref2.\n\nThey lost seats. The SNP entered this election saying, in part, that they wanted a referendum by the end of 2020. They gained seats. The momentum is with the SNP. Consider it the other way round. What if the SNP had lost seats? Their opponents would have declared the end of indyref2.\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP Commons leader in the last Parliament, retains his seat - and immediately demands indyref2.\n\nHe is not prepared, he says, to see Scotland out of the EU against her will. He states: \"We will have our referendum\". And adds: Scotland will become an independent member of the European Union.\n\nNessie can rest undisturbed without Ruth Davidson skinny dipping in Loch Ness\n\nJamie Stone squeaks home in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. Victory for the Lib Dems over an SNP advance. This means the SNP cannot make 50. Nessie can rest undisturbed.\n\nMassive victory for the SNP in Gordon. The seat was previously held by Alex Salmond.\n\nRuth Davidson previously said she would skinny dip in Loch Ness if the SNP won 50 seats\n\nFive Scottish seats to go. The SNP need them all to oblige Ruth Davidson to take to the waters. It's not looking likely, given relative Lib Dem performance.\n\nChristine Jardine holds Edinburgh West for the Lib Dems. Could Jo Swinson be the only Scottish casualty for her party?\n\nThat phrase again. \"Nationalism both sides of the border.\" Used by Christine Jardine. But used repeatedly by other Lib Dem speakers.\n\nJust glancing again at the UK voting share. Tories up a bit. Labour down fairly steeply. But LibDems up four points. The leader who helped deliver that is out of Parliament.\n\nIan Murray says Labour must listen and respond - or die.\n\nIan Murray retains Edinburgh South. He is the only Scottish Labour MP. And a sharp critic of the now departing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says the results have exceeded even her expectations. She wants Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\n\nShe reluctantly accepts that Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU - but not Scotland.\n\nShe insists she has a mandate to offer Scotland the choice of independence. She will send a formal demand before Christmas and says the Tories must recognise democracy.\n\nQuite a way to go yet. But still looking likely that the SNP could win more than 50 seats. Stand by for Loch Ness, Ruth.\n\nShe smiles. She congratulates her victorious opponent. But this must be heart-rending for Jo Swinson.\n\nDefeated in her home patch, while battling around Great Britain as a whole. Democracy, however, means little without political change, without political churn. It doesn't make it easy for those affected.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson lost her East Dunbartonshire seat to the SNP\n\nAnd so Jo Swinson has lost East Dunbartonshire by a tiny margin. She led her party but lost her seat. The SNP have taken the constituency.\n\nWill Boris Johnson heed the Brexiteers in his party?\n\nBoris Johnson, set to be returned as PM, once again declares himself a One Nation Tory.\n\nIntriguing this is the tone his administration will adopt. Yes, it will be \"Get Brexit done\". No doubt he will now pursue a trade deal with vigour.\n\nBut will he heed the Brexiteers in his party who say no extension to transition. Or will he - again - seek an extension, perhaps deploying his majority? And that applies to economic policy too. How to define One Nation?\n\nWendy Chamberlain takes Fife North East for the LibDems. A gain from the SNP. Stephen Gethins can do no more than applaud politely.\n\nThis was Ming Campbell's seat for many years. Before that, Tory. Now back in Lib Dem hands.\n\nPerhaps bearing out the signs across Scotland of a generic rise, albeit slight, in Lib Dem Scottish vote. On to East Dunbartonshire.....\n\nJeremy Corbyn is standing down as Labour leader\n\nCorbyn standing down. He will not lead in the next general election. But he will stay to allow discussion.\n\nTories hold a seat - their first in Scotland. Douglas Ross hangs on in Moray.\n\nAnd he's back. Alyn Smith elected as MP for Stirling. Strictly, he hasn't yet given up as an MEP. But that doesn't now look like a long-term prospect. An excellent victory for the SNP. Setback for the Tories.\n\nNicola Sturgeon arrives at the count in Glasgow with her party having won every seat so far in Scotland. She says it is still her intention to urge for an independence referendum in an approach to the new PM before Christmas.\n\nMhairi Black trenchant as always. Asked whether the SNP simply submit to a Boris Johnson victory, she replies: \"No chance!\"\n\nRichard Leonard says Labour failed to get through the \"din\" of Brexit and other constitutional issues\n\nRichard Leonard says Labour failed to get through the \"din\" of Brexit and other constitutional issues. Which is another way of saying folk were unsure about Labour's position.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader says he tried to talk about poverty but couldn't be held. I understand his point - but parties cannot choose the agenda, especially when it is completely dominated by Brexit and independence.\n\nThese are not constitutional distractions from the truth. They are fundamental. Labour's stance was uncertain. Mr Leonard says cast iron positions might not have helped.\n\nOwen Thompson back in Midlothian. That pattern again.\n\nAnd so John Nicolson triumphs for the SNP in Ochil. Congrats to him. The irony is that he might have won in his old constituency of East Dunbartonshire. But a very good victory for him tonight.\n\nEast Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow. Another big win for the SNP. Anyone detect a pattern.....? Those LibDem seats still going to be fascinating.\n\nA glance at the Scottish voting share. SNP well up. Tories down. Labour well down. But the LibDems are slightly up. Does that add to caveats over the exit poll, or at least their place in it?\n\nTories had high hopes in Lanark and Hamilton East. Another victory for the SNP, with an increased majority.\n\nDerek Mackay, Scotland's finance secretary, says it is scarcely the SNP's fault that Labour is rubbish. He notes that tonight is an argument for independence. Scotland is not getting the government she voted for.\n\nMore than half the electorate backed Mhairi Black in Paisley\n\nMore than half the electorate backed Mhairi Black in Paisley. And we have the result from West Dunbartonshire. Another good victory for SNP. We are now awaiting East Dunbartonshire. Is Jo Swinson out, defeated by the SNP?\n\nIan Murray, hoping to be returned as Labour MP in Edinburgh South, says the results tonight are \"an absolute disaster\" for Labour. He says reflection is needed. And there is a need for a credible alternative opposition.\n\nWe've had the declaration of Arbroath. And now we have the Kilmarnock edition. The verdict in both cases? SNP victories. They are well on course for an excellent night.\n\nWill Jeremy Corbyn stand down as leader of the Labour Party?\n\nGed Killen, the defeated Labour candidate in Rutherglen, points to two problems for his party. No clarity on Brexit and indyref2. And Jeremy Corbyn. He anticipates that Mr Corbyn will now stand down as leader.\n\nMore about Rutherglen. The SNP vote is not as high as the exit poll suggests. The Labour vote is not as dire. So yet more caveats about that exit poll.\n\nBut still, an excellent result for the SNP. Many congratulations to the returning MP Margaret Ferrier.\n\nThe SNP's Margaret Ferrier has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat\n\nFirst Scottish result. Rutherglen and Hamilton West. SNP have taken it back from Labour, having won it in 2015. That concept of regaining seats could become a pattern. If that exit poll is correct....\n\nIan Davidson, former Labour MP, says there will be a discussion within the Labour Party. But he plays down the need for an immediate change of leadership. Labour, he says, will have a continuing job to do to oppose austerity.\n\nIan Blackford of the SNP recalling that the people of Scotland were told in 2014 that the way to keep Scotland in the EU was to retain the Union. Not, Mr Blackford notes, how things turned out.\n\nDouglas Alexander arguing for a fundamental conversation about the future of Labour, if the exit poll proves to be correct. The first three results in the north east of England are broadly in line, especially that remarkable outcome in Blyth.\n\nBack in the middle ages, I was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for a group of papers including the Newcastle Journal.\n\nFrom that distant perspective, that is a remarkable result in Blyth Valley.\n\nThe Tories have taken a seat which used to be held by ex-miner Ronnie Campbell for Labour. Truly, Brexit is driving outcomes. In England. And perhaps, in a different way, in Scotland.\n\nThe Lib Dems are casting big doubt on the exit poll. They say it does not reflect their experience in key seats. Remember those caveats.\n\nPlan B in action for the SNP. If they have failed to lock Boris Johnson out of Downing Street, they will now argue that Scotland's distinctive standpoint must be respected. Not least with a referendum on independence - that point made by Angus Robertson, former SNP Westminster leader.\n\nDouglas Alexander, former Labour Foreign Secretary, says Corbynism has been tested to destruction. Ambiguity the road to ruin.\n\nThe Exit Poll for Scotland suggests that the Liberal Democrats would lose their Scottish seats - including Jo Swinson's in East Dunbartonshire. Ming Campbell reckons that's wrong.\n\nCaveats, caveats. This exit poll is beyond trend for the opinion polls of the campaign, increasing the Tory lead. It also goes beyond the percentage allocated to the SNP in the few Scottish polls.\n\nAnd there's more. The last couple of exit polls have been pretty accurate. But others have not, including 1992 (I still bear the scars).\n\nAnd more again. Around three quarters of Scottish seats are marginal - some highly marginal, some three-way marginal. Difficult to drill down from one poll to individual seats. Keep watching!!!\n\nIf this poll is correct - IF - then Labour would require a rethink. Is it about Leave voters asserting their view in England, against Labour's relative vacillation? Or is it about the leader? To underline, let's await more figures.\n\nAstonishing exit poll as it affects the UK - and Scotland.\n\nRuth Davidson said in advance she'd skinny dip in Loch Ness if the SNP won 50 seats. Stand by Nessie.\n\nOur exit poll reckons 55 for the SNP - almost back to the apex of 2015.\n\nIf this poll is correct - IF - then stand by for three big elements. Brexit will happen. Labour will rethink. And the SNP will exercise plan B. They will argue that Scotland's voting pattern is again being overturned.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Delegates at the climate talks in Madrid are concerned that divisions between rich and poor are re-emerging\n\nUN climate talks in Madrid enter their final scheduled day with divisions emerging between major emitting countries and small island states.\n\nNegotiators are attempting to agree a deal in the Spanish capital that would see countries commit to make new climate pledges by the end of 2020.\n\nBut serious disagreements have emerged over how much carbon-cutting the major emitters should undertake.\n\nThe talks have also become bogged down in rows over key technical issues.\n\nNegotiators arrived in Madrid two weeks ago with the words of the UN secretary general ringing in their ears - António Guterres told delegates that \"the point of no return is no longer over the horizon\".\n\nProtests led by young delegates saw up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nDespite his pleas, the conference has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nThe key question of raising ambition has also been to the forefront of the discussions.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from school strikers, the countries running this COP are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nIn a rare move, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAs well as naming names, AOSIS members were angry at the pressure being put on the island nations to compromise on key questions.\n\n\"We are appalled at the state of negotiations - at this stage we are being cornered, we fear having to concede on too many issues that would undermine the very integrity of the Paris agreement,\" said Carlos Fuller, AOSIS chief negotiator.\n\n\"What's before us is a level of compromise so profound that it underscores a lack of ambition, seriousness about the climate emergency and the urgent need to secure the fate of our islands.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, is taking a hard line on the promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThey are insisting that the pledges to cut carbon in the years up to 2020 be examined and if the countries haven't met their targets, these should be carried over to the post-2020 era.\n\nSigned in 2015, the Paris climate pact saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nIndia now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\n\"The Paris agreement talks about the leadership of the developed countries, it talks about the peaking of greenhouse gases earlier in these countries, so we need to see these things,\" said Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's chief negotiator.\n\n\"You have to honour what you agreed.\"\n\nThe developed world see the Indian stance as a tactic, where they are trying to go back to the way things were before Paris, with the richer countries doing the most of the heavy lifting while China, India and others do less.\n\nSome politicians in attendance at this meeting believe there's too much self interest and not enough countries looking at the bigger picture.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\n\"Frankly, I'm tired of hearing major emitters excuse inaction in cutting their own emissions on the basis they are 'just a fraction' of the world's total,\" said the prime minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama.\n\n\"The truth is, in a family of nearly 200 nations, collective efforts are key. We all must take responsibility for ourselves, and we all must play our part to achieve net zero.\n\n\"As I like to say, we're all in the same canoe. But currently, that canoe is taking on water with nearly 200 holes - and there are too few of us trying to patch them,\" Mr Bainimarama said.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Aiello, photographed in 2004, also had a singing career\n\nVeteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles in the movies Do The Right Thing and The Godfather Part II, has died aged 86.\n\nHe also played Madonna's father in the 1986 video for Papa Don't Preach.\n\nHis family said with \"profound sorrow\" in a statement that he died after a short illness.\n\nA veteran of stage and film, Aiello was best known for playing the pizza parlour owner Sal in Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing.\n\nThe role earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. He also played the hesitant fiancé of Cher's character, Loretta, in Moonstruck in 1987.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with profound sorrow to report that Danny Aiello, beloved husband, father, grandfather, actor and musician passed away last night after a brief illness,\" the family said, in a statement to the BBC from his literary agent Jennifer De Chiara.\n\n\"The family asks for privacy at this time. Service arrangements will be announced at a later date.\"\n\nFilm maker Kevin Smith paid tribute to Aiello for his role in Do the Right Thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn The Godfather Part II, Aiello had a relatively small part as small-time gangster Tony Rosato but he made the role his own by uttering the famous line, \"Michael Corleone says hello!\" during a raid on gang rival Frank Pentangel.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Madonna This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAiello's big acting break came in the early 1970s in the baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro.\n\nHis other credits include Fort Apache the Bronx, Once Upon a Time in America, again with Robert de Niro, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Hudson Hawk.\n\nFull Metal Jacket actor Matthew Modine paid tribute to his \"love, wisdom, talents and grace\", while Mia Farrow said he was a \"lovely person\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Matthew Modine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAiello also had a stage career on Broadway, appearing in shows including Gemini, The Floating Light Bulb, Hurlyburly, and The House of Blue Leaves and Wheelbarrown's Close.\n\nIn July 2011, he appeared Off Broadway in the two-act drama The Shoemaker, written by Susan Charlotte and directed by Antony Marsellis.\n\nAs well as acting, Aiello had a singing career, he released several big-band style albums including Live from Atlantic City in 2008.\n\nIn 1990 he told People magazine: \"You know, I've only been in this business 17 years.\n\n\"For actors, that's no time at all. Everything is happening so damn fast. It's like a beautiful dream that never seems to end.\"\n\nAiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan.\n\nAt the age of 16, he lied about his age to enlist in the US Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself and later his family.\n\nWith limited education and few skills, Aiello jumped at the chance offered by his wife's uncle to become a baggage clerk for Greyhound.\n\nLater however he worked as a bouncer in a string of tough after-hours clubs in Queens and Manhattan.\n\nTo support his wife and four children, he would take any odd job going.\n\nSo for Aiello, the theatre was pretty much a shot in the dark gamble - one which paid off.\n\nDirectors began to respond to the Aiello's raw intensity and when Robert De Niro turned down the role of Sal in Lee's film, he was recommended to take his place.\n\nThe roles continued to come his way. He had bit parts in feature films and won an Emmy in 1980 for the TV show A Family of Strangers.\n\nLater Woody Allen offered him the role in Purple Rose of Cairo, and then he was asked to be in Madonna's video, followed by stage success as a drug-taking TV actor in Hurlyburly.\n\nAfter Do the Right Thing, Aiello worked in the TV movie The Preppie Murder, then took some time out for his family.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he was still one of the highest-paid character actors in Hollywood, commanding at least $750,000 a film, he told People magazine.\n\nHe went on to do the films Once Around with Holly Hunter and Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis, and he also made a Broadway appearance with Harvey Keitel in Those the River Keeps.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Sandy Cohen, and their three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has said he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election win will bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, he said he would seek to repay the trust placed in him by Labour supporters who had voted Conservative for the first time.\n\nHe said he would not ignore those who opposed Brexit as he builds with Europe a partnership \"of sovereign equals\".\n\nThe Tories have won a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP has two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson thanked lifelong Labour supporters who deserted Jeremy Corbyn's party and turned to the Conservatives, saying he would fulfil his pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\n\"I say thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a Parliament that works for you\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier accepted the Queen's invitation to form a government, also addressed those who did not vote for the Conservatives and still want to remain in the EU.\n\n\"We in this One Nation Conservative government will never ignore your good and positive feelings of warmth and sympathy towards the other nations of Europe,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands - more public spending, for example, after years of austerity, the BBC's political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nHe added that there is no strict definition of one nation conservatism, \"but broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nWhen they return to Westminster next week, MPs are due to begin the process of considering legislation paving the way for the UK to leave on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Johnson said the UK \"deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics and a permanent break from talking about Brexit\". \"I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin.\"\n\nHe said he would use his new-found parliamentary authority to bring the country together and \"level up\" opportunities, while he said he recognised that the NHS remained the \"overwhelming priority\" of the British people.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the PM's appeal for unity marked a striking change in tone to when he first became prime minister in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says he will not \"walk away\" from his responsibilities\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will not fight another election as Labour leader and that he expects to stand down \"early next year\" when a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nBut he insisted he had done all he could, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nSenior Labour figures have sought to defend the party's strategy, arguing that many of its policies were popular but that Brexit had crowded out all other issues for many voters.\n\nWes Streeting, the newly elected MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far left\" manifesto had jarred with the electorate and blaming Brexit was an attempt to \"kneecap\" credible centrist candidates such as Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nAfter the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory, which saw the party win 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nHowever, the prime minister later spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had told her he \"remained opposed\" to a second vote.\n\nMr Johnson was also said to have insisted that the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\" after \"reiterating his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Conservative win announced in Blyth Valley, breaking Labour's 50-year hold in the former mining constituency\n\nThe Conservatives have taken Blyth Valley which has been Labour since it was created in 1950, in the first shock result of the general election.\n\nIan Levy got 17,440 votes, beating the Labour candidate by more than 700 votes.\n\nThere was also a win for the Tories in Durham North West, where Labour's Laura Pidcock lost to Richard Holden.\n\nLabour has held on to all the other seats in the region, but in almost every case with a reduced majority.\n\nIn Wansbeck, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery retained the seat but with his majority slashed from 10,435 to 814.\n\n\"This isn't about Jeremy Corbyn - this is about Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"This is about the re-run of the 2016 referendum. You ignore democracy at your peril.\"\n\nLaura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender and featured heavily in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour campaign\n\nIt is the first time that Blyth Valley, a former mining area which voted Leave in the EU referendum, will have a Conservative MP.\n\nThe constituency's former incumbent, Ronnie Campbell, stood down after more than 30 years.\n\nSpeaking after the result, Mr Levy thanked his team, his wife, the people of Blyth Valley and Boris Johnson.\n\n\"This is a huge responsibility I have taken on,\" he said.\n\n\"I will be going to London on the train on Monday, we're going to get Brexit done and build a strong economy for the UK.\"\n\nIan Levy, a former NHS worker, thanked Boris Johnson after his shock win\n\nPrior to the loss of her Durham North West seat, Laura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender.\n\nIn 2017, her majority was more than 8,000.\n\nIts new MP, Richard Holden said: \"Laura represented a very Corbynite streak of the Labour Party, which had been comprehensively rejected by local people.\n\n\"On the doorstep, more than anything else, what was pushed back on was Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. That's why this result has occurred here tonight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Holden #GetBrexitDone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewcastle Central was the first seat in the UK to declare, with Labour's Chi Onwurah holding on to the seat.\n\nLabour also held on to Sunderland Central, Newcastle East, Newcastle North, South Shields, Washington and Sunderland West, Jarrow, Gateshead, and Houghton and Sunderland South.\n\nIn Gateshead, Labour's Ian Mearns, who polled 20,450 votes, down from 27,426 in 2017, said his party had \"got the message wrong\" on Brexit.\n\nHe said Labour had allowed itself to be \"dominated by a London-centric view\".\n\nIn Wansbeck - which was held by Labour chairman Mr Lavery - there was an 11.6% swing from Labour to the Conservatives.\n\nIf you cannot see the graphic click here\n\nBridget Phillipson was returned for Houghton and Sunderland South with a majority down from 12,341 in 2017 to 3,115.\n\n\"The Labour Party was founded to advance the interests of working people and we are failing in that mission if we don't secure the confidence of enough working people in the country to form a government,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJulie Elliott, who retained Sunderland Central but with a 2017 majority of 9,997 reduced to 2,964, said Labour had \"let the country down by not being good enough to win against this awful Tory government\".\n\n\"People on the doorstep have repeatedly said to me they cannot vote for this party,\" she said.\n\n\"They will come back to us if we become a radical party for change on the centre-left ground which is where we win elections.\"\n\nLabour also held on to Blaydon, City of Durham, Durham North and Gateshead.\n\nThe North East has seen the equivalent of a political earthquake.\n\nThe region has not seen as many seats change hands in one election in living memory.\n\nMargaret Thatcher never had as many MPs in this region as Boris Johnson will have. Some now represent constituencies we were told would never vote Conservative.\n\nCommunities built on the steel industry, like Consett and Redcar, and former mining areas like Blyth Valley and Bishop Auckland have placed their trust in the Tories.\n\nThe Labour party chairman Ian Lavery, a former miner, survived by the skin of his teeth in Wansbeck. Laura Pidcock, a Corbynite who could have been in the running to be the next Labour leader, saw North West Durham's voters reject her.\n\nSo what happened? \"Get Brexit Done\" certainly resonated. The gains were all in leave-voting seats which seem to have blamed Labour for the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nBut Labour candidates will tell you that Jeremy Corbyn was a bigger issue on the doorstep - not a man many of their voters wanted anywhere near Number 10.\n\nBut there are dangers. Economists suggest it's the North East that will suffer the most economic harm from leaving the European Union. And just talking about the idea of a Northern Powerhouse will no longer be enough.\n\nConstituents of these new Conservative MPs will expect them and their party to deliver Brexit, but also more investment in the North.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "You’re also going to hear Boris Johnson talking a lot about one nation conservatism in the next few months.\n\nBut what is it?\n\nWell, in some ways that’s down to whoever is defining it. There is no strict definition by which we can judge Boris Johnson over the next few years. It’s an idea which has been around in Tory circles for some time.\n\nBut broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK.\n\nThat means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\n\nThere was a one nation group in the last parliament – which was in part seen as a counterbalance to the pro-Brexit ERG who had been pulling their weight when Theresa May was PM.\n\nThis is how they defined what they were fighting for:\n\nMr Johnson’s focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands – more public spending for example after years of austerity. More focus on infrastructure outside London. A lot more talk about the north of England.\n\nThat has become even more important now that a number of his MPs are from former Labour strongholds – sometimes with very different experiences of the British economy.\n\nIt might not be easy though – especially when it comes to the idea the UK is indeed one nation.\n\nLast night’s result puts Scottish independence firmly back on the agenda – and the electoral maps in England and Scotland look very different indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The genome comes from a specimen held in a private collection in Spain\n\nA genetic study of the US's only native parrot appears to confirm its extinction was down to humans alone.\n\nScientists sequenced the genome of a stuffed Carolina parakeet held in a private collection.\n\nThe colourful bird's DNA showed none of the signs of inbreeding characteristic of animals that have been in decline for many years.\n\nInstead, its genetic sequence suggests populations were buoyant until the expansion of European settlers.\n\nThe parrots then disappeared abruptly, with the last captive specimen dying in Cincinnati Zoo on 21 February 1918. The bird was once found from New England in the east to Colorado in the west.\n\nThe bird had green plumage with a yellow head, and measured about 13ins (33cm) long. They lived in old-growth forests along rivers and in swamps.\n\nCarolina parakeets in a plate from John James Audubon's The Birds of America, published in sections between 1827 and 1838\n\n\"Many endangered species have been sequenced and what seems to be a pattern is that when populations are small and declining for a long period of time, this leaves some signals in their genomes that can be recognised,\" co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the University of Barcelona, explained.\n\n\"Even if you have a single specimen, as here, we have a genome from the father and a genome from the mother; two copies of each chromosome. If the population has been small for thousands of years, these two copies will be very similar to each other and over long stretches sometimes they will be identical.\"\n\nWhen a population is large, Dr Lalueza-Fox explained, the two chromosome copies will be more different genetically. Indeed, this is exactly what the team saw in the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis).\n\n\"The inference is that this bird was not subjected to a very long demographic decline for thousands of years, it was something very quick,\" the University of Barcelona geneticist explained.\n\nSpanish TV journalist Pere Renom with Carles Lalueza-Fox. The process of extracting and analysing the bird's genome was filmed for a documentary in Spain\n\nDr Lalueza-Fox noted that the extinct bird's closest living relative, the Sun parakeet (Aratinga solstitialis), which is native to South America, has much less genetic variation.\n\nThe precise mechanism of the Carolina parakeet's extinction remains mysterious, however.\n\nDeforestation, along with hunting and trapping, must both have played roles in its demise. Disease and even competition with non-native honeybees may also have been factors.\n\nThe birds congregated in large, noisy flocks and were gregarious in their behaviour. Contemporary observers noted that they would return to the locations of dead or dying birds, which made the wholesale slaughter of flocks even easier for hunters.\n\nThe American naturalist John James Audubon had commented on the birds' declining numbers in 1832. The birds had disappeared from the wild by the early 20th Century.\n\nA Carolina parakeet is shown in an engraving from the late 18th Century\n\nThe researchers also found signs of a genetic adaptation to the bird's toxic diet. The Carolina parakeet had a liking for eating cockleburs, a coarse flowering plant that contains a powerful toxin called carboxyatractyloside.\n\nThe toxin accumulated in the bird's tissues, and there are records of cats that ate Carolina parakeets being found dead.\n\nThe researchers uncovered genetic changes in two proteins known to interact with carboxyatractyloside that could underlie a dietary adaptation to the poison.\n\nThe birds are one target for de-extinction, the scientific discipline which seeks to bring lost species back from the dead.\n\nOne approach might be to take the Sun parakeet, and use genome editing to modify its DNA code to look like its extinct relative. But despite the similarities between the two species, this will be far from straightforward.\n\nHundreds of specimens of the extinct bird remain in museums\n\n\"If we compare both genomes, we can easily see there is a list of several hundred protein coding genes that have changes, that also seem to be functionally important,\" Prof Lalueza-Fox told BBC News.\n\n\"It's an enormous task. But even if we wanted to do that, as far as I know, nobody has been able to clone a bird... nobody knows how to modify something before it becomes an egg.\n\n\"If anything, this genome illustrates the enormous difficulties behind the de-extinction ideas. I am not saying it's impossible, but it is incredibly difficult.\"\n\nThe last captive Carolina parakeet died in the same cage that the last passenger pigeon had died in four years earlier. The decline of both birds parallels the rapid expansion of people across the United States over the 19th Century.\n\nThe genome-sequencing project began when a journalist discovered a specimen was held in a private collection in Espinelves, North-Eastern Spain. The stuffed bird had been acquired by an ancestor of the current owners.\n\nThe study has been published by the journal Current Biology.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Boris Johnson's character - and what type of Brexit looms - dominate opinion in European newspapers - and for many the two are intertwined.\n\n\"Finally, there is clarity,\" declares Germany's Die Zeit, under the headline \"Winning power unscrupulously\" and a picture of a triumphant Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The United Kingdom and the EU should be relieved that the turmoil of a minority government and a parliamentary blockade are finally over. The past three years have brought democracy in the UK to the brink of its ability to function - and have strained the EU's patience,\" it says.\n\n\"Economically, leaving the EU for the UK is of course still harmful. But that's not been the point for a long time. Most Britons have long known that they have been lied to.\"\n\nWriting in the Irish Independent, John Downing eyes the implications for Ireland - both north and south. \"Two immediate things will result in Ireland. First is there will be an election in the Republic of Ireland in February or early March… Second is that the Democratic Unionist Party is surplus to requirements. They must join Sinn Féin in getting over themselves to make power-sharing in Belfast work again after three years of shameful idleness.\"\n\nOnce the EU-UK draft divorce deal agreed in October becomes law in London and Brussels, he says, talks will open on a new post-Brexit trade deal.\n\n\"Every time the UK talks about abandoning EU standards, they risk being penalised by quotas and tariffs. That would be really bad news for Ireland which does a cumulative east-west trade worth €1.5bn (£1.25bn; $1.68bn) per week. It's even worse news for Northern Ireland business where seamless north-south trade depends on those EU standards.\"\n\n\"A tough few years beckon. You can forget Boris Johnson's campaign claims that a new EU-UK trade deal can be done by December 2020.\"\n\nIn the Netherlands which, like Ireland, would be at the sharp end of a potential no-deal Brexit, financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad argues Mr Johnson's big victory could be good news.\n\n\"After all, the prime minister will be less dependent on the hard Brexiteers in his party, which could simplify the negotiations about a future trade relationship,\" it says.\n\nAnd this is echoed in Sweden, where tabloid Aftonbladet says: \"Paradoxically, Johnson's vast majority may mean that he does not need to listen as much to those who want a hard Brexit - if it is as many people think, that he wants to see a softer Brexit… In that case, we are back in the carousel of the EU having to give the British more time.\"\n\nBelgium's De Tijd also sees Brexit throwing up huge challenges in the coming year, although it believes the Conservatives' pledge to \"get Brexit done\" landed well with voters \"thoroughly fed up\" with the issue.\n\n\"But even Johnson will not be able to pull a solution out of his top hat,\" it says. \"That is not a problem, of course. Johnson has broken big promises before… Now that Johnson has grabbed his much-desired absolute majority in the House of Commons, new cliff-hangers are expected, and the Brexit soap will continue\".\n\nSpain's papers focus on Boris Johnson's character as a key factor. \"Firm. Strong. Nice. Charismatic. Incompetent. Dishonest. Fake. Unreliable… This is how the British define Boris Johnson,\" El Mundo says.\n\n\"Many see his hostile treatment of parliament during his first two months as a presage of what's coming next. With an absolute majority, it is feared that Boris Johnson could behave like a real despot and promote a definitive \"decollage\" from Europe, pivoting British society towards the American model (after all, he was born in New York).\"\n\nSpain's El Confidencial says Mr Johnson has never been a traditional politician. \"His shabby appearance, transparent language and stormy relationship with the truth define a personal brand that both attracts and frightens. Either thanks to it or in spite of it, he swept the polls.\"\n\nGermany's Süddeutsche Zeitung is optimistic, declaring \"Boris Johnson had an easy time\". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn \"was the best campaigner for the Conservatives\", it believes.\n\nThe paper urges Mr Johnson, with a powerful mandate, to take a particular path. \"His whopping majority will allow him to negotiate a gentle Brexit that will help Britain's economy and avoid big shocks.\"\n\nBut there's gloom over at Sweden's liberal Dagens Nyheter. \"Openness to the outside world made modern Britain what it is today. Now the fog lowers across the English Channel. The continent is isolated. \"\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "New MP James Grundy admitted he had expected \"to lose with dignity\".\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\". Now he's the local MP. Are his constituents as shocked as he is?\n\nIt's been Labour since 1922 and was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's constituency for 16 years, the man many preferred ahead of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.\n\nNumbering a lowly 132 on the Conservatives' list of targets, Leigh was one of the strongest bricks in the the so-called \"red wall\" of Labour safe seats.\n\nIt's fair to say no-one really predicted Leigh turning blue.\n\nHowever, Mr Grundy became the constituency's new MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nThere was little expectation of such a seismic switch, so trying to make sense of why the former mill town has turned Tory has been a puzzle for commentators - and even for Mr Grundy.\n\n\"I came here tonight expecting to lose with dignity, rather than head down to London tomorrow,\" he said. \"I suppose I'm going to have to think on my feet about what I'm going to do.\"\n\nYet, for most of the town's residents, the result was less of a surprise.\n\nDave West supported the Conservatives despite voting to remain in the EU\n\nGreengrocer Dave West voted Conservative, despite voting remain in the referendum and expecting his business costs to rise if Britain leaves the EU.\n\nHowever, he wants to see more local investment and said he felt \"ignored\" by the previous MP, Labour's Jo Platt.\n\n\"I never even saw [her]. People have had enough. I've never seen so many people going in to vote in my life.\n\n\"I don't want to leave the EU because my lorry drivers will be in queues and much of my produce is from Spain and France, but I still voted Conservative because of everything else.\n\n\"My decision was based on local issues.\"\n\nGail Robinson said the town's last MP \"talked a lot of gibberish\"\n\nGail Robinson, who runs a delicatessen stall, was also influenced by local issues and said she was proud to have ticked the Tory box for the first time.\n\nThe 46-year-old said she \"didn't want Labour in anymore\".\n\n\"All the funding just goes to Wigan. The MP talked a lot of gibberish.\n\n\"Andy Burnham did a lot for Leigh and I had more confidence in him, but not since then.\n\n\"I'm really hoping that there's going to be a big change.\n\n\"I think that many people have just got to a point where they want to get things moving.\"\n\nJulie Riding said she thought voters \"trust Boris more with business\"\n\nFifty-five-year-old Julie Riding, who runs a gift card stall in the town's market, was on the fence as she approached the polling station and ended up spoiling her ballot paper.\n\n\"I took an online survey and it did say to vote Labour, but I just couldn't do it,\" she said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn, I just don't like him.\n\n\"I did like Boris before, but now he seems to be a bit of a buffoon.\n\n\"Still, it's a big shock. The people of Leigh have always voted Labour. But they see market stalls and businesses closing down and perhaps they just trust Boris more with business.\"\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have always voted Tory\n\nNot everyone in Leigh has simply changed allegiances from red to blue.\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have lived in Leigh all their lives and have always voted Conservative.\n\nMrs Seddon said the result was \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\n\"We've had to fight hard and wait a long time, but it's just great news,\" she said.\n\n\"We want more money put into the NHS and investment and reinvestment in the town. Everything has always focussed on [neighbouring] Wigan.\"\n\nThe retired childminder said while she understood the NHS and investment in northern towns were key elements of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign, she felt he never explained where he was \"going to get the money from\".\n\nHer husband, a retired HGV driver, said electing Labour \"would've cost us\".\n\n\"All they wanted to do is tax us. We've had to fight to get what we've wanted, but now hopefully things will change.\"\n\nPolice officer Dave Trownson, 42, has supported Labour all his life but turned to the Conservatives out of frustration at the long Brexit impasse.\n\n\"It's a massive Labour area and it always has been, but it didn't feel strange for me to vote Conservative - it just felt like the logical thing to do.\n\n\"People want to get Brexit done and move on, and they were the only people offering that. I feel optimistic. We are Great Britain, we are a strong country and a powerful country.\n\n\"I voted to leave but no-one's wanted to take us out apart from Boris. Corbyn was too on the fence.\"\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has been charged with assault by beating following an incident at her north London home.\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nMs Flack will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nShe was bailed until that date.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We were called on 12 December to a residential address in Islington.\n\n\"We treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.\"\n\nA spokesman for Caroline Flack said: \"We confirm that police attended Caroline's home following a private domestic incident.\n\n\"She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was in buoyant mood as she arrived at the Glasgow count\n\nThe SNP has made big gains across Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon saying the country had sent a \"clear message\" on a second independence referendum.\n\nThe party won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nThe SNP also defeated Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the result had exceeded her expectations.\n\nThe Conservatives have won six seats, the Liberal Democrats four and Labour one.\n\nNeale Hanvey's victory in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is counted as an SNP gain from Labour because he was on the ballot paper as an SNP candidate.\n\nMr Hanvey had been suspended by the party over allegations he made anti-Semitic posts on social media, and will sit as an independent MP.\n\nThe Conservatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have won an overall majority across the UK after taking a string of former Labour strongholds in England and Wales.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"very disappointing night for the Labour Party\" and confirmed he would not lead the party into the next election.\n\nThe other main developments from Scotland's election night include:\n\nMs Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, had already pledged to send a letter to the prime minister before Christmas requesting that Holyrood be given the power to hold indyref2.\n\nSpeaking at the Glasgow count, she said she would not pretend that everyone who voted for her party will necessarily support independence.\n\nBut she said it was a \"clear endorsement Scotland should get to decide our future and not have it decided for us\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Scotland has sent a very clear message - we don't want a Boris Johnson government, we don't want to leave the EU.\n\n\"The results across the rest of the UK are grim but underlines the importance of Scotland having a choice.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU but he must accept that I have a mandate to give Scotland a choice for an alternative future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack, who held Dumfries and Galloway for the Conservatives, said more people cast votes for unionist parties in Scotland than for the SNP.\n\nAnd he was adamant the prime minister should continue to block Ms Sturgeon's calls for power to hold an independence ballot.\n\nThe Conservative vote had fallen by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland, while the Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%. The Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5% despite the loss of the party's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I have a mandate to offer that choice\"\n\nRutherglen and Hamilton West was the first Scottish constituency to declare its result at 01:25, with Margaret Ferrier - who previously held the seat between 2015 and 2017 - polling 23,775 votes, giving her a majority of 5,230 over her Labour rival Ged Killen.\n\nThat early success was quickly followed by the SNP's David Doogan defeating Conservative Kirstene Hair in Angus.\n\nJohn Nicolson won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat after defeating Luke Graham of the Conservatives, while the SNP also won back Midlothian from Labour's Danielle Rowley,\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black comfortably held her Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat with a greatly increased majority, while Kenny MacAskill, the former Scottish justice secretary, won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nSNP MEP Alyn Smith won Stirling from Stephen Kerr of the Conservatives, but Scottish Secretary Alister Jack held Dumfries and Galloway for the Tories.\n\nDouglas Ross also held his Moray seat for the Conservatives, while his colleague David Mundell held Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins lost by 1,316 votes to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats in Fife North East. Mr Gethins had won the seat by just two votes in 2017.\n\nAnd Labour's Ian Murray held on in Edinburgh South, meaning he is the party's only MP in Scotland.\n\nMr Murray, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, warned that his party's ideology must change or else it will \"die\" and said voters he spoke to on the doorsteps during this campaign did not see Mr Corbyn as prime minister and could not see Labour as a credible alternative government.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.\n\nThe SNP are once again the undoubted winners of the night, taking a slew of seats from their opponents including a big scalp in the form of Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nThe party haven't had it all their own way - running up against Tory resistance in a few seats and losing North East Fife to the Lib Dems - but Nicola Sturgeon's team have piled on thousands of votes in every seat and have already secured a landslide.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, have collapsed across Scotland, with their share of the vote down sharply. They even lost the shadow Scottish secretary, Lesley Laird, to a candidate disowned by the SNP and who will sit as an independent.\n\nThe Conservatives have clinched victory UK-wide, but have lost a clutch of Scottish seats to the SNP - and will be wondering what this means for their campaign to \"stop indyref2\".\n\nThe Lib Dem vote share is up in most places, but any progress will be massively overshadowed by the loss of Ms Swinson. The party's leader has just gone from touting herself as a future prime minister to losing her seat for the second time in four years.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BedMachine Antarctic: Fly over the new map\n\nThe deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier.\n\nThis ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.\n\nThe discovery is illustrated in a new map of the White Continent that reveals the shape of the bedrock under the ice sheet in unprecedented detail.\n\nIts features will be critical to our understanding of how the polar south might change in the future.\n\nThe new map, called BedMachine Antarctica, shows, for example, previously unrecognised ridges that will impede the retreat of melting glaciers in a warming world; and, alternatively, a number of smooth, sloping terrains that could accelerate withdrawals.\n\n\"This is undoubtedly the most accurate portrait yet of what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet,\" said Dr Mathieu Morlighem, who's worked on the project for six years.\n\nDenman's deep trough (dark blue) is 20km wide and 100km long - all filled with ice\n\nThe University of California, Irvine, researcher is presenting his new compilation here at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. It is also being published simultaneously in the journal Nature Geoscience.\n\nThe map essentially fills all of the gaps in airborne surveys of the continent.\n\nFor decades, radar instruments have crisscrossed Antarctica, sending down microwave pulses to peer through the ice and trace the underlying rock topography. But there are still vast areas for which there is little or no data.\n\nDr Morlighem's solution has been to use some physics - mass conservation - to plug these holes.\n\nFor instance, if it's known how much ice is entering a narrow valley and how fast it's moving - the volume of that ice can be worked out, giving an insight into the depth and roughness of the hidden valley floor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mathieu Morlighem: \"The shape of the underlying bedrock influences how glaciers flow\"\n\nFor the 20km-wide Denman Glacier, which flows towards the ocean in Queen Mary Land, this approach reveals the ice to be descending to over 3,500m below sea level.\n\n\"The trenches in the oceans are deeper, but this is the deepest canyon on land,\" explained Dr Morlighem.\n\n\"There have been many attempts to sound the bed of Denman, but every time they flew over the canyon - they couldn't see it in the radar data.\n\n\"The trough is so entrenched that you get side-echoes from the walls of the valley and they make it impossible to detect the reflection from the actual bed of the glacier,\" he told BBC News.\n\nFor comparison, the deepest ocean point - in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific - goes to just shy of 11km below the sea surface. There are land canyons that can be described as having taller sides, such as Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, but their floors are above sea level.\n\nThe lowest exposed land on Earth, at the Dead Sea shore, is a mere 413m (1,355ft) below sea level.\n\nByrd Glacier is a giant ice stream that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains\n\nMuch of what is in BedMachine Antarctica may not - at first glance - look that different from previous bedmaps. But, on closer inspection, there are some fascinating details that will generate considerable discussion among polar experts.\n\nFor example, along the Transantarctic Mountains there is a series of glaciers that cut through from the continent's eastern plateau and feed into the Ross Sea. The new data shows a high ridge sits under these glaciers that will limit the speed at which they can drain the plateau. This will be important if future warming destabilises the floating shelf of ice that currently sits on top of the Ross Sea. Removal of this platform would ordinarily be expected to speed up the flow of feeding glaciers.\n\n\"If something happened to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf - and right now it's fine, but if something happened - it will most likely not trigger the collapse of East Antarctica through these 'gates'. If East Antarctica is threatened, it's not from the Ross Sea,\" Dr Morlighem said.\n\nAirborne instruments are used to map Antarctica, but there are still huge data gaps\n\nIn contrast to the situation in the Transantarctic Mountains, BedMachine Antarctica finds few impediments to the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier. Roughly the size of the UK, this mighty ice stream terminates in the Amundsen Sea in the west of the continent.\n\nIt worries scientists because it sits on a bed that slopes back towards the land - a geometry that tends to assist thinning and withdrawal. And the new map reveals only two ridges, some 30km and 50km upstream of Thwaites' current grounding line, that could act as potential brakes. Go past these and the melting glacier's pull-back could be unstoppable.\n\nBedMachine Antarctica will be fed into climate models that try to project how the continent might evolve as temperatures on Earth rise in the coming centuries.\n\nGetting realistic simulations out of these models depends on having more precise information on the thickness of the ice sheet and the type of terrain over which it must slide.\n\nCo-worker Dr Emma Smith from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute uses this analogy: \"Imagine if you poured a bunch of treacle on to a flat surface and watched how it flowed outwards. Then pour the same treacle on to a surface with a lot of lumps and bumps, different slopes and ridges - the way the treacle would spread out would be very different. And it's exactly the same with the ice on Antarctica,\" she told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two birds in Carnaby Street, London\n\nThe rumour parakeets arrived in the UK when rock star Jimi Hendrix released a pair in London's Carnaby Street in the swinging 60s has finally been scotched.\n\nThey also did not escape across the country during the wrap party for the movie The African Queen, in 1951.\n\nIn fact, reported sightings from the 1860s have been uncovered, Goldsmiths, UCL and Queen Mary universities say.\n\nIntentional releases may have also been encouraged in 1929-1931 and 1952 when fatal \"parrot fever\" hit the headlines.\n\nThe bright green non-native ring-necked parakeets now thrive across the UK.\n\nOriginally from Africa, it has become a successful invasive species in 34 countries on five continents, the study's lead author, the late Steven Le Comber, says.\n\nIn 2016 there were more than 8,500 breeding pairs of parakeets, mostly in south-east England\n\nAs well as the rumour from the Bogart and Hepburn classic, in 1951, another suggests that a flock kept at Syon Park escaped when a plane crashed through the aviary roof, in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, the researchers found their spread across the UK is more mundanely down to repeated intentional releases and not to do with publicity stunts.\n\nNumerous sensational accounts of human deaths due to psittacosis infections from birds were published in 1929.\n\nA Daily Herald report in 1952 warns of infections from parakeets\n\nAnd in 1932, the Middlesex County Times reported parakeets had been spotted in Epping Forest, with the paper blaming the \"parrot disease scare\" of 1931 for the observations in the wild.\n\n\"Scary\" health stories often prompt a strong public reaction, said Sarah Elizabeth Cox, postgraduate history student at Goldsmiths.\n\n\"If you were told you were at risk being near one, it would be much easier to let it out the window than to destroy it,\" she said.\n\nThis latest study used geographic profiling, a statistical technique originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime, to analyse spatial patterns of parakeet sightings.\n\nWhen applied to biological data, the model can identify the origin sites of diseases or introduction sites of invasive, non-native species.\n\nRumours said after the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was shot, parakeets used were released from the UK studios\n\nNone of the \"suspect sites\" connected to origin myths showed up prominently in the geoprofile of more than 5,000 unique records dating from 1968 - 2018.\n\nBy 1961, birds were more popular pets than cats and dogs in the UK, with 11 million birds in captivity, of various species, and it seems obvious there would be an increase in escapes, researchers said.\n\nThe bird is considered non-native as it was introduced by human activity\n• None 'Most northerly' parrots cause flap in park\n• None BBC - Earth - These small birds are common in London but nobody knows why\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Nicola Sturgeon maintained throughout the election campaign that she did not want to see Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street as prime minister.\n\nBut the SNP leader knows that a majority Tory government in Westminster, while Scotland voted very differently, is the result most likely to advance her greatest ambition - independence for Scotland.\n\nThe party which dominates Scotland is now set on a constitutional collision course with the UK government.\n\nThe SNP's strongest argument is that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.\n\nAnd that's been vividly demonstrated as England embraces the Tories whilst they have lost votes and lost seats north of the border.\n\nThe UK will now move on to leaving the EU at the same time as the two parties who campaigned to stop Brexit, the SNP and the Lib Dems, increased their vote share in Scotland.\n\nThe SNP took a gamble by making their demand for a second independence referendum central to their campaign. That's a policy that can enthuse their voters, but runs the risk of galvanizing people who don't want to leave the UK to turn out and vote against the SNP.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives campaigned on a slogan of \"Tell her again, say no to indyref2\".\n\nBut that's not what happened. The Tories lost seven of their 13 Scottish seats and the SNP won 13. They now hold 48 of 59 MPs in Scotland, with one sitting as an independent.\n\nBoris Johnson will refuse to grant the legal power to hold an independence vote\n\nThis result cannot be interpreted as an outright demand for Scottish independence. But the SNP will vigorously argue that it does mean Scotland must be allowed to make a choice about its future - inside or outside the UK.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month - because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nThere may be years of arguments about the nature of the long-term relationship but we will no longer be part of the bloc we've been entwined in for four decades. But Brexit, at least part one - to use his slogan - will be done.\n\nBeyond that, the final tally, the scale of the Tories' majority may shape Mr Johnson's ability to reform.\n\nHe'll face different opponents - that much is clear.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's departure is certain, only the timing to be decided, but Labour's future direction is already the subject of bitter dispute. The loss a mixture - a lack of leadership, and the party's torture over Brexit.\n\nBut accounting for the defeat and making a plan for change is likely to involve months of recrimination.\n\nThe Lib Dems have suffered disappointment too - losing their own leader, along with the DUP's Nigel Dodds being ousted. This election has also seen a massive change in the political cast.\n\nBut there's nothing straightforward about what faces Mr Johnson, even with the kind of majority this country hasn't seen for years.\n\nThere are wide differences between town and city, Scotland and England, the political generations too.\n\nThe public has just granted Mr Johnson an immense amount of political power.\n\nGiven what's ahead it's a currency he will need to spend, and spend well.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio to mock US President Donald Trump's outrage at her winning Time Person of the Year 2019.\n\nHe said she had an \"anger management problem\" and should go to \"a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nShe then adapted her Twitter bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nThe Swedish 16-year-old was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday after leading a global movement against climate change.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time she has changed her Twitter bio to reflect Mr Trump and other leaders' criticism of her.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Thunberg changed her bio to \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed the bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\". This was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage: \"I killed the Liberal Democrats and hurt the Labour party\"\n\nThe Brexit Party has \"killed the Liberal Democrats and hurt the Labour Party\", Nigel Farage has claimed.\n\nThe Conservatives won 365 seats in the 2019 general election - up 47 from before the vote.\n\nLabour won 203 seats (down 59), the SNP 48 (up 13) and the Lib Dems 11 (down by one). The Brexit Party did not win any.\n\nBut Mr Farage said the party took thousands of votes from Tory opponents and he was happy with its \"influence\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the announcement of the exit poll results, he said the Conservatives would win or come close in dozens of seats where they otherwise would not have done without the Brexit Party's help.\n\nHe added: \"I killed the Liberal Democrats and I hurt the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe said the party had killed off hopes of another referendum.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice failed in his bid to win the constituency of Hartlepool.\n\nMEP Mr Tice received 10,603 votes - around a thousand fewer than the Conservative candidate and nearly 5,000 fewer than Labour's Mike Hill, who won the seat.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.\n\nThe election delivered a Commons majority of 80 for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Farage claimed that Tory majority would not exist if his party had not withdrawn from fielding candidates in 317 Conservative-held seats.\n\n\"I can tell you that if we had stood in every seat in the country it would have been a hung Parliament,\" he said. \"That would have been a disaster.\"\n\nHe added: \"I was determined, in this election, we would use our influence to stop a second referendum. That overwhelmingly was behind our decision to stand down in 317 seats.\n\n\"Jo Swinson herself said that effectively poleaxed her campaign. And then taking the fight to Labour was important.\n\nHe added: \"Would I like to have won a few seats? Yes of course.\"\n\nBorn out of frustration with delays to the UK's departure from the EU, the Brexit Party was launched in April 2019, with ex-UKIP leader Mr Farage leading it.\n\nWhen asked if the Brexit Party was now \"finished\", Mr Farage said: \"We've used our influence, that's the important thing. If we get Brexit... we've done a good job.\"\n\nArron Banks, who campaigned to leave the European Union alongside Mr Farage, said the exit poll suggested a \"brilliant victory\" for Boris Johnson, who now had a \"strong majority\" to negotiate a free trade deal with the EU.\n\nHe added that while the Brexit Party was now \"over\", the \"pressure\" applied to the Tories had helped return them to their \"roots\".\n\n\"We set out to make the Conservative Party conservative again - and it's job done,\" he said.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The wife of a jailed banker is fighting to overturn the UK's first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).\n\nZamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16m in Harrods, faces losing her £15m Knightsbridge home and a Berkshire golf course to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHer husband is in prison in their native Azerbaijan for stealing millions from a state-owned bank he once headed.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva denies all allegations of wrongdoing and the Court of Appeal was told she has been unfairly targeted.\n\nJames Lewis QC, who is representing Mrs Hajiyeva, said the NCA's entire case was based on unsupported claims that she had benefited from political corruption.\n\n\"UWOs are available against 'politically exposed persons' and their families even in the absence of any reasonable grounds to suspect criminal activity on their part,\" said Mr Lewis in legal submissions.\n\n\"They are therefore the most draconian and intrusive powers available to financial investigators in the UK today - and by some margin.\"\n\nMrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was given a 15-year jail sentence for corruption following an unjust trial and was not able to defend the source of the family's wealth in court in London, said Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added a judge's earlier conclusion that Mr Hajiyev was a potentially corrupt foreign official was flawed because he had merely headed a commercial bank with state shareholders, rather than a bank that was carrying out state functions.\n\nThat meant, argued Mr Lewis, Mrs Hajiyeva should no longer have to prove to the NCA where her wealth came from.\n\nDuring proceedings last year, the High Court was told that she spent an average of £4,000 a day in Harrods over 10 years to 2016 - spreading the cost of the jewellery and designer clothes over 54 credit cards, the majority issued by her husband's bank.\n\nIn fresh papers disclosed at the Court of Appeal, the National Crime Agency revealed new details about its concerns over the family's activities in London.\n\nThe documents state that following Mrs Hajiyeva's attempt last year to stop the UWO being imposed, her daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, took 49 items of jewellery worth £400,000 to the Christie's auction house.\n\n\"[Mrs Hajiyeva's] daughter attempted to sell high-value jewellery (some of which had been purchased by Mr Hajiyev), and that ZH is under investigation in Azerbaijan for fraudulently spending significant sums on air tickets, jewellery, tuition fees, beauty products, restaurants and hotels,\" said the NCA.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the agency, said its order simply required Mrs Hajiyeva to respond to reasonable suspicions - including why her home was owned by a company based in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nClaims that her husband had made his money selling fridge-freezers were wholly implausible, he added.\n\nA judgement in the case is expected next year.\n\nThe result will indicate whether this tool has a powerful enough legal punch to help seize billions of pounds worth of British property belonging to suspected corrupt foreign officials and their families.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson has \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum after an \"overwhelming\" SNP election victory.\n\nScotland's first minister said the result \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate for Indyref2.\n\nDuring the campaign, the prime minister said he would reject any request to hold an independence referendum.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was \"the right of the people of Scotland\".\n\nIn a speech in Edinburgh on Friday, she told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way.\n\n\"The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nThe SNP leader said it was time for Mr Johnson \"to start listening\" to voters in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"I accept, regretfully, that he has a mandate for Brexit in England - but he has no mandate whatsoever to take Scotland out of the EU.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will next week publish a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum, said Ms Sturgeon.\n\nHowever, interim Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"We are not going to support a request for a second independence referendum and I don't believe the prime minister will either.\n\n\"We are going to stand by the people who voted for us last night and the two million people who voted no in 2014.\"\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats in Scotland in Thursday's election after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election, when the party won 35 seats. One of those MPs, Neale Hanvey, will sit as an independent.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson will step down after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader after his party suffered a heavy defeat.\n\nAcross the UK, the Conservatives secured their biggest majority since the 1980s in what Mr Johnson described as a \"historic\" election victory.\n\nHowever, the party's vote fell by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland. The Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%, while the Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she will ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a second referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a Section 30 order - as happened in 2014.\n\nNext Thursday MSPs will vote on the final stage of legislation which sets out a framework for any future referendums to be held in Scotland.\n\nThe pro-UK parties oppose the Referendums Bill but it is set to pass with SNP and Green backing.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Predictions for major scalps this year ranged from the foreign secretary to the prime minister. But in the event, who are the high profile politicians to lose out in the 2019 general election?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson, who began the campaign saying she was standing to be PM, was emotional as she thanked her family for their support after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nFollowing the defeat by the Scottish National Party's Amy Callaghan, Ms Swinson said: \"Some will be celebrating the wave of nationalism that is sweeping on both sides of the borders.\n\n\"But let me say now, for millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay.\n\n\"I still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\"\n\nThe 39-year-old was first elected as an MP in 2005. She held on to her seat until 2015, when she lost out to the SNP's John Nicolson.\n\nThe seat exchanged hands once again in 2017 when she beat Mr Nicolson. She became leader of the Liberal Democrats in July 2019.\n\nFormer Conservative Dominic Grieve, who fought many battles against Brexit in the House of Commons, was among those to lose his seat.\n\nHe was once the party's attorney general but was kicked out by Boris Johnson earlier this year after he backed a bill to try to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Grieve ran as an independent for his seat of Beaconsfield and won the support of more than 16,000 voters.\n\nBut he was beaten by the new Tory candidate Joy Morrissey, who won with 32,477 votes.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's deputy leader since 2008, Nigel Dodds had been North Belfast MP since 2001, taking the seat from Ulster Unionist Cecil Walker.\n\nBut in the early hours of Friday it was announced Mr Dodds had been defeated by Sinn Fein's John Finucane, who received 23,078 votes to Mr Dodds's 21,135.\n\nMr Finucane said the result showed North Belfast - which had always been a unionist seat - \"rejects Brexit\".\n\nMr Dodds, who studied law at Cambridge University, was key in negotiations between his party and both Mr Johnson's and Theresa May's governments in the run up to agreeing a deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative Zac Goldsmith lost his Richmond Park seat to the Liberal Democrats, in the pro-Remain party's first gain of the night.\n\nMr Goldsmith had expected to to struggle against the Lib Dems' Sarah Olney - who held the seat between a 2016 by-election and the 2017 general election.\n\nAnd those fears were confirmed when it was announced Ms Olney, who beat Mr Goldsmith in 2016, had received 34,559 votes.\n\nMr Goldsmith, a now ex-minister at the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs, got 26,793 votes.\n\nA former London mayoral candidate, he won the seat in the 2017 election by just 45 votes - a 0.1% majority.\n\nA number of commentators had called 32-year-old Laura Pidcock a future leader of the Labour Party.\n\nBut she lost her seat of Durham North West to the Conservatives.\n\nIn 2017, her majority was more than 8,000. But this time around, the Tory candidate, Richard Holden, won the vote by 1,144.\n\nMs Pidcock, who previously worked for campaign group Show Racism The Red Card, was recently tipped as a successor to deputy Labour leader Tom Watson and is a long-term ally to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHer maiden speech criticising Commons traditions and hitting out at inequality was widely shared, while she has also spoken out about the environment - particularly since she became a mother in 2018.\n\nDavid Gauke - justice secretary and work and pensions secretary in Mrs May's government - is another big name to lose his seat overnight.\n\nHe played a major role in both David Cameron and Mrs May's Conservative governments.\n\nLike Mr Grieve, Mr Gauke was kicked out by Mr Johnson for trying to stop a no-deal Brexit in the Commons earlier this year.\n\nHe ran as an independent in his seat of Hertfordshire South West and gained a lot of praise for his amusing Twitter videos throughout the campaign.\n\nHowever, it wasn't enough, and while he secured almost 16,000 votes, his Tory successor, Gagan Mohindra, took more than 30,000.\n\nVeteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner lost the seat of Bolsover to the Conservatives - with a swing of 11.5% away from Labour.\n\nMr Skinner had held the Derbyshire constituency since 1970.\n\nFollowing Ken Clarke's decision to step down as an MP at this election, Mr Skinner was in line to become the Father of the House - but that mantle now falls to Tory MP Peter Bottomley.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Anna Soubry, now leader of the Independent Group for Change, lost her Broxtowe seat in Nottinghamshire. She mustered only 4,668 votes and did not come close to challenging her Conservative successor, Darren Henry.\n\nEx-Labour shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna, who was standing for the Lib Dems in the Cities of London and Westminster seat (where Boris Johnson cast his vote) also lost. He had been an MP since 2010.\n\nLuciana Berger took a similar pre-election path to Mr Umunna - quitting Labour, joining the Independent Group for Change, before joining the Lib Dems. However, the Conservative's Mike Freer defeated her in Finchley and Golders Green.\n\nElsewhere, former Labour minister Caroline Flint was defeated by the Conservative's Nick Fletcher in Don Valley, South Yorkshire, a seat Ms Flint held since 1997.\n\nAnd Anne Milton - one of the 11 Tory MPs who had the Tory whip withdrawn by Boris Johnson and never returned - also lost. The defeat came just days after her daughter Nikki Henderson helped environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg sail across the Atlantic for the COP25 summit in Madrid.\n• None Election results 2019: The key points you need", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "EU leaders hope for more UK clarity on Brexit now after Boris Johnson's triumph\n\n\"Friday the 13th really has lived up to its hype,\" an EU diplomat texted me this morning. The same diplomat who mournfully noted as soon as the first exit polls were published: \"This means bye-bye to our British friends.\"\n\nThere was a heaviness of heart about Europe's leaders as they gathered in Brussels for the second day of an EU summit. They have never hidden their sadness at the UK vote to leave.\n\nBut at the same time there was a distinct sense of European relief. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte noted the election result meant \"on the British side they can speed up the process (of Brexit)\".\n\nThree years of Brexit uncertainty has been corrosive - not just in the UK, but in the EU too. It has overshadowed the workings of the bloc and been costly for European business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders' sigh of relief at a comfortable majority for Boris Johnson has nothing to do with their political affiliations and a lot to do with \"getting Brexit done\", as the prime minister has so loved to repeat on a loop.\n\nExcept that - as Brussels is all too aware - Mr Johnson's intention to ratify the Brexit divorce deal in parliament next month, legally ending the UK's EU membership, only means getting Phase One of Brexit done.\n\nPhase Two will see the arduous task of agreeing the future relationship between the two sides. Something Boris Johnson promised voters would be signed, sealed and delivered by this time next year.\n\nEU leaders were expected to call later on Friday for a broad, ambitious, comprehensive trade deal with post-Brexit UK. But I've not met anyone in EU circles who believes that that will be possible by December 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson won the biggest Conservative majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher\n\nThe hope in Europe is that Boris Johnson's strong majority in parliament will allow him room to manoeuvre.\n\nHe will no longer be beholden to any particular faction of his party, including hardline Brexiteers, so fingers are crossed in Brussels that Mr Johnson will use that political freedom to work towards a softer Brexit - a closer relationship with the EU - carefully negotiated over time, rather than in haste over the next few months.\n\nBut the truth is no-one knows if that might be an attractive prospect for the prime minister. \"Which Boris Johnson is Europe going to get?\" asks one prominent headline in Germany's Die Welt newspaper.\n\nWhichever direction the new UK government chooses, EU leaders' main message today will be \"We are ready\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson sticks to his December 2020 timetable, the EU is preparing to offer him a bare-bones Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It says that is the most both sides could aspire to in a matter of a few months.\n\nBut plain sailing this is unlikely to be. Brussels plans to insist that in order to get that \"quick and dirty\" deal, the prime minister would have to sign up to EU conditions: alignment with EU environmental, state aid and tax regulations for example.\n\nOn Friday, European Council President Charles Michel reiterated that these so-called level playing field rules are an absolute priority for the EU.\n\nWould Boris Johnson be willing to countenance that?\n\nIf he did, voters could well ask him about the post-Brexit national sovereignty and taking back of control from the EU that he promised them.\n\nThere would also be the real risk of no deal being agreed at all. Meaning that after December 2020, the EU and UK would be trading under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, meaning eye-watering tariffs for both sides and no agreement in place on services (which make up 80% of the UK economy), or on security co-operation (which the EU dearly hopes for).\n\nWhen it comes to trade, as was the case during the divorce talks, EU leaders believe they hold most of the cards.\n\nThe UK market is important, of course, but it is less of a priority for Brussels than the sum total of their single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders will not want to break rules in trade negotiations with the UK that could lead to the untangling or devaluing of their single market, or set an unfavourable precedent for them in trade talks with other countries.\n\nThat said, the EU members, and Germany in particular, are anxious that UK-EU relations should not turn sour.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel is focused on the bigger picture. She too does not want to harm the single market - Germany is a huge beneficiary - but she is also keen not to alienate the UK.\n\nThe EU will be undeniably weaker after it loses one of its biggest and most influential members.\n\nWith an unpredictable Donald Trump in the White House, relations volatile with Russia and a growing EU wariness vis-a-vis an ambitious, autocratic China, Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders hope the UK will remain onside on the world stage, even after Brexit.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "A mother has been found guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.\n\nTyler Peck, 15, was found dead at his mother Holly Strawbridge's home the morning after a drugs binge, Plymouth Crown Court heard.\n\nStrawbridge, 34, of Salcombe, Devon, has also been found guilty of supplying Class-A drugs to another child under 16 and two counts of child cruelty.\n\nThe jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for six hours.\n\nTyler died from an overdose of morphine drug Oramorph and Gabapentin.\n\nHe was described in court as a \"bright, thoughtful and caring young man\" by social workers.\n\nTyler Peck was found dead at his mother's house in Salcombe, Devon\n\nThe judge has ordered pre-sentencing reports but said a prison sentence was inevitable.\n\nStrawbridge will be sentenced on 17 January and was granted bail so she could attend her mother's funeral.\n\nA boy who was with Tyler on the evening before he died told police Strawbridge had been putting Oramorph and other drugs into their drinks.\n\nThe court heard Strawbridge was \"drunk off her face\" on the night her son died.\n\nThere were separate claims by another witness that the defendant had been supplying Tyler with drugs for two years.\n\nHer home was known as a place to \"get hammered\", said another witness.\n\nTyler regularly took drugs and his mother encouraged him, even selling him Valium on one occasion, the court was told.\n\nAnother witness said she saw Strawbridge showing Tyler how to snort crushed-up pills.\n\nHe overdosed on Valium in January 2018 and was diagnosed with \"drugs psychosis\". After the overdose, Tyler was admitted to Torbay Hospital.\n\nHe told social workers he was \"scared\" about his future and wanted help, but after he was discharged Strawbridge \"dismissed\" offers of help, social services said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We have been true to ourselves\"\n\nJo Swinson has said she is \"proud\" to have been the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats as she prepares to step down as party leader.\n\nMs Swinson, who lost her seat to the SNP's Amy Callaghan, said she was \"devastated\" by the election result.\n\nAddressing supporters in London, she warned of a growing tide of populism and urged her party to \"regroup\". The Lib Dems dropped from 12 to 11 seats.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will take over as acting co-leaders.\n\n\"I'm proud to have been the first woman to have led the Liberal Democrats. I'm even more proud that I will not be the last.\n\n\"One of the realities of smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass comes down on your head\", she added.\n\nShe spoke of the experience of current Lib Dem spokeswomen Layla Moran, Christine Jardine, Wera Hobhouse and Sarah Olney, as well as welcoming the party's newly-elected female MPs.\n\nShe said she was \"proud\" that the Lib Dems advocated remaining in the EU, telling supporters: \"Obviously it hasn't worked. And I, like you, am devastated about that, but I don't regret trying.\"\n\nMs Swinson said the UK was in the \"grip of populism, with nationalism resurgent in all its forms\", but encouraged people to remain hopeful, adding there will be a \"way out of this nationalist surge\".\n\nDuring the last parliament, the Lib Dems welcomed MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nHowever, all three were defeated. Ms Swinson apologised for not being able to get them elected.\n\nShe criticised the leaders of both Labour and the Conservatives, saying voters were forced to choose the \"least worst option\".\n\nMs Swinson said that racism had become mainstream, criticising Labour's stance on anti-Semitism and accusing the Conservatives of \"failing on Islamophobia\".\n\nThe outgoing Lib Dem leader started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, but she lost her Dunbartonshire East when Ms Callaghan won 19,672 compared to her 19,523 votes.\n\nThe SNP leader reacting to the news of Ms Swinson's loss\n\nMs Sturgeon has since apologised for cheering while the election result was read out, telling Sky News she \"got overexcited\" at the performance of the SNP.\n\nMs Sturgeon has offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, saying she had a great deal of sympathy for her.\n\nIn her closing remarks, Ms Swinson said: \"Next week is the shortest day. We will see more light in the future. Join us for that journey. Let's explore the way together with hope in our hearts.\"", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Election night could be a long one for financial market traders.\n\nThe most sensitive market to political events is almost always the value of the pound. And, given the political stakes could scarcely be higher, it could be very volatile as exit polls and results begin to come in.\n\nMarkets care A LOT about the outcome of the election, but why should we even discuss them - and what do we even mean when we say \"markets\"?\n\nMarkets is shorthand for the collective confidence that investors (individuals, pension funds, hedge funds) have in the financial prospects of a company, a country, a commodity, a currency, etc.\n\nWhen it comes to politics, markets react to the effect they think political events will have on the economic prospects of the UK.\n\nBut markets are not always right.\n\nMarkets - and most economists - think Brexit is overall a bad thing for the UK economy because it makes doing business with our largest and closest trading partner, the EU, more difficult and more expensive. The harder the Brexit, the worse for the economy and the currency.\n\nMarkets also think Labour proposals - to nationalise industries, force big firms to hand over a tenth of the company to workers and government, plus a plan to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds - is bad for business confidence, the economy and the pound.\n\nMarkets do matter because a fall in the pound tends to push up the cost of living, while falls in company share prices affect the value of pensions.\n\nWith these rough principles in mind, let's take a look at the potential market reaction to the most probable outcomes.\n\nA Conservative majority: The pound goes up, but by how much and for how long depends on size of majority.\n\nThis is the outcome the markets are currently predicting. The value of the pound has risen significantly since the summer, rising from $1.19 to over $1.32 as the majority of polls have pointed to a Tory majority and a functioning government. That lead in the polls has also reduced the chance of an outright labour victory, a result markets dislike more than Brexit.\n\nHowever, even if markets get the Tory majority they expect, it doesn't mean that markets will be calm. A great deal depends on the size of that majority.\n\nA very small majority, some argue, would give hard line Brexiters more influence over negotiations with the EU and prevent the PM from extending the transition period, thereby increasing the likelihood of leaving the EU without a deal in December 2020 - an outcome that investors consider bad for the UK economy and consequently the value of the pound.\n\nOthers argue that the Tory party is a lot more stable than it was. Rebel MPs have been crushed and all have signed up to Johnson's deal in blood as the price of standing in the election. Whatever you think, it seems uncontroversial to say that the bigger the majority, the more short-term certainty for the direction of travel.\n\nBased on soundings from foreign exchange traders a solid majority (say 25-plus) see pound rise a bit ($1.33). A big win could see it rise a bit more ($1.35-$1.40) while a slim majority or falling short altogether would potentially see a sharp fall in the pound back towards $1.20-$1.25.\n\nA Labour-led coalition: Short term fall for pound but supported by potential path to reversing Brexit.\n\nThe process of assembling a coalition, choosing a leader, the possibility of a second referendum - with a potentially different result - would create uncertainty in the short term and stall business investment further. The pound would probably fall in value in the short term. However, markets have consistently delivered the message: the closer the UK is to the EU, the better for the economy - and therefore the pound might find some support after an initial dip.\n\nA Labour Party in coalition with other parties would probably have to ditch some of the more radical proposals (mass nationalisations, etc) that the markets don't like. No radical overhaul of capitalism and a potential route to a softer or non-existent Brexit would probably create a bit of a short term shock, but it wouldn't lead to a bloodbath.\n\nHowever, some say the price of the SNP joining a Labour-led coalition would be a promise for a second Scottish referendum. A possible fracture in the UK could add another whole level of uncertainty and political angst, which would offset any hopes for a softer Brexit.\n\nAn outright labour majority: The most radical overhaul of the way business and the economy is run in decades. Pound falls very sharply.\n\nThis would come as a big surprise to markets - and they hate those. It's not just the element of surprise - markets fear Labour's plans to nationalise large swathes of the economy and change the ownership of companies, etc, would spook investors.\n\nTraders expect that would lead to a sharp fall in the pound and the price of shares in the companies they want to nationalise, which would hit savers and workers' pensions.\n\nIn summary, markets know they are not oracles but they don't react well to being wrong and can act with a violent jerk of the knee when that happens. The markets right now are balanced between fears and desires.\n\nA desire for the certainty of a functioning government, while fearing both a hard Brexit on one side and a makeover of capitalism on the other.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will work \"night and day, flat out\" to prove his backers right\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to deliver Brexit and repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an \"historic\" general election win.\n\nThe PM, who has met the Queen to ask to form a new government, has a majority of 80 in the House of Commons - the party's largest since 1987.\n\nHe said he would work \"flat out\" and lead a \"people's government\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader, amid recriminations over the party's defeat.\n\nHe said he was \"very sad\" about the result, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nLabour was swept aside by the Conservatives in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and north-eastern England, and lost six seats in Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365 MPs. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and the SDLP has two. The Green Party and Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nBoris Johnson went to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen's permission to form a new government\n\nThe Conservative Party's Commons majority is its largest since Margaret Thatcher won a third term in 1987.\n\nMr Johnson has returned to Downing Street, having visited Buckingham Palace, and is expected to make a statement outside Number 10 this afternoon.\n\nIn his victory speech earlier, he told activists the election result represented a \"new dawn\" for the country. He thanked Labour voters, many of whom, he said, had backed the Conservatives for the first time, vowing to fulfil the \"sacred trust\" placed in him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\n\"You may intend to return to Labour next time round, and if that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me, and I will never take your support for granted,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Conservatives' victory had \"smashed the roadblock\" in Parliament over Brexit and put an end to the \"miserable threats\" of another referendum on Europe.\n\nHe said: \"We will get Brexit done on time by 31 January - no ifs, no buts, not maybe.\"\n\nThe same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or, in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley, for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn said his party had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nJo Swinson was the highest-profile casualty of the night\n\nSome within Labour have blamed the party's support for another Brexit referendum and the long-running anti-Semitism row for the election result.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer, regarded as one of the frontrunners to succeed Mr Corbyn, said the result was \"devastating\" and the process of rebuilding the party was a \"very big task\".\n\nJo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional\" result for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in another independence referendum, she added.\n\nUS President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Johnson on a \"great win\" and the EU's top official, Charles Michel said he hoped Parliament would approve the Brexit withdrawal treaty agreed in October as \"soon as possible\".\n\nThe legislation paving the way for Brexit on 31 January is due to come before the new Parliament for the first time next Friday.\n\nThere is expected to be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday, to fill vacant positions such as Welsh and culture secretaries.\n\nA more thorough reshaping is likely to be put on hold until February, after the UK has left the EU, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by olivia wilde This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said she had understood that the film would show Scruggs and the FBI agent as being in an existing romantic relationship, \"not a transactional exchange of sex for information\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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That led him to be hounded by the press before the FBI eventually cleared his name after 88 days.\n\nWarner Bros has not responded to Wilde's tweets but has responded to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution letter with a statement insisting the film is based on \"a wide range of highly credible source material\".\n\nThe studio said it was \"unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the Atlanta Journal Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast\".\n\nThe statement concluded: \"The AJC's claims are baseless and we will vigorously defend against them.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says the exit poll predicting large Conservative gains has come has a shock.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Neil that the big issue was Brexit, not Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: Corbyn 'will not lead party in future campaign'\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said he will not lead Labour into the next election, following a \"very disappointing night\".\n\nWith one seat left to declare, the party has won 203 seats.\n\nMr Corbyn said he would stay on as leader during a \"process of reflection\", and said Brexit had \"polarised\" politics which had \"overridden normal political debate\".\n\nBut others within Labour, including former MPs who lost their seats, blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Corbyn was not intending to resign and it could take until April for a leadership contest to take place.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority, sweeping aside Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" and criticised the \"way the media behaved\" towards his party during the campaign.\n\nBut he added: \"Brexit has so polarised and divided debate in this country, it has overridden so much of a normal political debate.\"\n\n\"I recognise that has contributed to the results that the Labour Party has received this evening all across this country.\"\n\nLabour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services.\n\nThe party also promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and then put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nThat strategy was criticised by party chairman Ian Lavery, who said it had led voters in traditional Labour seats to believe it was \"a Remain party\".\n\n\"They believe they should have been listened to - and they think that the Labour party have totally reneged on the result,\" he said.\n\nBut he added the strategy was not \"Jeremy Corbyn's decision\", as it had been approved by delegates at the party's September conference.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\".\n\nOthers have blamed the party's support for another Brexit referendum and the long-running anti-Semitism row.\n\nMargaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said Labour had become the \"nasty party\".\n\nGiven the result, you might assume Jeremy Corbyn would swiftly fall on his sword - but he has instead called for a period of quiet reflection.\n\nParty rules make it difficult to oust him, but already senior figures are asking how long this period will last.\n\nSenior figures at Westminster and in local government feel delaying an inevitable leadership contest will lead to a similar result in May's council elections.\n\nMr Corbyn seems intent on staying in place until someone from his wing of the party is ready to take over - but the defeat of shadow minister Laura Pidcock has eliminated one of the potential left-wing leadership challengers.\n\nThose who would prefer shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer are keen that a new leader is in place soon to challenge Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit policy.\n\nThe battle to establish the reasons for the defeat has already begun.\n\nThe narrative from the leadership that Brexit was to blame will be challenged robustly by those who want the party to change direction.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, said he was \"heartbroken\" at the result and insisted he would not take on the party leadership temporarily.\n\n\"At some stage we'll go into a leadership election,\" he said.\n\n\"Jeremy wants to ensure there is a period of reflection.\"\n\nEarlier, he said he did not think the Labour leader had been \"the big issue\" of the campaign.\n\nBut former Labour justice secretary Lord Falconer called for the party to move quickly to replace Mr Corbyn as leader by March or April.\n\nGareth Snell, who lost his Leave-backing Stoke-on-Trent Central seat, called for both Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell to quit.\n\nHe accused senior figures in the shadow cabinet, who are defending Remain-voting seats in London, of \"sacrificing\" candidates in marginal constituencies in the Midlands and the north of England.\n\nElsewhere in the city, Ruth Smeeth, who lost her Stoke-on-Trent North seat to the Conservatives, described the election result as \"devastating\".\n\n\"For me, this is about whether the Labour Party has any right to exist [and] whether we have anything left to say,\" she said.\n\nAnother Labour MP to lose her seat, Caroline Flint in Don Valley, said: \"So many of my voters could not and did not want to support Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe added: \"There are moderate MPs who have driven us into a dead-end regarding Brexit and they have put the pursuit of Remain at the expense of our working-class heartlands and I feel annoyed, to say the least, about that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, speaking after holding his Holborn and St Pancras seat, said: \"As a whole movement, we need to reflect on this result and understand it together, but we also have a duty to rebuild, starting now.\"\n\nYvette Cooper, who unsuccessfully challenged Mr Corbyn for her party's leadership in 2015, said the results showed Labour has \"to change as a party\".\n\nShe said Brexit had played a \"significant part\" in her party's performance, but the election \"was not just about Brexit\".\n\n\"It was about their perceptions of the party, their perceptions of the leadership,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking after an earlier exit poll predicted heavy losses for Labour, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson told ITV News that Mr Corbyn had been \"incapable of leading\" and \"worse than useless at all the qualities you need to lead a political party.\"\n\nPolling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said: \"It was clear that lots of Remain voters had doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's ability to handle Brexit and indeed, more broadly to handle anything.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Jewish Labour Movement - affiliated to the party for a century and representing about 2,500 members - said Labour's failure \"lies squarely with the party's leadership\".\n\n\"Because of the public's rejection of Corbyn as prime minister, the confused position on Brexit, or its total failure to tackle anti-Jewish racism, the party must truly listen,\" the statement said.\n\nIf you cannot see the graphic above, click here.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Loyalty and a ruthless ability to adapt were the twin weapons that once guaranteed the Tories a place as Britain's natural party of government.\n\nIn recent years, however, rebellion against successive leaders from both sides on the Europe divide has been the party's default position.\n\nInternal squabbling came first, banishing memories of the collective Tory survival instinct that once served the party so well.\n\nThe emphatic nature of Boris Johnson's win in the country means he is the unequivocal victor in the Conservatives' 30-year civil war over Europe.\n\n\"In the end the Leavers will win because they care more,\" one cabinet minister once told me.\n\nThe prime minister achieved those victories and will hope to sustain his new electoral coalition in the country by harnessing the power of those old and formidable Tory weapons - loyalty and a knack for evolving in new times.\n\nLoyalty, for now, is guaranteed after all 635 Conservative candidates signed a pledge to support his Brexit deal. And the prime minister's pitch in Labour's \"Red Wall\" - an end to austerity and support for public services - marked a return to ruthlessly adapting to changed political circumstances.\n\nWhile Boris Johnson has re-enlisted those two old Tory weapons, there is one historic element of the party's mission that has a less certain future: the Union.\n\nThe SNP - led by Nicola Sturgeon - won 48 seats in Scotland\n\nOn two fronts the United Kingdom is possibly entering its most perilous phase in modern times.\n\nThe SNP's landslide in Scotland sets up a constitutional clash between Holyrood and Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon will use the SNP's success to demand a section 30 order from Westminster - the ability to hold a legally binding referendum on independence.\n\nBoris Johnson is highly likely to refuse such a request, on the grounds that the last section 30 order was granted by David Cameron on the understanding by all sides that the first independence referendum would settle the issue.\n\nThe SNP will say circumstances have changed. They will hope that if Westminster is seen to thwart what they claim is the current will of the people, that may increase support for independence.\n\nAcross the water, the prime minister is planning to take the UK out of the EU on the basis of a deal that is rejected by all the main parties in Northern Ireland. The loss of confidence is so great that during the election the DUP leader Arlene Foster said that in future she would have to check whether what Boris Johnson says is \"factually correct\".\n\nThe prime minister insists that under his Brexit deal there will be no checks on good travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The DUP says that HMRC have told them there will be checks.\n\nIn the last 45 years, there have been two salutary reminders of the perils of introducing substantial governance changes in Northern Ireland without the support of the majority Unionist community.\n\nIn 1974, loyalists brought down the Sunningdale Agreement - an early version of the Good Friday Agreement - in protest at its provisions for power sharing in Northern Ireland and a proposed cross-border body. The loyalists closed the Ballylumford power station, the largest in Northern Ireland, which stands next to the port of Larne where some of the Great Britain - Northern Ireland checks may have to take place.\n\nA decade later Margaret Thatcher failed to consult Unionists when she gave Dublin a formal consultative role in Northern Ireland in the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. Unionist protests, under the banner of Ulster Says No, brought parts of Northern Ireland to a standstill.\n\nBut Thursday's fall in the vote share for the two main parties - Sinn Fein and the DUP - may change the dynamics in Northern Ireland. It could strengthen the hand of those pressing for a return of the assembly and the executive.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson's deal gives the Stormont institutions a say in Northern Ireland's future relationship with the EU.\n\nFor so long written off by some in his own party as a lightweight showman, Boris Johnson has secured an historic win that redefines the electoral map in England and Wales. He will be hoping that it does not break the wider UK map.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The proposed tariffs would have hit a wide range of electronics, including all of Apple's major products\n\nThe US and China have announced a preliminary trade agreement.\n\nThe so-called phase one deal will see billions of dollars in tariffs removed or delayed.\n\nUS stocks hit a fresh record on hopes there will be a continued softening of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.\n\nA fresh wave of US tariffs on Chinese imports was due to take effect on Sunday. However, this has been cancelled for now.\n\n\"We will begin negotiations on the phase two deal immediately, rather than waiting until after the 2020 Election,\" US President Donald Trump said in a tweet. \"This is an amazing deal for all.\"\n\nIf the new, higher tariffs had gone ahead, Chinese-made goods such as smartphones, clothing and toys would have become more expensive for Americans just ahead of Christmas.\n\nUS negotiators are reportedly offering to significantly reduce existing tariffs on about $360bn (£270bn) worth of Chinese imports.\n\nIn return, China has promised to buy large quantities of US soybeans, poultry and other agricultural products.\n\nThe agreement is a deal in principle, which means if China breaks any part of the agreement, the Trump administration has the ability to re-implement tariffs.\n\nThere's some festive cheer for American shoppers and businesses as the Christmas decorations, game consoles and iphones that were due to be hit with a 15% tariff are now off the hook.\n\nThe share of these goods coming from China is around 85%, according to Bloomberg analysis, which would have made it difficult for companies to source them from elsewhere.\n\nAmerica's business lobby group - the influential Business Roundtable has long been lobbying against the tariffs, saying they would be very damaging to the US economy. As the boss of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon put it \"it's what happens to people's psyche and confidence and businesses\".\n\nThe International Monetary Fund estimates that the US-China trade war could shave almost a percentage point off of global growth this year.\n\nBut there has been push back from others, such as Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro, who feel the US should keep the pressure on what are widely accepted as China's unfair business practices. Replacing 'trade' with 'aid' (subsidies) for the American farmers who have suffered since China put reciprocal taxes on the likes of soybeans.\n\nIt's worth noting that this 'phase one' deal is just the beginning of the end. America imports $550bn dollars worth of products from China - and tariffs will remain on $370bn dollars of that.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "I'm Richard Osman. Welcome to my Election Night Quiz.\n\nThe ballot boxes are closed, the votes are in and the counting has begun.\n\nAfter the back-and-forth of the campaign and the big day itself, we have the excitement of the exit poll and then... usually nothing for a while. So I thought we could pass some time with a little election quiz using some of the games we play on Richard Osman's House of Games.\n\nYou can follow the election results all night across the BBC, with live coverage on television, radio and online.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Hasina Begun says 10 of her family members were killed when the Myanmar military set fire to their village and open fired on the community.\n\nShe travelled from refugee camps in Bangladesh, where over 700,000 Rohingya are living, to attend a court case in which genocide allegations have been made.\n\nMyanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against the allegations at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).\n\nHasina says she hopes that the refugees will get justice.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Terrence has spent Christmas day alone for the last 20 years. He'll now be spending Christmas with a good friend he's met through his work with the charity Age UK.\n\nAfter mentioning he didn't have a Christmas tree of his own during his BBC Breakfast interview, presenter Dan Walker and some people from Oldham College set out to deliver some Christmas cheer to his door by surprising him with a tree.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "We have just all lived through some of the most turbulent times in politics any of us can remember.\n\nIf the exit poll is correct, and Boris Johnson has secured a majority, then he will have the backing of MPs on the green benches behind him to take us out of the European Union next month.\n\nA huge junction in our history - a moment that will redraw our place in the world.\n\nBut not just that - if correct, these numbers could mean five more years of a Conservative government - tipping across a decade.\n\nAfter the fourth defeat for Labour in a row - after several years when they have moved further to the left - this is a serious and historic loss.\n\nThe SNP have increased their dominance in Scotland, clearing out Conservatives there in a way that leaves most of the country yellow, rather than blue.\n\nAnd it is a failure for the Lib Dems to break through after a campaign that started with high hopes.\n\nIf these results are correct, this election has been won by a leader, Boris Johnson, who just a year ago was on the backbenches, with many of his own colleagues having written him off.\n\nBut it appears that his bid to hold Leave voters together and split the Remain vote has seen him safely into Downing Street.\n\nBut it is early. This is only the beginning of the night that will decide who has the power to make decisions that affect all of our lives.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Asian stock markets rose on Friday as the US and China moved toward striking a trade deal to avert a new round of tariffs.\n\nThe deal could be announced later in the day, after US President Donald Trump reportedly signed off on the terms.\n\nWashington is said to have agreed to remove some tariffs, while Beijing would boost purchases of US farm goods.\n\nHowever, many of the more difficult issues are still to be addressed.\n\nOptimism surrounding a trade deal pushed Asian markets higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index rising 2.3% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng put on 2%. The Shanghai Composite added 1.2%.\n\nEarlier, US markets also gained ground with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closing at fresh record highs.\n\n\"It's a good starting point,\" Chamber of Commerce head of international affairs Myron Brilliant told broadcaster CNBC after meeting with White House officials.\n\nA deal would deliver a victory to Mr Trump, who is under political pressure, with debate on his impeachment underway in the US Congress.\n\nHe tweeted on Thursday that the US and China were \"very\" close to an agreement.\n\n\"They want it and so do we!\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevious truces have collapsed and without a formal announcement or presentation of a written agreement, many remained wary.\n\nThe US reportedly offered to halve tariff rates on about $350bn (£260bn) worth of Chinese goods, some of which had climbed as high as 25%.\n\nHowever, the deal is not expected to address many of the more difficult issues that triggered the fight, like China's subsidies for certain industries.\n\n\"This should NOT be described as a trade agreement,\" Jennifer Hillman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former trade official, wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"It is a purchase and sale agreement that does virtually nothing to address substantive concerns of US (+rest of the world) with China's trade practices.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly declared progress toward a deal that would end the trade war, which has seen tariffs imposed on more than $450bn worth of US-China trade and weighed on the global economy.\n\nIn October, he announced that the two sides had agreed to terms for a \"Phase One\" deal, but negotiations dragged on.\n\nWithout progress, the US had threatened to impose tariffs on more than $150bn worth of Chinese exports on 15 December.\n\nUnlike earlier rounds of tariffs, this one was slated to fall largely on everyday items, including smartphones, children's books, footwear and clothing, heightening the economic stakes, since the US economy is driven by consumer spending.\n\nOptimism about a trade deal may be running high, but it's worth casting your mind back to why Mr Trump started this trade war with China in the first place.\n\nIt was about levelling the playing field, he declared during his campaign, and to stop Beijing's unfair trade practices.\n\nThe US said China unfairly subsidises its firms, and steals intellectual property from American companies which gives China an unfair advantage.\n\nIt's unclear whether these issues will be in the final text of any agreement. Which means that Mr Trump's trade war has yet to achieve what it set out to.\n\nMeanwhile, economic growth forecasts around the world have been cut, companies have had to shift their supply chains out of China, and businesses have struggled to make hiring and expansion decisions in the face of trade war uncertainty.\n\nWashington's advantage over China has always been the threat of more tariffs. Suspending or rolling them back could be giving away the only leverage Mr Trump has, risking a deal with actual substance in favour of a quick and easy win.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The league tables aim to hold primary schools to account\n\nNew primary school league table data for England has been published by the Department for Education.\n\nThe tables are based on how 11-year-olds in each school performed in national curriculum tests - or Sats - taken at the end of primary school.\n\nThey provide a snapshot of how well each school is performing and tracks pupils' progress.\n\nThe aim is to hold schools to account and to give parents a way of comparing schools in their areas.\n\nSorry, your browser does not support this tool. \n\n Please visit the Department for Education. 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Department for Education website\n\nThis year was the fourth time children sat the government's tougher tests, introduced in 2016.\n\nData published by the government in September showed 65% of pupils met the expected standard across all tests: reading, writing and mathematics - up from 64% last year.\n\nThe statistics also show the gap between girls and boys has widened, with girls continuing to outperform boys across all subjects at the expected standard.\n\nIn 2019, 70% of girls reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, compared with 60% of boys - a gender gap of 10 percentage points, up from eight in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe information, which was published by the Department for Education at 09:30 GMT on Friday, takes those results down to the school level.\n\nReaders can check how schools in their area have performed through the BBC News postcode search tool.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nA teenager has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over the death of PC Andrew Harper.\n\nThe 28-year-old officer was killed on the A4 Bath Road in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, as he attended a reported break-in on 15 August.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, also denied a charge of conspiracy to steal, via video-link at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 17-year-old, Henry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and another 17-year-old boy, are charged with murder, an alternative of manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal\n\nMr Long and the second boy will appear at a further plea hearing on 7 January.\n\nKing, from Basingstoke, was granted bail until his sentencing at the conclusion of the trial of the other defendants, which is scheduled to start on March 9.\n\nPC Harper, from from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, died after being dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the Thames Valley Police officer, who got married four weeks earlier, died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The Democratic Unionist Party's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin, whose representatives do not take their seats in the House of Commons.\n\nThe party has always held a policy of abstentionism when it comes to the House of Commons.\n\nIt believes the interests of the Irish people can only be served by democratic institutions in Ireland, not at Westminster.\n\nIt also opposes taking an oath of allegiance to the Queen, which all MPs are required to do in order to take their seats.\n\nMr Dodds lost to John Finucane, whose majority was 1,943 votes.\n\nIt is the first time a nationalist has ever held the constituency.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) propped up a minority Conservative government after the 2017 general election but has not been rewarded by voters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The Conservatives have won the general election with a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nThe morning after the vote Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds arrive at 10 Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking after he was re-elected in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, west London, with a slightly increased majority, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"It does look as though this one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nLater Mr Johnson said he would work \"night and day\" to repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an \"historic\" election victory.\n\nLabour has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016.\n\nHere are pictures from a night of election results.\n\nThe night began with an exit poll that suggested the Conservative party was heading for a large majority, news that was greeted with glee by its supporters.\n\nCounting then got under way across the UK, including in Glasgow.\n\nStudents sprinted with ballot boxes in Sunderland, which has traditionally been the first constituency to declare its result.\n\nResults started to come in, including for Labour's Bridget Phillipson, who held the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency.\n\nLabour's Chi Onwurah gave a speech after holding the Newcastle Upon Tyne Central seat.\n\nPolice took away ballot papers from the Glasgow count at the SEC centre. The move came after allegations of personation - where one person votes by impersonating another - in the area.\n\nCandidate Count Binface waits for the result at Boris Johnson's Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith held on to his seat in Chingford and Woodford Green. It was thought his seat was at risk, but he won by just over 1,200 votes.\n\nSharon Hodgson reacted after holding her Labour seat in Washington and Sunderland West.\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nJeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, arrived at the count in his Islington North constituency, which he held with a 26,000 majority.\n\nMr Corbyn gave a speech in which he said the pressure \"on those surrounding politicians is often very, very high indeed and the media intrusion in people's lives is very high indeed\". He thanked his family and close friends, and his wife \"for all she puts up with because of the way the media behaves\".\n\nConservative Theresa Villiers was re-elected as MP for Chipping Barnet.\n\nStella Creasy celebrated being re-elected as MP for Walthamstow, while holding her baby daughter. The Labour candidate held her seat with a majority of 30,862.\n\nJo Swinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats and candidate for Dunbartonshire East, arrived at the counting centre in Bishopbriggs.\n\nMs Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes. She said for millions of people around the country the election results would bring \"dread and dismay\".\n\nLabour's John McDonnell retained his seat at Hayes and Harlington.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was the centre of press attention at a counting centre in Glasgow. She said: \"I think the results we are seeing somewhat exceed the expectations I had. Scotland has sent a very clear message, 'We don't want a Boris Johnson government. We don't want to leave the EU'.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a bruising night, losing two MPs including its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds who lost his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin's John Finucane.\n\nConservative Party candidate Dominic Raab shook hands with Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Baron Badger during the announcement of voting results. Despite doubts that Mr Raab would keep his seat for Esher and Walton constituency, he was re-elected with 31,132 votes.\n\nMr Johnson held on to his seat with 25,351 votes. Mr Johnson said the Tory majority gave his party \"a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done\", calling the election \"historic\".\n\nThe Green Party's Caroline Lucas held on to her Brighton Pavilion seat. She said her \"pride\" at winning the seat was \"tinged with huge sadness and, frankly, deep anger - sadness that so many people who desperately need a progressive government on their side won't get the social justice they need\".\n\nReeta Chakrabarti co-presented the BBC's Election 2019 results programme. By around 05:00 GMT, the Conservative party had won enough seats for the BBC to declare it had secured an overall majority.\n\nMr Johnson left Conservative Party headquarters with girlfriend Carrie Symonds and their dog on their way to 10 Downing Street.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Johnson arrived at Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen following his decisive election victory.\n\nAfter his visit to the Queen, Mr Johnson returned to Downing Street with a Commons majority the Conservatives haven't seen in over three decades.\n\nInside No 10, Mr Johnson was welcomed back by staff.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh after her party gained 13 seats, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said the PM had \"no right\" to block another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was \"very sad at the result we have achieved and very sad for those colleagues who have lost their seat at this election\". He added that he would not walk away from his role until the party elected a new leader in the early part of next year.\n\nJo Swinson is standing down as Liberal Democrat leader and, speaking in London, said she was \"proud to be the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats and I'm even more proud that I will not be the last\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"This country deserves a break from wrangling... and a permanent break from talking about Brexit.\" He said he wanted people to go about their Christmas preparations knowing the government was planning to make 2020 a prosperous year.", "Katherine Jenkins had been in London to perform at a carol concert\n\nA 15-year-old girl has been charged after Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins was mugged in London while intervening in a street robbery.\n\nThe 39-year-old opera star was on her way to a rehearsal in Chelsea on Wednesday when she saw an older woman being attacked, her agent said.\n\nThe Neath-born mezzo-soprano was then mugged herself after trying to help.\n\nThe Met said the 15-year-old girl had been charged with robbery and assault on police.\n\nShe is due to appear at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 6 January.\n\nJenkins had been in the capital to sing at the Henry van Straubenzee charity carol concert at St Luke's Church.\n\nHer agent said she still managed to perform that evening as \"she didn't want to let the charity down\".\n\nAnother 15-year-old girl who was arrested at the time was released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Promoter Eddie Hearn on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It's the individual, anyone around him knows he's the nicest bloke you could meet.\n\n\"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong, it was an absolute masterclass, a shut out, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that, the discipline was incredible. All the things no one thought he possessed - that's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has resume like him? Give him respect, he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"They wrote him off. I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nBoris Johnson has said an investigation is needed into the source of leaked documents on UK-US trade negotiations posted on Reddit.\n\nLabour says the documents show the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nOn Friday, forum website Reddit said unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nThe government said it was looking into the matter with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said \"we do need to get to the bottom\" of the leak but said he had seen \"no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in any democratic event in this country\".\n\nThe Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said this all pointed towards foreign involvement: \"I understand from what was being put on that website, those who seem to know about these things say that it seems to have all the hallmarks of some form of interference.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald reiterated his call for Mr Johnson to release an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, which No 10 has been accused of suppressing until after the election.\n\nIn a post on its site, Reddit did not provide any further details about the evidence behind its conclusions, nor did it identify any specific individuals.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson but they have yet to comment.\n\nThe contents of the documents have played a significant part in Labour's election message on the NHS, after Mr Corbyn highlighted them at a press conference on 27 November.\n\nThe Labour leader said the papers were evidence that the UK government was in advanced stages of negotiations with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.\n\nLabour have not said where they obtained their copy of the documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA version of the documents, heavily redacted, was also produced by Mr Corbyn at an earlier leader debate on 19 November.\n\nAt the time, Labour said these were the result of a Freedom of Information request by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe dossier was posted on Reddit more than a month prior to Mr Corbyn's announcement, prompting questions about how they got there - and why few people seemed to notice them before.\n\nA bit like journalists never reveal their sources, Labour are quite happy to focus on what these documents say rather than where they come from.\n\nIf you look at where Reddit's comments leave the discussion, it's both helpful and slightly problematic for Labour.\n\nOn the one hand, people are asking \"where exactly did you get those documents from?\" Remember, they were online in their unredacted form for several weeks before Labour brought them to everyone's attention.\n\nBut at the same time, we're still talking about these documents and what Labour claims that they show - that the NHS is up for sale, in their words. Boris Johnson and the Conservatives flatly deny that.\n\nSo it's a double-edged sword for Labour.\n\nFor the Conservatives, you've got this uneasiness around Russian interference in an election campaign - which isn't good for them because attention will turn to the report by Parliament which the government hasn't released.\n\nAnd that's not very helpful for the Tories either.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the Labour leader said the controversy surrounding the source of the documents was \"nonsense\" and accused Mr Johnson of wanting to \"hide the issues and the truth\" over the future of the NHS in trade deals.\n\nMr Johnson said the documents \"didn't prove what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party hoped it would prove\" adding \"it was just another distraction from the void at the heart of Labour's policy on Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says leaked US-UK trade documents are 'just another distraction'\n\nNeither UK nor US governments have disputed the authenticity of the documents.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Gordon Correra said crucial questions remained as to how the document circulating online originally appeared.\n\nHe said there would be a significant difference between a state-led operation from Moscow which hacked the material and then leaked it as opposed to someone who is based in Russia simply opportunistically using an already leaked document to cause mischief.\n\n\"That question is one that national security officials will be trying to answer.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United dealt a crushing blow to Manchester City's title hopes with a stunning derby win that leaves the defending champions 14 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool.\n\nMarcus Rashford and Anthony Martial fired United into an early lead and although Nicolas Otamendi's late reply set up a thrilling finale, the visitors held on for arguably the most impressive victory of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's 12-month reign.\n\nBoth United goals came in a breathless opening half-hour at Etihad Stadium, where they repeatedly carved open City's creaking back-line to devastating effect.\n\nRashford opened the scoring from the spot after he was clumsily knocked over by Bernardo Silva, with the penalty awarded by video assistant referee Michael Oliver.\n\nThe in-form England striker, who has now scored 13 goals in his past 14 games for club and country, hit the bar moments later but United did not have to wait long to extend their lead.\n\nUnited's next attack saw Daniel James find Anthony Martial on the right of the area, and he had space to turn and squeeze his shot inside Ederson's near post.\n\nCity had never trailed by two goals so early in a home league game since Pep Guardiola took charge in 2016 and their fans were left in stunned silence as United's supporters celebrated noisily at the other end of the stadium.\n\nWhile the home side finally began to get a grip on the game after that, especially in midfield, the damage was done.\n\nCity had repeated penalty appeals for United handballs turned down by referee Anthony Taylor and VAR before the break, while Gabriel Jesus wastefully headed a Kevin de Bruyne cross wide.\n\nUnited continued to defend deep after the break but City struggled to create meaningful chances and Otamendi's header from a Mahrez corner could not rescue them from their fourth league defeat of the season.\n\nThe game was marred by allegations of racist abuse towards United midfielder Fred in the second half, while there were also reports of objects being thrown at him from the stands.\n• None 'Not realistic' to think of catching Liverpool - Guardiola\n• None Follow all the reaction from the Manchester derby, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nUnited's best results this season have been against the leading clubs, but before this they had all come at Old Trafford. Until now, Norwich were the only side they had beaten on the road.\n\nSolskjaer's side set that record straight in scintillating fashion here, tearing City apart in the early stages when they could conceivably have scored two or three goals more.\n\nEderson was the only reason that did not happen, making superb saves from Daniel James, Jesse Lingard and Rashford with the score at 0-0.\n\nWhen United did take the lead, the way they controlled the game was also impressive - conceding possession and territory to their hosts, but limiting their shooting chances.\n\nIt was an excellent all-round performance and United's players clearly enjoyed it too, celebrating with the away fans at the final whistle.\n\nIt is less than a week since Solskjaer's future as United boss was being seriously questioned but back-to-back wins over Tottenham and now their neighbours have offered an emphatic response to his critics.\n\nWhile City's midweek win over Burnley saw them at their electric best going forward, this was a reminder of the defensive flaws that have cost them so often this season.\n\nWith Rodri and the rest of City's midfield unable to track United's players when they surged forward, their backline was left embarrassingly exposed again and again in the early stages.\n\nAngelino was given a torrid time by James down City's left and both he and Rodri were guilty of standing off Martial when he fired home United's second goal from that side of their area.\n\nTrue, Guardiola was again left frustrated by important VAR decisions going against his team - particularly when Fred blocked Kyle Walker's cross with his hand just before the break - and he had a long discussion with fourth official Mike Dean about it during the interval.\n\nBut his own side's shortcomings were painfully obvious and right now it is hard to make a case for City clinching a third successive title, even if Liverpool's form fell away.\n\n'We will remember this one' - what they said:\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"We will remember this one - we look so dangerous when we get he ball and go forward against arguably the best team in the world.\n\n\"They are an unbelievable team and to get a result and defend like we did and create as many chances... we should have been three or four up but for some good goalkeeping. It's hard to take the ball off them. They can football teams to death but with the pace and threat we have, we look dangerous every time we go forward.\n\n\"It does not matter where you win the ball it's that you are positive when you get it. The team shape was spot on, but individually they had to dig deep against some of the best players in the world. That's part of the game.\"\n\nOn reports of racist abuse: \"I've seen it on the video, it was Jesse and Fred and the chap must be ashamed of himself. It's unacceptable and I hope he will not be watching any football any more.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"Yes we lost but I congratulate my team: my players were fantastic, we are a fantastic team. They are so fast, so quick and sometimes when you lose the ball it is more difficult. We tried, we got to the last third many, many times and they can run. Maybe a bit more than usual.\"\n\nOn the title race: \"We have to try to continue; there are many things to play for. It's difficult because the opponents are on an incredible run winning 15 games out of 16.\"\n\nOn reports of racism: \"Of course [it's not acceptable]. I think the club are making a statement and I support that.\"\n• None In English top-flight history, no side has ever gone on to win the title after being as many as 14 points behind the top side at the end of a day's games.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past five Premier League games (W3 D2), winning consecutive league matches for the first time since March.\n• None This is Pep Guardiola's worst points return after the first 16 matches of a top-flight season in his managerial career (32 pts).\n• None Guardiola has lost two home league games in a single season for only the third time in his managerial career (also 2014-15 with Bayern Munich and 2008-09 with Barcelona).\n• None United's Anthony Martial has been directly involved in 10 goals in his past 13 Premier League starts (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored 13 goals in 21 appearances in all competitions this season - equalling his best goalscoring return for United in a single season (13 goals in 47 apps in 2018-19 and 13 goals in 52 apps in 2017-18).\n• None Rashford has been directly involved in 15 goals in his past 14 games in all competitions for Manchester United and England (13 goals, 2 assists).\n• None United have both taken (8) and scored (4) more penalties in the Premier League this season than any other side.\n\nManchester City head for Croatia to play Dinamo Zagreb in their final group fixture in the Champions League on Wednesday (17:55 GMT). They are already through to the last 16 as guaranteed group winners.\n\nUnited switch their attention to Europe in midweek too, hosting Dutch side AZ Alkmaar (20:00) in the Europa League on Thursday. They are also already through to the knockout stage, but need to avoid defeat in order to finish top of Group L.\n\nBoth teams play their next Premier League game on Sunday 15 December. United are at home to Everton (14:00 GMT) while City are away at Arsenal (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Manchester United 2. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andreas Pereira with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Conservatives are pledging to invest £550m in grassroots football as part of plans to back a UK and Ireland bid to host the 2030 World Cup if they form the next government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the investment would \"transform lives with a legacy to match the 2012 Olympics\".\n\nIt would boost existing plans for amateur football in England.\n\nBut Labour said the funding would not make up for \"years of brutal cuts\" to sporting facilities.\n\nThe Football Foundation partnership between government, the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League has existed since 2000. It is promising to improve 20,000 grass pitches in England or build new Astroturf versions.\n\nThe new Tory pledge would see the government's current grassroots football funding commitment to the project rise from £180m to £730m over the next 10 years.\n\nSpeaking after a short kickabout with children in Cheadle, he said he wanted to \"bring football home\".\n\nIt is unclear where the additional government cash would come from, but private partners are expected to fund the remainder of the investment, which would now amount to £2bn in total.\n\nThe FA has said that only one-in-three English community pitches are of adequate quality, with one-in-six amateur matches called off due to poor pitch conditions.\n\nThe Conservatives said every funding bid would be assessed against several factors, including whether it provides equal playing opportunities for females.\n\nThe party's manifesto also includes a policy of ensuring all major new sports facilities cater for a range of different activities.\n\nLabour had previously voiced its support for a 2030 World Cup bid.\n\nShadow culture secretary, Tom Watson, said: \"This Tory pledge won't undo the years of damage done to grassroots sports facilities by a decade of austerity.\n\n\"A last-minute election pledge can't make up for years of brutal cuts.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Lib Dems have announced a policy of re-introducing safe-standing at top-flight football stadia.\n\nThe party says the practice works safely in Europe and will lead to more choice, better atmosphere and cheaper tickets for fans.\n\nStanding in English football's top two tiers is illegal after recommendations made following the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans.", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nA teenager said he threw a boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London because he wanted to be on the TV news.\n\nThe six-year-old boy was visiting London from France with his family when Jonty Bravery, 18, threw him from a viewing platform on 4 August.\n\nThe boy suffered a bleed to the brain in the five-storey fall. His injuries have been described as life-changing.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in February.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned in advance to hurt someone at the South Bank gallery, to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had approached a member of Tate Modern staff, saying: \"I think I've murdered someone, I've just thrown someone off the balcony.\"\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn his police interview, Bravery said he had to prove a point \"to every idiot\" who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.\n\n\"I wanted to be on the news, who I am and why I did it, so when it is official no-one can say anything else.\"\n\nThe court heard Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, had been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October.\n\nIn social media posts, now deleted, the defendant's father, Piers Bravery attempted to raise awareness of autism and its treatment.\n\nBravery was 17 when he was charged but could not be named until his 18th birthday in October.\n\nThe child's family said their son continued to require intensive rehabilitation as he had not recovered mobility in his limbs or full brain function.\n\n\"He is constantly awoken by pain and he can't communicate that pain or call out to hospital staff.\n\n\"Life stopped for us four months ago. We don't know when, or even if, we will be able to return to work, or return to our home, which is not adapted for a wheelchair.\n\n\"We are exhausted, we don't know where this all leads, but we go on,\" they added, thanking supporters.\n\nA GoFundMe page raised almost €153,000 (£129,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nEmma Jones of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"The boy was singled out by Bravery who threw him from the viewing platform intending to kill him.\n\n\"That he survived the five-storey fall was extraordinary.\"", "Hospitals across England are using 21 separate electronic systems to record patient health care - risking patient safety, researchers suggest.\n\nA team at Imperial College say the systems cannot \"talk\" to each other, making cross-referencing difficult and potentially leading to \"errors\".\n\nOf 121 million patient interactions, there were 11 million where information from a previous visit was inaccessible.\n\nThe NHS said it was working to ensure different systems could work together.\n\nThe electronic medical records (EMRs) system was launched in 2002 with the aim of allowing clinicians easy access to all the information on a patient, even if they had previously been treated elsewhere.\n\nBut it has been plagued with delays and operational problems ever since.\n\nThe team from London's Imperial College's Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) looked at data from 152 acute hospital trusts in England, focusing on the use of EMRs on the ward.\n\nAround a quarter were still using paper records.\n\nHalf of trusts using EMRs were using one of three systems: researchers say at least these three should be able to share information.\n\nTen per cent were using multiple systems within the same hospital.\n\nWriting in the journal BMJ Open, the researchers say: \"We have shown that millions of patients transition between different acute NHS hospitals each year.\n\n\"These hospitals use several different health record systems and there is minimal coordination of health record systems between the hospitals that most commonly share the care of patients.\"\n\nDr Leigh Warren, who worked on the research, said: \"Patients expect their health records to be shared seamlessly between hospitals and healthcare settings that they move between.\n\n\"They cannot understand why, in the NHS, this is not the case.\"\n\n\"Yet hospitals and GPs often don't have the right information about the right patient in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"This can lead to errors and accidents that can threaten patients' lives.\"\n\nLord Ara Darzi, lead author and co-director of the IGHI, said: \"It is vital that policy-makers act with urgency to unify fragmented systems and promote better data-sharing in areas where it is needed most - or risk the safety of patients.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHSX, which looks after digital services in the NHS, said: \"NHSX is setting standards, so hospital and general practioner IT systems talk to each other and quickly share information, like X-ray results, to improve patient care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sunday will mark day 33 of the election campaign ahead of polling day on Thursday.\n\nIn the morning, we'll be covering the political programmes.\n\nGuests on the BBC's Andrew Marr show will include SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Home Office minister Brandon Lewis.\n\nOn Sky's Ridge on Sunday, there will be interviews with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\nWe'll also bring you all the news from the campaign trail.", "Boris Johnson \"must answer\" for anti-Semitism, Labour says\n\nThree Conservative election candidates are being investigated over allegations of anti-Semitism, the party has confirmed.\n\nSally-Ann Hart, Richard Short and Lee Anderson are facing claims relating to their social media use.\n\nLabour has called for the candidates to be suspended, adding that leader Boris Johnson \"must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name\".\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said abuse or discrimination of any kind is wrong.\n\nAmong those who are facing an investigation is Sally-Ann Hart, the Tory candidate in Hastings and Rye, which is ex-Home Secretary Amber Rudd's former seat.\n\nAlso being investigated is Richard Short, who is standing in St Helens South and Whiston, and Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield and Eastwood.\n\nA Conservative Party spokeswoman said: \"These matters are being investigated.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community.\n\n\"Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one, but there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour, including conditions to undertake training, periods of suspension and expulsion, and these are applied on a case-by-case basis.\"\n\nThe probe comes after leader Mr Johnson previously told reporters that \"if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce\".\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's national campaign co-ordinator, said: \"Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce'. So why is he refusing to suspend these three candidates, none of whom appear to have apologised?\n\n\"Johnson has never called out and condemned anti-Semitic Soros narratives among his supporters.\n\n\"On the contrary, the Conservatives whipped their MEPs to vote in support of the Hungarian government which peddles the Soros conspiracy and appointed a senior government adviser who promotes this narrative.\"\n\nMr Gwynne added: \"Anti-Semitism is clearly rife in the Conservative Party from top to bottom.\n\n\"Johnson must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name.\"\n\nJewish multi-billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given away £32bn, has been the topic of numerous fake news stories and conspiracy theories, many of which are anti-Semitic.\n\nUnder electoral law, if a candidate is suspended after nominations close, they will still appear on the ballot paper and affiliated to that party.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in the Tory Party.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn has apologised for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour on several occasions and said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\".", "Labour has the strongest policies to protect nature and combat climate change, a Friends of the Earth (FoE) survey suggests.\n\nIts election pledges narrowly beat the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats – with the Conservatives far behind.\n\nOne key climate policy area is aviation, and Labour has now announced plans for a levy on people who take frequent flights.\n\nThe FoE league table marks the parties on 45 policy points.\n\nThe environmental campaign group's scores are:\n\nFoE spokesman Dave Timms said: \"Environmental issues have been given greater priority in this election than ever before – and with the world in the midst of an ecological and climate crisis this must be the next government’s top priority.\n\n“Many of the policies that Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Green Party have put forward are commensurate with, or striving to meet, the challenges we face.\n\n“It is disappointing we have not seen the same urgency, ambition or consistency from the Conservative Party.”\n\nThe result will be a shock to the Green Party, whose overriding concern is protecting the planet and who typically top the environment policy charts by a wide margin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What to look out for on climate change and the environment in this election\n\nThe Greens complained the scoring should only have included commitments made in manifestos.\n\nBut in a bid for the youth vote, Labour has challenged the Greens by devoting the top section of its manifesto to tackling the environment crisis.\n\nOne high-scoring policy in the FoE survey is on aviation. Labour has been under pressure from trades unions to safeguard jobs in the industry.\n\nBut after correspondence with Friends of the Earth, the party strengthened its position by backing a frequent flyer levy on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.\n\nA letter to the group from four Labour shadow cabinet ministers also promised to review its Aviation National Policy Statement against much tougher carbon targets.\n\nLabour said expansion at Heathrow would be cancelled if it was not consistent with climate targets.\n\nA Labour government would also divert funds from the roads programme for public transport, the party says.\n\nThe Greens did not provide any more clarification or policies to strengthen their manifesto.\n\nMr Timms said: \"Labour’s manifesto contains strong, funded policies on home energy efficiency and renewables. This was boosted by significant additional pledges during the campaign on plans for tree planting, food policy, public transport and cycling.\n\n\"The Lib Dems and Greens both scored well, and had policies roughly commensurate with the scale of the crisis.\"\n\nHe added: “The Conservatives have some good policies - especially on agriculture – but in sector after sector its commitments were invariably weaker than the other parties', entirely absent or just plain bad.”\n\nThe Conservatives are committed to a £28.8bn road-building programme that experts say is not compatible with carbon targets because, even if the cars of the future are electric, gathering the resources to make the cars will still generate emissions.\n\nThe Tories said their climate targets were world-leading but road congestion had to be tackled.", "A UK diplomat in charge of Brexit at the British embassy in the US has quit.\n\nIn her resignation letter, seen by US broadcaster CNN, Alexandra Hall Hall said she could no longer \"peddle half-truths\" on behalf of political leaders she did not \"trust\".\n\nShe said she has become \"dismayed\" by the reluctance of politicians to \"honestly\" address the \"challenges and trade-offs\" involved in leaving the EU.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it would not comment on details of her resignation.\n\nHowever, it did confirm Ms Hall Hall had resigned as UK Brexit Counsellor at the British embassy in Washington - a post which involves explaining the UK Brexit policy to US lawmakers and policymakers.\n\nIn her letter, dated 3 December, she wrote: \"I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves.\"\n\nShe also criticised the use of \"misleading or disingenuous arguments\" and \"some behaviour towards our institutions\" by politicians, adding that \"were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly as diplomats have received instructions to register our concern\".\n\nMs Hall Hall added: \"It makes our job to promote democracy and the rule of law that much harder, if we are not seen to be upholding these core values at home.\"\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams described her letter as \"stunningly blunt\".\n\nMs Hall Hall, who is a former ambassador to Georgia and has worked in the diplomatic service for 33 years, did not name any specific politicians in the letter, but took aim at the current Conservative government.\n\nShe wrote: \"I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust.\"\n\nWhen the BBC put Ms Hall Hall's comments to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday evening, he said: \"I'm not going to talk about employment issues in the civil service.\"\n\nDiplomats are supposed to be politically neutral and Ms Hall Hall stressed her decision to resign was not tied to her personal views on leaving the EU.\n\n\"I took this position with a sincere commitment, indeed passion, to do my part, to the very best of my abilities, to help achieve a successful outcome on Brexit,\" she wrote, but added her position had become \"unbearable personally and untenable professionally\".\n\nWith a week to go until the UK heads to the polls, Ms Hall Hall insisted she had stood down before the election to avoid her resignation being portrayed as a reaction to its outcome.\n\nCNN reported that she had also filed a formal complaint about being asked to convey overtly partisan language on Brexit.\n\nMs Hall Hall suggested her role as a diplomat had been diverted to convey messages that were \"neither fully honest nor politically impartial.\"\n\nThe UK has been without an ambassador to the US since Sir Kim Darroch resigned in the summer over a row about leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration.", "Britain's longest-running rail franchise came to an end on Saturday after more than 22 years.\n\nVirgin Trains, which began serving the West Coast Main Line in 1997, is being replaced by Avanti West Coast.\n\nAlmost 500 million journeys have been made with Virgin Trains, which is co-owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Stagecoach.\n\nThe final service pulled out of London Euston at 21:42 GMT, bound for Wolverhampton.\n\nBut the historic day was marred by disruption when Virgin's last-ever London to Manchester service terminated early at Stockport due to a train fault just before midnight.\n\nEarlier, Sir Richard tweeted his thanks to \"all our wonderful people\" and their \"incredible work\".\n\nAvanti West Coast, which will begin running the service on Sunday, told customers that tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys are still valid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe end of the franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nVirgin Trains, which is 49% owned by Stagecoach, introduced a series of innovations on the railways, including automatic delay compensation payments, a system to allow passengers to stream films and TV programmes on demand from their own devices, and the provision of digital tickets available for all fare types.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRail expert Mark Smith, founder of Seat61.com, said the operator had, with the help of major infrastructure improvements, \"transformed\" its network by almost tripling passenger numbers and doubling services on some routes such as London to Glasgow.\n\n\"I think they've done pretty well,\" he said. \"They do have a certain panache and they communicate that to the staff and to the service. Quirky things like the toilets that talk to you, to onboard service with the food and wine. I'm going to be sorry to see them go.\"\n\nThe service has had a variable record - the proportion of Virgin trains which arrived at their final destination within 10 minutes of the timetable ranged from 33% in the final quarter of 2000 to 91% between July-September 2010.\n\nThe latest figure, for July-September 2019, was 78%.\n\nVirgin Trains managing director Phil Whittingham, who will hold the same position with the new operator, said he was \"concentrating on a smooth handover\" to Avanti, adding: \"It's been a wonderful 22 years transforming services on the west coast and we're proud of everything our people have achieved in that time.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast is owned by First Trenitalia, a partnership between Aberdeen-based FirstGroup and Italian firm Trenitalia.\n\nThe operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC science editor David Shukman went back to the same spot on the Sermilik glacier, in southern Greenland, that he visited in 2004.\n\nThe glacier has thinned by 100m in 15 years.\n\nResearchers say they're \"astounded\" by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around the world.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA man who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England over two weeks has been found guilty of 37 offences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nThe 34-year-old also tricked his way into a woman's home before tying her up and molesting her son and daughter.\n\nMcCann, of Harrow, was found guilty of offences including rape and kidnap.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nMcCann's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before moving to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over two weeks in April and May.\n\nHundreds of officers from five forces were deployed in the manhunt before he was finally caught while hiding in a tree.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, described him as \"one of the most dangerous sex offenders the country has ever seen\".\n\nJo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, \"apologised unreservedly\" for \"failings\" which led to McCann being released early, adding that \"strong and immediate action\" had been taken against those involved.\n\nIt can now be reported that four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting McCann while he was on the run from police following the initial attacks in London.\n\nThey have been released under investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 21 April, McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford.\n\nShe was bundled into a car and taken to a house where she was raped until being released later that morning.\n\nFour days later, a 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight.\n\nShe was driven off in a car then repeatedly raped in a number of locations over 14 hours, including outside a school where McCann told her he \"wanted to make her rape a child\".\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister. She suffered a similar fate to the 25-year-old woman.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, who he told \"you are going to Europe tomorrow, you are mine\".\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a \"sex slave\", managed to escape by jumping naked from a window and alerted police.\n\nAt about 13:30 the same day, he pounced on a 71-year-old woman while she was loading shopping into her car outside a supermarket and abducted and raped her.\n\nThree hours later he also abducted and assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the same car before both managed to get away at Knutsford service station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt about 18:30 on 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nHe was filmed at a garage buying condoms but was spotted by a police patrol who pursued him while the girls were inside the car.\n\nAfter crashing into a Mercedes, he fled on foot, then caught a taxi.\n\nThe car was stopped at a police road block but he fled across a field and was finally caught in the early hours of 6 May.\n\nThe 12 jurors decided the fate of Joseph McCann without ever seeing him in the dock. Only once did he leave his prison cell for the Old Bailey - and that was to answer questions from the judge when the jury wasn't there.\n\nMcCann opted out of court proceedings from the moment he was charged in May, refusing to appear before chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot.\n\nInstead, in an unprecedented move, she travelled to Belmarsh Prison and convened the hearing there.\n\nBefore and during the trial, hours were wasted waiting for updates about McCann, with barristers and the judge in almost daily discussions about whether he would turn up and why he had not.\n\nLetters were sent to his cell and prison officers were called to give evidence by videolink to confirm he had received them.\n\nAt one stage, McCann requested a four-week adjournment because he hadn't had enough sleep.\n\nEven towards the end, with the prosecution case nearly completed, the jury was kept waiting while McCann weighed up whether he was going to go in the witness box.\n\nThere were concerns about his health - he didn't eat for days and threatened suicide - but the court's main preoccupation was ensuring he had a fair trial and understood the process even though he chose to be absent from it.\n\nHowever, in the face of overwhelming evidence, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that McCann was playing the system because that was the only option left open to him.\n\nScotland Yard believe McCann used contacts across the country to evade justice as he moved across five police force areas.\n\nHowever, it has been revealed police forces involved in the hunt for McCann failed to share information, meaning he was not identified earlier.\n\nOn his arrest, McCann even told officers: \"If you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary identified him the day after the first attack in Watford and added his name to the police national computer.\n\nBut the Met did not identify McCann as being involved in the two London attacks until 28 April after a call from a member of the public, despite them liaising with their Hertfordshire counterparts on 25 April.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonalds drive-thru while one of his victims was in the car\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nMcCann, who is facing a life sentence, is due to be sentenced on Monday.\n\nAfter the verdicts were reached, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they wished to acknowledge the bravery of the victims and the hard work of the police forces involved.\n\nThe 34-year-old never appeared in court during the trial but was convicted of:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day\n\nWeekend travellers on South Western Railway (SWR) have faced disruption due to ongoing strike action compounded by engineering work.\n\nTwenty-seven days of strike action by Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members began on Monday.\n\nUnion leaders have called for fresh talks with rail bosses in the long-running row over train guards.\n\nThe company has warned passengers travel will be \"especially challenging\" throughout December.\n\nWeekend engineering and maintenance work has also meant a number of line closures, including between Bournemouth and Poole, in the Twickenham area, and between London Waterloo and Kingston.\n\nAll lines in the Leatherhead area are closed all day on Sunday for maintenance work.\n\nThe strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day and many commuters have complained about overcrowded trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nThe two sides remain deadlocked in the dispute over the role of guards.\n\nOn new trains due to start running next year, SWR wants drivers to operate the doors at every stop to save time.\n\nUnion members want guards to decide when to close the doors.\n\nLetters have been exchanged in recent days, with the union calling for fresh talks at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe RMT says the dispute now centres on whether guards should have a few seconds to make sure trains leave platforms safely.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The union will continue to push for a negotiated settlement that protects passenger safety and our members remain rock-solid in the ongoing action.\"\n\nSWR managing director Andy Mellors said in a letter that further talks must be on the proviso that the union has a \"new solution\" to safely delivering over 10 million more peak-time passenger journeys on time each year.\n\nUnion members have staged pickets at stations on the SWR network\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nHas your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Madrid as the Spanish city hosts climate negotiations by the UN.\n\nThey are calling for more ambitious climate change policy.\n\nThe rally was joined by speakers including actor Javier Bardem and activist Greta Thunberg. A concert was also held near to Nuevos Ministerios, a government complex in the city centre.\n\nOrganisers say around 500,000 people are taking part in the demonstrations. Officials have not given a figure.\n\nSimultaneous protests are also being held in the Chilean capital of Santiago, which was initially expected to host the UN conference.\n\n\"The change we need is not going to come from people in power,\" Ms Thunberg told the crowds. \"The change is going to come from the people, the masses, demanding change.\"\n\nThe talks - known as the COP25 - were due to be held in Chile but the Chilean government cancelled following weeks of civil unrest.\n\nThey began on Monday with the UN secretary general warning that time to avoid the worst effects of climate change was running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nBy the end of the meeting on 13 December, negotiators hope to resolve disagreements over the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords.\n\nBut countries continue to disagree on targets for cutting carbon emissions, and plans to increase these targets have not been included in the agenda for COP25's final agreement.", "Lottie is a therapy dog for Chloe, who has autism\n\nAn 11-year-old girl with autism has cried herself to sleep every night for a week after the theft of her dog, her family said.\n\nLottie, the three-year-old Dalmatian, was stolen from Chloe Hopkins' home in Peatling Parva on 1 December.\n\nHer mother Gemma said the therapy dog was Chloe's \"best friend\" and helped to keep her calm.\n\nShe said the rare-breed dog could have been targeted by thieves using a drone to plan the burglary.\n\n\"Chloe and Lottie are inseparable. She helps Chloe calm down - she's her best friend,\" Mrs Hopkins said.\n\n\"She helps Chloe get through every day because she's got her best friend to come home to.\"\n\nLottie was taken in the early hours of Sunday morning\n\nLottie was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning when Mrs Hopkins went downstairs to feed her newborn baby.\n\nBy 07:30 GMT a bolt on an outhouse was broken and Lottie - who needs specialist food for a liver condition - was gone.\n\nChloe told her mum all she wanted for Christmas was to get Lottie back\n\nMrs Hopkins said: \"We've had problems getting her into school - she broke down in tears in the foyer and wanted her dog.\n\n\"She doesn't understand, with her autism; she thinks somebody hates her and that's why someone's taken her dog.\n\n\"I watch my daughter crumple and there's nothing I can do as a parent to stop her being in pain.\"\n\nA few days before the burglary Mrs Hopkins saw a drone flying over her house - she suspects that may be connected to the burglary.\n\n\"I live in a very small village and I knew it wasn't any of my neighbours flying a drone.\n\n\"It was round the side of my house where I've got a gate, which they've actually gone through to get Lottie.\"\n\nThe family has offered a reward for Lottie's safe return.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said leaked documents reportedly showing the NHS would be at risk after a post-Brexit trade deal with the US are genuine.\n\nMr Corbyn said \"at no stage did the prime minister or anybody deny that those documents were real\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said an investigation is needed into the source of the documents on UK-US trade negotiations, posted on the Reddit website.\n\nReddit said the unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nThe forum website has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".", "At its most expensive, it cost £6.70 to cross the Severn bridges\n\nJourneys on the westbound carriageway on the Prince of Wales Bridge have increased by 16% in the year since the tolls were removed.\n\nAn average of more than 39,000 journeys are being made each day, up from less than 34,000 per day in 2018 when the £5.60 charge was still in place.\n\nHighways England said traffic rose by about 32% on the M48 Bridge, but exact figures were not available.\n\nThe AA said the figures showed the toll removal had \"gone to plan\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about increases of traffic after a UK government study said there could be six million more crossings of the two bridges by 2022, leading to more congestion at the Brynglas tunnels near Newport.\n\nBoth Severn crossings have seen an increase in traffic since the tolls were removed in December 2018\n\nTolls on the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge had been in place since the crossing was officially opened in 1996 and charges were also in place for the first Severn Crossing on the M48.\n\nThe charges rose as high as £6.70 for cars as recently as January 2018, but only applied on the westbound carriages of both bridges and were scrapped on 17 December 2018.\n\nWork to remove the previous toll booths after the charges were scrapped continued into the spring, with temporary 50mph (80km/h) limits in place.\n\nJourneys eastbound on the Prince of Wales Bridge increased by 8.9%, with an average of 40,364 crossings per day in 2019 compared to 37,056 in 2018.\n\nIn the past two years the eastbound carriageway had seen more than a daily average of 3,000 more journeys than the westbound carriageway, where the tolls applied.\n\nBut after the removals of the tolls, the difference has fallen to about 1,000 journeys more eastbound per day since the tolls were removed, with an average of 40,364 trips from Wales to England in 2019.\n\nIt means the bridge has been crossed about 24.2 million times in both directions between between January and October 2019, compared to 21.6 million times over the same 10 month period in 2018.\n\nSimilar statistics were not available on the M48 Severn Crossing due to technical issues with traffic counters in 2018.\n\nBut Highways England said there were typically 25,000 daily crossings on the bridge, compared to about 19,000 in recent years.\n\nQueues at the Second Severn Crossing were a common sight before the removal of the tolls\n\nLuke Bosdet, from the AA, said: \"The whole idea of lifting the tolls was to help stimulate the economy in Wales and there was an expectation that there would be an increase in traffic, so more traffic is a representation of a more vibrant economy that comes from taking away the tolls.\n\n\"The removing of the tolls on the Severn Crossing means it is being allowed to do its job, which is allowing traffic to move from England to Wales in its most efficient way.\n\n\"It's gone to plan. The whole idea of removing the tolls was to help the economy of Wales prosper.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders has died at the age of 87, the club have announced.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the First Division title in 1981, before departing during their European Cup-winning campaign the following season.\n\nHe also won two League Cups during his eight years at Villa Park.\n\n\"Ron Saunders died at 15:00 GMT on Saturday and his family have asked for their privacy to be respected at such a difficult time,\" a club statement said.\n\nVilla players will wear black armbands and hold a period of applause when they host Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the top flight in 1974 with promotion in his first season in charge.\n\nHe also achieved the distinction of reaching three successive League Cup finals as manager of three different clubs - Norwich in 1973, Manchester City in 1974 and Villa in 1975.\n\nHe ended his managerial career at West Bromwich Albion, retiring in 1987.\n\nHe remains the only manager to have taken charge of midlands rivals Villa, West Brom and Birmingham City - leading the Blues between 1982 and 1986.\n\nA distinguished playing career as a prolific striker took in spells at Everton, Gillingham, Watford and Charlton, but it was at Portsmouth where he enjoyed sustained success, scoring 162 goals in 261 appearances between 1958 and 1964. He remains the third-highest scorer in the club's history.\n\nFormer Villa striker Stan Collymore was among the first to pay tribute, tweeting: \"Sincerest condolences to Ron's family and friends.\n\n\"The man who made many Villans fall in love with a club and a team that gave us the very best of days.\n\n\"Wembley, Old Trafford, Highbury, which all lead to one special night in Rotterdam. Rest in peace, boss.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"I have always held Ron in very high regard and I have the utmost respect for his achievements throughout his career and, in particular, his committed service to the three midlands rivals.\n\n\"His record of reaching the League Cup final three consecutive times with three different clubs is testament to his determination and dedication to his profession.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at the LMA are with Ron's family and friends at this sad and difficult time.\"", "They make up 51% of the population but what are the parties offering to women this election? And why do women get so much abuse and so little representation in politics?", "Peter Teich and Ms Becko say they felt 'numb' after almost losing £193,000 worth of inheritance\n\nA pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance.\n\nPeter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly transferred to another Barclays customer's account, who refused to return it.\n\nHe expected to receive the money in April after his father's death.\n\nBut he realised there was an issue when his sister received her inheritance and he did not.\n\nMr Teich says his solicitor immediately contacted Barclays and was told it would take a week for the money to be returned.\n\nIn May, Barclays wrote to Mr Teich saying he had been \"mis-advised\" about the funds being restored - and credited his account with a \"small token gesture\" of £25.\n\n\"I freely acknowledge my mistake in this unhappy saga,\" said Mr Teich.\n\n\"I provided the sort code of the wrong Barclays branch. But my error fades into near insignificance when considered in the context of Barclays' conduct.\"\n\nHe said he had given his correct name, address and Barclays account number in Cambridge to his solicitor, but the last two digits of his sort code were incorrect.\n\nHe decided to seek legal advice and in June, after spending £12,000 in legal and court fees, he managed to obtain the other Barclays customer's name.\n\nBut costs continued to rack up with Mr Teich spending £34,000 for a court injunction to force the other Barclays customer to pay.\n\nIn July the inheritance was finally paid into his account.\n\nHis wife, Veronica Becko, 75, told the Press Association: \"We just felt numb. It didn't seem possible or right that a big bank like Barclays could not sort this out. It was an obvious mistake.\n\nWhen Mr Teich asked the bank to repay the £46,000 he had spent in legal fees, he claims Barclays refused.\n\nMs Becko said it was only after they contacted the Guardian newspaper that the bank agreed to pay the fees and offer a further £750 for their inconvenience.\n\n\"Barclays has done the right thing, finally, although through a rather long-winded way,\" Ms Becko said.\n\n\"We hope our story will help other people who find themselves in a similar situation.\"\n\nIn a statement, Barclays said: \"It is evident that on this occasion we have failed to meet the high standards that Mr Teich can expect to receive from Barclays, and for this we have offered our sincere apologies.\n\n\"After taking a closer look at this situation, we can confirm that Mr Teich can expect the fees he has incurred to be refunded in full with interest, together with a payment for the distress and inconvenience this matter has caused.\"\n\nAt present, anyone wanting to transfer money enters the intended recipient's name, account number and sort code. However, the name is not checked.\n\nUnder plans from the UK's payments operator, from next spring the sender will be alerted if the name does not match the account. The change was originally set to begin in summer 2019, but was delayed.\n• None Name checks to begin on bank payments", "Award-winning American actor Ron Leibman, famed for playing Rachel Green's overbearing dad in the sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 82.\n\nHis agent said the cause was pneumonia.\n\nWhile best known for his role in the US sitcom, Leibman had a decorated career in TV and film spanning six decades.\n\n\"Ron was an incredibly talented actor with a distinguished career in film, TV and theatre. Our thoughts go out to his wife, Jessica (Walter), and his family,\" his agent said in a statement.\n\nBorn in New York in 1937, Leibman won an Emmy award in 1979 for the series Kaz, which he created, and a Tony award for Tony Kushner's play Angels in America.\n\nHe appeared in numerous films including Norma Rae and Slaughterhouse-Five.\n\nBut his role as Dr Leonard Green in Friends is how he will be remembered best.\n\nMany have taken to social media to pay tribute to Leibman.\n\n\"So many of the best memories of my career have Ron Leibman in them. Thank you, Ron. For my being my champion. Rest, my friend,\" said Sally Field, who won an Oscar for Norma Rae.", "For two politicians who pride themselves on telling it straight, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were both markedly on their best behaviour tonight.\n\nThey didn't harangue each other, there was no heckling from the audience.\n\nThere was a wide range of subjects certainly, and profound disagreements - naturally.\n\nBut there was no moment that burst into fireworks. No massive gaffe on either side, or political car crash in the most public of forums.\n\nThey both stayed true to the tramlines that were long set out in this election.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, it was again and again making the case that the country can only move on if we leave the EU as soon as humanly possible.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, the task was to pull the debate back as often as possible to the changes that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has made to the fabric of millions of peoples lives.\n\nTo that end, it's likely that tonight they will have confirmed in their respective supporters minds, the reasons why they are the chosen candidate to run the country.\n\nEven though there were no obvious shocks or surprises, tonight may well have mattered for the many voters who would have been watching who are yet to make their decision.\n\nThose floating voters, yet to be convinced, are the ones who will decide the ultimate result.\n\nBut the pattern of this campaign, however, has been long set.\n\nThe Conservatives have been in front, Labour struggling to close the gap.\n\nSo tonight, for Boris Johnson's team, it was another hurdle they have crossed without a huge stumble.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, another missed chance perhaps to make a break that didn't come.\n\nSixty minutes of important clashes with only six days to go didn't shake up the big picture of this election, which was sketched out weeks ago, leaving Labour with less and less time to make a difference.\n\nThat does not mean though for a second the Conservatives leave Maidstone tonight sure of a clean victory.\n\nThe margins are too tight, politics too unpredictable, there is still time to go, and the public too savvy to give their votes without a pause.", "Robbie Williams has become the joint most successful solo act in UK album chart history after scoring his 13th number one, level with Elvis Presley.\n\nRobbie's The Christmas Present has moved to the top spot after entering at number two behind Coldplay last week.\n\nThe Beatles hold the overall record with 15 UK number one albums.\n\nMeanwhile, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Tones & I equalled the record for the longest-running number one single by a female artist, on 10 weeks.\n\nThat matched the stints at the singles summit achieved by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in 1992 and Rihanna's Umbrella in 2007.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Tones And I This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tones And I\n\nLewis Capaldi is at number two, but is the bookmakers' current favourite to top the chart when the Christmas number one is announced in two weeks.\n\nRobbie's rise means only two of his solo albums have failed to reach number one. His 2003 live album from Knebworth and 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star both reached number two.\n\nThe star also sang on four number one albums as part of Take That, meaning he has appeared on 17 chart-topping albums as a solo artist or part of a group.\n\nThat's still some way behind Sir Paul McCartney, who has had a total of 22 number one LPs with The Beatles, Wings and across his solo career.\n\nWhile Robbie's festive collection heads the albums chart, a host of Christmas songs have shot up the singles chart as people start streaming festive classics in their droves. The top Christmas songs in this week's chart are:\n\nEllie Goulding's new cover of Joni Mitchell's wintry classic River has also entered the top 40 at number 14.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audrey Schoeman's heart was \"dead\" for more than six and a half hours\n\nA British woman whose heart stopped beating for six hours has told the BBC she \"feels lucky\" to have a second chance in life.\n\nAudrey Schoeman developed severe hypothermia on 3 November when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Spanish Pyrenees.\n\nDoctors managed to revive Mrs Schoeman and said her cardiac arrest was the longest ever recorded in Spain.\n\nThe 34-year-old said she hoped to get back to hiking.\n\nMrs Schoeman, who lives in Barcelona, told the Today programme that she does not remember the accident itself and said it has been \"much worse\" for her husband Rohan.\n\nShe said: \"By the time I came round in hospital I knew it was serious as my parents were there but I did not feel like I was at risk of dying, whereas everyone else spent the last few days thinking there was a very good chance I wasn't coming back.\n\n\"The first few days were quite blurry, I was on quite a lot of medication.\"\n\nMrs Schoeman has no memory of the six hours\n\nMrs Schoeman began having trouble speaking and moving during severe weather in the Pyrenees, later falling unconscious.\n\nHer condition worsened while waiting for emergency services and her husband Rohan believed she was dead.\n\nBut the low mountain temperatures which made Mrs Schoeman ill also helped to save her life, her doctor Eduard Argudo said.\n\nHypothermia had protected her body and brain from deteriorating while unconscious, Mr Argudo explained, despite also bringing her to the brink of death.\n\nHe added: \"If she had been in cardiac arrest for this long at a normal body temperature, she would be dead.\"\n\nDoctors who treated Mrs Schoeman at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital said she had no vital signs of life.\n\nThey used a specialised machine that removed her blood and infused it with oxygen, before reintroducing it into her body.\n\nOnce her body temperature had reached 30C, the doctors used a defibrillator to jump-start her heart six hours after the emergency services were contacted.\n\nMrs Schoeman was released from hospital 12 days later.\n\nApart from some lingering issues with the mobility and sensitivity of her hands, due to the hypothermia, she has made an almost full recovery.\n\nShe said: \"I had an understanding of what happened but did not know how lucky I was to have survived it.\n\n\"I like the life I had before I had the accident, I am not going to be quitting my job or anything like that.\n\n\"I am looking forward to embracing it because I know I'm lucky to have a second chance again.\n\n\"I hope [to go hiking again]. Maybe not soon, we won't be going in the mountains this winter. I think it will be a long time before my husband goes anywhere near any snow.\"", "More than 120,000 extra people in Scotland have registered to vote in the general election, new figures show.\n\nThe final tally for eligible voters was 4,053,140, up 3% from the same time last year, according to the Scottish Assessors Association (SAA).\n\nThe figure is the highest number of people in Scotland registered to vote in a UK parliament election in decades.\n\nOf the people registered to vote on 12 December, 728,148 have opted to do so by post.\n\nElectoral registration officers said they have had an \"extremely busy few weeks\".\n\nPete Wildman, secretary of the SAA, which helps co-ordinate electoral registration services across the country, said: \"We are pleased to see an increase in the number of people registered to vote.\n\n\"All our teams have worked hard to process the increased number of applications ahead of the final update of the register.\"\n\nSAA figures show there were 3,960,093 validated voters on the register by 14 November.\n\nThe final deadline to sign up to vote was 26 November and the latest update of the register shows 4,053,140 people have now signed up to vote.\n\nThis is up from the last official tally of Scottish voters, in December last year, when 3,925,820 people were on the register.\n\nNational Records of Scotland publishes annual counts of voters and its available records go back to 1996.\n\nThe latest count is the highest for a general election since that year, with the previous highest in March 2015 when 4,035,394 were signed up.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anthony Joshua became a two-time world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr in a tense rematch in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSix months on from the night Ruiz stunned boxing, Joshua risked seeing his career left in tatters with a second defeat, but served up 36 minutes of movement and well-timed punching to take the IBF, WBA and WBO titles back to Britain.\n\nAfter cutting his Mexican rival inside the first round he never looked back and picked out smart jabs and right hands throughout before being serenaded with chants of \"AJ, AJ, AJ\" by 14,000 or so fans in the Diriyah Arena.\n\nRuiz never looked close to landing a knockdown and when scores of 118-110 118-110 and 119-109 were read out, Joshua jumped up and down in the ring in celebration, just as the man who had wrecked his US debut did in June.\n\nJoshua gets it right all night\n\nJoshua, 30, now joins a small cluster of men including Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson to have reclaimed the world heavyweight title.\n\nPatterson fell to the canvas seven times in one round as he lost his belts to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 but regained them in a rematch. The question in Saudi Arabia was whether Joshua could show the same mental fortitude after being knocked down four times by Ruiz in June. His answer was emphatic.\n\nA downpour in a country that barely sees rain stopped moments before Joshua strode to the ring, prompting him to carefully dry his feet on the canvas.\n\nFrom that moment on, his feet moved with grace. Seconds before the off, Ruiz was told \"let's go Andy\" by his corner but he was rarely allowed to get close to his rival and inflict the damage he did in the first fight.\n\nRuiz, the bookmakers' underdog again, was cut above his left eye in the first. He landed two jabs of his own in the second but took a left hook as Joshua moved with the lightness of a man at his lowest weight in five years.\n\nHe was burning energy but was slick and showed variety in working head and body in the third. A crowd unfamiliar with the sweet science at such close quarters offered audible applause and cheers as the smart work landed.\n\nThere was always tension given the speed with which Ruiz's gold gloves can move, and in the eighth he served up a first scare. As the pair tangled, Ruiz made things ugly and winged in a hook. The crowd stamped their feet while Ruiz's fighting compatriot Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez stood and screamed ringside.\n\nThe ninth felt key, Joshua needed to establish distance again. He landed a solid uppercut but saw Ruiz fire back wildly instantly. Again, the incredible durability of the champion and the constant threat he carried was evident.\n\nDeep in the 12th, Ruiz beat his chest as if to dare Joshua close. After a night of lateral movement and poise, it was never going to happen. Joshua glared out at the crowd as the bell sounded. It was a look of a defiance. It was the look of a man who had proved his point.\n• None Listen: Highlights of Joshua & Ruiz's 'Clash on the Dunes'\n\nSome seeing Ruiz's showing here will ask what was wrong with Joshua in their first meeting - the Mexican was never able to rediscover the heights he hit in New York.\n\nHis weight gain of 15lb was the same as James 'Buster' Douglas piled on after stunning Mike Tyson in 1990. Douglas lost easily to Holyfield months later and as the scorecards widened on Saturday and Ruiz ate shots, it looked as if his new status and its attached distractions might have taken a similar toll.\n\nHauling 20st 3lb around a ring is no easy feat. Only Nikolai Valuev - who was 7ft tall - has weighed more and held a world title. And as Saudi royalty watched on at ringside, Ruiz was consistently unpicked and outmanoeuvred.\n\nHe will at least leave with a career-high pay day in excess of £10m. He can live the rest of his life as a former world champion who stunned boxing. But if he shoots for titles again, he will simply need to be better.\n\nJoshua had said defeat would have been \"catastrophic\" for a career that promised so much, delivered plenty and then, from nowhere, was shaken to its core.\n\nSome close to him had expressed how nervous they were all week. The fact his entire team stayed with him in the ring for over 30 minutes after his win pointed to their relief.\n\nHe has promised to fully explain what happened on that June night but it is to his credit that he pushed for a new approach to his training, made adjustments and lived out the lessons he gleaned from his lowest point in the paid ranks.\n\nTo use a boxing term, he 'boxed the ears off' a man who had prompted him to ask so many questions of himself.\n\nThe talk of facing Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury - temporarily derailed by Ruiz in June - will resume. Another rematch, though neither party is obligated this time, also has legs.\n\nJoshua has earned such options after such a clinical response to adversity.\n\nBoxing history will never forget what Ruiz did to him. Joshua can at least draw some comfort in putting things right.\n\nWhat they said - 'When was the last time we had a role model like this?'\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn: \"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong. It was an absolute masterclass, a shutout, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that - the discipline was incredible. All the things no-one thought he possessed. That's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has a resume like him? Give him respect; he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"\n\nJoshua's trainer Robert McCracken: \"I think he was where I wanted him to be for this fight. He has listened in camp, worked really hard, and I thought he boxed very well against a dangerous fighter.\n\n\"Andy Ruiz is a real danger and he is very quick and heavy-handed. There were a couple times Josh went into mid-range and came unstuck but he settled back down in the corner and got back on it. His weight was great and his jab was tremendous.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing pundit Steve Bunce: \"AJ was absolutely clinical and he never wasted a shot. That was class and he stuck to his plan. Beautiful to watch.\n\n\"He got it right in spectacular fashion. He has been steely and nasty.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were \"aware of a video circulating on social media\" which appears to show a supporter making monkey gestures towards United players.\n\nThey have pledged to issue a lifetime ban to \"anyone found guilty of racist abuse\".\n\nThe FA plans to speak to the clubs, referee Anthony Taylor and the police.\n\nThe incident in question happened when United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half.\n\nThe 26-year-old Brazilian said it was a shame that such incidents still happen in 2019.\n\n\"We are still in a backward society,\" Fred told ESPN Brazil after the 2-1 win for Manchester United.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this is happening in some stadiums. It happened here, it happened in Ukraine with some friends.\n\n\"It's sad, but we have to keep our heads up and forget about that. We can't give them any attention because that's all they want. I spoke to the referee after the match, they will do something about it and that's all.\"\n\nFred also appeared to be hit by an object thrown at Etihad Stadium.\n\nAnti-racism body Kick It Out says it has been \"inundated\" with reports of alleged racist abuse after the incidents were captured by television cameras.\n\n\"We hope swift action is taken to identify the offenders,\" Kick It Out said.\n\nMore than one United player said they had been abused after the game, with the Old Trafford club reporting their comments to referee Anthony Taylor and Manchester City.\n\nCity said they are working with Greater Manchester Police to help them identify any individuals who were involved. Greater Manchester Police said that no arrests had been made but that \"enquiries into the incident are ongoing\".\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind,\" City added.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association welcomed City's prompt response, adding: \"Racist abuse is a criminal offence and must be dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I've seen it on the video and the fella must be ashamed of himself. It is unacceptable and I hope he won't be watching any football any more.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola said he does not want to see any more alleged racist abuse \"happen again\".\n\n\"It is a battle to fight every day. Unfortunately, it has happened in many places,\" he said.\n\nUnited forward Marcus Rashford, who was also playing when England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was overshadowed by racism in October, called for more to be done to tackle the problem.\n\n\"The fact it is still happening is not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"We seem to be speaking about it an awful lot over last six to eight months. Even speaking about it now is not nice.\n\n\"The necessary departments need to do the right things to stop it in the game. It is a big negative in the sport and the country.\"\n\nWith United leading 2-0, a number of objects were thrown by supporters in the home end when Fred went to take a corner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Brazilian moved away from the corner flag before going back to take the set-piece.\n\nCity midfielder Fernandinho, along with other home players, urged the fans in that corner to calm down.\n\nPlay resumed a few moments later once referee Taylor picked up a number of objects in that area of the pitch.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson wants small business owners to back her party\n\nThe Liberal Democrats plan to scrap business rates to help small firms and will provide greater support for entrepreneurs, if the party wins the general election on Thursday.\n\nNearly a million businesses in the UK have closed in the past three years, analysis from the Lib Dems suggests.\n\nThe party says Brexit uncertainty has added to the high street's demise.\n\nLabour says it will base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins the election.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives have said they will reduce business rates for smaller firms and give them a larger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson is due to visit Hertfordshire on Saturday - Small Business Saturday - to discuss her policies with the owners of small businesses in a bid to convince them to back her party, which is in favour of revoking Article 50 and stopping Brexit.\n\nCiting figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Lib Dems said 978,285 businesses closed their doors between 2016 and 2018 - a 28% rise from the 765,000 that shut over the previous three years.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has previously warned the government of the impact a no-deal Brexit would have on the UK and European Union, saying that leaving with a deal is essential to protect the economy and jobs.\n\nSam Gyimah, Lib Dem shadow secretary for business, energy and industrial strategy, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday that it was \"no coincidence\" that in a period of such uncertainty, businesses had to close their doors.\n\nMr Gyimah said: \"We have a situation where the Conservatives and the Labour Party are going to throw the economic cards up in the air and gamble with our future. And all the other things pale in comparison when you look at the issue of Brexit and its consequences.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems plan to boost small businesses by replacing business rates with a new land value tax on landlords, and expand the \"future high streets fund\" to support redevelopment in town centres and high streets.\n\nA new \"start-up allowance\" supporting business owners with their living costs in their first few weeks is also being pledged.\n\nChuka Umunna, Lib Dem spokesman and former Labour MP, warned that \"crashing out\" of the EU would see \"even more damage to businesses up and down the country\".\n\nMr Umunna accused the Conservative government of having \"completely failed\" small businesses, \"saddling them with years of Brexit uncertainty and ignoring urgent calls to reform business rates\".\n\n\"Liberal Democrats are proud to be a party that supports businesses. We will stop Brexit, get back to dealing with the issues that really matter to small businesses, and build a brighter future,\" Mr Umunna added.", "The woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight\n\nA woman has been stung by a scorpion while travelling on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.\n\nThe woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight on Thursday morning.\n\nWhen she went to the toilet, the scorpion fell out of her trousers and scuttled away.\n\nThe passenger was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital, the airline told the BBC. She has not been named and her condition is not known.\n\n\"After learning that one of our customers on flight 1554 from San Francisco to Atlanta was stung during flight, our crew responded immediately and consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided medical guidance,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\n\"The customer was transported to a local hospital,\" it added. \"We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being.\"\n\nA picture of the scorpion in what appears to be a United Airlines-branded box was published by celebrity news website TMZ, which first reported the story.\n\nAlthough rare, it's not the first time a scorpion has been found on a commercial flight.\n\nUnited Airlines said the woman was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital\n\nEarlier this year, a scorpion was filmed crawling out of the overhead luggage rack on a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.\n\nA similar incident happened in 2017, when a Canadian man said he was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight.\n\nRichard Bell said the scorpion fell on his head from above him while he was eating lunch on a flight from Houston, Texas to Calgary in Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Bell describes the moment a scorpion fell on his head during a United Airlines flight\n\nThe airline offered Mr Bell flying credit as compensation, which he accepted.\n\nLater in 2017, an EasyJet flight from Paris to Glasgow was delayed overnight after a passenger spotted a scorpion on board.", "Labour plans to make England's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election.\n\nThis would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said.\n\nBut Conservatives claim the plans are part of \"Labour's war on the motorist\".\n\nMore than 3,000 bus routes have been cut or reduced over the past decade, campaigners said in October.\n\nLabour said its plans would boost British manufacturing and help \"revitalise our high streets and rebuild local communities\".\n\nThere are 35,000 buses in England but only 700 are electric, and mostly in London, Labour said.\n\nLabour says the cost of this policy will be under £4bn over a 10-year period and will come from Labour's Green Transformation Fund.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Westminster bubble doesn't care about buses but cuts to bus routes leave so many people isolated, stuck at home and unable to make vital trips out.\n\n\"Away from London, many people have approached me in this election to talk about their local bus route closing down.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, shadow transport secretary, added: \"The Tories' manifesto didn't pledge a penny to reverse a decade of cuts to local bus services.\"\n\nLabour would give local authorities the power to create council-owned bus companies, replace cuts to bus funding and invest more (at a cost of £1.3bn a year), and provide free bus travel to under-25s in areas that bring bus services under local ownership (at a cost of £1.4bn a year by the end of the parliament), it said.\n\nThe funding will be drawn from Vehicle Excise Duty - formerly known as road tax - with Department for Transport money directed away from road building.\n\nThe pricing is based on the cost of buying new electric buses, and reimbursing bus owners for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles before the normal end of road life.\n\nWhile bus services are devolved, Labour said it would make money available across the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Labour's war on the motorist continues apace.\n\n\"Labour won't be able to deliver a modern bus network because they would raid the roads budget and scrap vital new roads and upgrades to fund their fantasy giveaways.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to \"help local authorities to partner with bus companies to create new superbus networks\" and make £50m available \"to develop the first all-electric bus town or city\".\n\nRoad campaigners said in October that bus service funding has been slashed over a decade.\n\nLocal authority funding for bus services fell by more than 40% over that time, while central government funding fell by 19%, the Campaign for Better Transport said in October.\n\nHowever, the Department for Transport said at the time it supported local bus services with a £250m annual grant to keep fares lower.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said on Friday: \"The steady degradation of bus services by the Conservatives across the UK is a disgrace.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats would spend £4.8bn on restoring bus routes over the next five years.\n\n\"We would also spend £970m on funding electric buses and coaches, reducing emissions and ensuring our transport system plays its part in tackling the climate emergency.\"", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The US naval air base in Pensacola, Florida\n\nThe gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, was a Saudi student, officials say.\n\nHe has been named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani - a Saudi military member in training at the site. He was shot dead by officials.\n\nThe local sheriff's office confirmed eight others were injured in the attack including two officers. The shooter used a handgun.\n\nIt is the second shooting to take place at a US military base this week.\n\nA US sailor shot dead two workers at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities were alerted to the shooting at the base on the waterfront southwest of Pensacola at 06:51 (12:51 GMT).\n\n\"Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie,\" said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan.\n\nTwo officers were shot in the limbs but are expected to recover.\n\nAccording to its website the naval airbase, which is still in lockdown, employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.\n\n\"There's obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil,\" said the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.\n\n\"Obviously the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims and I think they're going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florida governor: 'The Saudi government will owe a debt here'\n\nPresident Donald Trump said that King Salman of Saudi Arabia had called to \"express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed\".\n\nMr Trump said the Saudi King told him that \"this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people\".\n\nTimothy Kinsella, the base commanding officer, said he was \"absolutely in awe of the response\" to the attack.\n\n\"There was some real heroism today,\" he said. \"I'm devastated. We are in shock. This is surreal, but I couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform that I wear because of my brothers and sisters in uniform, civilian or otherwise, that did what they did today to save lives.\"\n\nAn investigation was taking place and names of victims would not be released until next of kin had been notified, the US Navy said in a statement.\n• None Two killed in shooting at Pearl Harbor navy base", "Two young boys who survived last month’s earthquake in Albania got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon.\n\nAlbania Prime Minister Edi Rama brought along the two boys from Thumane, one of the worst-hit areas, to the Italian capital, Rome, to meet their idols.", "The collapse caused congestion between junctions 25 and 29\n\nThe M25 was closed for about 12 hours after a crane collapsed on the motorway.\n\nThe crane toppled at Junction 27 for the M11 in Epping, Essex, at about 16:45 GMT on Friday.\n\nIt caused huge tailbacks in both directions, with more than 10 miles of near-stationary traffic.\n\nThe crane was later removed and the road resurfaced. The clockwise carriageway re-opened at 04:00 GMT, and anti-clockwise at 07:00 GMT.\n\nOne lane remained closed in both directions to repair the central reservation, but there were no delays.\n\nEarlier, Essex Police said no-one has been seriously injured.\n\nThe crane overturned over both sides of the carriageway\n\nEssex Fire and Rescue Service said six engines were sent to the scene, where traffic stretched back to Junction 29 (A127) on the anti-clockwise carriageway.\n\nConcrete had been scattered across the motorway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nConcrete was scattered across the carriageway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nWork continued through the night to clear away debris and resurface the road as Highways England warned motorists to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisation said the road was damaged due to a diesel spillage, but specialist contractors had been brought in to get the motorway re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of council workers staged a strike over the dispute\n\nThe company that led the equal pay legal action against Glasgow City Council has suspended all activities.\n\nAction 4 Equality Scotland said the move followed an approach by the Financial Conduct Authority over its failure to comply with new legislation.\n\nDirector Stefan Cross QC insisted it would not affect the ongoing settlement process but could have an impact on future negotiations.\n\nThe FCA would not confirm or deny any investigation.\n\nIn October, a BBC Disclosure documentary raised questions about A4ES and the £500m deal it had done with Glasgow City Council.\n\nClaims management companies in England and Wales have been regulated for several years but this has only been the case in Scotland since April.\n\nStefan Cross was the claims lawyer who acted for the majority of the women\n\nIn a statement, Mr Cross said A4ES was unaware of the change in the law.\n\nIt now intends to make an application to the FCA to become a regulated claims management company, a process that can take several months.\n\nThe lawyer said the FCA approach was the reason the company had shut down the website.\n\nIt has also decided not to take on any new clients and will not to be involved in any further direct negotiations as a representative.\n\nMr Cross said the move would not affect the ongoing settlement process, which will now be handled by a law firm, but could have an impact on the claims of caterers employed by Baxter Storey.\n\nHe added: \"It is very regrettable that this situation has occurred and I'd like to personally apologise to the women involved. However, I can reassure them that we have taken all necessary steps to ensure that their claims can proceed normally.\n\n\"The overriding priority has been to protect the interests of these women, and Addleshaw Goddard have been working with closely with us on these cases for the past six years, so are ideally placed to ensure a smooth continuation of their cases.\"\n\nLast month, BBC Disclosure told how thousands of women who fought Glasgow City Council for equal pay have had money deducted to pay legal fees, despite pledges from their unions.\n\nMembers of Unison, Unite and the GMB were told they would get 100% of the settlement money offered.\n\nBut BBC Disclosure obtained legal documents showing \"all claimants\" have had fees \"deducted\".\n\nWorkers took party in a 48-hour strike over equal pay\n\nEmployment lawyer Carol Fox later said she was \"troubled\" that women who were represented by unions had paid fees.\n\nShe has also called for an inquiry into Glasgow City Council's equal pay settlement.\n\nThe long-running dispute over women being paid less than men in jobs of the same grade was settled in January.\n\nGlasgow City Council agreed to pay out a reported £548m to compensate the women for the money they should have been paid, in many cases going back to 2006 when the new job evaluation scheme was adopted.\n\nThe scheme was supposed to ensure that men and women received equal pay for jobs of the same value.\n\nBut instead, some traditionally female-dominated roles such as catering or home care ended up being paid up to £3 an hour less than male-dominated jobs such as bin lorry workers or gardeners.\n\nThe majority of the 16,000 equal pay claimants were represented by private claims company Action 4 Equality, run by Mr Cross.\n\nAs part of this deal, it was agreed that every claimant would have a percentage of the settlement offered by the council deducted in legal fees. This included those backed by their unions.\n\nAccording to Mr Cross, 6.9% was deducted from all the claimants, with a proportion being paid to his company.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC, Mr Cross acknowledged the percentage deducted equated to \"many millions\" of pounds.\n\nHe said: \"The unions' proposal was that we had to agree parity, to start with. The cost of that is that fees had to be paid somehow. And this is the most fair, most beneficial way for everybody that we did it on that basis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.\n\nThat's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.\n\nWhile nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.\n\nAround 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.\n\nResearchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.\n\nThe threat to oceans from nutrient run-off of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and industry has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the sea waters and still remains the primary factor, especially closer to coasts.\n\nHowever, in recent years the threat from climate change has increased.\n\nAs more carbon dioxide is released enhancing the greenhouse effect, much of the heat is absorbed by the oceans. In turn, this warmer water can hold less oxygen. The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nThat may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.\n\nEven small changes can impact marine life in a significant way. So waters with less oxygen favour species such as jellyfish, but not so good for bigger, fast-swimming species like tuna.\n\n\"We have known about de-oxygenation but we haven't known the linkages to climate change and this is really worrying,\" said Minna Epps from IUCN.\n\n\"Not only has the decline of oxygen quadrupled in the past 50 years but even in the best case emissions scenario, oxygen is still going to decline in the oceans.\"\n\nFor species like tuna, marlin and some sharks that are particularly sensitive to lack of oxygen - this is bad news.\n\nBigger fish like these have greater energy needs. According to the authors, these animals are starting to move to the shallow surface layers of the seas where there is more of the gas dissolved. However, this make the species much more vulnerable to over-fishing.\n\nIf countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.\n\nThis is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.\n\nTuna are suffering from lack of oxygen, says IUCN\n\nLow levels of oxygen are also bad for basic processes like the cycling of elements crucial for life on Earth, including nitrogen and phosphorous.\n\n\"If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish,\" said Minna Epps.\n\n\"It will also change the energy and the biochemical cycling in the oceans and we don't know what these biological and chemical shifts in the oceans can actually do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Durwood Zaelke has arguably saved the world half a degree Celsius of warming\n\nChanging the outcomes for the oceans is down to the world's political leaders which is why the report has been launched here at COP25.\n\n\"Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification,\" said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor.\n\n\"To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources.\"", "Mexico's brutal drug war claims tens of thousands of lives every year\n\nUS President Donald Trump has delayed plans to legally designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.\n\nMr Trump had vowed to label the gangs as terrorists after the killing last month of nine American citizens from a Mormon community in Mexico.\n\nBut he has put the plans on hold on the request of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.\n\n\"I celebrate that he has taken our opinion into account,\" the Mexican president said.\n\n\"We thank President Trump for respecting our decisions and for choosing to maintain a policy of good neighbourliness, a policy of cooperation with us,\" he added.\n\nMr Trump's original announcement came after three women and six children of dual US-Mexican nationality were killed in an ambush in a remote area of northern Mexico.\n\nFollowing the attack the victims' community, the LeBarons, petitioned the White House to list the cartels as terror groups, saying: \"They are terrorists and it's time to acknowledge it.\"\n\nThe move would have widened the scope for US legal and financial action against cartels but Mexico saw it as a violation of its sovereignty.\n\nThe US president has now put the plans on hold.\n\n\"All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations,\" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter. \"Statutorily we are ready to do so.\"\n\nBut Mr Trump said his Mexican counterpart is \"a man who I like and respect, and has worked so well with us,\" adding that he was temporarily holding off on the designation and stepping up \"joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!\"\n\nHe did not comment on how long the delay would last.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three ways the US is influencing violence in Mexico\n\nMexico's brutal drug war claims tens of thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle for territory and influence.\n\nIn 2017 more than 30,000 people were killed in the country, with the murder rate having more than tripled since 2006.", "Seven men and a woman are rescued from a dinghy\n\nForty migrants, including two children, have been rescued from boats in five separate incidents on Christmas Day in the English Channel.\n\nLifeboats and a coastguard helicopter intercepted a boat carrying 12 people and a child off the coast of Deal, Kent, at about 04:30 GMT.\n\nAnd a girl was one of eight who arrived in Folkestone at about 02:40 GMT.\n\nThe Home Office said some of the migrants identified as Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans.\n\nThe children will come under the care of social services, officials said.\n\nIn other incidents, a Border Force cutter was deployed at 05:50 GMT to the Channel to help a dinghy travelling towards the UK with seven men and a woman onboard.\n\nAll of them have undergone a medical assessment and the adults have been transferred to immigration officials to be interviewed.\n\nFrench maritime officials tweeted two images of the rescue, which appeared to show at least some of the eight people were wearing life jackets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PREMAR Manche This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn French waters within the English Channel, nine migrants were also rescued and are now in the UK after their vessel's engine failed.\n\nAnd a lifeboat later spotted a rowing boat with two people on board about eight miles from Dover. It was heading for the UK.\n\nThe 13 people on board the boat off Deal were not thought to be wearing life jackets.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The evidence shows there is organised criminal gang activity behind illegal migration attempts by small boats across the Channel.\n\n\"We are working closely with the French and law enforcement partners to target these gangs, who exploit vulnerable people and put lives at risk.\"\n\nHM Coastguard said in a statement: \"[We are] committed to safeguarding life around the seas and coastal areas of this country.\n\n\"We are only concerned with preservation of life, rescuing those in trouble and bringing them safely back to shore, where they will be handed over to the relevant partner emergency services or authorities.\"\n\nAs recently as Saturday, a boat containing 16 migrants, including two children, was intercepted by the French authorities as it travelled towards the UK.\n\nIt follows numerous attempts through November and December in which people on boats, many of them claiming to be Iranian, were stopped crossing the Channel.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Spacey posted a cryptic video in the style of his House of Cards character on Monday\n\nUS actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts.\n\nHe will appear in court on 7 January over the incident, which allegedly occurred in Nantucket in July 2016.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Spacey posted a video in which he appears to deny any wrongdoing while in character as Frank Underwood from House of Cards.\n\n\"I'm certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn't do,\" he says in the clip.\n\n\"You wouldn't believe the worst without evidence, would you?\" he asks. \"You wouldn't rush to judgements without facts.\"\n\nThe alleged victim is the son of former television news presenter Heather Unruh, who spoke publicly about the incident last year.\n\nShe accused Mr Spacey of buying her then 18-year-old son alcohol - the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21 - and then groping him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heather Unruh speaks last year about the allegation\n\nIn the video, Mr Spacey speaks in Frank Underwood's accent and addresses the viewer directly, much like he did throughout his five seasons on House of Cards.\n\n\"Of course some believed everything,\" he says. \"They're just waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all.\"\n\n\"They're going to say I'm being disrespectful, not playing by the rules,\" he adds. \"Like I ever played by anyone's rules before. I never did. And you loved it.\"\n\nFrank Underwood was the power-hungry and conniving protagonist of the Netflix series, and murdered a journalist and a politician before he was killed off ahead of season six.\n\nKevin Spacey played Frank Underwood for five seasons and won numerous awards\n\nThe three-minute clip, which is titled Let Me Be Frank, marks Mr Spacey's first public appearance since the first allegation of sexual assault was made against him last November.\n\nHe was accused by actor Anthony Rapp of making a sexual advance in 1986 and a number of other allegations have since emerged.\n\nMr Spacey said he had no memory of the event but publicly apologised before issuing an \"absolute\" denial of the other allegations.\n\nSeparately, in September, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Mr Spacey would not be prosecuted over an accusation of sexual assault that allegedly took place in 1992.\n\nIt said it fell outside of California's statute of limitations.\n\nUK police are also investigating several allegations that centre around his time serving as artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre.\n\nThe controversy has led to Mr Spacey being axed from a number of roles, including from House of Cards and the 2017 film All the Money in the World, which was re-shot without him.\n\nA film in which he appears, Billionaire Boys Club, also took a record-breaking low of $126 (£98) on its first night in US cinemas in August.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says there is \"no extra pressure\" on his side as they head into the second half of the season top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds are four points clear of champions Manchester City before 26 December's fixtures.\n\nKlopp's side are unbeaten in the league and host Newcastle United on Wednesday (15:00 GMT kick-off).\n\n\"There's no celebration, no more happiness than before, only because now we are a few points ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously we have played a very good season so far and it gives us a much better basis for the second part of the season than we had last year.\n\n\"That's all. Nothing else.\"\n\nThe German manager said on Monday that \"nobody should feel safe\" in the Premier League title race and insisted Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal - who are third, fourth and fifth respectively - also remain in the hunt with 20 games to play.\n\nIn eight of the past 10 seasons, the leaders on Christmas Day have gone on to win the Premier League.\n\n\"A lot of things can happen,\" added Klopp. \"Always in the moment you think you're OK - then something happens and it is not OK any more.\n\n\"We all have to fight. We all have to be focused, not nervous.\n\n\"If you want to have guarantees, go for another sport. If you want to enjoy the ride, to try everything you can to be as successful as possible - welcome. Let's go for it.\n\n\"I'm really relaxed. There's no extra pressure on us because of a four-point gap. These kind of poker games we do not play.\"\n• None Do Liverpool have a Christmas curse? The best Premier League stats\n\nSpurs are six points behind Liverpool after a 6-2 win at Everton on Sunday, with Chelsea and Arsenal 11 points behind the Reds.\n\nTalking specifically about the Newcastle game and the crowd at Anfield, Klopp added: \"Everyone's in Christmas mood, apart from us. We are not in a Christmas mood.\n\n\"Everyone in England wants Boxing Day games. Good. But don't be in a Christmas mood on Boxing Day - come in for those one and a half hours and and give us all that you have.\n\n\"We need again an exceptional atmosphere to beat a very difficult to beat team. Nothing is taken for granted. If you think that, then that's the moment things go wrong.\"", "Allegations made against Kevin Spacey have seen the US actor's life, career and conduct come under intense scrutiny.\n\nHere is a summary of the main events so far:\n\nBorn in New Jersey in 1959, Spacey studied at New York's prestigious Juilliard School and made his professional stage debut in 1981.\n\nHe went on to appear with Jack Lemmon on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night and won a Tony in 1991 for his work in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.\n\nThe following year he appeared with Lemmon in the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross. More high-profile roles followed, one of which - in 1995's The Usual Suspects - won him an Academy Award.\n\nSpacey with the Oscar he won at the 2000 Academy Awards\n\nHis performance in American Beauty brought him another Oscar in 2000, by which time he had made his first film as a director.\n\nIn 2004 Spacey became artistic director of the Old Vic in London. During his 11-year tenure, he directed and acted in numerous productions there.\n\nIn 2015 he received an honorary knighthood and a special Olivier award for his contributions to British theatre.\n\nSpacey earned further acclaim for playing Francis Underwood in House of Cards, Netflix's adaptation of Michael Dobbs's political novel.\n\nIn 2017, he hosted the Tony awards in New York, during which he made comic capital about the rumours regarding his sexuality.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a drone was first spotted\n\nThe suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a \"miscommunication by police\", a government source has told the BBC.\n\nDuring a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate.\n\nBut over the weekend, a senior police officer said it was a \"possibility\" there had never been a drone.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were affected during the airport's 36 hours of chaos.\n\nThe airport has spent £5m since Wednesday on new equipment and technology to prevent copycat attacks.\n\nSussex Police has insisted it was not \"back to square one\" after releasing an arrested man, 47, and woman, 54, without charge on Sunday.\n\nThe hour-long call included David Lidington for the Cabinet Office, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Security Minister Ben Wallace, Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg, a defence minister, the airport and police.\n\nA government source said the force accepted that there had been \"poor communications\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Jason Tingley had cast doubt over possible drone sightings as police had not been able to acquire any footage.\n\nAsked about this, he said: \"We are working with human beings saying they have seen something.\"\n\nHe later clarified the force was \"actively investigating\" 67 reports of sightings and there were some \"persons of interest\" but would not reveal if officers were close to making any further arrests.\n\nDuring the conference call, it is understood the Cabinet Office \"pushed\" the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office to update their rapid deployment protocol.\n\nThey also discussed defence systems across the UK's airports, after discussions were had with all airport CEOs on Friday.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe airport has offered a £50,000 reward, through Crimestoppers, and another £10,000 has been put up by the charity's chairman Lord Ashcroft to catch the culprits responsible for the drama, which affected some 140,000 passengers.\n\nA damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport near Horley, close to the last reported sighting, is also being examined.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are clear that there were multiple confirmed sightings of drone activity at the airport.\n\n\"Therefore we took the necessary actions to ensure the safety of passengers using our airport. Safety will always be our number one priority.\n\n\"We continue to support the police with their investigations into this illegal and deliberate act to disrupt the airport's operations.\"\n\nAuthorities regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nIt is believed that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was used.\n\nHowever, experts have said it does not enable the person responsible to be tracked down and captured.\n\nJohn Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, said it could only \"take the drone out of the sky\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Alley already hold records for sailing around the Isle of Wight and the length of Britain\n\nA sailor has embarked on a crowd-funded attempt to break a circumnavigation record.\n\nAlex Alley, 48, from Hampshire, aims to become the fastest mariner to make the solo trip in a Class40 boat.\n\nHe raised the money by selling 5cm squares on the side of the yacht Pixel Flyer and corresponding pixels on his website.\n\nHe expected \"the highest highs and lowest lows\" during five months at sea.\n\nMr Alley has been based at Haslar Marina in Gosport.\n\nHe sailed out of Gosport on Christmas Eve and is due to cross the official start line in the English Channel on Christmas Day.\n\nAlex Alley sailed out of Gosport Harbour on Christmas Eve\n\nSpeaking before embarking, he said he was \"very excited, nervous and anxious\".\n\n\"There is a record to be had - there will be a whole lot of highest highs and lowest lows.\n\n\"I love the challenge of seeing what I'm capable of.\"\n\nThe idea of selling pixels dates back to the Million Dollar Homepage in 2005 which student Alex Tew sold pixels on a webpage to fund his university place.\n\nMr Alley said people had uploaded company logos to fill the \"pixels\" on the side of the yacht, but also personal messages and family photographs.\n\n\"One girl has uploaded a picture of her father who passed away - she said 'Dad always wanted to sail around the world, now he can',\" he said.\n\nThe current record, set by Chinese sailor Guo Chuan, stands at 137 days, 20 hours 1 minute and 57 seconds.\n\nAnother solo round-the-world sailor Susie Goodall was rescued earlier this month after capsizing 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn.\n\nThe 29-year-old Briton lost her mast when her boat pitchpoled during the non-stop Golden Globe Race.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British-Iranian academic who was arrested and detained in Iran on security charges has returned to the UK, the Foreign Office has confirmed.\n\nProf Abbas Edalat, who works at Imperial College London, was detained in Tehran in April.\n\nThe Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran said he was released last week.\n\nBritish-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe remains in prison in Iran, where she has been since 2016.\n\nProf Edalat - who specialises in computer science and mathematics - was reportedly attending an academic workshop in Iran on 15 April when he was detained.\n\nAt the time of his arrest, an Iranian news agency reported that Prof Edalat was part of a \"network\" of British spies whose members had been identified and arrested.\n\nThe group said: \"It increasingly appears, as we had suspected, that his detention in spring in Iran was a case of misinformation and misunderstanding by the Iranian security apparatus.\"\n\nIn April, there were at least 30 dual nationals in jail in Iran - among them several dual British-Iranian nationals.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign Office said: \"We continue to take action on all our consular cases in Iran in line with what we believe will produce the best outcomes in their cases.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year jail sentence after being convicted of spying charges, which she denies.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, on 21 December to assure him the Foreign Office was continuing to work towards her release.\n\nWith regards to her case, a Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We have repeatedly lobbied the Iranians to release Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe on humanitarian grounds and we raise all our cases at every level and every opportunity.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that Iran did not recognise dual nationality, which made the case more difficult.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for talks at the United Nations in New York in September, when she told him she had \"serious concerns\" about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Elaine Kirk and Paul Gait were released without charge\n\nThe couple arrested over the drone chaos at Gatwick Airport have said they feel \"completely violated\".\n\nPaul Gait and Elaine Kirk, who were released without charge, told Sky News their \"privacy and identity\" had been \"completely exposed\" after being named in the media and their home searched.\n\n\"We are deeply distressed, as are our family and friends, and we are currently receiving medical care.\n\n\"The way we were initially perceived was disgusting,\" they said.\n\nThe couple, from Crawley, West Sussex, whose names have not been revealed by the BBC until now, added: \"Those that knew us didn't doubt us for a second.\"\n\nSpeaking outside their home, Mr Gait, 47, and Ms Kirk, 54, said they had been \"totally overwhelmed\" by the support they had received from people around the world.\n\n\"We would ask that the press please respect our privacy and leave us to try and get through Christmas as best we can,\" they said.\n\nPassengers faced three days of disruption last week when about 1,000 flights were affected during 36 hours of chaos when drones were sighted near the runway.\n\nThe airport has spent £5m since Wednesday on new equipment and technology to prevent copycat attacks.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the government was \"able to now deploy detection systems throughout the UK\" to combat the threat.\n\n\"The huge proliferation of such devices, coupled with the challenges of deploying military counter measures into a civilian environment, means there are no easy solutions,\" he said.\n\n\"Those people who chose to use drones either recklessly or for criminal purposes can expect the most severe sentence and jail time when caught,\" he added.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe airport has offered a £50,000 reward, through Crimestoppers, and another £10,000 has been put up by the charity's chairman Lord Ashcroft to catch the culprits responsible for the drama, which affected some 140,000 passengers.\n\nSussex Police said a damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport near Horley on Saturday morning, close to the last reported sighting, was being forensically examined.\n\nThe force acknowledged that its suggestion, made on Sunday, that there may never have been a drone at Gatwick was down to \"poor communications\".\n\nEarlier, Deputy Chief Constable Jo Shiner stated there were numerous illegal drone sightings at the airport over three days from 19 to 21 December, discounting any doubt over possible sightings.\n\nThere were more than 200 sightings since the first drone was spotted, with police taking 67 statements, including from fellow officers and airport staff.\n\n\"The impact of this criminal and reckless behaviour has been enormous and we are determined to locate those responsible to bring them to justice,\" she said.\n\nGatwick said it had taken the necessary actions to ensure the safety of passengers, and it was clear there were \"multiple confirmed sightings of drone activity\".\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rescued woman (second left) and her son (second right) are escorted by police officers\n\nAn Argentine woman seized in the 1980s by people traffickers has been reunited with her family in a joint operation by Argentine and Bolivian police.\n\nThe whereabouts of the woman, who is now 45, had been unknown until earlier this year when police received a tip-off she was in Bermejo, south Bolivia.\n\nThe police then located the house in which she was being held and freed her and her nine-year-old son.\n\nThe names of the rescued mother and son have not been revealed.\n\nIn a statement released on 25 December, Argentine police said that the woman had at last been able to go back to her family home in Mar del Plata.\n\nShe and her son were freed earlier this month.\n\nThe statement provided no further details about who was responsible for their abduction about 32 years ago.", "Wilham Mendes was found injured after a suspected robbery in Albert Place, Tottenham\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys have been charged with stabbing a keen boxer to death in north London.\n\nWilham Mendes, a Portuguese national, was found injured after a suspected robbery in Albert Place, Tottenham, at about 01:20 GMT on Saturday. He died shortly afterwards.\n\nThe 25-year-old athlete had been in the UK since 2015 and was living in Tottenham, police previously said.\n\nTwo teenagers arrested on Sunday have been charged with murder.\n\nThey are also charged with robbery and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 26 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Competitors in this year's edition of the Peter Pan Cup prepare to take the plunge\n\nJust short of 100 people braved near-freezing water to compete in the 155th Peter Pan Cup at London's Serpentine.\n\nThe race, which began in 1864, sees members of the Serpentine Swimming Club swim a 100-yard course in Hyde Park.\n\nThis year's race was won by Sakura Adams, 36, from London, who described her victory as \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nThe competition acquired its name in 1903 when JM Barrie, who wrote Peter Pan, was a member of the swimming club and competed in the Christmas event.\n\nRobin Hunter-Coddington, the president of the club, says between 80 and 90 members competed this year, up from around a dozen in the early 1990s.\n\nMs Adams, a 13-year member of the club, told the BBC it was a \"dream\" to win the cup - one that she is \"over the moon\" to have fulfilled.\n\nThe temperature of the water was around 5C (41F)- with the temperature outside around 8C.\n\nThe start of the race is staggered, depending on each competitor's handicap\n\nBut while some take pleasure from the competitive side of the event, all at the club stress it is the community of swimmers that keeps them coming back.\n\n\"It's not only about the swim,\" says Ms Adams. \"It's seeing the hundreds of people on the Serp-side cheering us on.\n\n\"This is more than a club, it's a family and seeing everyone on Christmas morning is part of the family spirit, that's why we come out.\"\n\nIt is a family that requires commitment, however, with members having to compete in seven of the nine winter races to be eligible for the event on Christmas Day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Close to 100 swimmers brave the cold of Christmas morning to race in London's Serpentine\n\nJohanna Allberg, who swam for the Swedish national team in her youth, came over to London to watch the race.\n\nShe had been hoping to be allowed to compete but was not allowed.\n\nHer husband, Jhnar, says: \"She swam in Sweden, I filmed her and sent the film to the club here and hoped she will get in but she didn't.\n\n\"She wanted to come and do this anyway so she came and swam in the lake before the race.\"\n\nJohn Tierney, 54, from Kensington has been taking part in the race since 2007.\n\n\"You make friends,\" he says. \"Gradually you become more involved in the club, more involved in the people - it's a social scene.\n\n\"We have a race every Saturday so in some ways it's just another race for us - but it's a very special one.\"\n\nAfter the race, each competitor is given a glass of port, while family members wander through the crowd handing out home-made biscuits.\n\nThen, after the crowds have dispersed, members head indoors to exchange gifts.\n\n\"It's very much a family club,\" says Mr Tierney.\n\nElsewhere around the UK, people have also been braving chilly waters.\n\nIn Porthcawl, more than 1,300 swimmers sported superhero costumes and swam in icy sea water for the Christmas morning swim, now in its 54th year.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, bathers dressed up as Santa and his elves to take part in the annual white Christmas dip at Boscombe Pier to raise money for Macmillan Caring Locally.\n\nMeanwhile, in the West Midlands, people took part in the Christmas tradition of jumping into Blackroot Pool, in Sutton Coldfield.", "Police have been speaking to people along Westbourne Street\n\nTwo men have been charged with murder following the death of a 43-year-old man early on Sunday.\n\nHe suffered \"serious lacerations\" to his body in Westbourne Street, Stockton, at 07:15 GMT on Sunday and later died in hospital.\n\nA few hours earlier, a 36-year-old man was taken to hospital with a head injury and cuts after an attack in Yarm Road.\n\nAn 18-year-old and a 39-year-old will appear before magistrates on Wednesday.\n\nThe injured 36-year-old has been released from hospital.\n\nTwo other men, aged 20 and 29, who were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm, have been released under investigation.\n\nOfficers were called to Westbourne Street at about 07:15 GMT on Sunday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As many as 3,000 people have been evacuated after residents of a newly completed tower block in Australia reported hearing \"cracking noises\".\n\nPolice confirmed they had found a crack in the 33-storey Opal Tower, in Sydney Olympic Park, following reports of the noise on the 10th floor.\n\nEngineers said the high-rise tower has moved up to 2mm, local media reported.\n\nA 1km (0.6 mile) evacuation zone, which also affected other buildings, was put in place amid safety fears.\n\nAn email to residents of a nearby apartment block said the evacuation had been ordered because \"there is a potential for the tower to collapse\", according to the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nSpecialists were due to enter the 10th floor to inspect the crack and assess whether the building was safe, Greg White, a spokesman for New South Wales Fire And Rescue, told reporters.\n\nHe said police had been called at about 14:35 local time (03:45 GMT) about a \"loud crack\".\n\nThe tower has been evacuated until it has been checked\n\n\"They attended, identified there was a crack in the building and they called for Fire And Rescue assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"We've attended and police and Fire And Rescue evacuated up to 3,000 people from the building and the surrounding areas.\"\n\nThe Opal Tower, which was completed earlier this year, was described by developer Ecove when the design was first unveiled as \"a curvaceous, triangular-shaped building with green walls of living plants embedded into the façade, and elevated communal courtyards every five levels\".\n\nAn Ecove spokesman said it was aware of the \"concerns\" and had \"notified\" the builder, the Morning Herald said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the Royal Family greeted well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service\n\nThe Royal Family have greeted hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were all smiles as they left the service on the Queen's estate in Norfolk.\n\nPrince Charles attended but the Duchess of Cornwall missed church due to a heavy cold.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh also stayed home - but is said to be in good health.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry greet the crowds as they leave the church service\n\nSpeaking to members of the crowd, Catherine revealed her children had woken her up very early\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex appeared to be on friendly terms\n\nCatherine and Meghan, who is pregnant with her and Prince Harry's first child, walked side by side to church, chatting and smiling. The pair have been the subject of media reports of a rift.\n\nMany of those gathered had brought bouquets of flowers and called out \"Merry Christmas\" as the royal party went past.\n\nThere were huge cheers from the crowd when the royal family arrived for the morning's church service - especially for the Queen.\n\nThe queen was driven there by a chauffeur while the rest of the family walked up and greeted people when they went past. Some well wishers were waving Stars and Stripes flags for the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nDespite newspaper reports about rifts and rivalry, the royals looked happy and relaxed with Princes William and Harry and their wives walking into church together.\n\nAfterwards the Duchess of Cambridge told one member of the crowd that like many parents her children had woken her very early on Christmas morning.\n\nAfter the service, Meghan hugged one of her former Instagram followers, who she spotted in the crowd.\n\nJessica Daniels, 17, from Peterborough, said it was an \"amazing\" experience to meet the duchess, who she'd been following since watching her on TV's Suits.\n\n\"There were a group of us girls on social media she became kind of close with and interacted a lot online.\n\n\"This is the first time I've met her, she just said 'it's so lovely to meet you, incredible to finally see you' and she was asking how we all are and if we're still talking and supporting each other.\"\n\nPrincess Eugenie of York and her husband Jack Brooksbank married in October\n\nAutumn Phillips and Princess Beatrice were among the Royal party\n\nZara Tindall and Mike Tindall had their second child this year\n\nThe Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor, James Viscount Severn and the Earl of Wessex arriving at the service\n\nPeter Phillips with his daughters Isla and Savannah\n\nThe son of the Princess Royal, Peter Phillips, arrived with his daughters Savannah and Isla, followed by Princess Beatrice and Peter's wife Autumn Phillips.\n\nBehind them were Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank; the Earl and Countess of Wessex with their children, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn; and Princess Anne and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, and Zara and Mike Tindall.\n\nTariro, aged seven, got up at 3:00 GMT to get a good view of the royals arriving.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said the Queen was her favourite because \"she is always wearing the crown with beautiful jewels\".\n\nHer twin sister Tatenda said she was looking forward to seeing the Duchess of Sussex whose \"elegant dresses\" she admired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tatenda, aged seven: 'I like Meghan... she wears elegant dresses'", "PC James Ireland and PC Dan Bellingham took a woman in labour to hospital\n\nA pregnant woman rushed to hospital by two police officers has said thank you - by naming her baby after them.\n\nPCs James Ireland and Dan Bellingham were battling the rush hour traffic near Chelmsford, Essex, when they came across a panicked man whose wife was in the final stages of labour.\n\nThe officers blue-lighted the couple to hospital, where baby James Daniel arrived 10 minutes later.\n\nPC Ireland, who is based in Stanway, said it was \"an amazing job for us\".\n\nJames' father Steve, who flagged the officers down on the A12, said they were \"heroes\".\n\n\"We felt that they definitely executed their duties with distinction,\" he said.\n\nPC Ireland added: \"We were more than happy to help the couple. We wish them all the best with their new addition.\"\n\nBaby James Daniel has been named after the two police officers who took his mother to hospital\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Powell says gradual rate increases are the best way to balance risks\n\nThe Federal Reserve has raised interest rates again, in spite of warnings from Donald Trump against the move.\n\nOfficials at the US central bank voted to lift the Fed's key interest rate by 0.25%, to a target range of 2.25%-2.5%.\n\nBut they also said future increases could come at a slower pace amid concerns about global growth.\n\nIt comes after the US president on Tuesday warned the Fed against making \"yet another mistake\" in raising rates, urging it instead to \"feel the market\".\n\nHe also urged the bank not to wind down a multi-billion dollar stimulus programme brought in after the financial crisis.\n\nMr Trump - who appointed the Fed's chairman, Jerome Powell - has repeatedly blamed the central bank for unsettled markets and dismissed analysts who cite other factors, such as rising trade tariffs.\n\nBut his remarks have put pressure on the Fed, as presidents generally avoid criticising the bank publicly, for fear of politicising the institution.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Powell defended the Fed's independence, saying that political pressure played \"no role whatsoever\" in its discussions or decisions.\n\nHe added that the Fed had no plans to change its ongoing reduction of its portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.\n\nThe bank has been gradually raising the benchmark rate since 2015, moving the US away from the ultra-low rates put in place during the financial crisis to spur economic activity.\n\nWednesday's decision, which was widely expected, marked the ninth increase since 2015 and the fourth this year.\n\nHowever, the moves have made borrowing more expensive, contributing to slowdowns in some sectors, such as housing.\n\nAnd with economic growth expected to slow, some worry that further increases risk stifling economic activity.\n\nOn Wednesday, officials did cut their forecasts for economic growth in 2019 to 2.3%, down from the 2.5% they anticipated in September.\n\nAnd estimates released by the bank showed most Fed members expect two rate increases in 2019 - not three, as previously forecast.\n\nIt follows a downturn in US financial markets and concerns about slowing growth in the US and abroad.\n\nHowever, Mr Powell said the strength of the US economy - which is expected to grow about 3% this year - justified another rate rise, despite recent \"cross currents\" that have weakened the outlook.\n\n\"We think this move was appropriate for what is a very healthy economy,\" he said. \"Policy at this point does not need to be accommodative.\"\n\nIn its official statement, the Fed also said increases to its benchmark rate would help the US economy sustain its expansion, keeping the unemployment rate low and inflation near 2%.\n\nShares sank after the announcement, reversing earlier gains. The Dow and S&P 500 closed about 1.5% lower, while the Nasdaq fell than 2%.\n\nIn Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 was down 2.5% in early afternoon trade on Thursday, following Wall Street's lead.\n\nHong Kong's Hang Seng index and South Korea's KOSPI index were both down more than 1%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.85% in very late afternoon trade there.\n\nAnalysts said investors might have been hoping for stronger signs from the Fed that it would raise rates more slowly in the future.\n\n\"Given the stock market declines and negative international economic news - recognised in the statement - this still points to quite a bit of confidence at the Fed in the ability of the US economy to withstand a few more rate hikes,\" said Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings.", "The security force operation to free workers took seven hours\n\nAfghan officials say 43 people have died in a suicide and gun attack on a government compound in Kabul.\n\nThey say 25 others were injured during Monday's siege at the Afghan ministry of public works in the capital.\n\nHundreds of employees were trapped inside the building at the time - and some reportedly jumped to safety.\n\nIt is not immediately clear who carried out the attack. Both the Islamic State group and Taliban have carried similar attacks in the past.\n\nThe incident reportedly started with a suicide car bomb blast near the building's entrance, before gunmen stormed inside.\n\nPeople in nearby buildings reportedly locked themselves in their offices for safety, a witness told the Reuters news agency.\n\nInterior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said that more than 350 people were eventually freed from the public works office.\n\nHe warned the numbers of dead and injured may change, and said an Afghan police officer was among those killed.\n\nThree attackers were also shot dead.\n\nThe violence comes after a tumultuous few days for Afghanistan's political stability.\n\nLast week it was reported that the US planned to drastically reduce its military presence in the country, shortly after Mr Trump announced an entire withdrawal from Syria.\n\nOn Sunday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani replaced his defence and interior ministers with hard-line opponents of the Taliban who used to work for the country's intelligence agency.", "More than 300 people were laid off from the Kaiam factory just before Christmas\n\nA crowdfunding appeal has raised thousands of pounds for workers who lost their jobs at a computer factory in West Lothian just before Christmas.\n\nThe initiative was organised as part of community efforts to support more than 300 people who were laid off from the Kaiam plant in Livingston.\n\nThey were made redundant without being paid wages expected before Christmas.\n\nBy 09:00 on Boxing Day, more than £17,000 had been raised on the crowdfunding site JustGiving.\n\nThe initial target had been set at £10,000.\n\nThe appeal was set up by Mhairi Duff, who works in a community centre in Livingston.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It started after a group of women from all walks of life and backgrounds, who had never met each other, decided to get together and help those who lost their jobs get through the next few weeks, not just Christmas.\n\n\"We have been overwhelmed with the support that has been shown from the community.\"\n\nMhairi Duff said the support shown from the community had been overwhelming\n\nThe crowdfunding appeal read: \"The community have come together amazingly to help ease Christmas a little but these employees still have bills to pay and families to feed. Every penny is hugely appreciated.\"\n\nMs Duff said £4,000 had already been passed on to former Kaiam workers thanks to the support of a local bowling club, which provided a loan until cash from the appeal can be accessed.\n\nThe crowdfunding appeal will remain open for the time being, she added.\n\nMeanwhile, local people and businesses made thousands of pounds worth of donations to help employees who missed out on their Christmas pay.\n\nThe community response was led by Emma Black, whose step-father is employed by Kaiam.\n\nShe set up a Facebook group appealing for help for those affected, and over the weekend thousands of donations, including toys and vouchers, were left a community centre in Livingston.\n\nIt is understood that any toys remaining will be offered to local community organisations, including charities.\n\nThousands of pounds worth of toys and vouchers have been donated by local people and businesses\n\nMeanwhile, administrators from KPMG have said they were still hoping to find a buyer for the plant.\n\nIn a statement, the administrators said they had no option but to make 310 of the 338 employees redundant with immediate effect.\n\nThe remaining 28 employees have been kept on to help the administrators \"explore a sale of the business.\"\n\nThey are also working alongside Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland and West Lothian Council to ensure that \"a full range of support is available\" to affected workers.\n\nThe administrators are also liaising with the UK government \"in relation to the timing of redundancy payments via the Insolvency Service\".\n\nBusiness minister Jamie Hepburn has pledged to write to the UK government to accelerate payments for workers from the usual four to six weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children from around the US called to speak to the president and his wife on Christmas Eve\n\nThere are some questions no-one should ever ask.\n\n\"What does this red button do?\"\n\n\"What do people say about me?\"\n\n\"Do you believe in Santa Claus?\"\n\nNow we all know Santa Claus exists. But for some reason, the US president threw doubt on this when speaking to one child on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene was the State Dining Room in the White House.\n\nDonald Trump and his wife Melania were taking calls from American children as the couple sat under two gargantuan Christmas trees.\n\nAll the children who called in had done so in the hope of getting through to Norad, the government agency that tracks Santa's movements around the world at Christmas (that is still operating despite a partial government shutdown).\n\nSome of those calls were patched through to Mr Trump and his wife, and thanks to pool reporter Kevin Diaz, we know some of what the president said.\n\nThis is how Diaz reported the exchange:\n\nTrump (in booming voice) to a kid named Collman: \"Hello, is this Collman? Merry Christmas. How are you? How old are you?.... Are you doing well in school? Are you still a believer in Santa?\"\n\nFootage of the incident circulating on social media shows Mr Trump then telling the child: \"Because at seven, it's marginal, right?\"\n\n\"Collman\", it now emerges, is a seven-year-old girl from South Carolina named Collman Lloyd, who told the Post and Courier newspaper she didn't know what \"marginal\" meant.\n\nIt is not clear why Mr Trump asked this particular question, because, of course, Santa's existence is beyond dispute.\n\nThese photos taken around the world over the past few hours provide overwhelming evidence he exists:\n\nHere he is in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...\n\n...and here he is in Disneyland...\n\n...and here he is in Espoo, Finland\n\nThe rest of the calls passed without incident, with warm wishes from both Trumps to those who called in.\n\n\"I hope your dreams come true,\" Melania told one caller.", "Merseyside Police said the man had been identified and his next of kin had been informed\n\nA pedestrian was run over and killed by a police car responding to an emergency call in Liverpool on Christmas night.\n\nThe man was knocked down on Scotland Road at about 18:50 GMT and was later pronounced dead in hospital, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe force has reported the collision to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said investigators had assessed the scene and decided to carry out an independent investigation.\n\nScotland Road was closed following the accident, which Merseytravel said also prompted the closure of the Bootle-bound sliproad from the Wallasey Tunnel.\n\nA Merseyside Police spokesman said: \"At around 6.50pm a collision occurred between a police vehicle and a male pedestrian on Scotland Road.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and the pedestrian was taken to hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead.\"\n\nThe force, which is appealing for witnesses to the accident, said the man had been identified and his next of kin had been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A dog has been caught on CCTV chasing a car in which it was driven to a street corner and abandoned.\n\nThe RSPCA has released the footage, calling it heartbreaking.\n\nThe charity is trying to trace a man in the car who is seen unclipping the dog's lead before running back to the vehicle and leaving.\n\nIt said the Staffordshire bull terrier and his bed were left at the corner of Timor Grove and Pacific Road in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, last Monday evening.\n\nThe dog, named Snoop by staff at a vets, is being cared for at boarding kennels.", "Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder of Richard Odunze-Dim\n\nThe family of a man shot dead in north London have said they do not want vengeance, but just \"want the violence to end\".\n\nRichard Odunze-Dim, 20, was shot last Tuesday at about 21:15 GMT in St Joseph's Road, Edmonton. His death was the 131st homicide in London this year.\n\nTwo men, aged 19 and 23, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday and remain in custody.\n\nThree others arrested at the scene have been released without charge.\n\n\"Whoever knows anything about this must come forward and assist the police. Whoever is protecting these individuals must come forward,\" his family said.\n\n\"Our circumstances are no different - too many families have gone through the pain that we are going through now.\n\n\"We do not want vengeance, we just want the violence to end.\"\n\n\"Although we have two suspects in custody, I urge anyone who may have witnessed this murder or who has information to contact police without delay,\" he said.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n• None London killings: All the victims of 2018\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Christian message of \"peace on earth and goodwill to all\" is \"needed as much as ever\", the Queen has said in her Christmas Day broadcast.\n\nShe said the message is \"never out of date\" and can be \"heeded by everyone\".\n\nThe Queen also joked that family events during a \"busy year\", including weddings and births, had kept \"a grandmother well occupied\".\n\nThe monarch, 92, highlighted the importance of people with opposing views treating each other with respect.\n\nIt comes as Parliament remains divided over the PM's Brexit deal, as the UK prepares to leave the EU in March.\n\nHowever, as head of state, the Queen is publicly neutral on political matters.\n\nIn the broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room, the Queen referred to 2018 being a \"year of centenaries\" , recalling how her father served in the Royal Navy during World War One and \"like others, he lost friends in the war\".\n\n\"At Christmas, we become keenly aware of loved ones who have died, whatever the circumstances,\" she added.\n\nThe photograph featured in the Queen's Christmas message\n\nThe message, which was recorded on 12 December, includes highlights of 2018, from the Commonwealth Games and England reaching the World Cup semi-finals to the weddings of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, and the 70th birthday of the Prince of Wales.\n\nAnd she looks ahead to the birth of first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex next spring.\n\nThe Queen added: \"Some cultures believe a long life brings wisdom. I'd like to think so.\n\n\"Perhaps part of that wisdom is to recognise some of life's baffling paradoxes, such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.\"\n\nShe went on to talk about the summit of Commonwealth leaders at Windsor in April, saying the Commonwealth's \"strength lies in the bonds of affection it promotes, and a common desire to live in a better, more peaceful world.\n\n\"Even with the most deeply held differences, treating the other person with respect and as a fellow human being is always a good first step towards greater understanding.\"\n\nShe emphasised her own strong Christian beliefs in the broadcast.\n\nShe said: \"Through the many changes I have seen over the years, faith, family and friendship have been not only a constant for me but a source of personal comfort and reassurance.\"\n\nThe Queen attended the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at Sandringham\n\nWere the Queen's words in her Christmas broadcast an oblique, coded encouragement to the different sides in the Brexit debate to treat each other with greater respect?\n\nIt really isn't clear. When she talked about \"deeply held differences\" she was actually talking about the unifying power of the Commonwealth.\n\nWhen she referred to the need for \"peace and goodwill\" she was referring to the story of the birth of Jesus.\n\nShe never mentioned the word \"Brexit\" at all.\n\nIt wouldn't have been difficult to have fashioned a speech which referred to the intense political debate in the UK and which urged people to keep in mind that there is \"much more that unites us than those things that divide us\".\n\nBut Elizabeth II is an extremely cautious monarch, wary of saying anything which might be deemed politically contentious. It is a principle which has been exercised with some skill and which has served her throughout her long reign.\n\nSome might say that this was one moment when Britain's head of state might have used her immense authority to try to calm the Brexit debate and reassure the country that we can cope, whatever the outcome.\n\nShe and her advisers chose not to be explicit.\n\nBut notwithstanding the lack of clarity in the speech itself, it is clear that the Palace - by highlighting the passages about goodwill and treating each other with respect - is hoping that the wider world will interpret the broadcast as an attempt by the monarch to soothe the whole Brexit debate.\n\nThe Queen wore an Angela Kelly ivory silk cocktail dress, with a gold Scarab brooch, with ruby and diamond embellishments, for the broadcast produced this year by Sky News.\n\nThe brooch was a 1966 gift from the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nShe was sitting beside a framed black and white photograph of herself, Prince Philip and a baby Prince Charles, taken in 1948.", "Services are being held around the world as Christians mark the birth of Christ.\n\nHere is our selection of some of the best images so far.\n\nAt a Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican, Pope Francis urged more \"sharing and giving\", denouncing the \"insatiable greed\" of modern consumerism\n\nIn Egypt, this little girl listened attentively during a church service in Cairo\n\nCelebrations were held at this church in Fuyang, China's eastern Anhui province\n\nIndian Christians took part in prayers at the Infant Jesus Church in Bangalore\n\nThis woman prayed during a Christmas service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Pakistani city of Lahore\n\nPeople queued at this church in Bangkok to touch the baby Jesus doll in its Nativity scene\n\nThese altar boys played a key role during celebrations in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo\n\nA young boy, part of a group of thousands of migrants travelling from Central America to the US, celebrated at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico\n\nA Mass on Christmas Eve was held at a stadium in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city\n\nMembers of a Berlin swimming club took their traditional Christmas bath at the city's Orankesee lake\n\nMeanwhile, this couple kissed by a Christmas tree in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nFamilies at Sydney's Bondi Beach celebrated in the middle of the southern hemisphere's summer\n\nIn France, so-called \"yellow vests\" protesters held a service at a roundabout in the northern town of Somain\n\nAll photographs belong to the copyright holders as marked.", "Former JLS star Aston Merrygold has lifted the trophy in Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special, after scoring a perfect 40 from the judges.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood said Merrygold and professional partner Janette Manrara's jive to CeeLo Green's What Christmas Means To Me was \"outstanding\".\n\nFellow judge Bruno Tonioli said the singer was \"born to jive\".\n\nMerrygold was up against Anita Rani, Ann Widdecombe, Caroline Flack, Jake Wood and Michael Vaughan.\n\nWhen the judges read out their scores for the jive, Merrygold fell to the ground in shock before doing his famous backflip.\n\nHis partner Manrara said: \"It's a dream come true.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Strictly ✨ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTV presenter Anita Rani also impressed the judges with a foxtrot to Winter Wonderland, scoring 35 out of 40.\n\n\"You managed to melt all the ice. You brought the magic to Christmas,\" said lead judge Shirley Ballas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWiddecombe asked Revel Horwood to give her at least a score of two because it was Christmas. However, he said: \"I'm not feeling that generous, darling.\"\n\nThe couple were awarded 22 in total - Widdecombe's highest score ever.", "It is the 82-year-old's pontiff's sixth Christmas as head of the Church\n\nPope Francis has called on people in developed countries to live a simpler and less materialistic life.\n\nHe also condemned the huge divide between the world's rich and poor, saying Jesus's birth in poverty in a stable should make everyone reflect on the meaning of life.\n\nHe spoke out while leading a service in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican for the traditional Christmas Eve Mass.\n\nIt is the 82-year-old's sixth Christmas as head of the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nIn his homily, Pope Francis said the birth of Christ pointed to a new way to live \"not by devouring and hoarding, but by sharing and giving\".\n\nHe continued: \"Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?\n\n\"For many people, life's meaning is found in possessing, in having an excess of material objects. An insatiable greed marks all human history, even today, when, paradoxically, a few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive.\"\n\nOn Christmas Day on Tuesday, the Pope will deliver his \"Urbi et Orbi\" (to the city and the world) message from the balcony of St Peter's.\n\nFrancis, the first Pope from Latin America, has made highlighting the plight of the poor a key theme of his papacy.\n\nDuring Christmas Day Mass in 2016 he warned that the true meaning of Christmas was being drowned out by materialism.", "Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was allegedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Portland in 2016\n\nA Saudi student accused of killing a teenager in a hit-and-run escaped justice with help from Saudi Arabia, US officials reportedly suspect.\n\nAbdulrahman Sameer Noorah, 21, fled the US last year, and Saudi officials may have helped him obtain an illegal passport, the Oregonian reported.\n\nHe is accused of killing Fallon Smart, 15, in Portland, Oregon, in 2016.\n\nThe Saudi government only recently informed US officials of his return home, according to the Oregonian.\n\nMr Noorah faces first-degree manslaughter - with a minimum sentence of 10 years - as well as hit-and-run, reckless endangerment and reckless driving charges in the US.\n\nOn 10 June 2017, with two weeks until his trial, Mr Noorah removed his tracking device and disappeared, police say.\n\nFederal officials told the Oregonian they believe he was probably taken out of the country on a private plane.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can to get him back,\" Eric Wahlstrom, a supervisory deputy US Marshal in Oregon, said.\n\nAfter Mr Noorah's disappearance, US investigators searched domestic and international flights, but found no clues to his whereabouts.\n\nThis summer, Saudi officials informed the US that Mr Noorah had returned to the kingdom over a year ago, on 17 June, according to the Oregonian.\n\nThey did not provide additional details to US officials.\n\nThe two countries do not have an extradition treaty, so the chances of Mr Noorah facing US justice are low.\n\nFallon Smart was a sophomore in high school when she was killed in the accident\n\nIn August 2016, Mr Noorah was allegedly driving a gold Lexus that fatally struck Ms Smart, the newspaper reported.\n\nHe was speeding through a crossing at up to 60mph (96km/h), police said. The teenager died at the scene.\n\nMr Noorah was arrested by Multnomah County officers after he returned to the scene of the accident.\n\nHe had been living in Portland as a student on a scholarship since 2014, with the Saudi government paying him a $1,800 (£1,400) stipend each month, the Oregonian reported.\n\nThe Saudi consulate also gave Mr Noorah the $100,000 he needed to post bail after his arrest in September 2016, according to records viewed by the paper.\n\nThe Saudi government has previously posted bail - even as high as $2m - for its nationals charged with crimes in the US.\n\nMr Noorah had turned in his passport and worn an ankle monitoring cuff after his release, but he was allowed to continue attending his classes at Portland Community College.\n\nThe day he vanished, he was reportedly picked up from campus by a black car.\n\nThe US Marshals Service and US Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nThe case follows an international uproar over the killing of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nThe US Senate blamed the Saudi crown prince for ordering Mr Khashoggi's killing and criticised President Donald Trump's pro-Riyadh stance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope gave his fifth Christmas message from the Vatican's Saint Peter's Bascilica balcony\n\nThe Pope has used his annual Christmas message to appeal for peace in conflict zones including Yemen and Syria.\n\nThe two countries have both been ravaged by civil war for years, pushing their people into humanitarian crises.\n\n\"My wish for a happy Christmas is a wish for fraternity. Fraternity among individuals of every nation and culture,\" Pope Francis said on Tuesday.\n\nThe Pontiff was giving his yearly \"Urbi et Orbi\" (To the City and to the World) address in the Vatican.\n\n\"My thoughts turn to Yemen, in the hope that the truce brokered by the international community may finally bring relief to all those children and people exhausted by war and famine,\" he said from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, addressing the square below.\n\nHe also said he hoped the international community would \"work decisively for a political solution\" in Syria - a country that is approaching its eighth year of civil war.\n\n\"So that the Syrian people, especially all those who were forced to leave their own lands and seek refuge elsewhere, can return to live in peace in their own country,\" he added.\n\nThe United Nations says more than 6 million civilians have been displaced there since the war there began.\n\nHis address also alluded to worldwide tensions over migration, saying that God wanted \"love, acceptance, respect\" throughout all humanity.\n\n\"Our differences, then, are not a detriment or a danger - they are a source of richness,\" he said.\n\nPope Francis revealed his hope for renewed talks between the Israelis and Palestinians to \"undertake a journey of peace that can put an end to a conflict that for over 70 years has lacerated the land chosen by the Lord to show his face of love\".\n\nOn Christmas Day, a Pope can enjoy the luxury of the world's stage largely to himself.\n\nAt mid-day, Vatican bands heralded Francis' entrance onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica. The Pope addressed the pilgrims and tourists in the square below, turning the pages of his speech carefully as he called for the resolution of many of the world's conflicts.\n\nHe also sent a message to minority Christian communities who are living in what he called hostile situations. In order to reinforce this thought, Francis has sent his Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to Iraq to hold festive services with that country's small Christian population.\n\nThe traditional Christmas address is a short breather from some of the problems facing the Pope. This year, he has been criticised for his failure to understand the scope of the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Francis has called bishops from around the world to Rome in February 2019 to discuss how the church might respond.\n\nChristians gathered in Damascus on 23 December to watch a Christmas tree lighting\n\nThe 82-year-old is the first Pope from Latin America - a region he also referenced in his annual address, calling for political reconciliation in Nicaragua and Venezuela.\n\nThe Pontiff also referenced Ukraine, as well as the millions of people displaced in Africa.\n\nThe address comes one day after Pope Francis' traditional Christmas Eve message, in which he condemned the huge divide between the world's rich and poor.\n\nIn his homily, Pope Francis said the birth of Christ pointed to a new way to live \"not by devouring and hoarding, but by sharing and giving\".\n\nHe continued: \"Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?\n\nThe Pope has made highlighting the plight of the poor a key theme of his papacy.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the UK to forget the \"languages of hatred, tribalism [and] rivalry\" in his Christmas Day sermon.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby told his congregation to aim for peace and unity at a time of challenge and discord.\n\nWhile he did not specifically mention the UK's political future, he stressed the importance of the language of love replacing the language of conflict.\n\n\"God's language of love is exclusive,\" he said at Canterbury Cathedral.\n\nOther church leaders used their Christmas messages to highlight social action fighting homelessness and poverty.\n\nBishop of London the Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally said 33,000 Church of England \"social action\" projects included food banks, night shelters and dementia cafes.\n\nRight Rev Dame Sarah Mullally highlighted the Church of England's social projects\n\nThe leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, used his homily to thank volunteers working to help the needy.\n\nBoth leaders acknowledged that many people faced challenging times and that society had become more divided.\n\nSpeaking before delivering her first Christmas midnight service since becoming the first woman Bishop of London, Bishop Mullally told the BBC the UK was facing \"a lot of turbulence\".\n\n\"Debates in politics around the EU referendum have created division,\" she said. \"My belief is that diversity creates strong community; division weakens it.\"\n\nBut she said the Church had been working across generations and social groups and that churches working together could help in \"breaking down barriers... so we create stable communities\".\n\n\"The Church needs to speak confidently about faith in Jesus Christ but it also needs to reflect the compassion we see in God and Jesus which is why, not just in London but right across the country, churches are involved in social action projects,\" said Bishop Mullally.\n\n\"[There are] something like 33,000 social action projects across the Church of England; people setting up food banks, credit unions, dementia cafes and night shelters demonstrating the love of God.\"\n\nCardinal Nichols, pictured conducting Mass in April 2017, said volunteers would be ready if hardship increased\n\nIn his homily, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Nichols, pointed to \"difficult times, times of uncertainty and an absence of consensus\".\n\nBut he also spoke of \"countless acts of kindness\", saying: \"Our society is full of generosity and compassion, although we do not shout about it.\"\n\n\"In our parishes, for example, there are over 130 projects responding to food poverty and homelessness,\" he told worshippers at Westminster Cathedral.\n\n\"So many of our schools provide breakfasts and vouchers for the most needy. Volunteers constantly come forward... If, in the coming year, hardship increases, then we are ready to help in every way we can.\"\n\nAround the country, bishops used Christmas messages to urge people to come together.\n\nGraham Usher, the Bishop of Dudley, said: \"Our current political debates... put up barriers between those who voted in different ways.\n\n\"Our country needs, more than ever, to seek grace and generosity in our political conversation so that there are not winners and losers, just the flourishing of all.\"\n\nBishop of Bath and Wells Peter Hancock pointed out that Christmas is \"a joyful time but for many people it's a tough time and lonely time too\".\n\nMeanwhile, Bishop of Taunton Ruth Worsley wondered \"if this Christmas we might think about how we can offer some hope to other families who might be struggling?\"", "US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will be departing his post in February\n\nThe abrupt resignation of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has alarmed an already tense Capitol Hill, causing lawmakers on both sides to speak out.\n\nDemocrats decried the latest Trump administration departure as a \"crisis\", but Republicans also voiced concern.\n\nSenators Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio called the move distressing and damaging to the US on the world stage.\n\nGen Mattis appeared to clash with Mr Trump over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Gen Mattis, 68, said the president had the right to appoint someone \"whose views are better aligned with yours\".\n\nThe announcement of his departure came amid two major military decisions Gen Mattis had opposed: withdrawing troops from Syria and reducing US presence in Afghanistan.\n\nUS allies were not consulted or informed ahead of time about the president's decisions, US media reported.\n\nThe respected general will leave the job in February, though it remains unclear who President Donald Trump has in mind to replace him.\n\nOn Capitol Hill, Gen Mattis' resignation - and his reason for doing so - shocked lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.\n\nDemocratic Senator Mark Warner, who is vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, labelled the development \"scary\".\n\n\"Secretary Mattis has been an island of stability amidst the chaos of the Trump administration,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, ranking member on the Armed Services committee, said, \"President Trump is leading the country in the wrong direction and Secretary Mattis isn't willing to go along with it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Leo Shane III This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also described Gen Mattis as a \"comfort to many\" who were concerned about the Trump presidency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Nancy Pelosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Representative Adam Schiff of California, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the White House would \"not see his like again while Trump remains in office\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Adam Schiff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer vice-president Joe Biden also weighed in, saying Gen Mattis' presence would be missed and his exit makes it \"clear this administration has abandoned those core American beliefs\".\n\nRetired Army Gen Stanley McChrystal, the former top US commander in Afghanistan, told CNN: \"The kind of leadership that causes a dedicated patriot like Jim Mattis to leave should give pause to every American.\"\n\nEven top lawmakers from Mr Trump's own Republican Party have criticised the administration over Gen Mattis' departure.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was \"distressed\" to hear the resignation was reportedly due to \"sharp differences\" with the president on \"key aspects of America's global leadership\".\n\nThe Kentucky Republican also urged Mr Trump to choose a replacement \"who shares Secretary Mattis' understanding\" of American principles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham, who has been a vocal critic of the administration's decisions to withdraw troops in Syria and Afghanistan, tweeted his \"great sadness\" about the news, saying Gen Mattis had \"provided sound and ethical military advice to President Trump\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Graham also called for Congress to hold hearings regarding Mr Trump's military decisions \"to understand implications to our national security\".\n\nIllinois Representative Adam Kinzinger said of Gen Mattis' resignation: \"That's what happens when you ignore sound military advice.\"\n\nHe added Gen Mattis' departure was \"an act of patriotism, standing for our American principles above all else\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse, who has criticised the president before, said it was a \"sad day for America because Secretary Mattis was giving advice the president needs to hear\", US media reported.\n\nOther Republicans have not been as dire in their reactions, expressing disappointment while urging the president to find a capable replacement, US media reported.", "Eduard Zigar was working as a locum in Birmingham\n\nThe body of a junior doctor lay undiscovered in a hospital storeroom for two days, an inquest has heard.\n\nEduard Zigar, 25, took his own life at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham less than a week after beginning his placement, the city's coroner's court heard.\n\nThere had been difficulty identifying him as missing because hospital staff were looking under the wrong name.\n\nIn a statement, the hospital trust described the death as a \"tragedy\" and said it hoped the conclusion of the inquest would \"bring some sense of closure\".\n\nDr Zigar, a Lithuanian living in Wolverhampton, was a locum at the Birmingham hospital, allied to the upper gastro-intestinal surgical team.\n\nHe was last seen on the site's CCTV at about 19:00 BST on Saturday 25 August and found in the ambulatory care unit at about 22:00 on 27 August.\n\nDr Zigar had begun to work at the hospital on 20 August and appeared \"detached\" and \"quiet\" on 25 August, colleagues said.\n\nConsultant John Whiting told the hearing that he found Dr Zigar to be a little nervous, which he said was not unusual and gave him no concerns for his mental well-being.\n\nWhen he did not turn up for his shift on Sunday, staff were not initially worried as they assumed there had been a rota error.\n\nDr Zigar was found in the ambulatory care department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital\n\nWhen Dr Zigar's friends and family became concerned, the locum agency contacted the hospital but, because of entering his name into the system incorrectly, it could find no trace of him working there.\n\nSince the death, the hospital has introduced a supervisor for the locum team.\n\nDr Zigar's mother described him as \"tolerant and loving\" and said his death had come as a \"massive shock\".", "A Colombian guerrilla leader has been found and killed, the country's president says.\n\nWalter Arízala, known better under his alias Guacho, was wanted for the murder of two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver earlier this year.\n\nOn Friday, Colombian President Ivan Duque said he was killed in an operation near the Ecuadorean border.\n\nIn a statement Mr Duque described him as \"one of the most horrendous criminals the country has known\".\n\n\"The message is clear, we won't take a step back in the defence of legality, life, honour and the property of Colombians,\" Mr Duque said.\n\nOn top of killings, Guacho was also suspected of drug trafficking and extortion.\n\nThe 29-year-old was a former member of Colombia's Farc rebel group. He is one of thousands who have refused orders to lay down arms after the guerrilla group signed a peace deal with the Colombian government in 2016.\n\nGuacho broke away from the Farc and founded the Oliver Sinisterra Front - a dissident gang thought to have about 70 to 80 combatants operating around the Colombia-Ecuador border area.\n\nThe group came to international attention earlier this year after kidnapping two Ecuadorean journalists - 32-year-old reporter Javier Ortega and 45-year-old photographer Paúl Rivas - along with their 60-year-old driver Efraín Segarra.\n\nTwo weeks after seizing the three, the group announced they had \"died\" when the army came close to where they were being held.\n\nThe killings led to outrage and grief in Ecuador\n\nShortly after their bodies were recovered, the group were also blamed for the murder of an Ecuadorean couple.\n\nOscar Villacís, 24, and Katty Velasco, 20, went missing from Puerto Rico, a rural area near the Colombian town of Tumaco, on the border with Ecuador.\n\nA video of them, restrained with ropes around their necks, was released by the Guacho's group days after their disappearance.\n\nThe couple were later found dead with stab wound injuries, and their bodies were flown home to distraught relatives.\n\nThe murders led Guacho to become a top target of both countries' governments.\n\nColombia deployed more than 3,000 members of its armed forces to search for the group's leader \"dead or alive\", Reuters reports.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCrystal Palace had what manager Roy Hodgson described as \"one of those bonanza days\" as they stunned Manchester City to leave Liverpool four points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nAndros Townsend smashed home a sublime 30-yard volley to help Palace cause the biggest shock of the campaign to date by claiming their first win at City for exactly 28 years and end the defending champions' 100% home record in the top flight this season.\n\n\"You get your work-rate as it should be, you get your shape and discipline as it should be, then you also score goals,\" said former England boss Hodgson.\n\n\"To score three goals away from home against a team of this quality says a lot... and makes you wonder where they have been until now.\n\n\"Today was one of those bonanza days.\"\n• None Reaction from the Etihad and the rest of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Saturday?\n\nPalace come from behind in spectacular win\n\nCity's form at Etihad Stadium this season - they had scored an average of three goals a game in nine successive league victories - had made it a fortress, but its walls came crumbling down in spectacular fashion.\n\nThe game appeared to be following a familiar script when Ilkay Gundogan ghosted into the box to head City into the lead from Fabian Delph's cross, but the events of the next eight minutes left the home fans in stunned silence.\n\nFirst, Jeffrey Schlupp equalised with a fizzing angled drive into the bottom corner after meeting James McArthur's pass on the edge of the area. Then Townsend gave the visitors the lead with a contender for goal of the season, a fabulous volley after Bernardo Silva half-cleared a free-kick.\n\nCity boss Pep Guardiola - who had only lost two other league games here since he took charge in the summer of 2016 - sent on club record goalscorer Sergio Aguero after the break.\n\nThe home fans, and everyone else present, anticipated a fightback but Palace quickly scored again - this time from the spot. Townsend headed Aaron Wan-Bissaka's cross against the post, Kyle Walker fouled Max Meyer as he tried to clear and Luka Milivojevic sent Ederson the wrong way with his penalty.\n\nCity sent Kevin de Bruyne, so often a hero of last season's procession to the title, into the rain to attempt a rescue mission but this was beyond even him.\n\nThe Belgian did reduce the deficit when his cross looped into the net, and Gabriel Jesus headed another of his deliveries over, but Palace held on for a deserved victory.\n\nCity were 13 points clear last Christmas on their march to the title but, if they are to retain it, they are going to have to do it the hard way.\n\nWe are not even at the halfway stage of this campaign so there is plenty of time for Guardiola's side to get back into their groove, and the title race is far from over, but their lack of guile and creativity here will be a concern.\n\nIt was not for the want of trying by Guardiola, who replaced two defenders with attacking players as he attempted to rescue this game in the second half.\n\nBut Aguero and De Bruyne were unable to come up with the inspiration required to break down Palace's massed defensive ranks until the Belgian's mis-hit cross gave his side hope five minutes from time. Ultimately, though, it was not nearly enough.\n\nPalace's past two visits to Etihad Stadium had ended in 5-0 defeats, but Hodgson said before the game he would not simply attempt to shut City out, and he was true to his word.\n\nHis side were immaculately organised in their 4-5-1 formation, dangerous on the counter-attack and helped by two outstanding strikes, but the reason Hodgson's plan worked to perfection was the industry of all of his players.\n\nWhenever City had the ball - they had 78% of possession - they were allowed little space once they advanced into the Palace half.\n\nCity's usual precision passing failed to find any gaps and the home side were reduced to firing in hopeful crosses - 30 from open play alone - in a vain bid to open the visitors up.\n\nThere had been murmurs of discontent from the Palace fans following their side's poor form that had seen them slip towards the fringes of the relegation battle in recent weeks.\n\nBut there was nothing but acclaim for Hodgson and his players at the final whistle on Saturday, as they joined their travelling supporters to celebrate a famous victory.\n\n'We cannot concede penalties like that' - the managers\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We started quite decent and created chances. We scored a fantastic goal and after they passed the halfway line they scored.\n\n\"The third goal... we cannot concede the penalty we conceded. We have to try and avoid it. Palace had three shots on target and scored three goals. Football is like this.\n\n\"It's complicated but we fight until the last second. We are in December and we will try and recover and try to win games again.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"You don't produce that sort of performance by waving a magic wand or having a five-minute team talk, there's a lot of work that goes into that structure and we were excellent.\n\n\"We are playing against a team with enormous skill levels and their focus, their ability to sustain attacks, is an example to us all.\n\n\"I was really pleased with the way the lads worked hard for us. All the credit needs to go to the players. We scored three good goals.\"\n\nA day to remember for Hodgson - the stats\n• None Hodgson became the first English manager since Harry Redknapp in May 2010 to win away at Etihad Stadium in the Premier League.\n• None Manchester City have lost two of their past three Premier League games - as many as in their previous 61 combined.\n• None This was City's first home league defeat against a non-big-six side since February 2016, when they lost 3-1 to Leicester City.\n• None Townsend has scored 17 Premier League goals - 10 from outside the box.\n• None City lost a Premier League match kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday for the first time since August 2014 against Stoke, ending a run of 36 games unbeaten.\n• None Palace found the net with each of their three shots on target in the game.\n• None Since his Premier League debut, Milivojevic has scored 13 penalties - five more than any other player in that time.\n\nBoth teams are in action at 15:00 GMT on 26 December, with Palace hosting Cardiff, and Manchester City travelling to Leicester, the scene of their penalty shootout win in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.\n\nPalace end the year with a home game against Chelsea on 30 December (12:00), with City playing at Southampton later the same day (14:15 GMT)\n• None Attempt saved. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aymeric Laporte with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aymeric Laporte.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Crystal Palace 3. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from long range on the right to the top left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None James McArthur (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Luka Milivojevic tries a through ball, but Wilfried Zaha is caught offside.\n• None Leroy Sané (Manchester City) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Retailers hoping for a last-minute rush of Christmas shoppers on \"Super Saturday\" may be disappointed as trade looked set to peak before the weekend.\n\nSpringboard said footfall rose by 10.4% between Thursday and Friday.\n\nBased on historical data when Christmas Day fell earlier in the week, Friday is the busiest day as people tend to use Saturday to travel.\n\nNevertheless, firms like Hammerson expect two million people to visit its shopping centres this weekend.\n\n\"There's always an uptick in footfall at this time of the year, as shoppers start to worry about whether online orders will be delivered in time for the big day,\" said Mark Bourgeois, UK & Ireland managing director at Hammerson, whose shopping centres include the Bullring in Birmingham and London's Brent Cross.\n\nBut Diane Wehrle, marketing and insights director at Springboard, the retail experts, said: \"Footfall peaks on Friday rather than Saturday. Last year, footfall dropped by 3.8% between Friday and Saturday and this is a trend we have seen in previous years.\"\n\nAlthough footfall across the High Street, retail parks and shopping centres rose from Thursday, Springboard said that compared to Friday last year it dropped by 6.7%.\n\nWestfield, however, is still expecting a \"Super\" Saturday.\n\nIt said that over last weekend, between 14-16 December, 850,000 people descended on its London-based shopping centres in Stratford and Shepherd's Bush.\n\nMyf Ryan, chief marketing officer for Europe and group director of brand and strategic marketing at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, said that since the Black Friday sales in November it has seen double digit growth in footfall and expects strong trade on the \"three full trading days\" before Christmas Day.\n\nBut Ms Wehrle said that one of the problems retailers have faced this year is that Black Friday sales have lasted much longer and that there is an unprecedented number of shops that are offering pre-Christmas discounts.\n\nRecently, Mike Ashley, the Sports Direct founder and chief executive who also owns House of Fraser and a large stake in Debenhams, said last month was the \"worst November in living memory\" and predicted some retailers would be \"smashed to pieces\".\n\nDeloitte, the accountancy firm, said that retail discounts on goods are running at an average 43.6% and are expected to rise to a record 48% on Christmas Eve as shops look to shift stock.\n\nJason Gordon, lead consumer analytics partner at Deloitte, said: \"Christmas falling on a Tuesday, shorter Sunday opening hours and many choosing the weekend prior to Christmas to travel to friends or family will complicate the last few crucial days trading.\n\n\"This is why we expect retailers to ramp up their discounting earlier than normal in an attempt to clear stock.\"\n\nDeloitte said general economic and business uncertainty has made consumers cautious about spending while milder weather means retailers have too much winter stock in store.\n\nMs Wehrle said that retailers with an online offering will be hoping internet shopping will make-up for weaker sales in their stores.\n\nAlthough she said that online growth was also slowing because of factors such as Brexit uncertainty as well as higher levels of credit card debt following a prolonged period when wage growth fell below inflation.\n\nLast week, online fashion retailer Asos issued a profit warning after \"unprecedented\" discounting hit trading in November.\n\nAnd Ms Wehrle expects to see more retailers warn on profits in January or, at the very least, report weaker sales for the festive period.\n\nLooking ahead, Mr Gordon said: \"Against a backdrop of considerable business uncertainty across the sector, many retailers will extend their Christmas sales deep into January, with some having little option but to run through early February and even beyond.\n\n\"While this is unprecedented, it will not be a surprise.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ladbaby beat Ava Max and Ariana Grande to reach Chistmas number one\n\nYouTube star LadBaby has pulled off a festive upset by winning the race to this year's Christmas number one spot.\n\nThe UK blogger - real name Mark Hoyle - has reached pole position with a cover of Starship's We Built This City called We Built This City... On Sausage Rolls.\n\nThe charity single, in aid of food bank network The Trussell Trust, beat Ava Max and Ariana Grande to the top spot.\n\n\"Thank you everybody in the UK who has got a sausage roll to the top,\" the Hertfordshire-based 31-year-old said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by LadBaby This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"I don't think anyone really gave us a chance at the start of the week,\" LadBaby told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba on Friday.\n\n\"The public support has been absolutely unbelievable. It's mind-blowing, it really is - it's amazing.\"\n\nHoyle - who was also named Celebrity Dad of the Year in June - said his original aim had simply been \"to make everyone laugh\".\n\nHe said he hoped Starship would enjoy his version of their song, which originally reached number 12 in the UK in 1985.\n\n\"If they want to share a sausage roll and do a duet, let's make it happen,\" he joked.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by JeffersonAirplneVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLadBaby's version of We Built This City notched up 75,000 combined sales this week to finish 18,500 ahead of Ava Max's Sweet But Psycho at number two.\n\nLast week's chart-topper, Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande, dropped to number three.\n\nLadBaby's track is the first novelty song to claim the festive top spot since Bob the Builder's Can We Fix It? in 2000.\n\nThis was despite many commentators - including BBC Music reporter Mark Savage - writing off his chances.\n\n\"Sorry, but LadBaby won't be Christmas number one,\" he predicted on Tuesday, citing the track's \"almost negligible\" performance on streaming platforms.\n\nThanks in part to a last-minute push, though, the track ended up triumphant, with downloads representing 93% of its total combined sales.\n\nEarlier this week, I said LadBaby hadn't a snowball's chance in hell of being Christmas number one.\n\nAt the time it seemed to be true. The song was doing good business in downloads, but it was seriously behind the competition on streaming services.\n\nWhat I missed was the powerful combination of LadBaby's charitable intentions and the public's love of an underdog.\n\nOver the next three days, Chris Evans championed the track on BBC Radio 2, while Mark and his eminently likeable family cropped up on MTV, Channel 4, The Sun and BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe result? We Built This City sold more than 75,000 copies - up from about 15,000 when I wrote the article.\n\nI met LadBaby on Friday to congratulate him on his Christmas miracle. He assured me there were no hard feelings, although his wife did delight in calling me \"the Grinch\".\n\nIt's a fair cop. I'm off to eat some humble pie. Or should that be humble sausage roll?\n\nOfficial Charts chief executive Martin Talbot said: \"It is a truly fantastic achievement by LadBaby to claim the 2018 Official Christmas number one.\n\n\"In doing so, he has also shown once again the enduring power of campaign singles, especially at this time of year.\"\n\nThe last charity single to be number one at Christmas was A Bridge Over You by The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir in 2015.\n\nThe song - a mash-up of Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Coldplay's Fix You - got a helping hand when Justin Bieber told his fans to support it instead of his own track Love Yourself.\n\nBob the Builder's was the last novelty single to top the chart at Christmas\n\nEd Sheeran topped the festive singles chart last year with Perfect, a song he released in three separate versions in a bid to clinch the Christmas crown.\n\nThere is no change at the top of this year's album chart for Christmas, with the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman spending its 23rd week at number one and registering its strongest week of sales to date.\n\nThis week's top 40 also sees Bruce Springsteen claim the week's highest (and only) new entry at six with Springsteen on Broadway, a live album taken from his Netflix special.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's now 10 years since the ubiquitous Woolworths stores disappeared from Scottish high streets.\n\nThe general retailer fell foul of changing shopping habits and difficult times after the financial crash.\n\nBut Woolies still has a fond place in the hearts of shoppers and former staff alike.", "Bailey the dog, who became ill after eating chocolate, was treated by vets at the PDSA\n\nThe Christmas decorations are up, the fridge is stocked and we are nearly ready to relax and overindulge on this most wonderful time of year.\n\nBut those festive treats and knick-knacks can be harmful to our pets - with one vet saying she treats three times the number of animals in December than any other month.\n\nBBC News spoke to the vets who treat our beloved, if slightly gluttonous, pets when things go wrong.\n\nMickey the Belgian shepherd had to spend three nights at a veterinary hospital earlier this month after munching on a mince pie he took from a plate on the sofa.\n\nThe 15-month-old was then given an injection to make him sick.\n\nDebs Smith, from Scarsdale Vets's Pride Veterinary Centre in Derby, said Mickey was then fed meals with charcoal which \"binds with any toxins left in the stomach\" to prevent them absorbing into the body.\n\nHe was also put on intravenous fluids (IV) for 48 hours to keep him hydrated.\n\n\"Mickey was given IV fluids as raisins, sultanas and currants can cause kidney failure,\" she said.\n\nThe vet said if a dog had eaten even the smallest amount of raisins or currants, they would advise treatment.\n\nMrs Smith said this was typically how they treated pets who had ingested foods toxic to them.\n\n\"Unfortunately if they are not treated early it can be fatal,\" she said. \"The earlier these things are treated the more successful.\"\n\nGrapes, raisins and sultanas are known to be toxic to dogs, and the PDSA said although it was not proven they were equally dangerous to other pets such as cats, it was probably still best if they avoided them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What your dog can't eat this Christmas\n\nMickey's owner Pauline Warren said: \"Luckily I realised he had eaten the mince pie just a couple of minutes after and rang the vet straight away.\n\n\"I was so worried and just wanted him home, but I knew he needed treatment. I don't have any mince pies in the house now.\"\n\nAnother pet the practice saw this month was Jack the cockapoo, who had eaten a raisin cupcake he had snuck from the kitchen bench when his owner was not looking.\n\nLisa Ridley, from Twyford in Derbyshire, said: \"We got him in within 40 minutes of him eating it. He had swallowed about nine raisins.\n\n\"I felt really guilty because I knew the dangers of the raisins.\n\n\"He is a very lively dog and barked most of the time [he was in hospital]. My other dog did not like him being away - she cried for most of the 48 hours he was gone.\"\n\nJack the cockapoo had to stay on a drip for 48 hours after eating raisins\n\nPride Veterinary Centre sees about three times the number of cases in December compared with other months.\n\nMrs Smith advised pet owners to make sure anything harmful to animals was not left lying around.\n\nEwan McNeill, from Castle Vets in Nottingham, recently had a case in which a Labrador had eaten about six or seven mince pies.\n\nHe said another common festive issue was dogs eating turkey bones and then getting them stuck - as well as dogs eating chocolate, so he advised not putting anything tempting under the tree \"as dogs would be keen to investigate\".\n\nHe said two other common problems were cats licking or drinking anti-freeze or pets ingesting Christmas tree decorations.\n\nThe vet said anti-freeze \"is quite sweet so cats seem to like it\".\n\nMr McNeill's advice to pet owners is to take the attitude of having a toddler in the house by placing food out of reach and being careful of electrical wiring and decorations.\n\nThe PDSA said it once treated a cat who had swallowed a Christmas tree-shaped decoration\n\nAnimal charity PDSA said the festive cases it had seen across their pet hospitals in recent years included dogs eating chocolate, a pooch who had gobbled down fairy lights, a cat that had swallowed tinsel and another with a Christmas tree-shaped decoration stuck in its body.\n\nOlivia Anderson-Nathan, a PDSA vet, said: \"Pets have no understanding of Christmas and the excitement that it can bring.\n\n\"Routines change, decorations spring up from nowhere and an influx of noisy guests arrive without warning, making Christmas a potentially stressful time for our pets. But with a little planning, we can help our furry friends enjoy the festive period too.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US stocks suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade as trade tensions with China, interest rate rises and a possible government shutdown rattled markets.\n\nAll three indexes closed lower, with the technology-focused Nasdaq down 20% since its peak, placing it in so-called \"bear market\" territory.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its biggest weekly drop in percentage terms since 2008.\n\nThe S&P 500 fell 7% for the week.\n\nIt is the biggest weekly percentage drop since August 2011 while the Nasdaq's 8.36% decline is the sharpest since November 2008.\n\nThe Dow Jones fell 6.8% during the week.\n\nAfter years of gains, US investors are fleeing stocks, worried about a range of factors likely to hit corporate profits, including slowing economic growth domestically and abroad.\n\nEarlier this week, the US Federal Reserve lifted the interest rate and signalled that it would continue to rise next year, albeit at a slower pace.\n\nThe Fed also cut its forecasts for economic growth in 2019 to 2.3%, down from the 2.5% predicted in September.\n\nMichael Hewson, chief markets analyst at CMC Markets, said: \"China is cooling and the eurozone is slowing down, and some of the economic indicators from the US have been a bit soft recently, but yet the Fed hiked rates and suggested that two more interest rate hikes were lined up for 2019.\"\n\nElliot Clarke, economist at Westpac, the banking group, added: \"Political brinkmanship in Washington is further heightening market uncertainty.\"\n\nMarkets were also unnerved by comments from President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro who told the Nikkei newspaper that it would be \"difficult\" for the US and China to reach a long lasting trade agreement that would end the tensions between the two.\n\nShare trading started Friday on an upswing, boosted by stronger-than-expected quarterly sales at sportswear giant Nike.\n\nInvestors also appeared soothed after John Williams, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said the central bank would consider market turmoil as it weighs future interest rate decisions.\n\nFacebook's stock was one of the biggest fallers on Friday\n\nHowever, selling set in by afternoon with some of the major technology firms - that led the market's rally earlier this year - experiencing some of the most bruising falls.\n\nFacebook and Twitter both tumbled more than 6%, Amazon dropped more than 5%, and Apple and Microsoft slipped more than 3%.\n\nFor the day, the Nasdaq index fell almost 3%, the S&P 500 tumbled more than 2%, and the Dow slid 1.8%.\n\nSome economists argue that the steep Wall Street sell-off does not reflect conditions in the wider economy, which grew at an annual pace of 3.4% in the most recent quarter.\n\nConsumer sentiment also remains strong, according to the most recent data.\n\nHowever, the fears on Wall Street could spread in the event of a prolonged downturn, analysts warned.\n\n\"If these expectations begin to shift, then we would expect to see more downward pressure on sentiment and spending patterns in early 2019,\" Oxford Economics said.", "Former chancellor and Remain campaigner George Osborne now edits the Evening Standard newspaper\n\nThe Conservative Party is heading towards a \"prolonged period\" in opposition unless it adapts to modern Britain, George Osborne has said.\n\nThe former chancellor, who was sacked by Theresa May in 2016, said the party needed to become more socially-liberal and pro-business to survive in power.\n\nThe ex-frontbencher, who now edits the Evening Standard newspaper, campaigned for Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nHe added he believes a general election could be likely in 2019.\n\nMr Osborne was interviewed by David Dimbleby, who is guest-editing BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday.\n\nHe was former prime minister's David Cameron's closest ally in government and served as his chancellor for the whole six years Mr Cameron was prime minister - from 2010 to 2016.\n\nGeorge Osborne and ex-PM David Cameron, who called the EU referendum, were close political allies and remain friends\n\nIn the interview, Mr Osborne said that if he was still a member of government he would \"essentially try and steer the country away from the rocks to which it is heading\".\n\nMr Osborne added he would also attempt to move the party \"away from a prolonged period of opposition, which is where I think it's heading, unless it engages with modern Britain and adopts the essentially socially-liberal, pro-business, internationalist approach which I think is the right one for the country\".\n\nThe Remainer also told Mr Dimbleby the calls for a no-deal Brexit were \"reckless\" and he believes another referendum or general election is possible next year.\n\n\"In my view, a general election is at the moment an under-reported likelihood for 2019 because in the British system the simplest way to resolve political impasses is to return to the public at a general election,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a way of course for the government to avoid that and they are terrified of an election - they can themselves embrace a referendum.\n\n\"And that is clearly under discussion in Downing Street even though it's denied.\"\n\nHe said that if there was another referendum, he would urge people to vote to reverse the Brexit decision.\n\n\"It's not that you say to people, look, two years ago you made the wrong decision, you were stupid.\n\n\"It's that in the two years since we've learnt a lot more about what's involved in leaving the European Union, we've learnt a great deal more about what's on offer outside the European Union.\"\n\nMr Osborne, who Theresa May dropped from her top team when she took over as prime minister in July 2016, said he has known her for 20 years and called her \"a person of integrity and intelligence\".\n\nBut he criticised her for mistakes he believes the government has made in the Brexit negotiating process.\n\n\"I think the mistake the government made - led by Theresa May - from the start was to try and claim that a country that had voted 17 million to leave the EU, 16 million to stay, wanted a 100% Brexit.\n\n\"I think she should have started where she has tried to end up, which is a more conciliatory partnership with the European Union, or associate membership.\n\n\"I think that was essentially a massive mistake by the Conservative administration - which it was punished for at the general election - because the Conservative Party decided to embrace the Brexit result in such a way as to essentially dismiss the views of those who had voted remain, treat them as saboteurs or traitors and run against urban Britain.\"\n\nMr Osborne has previously spoken about how he admitted having \"regrets\" about his time in office and \"mistakes that led to Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Osborne: We did get things wrong\n\nHe said that he was not in favour of an EU referendum but supported his \"close friend\" Mr Cameron's decision to hold one.\n\nDavid Dimbleby is the first of several public figures to take turns editing the Today programme over the festive period.\n\nActress Angelina Jolie, who is a special envoy to the UN Refugee Agency, will take over editor duties on Today on 28 December.\n\nYou can listen to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday from 07:00 GMT.", "Police are searching a house in Crawley in connection with the drone sightings\n\nA 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman from Crawley are being questioned over multiple drone sightings that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.\n\nFlights were grounded for more than 36 hours when drones were first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.\n\nThe airport has since reopened and flights were operating on schedule, but there were still long queues and some knock-on delays, a spokesman said.\n\nPolice are searching a house in Crawley and the pair remain in custody.\n\nThey were arrested on Friday evening and were being questioned on suspicion of disrupting civil aviation \"to endanger or likely to endanger safety of operations or persons\", Sussex Police said.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe force said it was deploying \"a range of tactics\" to prevent further incursions from drones following the arrests.\n\nStrategies were in place in case any further unmanned aircraft were seen inside the airport perimeter, it added.\n\nSupt James Collis said: \"We continue to urge the public, passengers and the wider community around Gatwick to be vigilant and support us by contacting us immediately if they believe they have any information that can help us in bringing those responsible to justice.\"\n\nThe airport said it aimed to run \"a full schedule\" of 757 flights on Saturday, carrying 124,484 passengers.\n\nA Gatwick spokesman said: \"Many people will be due to fly today and there will be longer delays perhaps.\n\n\"But broadly things are going in the right direction. By the end of the weekend, things should be back to normal.\"\n\nThe Shorrock family, from Oxford, arrived at the airport to fly to Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps for a skiing trip.\n\nVivienne Shorrock said she was \"relieved\" to have avoided the disruption.\n\n\"Some people have suffered real losses by not getting where they want to go to be with family,\" she said.\n\nHer husband David joked the drama was a \"nice distraction from Brexit\".\n\nPassengers have been warned about some knock-on delays\n\nPassengers have been warned to expect some delays and cancellations and were advised to check with their airline before travelling to the airport.\n\nAbout 1,000 aircraft were either cancelled or diverted and about 140,000 passengers were disrupted during three days of disruption.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday.\n\nThe drones were first spotted at about 21:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nEvery time the airport sought to reopen the runway on Thursday, the drones returned.\n\nPassengers queue for flights as the airport and airlines work to clear the backlog\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield after the Army deployed unidentified military technology to guard the area, reassuring the airport that it was safe enough to fly from about 06:00 on Friday.\n\nThe Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can detect drones using radar, is believed to have been used. It can jam communications between the drone and its operator, enabling authorities to take control of and land the device.\n\nBut John Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, told the BBC the problem with this system was \"you can find the drone but not the person operating it\".\n\n\"You can take the drone out of the sky but you won't capture the person and that's what you want to do.\n\n\"You can get a second-hand drone for between £200 and £300 so if you take it down, they can just go out and buy another one,\" he said.\n\nNo group has claimed responsibility for the disruption.\n\nThe drones caused misery for travellers, with many sleeping on the airport floor as they searched for alternative routes to holidays and Christmas family gatherings.\n\nThousands of passengers returning to the UK were either stranded abroad or diverted to other UK airports.\n\nA handful of flights due to arrive into Gatwick on Saturday were cancelled, according to the airport's website, including an easyJet service from Milan-Linate and a TUI flight from Bridgetown, Barbados.\n\nA Gatwick spokesman said: \"Safety is Gatwick's top priority and we are grateful for passengers' continued patience as we work to get them to their final destination in time for Christmas.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darren Criss says he will no longer accept LGBT scripts because he doesn't want to deprive gay actors of roles.\n\nThe actor, who is straight, is well-known for playing the gay character of Andrew Cunanan in American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace.\n\n\"I want to make sure I won't be another straight boy taking a gay man's role,\" he told Bustle magazine.\n\nHe said it's been \"a joy\" acting in gay roles but no longer feels comfortable doing so, which is \"unfortunate\".\n\nPrevious to American Crime Story, he was mostly known for his portrayal of gay pupil Blaine Anderson in Glee.\n\nDarren Criss won a Primetime Emmy award for his portrayal of serial killer Andrew Cunanan\n\n\"There are certain roles that I'll see that are just wonderful,\" he explained.\n\n\"But I want to make sure I won't be another straight boy taking a gay man's role.\"\n\nThe debate over who has a right to play certain characters was reignited earlier this year when Scarlett Johansson dropped out of playing a transgender character following a backlash.\n\nSir Ian McKellen is among those critical of Hollywood's attitude to gay actors.\n\nNo openly gay man has ever won the Academy Award for best actor, while straight actors have taken home the prize for playing LGBT roles.\n\nTom Hanks won it for Philadelphia in 1993, while Sean Penn scooped it for Milk in 2009.\n\nIn total, 52 straight people have been Oscar-nominated for playing gay characters.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The RMT strikes over guards have been running for two years\n\nWorkers on Northern and South Western Railway (SWR) have begun 24-hour strikes on the last Saturday before Christmas.\n\nThe walkout, from midnight, is part of the long-running dispute over the future of train guards.\n\nNorthern said the strike, by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), would disrupt markets and other events \"at a vital time for businesses\".\n\nThe RMT said its action was in defence of a \"safe and accessible\" railway.\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Cash said he would not allow \"the dilution of the safety culture on Northern trains in a drive to prop up Deutsche Bahn's profits as [Northern's] parent company hits the skids\".\n\nNorthern said the action would disrupt Christmas events\n\nNorthern said the walkout would harm Christmas traders and \"damage the economic well-being of the north of England\".\n\nIt said very few of its services would run after 17:00 GMT.\n\nSWR said the union was targeting people \"trying to travel to be with family and friends... at what should be a time of relaxation and enjoyment\".\n\nIt said a \"reduced service\" would operate, although some routes would have no trains or replacement buses.\n\nPicket lines have been held outside many railway stations including in Newcastle\n\nPreviously the union called for a guarantee that trains will not run if no guard is available, while SWR has said they would run in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nThe RMT has been involved in a two-year dispute with several rail companies over the issue.\n\nIt previously said it had secured \"guard guarantees\" in Wales and Scotland as well as on a number of English rail franchises.\n\nFurther strikes have already been announced on SWR on 27 and 31 December.\n\nWalkouts on Northern are planned on each Saturday until the end of January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "HMS Echo docked in the Black Sea on Friday, before Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson visited\n\nA Royal Navy ship which has been sent to Ukraine will send a strong message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UK's defence secretary says.\n\nHMS Echo was sent into the Black Sea earlier this month, after Russia seized three ships belonging to Ukraine's navy and their crews.\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson has visited the ship in the port of Odessa.\n\nHe said the presence of the British ship shows support for Ukraine in the face of increased Russian aggression.\n\nIt will be followed by other Royal Navy ships as part of a more constant British presence, he said.\n\nNato has recently stepped up its operations in the Black Sea with increased warship patrols.\n\nThere are increasing tensions between Russia and Ukraine over access to the area off the coast of Crimea.\n\nRussian forces seized control of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March 2014, in a move condemned internationally.\n\nMr Williamson paid a pre-Christmas visit to HMS Echo soon after it docked in Odessa on Friday.\n\nHe said the ship was there to send a message to President Putin that Britain stands in solidarity with Ukraine.\n\n\"What we are saying to Russia, what we are saying to President Putin - they cannot continue to act with no regard or care for international laws or international norms,\" he said.\n\nMr Williamson talks to his Ukranian counterpart, Stepan Poltorak, standing on his right\n\nThe defence secretary made a point of meeting the families of the 24 Ukrainian sailors who are still being held and are now awaiting trial in Moscow.\n\nHMS Echo is not expected to sail through the Kerch Strait near Crimea - close to where the Russian Navy rammed, shot at and seized the three Ukrainian Navy vessels in November.\n\nMoscow has described the Royal Navy vessel - which is used to collect data about the ocean - as a spy ship.", "The world's only recorded albino orangutan has been released into the wild in Borneo after many months of rehabilitation.\n\nAlba lacks the pigment melanin in her hair and skin.\n\nShe was named after the Latin word for \"white\" following a naming competition by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.", "US President Donald Trump has said that any measure that funds the government must include border security.\n\nHe is facing criticism over his failure to deliver on his key campaign promise to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.", "The longest serving leader of the Lib Dems in its history, Lord Ashdown led the party between 1988 and 1999, when it became a growing force in UK politics.\n\nLord Ashdown was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October.", "Volunteers protecting the mural say at least 2,000 people have visited it\n\nBanksy's latest work in south Wales has been covered with a protective plastic screen.\n\nIt appeared on a garage in Port Talbot and depicts a child enjoying snow falling on one side, while the other reveals it is a fire emitting ash.\n\nFilm star Michael Sheen, who grew up in the area, helped pay for the screen. He is also contributing towards security, media and legal costs.\n\nIt was fitted for free by a local businessman earlier.\n\nVolunteers protecting the elusive artist's latest mural - called \"Season's Greetings\" and reflecting the town's industrial heritage - say at least 2,000 visitors have turned up to see it.\n\nIt appeared on Ian Lewis' garage on a lane behind Caradog Street in Taibach on Tuesday.\n\nTraffic wardens have been drafted in by the local council to control traffic.\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen has helped pay for the protective sheet\n\nSheen, who is from nearby Baglan and best known for roles in Frost/Nixon and The Damned United, wants to ensure the financial burden of safeguarding the art does not fall on Mr Lewis, his office has said.\n\nBanksy confirmed the image was his when he posted a video on his Instagram account on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Robert Dawes was under surveillance by Spain's Guardia Civil for months after the drugs were found\n\nA British petty criminal who became an \"international drugs kingpin\" has been jailed for 22 years.\n\nRobert Dawes, 46, from Nottinghamshire, was arrested in Spain in 2015 for trafficking 1.3 tonnes of cocaine into Europe.\n\nA judge-only trial in Paris heard he used corrupt officials in Venezuela and supplied several criminal gangs.\n\nPolice said Dawes ran Europe's largest crime group involved in \"trafficking, money laundering and murder\".\n\nRobert Dawes was arrested after a raid by Spanish police on his home\n\nThe court heard the drugs - packed into 30 suitcases - were seized on a flight from South America to Paris in 2013.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said he was a global \"big fish\", who brokered deals with the Italian mafia and Colombian cartels.\n\nDawes lived in luxury villa on the Costa del Sol, where he was eventually arrested.\n\nGuns, cash and encrypted mobile phones were seized when Dawes villa was raided\n\nGuns, cash and encrypted mobile phones were seized from the property.\n\nThe court previously heard he started as a small-time criminal in Sutton-in-Ashfield and was first convicted of a crime aged 11.\n\nDawes denied all charges, saying a conversation where he was recorded talking about drug shipments was a ploy to get himself arrested to end \"heavy-handed surveillance\" by Spanish police.\n\nBefore the verdict Dawes was laughing and smiling, even miming hanging himself to his lawyer as he entered the dock.\n\nPolice said Dawes used violence and intimidation to move \"huge shipments\" across borders\n\nHe was convicted of seven charges connected with drug trafficking and not guilty of one charge.\n\nMatt Horne from the NCA said: \"Robert Dawes and his organised crime group were feared by their criminal counterparts.\n\n\"They could broker deals between the biggest groups and were trusted to move huge shipments.\n\n\"He was a drugs kingpin who had an impact across the UK.\"\n\nOf two other Britons on trial, Nathan Wheat was convicted of six charges and jailed for 13 years, while Kane Price was acquitted.\n\nThree Italians were also convicted.\n\nDawes will have his properties confiscated and the defendants were told they faced a 30m euro fine, but the details of this have not been released.\n\nDawes's lawyers have indicated he will appeal.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spinal surgery for unborn babies with the birth defect spina bifida is to be made routinely available on the NHS in England, officials have announced.\n\nThe surgery involves repairing the spinal tissue of the baby while it is still in the womb.\n\nIt can improve their ability to walk and reduce health problems that result from spina bifida.\n\nThe procedure is among several treatments being made available on the NHS for the first time from April.\n\nMore than 200 babies are born in the UK each year with spina bifida, where the spine and spinal cord do not develop properly during pregnancy, causing a gap in the spine.\n\nIt often results in problems that include paralysis of the legs, incontinence and sometimes learning difficulties.\n\nThe condition is usually treated after birth, but the earlier it is repaired the better for long-term health and mobility.\n\nSpinal surgery in the womb was carried out in the UK for the first time earlier this year on two unborn babies at University College Hospital in London.\n\nIn the past, patients had to travel abroad for the procedure.\n\nIt is not known what causes spina bifida but a lack of folic acid can increase the risk.\n\nKate Steele, chief executive of charity Shine, said: \"Although open pre-natal surgery is not a cure for spina bifida, and is not suitable for every pregnancy, any medical advances which will potentially improve the health and social outcomes for a baby born with spina bifida is very good news, and Shine welcomes this progress.\"\n\nAmong the other treatments that will be routinely offered on the NHS is the drug everolimus for epileptic seizures caused by a genetic condition that results in benign tumours developing in the body and brain, known as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).\n\nMore than 300 people, mostly children, will benefit from this new treatment that reduces the number and severity of seizures.\n\nLouise Fish, chief executive of the Tuberous Sclerosis Association, said: \"We're delighted that NHS England has decided to fund this life-changing and potential life-saving treatment from April 2019 onwards.\n\n\"We'll be working with TSC clinics across England to help them get ready to prescribe this drug to more people who can benefit from it.\"\n\nThe other treatments that will be funded from 1 April 2019 are:", "Tributes have been paid to the former Liberal Democrats' leader Paddy Ashdown, who died on Saturday after a short illness aged 77.\n\nA party spokesman said the Lib Dem peer and former MP for Yeovil \"made an immeasurable contribution to furthering the cause of liberalism\".\n\nCurrent party leader, Sir Vince Cable, said Lord Ashdown had \"made a real mark\" and it was \"a hugely sad day\".\n\nLord Ashdown was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October.\n\nWhile his real name was Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, he was nicknamed Paddy when he moved to England, after spending his childhood years in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe longest serving leader of the Lib Dems in its history, Lord Ashdown led the party between 1988 and 1999, when it became a growing force in UK politics.\n\nAfter standing down as an MP in 2001, he served as the United Nations' high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, helping steer the country through its post-war reconstruction.\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader and ex-deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg said Lord Ashdown was \"the most heartfelt person I have known\".\n\n\"Paddy was the reason I entered politics,\" he said.\n\n\"He was the reason I became a liberal. And he became a lifelong mentor, friend and guide.\"\n\nPeople from outside of politics also paid tribute to the politician.\n\nMonty Python actor John Cleese tweeted that it was \"really terrible\" news, while scientist and TV presenter Prof Brian Cox said Lord Ashdown had lived \"a remarkable life\".\n\nComedian Matt Forde also tweeted: \"Really sad to hear about the passing of Paddy Ashdown. He was one of the great politicians of my lifetime, a proper heavyweight.\n\n\"His pragmatism never got in the way of his principles. He was also a great laugh. We need more politicians like Paddy, not less. RIP.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown: \"If this exit poll is right, Andrew, I will publically eat my hat\"\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said: \"Paddy Ashdown was a hero to me, he saved and revived the Liberal Democrats at our lowest ebb, and then led us to our best result for 70 years.\n\n\"As a movement, we owe him our very existence.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tim Farron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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Sir Vince Cable says he \"owes a lot\" to the \"extremely energetic\" Paddy Ashdown who has died aged 77\n\n\"He was full of life, full of ideas,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Only three months ago he was absolutely buzzing with energy and ideas at our party conference\".\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader Lord Steel said Lord Ashdown had transformed the party from one with just a handful of seats to being \"a really influential party in Parliament\".\n\nLord Steel added: \"The last time I spoke to him was just two or three weeks back, it was about the books he was writing.\n\n\"He was starting to carve out a new career as a really, very interesting author on books really to do with the Second World War, located in France, where, of course, he had a holiday house.\"\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned with then-leader Nick Clegg ahead of the 2015 general election\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe party's leader in the House of Lords, Dick Newby, said Lord Ashdown was \"a natural leader\" who \"kept the Liberal Democrats alive in our early years\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Lord Ashdown \"served his country with distinction\" in both his military and political careers.\n\n\"He dedicated his life to public service and he will be sorely missed,\" she said.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said he admired the former Lib Dem leader \"as a man and as a political visionary and leader\".\n\nHe said: \"He had courage, personal and political, unafraid to speak his mind yet always open to the views of others. He was one of the least tribal politicians I have ever known.\"\n\nFormer Tory PM John Major and ex-Labour PM Tony Blair have paid tribute to Lord Ashdown\n\nEx-Conservative prime minister Sir John Major hailed his former opponent as \"a man of duty, passion, and devotion to the country he loved - right up to the very end\".\n\nHe added: \"In government, Paddy Ashdown was my opponent. In life, he was a much-valued friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Lord Ashdown would be \"greatly missed\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that he had \"seldom known a public servant with so much energy and dynamism.\"\n\n\"The UK, liberal democracy & rational, moderate, cross-party debate have lost a great advocate,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned alongside then-prime minister David Cameron for Remain in the 2016 referendum\n\nLord Ashdown was an influential figure within the party and a strong supporter of Nick Clegg's controversial decision to take the party into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.\n\nHe went on to play a role in the Remain campaign during the 2016 referendum.\n\nPrior to entering Parliament in 1983, he served as a Royal Marine and in the intelligence services.\n\nDuring his time as the UN's administrator in Bosnia he forced through major political, economic and security reforms and helped build up Bosnia's state institutions.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Lord Ashdown \"served the people of the Balkans with passion and inspiration\" and was \"an agent of reconciliation\".", "Host families waited at Gatwick airport on Friday to welcome the slightly delayed group of children\n\nA group of children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster have defied the Gatwick chaos and landed in the UK in time for Christmas.\n\nHost families were at the airport to welcome 30 children, who live in areas of Belarus contaminated with radiation.\n\nThe children, aged between seven and 12, will now enjoy two weeks of respite and play, thanks to the Friends of Chernobyl's Children charity.\n\nThey feared it might be scrapped when drone activity closed the airport.\n\nThe children travelled to Minsk airport on Friday morning, hoping their flight would not be cancelled\n\nVolunteer Sue Platts said: \"Anya, the little girl I'm hosting, is so excited to put the Christmas tree up. She's been waiting since August to do it. It would have been heartbreaking it they missed this break,\"\n\nMs Platts began to worry on Wednesday that the flight from Minsk, in Belarus, would be cancelled as hundreds of flights were affected.\n\nBut when Gatwick re-opened on Friday morning, Ms Platts and other families gathered in Santa hats in the arrivals lounge to welcome the children just a few hours after their original scheduled arrival time.\n\n\"These children have been coming to us for five years or more, so we have strong bonds with them,\" Ms Platts said.\n\nAnya, 11, lives in Mogilev, Belarus, with her grandparents\n\nThe trips, which take place in summer and at Christmas, give 300-350 children living in areas suffering the economic and social impact of the nuclear disaster the chance to have a holiday abroad.\n\n\"Many have no running water or proper sanitation at home, living in wooden homes or high-rise flats with several generations in a couple of rooms,\" Ms Platts added. \"One of the most exciting things for them is having a hot bath.\"\n\nThe Christmas visit is funded by volunteers, who pay for flights and visas, after the children visit in the summer for English lessons, dental treatment - paid for by the dentists themselves - and fun activities, such as going to the zoo.\n\nWhile in the UK, they enjoy clean air, fresh water and a good diet in contrast with their food at home, which might be contaminated.\n\nSue, with Anya (left) and Katrina, who is on the same programme\n\n\"For them, it means two weeks of creature comforts of living at home. And it's Christmas - every child loves a party.\"\n\nAround 200,000 sq km (77,000 sq miles) of land - 71% of which are in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - were contaminated with radiation after a series of explosions in one of the reactors at the nuclear plant.\n\nSome new-borns in a region close to Ukraine's border still have serious deformities, while an unusually high rate of people have rare forms of cancer, according to charity Bridges to Belarus.\n\nThere were other heart-warming stories among the thousands of tales of disrupted or cancelled journeys.\n\nUniversity student Rebecca Bradley, 20, was comforted by home-made mince pies offered by a pilot when her flight home from Canada was diverted to Glasgow.\n\nThe annoyance of a long wait was alleviated by a pilot's offer of mince pies\n\n\"He said to take a few because I might get hungry while waiting,\" she said. \"We wished each other good luck on our travels and a happy Christmas. The mince pies were fruity and spicy with crumbly pastry - delicious,\" Ms Bradley added.\n\nThree tickets to see musical Matilda were donated by Leonie Lachlan to a family affected by the Gatwick shutdown after she advertised them on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leonie Lachlan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd one private jet company advertised on Twitter a free flight from Madrid to Blackbushe airport, Hampshire, for anyone trying to get home for Christmas.", "Lovato has been largely absent from the public eye since a reported overdose\n\nDemi Lovato has said she feels \"lucky to be alive\" and has hit out at tabloids in a series of tweets about her health and recovery on Friday.\n\nThe US singer was taken to hospital in July for an apparent drug overdose and has undergone rehab treatment since.\n\nIn a series of posts, Lovato confirmed she was now sober and urged fans not to trust what they read in the media.\n\n\"If I feel like the world needs to know something, I will tell them MYSELF,\" she said in one tweet.\n\n\"Any 'source' out there that is willing to talk and sell stories to blogs and tabloids about my life isn't actually a part of my life,\" another post said.\n\n\"Someday I'll tell the world what exactly happened, why it happened and what my life is like today but until I'm ready to share that with people please stop prying...\" she added, asking for more \"space and time\" to heal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLovato was a child actor on Barney and Friends, but found wider fame on the Disney Channel as a teenager.\n\nShe starred in its hugely popular Camp Rock film series and then launched a successful solo music career.\n\nThe 26-year-old has released six studio albums and has also appeared as a judge on the US version of the X Factor.\n\nLovato has been open about her struggles with mental health and addiction throughout her career.\n\nIn a 2017 documentary, she revealed the depths of her struggles with substance abuse during her teen years.\n\nThe singer has also revealed she has bipolar disorder\n\nIn June, Lovato released a song titled Sober in which she revealed she had broken her six years of sobriety.\n\nA month later, US news website TMZ broke the news of an apparently near-fatal opiate overdose by the star.\n\nThe singer has been largely absent from social media and the public eye since the incident, and the full details around it remain unclear.\n\nThe six posts on Friday are the first time she has referenced the matter in depth since a now-deleted Instagram post thanking fans in August.\n\n\"I'm so blessed I get to take this time to be with family, relax, work on my mind, body and soul and come back when I'm ready,\" she said on one post on Friday.\n\nThe tweets were met by an overwhelmingly positive response from her fans.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"I've lost almost 11 years of my life, I'm not going to get that back,\" says Gareth Jones\n\nWhen Gareth Jones was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, he told his little niece that he was going away to work with Santa Claus.\n\nThrough his three and a half years behind bars he kept this story going, telling her he was at an airport waiting to fly to Lapland while speaking to her from the prison phone.\n\n\"I feel sick that I've lied to her…when I was away she kept asking, 'when are you coming back?',\" said Gareth.\n\n\"I'm thinking, I can't explain to a five year old kid that I'm in prison, so I just lied and lied.\"\n\nGareth was 22 when he was convicted and imprisoned for sexually assaulting an elderly woman with dementia while he was working at a care home near Brecon.\n\nGareth, who has learning difficulties, said he was depicted at the time \"as a monster\", who had carried out a \"vicious and sadistic attack\" on a vulnerable elderly woman.\n\nNow Gareth and his family have had the best Christmas present they could have wished for.\n\nHis conviction has been quashed by the Court of Appeal, thanks to a team of Cardiff law students who started working to clear his name back in 2012.\n\nAt his trial the jury heard how the woman lost about a litre of blood - but no DNA evidence was found on Gareth or his unwashed clothes\n\nWhile it has been years since he left prison, Gareth has been far from a free man.\n\nMore than a decade later the guilty verdict, and being on the Sex Offenders' Register, has made it hard for him to do simple things, like see his family, travel, get a job, and rebuild his life in the close-knit community of Llandovery, where he now lives.\n\n\"I appreciate those close friends I was in school with, who believed I was innocent,\" said Gareth, now 33.\n\n\"But it's taken a while for this town to believe my side of the story because I've been beaten up, I've been jumped, I've been called a granny rapist, a paedophile, a nonce.\n\n\"I just bite my lip and say 'you believe what you want to believe - I know that I'm innocent at the end of the day'.\"\n\nThis belief has kept him going ever since his life changed when he helped a 77-year-old dementia patient to bed at the nursing home where he had worked for two years.\n\nGareth, from Trecastle, was initially employed as a kitchen porter, but with the manager's blessing he \"swapped\" jobs with a care assistant who fancied a change of role - an action later condemned by the judge at his trial as inappropriate and \"astonishing\".\n\nIt was when he was changing the patient's incontinence pad he realised she was bleeding heavily, and says he pressed an emergency call button for help.\n\nWhen colleagues arrived he left the room, as he could not stand the sight of blood, but later accompanied the woman to hospital, before returning to the home and offering to speak to police.\n\nBut it was not until he was preparing to leave for work the following evening, that the police arrived at his home.\n\nAt their request, he gave them his unwashed uniform from the previous night's shift. He was then arrested for sexual assault.\n\n\"That's when my life just crumbled. I felt like my heart had just been ripped out of me,\" he said.\n\n\"I was shocked, all over the place…I'd done nothing wrong.\"\n\nAfter 28 hours of questioning, Gareth was charged and was remanded before standing trial at Cardiff Crown Court in July 2008.\n\nHe denied the allegations, but was found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a patient with a mental disorder.\n\nGareth now hopes to be able to travel\n\nGareth, who was diagnosed as a child with a learning difficulty which impairs his understanding, found the trial incomprehensible.\n\n\"I couldn't understand most of what they were going on about,\" he said, \"I kept asking the security guard what was happening but he kept telling me to shush\".\n\n\"I thought my solicitor and barrister, they've been in court before, they know what they're doing, I'll just listen to them.\"\n\nAfter less than three hours of deliberation, he was found guilty by the jury.\n\n\"I just broke down, crying and shaking,\" he said. \"I remember my dad kicking off when the security people were taking me down.\n\n\"I went to try and give him a hug and say goodbye, but I didn't get the chance because the guard yanked me away.\"\n\nGareth - who had no previous convictions - was sentenced to nine years in prison, but this was reduced on appeal to seven years after a judge condemned as it as \"manifestly excessive\".\n\nHe served three and a half years at Usk Prison, before being released on licence in January 2012.\n\n\"There were a lot of sex offenders and some lifers in there, and I thought right, this is my new home now,\" said Gareth.\n\n\"I know you hear it all the time in prison, but I just kept on telling (the other inmates), I've done nothing wrong, I'm innocent.\n\n\"There's no point kicking and screaming, until you leave those prison gates: then you can fight it…and that's what I did.\"\n\nThe law students worked for six years to try and overturn Gareth's conviction\n\nGareth contemplated suicide - but then the Cardiff University Innocence Project took up his case.\n\nA hearing at the Court of Appeal in London in November marked the culmination of six years of work by students to uncover grounds to challenge his conviction.\n\nIt is the second time the project, which brings law students together with experts to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice alongside their studies, has cleared a man's name.\n\nThey are the only university-based innocence project in the UK to achieve such a result.\n\nThe group made history in 2014 when former gang member Dwaine George - jailed for life in 2002 after teenager Daniel Dale was shot dead in Manchester - was cleared of murder.\n\nIf not for the determination of his carer Paula Morgan, the law students who have worked on the project would most likely never have heard of Gareth.\n\nPaula Morgan, who lives with Gareth, said she could not believe his case had ever gone to trial as there was no evidence\n\nPaula has known Gareth since he was a child. She never doubted his innocence and was delighted when the students took on his case.\n\n\"It took months of searching before I came across them... it was amazing because I'd tried several barristers and organisations but unless you have money there's no justice,\" she said.\n\n\"It's gratifying that there are people out there who care about justice; they're going to go into their professional lives with that knowledge, in a better place to help people like Gareth who can't afford legal representation.\"\n\nHis appeal team argued the medical evidence at his trial was weak, as the elderly patient could have been injured another way, and there was no forensic evidence found on Gareth or the unwashed uniform he handed to the police.\n\nThey also suggested he was not given the right support for someone with his learning difficulty, which hampered his understanding of the trial.\n\nGareth describes the Innocence Project team as \"like a second family\" and Paula as like a \"second mum\", adding, \"I owe my life to them, basically\".\n\nNow that his name has been cleared he will be removed from the Sex Offenders' Register and he now hopes to get on with his life.\n\n\"I've lost almost 11 years of my life, I'm not going to get that back,\" he said.\n\n\"But I want to go back out and work, earn a living, a decent minimum wage,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd like to go to Canada, go fishing there with my father and some friends - things like that, go travelling, spend time with my nieces and nephew without needing the police's permission first... move on and do things I want to do without asking the police's permission, following their rules.\n\n\"It's a new life, a new chapter.\"", "YouTube star LadBaby has described his surprise at beating both Ariana Grande and Ava Max to the Christmas number one spot.\n\nLadBaby is the alter-ego of Nottingham's Mark Hoyle, who found fame posting videos about his parenting journey on social media.\n\nHis song, We Built this City On Sausage Rolls, is a parody of the 1985 Starship song. Proceeds from the song are going to food banks around the UK.", "Trying to purchase this land could be a major challenge and if people refuse, the government would have to forcibly get hold of it.\n\nWelcome to the term \"eminent domain\".\n\nEminent domain is a system used to gain ownership of private property for public use, such as for highways and railroads, usually accompanied by compensation. It has been used for the construction of border fences in the past.\n\nGerald S Dickinson, assistant professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, has warned that such eminent domain fights could take years.\n\nAny federal eminent domain action on such a large scale against even a few landowners could trigger “decades of court disputes before anything is built”, he told the Washington Post.\n\nIn the 2000s, the Bush administration had to negotiate land purchases with hundreds of landowners. Many citizens and local governments mounted resistance, causing major delays.\n\nAmong them was a family who lost half their farmland and their house and are now forced to live on the Mexican side of the fence, only accessing the US side via a locked gate into which they have to punch in a passcode.\n\nDemocratic Senator Claire McCaskill told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that out of 400 land acquisitions needed for the fencing that currently exists, 330 lawsuits were filed by the Department of Justice and more than 90 of those cases were still pending.\n\nHowever, some landowners are receptive to the current administration’s moves.\n\nThe Villareal family, whose property lies just outside Rio Grande City, Texas, and borders the river, say they now feel better protected under President Trump because of his hardline approach to immigration.\n\n“I do feel safer,“ says Daniel Villareal. “I mean, we've always come down here [to the river] armed, ever since we're sort of having the problem [of illegal immigrants crossing their land].\n\n“But now that the situation's different, and there's not that many people trying to come across, maybe we can come down here, clear this area and then have our riverbank.”\n\nThe family was approached by the Bush administration when it was researching areas to build a fence, but nothing came of it. Rene Villareal, Daniel’s brother, says the family would not oppose plans for a wall across their property if it helped prevent more people crossing the border illegally in the short term.\n\n“I want the wall because it's not going to be permanent,” says Rene. “It's not going to be forever into eternity. It's just until people come to their senses.”\n\nBut, while some private property-owners may not object, the proprietors of Tribal lands have already voiced firm opposition. The Tohono O’odham Nation owns much of such land, including a reservation that extends along 75 miles of the border in Arizona.\n\nTribe members still live on both sides of the border, considering the territory their ancestral lands, and have indicated they will attempt to block construction if the wall goes ahead.\n\nShould that happen, Mr Trump would need a bill from Congress to acquire the land, which is currently protected under law.", "Paddy Ashdown was the action man of British politics.\n\nA former Royal Marine officer, he was the first elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, a party then badly in need of some military-style discipline.\n\nHe led his party to its best election result for half a century but his combative style of leadership did not always sit easily with some activists.\n\nHis mixture of military and diplomatic experience meant he was well-suited for the role he later undertook in the former Yugoslavia.\n\nJeremy John Durham Ashdown was born in Delhi, India, on 27 February 1941, into an Irish family with a long record of service in the administration of the sub-continent. He boasted Irish nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell among his ancestors.\n\nHis father was an officer in the Indian Army who later faced a court martial for refusing to abandon his troops during the retreat to Dunkirk. The charges were eventually thrown out.\n\nOne of his earliest memories was seeing dead bodies in the streets, the result of conflict between Hindus and Muslims.\n\nHe saw active service with the Royal Marines in the Far East and Persian Gulf\n\nThe young Ashdown spent his childhood years on a farm his father had purchased in County Down, Northern Ireland, before attending Bedford School, in England, where his Irish brogue led to the nickname Paddy.\n\nHe did not always find school easy, with one report describing him as vain and a poor team-player. There was a sexual relationship with a female maths teacher which he described in his memoir, A Fortunate Life, as \"a rite of passage\".\n\nHe quit before taking his A-levels and joined the Royal Marines in 1959.\n\nAshdown saw active service in Borneo and the Persian Gulf before joining the elite Special Boat Service, the seagoing equivalent of the SAS.\n\nIn 1967, he went to Hong Kong where he learned Mandarin and qualified as an interpreter, before returning to Northern Ireland where he commanded a commando company in Belfast at a time when the Troubles were raging.\n\nAshdown quit the Royal Marines in 1972 and joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) where he worked with diplomatic cover in Geneva liaising with a number of United Nations departments.\n\nAlthough he was a Labour supporter he had shown little interest in politics so there was surprise when he decided to quit his comfortable life in Switzerland and become an active member of the Liberal party.\n\n\"Most of my friends thought I was utterly bonkers,\" he later recalled, claiming he made the decision after being horrified at the state of the UK following the period of industrial unrest and fuel shortages in the mid-70s.\n\nIn 1976, he was selected as the Liberal candidate in his wife's home constituency of Yeovil which had been held by right-wing Tory MP John Peyton for more than two decades.\n\nWith what became a trademark energetic campaigning style, he set out to squeeze the Labour vote and, in the 1979 general election, took his party to second place, although still more than 10,000 votes behind Peyton.\n\nHaving given up a lucrative post with the foreign office, Ashdown took a job with a subsidiary of the Westland Helicopter company, based in Yeovil.\n\nHe then moved on to work with Tescan, a processor of sheepskins, but found himself out of work when the firm closed in 1981.\n\nAs the personnel manager, he had to make his team redundant, something he described as \"the worst day of my life\". He was on the dole for six months before obtaining a job as a youth worker with Dorset County Council.\n\nHis continuing campaigning in Yeovil paid off in the 1983 election when John Peyton decided to stand down; he won the seat with just over 50% of the popular vote.\n\nHe joined Neil Kinnock on a picket line at GCHQ\n\nIt was the era of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and Ashdown quickly found himself appointed as the Liberal spokesman on trade and industry.\n\nHe was a prominent campaigner against the stationing of American cruise missiles on British soil, describing them as \"the weapon we have to stop\".\n\nAshdown also spoke out against Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow the US to use bases in Britain to bomb Libya and was one of the harshest critics of the government's decision to ban workers at GCHQ from being members of a trade union.\n\nHe had become a popular figure in Yeovil, where he increased his majority over the Conservatives in 1987. He had gained a reputation as someone not afraid to speak his mind, but who did not suffer fools gladly.\n\nIn 1988, the SDP and Liberal Party formally merged as the Social and Liberal Democrats, later shortened to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nWhen former Liberal leader David Steel declined to stand for the leadership of the new party, Ashdown comfortably saw off Alan Beith, the only other candidate.\n\nHe inherited a party licking its wounds after the arguments that had accompanied its formation and leading figures from both the Liberal and SDP camps walking away in protest at the merger.\n\nHe comfortably won the ballot to become leader of the Liberal Democrats\n\nAshdown threw himself into getting his party into shape for the 1992 election and it was to his credit that, despite all the problems, the new party suffered a net loss of just two seats.\n\nHis career, and his marriage, also survived press revelations of an affair with his secretary, five years previously, leading to one Sun headline dubbing him Paddy Pantsdown.\n\nA year later, Ashdown began negotiations with Labour leader John Smith over closer co-operation between the two parties. After Smith's death, he continued the talks with Tony Blair. It was the end of his party's historic stance of \"equidistance\" between Conservatives and Labour.\n\nHe developed a close rapport with Blair. One colleague said the two of them would \"sit at the cabinet table and fix their gaze on each other - they worked exceptionally closely together\".\n\nThe relationship was remarkably candid with Ashdown once telling Blair that \"some folk think you are a smarmy git\".\n\nDespite early signs that Labour were on course to win the 1997 election, Ashdown still hoped that he could offer the support of the Liberal Democrats in return for Labour agreeing to voting reform.\n\nAlthough Blair was sympathetic, the Labour landslide of 1997 removed any need for Lib Dem support and the majority of Blair's new cabinet, sitting on a secure majority, were not in favour of moving to some form of PR.\n\nAshdown was also disappointed that Blair refused to share the Lib Dem leader's enthusiasm for joining the euro.\n\nIn the election, the Liberal Democrats increased their number of MPs from 18 to 46, as the Conservative vote crumbled. But it remained the third party in UK politics.\n\nAshdown stood down as Lib Dem leader in 1999 and was replaced by Charles Kennedy. Two years later, he quit the Commons and entered the Lords as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub Hamdon.\n\nRetirement was far from his mind and, in 2002, his military and diplomatic experience saw him appointed as High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nHe had been a continuing advocate of intervention in the strife that followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and he made a number of positive contributions to creating a stable framework of government.\n\n\"Bosnia is under my skin,\" he said. \"It's the place you cannot leave behind.\"\n\nHe appeared as a prosecution witness in the trial of the former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, although his claim that he had watched Serbian shells falling on villages in Kosovo was disputed by the defence.\n\nHe was considered for the post of UN representative to Afghanistan in 2008 after he had called for a high-level co-ordinator to lead the foreign mission to the country, but ruled himself out of contention.\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned with then-leader Nick Clegg ahead of the 2015 general election\n\nHe remained active in the Liberal Democrats. He often appeared as a pundit on radio and television and chaired the party's election campaign in 2015.\n\nAppearing on the BBC election results programme, he took issue with the Exit Poll which suggested the Lib Dems would end the night with 10 seats. Ashdown promised to \"eat his hat\" if the Exit Poll proved right. In the event, the party won just eight.\n\nAshdown campaigned vigorously against Brexit and waved away sympathy after the diagnosis of bladder cancer. \"I've fought a lot of battles in my life,\" he said.\n\nHe was a politician of great drive and energy, although some complained that he was not the most subtle or diplomatic of figures.\n\n\"It's not my job to be popular,\" he said. \"I'm goal-driven, my job is to get results.\"\n\nHe relished the cut and thrust of political life and its potential for throwing up the unexpected.\n\n\"If you make a mistake you usually pay the price very quickly,\" he said. \"It is what makes it more exciting and more terrifying than active service.\"", "The Grande Tema was due to dock at Tilbury\n\nFour stowaways found on a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary have been detained after the vessel's crew was threatened.\n\nThe Grande Tema's crew had to lock themselves in the vessel's bridge for safety, a spokesman said.\n\nEssex Police said the vessel was boarded and secured shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday - almost 14 hours after the force was first called.\n\nFour men who were on the ship have been held under the Immigration Act, the force added.\n\nA police spokesman said they would be handed over to UK Border Force.\n\nThe stowaways had demanded to be taken to the coast, according to the ship's owner.\n\nPolice previously said the situation was not being treated as a hostage, piracy or terror-related issue.\n\nGPS trackers showed the 71,000-tonne ship sailing in circles in the Thames Estuary. It had set off from Lagos, Nigeria, on 10 December. It docked at Tilbury just before 04.30 GMT.\n\nGrimaldi Group, which owns the vessel, said the four stowaways were discovered on board four days ago.\n\nThey were put under surveillance in a cabin but escaped earlier and made threats to the ship's master as the vessel approached Tilbury, urging him to get close to the coast.\n\nA map showing the Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary at 17:00 GMT\n\nGrimaldi spokesman Paul Kyprianou said: \"The vessel was coming from Nigeria and was bound to Tilbury and those four stowaways were in the cabin.\n\n\"Today they managed to escape from the cabin and they started threatening the crew, requesting the master of the vessel [navigate] very close to the coast.\n\n\"That request was probably because they wanted to jump and reach the British coast.\"\n\nHe said the crew had locked themselves in the command area of the vessel.\n\nMr Kyprianou added: \"It's a small group but obviously you can understand it would be scary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Remain supporters have criticised Jeremy Corbyn for saying he would continue to pursue Brexit if his party won a snap general election in 2019.\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, the Labour leader said he would go to Brussels to negotiate a better deal than the one Theresa May has offered to Parliament.\n\nAsked what stance Labour would take if another referendum took place, he said it would be for the party to decide.\n\nLabour's Chuka Umunna said the interview was \"deeply depressing\".\n\nMr Corbyn also admitted he was \"extremely angry\" during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, but has denied calling Theresa May a \"stupid woman\".\n\nThe Labour leader has repeatedly called for a general election to solve the deadlock in the Commons over the prime minister's Brexit deal, which many MPs on all sides of the House have vowed to vote down.\n\nHe told the paper the earliest an election could take place is February - as a month needs to pass after a government has resigned before a vote can take place.\n\nBut if Labour won, he said he would still want to pursue Brexit, and try to get a deal agreed before 29 March 2019 - the day the UK is set to leave the EU.\n\n\"You'd have to go back, and negotiate, and see what the timetable would be,\" he said.\n\nA number of Mr Corbyn's own MPs back a \"People's Vote\" to ask the public their opinion of the deal.\n\nBut asked if he could see such a referendum taking place, he offered no support, saying: \"I think we should vote down this deal; we should then go back to the EU with a discussion about a customs union.\"\n\nWhen questioned over the stance Labour would take were a referendum to take place, he said: \"It would be a matter for the party to decide what the policy would be.\n\n\"But my proposal at this moment is that we go forward, trying to get a customs union with the EU, in which we would be able to be proper trading partners.\"\n\nMPs from all sides of the House, including Conservative Anna Soubry (pictured), have called for a \"People's Vote\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, former minister Mr Umunna - a leading member of the cross-party People's Vote for a second EU referendum - said his leader's comments were \"disappointing\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Brexit is essentially a project of the hard right of British politics who want to turn Britain into a lightly regulated, offshore tax haven for the super rich, devoid of proper protections for workers, and one which seeks to dump the blame for the UK's problems on immigrants.\n\n\"Labour should stop pretending there is a 'good' Brexit deal and we should certainly not be sponsoring this project because Brexit is the problem - it solves nothing.\"\n\nFellow Labour MP Wes Streeting also criticised Mr Corbyn's remarks, saying: \"Why peddle this myth that Labour would be able to renegotiate a Brexit deal at this 11th hour? How would Labour's Brexit be any better than remaining in the EU?\n\n\"Our members and voters are overwhelmingly pro-European. This lets them, and our country, down.\"\n\nAnd Luciana Berger said her party would never be forgiven if it facilitated Brexit.\n\nRival parties, who want to remain in the EU, also attacked Mr Corbyn's comments, with the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford calling the Labour leader \"the midwife to the delivery of the Tory's Brexit plans\".\n\nLib Dem leader Vince Cable said Mr Corbyn \"refuses once again to take the blinkers off\", adding: \"On Brexit, you simply cannot put a cigarette paper between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nAnd Caroline Lucas of the Green Party said it made the case for a People's Vote even stronger if this was the direction Labour would take.", "The baby was taken to hospital in Malta after being born three days earlier on a beach in Libya\n\nMalta has airlifted a newborn and his mother from a Spanish migrant rescue ship and rejected accusations that it had refused food to more than 300 other migrants on board.\n\nThe baby was born three days earlier on a beach in Libya and his life was in danger, the Proactiva charity said.\n\nProactiva's boat was refused entry to Malta and Italy, while France, Tunisia and Libya did not respond to requests.\n\nMalta said crew had told officials they had enough provisions for two days.\n\nA Maltese spokesman said the airlift had gone beyond Malta's legal obligations, as the migrants were rescued on Friday in waters supervised by Libya.\n\nEarlier the charity posted on Instagram that the 311 migrants - including pregnant women, children and babies - had been rescued from \"certain death at sea\" and said Malta had refused to provide food, adding \"this isn't Christmas\".\n\nThe baby and his mother were airlifted off the rescue boat\n\nMeanwhile Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, from the far-right Lega party, tweeted that \"Italian ports are closed\" and the migrants would not be allowed to land.\n\nHe also tweeted a picture of his lunch and said he had eaten well, prompting an angry response from Proactiva's founder Oscar Camps, who said future generations would be \"ashamed\" of him.\n\nProactiva says its vessel is now heading towards the port of Algeciras in southern Spain, where the migrants can disembark.\n\nA Spanish government statement said the vessel had been allowed to head to Spain \"due to the refusal or lack of response from the nearest ports\".\n\nThe journey will take five or six days but another Proactiva vessel is on its way with more supplies.\n\nMeanwhile, a German NGO, Sea-Watch, said it had rescued 33 migrants at sea and was appealing for a port where they could disembark.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 1,300 migrants have died trying to reach Italy or Malta since the beginning of the year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.\n\nOn Thursday the UN said migrants travelling through Libya to Europe were subject to \"unimaginable horrors\" in the lawless country.\n\nMost women and older teenage girls say they were raped by smugglers or traffickers, the report said.\n\n\"Across Libya, unidentified bodies of migrants and refugees bearing gunshot wounds, torture marks and burns are frequently uncovered in rubbish bins, dry river beds, farms and the desert,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of migrants are still losing their lives trying to reach Europe by boat", "Police remain at the airport to \"detect and mitigate\" any further drone threats\n\nTwo people have been arrested in connection with a string of drone sightings that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.\n\nA 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman, from Crawley, were arrested in the town at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nFlights had been grounded for more than a day, affecting about 140,000 passengers, after drones were seen near the runway.\n\nThe airport has since reopened and flights are operating on schedule.\n\nSussex Police said it was continuing to investigate the \"criminal use of drones\" and appealed for information.\n\nThe airport said it aimed to run \"a full schedule\" of 757 flights on Saturday, carrying 124,484 passengers.\n\nPassengers are flowing reasonably well through the South Terminal.\n\nComing in through arrivals, it's a different story. Passengers are talking of delays of many hours involving road and ferry diversions.\n\nMore than 1,000 flights were cancelled or diverted during the 36 hours of disruption and that knock-on effect is still being felt.\n\nThe disruption lasted well into Friday evening\n\nBut a spokesman added: \"Passengers should expect some delays and cancellations as we continue to recover our operations following three days of disruption.\"\n\nThey also urged passengers to check the status of their flight before travelling to the airport.\n\nSupt James Collis said officers remained at Gatwick, ready to \"detect and mitigate\" further drone flights by deploying a range of tactics.\n\nHe asked passengers and people living nearby to remain vigilant and report any suspicions.\n\n\"Every line of inquiry will remain open to us until we are confident that we have mitigated further threats to the safety of passengers,\" he added.\n\nPassengers were left waiting in the departure areas\n\nGatwick reopened on Friday morning, although the runway was closed again for a short time after a further confirmed drone sighting at 17:10.\n\nA spokeswoman for the airport said military measures put in place at the airfield made it safe to reopen.\n\nEleven inbound flights were diverted to other airports during the latest suspension and, while outbound flights would experience a \"knock-on delay\", none had been cancelled, she said.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been contacted by people claiming their flights were cancelled.\n\nA small number of flights due to arrive into Gatwick on Saturday were cancelled, according to the airport's website.\n\nThey include an Easyjet service from Milan and a TUI flight from Barbados.\n\nA Gatwick spokesman said: \"Safety is Gatwick's top priority and we are grateful for passengers' continued patience as we work to get them to their final destination in time for Christmas.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the suspension of flights at Gatwick Airport? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer got off to a perfect start as Manchester United's interim manager with a 5-1 thrashing of his former club Cardiff.\n\nThe former United striker succeeded Jose Mourinho, who was sacked in midweek, and got his first win courtesy of a performance that will encourage United fans as some of their more marginalised talent came to the fore in a performance full of attacking intent.\n\nMarcus Rashford's stunning free-kick, a deflected effort from Ander Herrera and a fabulous team goal by Anthony Martial effectively won the contest before half-time for a United side inspired by the recalled Paul Pogba, who had a hand in all three first-half goals.\n\nVictor Camarasa's penalty briefly gave Cardiff hope as they reduced the arrears to 2-1, but Jesse Lingard won and scored a contentious second-half penalty and then rounded Neil Etheridge to tap into an empty net at the death to make the result safe.\n\nIt is the first time United have scored five goals in a Premier League game since legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson's last game in charge - a 5-5 draw with West Brom in May 2013.\n\nA more attacking United than under Mourinho?\n\nAll eyes were on Solskjaer's first selection as United boss, and Pogba was included in the starting line-up.\n\nThe World Cup winner and club record signing had been a forlorn-looking substitute for the past three Premier League matches, but returned to a more attack-minded United XI.\n\nPogba was joined by French forward Martial, who made his 100th Premier League appearance, with Romelu Lukaku away on compassionate leave.\n\nLuke Shaw and Phil Jones returned to a defence that had conceded 29 goals already this term - their worst record since 1962 - as Solskjaer made four changes.\n\nPogba was involved in the thick of the action inside three minutes, winning a free-kick from Aron Gunnarsson that would give the Norwegian the perfect start to life in the United dugout, Rashford brilliantly finding the bottom corner.\n\nSolskjaer was punching the air in delight with less than four minutes on the clock.\n\nThe contest proved an ideal opportunity for Pogba to send a message on the pitch rather than on social media and he certainly appeared less inhibited as the visitors passed with a good tempo and closed down effectively.\n\nUnited were superior throughout the first period and it was no surprise when they doubled their advantage just before the half-hour mark when Pogba picked out Herrera, whose speculative effort nicked off Greg Cunningham and gave Neil Etheridge no chance.\n\nHowever, United's defensive fragility reappeared before the interval, with Rashford handballing carelessly when he moved his upper arm towards the ball under little pressure and Camarasa slammed home the penalty.\n\nBut in the end, United made light work of a Cardiff side, who had won their past four home games, with attacking flair throughout.\n\nThere was a keen sense of intrigue among both sets of supporters about the presence of Solskjaer in the United dugout.\n\nHis appointment as Mourinho's temporary successor caused raised eyebrows in South Wales after his disappointing spell managing the Bluebirds in 2014, which included a relegation from the Premier League.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, is contracted to return to his role as manager at Norwegian club Molde next summer, but Cardiff supporters remember him for a disastrous nine-month spell in charge in the Welsh capital.\n\nSolskjaer scored 126 goals in 366 appearances during his 11 years at Old Trafford and is best remembered for scoring the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999, along with collecting six Premier League titles.\n\nThe sense of goodwill from United's travelling supporters towards the man they called the 'Baby-Faced Assassin' was obvious - they chanted about their temporary boss from well before kick-off and gave him a rapturous reception when the sides emerged at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nBefore the game, Cardiff boss Neil Warnock had said Solskjaer \"could not lose\" in his new position. The former striker was keen to get his messages across, moving to the edge of his technical area several times to deliver advice and encourage his team to find more width.\n\nHe would have felt slightly unsettled when Cardiff reduced the arrears to 2-1, but a fine team move a minute later saw Martial exchange passes with Pogba and Lingard and fire past Etheridge to give United deserved daylight at the interval.\n\nCardiff's fine run at home comes to an end\n\nThe Bluebirds had won four of their past five Premier League home games, yet the omens were not good for a side chasing a first victory over United in 58 years.\n\nWarnock has failed to beat United in any of his previous seven encounters and, with a two-goal deficit at half-time, that never looked like changing.\n\nUnited dominated at the start of the second half and Lingard's penalty killed the contest, with United close to adding further goals through Rashford, Phil Jones and Pogba, before Lingard did add the fifth after keeping his composure when clean through to round Etheridge and slot home.\n\n'Football is easy with good players' - What they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"Football is easy if you've got good players! They are a great bunch of players and their quality is unbelievable.\n\n\"I arrived on Wednesday night and only had Thursday and Friday with the players. Wayne Rooney texted me and gave me some advice - so it must be down to him! He told me to make them play football, enjoy themselves and be Manchester United.\n\n\"The foundation was in the defending. I thought the two centre-backs and two full-backs were brilliant.\"\n\nCardiff manager Neil Warnock: \"If you'd told me at the start of this season that we'd be out of the bottom three at Christmas I'd have snapped your hand off.\n\n\"We've got two big games coming up [at Crystal Palace and Leicester]. We know we need to improve our away form. I wasn't disappointed in the effort, it was just misdirected at times.\n\n\"At half-time I still thought we had a chance. I thought if we get the next goal we might get something. It's very disappointing.\"\n\nScoring big on the first day - the best of the stats\n• None Since Ferguson left the club, four of the five different managers to take charge of United have seen their side score three or more goals in their first Premier League game (Moyes 4, Mourinho 3, Giggs 4 and Solskjaer 5).\n• None Warnock suffered his 50th Premier League defeat, in what was his 92nd game in the competition - only Mick McCarthy (79), Danny Wilson (87) and Gary Megson (91) have reached 50 defeats in fewer games managed.\n• None Cardiff have lost each of their past 14 Premier League games against 'big six' opponents, conceding 45 goals in this run.\n• None Martial has been directly involved in 70 goals for United in all competitions (45 goals, 25 assists); the most of any player for the club since his debut in September 2015.\n• None Rashford has had a hand in more Premier League goals this season than any other United player (9 - four goals and five assists).\n• None United's third goal against Cardiff - scored by Anthony Martial - was the 500th netted in the Premier League this season.\n• None Martial made his 100th appearance for United in the Premier League, becoming just the fourth Frenchman to reach this tally for the club after Eric Cantona, Mikael Silvestre and Patrice Evra.\n\nCardiff travel to Crystal Palace on Wednesday, December 26 (15:00 GMT), while Manchester United take on Huddersfield at Old Trafford (15:00).\n• None Goal! Cardiff City 1, Manchester United 5. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Cardiff City. Greg Cunningham tries a through ball, but Josh Murphy is caught offside.\n• None Greg Cunningham (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Murphy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Greg Cunningham. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former FBI agent who accidentally shot a man while performing a backflip in a Denver bar has avoided jail after agreeing to a plea deal.\n\nChase Bishop, 30, admitted third-degree assault and was sentenced to two years unsupervised probation.\n\nBishop was off-duty when he was filmed dropping his gun while dancing last June. As he picked the weapon up it went off.\n\nVideo of the incident went viral on social media and led to his arrest.\n\n\"We believe that this agreement strikes an appropriate balance of seeking justice for the victim and ensuring that this type of incident does not happen again,\" District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement.\n\nThe statement added that Bishop was no longer employed by the FBI.\n\nThe victim, Thomas Reddington, is still recovering from a severed artery in his lower leg, his lawyer Bill Marlin told Reuters news agency.\n\nHe said Mr Reddington was satisfied with the plea deal, adding: \"His concern was about Bishop's conduct and his behaviour after the shooting.\"\n\nVideo of Chase Bishop's dance moves that ended in the accidental shooting went viral\n\nMr Reddington said on Friday he held \"no personal grudge against Mr Bishop\".\n\n\"I've done stupid things at bars to impress girls, too,\" he said, quoted by the Denver Post.\n\nThe FBI has not commented on the sentencing.\n\nLast month, Bishop pleaded not guilty to a more serious second-degree assault charge.\n\nHe told the court on Friday that his goal in life was to \"care, protect and serve people\", the Post reported.\n\n\"I never expected the result of my actions to lead to something like this,\" he added.\n\nBishop, who was based in Washington DC, was on holiday when he was filmed at Mile High Spirits, a distillery and dance club in Denver.\n\nVideo showed him dancing in a circle of people. A gun falls from his waistband while he does a backflip, and goes off as he picks it up from the floor. Bishop then walks quickly off the dancefloor.", "A third of train services running on a line between two towns in the north west of England have been cancelled since May.\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham says Northern Rail should be stripped of its franchise, unless it improves.", "Great literature can be a good way of gaining an insight into art.\n\nFor instance, Rodin's monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell (1880-90) is a complex work that becomes more comprehensible when you realise the artist's source material was Dante's Divine Comedy.\n\nSimilarly, it helps to know Ophelia (1851), a painting by Millais, was inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.\n\nThe same applies to the art world, an opaque place that is occasionally illuminated by a gifted writer such as Tom Wolfe.\n\nBut it takes a wordsmith of quite exceptional talent to produce a book to help us understand the truly baffling vagaries of today's art market.\n\nFortunately there is such a writer.\n\nHis name is Roger Hargreaves, and the book in question is his 1972 miniature masterpiece Mr Topsy-Turvy.\n\nMr. Topsy-Turvy by Roger Hargreaves helps us fathom the unpredictable workings of the art market\n\nNo literary character better sums up the bizarre, seemingly cockeyed monetary value placed on art nowadays.\n\nIn the book, Mr Topsy-Turvy goes to an art gallery and turns all the pictures upside down. One can only assume he walked happily past the auction houses having noted the sale prices were already the wrong way round.\n\nThe amount of money being paid for modern and contemporary art in comparison to the sums fetched by the Old Masters will come to be seen as nonsensical as Pulp's Common People being kept off the number one chart spot by Robson and Jerome in 1995.\n\nTake Christopher Wool, for example. He is a good contemporary artist, But is he $30m good, which is around the figure someone paid at Sotheby's for his text piece UNTITLED, RIOT in 2015?\n\nBut if so, what does that make a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi worth, given that she was the greatest female artist of the Baroque period?\n\nRather less, it turns out. The National Gallery in London paid £3.5m for her Self Portrait as Saint Catherine (c 1615-20).\n\nAdmittedly, it wasn't in tip-top condition. There was a small tear in the canvas, the image was covered with a layer of yellowed varnish, and there were some obvious paint losses.\n\nThe restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria took five months of painstaking work including cleaning the old varnishes\n\nStill, feels like a bargain when you think the gallery could have bought a 1978 Andy Warhol Oxidation Painting for roughly the same amount: a \"painting\" the artist made by asking a friend to urinate on a canvas.\n\nInstead it went for the Gentileschi, then passed it on to its conservation department to clean and restore before hanging it in the Central Hall alongside a group of other Baroque paintings, where it looks very good indeed. The picture has, as they like to say in auction houses, wall power.\n\nIt also has a striking back story.\n\nArtemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593. Her father, Orazio Gentileschi, was an artist heavily influenced by Caravaggio's dramatic \"chiaroscuro\" lighting technique, where the painter accentuates the contrast between light and dark to model forms and create a sense of theatricality.\n\nBoy Bitten by a Lizard (about 1594-5) by Caravaggio, whose lighting technique greatly influenced both Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemisia\n\nSoon, Artemisia was making her way as an artist in the roughhouse that was 17th Century Rome. She produced her first known work - Susanna and the Elders - when she was about 16.\n\nA year later, she was raped by an acquaintance of her father's called Agostino Tassi, the result of which was a trial that saw Tassi convicted, but only after Artemisia had endured torture to prove she was telling the truth. She left for Florence shortly afterwards.\n\nIt was while in Florence she painted the National Gallery picture, in which she presents herself as the Christian martyr Saint Catherine, another woman who had endured torture at the hands of men.\n\nShe faces us in a three-quarter pose with an inscrutable expression on her face. Her left hand rests on a broken wooden wheel (Catherine Wheel) inset with metal spikes, an implement that was intended to torture and kill her. Her right hand, which holds the martyr's palm, is held to her chest.\n\nIn this painting, Artemisia Gentileschi portrays herself as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was also tortured by men\n\nA single light source makes her white sleeve appear to jump out of the picture.\n\nYour eye is then drawn towards the silky red sleeve of her dress and upwards towards her beady left eye, which is giving absolutely nothing away.\n\nThe golden arch of the palm is echoed by her halo at the top of the picture, and her shawl at the bottom of the frame.\n\nIt is a well-balanced, tonally sensuous painting, which is only slightly compromised by the proximity of the palm to the sitter's face (the same motif is better placed in another version she painted of the same subject, which is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence).\n\nFor a painting that is almost 400 years old, it feels incredibly modern.\n\nImagine if the sitter was a contemporary figure like Cindy Sherman, an artist who has also made a career out of depicting herself as other people?\n\nCourtesy of the artist & Metro Pictures, New York Untitled Film Still #21, 1978, by Cindy Sherman, who like Artemisia Gentileschi, presents herself as other figures\n\nWe would read it as a fresh and subversive image.\n\nArtemisia Gentileschi was a woman operating in a man's world, making weighty pictures that celebrated and represented women. Her near identical pose in Self Portrait as a Lute Player, and the gruesome depiction of Judith Beheading Holofernes, both show a familiar image from a female point of view.\n\nIt is a difference in attitude that can be seen by looking at Caravaggio's painting of The Lute Player and of Judith's murderous act.\n\nWhich brings us back to Mr. Topsy-Turvy.", "Joe Brewer and Stacy in their new home\n\nJoe Brewer, from Dartford in Kent, moved into his two-bedroom terrace with girlfriend Stacy a month ago.\n\n\"It's a big relief getting in there. It really took a long time but it has paid off. It seemed I was saving for a lifetime!\" says the 27-year-old.\n\nHe is among increasing numbers of 25 to 34-year-olds for whom home ownership has become a reality.\n\nFor the first time in 30 years, home ownership among this group has risen, says the Resolution Foundation.\n\nBut the new research by the think tank, which focuses on people on lower incomes, warns that first-time buyers face still face acutely high barriers to entry.\n\nThe Foundation says that easier credit conditions and a slowdown in house price growth in recent years have improved the situation for young first-time buyers.\n\nAs a result, home ownership rates among 25 to 34-year-olds have risen by 3% since they hit 25% in 2016.\n\nBut it says home ownership among this age group is half that of the 1980s, when half of this age group owned their own home.\n\nThe Foundation says that despite this recent uptick, renting will continue to be the norm for the majority of young people, particularly in the UK's major cities.\n\nThat means the share of young families in the private rental sector increased from just 9% in the late 1980s to 34% now.\n\nAmong this group, even those with children are increasingly sharing a roof, with 12% of all young families now sharing with others, up from 3% in the late 1980s.\n\nIn Bristol and Brighton, one in three young private renters is now living in shared accommodation.\n\nThe Foundation says a better deal for renters is needed, as the high financial barriers to owning remain.\n\nIt calls for the government to help young tenants by making indeterminate tenancies the sole form of private rental contract and limiting rent rises.\n\nDaniel Tomlinson, Research and Policy Analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"Home ownership politicians should act to increase the number of homes available to buy, use the tax system to favour first-time buyers over second-home owners, and ensure that the private rental sector is fit for purpose - providing the security that many young families need.\"", "Michael Kovrig was arrested on 10 December in China\n\nA former Canadian diplomat detained in China last week is being denied legal representation and is not allowed to turn lights off at night, sources say.\n\nMichael Kovrig, who now works for the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank, was detained on accusations of harming national security.\n\nCanada drew Chinese protests after it arrested an executive at telecoms giant Huawei at the request of the US.\n\nChina says it has guaranteed Mr Kovrig's lawful rights.\n\nICG spokesman Karim Lebhour told the BBC: \"Michael has not been allowed access to his lawyers. The arrest is unjustified.\"\n\nMr Kovrig has been working as North East Asia senior adviser for the Brussels-based think tank since February 2017.\n\nMeanwhile an unnamed source told Reuters news agency that he was being held at an undisclosed location and being questioned every morning, afternoon and evening.\n\nHe is not allowed to turn off the lights when he tries to sleep at night, the person added.\n\n\"He is physically all right, but tired and stressed,\" a source told the Financial Times. \"Physically, he does not appear mistreated.\"\n\n\"We have already said that China has in accordance with the law guaranteed Michael Kovrig's lawful rights and humanitarian treatment, and has provided Canada with necessary help to carry out normal consular work,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a press briefing, referring questions to the \"relevant authorities\".\n\nCanada only gained consular access to Mr Kovrig at a police station on 14 December, when he was visited for half an hour by the Canadian ambassador and two other Canadian diplomats, the sources said.\n\nOn Friday Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada was \"deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention\" of the two men and called for their immediate release.\n\nMr Kovrig was arrested in Beijing on 10 December, they added.\n\nA second Canadian - Michael Spavor, a businessman - was also detained last week and is facing the same accusations.\n\nCanada arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou earlier this month, at the request of the US, which is engaged in a trade war with China.\n\nMs Meng faces extradition to the US to face fraud charges linked to allegations of avoiding US sanctions on Iran. Each charge carries a maximum possible sentence of 30 years jail.\n\nChina has denied the detention of both men is tied to Ms Meng's arrest, but many analysts believe it was a tit-for-tat action.", "'See, we get along,' the President Trump joked in the middle of a testy Oval Office meeting with top Democrats.\n\nHere are the best exchanges Mr Trump had with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer - as Vice-President Mike Pence watched on in silence.", "The drone was spotted shortly after 17:00 GMT\n\nA further drone sighting has again disrupted the UK's second biggest airport, with flights grounded and passengers unable to fly.\n\nAircraft were left circling above the area during the latest alert, which came at about 17:10 GMT. Flights resumed less than 90 minutes later.\n\nA spokeswoman for the airport said the suspension was only as a precaution.\n\nShe said military measures had been put in place that meant it was safe to reopen.\n\nGatwick had reopened earlier on Friday, after drones flying over the airfield closed it for more than a day.\n\nThe airport was initially closed on Wednesday at about 21:30, following the first drone sighting.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the latest incident was a \"confirmed sighting of a drone\".\n\nEleven inbound flights were diverted to other airports during the latest suspension and, while outbound flights would experience a \"knock-on delay\", none had been cancelled, she said.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been contacted by people claiming their flights were cancelled.\n\nPolice believe more than one unmanned aircraft has been used and are investigating the possibility of multiple culprits.\n\nEarlier, officers said they had identified \"persons of interest\".\n\nIn a statement, police confirmed operations were suspended for safety reasons.\n\nThe force said: \"Sussex Police is supporting the airport and is proactively deploying significant resources to seek and locate the drone and its operator and to ensure the safety of the travelling public and all those in and around the airport.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Symonds reports on the measures police appear to be taking to catch the Gatwick drone\n\nPassengers have hit out at the people behind the disruption.\n\nOne woman, called Poppy Smithers, hoping to fly to Doha and then Auckland, said it was \"very disruptive, kind of selfish\".\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel since Wednesday\n\nNewlywed Emily Pointer had just arrived at the airport to go on honeymoon in Argentina. She and her husband Charlie Woodall had expected to fly out at 21:30.\n\n\"It's a little bit heartbreaking, really, because we've been looking forward to this for a long time,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"It doesn't sound too promising right now,\" she said.\n\nNikkita Sartori-Sigrist and Oliver Vaff were flying to Cologne\n\nNikkita Sartori-Sigrist, 24, and Oliver Vaff, 22, from Loughton, Essex, were stranded on the runway on a grounded BA flight to Cologne.\n\nThey were due to take off when the captain announced there had been another sighting, they said.\n\nThe pair were heading to Cologne to visit the Christmas Market and then fly back on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"We've been planning it for a really long time and don't want to miss it but now I'm worried if we go we might not come back,\" Ms Sartori-Sigrist said.\n\nRavi Bhatnagar, 47, from Hastings, said it will be at least a week before he and his partner can travel to Alicante after their 17:45 Easyjet flight from Gatwick was cancelled.\n\n\"There's nothing for three days so it's Christmas in London for us,\" he said.\n\nSussex Police were called in after a further drone was seen\n\nDuring disruption on Thursday, 760 flights had been due to arrive or depart from the airport but all were grounded.\n\nGatwick's chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe said on Friday morning, that 120,000 passengers due to arrive or fly had not travelled since Wednesday night.\n\nFlights resumed earlier but passengers still had to wait\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This week in Washington has distilled all the chaos, upheaval, drama and conflict of the first two years of the Donald Trump presidency down to its purest form.\n\nIt's been a bungee jump from high to low, then careening everywhere in between - and it's not altogether clear that it won't end with the loud and final thud of an impact on the ground.\n\nHere's a look at the crises - plural - that have unfolded in the past few days.\n\nMost, if not all, are of the president's own making. Mr Trump campaigned as a disrupter, and this week has been disruption in the extreme.\n\nAt the end of last week it appeared that Congress was on a glide path toward avoiding a partial shutdown of the federal government.\n\nThen, on Thursday, everything went haywire. After the White House had signalled it would support the stopgap funding measure, hard-core conservative media outlets and politicians demanded the president draw a line in the sand over building his much-promised border wall.\n\nMr Trump abruptly changed course, announcing that \"any measure that funds the government must include border security\". The fact he's stopped calling for a wall and instead asked for border security and \"metal slats\" - fencing - is a concession that might have meant something if it was made weeks ago, and not under the shadow of a shutdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Let the bickering begin ... who will be blamed for a shutdown?\n\nThe irony is that the warning was made at a signing ceremony for bipartisan farm legislation, during which the president touted another recently passed bill reforming the criminal justice system. Green shoots of inter-party co-operation appeared this week, only to be met with the herbicide of wall acrimony.\n\nThe House of Representatives seems solidly behind including wall funding in any bill. But the Senate, with only 51 Republicans and unified Democratic opposition, is well short of the 60 votes needed to agree to such a measure. And if enough House members change their mind, there's always the chance that the president will veto a stopgap bill without any funding for the wall.\n\nThe dynamic changes considerably on 3 January, when Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats take over the House.\n\nAt that point, the door slams shut on wall funding ever being approved in the House. The Senate may very well acquiesce to a new wall-free spending bill and the president becomes the final roadblock.\n\nWould he back down, giving the House Democrats an early win? That may be a bitter pill to swallow.\n\nFor Mr Trump, however, the pain he appears to fear from his supporters seems to outweigh in his mind the political discomfort from a shutdown.\n\nIf Mr Trump's pivot on budget funding was surprising, his unexpected announcement that he's pulling the 2,000 US troops out of Syria - and reports of plans for thousands more coming home from Afghanistan - was an electric shock through the US foreign policy establishment.\n\nThe fact that the president, who campaigned in part on drawing down US involvement obligations abroad, might contemplate such a move is not unexpected. The manner in which the announcement was made, with little apparent consultation with senior government officials or US allies abroad, is the primary source of upheaval - and the cause for concern among even those who might otherwise support the decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nThen came the exclamatory punctuation mark at the end of the drawdown drama. Defence Secretary James Mattis, perhaps the most universally respected member of Mr Trump's Cabinet, announced he was resigning because of differences of opinion he has with the president. In his announcement, he offered full-throated support for the US alliance structure and a warning that the US must serve as a counterweight to authoritarian rivals.\n\nThen came his parting shot.\n\n\"Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defence whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position,\" he wrote.\n\nIt was one of the most direct suggestions of disapproval from any of Mr Trump's ever-expanding list of former advisers and Cabinet secretaries.\n\nAll of this raises the question, why did the president act now? There has been some speculation that it may be tied the budget fight over the Mexican border wall. If people tell the president there's not enough money, then he'll reduce US commitments abroad. Others have suggested the move was a distraction in the midst of an unpleasant news cycle. Or perhaps it was a move to placate Turkey or - an evergreen explanation - Russia.\n\nWhatever the reason, Mr Trump has roiled his supporters in the US Senate at a time when he needs them most. In the past, Republican politicians have managed to walk the line between offering tuts of disapproval for presidential actions they don't like, while still voting lockstep for conservative policy priorities.\n\nIn the coming days, however, this straddling effort will be tested like never before.\n\nIn a recent article in The Atlantic, Benjamin Wittes and Mikhaila Fogel compare Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation of possible Russian ties to the Trump presidential campaign to a siege on a walled city.\n\nIf the investigation is \"a campaign of degradation over a substantial period of time\", this week brought a number of new volleys that could hasten the eventual collapse.\n\nThere was Michael Flynn's sentencing fiasco, in which Mr Trump's former national security adviser admitted in open court that he knowingly lied to the FBI and wasn't tricked or trapped into it. The judge, Emmet Sullivan, then suggested he sold his country out.\n\nFacing the prospect of an angry judge threatening jail time, Flynn's lawyers asked for a sentencing delay - dangling the possibility of more co-operation by Flynn and guaranteeing this portion of the Mueller investigation will stretch on until at least March.\n\nMeanwhile, the Senate released two investigations into Russian social media campaigns to influence the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThey indicated the scope of the attack was much wider than previously known. The efforts reached hundreds of millions of people on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other services, engaging conservatives and discouraging key voting blocs on the left, all in an attempt to help Mr Trump's presidential bid.\n\nThe president and his supporters have dismissed evidence of Russian meddling as blame-shifting by Democrats seeking an excuse for their 2016 defeat. With these reports, that becomes a more difficult case to make.\n\nWhat's still not known is if there are any direct links between the Russians and the Trump team. Rumours swirl of new Mueller indictments on the horizon, however, perhaps of Trump confidant Roger Stone, who had contacts with WikiLeaks, the group that released hacked Democratic documents.\n\nThen there's the NBC News report that Mr Mueller could release his findings and conclusions in mid-February - which, although it seems like an eternity in US politics these days, is just two months away.\n\nThe clock is ticking - providing a possible explanation for Mr Trump's dyspeptic attitude of late.\n\nThere was evidence as early as 2016, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, that Donald Trump frequently used his family's charitable foundation - funded in large part by donations from other people - to settle business lawsuits, buy baubles at auctions and, during the presidential campaign, advance his political interests.\n\nAny of this could qualify as \"self-dealing\" and put the charity's tax status at risk.\n\nThe controversies swirling around the foundation attracted the attention of the Democrat-run attorney general's office in New York, which launched an investigation. On Tuesday, they negotiated the dismantling of the charity.\n\nMr Trump and his lawyers explained that they wanted this all along, and that the entire inquiry was the result of \"sleazy Democrats\". But this is another dark cloud that won't be disappearing anytime soon.\n\nBarbara Underwood, in a statement heralding the action, called the foundation \"little more than a chequebook\" for the Trumps, with activity that displayed \"a shocking pattern of illegality\".\n\nWhat's more, she said, the state would continue to seek millions of dollars in back taxes and fines from the Trump Organization, and sanctions against the president and his three oldest children.\n\nDuring the 2016 campaign, Mr Trump repeatedly criticised Hillary Clinton and her family's much-larger operating foundation. Two years later, however, it's the president's charity that remains in the headlines.\n\nMr Trump has spent much of his presidency touting the seemingly endless ascent of the US stock market.\n\n\"The Stock Market just reached an All-Time High during my Administration for the 102nd Time, a presidential record, by far, for less than two years,\" he tweeted in early October.\n\nPoliticians who hitch their star to the stock market, however, can be in for a bumpy ride. Since Mr Trump wrote that tweet, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen more than 4,300 points - a 16% decline.\n\nDue to a combination of rising interest rates, the president's trade wars, the impending government shutdown and indications of slower economic growth, the now long-in-the-tooth bull market may be coming to an end. December has seen the biggest market decline since the Great Depression and the largest drop in any month since 2009.\n\nLarger economic indicators, such as GDP growth, unemployment and consumer confidence, are still strong. The current economic expansion is now entering its 13th year, however, and no one has yet discovered how to outwit the business cycle.\n\nWhat goes up eventually comes down (at least a bit), and the timing may not be good for the president.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has been charged with assault by beating following an incident at her north London home.\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nMs Flack will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nShe was bailed until that date.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We were called on 12 December to a residential address in Islington.\n\n\"We treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.\"\n\nA spokesman for Caroline Flack said: \"We confirm that police attended Caroline's home following a private domestic incident.\n\n\"She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(1/10) The Conservatives won 365 seats, giving Boris Johnson a majority of 80. Their 44% share of the vote was the highest since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. So how did this happen?\n\n(2/10) Right at the beginning of the night it was clear something unusual had happened. The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way. Labour lost here by 712 votes.\n\n(3/10) This story was repeated again and again, as Labour's \"Red Wall\" in the North crumbled. Labour's vote share reduced by 13% in the North East and 10% in Yorkshire & Humber. Many of these seats voted strongly to leave the EU.\n\n(4/10) Many northern Conservative wins were due more to a reduced Labour vote than a large boost for the Tories. However, in Wakefield, which had been Labour since 1932, the Tories won a majority of over 3,000.\n\n(5/10) By around 02:00 GMT the Conservatives started to win seats in Wales, taking six from Labour in total. Plaid Cymru held on to their four seats, but a Remain pact with the Greens and Liberal Democrats failed to create a breakthrough.\n\n(6/10) The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win back seats in the South West that they lost to the Tories in 2015. Despite increasing their share of the vote by 3%, the Lib Dems failed to win any new seats here.\n\n(7/10) Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, narrowly lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland to the Scottish National Party, who had a good night.\n\n(8/10) The SNP won 14 seats overall, from the Liberal Democrats, Tories and Labour. They now have 48 seats, up 13 from 2017 and only slightly down from their 2015 landslide.\n\n(9/10) In Northern Ireland the DUP, who had backed the Conservatives since 2017, lost two of their seats, including their Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. The SDLP picked up two and the Alliance Party won one.\n\n(10/10) Across the UK Labour suffered 60 losses. Their only gain was Putney in London, but Kensington, which they'd won in 2017, went back to the Conservatives. Despite breaking even in London, a largely Remain voting area, Labour's vote share still declined by 6%.\n\nTo read more about the election go to BBC News", "Gerald Cotten was the only person who had passwords to QuadrigaCX digital wallets\n\nLawyers representing users of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX are asking Canadian authorities to exhume the body of its founder.\n\nThey say they want an exhumation given \"questionable circumstances\" surrounding his death.\n\nGerald Cotten died suddenly last year in India from complications related to Crohn's disease.\n\nFollowing his death, the exchange was unable to locate or secure significant cryptocurrency reserves.\n\nWhen he died, the 30-year-old founder was the only person who had passwords to digital wallets containing C$180 million ($137m; £105m) in cryptocurrencies.\n\nHis untimely death forced the closure of QuadrigaCX, which had some 115,000 users at the time.\n\nOnline rumours have circulated since, speculating that Cotten faked his own death and sought to abscond with the funds, though no evidence of such a scheme has been revealed in the year since he died.\n\nOn Friday, the legal team representing users of the platform in the bankruptcy proceedings sent a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seeking an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy be performed on Cotten's body \"to confirm both its identity and the cause of death\".\n\nThey say information revealed during the proceedings \"further highlight the need for certainty around the question of whether Mr Cotten is in fact deceased\".\n\nEarlier this year, a report by auditor Ernst & Young found significant problems in how the exchange was managed, including finding that Cotten created certain accounts on the Quadriga platform under aliases that may have been used to trade on the exchange.\n\nIt was also found that substantial funds were transferred to Cotten personally and to other related parties.\n\nThe auditor managed to retrieve approximately C$33m in missing funds.\n\nIt confirmed in August it was aware of \"at least four independent active law enforcement or regulatory reviews in progress\" related to the platform's demise, which includes the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.\n\nIn a statement sent through her lawyer on Friday, Cotten's widow said she \"is heartbroken to learn of this request\".\n\nJennifer Robertson said her late husband's death \"should not be in doubt\", adding it is unclear how its confirmation \"would assist the asset recovery process further\".", "After several elections where the polls as a whole were not a good guide to the result, this time they got it right.\n\nThe final figures in the BBC poll tracker were very close to the actual result, as the table below shows,\n\nThat's a very good performance - just a small underestimate of the Conservative share and a slight overestimate for the Brexit Party, with the other parties on the nose.\n\nMany of the polling companies had individual polls that were close to the result. But first prize should probably go jointly to Opinium and Ipsos Mori, whose final published polls were almost exactly correct.\n\nThere was some evidence of the polls narrowing in the final couple of weeks but the polling companies that showed that most were the least successful at estimating the final result.\n\nFurthermore, the polls were also consistently right to point to Conservative strength with Leave-supporting voters.\n\nThe biggest swings came in areas that had voted strongly for Brexit in the 2016 referendum - constituencies like Bassetlaw, Dudley North, Redcar and Great Grimsby. In areas that voted strongly for Remain, the Conservative vote share fell.\n\nWhat proved much harder was using polls to forecast how many seats each party would win. That is always difficult because of the unpredictable nature of the first-past-the-post electoral system.\n\nIn 2017, YouGov's seat projection, using a technique called MRP (multi-level regression and post-stratification), was very successful. But this time around, its final seat analysis wasn't so close. Even where the share of the vote is known, it's not always possible to estimate accurately what the House of Commons will look like.\n\nThat's where the exit poll came into its own - getting very close to an accurate prediction of the size of the Conservative majority.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has told Nicola Sturgeon that he remains opposed to a second independence referendum, despite the SNP's general election success.\n\nThe PM spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had \"reiterated his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nMr Johnson insisted the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon made clear it was not \"credible\" to deny Scotland the right to choose its future.\n\nShe indicated during the phone call that she would be publishing a paper next week putting the case for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe two leaders have agreed to have a more detailed discussion in the near future over issues raised by an election result which saw the Conservatives take power at Westminster with an 80 seat majority and the SNP winning 48 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.\n\nThe nationalists won a landslide north of the border taking 13 more seats than in the last election in 2017 and seeing its share of the vote increase by 8.1 percentage points, to 45%.\n\nIn contrast, the Scottish Conservatives lost seven of their 13 seats in Scotland, despite Mr Johnson winning a majority of 80 across the UK as a whole - the largest majority for the Tories since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman confirmed that the prime minister and first minister had spoken about both Brexit and a second independence referendum in their telephone conversation.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"On Brexit, the prime minister said that he is now in a position to get this done in a way that allows the whole of the UK to move forward together, providing certainty for Scottish businesses and improving the lives of people right across Scotland.\n\n\"The prime minister made clear how he remained opposed to a second independence referendum, standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty.\n\n\"He added how the result of the 2014 referendum was decisive and should be respected.\"\n\nMeanwhile Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey ruled out any poll on Scottish independence for the full term of the Conservative government during an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions. - even if the SNP win a majority in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several hundred protesters took part in an anti-UK government rally in Glasgow on Friday\n\nThe conversation came after Mr Johnson spoke outside Number 10 of his hope that his party's \"extraordinary\" election win would bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nAnd he insisted he was a One Nation Conservative, which he defined as \"the idea that the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the first minister said it was a \"constructive\" phone call, \"in which the [first minister] indicated she would be publishing a paper next week and the two leaders agreed to have a more detailed discussion in the near future over the issues raised by the election result\".\n\nShe added that Ms Sturgeon had \"made clear that it was not credible for the [prime minister] to deny Scotland the right to choose its future\".\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh earlier on Friday, Ms Sturgeon said that the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory in Scotland \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate to hold another referendum.\n\nShe told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way. The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government would be publishing a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum.\n\nShe is expected to ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a \"Section 30 order\" - as happened in 2014.\n\nBut she has repeatedly ruled out holding a referendum unless its legality was \"beyond doubt\".\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Money may go further for those on Christmas holidays overseas this year\n\nAs the country contemplates the election results, people's thoughts will turn to the potential effect on their finances.\n\nMoney matters are often to the fore at this, expensive, time of year. The December election is likely to mean some changes to the pound in your pocket before the winter is out, with other changes more long-term.\n\nHere are some of the key issues, based on the Conservative Party's manifesto, its plans before the campaign and its promises during it.\n\nThose who are heading abroad for Christmas will see their holiday money go a little further.\n\nThe value of the pound improved against the US dollar and the euro when the Conservative victory became clear, and this will now have fed through to the rates at bureaux de change.\n\nHowever, travelling overseas at this time of year can be very expensive, so this will only bring a little relief.\n\nThe big set-piece financial event of the year had been planned for November, but was postponed as the prime minister pushed for an election.\n\nDuring the campaign, Boris Johnson promised a Budget within 100 days of the polling day if the Conservatives were elected. This is likely to mean a Budget in February or March, setting any changes to taxes, benefits and allowances in time for the start of the new financial year in April.\n\nMr Johnson promised that a tax break for workers, through a change to National Insurance, would be confirmed in that first Budget.\n\nThe current threshold sees workers paying National Insurance contributions once they earn £8,628 a year. The Conservatives said this would rise to £9,500.\n\nEconomists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated this would be worth about £85 a year for all those with earnings above £9,500 a year.\n\nThis Budget - and any subsequent ones during this five-year Parliament - will see no income tax or VAT rises (nor any National Insurance rises), according to a promise in the Conservative Party's manifesto. However, this was described as \"ill-advised\" by the IFS owing to the potential lack of room for financial manoeuvre it creates.\n\nThe Budget is likely to confirm the biggest increase in the state pension since 2012, with pensioners expected to receive a 3.9% boost.\n\nThe full, new state pension is expected to go up from £168.60 a week to about £175.20 in April. However, most pensioners get the older basic state pension, which is likely to go up from £129.20 to £134.25 per week. They may also get a Pension Credit top-up.\n\nThe rise is the result of the triple-lock system, which means that the state pension rises in line with inflation, earnings or 2.5% - whichever is the highest. The Conservatives have pledged to keep this in place, as it has with the winter fuel payment and free bus passes for older people.\n\nA Pensions Bill is, to use one of Mr Johnson's phrases, oven-ready. It had been prepared before the election was called and includes new protection for those with workplace pensions, and reforms to allow a new type of shared-risk pension scheme to be made available.\n\nThere is also a longer-term promise in the manifesto to look at a pension \"loophole\" that has seen workers, disproportionately women, who earn between £10,000 and £12,500 missing out on pension benefits.\n\nDespite a number of pension changes in the offing, it is hard to see how they will include any compensation for women born in the 1950s who believe they unfairly missed out on the state pension.\n\nThere have been no promises made to the so-called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality), although they will continue to put pressure on the government to address the issue.\n\nThe separate Backto60 group, which campaigns on the same issue, recently lost a high-profile court case.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference in September, Chancellor Sajid Javid pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 an hour within the next five years. The current rate for over 25s is £8.21.\n\nThe age at which workers qualify for the National Living Wage - the highest level of minimum wage - is set to drop from 25 to 21 within five years.\n\nCommentators have suggested that there is pent-up demand in the UK housing market - particularly in London. Buyers and sellers have been put off making such a big financial commitment owing to political and economic uncertainty.\n\nNow the first of those is off the table, to a degree, given the size of the Conservative majority, there may be more transactions. More demand could push up prices - which is good for sellers, but bad for first-time buyers.\n\nHowever, one commentator says it may be a short-term phenomenon.\n\n\"We suggest only modest price growth in 2020 on the basis that, despite domestic political uncertainty receding, some economic uncertainty will remain until a trade deal is agreed with the EU,\" says Lucian Cook, director of residential research at Savills.\n\n\"This could mean a bounce in demand in the first part of 2020 proves difficult to sustain through the summer months and into the autumn market.\"\n\nThere is a promise in the manifesto to look carefully at the \"thoughtful\" suggestions in the review into student finance and university and college funding, led by Philip Augar.\n\nIn the short term, this suggests the current freeze of tuition fees in England at their current level of £9,250 will continue.\n\nUniversal Credit has been one of the most controversial benefit reforms of a generation. A Conservative victory means the roll-out across the country will now continue.\n\nUniversal Credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits including Income Support and Housing Benefit and merging them into one payment.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions announced in November that working-age benefits such as Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance would rise by 1.7% from April.\n\nIt ends former chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze which, according to the IFS, has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto promised free parking at hospitals for people with disabilities, those who attend outpatient departments frequently, parents of sick children staying overnight and staff working night shifts.\n\nIt also promises to pave the way for longer-term mortgages, more similar to a US system, although there will be some regulatory and practical hurdles to clear before that becomes reality. There are questions too over whether there would be demand for such products among people who may wish to move more frequently.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke a during the campaign, and prior to it, of a plan to abolish the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products once the UK has left the EU, which he called the \"tampon tax\".", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said paying tribute\n\nA 15-year-old boy found dead in a village was a \"caring and trusting young boy\", his family has said.\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was discovered in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nHis family has paid tribute to the Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School pupil as police investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.\n\nAn 18-year-old man from Knutsford has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nIn a statement Alex's family said: \"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHead teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11 and from the Knutsford area, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our students is our priority. School will be open as normal on Monday and staff will be on hand to support students in any way affected by this tragic loss,\" he said in a statement posted to the school's website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Blackwell said: \"We are in the very early stages of our investigation into Alex's death, which we are treating as a murder.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the community that this is believed to be an isolated incident and we are doing everything we can to establish exactly what has taken place.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell says it's time for him to step aside as shadow chancellor\n\nLabour faces a \"long haul\" as it attempts to gain power following its fourth election defeat in a row, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.\n\nHe rejected claims that leader Jeremy Corbyn had been responsible for the result, instead blaming \"the overwhelming issue\" of Brexit.\n\nBut some current and ex-MPs have said Mr Corbyn's unpopularity contributed to Labour losing dozens of seats.\n\nBoris Johnson's Conservatives won on Thursday with a Commons majority of 80.\n\nThe outcome, far more positive for the Tories than most opinion polls had predicted, has prompted much soul-searching within Labour, which last won a general election under Tony Blair in 2005.\n\nMr Corbyn has announced he will stand down in the near future and Mr McDonnell, one of his closest allies, said he had been \"the right leader\" for the party.\n\nBut Labour MP Phil Wilson, who lost the seat of Sedgefield which he had held for 12 years, said: \"So many people said to me on the doorstep, Phil, if you had a different leader, I'd vote for you, there wouldn't be a problem\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn lost him his seat, Mr Wilson replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nFor many of his constituents, he said: \"The one thing that was holding them back from voting Labour was the current leadership of the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe added: \"For every one person who raised Brexit with me on the doorstep, there would be five people who raised Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Helen Goodman, who lost her Bishop Auckland seat to the Conservatives on Thursday, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nAnd Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking, east London, said she felt \"anger because this is an election we should have won\".\n\nShe added that, under Mr Corbyn's leadership - during which Labour has faced criticism for its handling of anti-Semitism allegations among its membership - voters had come to see it \"as a nasty party\".\n\nWes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far-left\" manifesto had alienated much of the electorate.\n\nHowever, Labour's ex-Welsh secretary, Lord Hain, insisted the party must not embrace \"wishy-washy centrism\" in the wake of its defeat.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the \"Corbyn project\" had some \"very searching self-examination\" to do, but it was important to offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\".\n\nMr McDonnell disagreed with personal criticism of his leader, saying: \"The overwhelming issue was Brexit and the Labour Party was caught on the horns of a dilemma.\n\n\"We had a party which was largely supportive of Remain, but many of us represented Leave constituencies.\"\n\nIn the election, Labour's number of Commons seats fell to 203, its lowest since 1935.\n\nMr Corbyn, leader since 2015, ran for prime minister on a promise to hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying that during any campaign he would remain neutral - in contrast to Mr Johnson's promise to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If we went one way, to Leave, we would have alienated a lot of our Remain support. If we went for Remain, we'd alienate a lot of our Leave support.\n\n\"We tried to bring the country together. It failed. We have to accept that, take it on the chin. We have to own that and then move on.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, said Labour now needed to have \"a constructive debate\" about its future, discussing \"what went right and what went wrong\" during the election campaign.\n\nHe argued that Mr Corbyn, who has received criticism from some Labour figures for not standing down immediately, was right to stay on \"for a couple of months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nIt was necessary because of the \"expertise\" required to deal with issues such as Brexit and the forthcoming Budget, he said.\n\nDiscussing Mr Johnson's government, Mr McDonnell said: \"My fear is that we're in for a long haul now, possibly five years.\n\n\"The two issues that we face are still there - huge, grotesque levels of inequality and, the issue that never really emerged in the campaign, which was climate change, this existential threat that must be our priority.\n\n\"Brexit, well, we'll see what the government brings back in terms of its negotiations. The people have decided we need to implement that, but we've got to get the best deal to protect jobs and the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"My fear is five years of a fossil fuel-backed government under Boris Johnson means we'll miss this five-years opportunity of saving our planet.\"\n\nAt the 2017 general election, Mr Corbyn's first as Labour leader, the party won 40% of votes and gained 30 MPs, denying Theresa May's Conservatives a majority.\n\nBut on Thursday it received 32% of the vote and lost 59 seats, including several of its traditional strongholds in the north of England.\n\nMr Corbyn said that, during the election campaign, he had done \"everything I could\" and that he had \"pride\" in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Labour leader's sons, Tommy, Seb and Benjamin, tweeted a tribute to their father, calling him an \"honest, humble and good-natured\" figure in the \"poisonous world\" of politics.", "There is nothin' like a dame. Nothing in the world. There's nothing you can name that is anything like a dame.\n\nTake, for example, the one I saw on Thursday. She had massive cherries on her chest, walked like an injured prop forward and made a string of lewd jokes in front of hundreds of little children.\n\nYou'd have thought their parents would be furious, but far from it. They spluttered into plastic cups of prosecco while encouraging their kids to yell at the old lady, who responded by cackling in a deep baritone voice and changing her outfit.\n\nAt one point she asked them what she should do with a naughty young man. \"Kill him,\" chorused the kids. \"Kill him?\" she said, a little taken aback. \"You can't kill him, this is a pantomime.\" And then, as an aside: \"Welcome to Bromley.\"\n\n'Tis the season to be jolly.\n\nAnd by golly they were jolly at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, where Christopher Biggins was hamming it up as Widow Twankey in Aladdin, like Harry Kane in the opposition's penalty area.\n\nChristopher Biggins, 70, got lots of laughs from the audience as the twinkly and lively Widow Twankey\n\nMusical cues were mistimed and pyrotechnic effects misfired, but nobody in the audience cared a jot: in fact, the more mistakes, the merrier - they added a touch of jeopardy to a plot everybody knew better than the seven times table.\n\nMr Biggins ruled the roost, entering from stage left and right as stately as a galleon, armed with a knowing smile and glinting eye.\n\nThis is his 35th appearance as the dame in a panto career that goes back to 1974, when he was a sprightly 26-year-old actor making his way with TV roles in Upstairs Downstairs and in Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker.\n\nChristopher Biggins, David Jason and Ronnie Barker in the hit sitcom Porridge in 1977\n\nNot much has changed in the world of panto over the years.\n\nThe genre can be traced back to ancient Roman theatre - but not necessarily with the lame jokes, dreary songs, and double-entendres that are the staple of today's slapstick shows.\n\nThat's not a criticism; it's the point.\n\nThe challenge for panto performers is to take those modest ingredients and bring them to life for an audience which has paid good money for a good laugh.\n\nIt ain't easy, although Biggins and his merry band make it appear so as they go through the standard participatory routines, such as getting the audience to chant a phrase on cue, which in this instance was:\n\nI mean, what are prawn balls? Did I miss that party?\n\nAnd why is Widow Twankey reading out the names of the show's sponsors, giving birthday shout-outs, and then randomly firing sweets into the audience - as if they needed any more sugar. Hasn't she got a business to run?\n\nShe does. But then, so does the theatre.\n\nA fun-filled panto is a seriously important event for regional theatres across the country. It is often the show that keeps them going through the rest of the year, balancing books that would otherwise tilt dramatically into the red.\n\nThe show might appear flippant compared with a Shakespearian tragedy at the National Theatre, but it requires equal skill and talent to pull it off.\n\nOne famous dame does not a successful panto make. She needs back-up.\n\nRikki Jay gives us a warm, energetic Wishee, getting the audience going when it is starting to flag - even though some of his material has long passed its sell-by date (a joke about an apple and an orange needs cutting).\n\nAnd Max Fulham brings a first-class ventriloquism act to his role as Washee.\n\nRikki Jay, who as Wishee, was a natural at engaging both children and grown-ups\n\nMax Fulham, as Washee, showed his superb ventriloquy skills with Gordon the monkey\n\nRyan O'Gorman is a suitably malevolent Abanazar, the pantomime villain, and Yazdan Qafouri does well with a title role that doesn't offer many chances to shine beyond rubbing his rusty lamp.\n\nThe best way to judge such a show is by the reaction of the audience, many of whom will never have been to the theatre before (the majority sounded as if they'd collectively inhaled the contents of Mr Biggins' helium balloons).\n\nOn that basis, Aladdin is a critical hit.\n\nThe kids laughed a lot, shouted a great deal, and talked through the bits they found boring, which tended to be the musical numbers (not helped by a sound mix that drowned out the singers).\n\nNow, how am I going to get my hands on Christopher Biggins' prawn balls…?\n• None How do you explain panto?", "Rail passengers are being urged to check their train times before they travel from Sunday as a new winter timetable comes into effect.\n\nThe plan is that journey times will be cut, services increased and new routes added across the country, after infrastructure and carriage investment.\n\nTrain timetables are changed twice a year, in May and December.\n\nWhen train timetables were changed in May last year, chaos ensued, with massive delays and overcrowding.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said the new timetable change would mean 1,000 extra weekly services, on top of 4,000 introduced over the past two years.\n\nThe launch of the May 2018 timetables saw services crippled in parts of the North and the South East, with blame attributed to Network Rail, train operators and the government.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of the passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"This time around, passengers need the rail industry to deliver a smooth set of timetable improvements - so they can reliably use both new and existing services.\n\n\"Many passengers should have a greater choice of services with more seats as result of these changes. However, there will also be some who lose out, with fewer or slower services.\"\n\nGuy Dangerfield, Transport Focus head of strategy, said: \"There are lots of timetable improvements which should bring great benefits to passengers in terms of capacity and journey time improvements.\n\n\"Clearly, when you change anything, there's a degree of risk, but there isn't the sort of late chopping and changing of the plans which led to the problems in May 2018.\"\n\nThe RDG sought to reassure passengers over the upcoming timetable, stating that the industry had put \"years of work into drafting, consulting and planning for these changes\".\n\nRobert Nisbet, the organisation's director of nations and regions, urged passengers to check their journey details in advance, as many train times are changing.\n\nHe said: \"Train operators and Network Rail will be working together to run a reliable service and respond quickly to any teething problems as people get used to the change.\"\n\nSunday will see the biggest timetable change on the Great Western Railway network since the 1970s, taking advantage of Network Rail's electrification of the line between London and Bristol, and the operator's new intercity express trains.\n\nNon-stop trains between London Paddington and Bristol Parkway will have journey times as short as one hour and eight minutes, shaving 12 minutes off the existing quickest services.\n\nFastest journey times between the capital and Bristol Temple Meads - near the centre of the city - will be cut by 17 minutes to one hour and 19 minutes.\n\nThe frequency of trains on this route will be increased from two an hour to three during the morning and evening peaks.\n\nThere will be major improvements on the ScotRail network, with additional services in north-east Scotland and extra seats between Edinburgh and Glasgow.\n\nA new station, Robroyston, will open in north-east Glasgow on the line between Queen Street and Cumbernauld.\n\nOther operators introducing new services are Greater Anglia, London North Eastern Railway, Northern, TfL Rail, Thameslink, Transpennine Express (TPE), Transport for Wales, West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway.\n\nThe Maesteg and Conwy Valley lines in Wales will see Sunday services for the first time.\n\nTPE admitted last week that the frequency of its new direct Liverpool-Edinburgh trains will initially be lower than the planned hourly service.\n\nThe firm blamed a maintenance backlog and infrastructure problems for delaying crew training, as well as the late delivery of new trains.", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his partner who was a patient in a hospital was found dead.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from hospital contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, remains in custody.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and her next of kin has been contacted.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Late on Friday, staff from Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns in respect of one of their patients who had passed away.\n\n\"Given the circumstances presented to us, we have arrested the woman's partner, who is a 75-year-old man, on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We are keeping an open mind as to what has happened and expect to know more later.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Welsh secretary Lord Hain says Labour must not resort to \"wishy-washy centrism\" after its disastrous general election showing.\n\nHe says Labour must offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\" which would be \"disastrous for Wales\".\n\nThe party lost six seats in Wales, leaving it with 22 of Wales' 40 MPs.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, says the \"intolerance\" to voters \"not necessarily of your tribe\" under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership must end.\n\nHe adds: \"The Corbyn project has some very searching self-examination [to do] that has to be done honestly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are not the masters, we are the servants now\"\n\nBoris Johnson has thanked voters in the north of England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" to back the Conservatives.\n\nSpeaking in Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield, the PM said he knew \"how difficult\" that decision can be.\n\nMr Johnson won a Commons majority of 80, his party's biggest election win for 30 years, by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nIn contrast, Labour suffered its worst election result since the 1930s.\n\nActivists chanted \"Boris\" as Mr Johnson arrived in the County Durham constituency, which returned a Conservative MP on Thursday for the first time in 84 years.\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted to thank voters in the \"incredible\" constituencies in north-east England for placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\nThey had \"changed the political landscape\" and \"changed the Conservative Party for the better\", he said.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"We are the servants now and our job is to serve the people of this country and deliver on our priorities. And our priorities and their priorities are the same.\"\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn said he had done \"everything I could\" to get Labour into power but expected to stand down \"early next year\", after a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nHe said the general election had been \"taken over by Brexit\", the issue on which Mr Johnson campaigned most vociferously - but other figures in the party have disagreed over the reason.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell promised to \"learn lessons and we'll listen to people\" during the debate over the future of the party and its next leader.\n\n\"My fear is that we're in for the long haul now, possibly five years,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Helen Goodman, who lost the seat of Bishop Auckland to the Conservatives, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor\" in Labour's defeat \"was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nHowever, the Labour MP for York Central, Rachel Maskell, said: \"We've all got to take responsibility... I don't think apportioning blame to a complex situation in a simplistic way is really the way to approach this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to announce a minor government re-shuffle as early as Monday.\n\nAsked whether his promise to be a one nation government meant bringing back Tory politicians like Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt - who left cabinet in July after Mr Johnson took over - the PM said he was \"not going to speculate about personalities\".\n\nMPs will then return to Westminster on Tuesday and begin the process of swearing in, before the Queen formally opens Parliament on Thursday with \"reduced ceremonial elements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nThe prime minister has also vowed to reintroduce his Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament before Christmas, which could happen by the end of next week.\n\nIt would see MPs begin the process of considering legislation that would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nFormer Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, who opposes Brexit and backed the Liberal Democrats in the election, told Today: \"We've lost. Brexit is going to happen and we have to live with it.\"\n\nAsked whether he would support any future campaign to rejoin the EU, he said it would be \"20 years or something before the issue is once again raised\".\n\nProtests took place at Westminster on Friday following Mr Johnson's election victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Tompsett: \"I've never been on a protest before\"\n\nDemonstrators in Westminster carried signs that read \"Defy Tory Rule\" and \"No to Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two people had been arrested in relation to the protests - one person on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and another for suspected affray.\n\nFollowing the Conservatives' election win, Mr Johnson spoke to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon on Friday evening and reiterated his opposition to a second independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nThe conversation came after the first minister said the PM had \"no right\" to stand in the way of a second vote following her party's \"overwhelming\" election performance. The SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday, cabinet minister Thérèse Coffey insisted there would be no referendum on Scottish independence during the Conservatives' five-year term.\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Sturgeon, the PM also took phone calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to discuss the next steps on Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives won a total of 365 seats in the election, while Labour finished on 203, the SNP on 48, Liberal Democrats on 11 and the DUP on eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader after Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party now that Ms Swinson is no longer an MP.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nPatrick Reed's caddie has been thrown out of the Presidents Cup in Melbourne by the PGA Tour after he \"shoved\" a fan who verbally abused his player.\n\nThe altercation came on Saturday after American Reed suffered his third defeat against the International team.\n\nReed has been heckled all week after he was penalised for improving the lie of his ball at the Hero World Challenge.\n\nThe PGA Tour said: \"Following an incident, Kessler Karain will not return to caddie for Sunday's singles.\"\n\nKarain, who is Reed's brother-in-law, had earlier said via a statement: \"I don't think there's one caddie I know who would blame me.\n\n\"I got off the cart and shoved him, said a couple things, probably a few expletives. Security came and I got back on the cart and left.\n\n\"Unless his bones breaks like Mr Glass, the most harm done was a little spilled beer, which I'm happy to reimburse him for.\"\n\nThe statement also said: \"As a caddie, one of your jobs is to protect your player.\n\n\"We have been known for having fun with some good banter, but after hearing several fans in Australia for three days some had taken it too far. I'd had enough. And this gentleman was one of them.\"\n\nReed, the 2018 Masters champion, said: \"I respect the Tour's decision. We are all focused on winning the Presidents Cup.\"\n\nThe incident stems from a controversial moment at last week's PGA Tour event in the Bahamas when Reed moved sand in a bunker with his practice swing - an offence which carries a two-stroke penalty.\n\nThe American's infringement was only relayed to him at the end of his round.\n\n\"Every time I get in the bunker I'm scared to even get my club close to it [sand],\" he said at the time.\n\n\"After seeing the video, I accept that. It wasn't because of any intent, I thought I was far enough away.\"\n\nHe has since been criticised by members of Ernie Els' International team including Australian Cameron Smith, who said he \"doesn't have any sympathy for anyone that cheats\".\n\nReed has denied he was cheating and on Friday made light of the incident by pretending to shovel sand after holing a putt and gesturing at the gallery.\n\nHe and playing partner Webb Simpson were beaten 5&3 by Hideki Matsuyama and CT Pan as Tiger Woods' US team lost Saturday's morning session 2½-1½.\n\nBut the US rallied in the afternoon foursomes to win 3-1 as the International team held a slender 10-8 lead going into Sunday's singles.\n\n\"We chipped away at it,\" US captain Woods told Sky Sports, \"We knocked their lead down but there are 12 matches to go. We're trusting each other and we love it.\n\n\"I expect my guys to fight, get some red out there, get some early momentum.\"\n\nThe US need 7½ points to win an eighth successive title, while the International team need 5½ points to record just a second victory in the 13th staging of the Ryder Cup-style event.\n\nIt is difficult to remember a player who has generated more hostility than Patrick Reed.\n\nHis unrepentant stance following the rules controversy in the Bahamas aggravated the situation. Miming a shovel action in response to crowd taunts dug up more trouble and now his caddie has been thrown out of the Presidents Cup.\n\nReed has lost all his matches this week compounding a loss of credibility and integrity.\n\nHe is now regarded as golf's most divisive figure. He will struggle for future wildcard picks for his country. Captain America is suffering a huge fall from grace.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hug that means Jacob's new arm is a success\n\nWhen Jacob was born eight weeks early most of his left arm was missing.\n\nHis parents Gemma Turner and Chris Scrimshaw, from Calderdale in West Yorkshire, crowdfunded to get a £16,000 functioning limb made for him.\n\nThe NHS and most companies take the view that a functioning prosthetic is not an option when the limb ends above the elbow.\n\nThat is where Ben Ryan, from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, came in, designing an arm for Jacob, who is now five.\n\nJacob and his brother hugged after his new arm was fitted\n\nMr Ryan developed a hydraulic design after his son Sol had an emergency amputation when he was 10 days old.\n\nIt led him to quit his job as a psychology lecturer and set up his own company, named Ambionics, two and a half years ago.\n\nHis firm merged with Polish prosthetic maker Glaze this year.\n\nOne of their first clients was Jacob.\n\nJacob with his mother Gemma at the fitting\n\nMr Ryan has been working with a prosthetics expert and Jacob's family to perfect a hydraulic arm for him.\n\nThe family wanted an elbow that could be set in different positions, a gripping mechanism and a modular hand that can be swapped out for other tools.\n\nHe explained that the prosthetics are not 3D printed in the normal way, as they are forged together in a bath of nylon powder using lasers.\n\nJacob is now able to grip things with his functioning prosthetic\n\nMr Ryan said the elbow can be set using a sliding lock, and the hand closes when Jacob squeezes a water filled rubber chamber that is mounted to the upper arm.\n\nHe designed a mechanism to make it work while the arm was cast by his colleagues in Poland.\n\nPerhaps, more importantly - for Jacob anyway - it is large, green and superhero themed.\n\n\"It was what Jacob wanted, including have a larger hand, so the theme is perfect,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\nOn Thursday he delivered the arm to Jacob at a meeting in Ringwood, Hampshire, and said the fitting was a \"success\" and that Jacob \"exceeded everybody's expectations\".\n\n\"He can give his brother a hug and hold his hand,\" he said.\n\nJacob was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing\n\nSpeaking after the final fitting, Gemma, a police officer, said watching her son wear the arm was \"lovely\", adding that he \"really likes it, he's got it on right now\".\n\nShe explained that Jacob did not want a non-functioning prosthetic and said: \"He's not bothered about looking like everybody else.\"\n\nThe addition has also helped with balancing his posture, she added.\n\nWhile raising funds to get Jacob a functioning prosthetic, one anonymous donor gave them £5,000 - saying she was terminally ill and unable to complete her bucket list.\n\nGemma said asking for money was \"kind of a bit strange for us but you've got to do what you've got to do\".\n\n\"The family have had so much bad luck getting help for Jacob,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\n\"Nobody has been able to deliver something that could work for him.\n\n\"It's always been the same status-quo - that it won't work when the prosthetic is for the upper arm.\"", "Now and then: Richard Holden succeeds where Conservatives before him, including Theresa May, failed\n\nAmong the Conservative Party's haul of astonishing election scalps was Durham North West - a seat the party was not targeting and one it once discounted as impossible to win. What happened?\n\nThere are safe seats where favoured candidates can be assured of an easy victory.\n\nAnd then there are places where rookies have to do their best, hoping to prove their worth for a better seat next time. For the Conservatives, Durham North West was always the latter.\n\nLabour since 1950, it was where Theresa May was sent to cut her parliamentary teeth. As expected, she lost to Labour incumbent Hilary Armstrong by a margin of nearly 14,000 votes.\n\nRichard Holden's victory on Thursday was less dramatic. He beat Labour's Laura Pidcock - once tipped as potential party leader or, at least, successor as deputy - by a more modest 1,144.\n\nThe table below shows the full result.\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here.\n\nJeremy Corbyn did, thinks Anne-Marie Kennedy, back home visiting her mother in Lanchester.\n\n\"[He] now needs to go,\" she says. \"He needs to get someone in the Labour Party that can run the party properly.\"\n\nHer mother, Pauline Harrison, is equally unimpressed with the Labour leader, who she believes does not want to unify people or get Brexit done.\n\n\"The result is brilliant,\" she says.\n\nBut, if Boris Johnson might find these comments reassuring, Mrs Kennedy has a message for him too.\n\n\"I think, Boris, you need to be true to your word for the people,\" she says.\n\nFormer Durham North West MP Laura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender\n\nMatthew Young, from Consett which saw its steelworks close a year into Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, says Brexit was \"the crux\" of the election.\n\n\"There's a man in power now who has promised to do that and I hope he does it,\" he says.\n\nBut Baroness Hilary Armstrong, who held Durham North West from 1987 until she stood down at the 2010 election, does not believe this was the deciding factor.\n\nShe thinks voters were more concerned about Labour's \"competence\".\n\n\"They quite liked some of the promises but they never believed we could deliver them,\" she says.\n\n\"Ordinary working people feel let down. They just feel that the Labour Party has lost touch with them - and I agree with them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Graham Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Han This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven the constituency's first Conservative MP, Richard Holden, sees his win in terms of a Labour loss.\n\n\"This wasn't a result which was really even about me,\" he says.\n\n\"This was, particularly from a lot of Labour voters spoken to on the doorstep, a real rejection of the way Jeremy Corbyn has been leading the Labour Party.\"\n\nIn an ironic echo from Labour's 1997 election campaign, Brenda Spelman from Medomsley thinks things \"can only get better\"\n\nAmong the voters who are shocked at the result, there are plenty looking forward to an emboldened Boris Johnson government.\n\nBrenda Spelman, from Medomsley, is \"delighted\" with the Conservative win.\n\n\"Onwards and upwards,\" she says. \"It can only get better. I think under Labour it would have got worse.\"\n\nUntil Thursday night North West Durham was the sort of \"no-hoper\" seat that young ambitious Conservatives looking to cut their political teeth were pointed towards.\n\nA constituency made up of former mining and steel towns such as Consett, it was working class through and through.\n\nAt the height of Labour's success in 1997, the local MP Hilary Armstrong took nearly 69% of the vote - more than double all the other parties added together.\n\nOne Conservative keen to make her mark at the start of her career was Theresa May, a councillor in London when she travelled north to be selected as Conservative candidate at the 1992 general election.\n\nShe came second, with the future Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron trailing in third. For Mrs May it was a step up the political ladder and by 1997 she'd been rewarded with the far more winnable constituency of Maidenhead.\n\nBut things have moved on - and the Conservative Party has proved it's capable of winning even in the former Labour heartlands of the North East.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Talks in Madrid have gone into extra time as delegates try to agree on measures\n\nThe Chilean official leading UN climate talks in Madrid has called on delegates to show flexibility, as they struggle to reach agreement on crucial measures needed to tackle climate change.\n\nThe negotiations, which were scheduled to end on Friday, continued throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning.\n\nCarolina Schmidt said a deal was almost there but the outcome needed to be ambitious.\n\nThe goal is a commitment to new carbon emissions cuts by the end of 2020.\n\nThe European Union and small island states vulnerable to climate change are pushing for stronger commitments to cut those emissions. Some of the biggest polluters, including the United States, Brazil and India, say they see no need to change their current plans.\n\nMs Schmidt, Chile's environment minister who is the conference's president, said early on Sunday: \"I request all the flexibility, all your strength to find this agreement to have an ambitious result.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's hard, it's difficult but it's worth it. I specially need you. But people in our countries need us.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a new draft text from the meeting was released, designed to chart a way forward for the parties to the Paris agreement, which came into being in 2015.\n\nThe pact's intention is to keep the global average temperature rise to well below 2C. This was regarded at the time as the threshold for dangerous global warming, though scientists subsequently shifted the definition of the \"safe\" limit to a rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nThe situation was unprecedented since talks began in 1991, said Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.\n\nHe commented: \"The latest version of the Paris Agreement decision text put forward by the Chilean presidency is totally unacceptable. It has no call for countries to enhance the ambition of their emissions reduction commitments.\n\n\"If world leaders fail to increase ambition in the lead up to next year's climate summit in Glasgow, they will make the task of meeting the Paris agreement's 'well below 2C' temperature limitation goal - much less the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal - almost impossible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glen Peters This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis view was echoed by David Waskow, international climate director for the World Resources Institute (WRI). \"If this text is accepted, the low ambition coalition will have won the day,\" he said.\n\nThe conference in the Spanish capital has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from climate strikers, the countries running this 26th conference of the parties (COP) meeting are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut earlier in the meeting, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nProtests led by young delegates have seen up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAt a \"stock-taking\" session on Saturday morning, Tina Stege, a negotiator with the Marshall Islands delegation, said: \"I need to go home and look my kids in the eye and tell them we came out with an outcome that will ensure their future.\"\n\nShe added: \"The text must address the need for new and more ambitious NDCs and long-term goals. We can't leave with anything else.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, has been taking a hard line on promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThe deal saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\nBut India now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\nFor many delegates, the deadlock is intensely frustrating in light of the urgent need to tackle emissions.\n\n\"I've been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991. But never have I seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at COP25 in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action,\" said Alden Meyer.\n\n\"The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we wait to act. Ministers here in Madrid must strengthen the final decision text, to respond to the mounting impacts of climate change that are devastating both communities and ecosystems all over the world.\"\n\nJake Schmidt, from the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council, said: \"In Madrid, the key polluting countries responsible for 80% of the world's climate-wrecking emissions stood mute, while smaller countries announced they'll work to drive down harmful emissions in the coming year.\n\n\"The mute majority must step up, and ramp up, their commitments to tackle the growing climate crisis well ahead of the COP26 gathering.\"\n\nAlso on Saturday, activists staged a protest outside the summit venue to express their frustration at what they see as the failure of world leaders in taking meaningful action on climate change.", "Sir Rod Stewart has become the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK.\n\nThe British singer's 10th chart topper You're In My Heart was released on 22 November.\n\nBut it rose to the top spot this week in a close race - with a difference of just 750 in sales between Sir Rod, Robbie Williams and The Who.\n\nSir Rod, who is 74 years and 11 months old, has taken the accolade from American singer Paul Simon.\n\nHe beat Simon by three months, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nBut Sir Rod has a way to go to beat the oldest female to top the album charts. Dame Vera Lynn scored a number one in 2014 when she was 97 with the collection Vera Lynn: National Treasure.\n\nSir Rod said: \"A new government and a new number one for Sir Rod. Thank you once again to my legions of fans who I will never take for granted.\n\n\"Bless you all and a Merry Christmas. Well done Robbie, well done Boris, no hard feelings Pete Townshend!\"\n\nSir Rod's latest release is an orchestral album which features new versions of some of his classic tracks, including Sailing and I Don't Want to Talk About It.\n\nProduced with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the re-imagining of his greatest hits knocked Williams's The Christmas Present out of the top spot to number two.\n\nThe Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend were in line to top the charts at the halfway point this week, but their new album Who ended up at number three.\n\nAt number four was Michael Ball and Alfie Boe's album Back Together, with Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent at number five.\n\nMeanwhile, Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I secured another record as Dance Monkey topped the singles chart for an 11th consecutive week, making it the longest-running number one single by a female artist in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Dennis Skinner was known as the Beast of Bolsover\n\nVeteran Labour politician Dennis Skinner, 87, has lost the seat he had held since 1970 after being defeated by Conservative Mark Fletcher. Why did 2019 prove to be an election too far for the so-called Beast of Bolsover?\n\nDennis Skinner was not present at the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, having recently undergone hip surgery.\n\nHis absence held a sad irony, given that he has been very much an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades.\n\nLike him or loathe him, his memorable public image - the famous finger, the voice raised above the Commons cacophony - struck a chord with many.\n\nDennis Skinner famously used his fearsome forefinger to hammer home his points\n\nHe supported the miners through the strike and beyond, fought for their pensions rights and was suspended from the House of Commons numerous times for what was deemed \"unparliamentary language\".\n\nHis humorous heckles at the State Opening of Parliament became one of the endearing features of Commons life, where he became well-known for expressing his republican beliefs by heckling during the Queen's Speech ceremony.\n\nHis quips included \"Tell her to pay her tax\" in 1992 and \"Have you got Helen Mirren on standby?\" following the release of the film The Queen.\n\nFor decades Dennis Skinner (l), seen marching on Parliament with miners' president Arthur Scargill, represented Bolsover, a former industrial area\n\nWithin his Bolsover constituency Mr Skinner was, for many years, seen as part of the landscape.\n\nThe area includes many former pit communities which have struggled since the closure of the mines, with many blaming the situation on former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nFor decades voters trusted Mr Skinner - himself a miner's son who worked down a pit - with representing their views.\n\nMother-of-six Mandy McKenna said it \"hurt\" to vote Conservative but she had \"no faith\" in Labour's leadership\n\nLifelong Bolsover resident and mother-of-six Mandy McKenna, 36, said people stopped trusting in Labour.\n\n\"Voting for Labour felt like a wasted vote,\" she said. \"I voted for the Conservatives. It hurt - I didn't want to - but I felt I should vote for someone.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"surprised\" Mr Skinner lost his seat but added: \"No-one round here has any faith in Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\n\"It's the things he's done in the past, like the IRA stuff,\" she said. \"If Labour got a new leader, people would be a lot happier.\n\n\"I think people voted more tactically than from actually wanting to vote for the Conservatives. My family have voted Labour all my life.\"\n\nMalcolm Tomlinson says he could not vote for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nFormer miner Malcolm Tomlinson, 75, who took part in two strikes, said he voted Conservative and was happy with the result.\n\n\"I've voted Labour all my life but I just didn't like Corbyn or his cronies. It's nothing to do with Brexit, although we did vote leave. If Labour had a decent leader I wouldn't have changed.\n\n\"Bolsover hasn't had much money spent on it. I never see Dennis Skinner around.\"\n\nHe described the Labour party as \"crippled\" by the result.\n\n\"All that red gone - all those die-hard Labour voters changed sides. It's sad.\"\n\nNicky Cann, 29, who works in a pub said he also felt a sense of sadness.\n\n\"I'm gutted,\" he said. \"Not about Labour losing but about Dennis Skinner. He was a good MP.\n\n\"I knew the Conservatives would win but didn't think it'd be here.\"\n\nRosalie Welton, (right) pictured with her friend Wendy O'Brien, said she \"felt like a traitor\" for not supporting Labour\n\nRosalie Welton, 75, a retired hospital worker, said she voted for the independent candidate.\n\n\"Corbyn has smashed Labour,\" she said. \"I've voted for them for 50 years but they're nothing like what I used to vote for now.\n\n\"I felt like a traitor, I really did. But I was not going to vote for him - he wanted another referendum when we've already had one.\"\n\nKaren Hepworth, 62, who runs a crafts stall in Bolsover, would not say how she had voted but blamed Jeremy Corbyn for the result.\n\n\"Everyone says the same thing: they don't like him and they're fed up with Brexit.\n\n\"We have absolutely nothing - it's disgraceful.\n\n\"If we lived down south, we'd not have this problem but they don't spend money here.\"\n\nKaren Hepworth says the area has been neglected\n\nThe perception that the constituency had been neglected - particularly in the town of Shirebrook, the home of Mike Ashley's Sports Direct headquarters - rang true with many voters.\n\nTroy Kissane, a plumber from Shirebrook, would not reveal how he voted but said Mr Skinner had, \"had his time\".\n\n\"He's way too old,\" he said. \"This area has been solid Labour for years and years but that's all changed round since the Brexit vote.\n\n\"Shirebrook has had a huge amount of immigration to deal with and it's had a massive effect on things like doctors' surgeries.\n\nBut at the miners' welfare charity in Shirebrook, the post-election mood was one of disbelief and deflation.\n\nFormer miner Alan Gascoyne, now the charity secretary, said: \"We're all in here slitting our wrists.\n\n\"Most of us would rather chop our hands off than put a cross in a box for a Tory. We never thought we would see this day.\"\n\nAlan Gascoyne says he has had a \"few arguments\" with former miners who have voted Conservative in this election\n\nAnd yet, Mr Gascoyne admits he does know some former miners who have voted Conservative.\n\n\"I've had a few arguments with people,\" he said. \"Basically, there are two things that keep getting mentioned. The Labour party is seen as having stalled Brexit. When Theresa May got that deal, we should have supported it and got out.\n\n\"I suspect that, even though Dennis Skinner voted for Brexit, he has been tarred with that brush.\n\n\"And the other thing is Jeremy Corbyn. People don't like him. It feels as if the Labour leadership are London-based and have forgotten about these solid Labour areas. And people think, 'Well, we'll show them'.\"\n\nCertainly, Mr Skinner's Conservative successor Mark Fletcher, who took 47% of the vote, as the chart above shows, is conscious that he has big boots to fill.\n\nIn an emotional tribute to the veteran, Mr Fletcher said: \"Dennis Skinner has served this seat with tremendous distinction. He has been a wonderful constituency MP and he has inspired millions of people.\n\n\"I'm very sad he can't be here, because I haven't found a street that I've walked up and down in this constituency where Dennis hasn't helped somebody.\n\n\"Dennis, if you're watching, I want you to know the love and affection of the people of Bolsover is very much still with you.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None General election 2019: What questions do you have?", "From the Conservative Party winning a big majority by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands, to Jo Swinson losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nHere are the key highlights from the 2019 general election results day.", "A Finnish minister has apologised for an Instagram post which asked readers whether children should be repatriated with their mothers from a Syrian camp housing Islamic State-linked people.\n\nNewly appointed Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni tweeted \"I apologise for the poll\". And she has now deleted it.\n\nThe poll, which asked people to vote either \"children only\" or \"children and mothers\", drew much criticism.\n\nAbout 10 women and 30 children at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp are Finnish.\n\nSeveral Western governments have already repatriated some children from al-Hol and other camps in northern Syria holding foreigners linked to IS. Generally they are the families of IS jihadists killed, wounded or missing in the civil war.\n\nBut politicians are struggling over the issue: most recognise that young children are victims of war, but there are fears that many mothers are indoctrinated with violent jihadist ideology.\n\nThe nationalist Finns Party - in opposition, but the second-biggest party in parliament - opposes such repatriations.\n\nDisplaced families linked to IS live in squalid conditions at al-Hol camp\n\nMs Kulmuni, 32, said: \"I wanted to discuss this complex and difficult issue on social media. It failed and I apologise for it.\"\n\nShe heads the Centre Party in a new coalition government led by women, which took office this week.\n\nThe Instagram post was tweeted by Helsinki-based Egan Richardson on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Egan Richardson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFinland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said children cannot be repatriated without their mothers because the Syrian Kurdish forces running the camps oppose separating them.\n\nFinland's interior ministry says 20 people who went to the conflict zones in Iraq and Syria from Finland have returned.\n\n\"It is estimated that ten Finnish adults and about 30 children are currently living in the al-Hol camp,\" a ministry statement said.\n\nThe Finnish government says it is trying to supply food and medicines to the Finnish citizens there, but is not actively helping any of them to return.\n\nThe new government - a five-party, centre-left coalition - is led by the world's youngest prime minister: Sanna Marin, 34. MPs will question the government on the al-Hol issue on Tuesday.\n\n\"Seriously, #Finland?\" he tweeted. \"This is awful, if true. A state should respect the rights of its citizens in all cases... What's next, public hangings based on the volume of stadium cheers?\"", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "Nicola Sturgeon maintained throughout the election campaign that she did not want to see Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street as prime minister.\n\nBut the SNP leader knows that a majority Tory government in Westminster, while Scotland voted very differently, is the result most likely to advance her greatest ambition - independence for Scotland.\n\nThe party which dominates Scotland is now set on a constitutional collision course with the UK government.\n\nThe SNP's strongest argument is that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.\n\nAnd that's been vividly demonstrated as England embraces the Tories whilst they have lost votes and lost seats north of the border.\n\nThe UK will now move on to leaving the EU at the same time as the two parties who campaigned to stop Brexit, the SNP and the Lib Dems, increased their vote share in Scotland.\n\nThe SNP took a gamble by making their demand for a second independence referendum central to their campaign. That's a policy that can enthuse their voters, but runs the risk of galvanizing people who don't want to leave the UK to turn out and vote against the SNP.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives campaigned on a slogan of \"Tell her again, say no to indyref2\".\n\nBut that's not what happened. The Tories lost seven of their 13 Scottish seats and the SNP won 13. They now hold 48 of 59 MPs in Scotland, with one sitting as an independent.\n\nBoris Johnson will refuse to grant the legal power to hold an independence vote\n\nThis result cannot be interpreted as an outright demand for Scottish independence. But the SNP will vigorously argue that it does mean Scotland must be allowed to make a choice about its future - inside or outside the UK.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.", "The women were injured on Atherton Road, Wigan\n\nTwo women have been stabbed in Wigan, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene at Atherton Road, Hindley at about 10:35 GMT.\n\nThe women, believed to be in their 20s, were taken to hospital where one is being treated for serious injuries. The other woman was discharged after receiving minor injuries.\n\nA police spokesman said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This election has set the bar for unpredictable results, even by recent standards in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2017, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin ended up with all but one of the 18 Westminster seats allocated to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis time they have both suffered some bruising defeats.\n\nOut of all the Northern Ireland parties the DUP had the most to lose.\n\nAfter the last general election, it found itself to be a kingmaker, securing 10 seats and holding the balance of power in a hung Parliament.\n\nBut as the exit poll declared Boris Johnson was on course for a big majority, some DUP faces already looked downbeat.\n\nWhat followed was to be a bruising night for the unionist party, dropping from three seats in Belfast to just one.\n\nIt had already been facing a tough fight to retain its South Belfast seat but the effect of losing Nigel Dodds, the party's deputy leader, in North Belfast, is much more significant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Pan-nationalist front has come to fruition again'\n\nHe had held the seat since 2001 and was regarded as the DUP's most experienced and savvy operator in the House of Commons.\n\nIt had been expected to be a close fight but in the end Mr Dodds lost by 1,943 votes to John Finucane of Sinn Féin.\n\nIt is worth remembering the nationalist parties had agreed a pro-Remain electoral pact in North Belfast - the SDLP for the first time agreed not to stand a candidate.\n\nIt appears to have benefited both parties with the decision in return paying off for the SDLP in South Belfast, where Sinn Féin agreed not to stand in order to maximise the pro-Remain vote to unseat Emma Little-Pengelly of the DUP.\n\nThat pact did not apply in Foyle, however, where SDLP leader Colum Eastwood unseated Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion and she saw a huge decrease in her vote - that will be a bitter pill to swallow.\n\nElisha McCallion congratulated Colum Eastwood, who took her seat in Foyle\n\nMr Eastwood had argued that in order to effect change MPs need to take their seats - an argument against abstentionism that voters in Foyle clearly backed.\n\nGiven the SDLP lost all three of its Westminster seats in 2017, winning back South Belfast and Foyle - both with massive majorities - makes them the comeback kids of this election.\n\nIt was the only party not to stand aside in any constituency as part of an electoral pact, a decision it argues has paid off with its vote up across the board.\n\nThere were shockwaves when it first emerged in North Down that the Alliance Party's Stephen Farry was on course to take the seat vacated by independent unionist Lady Hermon.\n\nStephen Farry beat the DUP's Alex Easton to take the seat in North Down\n\nMany commentators had predicted the DUP's Alex Easton, who came a close second in 2017, would secure it.\n\nFew bet that the Alliance surge witnessed in the council and European elections - which use a different voting system than first-past-the-post - would translate to a seat for the party on the green benches.\n\nNot only did he win the seat but the party's deputy leader took an even bigger vote than Lady Hermon did two years ago.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken, having only taken over a month ago, is already in a tough spot and faces some difficult choices going forward.\n\nHe ended up in third in the race for East Antrim, miles behind the DUP and the Alliance Party.\n\nHe may also come to regret standing aside for the DUP in North Belfast - when he had originally intended to run candidates in all 18 constituencies but bowed to pressure from within unionism and faced threats from loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nSome voters may have used their ballot to punish Northern Ireland's big two parties\n\nFor the first time, unionism no longer has a majority at Westminster or Stormont - a statistic many would have believed unthinkable just a few years ago.\n\nAnd what about the national picture - what does that mean for Northern Ireland?\n\nIt looks like Boris Johnson will be able to press ahead with his Brexit deal through Parliament in spite of opposition from the DUP - the party's influence is gone and its concerns about the withdrawal agreement will probably fall on deaf ears.\n\nIt was noticeable that the DUP MPs who did retain their seats used their victory speeches to urge the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAfter the last general election the DUP and Sinn Féin were riding respective waves of success at Westminster and felt no need to go back to Stormont.\n\nTwo and a half years on, with devolution still not back in place, perhaps some voters used their ballot to punish the big two parties this time.\n\nAnother round of talks is due to begin on 16 December aimed at kick-starting Stormont.\n\nIf it fails the government has insisted a new Northern Ireland Assembly election will be called.\n\nGiven the latest results the DUP and Sinn Féin might not be keen on facing the wrath of some voters at the ballot box again so soon.\n\nAnd anyway, indications during the campaign pointed to the two parties already moving towards some kind of compromise.\n\nThe question now is what exactly that compromise will entail and just how soon they will reach it.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner be announced\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher, who was only drafted into Strictly Come Dancing as a last-minute replacement, has been voted this year's winner.\n\nKelvin and professional partner Oti Mabuse lifted this year's glitterball trophy on BBC One on Saturday.\n\nThey triumphed over Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden; and Emma Barton and Anton Du Beke, after topping a public vote.\n\nKelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nThe couples performed three dances in Saturday's final - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Oti came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe final saw all the contestants of the series reunite for one last dance\n\nSome fans complained they were unable to vote online, with many saying they were being told they had reached their \"maximum number of votes allowed\" despite not having yet cast a vote.\n\nThe BBC reminded people having difficulties that they could vote by phone.\n\nKelvin was only called up after Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing injured his foot while recording the launch show - and the fellow TV star tweeted his congratulations:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Laing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKelvin, who broke down in tears after his victory, said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he said he was \"humbled, elated, honoured\", adding: \"Team #Floti did it!\"\n\nKelvin and Oti began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\" and Oti's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nThe Strictly win will give a huge boost to Kelvin, three years after he left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades.\n\nIt is also the first time Oti has lifted the trophy. Speaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit - and were the only pair to get a perfect score for their first dance.\n\nTheir showdance to A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman landed them 39 points and they scored a second perfect 40 for their jive to You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray.\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie, which they first performed on musicals' week.\n\nTonioli told Emma, who is best-known for playing Honey Mitchell in BBC show EastEnders, that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\".\n\nBut the pair missed out on a perfect score by one point after judge Craig Revel Horwood pulled them up on a \"sync issue\".\n\nTheir showdance to Let Yourself Go by Irving Berlin won them 38 points and their final dance - the Viennese waltz to the musical song Send In The Clowns - netted them 39.\n\nAfter their final performance, Emma praised her dance partner, saying: \"Anton, the king of ballroom, thank you for allowing me to be your Queen for the last three months.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore said lots of fans thought \"this was Anton's moment\" to lift the glitterball \"but it wasn't to be\".\n\nCommenting on newspaper reports that he might quit the show, she said: \"He's going to have to call it at some point - there's no getting round it, he is much older than the other dancers. But I wouldn't be surprised if he carries on for a bit.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Sports Personality\n\nMarathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been voted BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.\n\nKipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in October.\n\nThe Kenyan, 35, completed 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.\n\nSix months before his feat, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a fourth time.\n\nKipchoge, who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, broke his own London Marathon record - set in 2016 - by 28 seconds.\n\nTopping an online public vote, the legendary marathon runner beat off competition from American gymnast Simone Biles, South Africa's Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi, Australian cricketer Steve Smith, American golfer Tiger Woods and USA footballer Megan Rapinoe, who co-led her team to World Cup victory again this summer.\n\nLast year's winner was Italian golfer Francesco Molinari, who won the 2018 Open Championship and all five of his Ryder Cup matches at the event in Paris.\n• None How to cast your Sports Personality vote online", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nA teenager has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over the death of PC Andrew Harper.\n\nThe 28-year-old officer was killed on the A4 Bath Road in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, as he attended a reported break-in on 15 August.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, also denied a charge of conspiracy to steal, via video-link at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 17-year-old, Henry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and another 17-year-old boy, are charged with murder, an alternative of manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal\n\nMr Long and the second boy will appear at a further plea hearing on 7 January.\n\nKing, from Basingstoke, was granted bail until his sentencing at the conclusion of the trial of the other defendants, which is scheduled to start on March 9.\n\nPC Harper, from from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, died after being dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the Thames Valley Police officer, who got married four weeks earlier, died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aiello, photographed in 2004, also had a singing career\n\nVeteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles in the movies Do The Right Thing and The Godfather Part II, has died aged 86.\n\nHe also played Madonna's father in the 1986 video for Papa Don't Preach.\n\nHis family said with \"profound sorrow\" in a statement that he died after a short illness.\n\nA veteran of stage and film, Aiello was best known for playing the pizza parlour owner Sal in Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing.\n\nThe role earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. He also played the hesitant fiancé of Cher's character, Loretta, in Moonstruck in 1987.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with profound sorrow to report that Danny Aiello, beloved husband, father, grandfather, actor and musician passed away last night after a brief illness,\" the family said, in a statement to the BBC from his literary agent Jennifer De Chiara.\n\n\"The family asks for privacy at this time. Service arrangements will be announced at a later date.\"\n\nFilm maker Kevin Smith paid tribute to Aiello for his role in Do the Right Thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn The Godfather Part II, Aiello had a relatively small part as small-time gangster Tony Rosato but he made the role his own by uttering the famous line, \"Michael Corleone says hello!\" during a raid on gang rival Frank Pentangel.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Madonna This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAiello's big acting break came in the early 1970s in the baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro.\n\nHis other credits include Fort Apache the Bronx, Once Upon a Time in America, again with Robert de Niro, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Hudson Hawk.\n\nFull Metal Jacket actor Matthew Modine paid tribute to his \"love, wisdom, talents and grace\", while Mia Farrow said he was a \"lovely person\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Matthew Modine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Mia Farrow This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAiello also had a stage career on Broadway, appearing in shows including Gemini, The Floating Light Bulb, Hurlyburly, and The House of Blue Leaves and Wheelbarrown's Close.\n\nIn July 2011, he appeared Off Broadway in the two-act drama The Shoemaker, written by Susan Charlotte and directed by Antony Marsellis.\n\nAs well as acting, Aiello had a singing career, he released several big-band style albums including Live from Atlantic City in 2008.\n\nIn 1990 he told People magazine: \"You know, I've only been in this business 17 years.\n\n\"For actors, that's no time at all. Everything is happening so damn fast. It's like a beautiful dream that never seems to end.\"\n\nAiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan.\n\nAt the age of 16, he lied about his age to enlist in the US Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself and later his family.\n\nWith limited education and few skills, Aiello jumped at the chance offered by his wife's uncle to become a baggage clerk for Greyhound.\n\nLater however he worked as a bouncer in a string of tough after-hours clubs in Queens and Manhattan.\n\nTo support his wife and four children, he would take any odd job going.\n\nSo for Aiello, the theatre was pretty much a shot in the dark gamble - one which paid off.\n\nDirectors began to respond to the Aiello's raw intensity and when Robert De Niro turned down the role of Sal in Lee's film, he was recommended to take his place.\n\nThe roles continued to come his way. He had bit parts in feature films and won an Emmy in 1980 for the TV show A Family of Strangers.\n\nLater Woody Allen offered him the role in Purple Rose of Cairo, and then he was asked to be in Madonna's video, followed by stage success as a drug-taking TV actor in Hurlyburly.\n\nAfter Do the Right Thing, Aiello worked in the TV movie The Preppie Murder, then took some time out for his family.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he was still one of the highest-paid character actors in Hollywood, commanding at least $750,000 a film, he told People magazine.\n\nHe went on to do the films Once Around with Holly Hunter and Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis, and he also made a Broadway appearance with Harvey Keitel in Those the River Keeps.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Sandy Cohen, and their three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Haggling could save households £120 a year on broadband, but 45% of customers have not asked their current provider for a better deal, according to Which?\n\nThe consumer group found that 78% of people who negotiated were offered an incentive, discount or a better deal.\n\nMore than 5,000 customers were asked by Which? whether they had haggled for a new deal or switched in the past year, and if so, how much they had saved.\n\nA total of 52% found haggling easy and 27% said it was difficult.\n\nWhile 45% of those asked said they had never contacted their current provider to ask for a better deal, 38% had never switched provider and 24% had not switched for more than three years.\n\nOf the customers who said they have not recently negotiated with their provider, 51% said they were paying the same as when they first signed up.\n\nTwo-fifths who had not attempted to haggle with their provider said it was because they were happy with the current price they were paying.\n\nWhile 71% of those who switched provider said the process was easy, 27% experienced time without an internet connection during the move.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, Which? head of home products and services, said: \"Many of us obediently pay our bills throughout the year without ever giving it a second thought, but just one phone call or online chat could save you £120 this Christmas.\n\n\"There are bigger savings to be had for those willing to switch to a new provider, but even if you are happy where you are, don't be afraid to ask for a discount - it could make all the difference.\"\n\nFor most customers, switching is straightforward, Which? said, as most customers need only contact the provider they are moving to.\n\nThis provider-led switching is in place for all the providers using the Openreach network, including BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen Internet.\n\nCustomers switching to or from a separate network need to go through the cease and re-provide process, which involves asking the previous provider to switch the old connection off and the customer having to co-ordinate the move to the new provider themselves.\n\nRegulator Ofcom is due to consult on changes to the switching process next year, which could make the process easier.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has said he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election win will bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, he said he would seek to repay the trust placed in him by Labour supporters who had voted Conservative for the first time.\n\nHe said he would not ignore those who opposed Brexit as he builds with Europe a partnership \"of sovereign equals\".\n\nThe Tories have won a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP has two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson thanked lifelong Labour supporters who deserted Jeremy Corbyn's party and turned to the Conservatives, saying he would fulfil his pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\n\"I say thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a Parliament that works for you\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier accepted the Queen's invitation to form a government, also addressed those who did not vote for the Conservatives and still want to remain in the EU.\n\n\"We in this One Nation Conservative government will never ignore your good and positive feelings of warmth and sympathy towards the other nations of Europe,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands - more public spending, for example, after years of austerity, the BBC's political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nHe added that there is no strict definition of one nation conservatism, \"but broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nWhen they return to Westminster next week, MPs are due to begin the process of considering legislation paving the way for the UK to leave on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Johnson said the UK \"deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics and a permanent break from talking about Brexit\". \"I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin.\"\n\nHe said he would use his new-found parliamentary authority to bring the country together and \"level up\" opportunities, while he said he recognised that the NHS remained the \"overwhelming priority\" of the British people.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the PM's appeal for unity marked a striking change in tone to when he first became prime minister in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says he will not \"walk away\" from his responsibilities\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will not fight another election as Labour leader and that he expects to stand down \"early next year\" when a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nBut he insisted he had done all he could, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nSenior Labour figures have sought to defend the party's strategy, arguing that many of its policies were popular but that Brexit had crowded out all other issues for many voters.\n\nWes Streeting, the newly elected MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far left\" manifesto had jarred with the electorate and blaming Brexit was an attempt to \"kneecap\" credible centrist candidates such as Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nAfter the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory, which saw the party win 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nHowever, the prime minister later spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had told her he \"remained opposed\" to a second vote.\n\nMr Johnson was also said to have insisted that the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\" after \"reiterating his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "Sheila Mercier was part of the first ever episode of Emmerdale Farm\n\nThe Hull-born star played Annie Sugden in the soap from its first episode in 1972 until 1994 and continued to make guest appearances up until 2009.\n\nThe British Soap Awards remembered Mercier - who was the sister of actor Brian Rix - as the \"very definition of a matriarch\".\n\nClaire King, who plays Kim Tate in Emmerdale, has described Mercier as the soap's \"beating heart\".\n\nA spokeswoman for ITV confirmed Mercier's death in a statement on Friday night.\n\nShe said: \"It's always sad to hear of the death of an actor who played a significant part in Emmerdale's success.\n\n\"Even more so when that actor was in the very first episode and around whose family the show was built.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Claire King This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharnock, who plays Marlon Dingle, said: \"The great Sheila Mercier has left us. What an iconic character Annie Sugden was.\n\n\"Used to watch it with my grandparents as a boy, so to meet her in later years was a thrill.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson has \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum after an \"overwhelming\" SNP election victory.\n\nScotland's first minister said the result \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate for Indyref2.\n\nDuring the campaign, the prime minister said he would reject any request to hold an independence referendum.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was \"the right of the people of Scotland\".\n\nIn a speech in Edinburgh on Friday, she told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way.\n\n\"The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nThe SNP leader said it was time for Mr Johnson \"to start listening\" to voters in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"I accept, regretfully, that he has a mandate for Brexit in England - but he has no mandate whatsoever to take Scotland out of the EU.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will next week publish a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum, said Ms Sturgeon.\n\nHowever, interim Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"We are not going to support a request for a second independence referendum and I don't believe the prime minister will either.\n\n\"We are going to stand by the people who voted for us last night and the two million people who voted no in 2014.\"\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats in Scotland in Thursday's election after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election, when the party won 35 seats. One of those MPs, Neale Hanvey, will sit as an independent.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson will step down after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader after his party suffered a heavy defeat.\n\nAcross the UK, the Conservatives secured their biggest majority since the 1980s in what Mr Johnson described as a \"historic\" election victory.\n\nHowever, the party's vote fell by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland. The Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%, while the Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she will ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a second referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a Section 30 order - as happened in 2014.\n\nNext Thursday MSPs will vote on the final stage of legislation which sets out a framework for any future referendums to be held in Scotland.\n\nThe pro-UK parties oppose the Referendums Bill but it is set to pass with SNP and Green backing.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "A bushfire outside the Perth Stadium as a heatwave hits Western Australia\n\nAustralia could experience its hottest day on record next week as a severe heatwave in the country's west is set to make its way east, forecasters say.\n\nTemperatures are likely to exceed 40C in many areas from Wednesday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says.\n\nThe current record of 50.7C was set on 2 January 1960 in the outback town of Oodnadatta in South Australia.\n\nFire weather warnings have been issued for parts of Western Australia and Queensland.\n\nIn Perth, in Western Australia, temperatures are forecast to remain high on the weekend, reaching 40C on Saturday and 41C on Sunday.\n\nNext week, the extreme heat is likely to continue in parts of Western Australia and also affect much of South Australia, where Adelaide should see highs of 40C on Tuesday and Wednesday, 41C on Thursday and 42C on Friday.\n\nIn Melbourne, in Victoria state, the temperature is forecast to hit 41C on Friday. The heatwave is also expected to affect areas of New South Wales and southern parts of the Northern Territory.\n\n\"We're expecting some incredibly warm conditions as we head into next week, potentially record-breaking for a number of areas across southern Australia over the next seven days or so,\" BOM meteorologist Diana Eadie was quoted by ABC as saying.\n\n\"It is not out of the realms of possibility that we could break our highest ever recorded temperature.\"\n\nThe country, she added, could also see its highest average temperature record - when all of the maximum temperatures recorded on any given day are combined - broken next week. That record is 40.3C from 7 January 2013.\n\nMeanwhile, the BOM says a fire weather warning has been issued for:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Australia bushfires are now 'hotter and more intense'", "Labour's Donald Dewar was the inaugural Scottish first minister\n\nThe issue of mandates has a venerable pedigree in Scottish politics. Venerable, but not always clear and sharp.\n\nDuring a previous period of Scottish Labour frustration, the late Donald Dewar briefly flirted with the suggestion that the Tories had no mandate to govern Scotland, given their relative lack of MPs north of the border.\n\nIt swiftly occurred to the astute Mr Dewar that this was not an argument which sat at all easily with a Unionist perspective. It was duly dumped in favour of another more straightforward push for devolved self-government.\n\nAt the core of the Dewar dilemma there was a philosophical and psephological problem.\n\nBy challenging the Tory mandate, he was positing an argument based upon the presumption that Scottish voting held unique and unchallenged sway.\n\nNicola Sturgeon prespares to address the media after the SNP's impressive general election performance\n\nA supporter of the Union will always argue - must always argue - that the Scottish perspective sits within and alongside the concerns of that wider UK electorate.\n\nThat fundamental argument is now back. In truth, it never went away. Nicola Sturgeon says she has a mandate to hold a further referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nShe says that mandate arises from a Holyrood vote, following her party's return to devolved power on a manifesto in a Scottish election which reserved the right to revisit the independence plebiscite if Scotland were to be taken out of the EU against the will of her people.\n\nOvernight, she enhanced that argument somewhat. She said she now had to accept, with regret, that Boris Johnson had a mandate to take England out of the EU.\n\nThat mandate, she insisted, did not extend to Scotland. Indeed, by contrast, her party's stunning victory north of the border argued the exact contrary.\n\nNow, from her perspective, this is all entirely understandable. She posits a Scottish voting bloc. She takes her instructions - strictly, her mandate - solely from that Scottish bloc.\n\nJackson Carlaw said he would support a no-deal Brexit\n\nThis is, of course, fundamental for the leader of her party. The clue lies in the name.\n\nBut, as Ms Sturgeon knows very well, no Unionist can accept such a mandate, at least not without qualifying it in the context of that Union.\n\nSo Tories - and others who support the Union - will say that Scotland voted, in 2014, to remain within the United Kingdom - and that the UK as a whole has just elected a Conservative government, with an instruction, a mandate, to get the UK out of the EU. Entire, as a whole.\n\nAgain, as Ms Sturgeon well understands, this fundamental division cannot be elided. It cannot be wished away.\n\nAnd it now exists formally again. The returned prime minister has yet to say much, if anything, about Scotland, while basking in his UK victory.\n\nBut Jackson Carlaw, the interim Scots Tory leader, has said plenty. He insists that the Tories have been instructed to stand firm in defence of said Union. And they will do so, rejecting Ms Sturgeon's pressure for indyref2.\n\nMs Sturgeon will continue to insist upon her mandate, challenging her rivals to stand down, to give way. The Tories will continue to insist upon their UK mandate.\n\nThat way lies political stasis, at least in the short term. Ms Sturgeon wants a legally sanctioned referendum, not an unofficial ballot.\n\nGiven that, it is difficult to see what precise actions lie available to her. I think a law suit is improbable. The law is clear. The power to call a constitutional referendum rests with Westminster in the Scotland Act.\n\nSo perhaps, instead of mandate, we should consider momentum. Political muscle.\n\nMs Sturgeon's clout has palpably strengthened. She won more seats, more votes. She has evident momentum.\n\nConsider the alternative. Had she lost votes and seats, the air would have been rich with supporters of the Union claiming that the case for indyref2 had gone backwards.\n\nIt has plainly gone forwards. If the Tories continue to resist, as they say they will, then this will, at the very minimum, be a core question at the next Holyrood elections in 2021.\n\nWhich is scarcely good news for other parties in Scotland as it will tend to polarise Scottish opinion still more sharply between the SNP and the Tories.\n\nRichard Leonard and Jeremy Corbyn during Labour's Scottish conference in March\n\nLabour, for example, has suffered a catastrophic result in Scotland, partly through a failure of leadership, but partly through vacillation on the two big issues of Brexit and independence.\n\nAs Kezia Dugdale said on the excellent BBC Scotland election results show (whaddya mean, you weren't watching?), if you stand in the middle of the road, you tend to get knocked down.\n\nThere will now be a period of soul-searching within Labour. The self-styled People's Party failed to persuade anything like enough people to support it.\n\nBy soul-searching, I mean an almighty rammy. But a rammy with nuance. Mr Corbyn is going, perhaps with a gentle push to ensure he moves over sooner.\n\nBut what of Richard Leonard? He has his critics - who say the party organisation in Scotland was lamentable, the seat targeting implausible and the message incoherent.\n\nBut, for now, those critics seem disinclined to move for Mr Leonard's replacement. The thought seems to be that they want the Left to \"own\" defeat, just as the Left were keen to trumpet the failure of other, earlier leaders.\n\nThen there will be an endeavour at reform, including clarifying the party's stance on constitutional issues.\n\nSome, like Lesley Laird on that same excellent programme, will lament that. They say these constitutional issues are a distraction.\n\nAs I noted on the same… (OK, enough plugs), that sounded to me exactly like the Tories. Devolution never mentioned on the doorsteps No appetite. They kept that refrain going up to the moment when they lost every Scottish Westminster seat in 1997.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats. A sigh of relief at holding on to three seats. A whoop of delight at taking North East Fife. And a yell of despair at Jo Swinson's defeat.\n\nBut they are still there. Still in play. In a game, which just changed the rules again.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have distanced the club from midfielder Mesut Ozil's comments on the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.\n\nRights groups say about a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial in high-security prison camps.\n\nChina says they are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" to combat violent religious extremism.\n\n\"Arsenal is always apolitical as an organisation,\" the London club said.\n\n\"Following social media messages from Mesut Ozil on Friday, Arsenal Football Club must make it clear that these are Mesut's personal views.\"\n\nThe Gunners' statement was published on Chinese social media site Weibo.\n\nIn his post Ozil, who is a Muslim, called Uighurs \"warriors who resist persecution\" and criticised both China and the silence of Muslims in response.\n\nChina has consistently denied mistreating Uighur Muslims in the country.\n\nArsenal's statement received thousands of comments, many were critical or suggested it was not good enough. One commenter wrote \"that's it?\", while another responded with a picture of an Ozil shirt they had cut up.\n\nSome users also wrote posts with the hashtags \"#Protesting against Ozil\" and \"#Ozil made inappropriate comments about China\".\n\nIn October, the US National Basketball Association suffered financial losses after an online comment from a team executive prompted a crisis in its relations with China.\n\nHouston Rockets' manager Daryl Morey had tweeted support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.", "Omar al-Bashir sat in a cage as he was sentenced for corruption\n\nSudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a social reform facility for corruption.\n\nThe judge told the court that, under Sudanese law, people over the age of 70 cannot serve jail terms. Bashir is 75.\n\nBashir also faces charges related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power, genocide, and the killing of protesters before his ousting in April.\n\nDuring the sentencing, his supporters started chanting that the trial was \"political\" and were ordered to leave.\n\nThey continued their protest outside the court, chanting: \"There is no god but God.\"\n\nAfterwards one of the ousted leader's lawyers, Ahmed Ibrahim, said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nMohamed al-Hassan, another lawyer for Bashir, previously said that the defence did not consider the trial a legal one but a \"political\" one.\n\nIt is unclear whether Bashir will be tried over widespread human rights abuses during his time in power, including allegations of war crimes in Darfur.\n\nSupporters of Bashir chanted in protest outside the courtroom\n\nThe corruption case was linked to a $25 million (£19 million) cash payment he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nBashir claimed the payments were made as part of Sudan's strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and were \"not used for private interests but as donations\".\n\nNone of the active cases against Bashir in Sudan is linked to the charges he faces at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, over the conflict in Darfur that broke out in 2003.\n\nThe UN says that around 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million were displaced in the war.\n\nAfter Bashir was ousted in April, ICC prosecutors in The Hague requested that he stand trial over the Darfur killings.\n\nThe Sudanese army generals who seized power immediately after his fall initially refused to comply, but Sudan's umbrella protest movement - which now has significant representation in the country's sovereign council - recently said it would not object to his extradition.\n\nProsecutors in Sudan have also charged him with the killing of protesters during the demonstrations that led to him being ousted.", "A mother has been found guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.\n\nTyler Peck, 15, was found dead at his mother Holly Strawbridge's home the morning after a drugs binge, Plymouth Crown Court heard.\n\nStrawbridge, 34, of Salcombe, Devon, has also been found guilty of supplying Class-A drugs to another child under 16 and two counts of child cruelty.\n\nThe jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for six hours.\n\nTyler died from an overdose of morphine drug Oramorph and Gabapentin.\n\nHe was described in court as a \"bright, thoughtful and caring young man\" by social workers.\n\nTyler Peck was found dead at his mother's house in Salcombe, Devon\n\nThe judge has ordered pre-sentencing reports but said a prison sentence was inevitable.\n\nStrawbridge will be sentenced on 17 January and was granted bail so she could attend her mother's funeral.\n\nA boy who was with Tyler on the evening before he died told police Strawbridge had been putting Oramorph and other drugs into their drinks.\n\nThe court heard Strawbridge was \"drunk off her face\" on the night her son died.\n\nThere were separate claims by another witness that the defendant had been supplying Tyler with drugs for two years.\n\nHer home was known as a place to \"get hammered\", said another witness.\n\nTyler regularly took drugs and his mother encouraged him, even selling him Valium on one occasion, the court was told.\n\nAnother witness said she saw Strawbridge showing Tyler how to snort crushed-up pills.\n\nHe overdosed on Valium in January 2018 and was diagnosed with \"drugs psychosis\". After the overdose, Tyler was admitted to Torbay Hospital.\n\nHe told social workers he was \"scared\" about his future and wanted help, but after he was discharged Strawbridge \"dismissed\" offers of help, social services said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We have been true to ourselves\"\n\nJo Swinson has said she is \"proud\" to have been the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats as she prepares to step down as party leader.\n\nMs Swinson, who lost her seat to the SNP's Amy Callaghan, said she was \"devastated\" by the election result.\n\nAddressing supporters in London, she warned of a growing tide of populism and urged her party to \"regroup\". The Lib Dems dropped from 12 to 11 seats.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will take over as acting co-leaders.\n\n\"I'm proud to have been the first woman to have led the Liberal Democrats. I'm even more proud that I will not be the last.\n\n\"One of the realities of smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass comes down on your head\", she added.\n\nShe spoke of the experience of current Lib Dem spokeswomen Layla Moran, Christine Jardine, Wera Hobhouse and Sarah Olney, as well as welcoming the party's newly-elected female MPs.\n\nShe said she was \"proud\" that the Lib Dems advocated remaining in the EU, telling supporters: \"Obviously it hasn't worked. And I, like you, am devastated about that, but I don't regret trying.\"\n\nMs Swinson said the UK was in the \"grip of populism, with nationalism resurgent in all its forms\", but encouraged people to remain hopeful, adding there will be a \"way out of this nationalist surge\".\n\nDuring the last parliament, the Lib Dems welcomed MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nHowever, all three were defeated. Ms Swinson apologised for not being able to get them elected.\n\nShe criticised the leaders of both Labour and the Conservatives, saying voters were forced to choose the \"least worst option\".\n\nMs Swinson said that racism had become mainstream, criticising Labour's stance on anti-Semitism and accusing the Conservatives of \"failing on Islamophobia\".\n\nThe outgoing Lib Dem leader started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, but she lost her Dunbartonshire East when Ms Callaghan won 19,672 compared to her 19,523 votes.\n\nThe SNP leader reacting to the news of Ms Swinson's loss\n\nMs Sturgeon has since apologised for cheering while the election result was read out, telling Sky News she \"got overexcited\" at the performance of the SNP.\n\nMs Sturgeon has offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, saying she had a great deal of sympathy for her.\n\nIn her closing remarks, Ms Swinson said: \"Next week is the shortest day. We will see more light in the future. Join us for that journey. Let's explore the way together with hope in our hearts.\"", "EU leaders hope for more UK clarity on Brexit now after Boris Johnson's triumph\n\n\"Friday the 13th really has lived up to its hype,\" an EU diplomat texted me this morning. The same diplomat who mournfully noted as soon as the first exit polls were published: \"This means bye-bye to our British friends.\"\n\nThere was a heaviness of heart about Europe's leaders as they gathered in Brussels for the second day of an EU summit. They have never hidden their sadness at the UK vote to leave.\n\nBut at the same time there was a distinct sense of European relief. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte noted the election result meant \"on the British side they can speed up the process (of Brexit)\".\n\nThree years of Brexit uncertainty has been corrosive - not just in the UK, but in the EU too. It has overshadowed the workings of the bloc and been costly for European business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders' sigh of relief at a comfortable majority for Boris Johnson has nothing to do with their political affiliations and a lot to do with \"getting Brexit done\", as the prime minister has so loved to repeat on a loop.\n\nExcept that - as Brussels is all too aware - Mr Johnson's intention to ratify the Brexit divorce deal in parliament next month, legally ending the UK's EU membership, only means getting Phase One of Brexit done.\n\nPhase Two will see the arduous task of agreeing the future relationship between the two sides. Something Boris Johnson promised voters would be signed, sealed and delivered by this time next year.\n\nEU leaders were expected to call later on Friday for a broad, ambitious, comprehensive trade deal with post-Brexit UK. But I've not met anyone in EU circles who believes that that will be possible by December 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson won the biggest Conservative majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher\n\nThe hope in Europe is that Boris Johnson's strong majority in parliament will allow him room to manoeuvre.\n\nHe will no longer be beholden to any particular faction of his party, including hardline Brexiteers, so fingers are crossed in Brussels that Mr Johnson will use that political freedom to work towards a softer Brexit - a closer relationship with the EU - carefully negotiated over time, rather than in haste over the next few months.\n\nBut the truth is no-one knows if that might be an attractive prospect for the prime minister. \"Which Boris Johnson is Europe going to get?\" asks one prominent headline in Germany's Die Welt newspaper.\n\nWhichever direction the new UK government chooses, EU leaders' main message today will be \"We are ready\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson sticks to his December 2020 timetable, the EU is preparing to offer him a bare-bones Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It says that is the most both sides could aspire to in a matter of a few months.\n\nBut plain sailing this is unlikely to be. Brussels plans to insist that in order to get that \"quick and dirty\" deal, the prime minister would have to sign up to EU conditions: alignment with EU environmental, state aid and tax regulations for example.\n\nOn Friday, European Council President Charles Michel reiterated that these so-called level playing field rules are an absolute priority for the EU.\n\nWould Boris Johnson be willing to countenance that?\n\nIf he did, voters could well ask him about the post-Brexit national sovereignty and taking back of control from the EU that he promised them.\n\nThere would also be the real risk of no deal being agreed at all. Meaning that after December 2020, the EU and UK would be trading under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, meaning eye-watering tariffs for both sides and no agreement in place on services (which make up 80% of the UK economy), or on security co-operation (which the EU dearly hopes for).\n\nWhen it comes to trade, as was the case during the divorce talks, EU leaders believe they hold most of the cards.\n\nThe UK market is important, of course, but it is less of a priority for Brussels than the sum total of their single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders will not want to break rules in trade negotiations with the UK that could lead to the untangling or devaluing of their single market, or set an unfavourable precedent for them in trade talks with other countries.\n\nThat said, the EU members, and Germany in particular, are anxious that UK-EU relations should not turn sour.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel is focused on the bigger picture. She too does not want to harm the single market - Germany is a huge beneficiary - but she is also keen not to alienate the UK.\n\nThe EU will be undeniably weaker after it loses one of its biggest and most influential members.\n\nWith an unpredictable Donald Trump in the White House, relations volatile with Russia and a growing EU wariness vis-a-vis an ambitious, autocratic China, Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders hope the UK will remain onside on the world stage, even after Brexit.", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "New MP James Grundy admitted he had expected \"to lose with dignity\".\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\". Now he's the local MP. Are his constituents as shocked as he is?\n\nIt's been Labour since 1922 and was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's constituency for 16 years, the man many preferred ahead of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.\n\nNumbering a lowly 132 on the Conservatives' list of targets, Leigh was one of the strongest bricks in the the so-called \"red wall\" of Labour safe seats.\n\nIt's fair to say no-one really predicted Leigh turning blue.\n\nHowever, Mr Grundy became the constituency's new MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nThere was little expectation of such a seismic switch, so trying to make sense of why the former mill town has turned Tory has been a puzzle for commentators - and even for Mr Grundy.\n\n\"I came here tonight expecting to lose with dignity, rather than head down to London tomorrow,\" he said. \"I suppose I'm going to have to think on my feet about what I'm going to do.\"\n\nYet, for most of the town's residents, the result was less of a surprise.\n\nDave West supported the Conservatives despite voting to remain in the EU\n\nGreengrocer Dave West voted Conservative, despite voting remain in the referendum and expecting his business costs to rise if Britain leaves the EU.\n\nHowever, he wants to see more local investment and said he felt \"ignored\" by the previous MP, Labour's Jo Platt.\n\n\"I never even saw [her]. People have had enough. I've never seen so many people going in to vote in my life.\n\n\"I don't want to leave the EU because my lorry drivers will be in queues and much of my produce is from Spain and France, but I still voted Conservative because of everything else.\n\n\"My decision was based on local issues.\"\n\nGail Robinson said the town's last MP \"talked a lot of gibberish\"\n\nGail Robinson, who runs a delicatessen stall, was also influenced by local issues and said she was proud to have ticked the Tory box for the first time.\n\nThe 46-year-old said she \"didn't want Labour in anymore\".\n\n\"All the funding just goes to Wigan. The MP talked a lot of gibberish.\n\n\"Andy Burnham did a lot for Leigh and I had more confidence in him, but not since then.\n\n\"I'm really hoping that there's going to be a big change.\n\n\"I think that many people have just got to a point where they want to get things moving.\"\n\nJulie Riding said she thought voters \"trust Boris more with business\"\n\nFifty-five-year-old Julie Riding, who runs a gift card stall in the town's market, was on the fence as she approached the polling station and ended up spoiling her ballot paper.\n\n\"I took an online survey and it did say to vote Labour, but I just couldn't do it,\" she said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn, I just don't like him.\n\n\"I did like Boris before, but now he seems to be a bit of a buffoon.\n\n\"Still, it's a big shock. The people of Leigh have always voted Labour. But they see market stalls and businesses closing down and perhaps they just trust Boris more with business.\"\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have always voted Tory\n\nNot everyone in Leigh has simply changed allegiances from red to blue.\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have lived in Leigh all their lives and have always voted Conservative.\n\nMrs Seddon said the result was \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\n\"We've had to fight hard and wait a long time, but it's just great news,\" she said.\n\n\"We want more money put into the NHS and investment and reinvestment in the town. Everything has always focussed on [neighbouring] Wigan.\"\n\nThe retired childminder said while she understood the NHS and investment in northern towns were key elements of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign, she felt he never explained where he was \"going to get the money from\".\n\nHer husband, a retired HGV driver, said electing Labour \"would've cost us\".\n\n\"All they wanted to do is tax us. We've had to fight to get what we've wanted, but now hopefully things will change.\"\n\nPolice officer Dave Trownson, 42, has supported Labour all his life but turned to the Conservatives out of frustration at the long Brexit impasse.\n\n\"It's a massive Labour area and it always has been, but it didn't feel strange for me to vote Conservative - it just felt like the logical thing to do.\n\n\"People want to get Brexit done and move on, and they were the only people offering that. I feel optimistic. We are Great Britain, we are a strong country and a powerful country.\n\n\"I voted to leave but no-one's wanted to take us out apart from Boris. Corbyn was too on the fence.\"\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Maurice Saatchi has quit the advertising agency he co-founded in 1995 along with three other directors in the wake of an accounting scandal.\n\nM&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence after profit warnings.\n\nThe company also revealed a £11.6m hole in its earnings last week.\n\nLord Saatchi founded the firm with his brother Charles after being forced out of Saatchi & Saatchi after a shareholder revolt.\n\nAs well as Lord Saatchi, Lord Dobbs, Sir Michael Peat and Lorna Tilbian all quit the board of the firm.\n\nLord Dobbs, a Conservative politician, is best known for creating the House of Cards novels, which were turned into TV series in the UK and the US.\n\nSir Michael is a former accountant and courtier, and Ms Tilbian is a media analyst and stock broking executive.\n\nM&C Saatchi is famous for the controversial New Labour, New Danger campaign for the Conservatives in 1997. Labour won with a majority of 179.\n\nMuch more successful was the brothers' 1979 Conservative campaign, Labour Isn't Working.\n\nJeremy Sinclair, the company's chairman, said: \"We have accepted the decision of these directors to resign. We are determined to restore the operational performance and profitability of the business.\"\n\nLast week the company warned 2019 profit would be \"significantly below the levels expected\".\n\nIn September it revealed a slide in sales and profit for the first half of the year. Profit fell 67% to £2.5m.", "The body repaying money owed to Thomas Cook customers after the tour firm collapsed has apologised to thousands of customers facing refund delays.\n\nPaul Smith, director at the Civil Aviation Authority, said \"we are very sorry\" and promised the CAA is \"working tirelessly\" to process payments.\n\nDespite £160m having already been refunded, he told the BBC well over 50,000 customers were still owed money.\n\nIncomplete claim forms and attempted fraud were adding to delays, he said.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.\n\nA refund process was opened on 7 October for customers covered by Atol-protected insurance.\n\nAlthough the CAA said it expected to pay the tens of thousands of people who registered on the first day within 60 days, only about two-thirds were refunded by the weekend deadline.\n\nMr Smith, the CAA's consumers and markets director, said: \"This is the biggest refund operation in UK travel. We have paid out already about £160m, and expect over the next couple of days to get that up above £180m.\n\n\"We have had to put some extra checks in because we were concerned about fraud. And we had some challenges with the data we received from the company. We are sorry for those people we have not yet been able to pay.\"\n\nSome claimants had provided incomplete forms, and he urged them to update the details as soon as possible. \"We really want to make these payments as quickly as we can because it is money people are entitled to,\" he said.\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.", "A new artwork by Banksy, which highlights homelessness, has been defaced in Birmingham.\n\nThe street artwork featured in a film on Instagram shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nNow it's been covered with a protective plastic sheet after the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.", "EU leaders and Boris Johnson agreed on a revised UK Brexit deal in October\n\nOver and over again in this election campaign you hear supporters of Boris Johnson confidently asserting that \"he did it with the Brexit deal: he got the EU to renegotiate when most people said it'd be impossible.\n\n\"So who cares about those who now openly doubt his ability to get a trade deal done with the EU by December next year? The doubters were wrong before. They'll be proved wrong again.\"\n\nExcept, it seems to be overlooked that Prime Minister Johnson did not charm or bully or manipulate the EU into reopening the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and changing the infamous backstop for the Irish border.\n\nIt was only by breaking a deep red line of his, very late on in the negotiations, that EU leaders wholeheartedly agreed to a \"new\" Brexit deal (that in reality was almost identical to the one negotiated by Theresa May).\n\nIf you remember, Mr Johnson had pledged never to allow a post-Brexit division between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut in the end that is exactly what he did.\n\nWhile on paper and in legal terms Mr Johnson has ensured that Northern Ireland would leave the EU's customs union and single market along with Great Britain, practically speaking Northern Ireland would continue adhering to the EU's customs code and being part of the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBoris Johnson's divorce deal introduces a customs barrier down the Irish Sea. A barrier between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Something Mr Johnson had said he would never countenance.\n\nEU leaders negotiated with Boris Johnson in the hope that he would better be able to sell a deal back home in the UK than his predecessor, Mrs May. But they only signed on the dotted line of the backstop's replacement because they were confident that it protected their single market on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe border at Newry: A majority in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU\n\nFor the prime minister, \"getting it done\" seemed of greater importance when it came to the Brexit deal than keeping his word about the union and avoiding a line down the Irish Sea. So how might it be when it comes to trade negotiations?\n\nWould Boris Johnson give up post-Brexit \"sovereignty\" and \"control\" to get a quick deal done with the EU by next Christmas?\n\nBecause if you earwig on EU internal conversations these days, you'll hear that the only way he has a real chance of getting a bare-bones free trade agreement (FTA) with Brussels done and dusted by next Christmas is if he crosses his own red lines again and gives in to EU concerns. This time over so-called level playing field provisions (such as adhering to EU environmental, labour and state aid rules after Brexit) and allowing EU countries fishing rights in UK waters.\n\nIf Mr Johnson signs up to ongoing alignment with EU rules, then where's the national sovereignty he promised voters?\n\nBut if he doesn't, then trade negotiations with Brussels are likely to drag on a lot, lot longer. And could delay closing trade deals with other countries. Japan, Canada, Australia and others are unlikely to want to sign off on a new trade deal with a post-Brexit UK until they know what kind of relationship it will have with the EU.\n\nSomething else to bear in mind: if Boris Johnson did maintain close ties with the EU, then Brexit-associated divisions between Northern Ireland and Great Britain would diminish; Brussels would have less need for checks, controls and paperwork to closely monitor what is coming in or going out of its single market/customs territory via the island of Ireland.\n\nIt all comes down to not being able to have your cake and eat it.\n\nThose trade-offs - which so many politicians seem very reluctant to come clean about this election season.", "The first question in the Northern Ireland leaders' debate is: Do you believe Brexit makes a united Ireland more likely?\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood is first to answer.\n\n\"We have to deal with the crisis that we're in, which is Brexit,\" he says, adding: \"It's already shaken our peace process.\"\n\nMr Eastwood says he's backing another referendum and wants to be part of a \"pro-Remain coalition\".\n\nDUP chief whip Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he does not believe there's an \"existential threat\" to NI's position within the UK.\n\n\"We can't go on with this situation where we ignore what people say,\" he says. \"The poll was held, the people voted.\"\n\nHe said the DUP has been \"absolutely crucial\" when it comes to Brexit, adding that it blocked the Brexit deal.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken clashes with Sir Jeffrey over the DUP's stance on the Brexit deal.\n\nMr Aiken says that on the 2 October, DUP leader Arlene Foster said the deal was sensible. \"You agreed on the 2 October to put a border down the Irish Sea.\"\n\nSinn Fein vice-president Michelle O'Neill says: \"There's nothing good to come from Brexit.\"\n\nReferring to the original question about a united Ireland, she says Brexit \"certainly makes people focus their minds about where people think their interests are best served\".\n\nThe leader of Alliance, Naomi Long, says Brexit has \"certainly made Northern Ireland less stable\".\n\nShe says it has brought arguments around borders back to the fore.", "Shante Turay-Thomas fell ill at her family home in Wood Green last year\n\nA call handler with the NHS non-emergency 111 service has admitted he made mistakes when dealing with a student who was suffering a fatal suspected allergic reaction.\n\nShante Turay-Thomas, 18, died after falling unwell at her family home in Wood Green, north London, last year.\n\nAdemola Dada told an inquest he should have asked \"more questions\" about her condition while speaking to her mother.\n\nBut he added he had just been \"wanting to get that ambulance out\".\n\nMs Turay-Thomas died in hospital hours after she fell ill on 14 September last year.\n\nThe inquest at St Pancras Coroner's Court has previously heard how her mother told Mr Dada that her daughter had a rash and tingling at the back of her throat, and explained that she might have eaten nuts.\n\nAsked by coroner Mary Hassell if he should have considered whether the Ms Turay-Thomas could have been having an allergic reaction, the call handler replied there were \"a number of things I didn't do correctly\".\n\nChanges he would have made included speaking with the 18-year-old to gauge how significant her breathing issues were and speaking to a clinician sooner, the inquest heard.\n\nHowever, Mr Dada added that the call happened during a \"busy\" period and had previously been told to keep details about patients \"short and sweet\" by clinicians.\n\nThe call handler also said he should have checked the caller's address was correct.\n\nThe inquest previously heard one ambulance was initially dispatched to the victim's grandmother's house six miles (9.7 km) away, despite Ms Turay giving her Wood Green address several times.\n\nThe inquest is due to last until at least Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The economy suffered its worst three months for more than a decade after official figures revealed output failed to grow once again in October.\n\nOffice for National Statistics (ONS) data showed the economy flatlined month-on-month in October, after two months of declines.\n\nIt was the weakest three months since early 2009.\n\nThe figures come ahead of Thursday's general election, with the main parties all promising to boost growth.\n\nAlthough the service sector expanded 0.2% in the August-to-October period, that was offset by a 0.7% contraction in manufacturing and 0.3% fall in construction. The ONS said there had been \"a notable drop in housebuilding and infrastructure in October\".\n\nJohn Hawksworth, chief economist at consultancy PwC, blamed Brexit-related uncertainty for the economy's \"loss of momentum\".\n\nHe said: \"Growth seems likely to remain subdued through the rest of 2019, but we would hope for a gradual revival in activity over the course of 2020 if current political and economic uncertainties ease. Our main scenario is for 1% GDP growth in 2020 assuming an orderly Brexit.\"\n\nProfessor Costas Milas, of the University of Liverpool's management school, described the figures as \"quite poor\".\n\n\"The main point is that our economy continues to disappoint badly, which will probably bring a Bank of England interest rate cut much closer especially if Thursday's election turns out very inconclusive,\" he said.\n\nJack Leslie, economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said that the UK's domestic challenges come against a weak global economic outlook for next year.\n\n\"While the main parties have avoided any discussion of this challenging economic environment during the election campaign, navigating it will be a central task for the next government nonetheless,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the pound shrugged off the figures, continuing to rise on Tuesday after gains on Monday. In early London trading, sterling was up 0.2% at $1.3157, and against the euro rose 0.1% to 84.18p\n\n\"Sterling price action is all about the upcoming parliamentary election and real economic data should continue to play second fiddle,\" ING analysts said in a note sent to clients.\n\nSeparately, the ONS released trade data which showed Britain's goods trade deficit widened by more than expected to nearly £14.5bn in October from £11.5bn in September.", "An island volcano erupted while tourists were visiting on Monday in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.\n\nBy Tuesday, six people were confirmed dead. Eight others were feared to have died and about 30 have serious burns.\n\nTourist Michael Schade tweeted pictures of the eruption (seen above and below), saying: \"My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001.\n\n\"My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it.\"\n\nTour guides could be seen evacuating people minutes after the eruption.\n\nA photo taken by the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, below, shows the volcano from the air.\n\nA video released by New Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), screenshot seen below, shows the volcano spewing steam and ash.\n\nA combination photo from GNS, below, shows the volcano shortly before and after the eruption.\n\nCoastguard rescue boats are seen, below, next to a marina near Whakatane, about 40km (25 miles) south of White Island.\n\nRescue workers treated survivors in Whakatane, on the North Island's mainland.\n\nOn Tuesday, steam continued to rise from the White Island volcano.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern (below, centre) gave a press conference with Police Supt Bruce Bird (left) and Whakatane mayor Judy Turner.\n\nMs Ardern said she shared the \"unfathomable grief\" of those who had lost family and friends.\n\nThe prime minister also met first responders at the Whakatane fire station.\n\nA flag in Whakatane could be seen flying at half mast.\n\nIn Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media with Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Twenty-four of the people affected were from Australia.\n\nPeople leave tributes at the port of Tauranga, next to the cruise ship which had carried passengers to White Island when it erupted.\n\nWhite Island, also called Whakaari, is the country's most active volcano, seen below in 1999.\n\nTourist Ron Neil visited the island in January 2017 and took the photos below.\n\n\"We were obliged to wear helmets and gas masks as a condition of climbing the volcano,\" Mr Neil said.\n\n\"We were only allowed on the island because the risk of eruption that day was measured as 1, on a scale of 1-5.\n\n\"Still the sulphur fumes were choking.\"\n\nMr Neil is seen above, wearing a gas mask.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Ashworth: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker\"\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth has apologised to his party after criticising Jeremy Corbyn in a secret recording by his Tory activist friend.\n\nIn a recording leaked to Tory-supporting website Guido Fawkes, Mr Ashworth is heard saying he did not believe Labour would win the election.\n\nMr Ashworth has insisted he was \"joshing around\" in the conversation.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was \"not the sort of thing I would do\", but claimed the story was \"irrelevant\".\n\nThe Labour leader added that Mr Ashworth had said it \"was all about reverse psychology banter - as in football\".\n\nHe suggested that shadow health secretary has an \"odd sense of humour\" but added that he \"makes jokes the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I'm cool with Jon, we get along great\"\n\nHe also accused the Guido Fawkes website of \"just trying to deflect away from the Tories' mess of the National Health Service\" and insisted that the shadow health secretary had his \"full support\".\n\nThe conversation appears to have been recorded over a week ago and Mr Ashworth said: \"The reason this has come out today is because the Tories know the crisis in the NHS is ruining their campaign and we've got babies - babies - on the front page of the Daily Mirror unable to get a bed.\"\n\nMr Ashworth named the friend he was speaking to as former local Conservative Association chairman, Greig Baker, and he did not deny that he made the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn dismissed claims that he was a \"problem on the doorstep\" for Labour activists, saying it was \"not a presidential election\".\n\nIn the recording, Mr Ashworth appears to refer to an unsuccessful plot to oust Mr Corbyn, instigated by some of his MPs in the aftermath of the EU referendum.\n\n\"People like me were internally saying 'this isn't the right moment' but I got kind of ignored,\" Mr Ashworth is recorded as saying.\n\nOn Labour's election chances, Mr Ashworth is heard saying: \"I've been going round these national places, it's dire for Labour… it's dire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: An excerpt from the secret recording of Jonathan Ashworth\n\n\"I'm helping colleagues, banging on about the NHS for them but it's awful for them, and it's the combination of Corbyn and Brexit… outside of the city seats…it's abysmal out there…they can't stand Corbyn and they think Labour's blocked Brexit.\"\n\nOn the recording, Mr Ashworth is asked: If Mr Corbyn \"got in would he be as bad as I suspect?\"\n\n\"I don't know, on the security stuff, I worked in No 10, I think the machine will pretty quickly move to safeguard security, I mean the civil service machine. But it's not going to happen. I cannot see it happening.\"\n\nA Twitter account appearing to belong to Mr Baker later defended leaking the recording.\n\nHe tweeted: \"If someone tells you about a threat to national security - that they say could only be avoided by asking civil servants to act unconstitutionally - there's a duty to tell people about it.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Ashworth said: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker, but it's not what I mean when I'm winding up a friend, trying to sort of, pull his leg a bit.\"\n\nHe said he was \"having a bit of banter\" with his friend \"because he was saying 'oh, the Tories are going to lose' and I was, like saying, 'no you're going to be fine', joshing as old friends do.\n\n\"And he's only gone and leaked it to a website - selectively leaked it - and I thought he was a friend, Greig Baker, but obviously he's not.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed, as the recording suggested, that Mr Corbyn was a threat to the UK's national security, Mr Ashworth replied: \"Of course I don't.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Live, he said: \"I look like an idiot as a result of doing it... I apologise to Labour Party members.\"\n\nConservative Party leader Boris Johnson said Mr Ashworth was \"saying what hundreds of Labour candidates and millions of voters are thinking\", adding that Mr Corbyn was \"unfit to be PM because he is blocking Brexit\".\n\nMr Ashworth's remarks were \"an honest and truly devastating assessment\" of Mr Corbyn's leadership \"by one of his most trusted election lieutenants\", Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said.\n\nIt's striking that in the dying embers of this campaign - which has been so carefully scripted and choreographed by the parties - suddenly events have burst into it and changed the dynamic.\n\nYesterday it was that photo of four-year-old Jack lying on a hospital floor. Today it's that recording of Jonathan Ashworth - by someone who was meant to be his friend.\n\nThey clearly knew his views of Jeremy Corbyn and basically it amounts to what looks like a sting - because the individual he was talking to is a Conservative activist.\n\nNevertheless, the remarks are out there and they are damning.\n\nHere you have the man who is meant to be fronting Labour's attack on the NHS basically saying they haven't a hope of winning, that voters believe they blocked Brexit and they don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd, perhaps most damning of all, seeming to suggest that Mr Corbyn is a risk to national security.\n\nSo this is absolutely going to dominate the headlines today.\n\nEarlier, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn was challenged on his leadership credentials amid reports that some candidates are finding voters do not want to support him personally.\n\n\"It's not a presidential election,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a Parliamentary election in which we elect members of Parliament. I'm the leader of the Labour Party and I'm very proud to have that position.\"\n\nWhen asked about some candidates not including his name in their leaflets, he said he was \"proud\" of his party's manifesto and \"my job is to deliver it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn denies his personal ratings are 'hindering' his party\n\nOn the case of a sick four-year-old boy who was photographed on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary, Mr Corbyn said it was an example of what was happening in the NHS.\n\n\"It is obviously awful for that little boy and the family, the way they were treated,\" he said.\n\n\"But it does say something about our NHS when this happened, and then all research shows there's a very large number of hospitals where patients are at risk because of staff shortages, because of a lack of equipment, because of poor maintenance of hospital buildings.\"\n\nHe insisted his spending plans \"are completely credible\" and will \"give sufficient resources to the NHS\".\n\nIn the interview, Mr Corbyn was also challenged on his party's Brexit policy and his own position.\n\nLabour wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and then put it to the public as a \"credible Leave option\" alongside the option of Remain in another referendum - which the Labour leader would remain neutral in.\n\n\"I will be the honest broker,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThe Conservatives argue that Labour would bring further \"dither and delay\" to Brexit.", "The Golden Globes has released its list of nominees for best director, and it's been criticised for featuring no women, again.\n\nSince 2000, the awards show has nominated more than 100 men for the category, and only four women.\n\nThese figures aren't rare, with the Oscars nominating only three women for best director in the past 20 years, compared with 87 men.\n\nThis isn't the first time the Golden Globes have faced backlash over their nominations list.\n\nLast year, when presenting the award, Natalie Portman made a point to say \"here are the all-male nominees\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter increased pressure on the industry over female representation last year, you could be forgiven for thinking the organisation might have made steps to change the landscape this year.\n\nInstead, the hopefuls for best director are Quentin Tarantino, Bong Joon Ho, Sam Mendes, Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese.\n\nRebecca Goldman, from the Time's Up Foundation, said: \"The omission of women isn't just a Golden Globes problem - it is an industry-wide crisis and it's unacceptable.\n\n\"Time's Up will continue to fight until talented female directors get the opportunities and recognition they deserve.\"\n\nActress Charlize Theron says the lack of female nominees in the best director category is \"really, really ridiculous\".\n\nShe told the LA Times: \"No woman wants to get nominated because it's the right thing to do.\n\n\"It's not cool... we've got to keep making noise until we're heard and these stories get recognised.\"\n\nThe last female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe was Ava Duvernay for her film Selma in 2015\n\nThe lack of women directing films can't be ignored, with women making up just 8% of directors working on the top 250 US domestic grossing films in 2018.\n\nIt's thought, by some, that women are put off pursuing a career in directing because they don't see their role models getting accolades they feel they deserve.\n\n\"[Directing] has not been a role where women have seen many other women role models,\" the Chair of Time's Up UK, Heather Rabbatts told the BBC in 2018.\n\n\"The more that we see women directors coming through, the greater encouragement that will give to other women to believe that they too can do these roles.\"\n\nSome expected Greta Gerwig to be nominated for directing Little Women.\n\nSaoirse Ronan, who played Jo March in the film, nodded to Greta's lack of acknowledgement when thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.\n\nShe said: \"My performance in this film belongs to Greta as much as it does myself and I share this recognition completely with her.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice loss from 1992 to 2018 has occurred mostly around the coast (Imbie/ESA/Planetary Visions)\n\nGreenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.\n\nThe assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period.\n\nThey say Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a pessimistic projection of the future.\n\nIt means an additional 7cm of ocean rise could now be expected by the end of the century from Greenland alone.\n\nThis threatens to put many millions more people in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding.\n\nIt's estimated roughly a billion live today less than 10m above current high-tide lines, including 250 million below 1m.\n\n\"Storms, if they happen against a baseline of higher seas - they will break flood defences,\" said Prof Andy Shepherd, of Leeds University.\n\n\"The simple formula is that around the planet, six million people are brought into a flooding situation for every centimetre of sea-level rise. So, when you hear about a centimetre rise, it does have impacts,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe British scientist is the co-lead investigator for Imbie - the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise.\n\nIt's a consortium of 89 polar experts drawn from 50 international organisations.\n\nThe group has reanalysed the data from 11 satellite missions flown from 1992 to 2018. These spacecraft have taken repeat measurements of the ice sheet's changing thickness, flow and gravity. The Imbie team has combined their observations with the latest weather and climate models.\n\nWhat emerges is the most comprehensive picture yet of how Greenland is reacting to the Arctic's rapid warming. This is a part of the globe that has seen a 0.75C temperature rise in just the past decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Shepherd: \"Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than we expected\"\n\nThe Imbie assessment shows the island to have lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice to the ocean since the start of the study period. This mass is the equivalent of 10.6mm of sea-level rise. What is more, the team finds an acceleration in the data.\n\nWhereas in the early 90s, the rate of loss was equivalent to about 1mm per decade, it is now running at roughly 7mm per decade.\n\nImbie team-member Dr Ruth Mottram is affiliated to the Danish Meteorological Institute.\n\nShe said: \"Greenland is losing ice in two main ways - one is by surface melting and that water runs off into the ocean; and the other is by the calving of icebergs and then melting where the ice is in contact with the ocean. The long-term contribution from these two processes is roughly half and half.\"\n\nIn an average year now, Greenland sheds about 250 billion tonnes of ice. This year, however, has been exceptional for its warmth. In the coastal town of Ilulissat, not far from where the mighty Jakobshavn Glacier enters the ocean, temperatures reached into the high 20s Celsius. And even in the ice sheet interior, at its highest point, temperatures got to about zero.\n\n\"The ice loss this year was more like 370 billion tonnes,\" said Dr Mottram.\n\nBack in 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the authoritative body that reconciles all climate science - gave a mid-range projection for global sea level rise of about 60cm by 2100. A mixture of ice melt and expansion of warming water.\n\nBut when Imbie published its companion review of Antarctica in 2018, it found the White Continent's contribution by 2100 was likely being underestimated by 10cm. Now, for Greenland, Imbie is saying the shortfall is 7cm. The IPCC will have to incorporate these updates when it releases its next major assessment report (AR6) of Earth's climate in a couple of years' time.\n\nProf René Forsberg, from the Technical University of Denmark, said the Imbie exercise underlined the importance of flying satellites, especially those that can observe the top of Greenland, higher than 83 degrees North. Only two of the present fleet can, and one of those spacecraft is operating beyond its design life.\n\n\"Most of the changes we've seen in Greenland have been in the west, south and east; and now it has slowly moved up to the north. So, yes, the next satellite in the European Union's Copernicus programme needs to go to higher latitudes, and this is being discussed by the EU and the European Space Agency,\" Prof Forsberg told BBC News.\n\nThe new satellite system - for the moment known as Cristal, but to be called a Sentinel if it flies - would be a radar altimeter to measure the changing shape of Greenland.\n\nImbie's Greenland analysis is published in the journal Nature. Its release has been timed to coincide with the annual COP climate convention taking place this year in Madrid, and with the American Geophysical Union meeting here in San Francisco, where leading Earth scientists have gathered.\n\nThe Arctic has warmed 0.75C in the past decade, relative to 1951–1980\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Rob Brydon says he had no clue there were plans for a Gavin and Stacey Christmas special until after the script was written.\n\nThe actor, who plays Uncle Bryn in the series, only found out earlier this year ahead of filming in the summer.\n\nThe sitcom about a couple who fell in love during a whirlwind romance, will be on TV on Christmas Day, after a nine-year break from screens.\n\nIt will focus on festivities at Uncle Bryn's house in Barry.\n\nThe show stars Essex boy Gavin, played by Mathew Horne and Barry girl Stacey, played by Joanna Page, who married after that short romance.\n\nTheir best friends Smithy and Nessa, played by the show's writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, also struck up an unlikely relationship.\n\n\"I think it was February, I had a text from James saying can we have a chat,\" said Brydon. \"I spoke to him and I was totally shocked. I had not an inkling.\n\nMathew Horne and Joanna Page filmed scenes during the summer as Gavin and Stacey\n\n\"I had been asked at every public event is there going to be more? Is there going to be more?\n\n\"I said I don't think so, especially given their lives, Ruth with Stella and James in America - so I was flabbergasted.\"\n\nCorden and Jones got together last year to write the special episode, but the plot is being kept under wraps.\n\nSpeaking to Behnaz Akhgar, sitting in for Eleri Sion on BBC Radio Wales, Jones said: \"We had always thought about doing more but we really never had the time to get together to sit down, plan it and actually write it.\n\nRuth Jones returns as Nessa for the Christmas special\n\n\"There are so many actors involved and it just happened to fall into place.\n\n\"Last year, we managed to find a weekend where we could get together, work out if there was a story for an episode and then I went back out to the States in February, and we spent a week writing the episode.\n\n\"We didn't tell anybody other than our partners because we knew that if we said anything to anybody it could end in disappointment, because we didn't know if we had an episode or not.\"", "The Green Party's deputy leader Amelia Womack said the policy made economic as well as educational sense\n\nThe Green Party has said it will write off £34bn worth of student debt as part of a plan to make education in England \"free for life for everyone\".\n\nIt has outlined plans to cancel the outstanding loans of all those who attended universities in England since tuition fees rose to £9,000 in 2012.\n\nIts deputy leader Amelia Womack said education was a \"public good\" and the pledge came with \"no strings attached\".\n\nThe move will add an estimated £40bn to the UK's national debt by 2050.\n\nThe Greens are also pledging to scrap tuition fees, first introduced by a Labour government in the 1990s, for all future students in England and to restore annual maintenance grants, at an annual cost of £7.8bn.\n\nLabour is also promising to scrap tuition fees and restore maintenance grants while the Brexit Party has said it will end \"punitive\" interest rates on student loans.\n\nNeither the Conservatives nor the Liberal Democrats are proposing major changes although the Lib Dems have called for maintenance grants to be reinstated for poorer students and promised a future review of the model of student finance.\n\nThe Greens said their party is the only one standing in England committed to writing off outstanding student debt as a matter of \"justice\".\n\n\"Education is a public good and we're proud to invest in the next generation,\" Ms Womack told supporters at a rally in central London.\n\n\"We say education should be free for life for everyone, but that is not enough. That doesn't deliver justice for those paying off loans for decades to come so the Greens would go even further.\n\n\"If you went to university under the coalition's eye-watering amounts of £9,000 fees, the Greens will wipe that debt, no strings attached.\"\n\nIn 2011, Parliament backed the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government's plan to allow universities to treble the maximum fee charged to £9,000. Since then the maximum fee charged by most universities has risen to £9,250.\n\nA review commissioned by ex-PM Theresa May earlier this year recommended it being lowered to £7,500.\n\nAt the moment, students do not incur any upfront costs but have to start repaying their loans once their income is above a certain level, depending on when they graduated. They also have to pay interest on their loans of as much as 6%.\n\nMs Womack said the write-off made economic sense as the government would be cancelling billions of pounds of student debt anyway given that thousands of students would not repay the full amount owed by the 30-year cut-off point.\n\nCiting a 2017 report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, the Greens said if a future government started writing off outstanding student debt from the start of next year it would have \"almost no effect\" on government debt in the short term.\n\nThe party calculates the move would push up the UK's debt by about £40bn by 2050, factoring in reduced future repayments from graduates but also the loans that the government would have written off anyway.\n\nThe IFS has said cancelling debt and scrapping tuition fees would benefit the highest earning graduates the most, with those earning below the repayment threshold - £26,575 for post-2012 students - gaining very little.\n\nScottish students currently get free university tuition in Scotland but those from England, Wales and Northern Ireland have to pay to study there - a policy which the SNP is committed to maintain.\n\nPlaid Cymru has vowed to scrap tuition fees at Welsh universities for subjects of vital importance to the Welsh economy.", "They cannot vote yet, but that does not mean schoolchildren are not following the election campaign.\n\nBBC Wales' Carl Roberts visited Blaenymaes Primary School in Swansea to answer questions from the pupils.\n\nYoungsters wanted to know about Brexit, why we have elections, and why we need a prime minister.", "John Allen is already serving a life sentence for abusing children\n\nA former care home owner, already serving a life sentence for child sex abuse, has been found guilty of more historical offences against boys.\n\nJohn Allen, who ran several Bryn Alyn community children's homes in Wrexham, was convicted of eight charges relating to five boys between 1976 and 1992.\n\nThe 78-year-old was jailed for at least 11 years in 2014 for 33 sex offences.\n\nMold Crown Court was told he would be sentenced for his latest convictions on 8 January.\n\nAllen, described as a \"predatory paedophile\", had denied 16 charges of indecent assault, two of illegal sex acts and two of trying to carry out other illegal sex acts.\n\nHe was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one of a serious sexual offence by the jury against children as young as 13 in his care.\n\nJurors heard an interview with a complainant, now in his 50s, who said he was dragged to Allen's office after a fight and pinned to the floor.\n\nThe next thing he remembered was his clothes being ripped off and Allen sexually assaulted him.\n\nAllen set up the Bryn Alyn community of children's homes back in 1968 and at its height there were 11 properties housing more than a 150 young people, not just from north Wales but from around the UK.\n\nMany found themselves subjected to repeated abuse at the hands of Allen between 1976 and 1992.\n\nAll but one of the victims in this case came forward after Allen was convicted in 2014 of 33 historical sexual abuse offences against other children who had been in his care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drax, which generates 5% of the UK's power, has said it plans to capture more carbon than it produces by 2030.\n\nThe firm's power plant in North Yorkshire is already largely powered by renewable fuel such as wood pellets.\n\nBut now it hopes to scale up a system that will allow it to capture millions of tons of carbon emissions from the plant.\n\nHowever, the scheme will require its government subsidies - currently due to expire in 2027 - to be extended.\n\nDrax, which is the UK's largest power station, used to run exclusively on coal, but it has converted four of its six units to burn wood as the country seeks to end its dependence on finite fossil fuels.\n\nThe firm said it plans to cut emissions in two ways. First, the sustainably farmed trees that provide its wood pellets absorb carbon emissions as they grow.\n\nThe second takes place at the power plant site as carbon-capture technology traps the emissions created by burning the wood.\n\nAt present, a pilot project at the site captures a tonne of carbon each day.\n\nBut Drax said it hopes to install the system at two of its units by the end of the next decade, removing eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.\n\nIt also plans to close the two remaining coal-generating units at its North Yorkshire plant by 2025, although the company did not say how that would affect power output.\n\nBiomass power generation has proved controversial with some environmental campaigners.\n\nA Chatham House report from 2017 suggests burning wood is not carbon-neutral, as young trees planted as replacements absorb and store less carbon than the ones that have been burned. Others say it can lead to deforestation.\n\nBut Drax defends the sustainability record of its biomass supply chain.\n\nHowever, the firm has yet to secure the subsidies it needs to help grow its carbon capture project to a scale that could make a difference to the UK's climate ambitions.\n\nThe firm currently receives around £2m a day from the state to support its green transition, but this support will run out in less than 10 years.\n\nProf Nilay Shah, head of the chemical engineering department at Imperial College London, told the BBC the country would need to produce up to 150 million tonnes of \"negative emissions\" to meet its net zero target.\n\nDrax boss Will Gardiner said: \"The UK Government is working on a policy and investment framework to encourage negative emissions technologies, which will enable the UK to be home to the world's first carbon negative company.\n\n\"This is not just critical to beating the climate crisis, but also to enabling a just transition, protecting jobs and creating new opportunities for clean growth - delivering for the economy as well as for the environment.\"", "Indigenous leaders at the COP asking for a moratorium on oil extraction in the Amazon\n\nA report presented at COP25 says that plans are in place for a huge expansion of oil drilling in the upper Amazon.\n\nThe analysis says that Ecuador and Peru are set to sanction oil extraction across an area of forest the size of Italy.\n\nIndigenous leaders from both countries have travelled to Madrid to urge a moratorium on using the oil.\n\nThey say using the five billion barrels under the forest would harm the region and the world.\n\nThe area in question is known as the sacred headwaters of the upper Amazon and spans some 30 million hectares (74 million acres) in Ecuador and Peru.\n\nOil extraction in the Amazon has been linked with serious environmental problems\n\nThe region is home to around 500,000 indigenous peoples from 20 nationalities, and is a hotspot of biodiversity.\n\nBut a report prepared by campaign group, Amazon Watch, says that Ecuador and Peru are actively planning to expand extraction and auction new oil blocks across the area.\n\nRight now this is a pristine area, with few roads. The indigenous people have title to these lands and in the area several tribes are living in voluntary isolation. Campaigners fear that if the oil blocks are sold it will see new roads built, which will lead to illegal logging, deforestation and poor outcomes for the residents of the region.\n\nEcuador is due to leave the OPEC oil consortium in 2020, allowing it to boost its oil production. The country is also under pressure from China to supply oil because of financial debts.\n\n\"There's about $14bn that Ecuador owes China right now and that's a big part of the drive to expand production and look for new oil,\" said Kevin Koenig, from Amazon Watch who authored the report.\n\n\"In addition there are about $6bn in hidden debt in these oil for loan deals between PetroChina and Petroecuador which Ecuador is paying in barrels of oil.\"\n\nIt's estimated that around five billion barrels of oils are to be found in the upper Amazon region, which would equate to two billion metric tonnes of CO2.\n\nRight now, around 50% of the current production from the western Amazon goes to California,\n\nThe report has been presented at the COP to highlight the hypocrisy of countries including China, says Kevin Koenig.\n\nIndigenous protestors in Ecuador have fought against oil development for a long time\n\n\"All those countries are here making declarations about cutting emissions, Ecuador and Peru are making declarations about protecting the Amazon but what we are seeing is a whole different plan to expand extraction, there's a gap between what countries are committing too and what they are actually planning to do in terms of fossil fuel expansion.\"\n\nIndigenous leaders here are pressing for a moratorium on drilling - they say the oil should stay in the ground.\n\n\"We have been protecting our forests. We have kept many oil companies away,\" said Sandra Tukup, an indigenous leader from Ecuador.\n\n\"We are asking for a model of development aligned with climate science that respects our rights and allows our forests to continue to flourish.\"\n\nOthers stress the importance of the Amazon region for the whole world. They believe it could help push global temperatures past 1.5C, a level beyond which scientists believe there could be dire consequences for the Earth.\n\n\"The world needs to understand that the Amazon goes beyond Brazil, and that us, the indigenous from Peru and Ecuador, can work hand in hand with governments and philanthropists in the creation of a new economic model for the Amazon Forest,\" said Lizardo Cauper, from Peru.\n\nReflecting the scale of violence that many indigenous people from the Amazon region live under, a delegation of more than 20 Brazilian leaders held a protest at the COP against the murder of two people on Saturday.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nHe was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMr Justice Edis said McCann, who must serve a minimum of 30 years, was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".\n\nThe judge described him as a \"classic psychopath\" and called for an \"independent and systematic\" investigation into why \"the system failed to protect\" McCann's victims.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nThe 34-year-old's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over a two-week period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSentencing McCann at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Edis described him as \"a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile\".\n\nHe said his victims would probably \"never properly recover\", adding: \"This was a campaign of rape, violence and abduction of a kind which I have never seen or heard of before.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, a 25-year-old woman who was subjected to a 14-hour ordeal spoke about how she deeply traumatised she is.\n\nShe said she was paying for her own therapy because there was an eight-month to one-year wait for NHS treatment and criticised the \"under-resourcing\" of services for survivors.\n\nThe attacks began on 21 April, when McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford and took her to a house where he raped her.\n\nFour days later, the 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight. She was repeatedly raped in a number of locations over many hours.\n\nLater the same day, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, telling them: \"You are going to Europe tomorrow - you are mine.\"\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a sex slave, managed to escape by jumping naked from a window, and she alerted police.\n\nMcCann then abducted and raped a 71-year-old woman and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he had taken from the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nAfter crashing his car when a patrol vehicle gave chase, a police helicopter finally located him up a tree. He was coaxed down and arrested early on 6 May.\n\nThree days after delivering their guilty verdicts, the 12 jurors returned to the Old Bailey for sentencing.\n\nThey didn't have to be in court but they clearly wanted to see the conclusion of a most traumatic case.\n\nTwo of McCann's victims, a teenage girl and her mother, were also present, having travelled to London from the north-west of England.\n\nThe teenager, who in May had jumped naked from a first-floor window to bring her ordeal to an end and save her mother and younger brother, was praised by the judge for her courage, as he added some personal observations after the formal sentencing process had ended.\n\nMr Justice Edis said he'd read statements from all the victims about the impact of McCann's campaign of sexual violence and wished them all well.\n\n\"I hope that things turn out for them as well as we all hope they will, rather than as we fear they might,\" the judge said, surely echoing the thoughts and feelings of everyone at today's hearing.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonald's while one of his victims was in the car\n\nThe court heard that McCann had 10 meetings with probation officers following his release in February, and his last meeting with an officer in Watford took place three days before the sex attacks began.\n\nMcCann was served with a warning letter because he had failed to inform authorities of a new relationship, in breach of his licence conditions.\n\nThe officer wrote that McCann was \"not happy\" about this and thought he was being treated unfairly, the court heard.\n\nRegarding his two-week engagement, McCann explained that \"if you get with someone in the travelling community then you marry them\".\n\nThe officer revealed that when the woman's parents found out about the licence condition, they broke off the relationship because they thought he was a sex offender.\n\nMcCann, who had addresses in Aylesbury and Harrow, refused to attend his Old Bailey trial and hid under a prison blanket rather than give evidence.\n\nHe also failed to attend his sentencing, citing a \"bad back\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack waited for four hours in a room without a bed, despite being admitted under blue light to Leeds General Infirmary\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at a picture of a sick four-year-old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a Leeds hospital.\n\nThe picture in the Daily Mirror of Jack, who had suspected pneumonia, spurred complaints about NHS cuts.\n\nAn ITV reporter tried to show Mr Johnson the picture on his phone, but he refused to look, before taking the device and putting it in his pocket.\n\nHe later looked and returned the phone.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"He just doesn't care\", while Independent Group for Change leader Anna Soubry called his actions \"appalling\".\n\nMr Johnson was asked by other reporters why he had not looked at the photo, but he did not answer the question directly, instead repeating Conservative pledges for the NHS and promising to rebuild \"the whole of Leeds General Infirmary from top to bottom\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later visited the hospital to speak to management about the case.\n\nHe said he was \"horrified\" by the incident involving Jack, adding: \"It's not good enough and I have apologised.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock would not comment on the PM's reaction, saying: \"What people care about is what are we doing to improve care at Leeds General and across the NHS.\"\n\nAs he left, the health secretary was met by a group of protesters shouting at him.\n\nThe boy's mother has said she does not want her son's treatment being used as a \"political football\".\n\nIn a formal complaint to press regulator IPSO, she said she had initially given permission to two newspapers to use her son Jack's image but - after the story was widely reported across other news outlets - she now wanted to prevent any further publication of the picture or his details.\n\nIn her letter, she said the actions of the media were \"causing significant distress\" to Jack and his family.\n\nJack was taken into Leeds General Infirmary last week after being ill for six days, his mother told the Mirror.\n\nHis mother said he had been seen as soon as he arrived and given a bed and oxygen, but a few hours later the bed had to be given to another patient and Jack was left without one for more than four hours.\n\nHis mother said she then made a makeshift bed for her son with coats and took the picture.\n\nShe told the newspaper the doctors and nurses were \"lovely people\", but she was \"angry at the lack of funding and the lack of beds\", accusing the government of \"failing our children\".\n\nBoris Johnson was on the campaign trail when he was shown the picture of Jack\n\nDr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.\"\n\nITV reporter Joe Pike tweeted about his interview with Mr Johnson, which took place in Grimsby on the campaign trail.\n\nHe asked the PM to look at the photo of Jack on his phone several times.\n\nMr Johnson said he had not seen the picture yet but refused to look at it while Mr Pike questioned him.\n\nEventually, he took Mr Pike's phone and put it in his pocket, saying: \"If you don't mind, I'll give you an interview now.\"\n\nMr Pike said: \"You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket, prime minister.\n\n\"His mother says the NHS is in crisis. What's your response to that?\"\n\nMr Johnson then removed the phone from his pocket and looked at the screen.\n\n\"It's a terrible, terrible photo, and I apologise, obviously, to the family, and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is supporting the NHS, and on the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had.\n\n\"That's why we're making huge investments into the NHS, and we can only do it if we get Parliament going, if we unblock the current deadlock, and we move forward.\"\n\nThe PM then apologised to Mr Pike for taking his phone and returned it.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth called refusing to look at the picture \"a new low\" for the PM, adding: \"It's clear he could not care less.\n\n\"Don't give this disgrace of a man five more years of driving our NHS into the ground. Sick toddlers like Jack deserve so much better.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also said Mr Johnson would not look at the photo because \"he simply does not care\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"He doesn't care about Jack. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson \"a man with no empathy and no moral compass\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"The picture of the young boy in Leeds is horrific. His unwillingness to even show remorse proves just how unfit he is to serve as prime minister.\"", "The impact on survival rates was even greater if the grandmothers were post-menopause\n\nGrandmother killer whales boost the survival rates of their grandchildren, a new study has said.\n\nThe survival rates were even higher if the grandmother had already gone through the menopause.\n\nThe findings shed valuable light on the mystery of the menopause, or why females of some species live long after they lose the ability to reproduce.\n\nOnly five known animals experience it: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, narwhals and humans.\n\nWith humans, there is some evidence that human grandmothers aid in the survival of their children and grandchildren, a hypothesis called the \"grandmother effect\".\n\nThese findings suggest the same effect occurs in orcas.\n\n\"If a grandmother dies, in the years following her death, her grand-offspring are much more likely to die,\" said lead author Dan Franks from the University of York.\n\nHe said the effect was even greater when a post-reproductive grandmother died.\n\n\"It can explain the benefits of females living a long time after reproduction,\" he said. \"From an evolutionary standpoint, they can still pass on their genes and genetic legacy by helping their grand-offspring.\"\n\nIn other words, by not continuing to reproduce, the grandmother whales might actually be doing more to ensure their genes get passed on than if they were reproducing.\n\nGrandmother killer whales usually lead the group when foraging for food\n\nThe researchers analysed 36 years of photographic census data on two populations of killer whales off the North Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. Each population was made up of multiple pods with various family groups.\n\nThe study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.\n\nWhen explaining why grandmothers might have such an impact on calf survival rates, Mr Franks said past research has shown the important leadership role that grandmother killer whales play.\n\nThey tend to be at the front of the group when searching for food, relying on their vast ecological knowledge. He said by being unable to reproduce, \"they may be in a better position to lead the group\".\n\nHe noted the impact of grandmothers on their grand-offspring was especially strong in times of need, such as a shortage of salmon.\n\nOlder female orcas have even been observed directly feeding fish to their children and grandchildren.\n\nResearchers will use drone footage to further understand whale interactions and behaviour\n\nThe researchers also suspect grandmothers are filling a role that's familiar to humans - babysitting.\n\n\"When a mother dives to catch fish, the grandmother can stay with grand-offspring,\" Mr Franks said.\n\nHe said moving forward researchers will capture drone footage to observe orca behaviour and better understand interactions between different family members.\n\nAnother reason the menopause might make grandmothers more helpful to their family's survival is decreasing competition.\n\nIf grandmothers and their daughters were having children at the same time, those children would be competing for resources, including their grandmother's attention.\n\nMr Franks said this could explain why the grandmothers don't continue to reproduce throughout their lives and also help look after their grand-offspring.", "The patient said she has nightmares three days a week after feeling pain during her operation\n\nA hospital has admitted liability after a patient was not properly anaesthetised during her operation.\n\nThe patient wanted to remain anonymous but said she had \"recurring nightmares\" after feeling her skin being cut during the surgery at Yeovil Hospital in 2018.\n\nHer solicitor said the surgeon had expressed surprise the woman had been given a spinal anaesthetic rather than general for the gynaecological surgery.\n\nThe hospital trust said: \"We are sorry if this patient suffered any distress.\"\n\nThe trust has accepted liability but a settlement has yet to be reached.\n\nThe hospital trust said it carries out more than 15,000 operations in a \"typical year\"\n\nYeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: \"It appears that a breakdown of communication led to the use of a different anaesthetic to that normally required for such an operation.\n\n\"However, this case is yet to be resolved with the claimant and we will therefore not discuss this further.\"\n\nThe woman underwent gynaecological surgery under spinal anaesthesia at Yeovil Hospital in July 2018 but \"suffered awareness of painful surgical stimuli\" during the procedure.\n\nShe said when the surgeon \"made a cut in my belly button which I immediately felt\", she had \"screamed out but no-one took any notice because I had an oxygen mask on\".\n\n\"I have been suffering with nightmares which are horrendous,\" the woman said. \"I have a re-occurring image of lying on the operating table, screaming with lots of people around me watching and no-one helps me.\n\n\"I estimate that I wake up around to three times per week sweating and very fearful.\"\n\nSolicitor Elise Burvill said the hospital had admitted liability but there was \"no settlement yet\"\n\nHer solicitor Elise Burvill, from Irwin Mitchell, said: \"My client was wheeled into the operating theatre under a spinal anaesthetic only.\n\n\"The surgeon expressed surprise that she was awake for that type of procedure - it was not something he'd seen before. This obviously added to her fear and anxiety, which was exacerbated when she started to feel pain during the procedure.\n\n\"It's admitted that they could and should have put her under a general anaesthetic at that point to avoid any further pain and trauma.\"\n• None What happens when anaesthesia fails - BBC Future\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The debate came to a close with each leader getting 30 seconds to make a final statement.\n\nRennie: The majority want to stay in the UK and the EU\n\nLeonard: Only Labour can keep Boris Johnson out of office\n\nCarlaw: Do you want Corbyn in No 10 with Nicola Sturgeon pulling the strings?\n\nThat brings to an end our coverage of the Scotland Leaders Debate.", "Police searched the man's vehicle and found multiple sheets of fake coffee stickers\n\nA motorist stopped by police was found with hundreds of fake McDonald's coffee stickers in his car.\n\nThe driver in Bradford was found with multiple sheets of stickers, similar to ones McDonald's customers are given when they buy hot drinks.\n\nPolice said he was trying to defraud the loyalty scheme, in which six stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nMcDonald's said anyone with counterfeit stickers would be refused a free drink.\n\nThe man was stopped on Westgate Hill Street on Sunday by the Steerside Enforcement Team, which deals with anti-social and criminal use of the roads in Bradford.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police confirmed the driver was given a \"community resolution\" for fraud in relation to the stickers and also arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.\n\nHe will be summonsed to court for the drug-driving offence.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the enforcement team said: \"It may seem inconsequential, but it is illegal to cheat a company like this.\n\n\"Just pay for your coffee!\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police shared a picture of the fake stickers on Twitter\n\nMcDonald's customers get a sticker with a coffee bean on it every time they purchase a coffee.\n\nSix stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nA spokesman for McDonald's said: \"Anyone attempting to use what our restaurant teams believe to be counterfeit stickers will be declined their free coffee.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The Banksy artwork shows Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer\n\nElusive artist Banksy has created new artwork in Birmingham, a festive-themed piece highlighting homelessness.\n\nThe artwork features in a film on Instagram that shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nIt has been viewed over 1m times since it was posted earlier.\n\nHours later though, the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.\n\nBarriers had been installed, but the person managed to jump them, BBC Midlands Today reporter Ben Sidwell tweeted.\n\nA vandal sprayed the artwork with red noses on Monday evening\n\nUnveiling the work, Banksy praised the generosity of people who gave Ryan food and drink while they filmed.\n\nThe post said: \"God bless Birmingham. In the 20 minutes we filmed Ryan on this bench passers-by gave him a hot drink, two chocolate bars and a lighter - without him ever asking for anything.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by banksy This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPete Smith's jewellery studio and workshop Vault 88 is located on Vyse Street, opposite the artwork.\n\nHe saw it when he arrived for work on Friday and said it had been attracting a lot of attention since the Instagram post.\n\n\"The world and his mother is outside,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been people taking pictures of themselves on the bench. It's brilliant. It's very, very clever.\"\n\nVisitors have been recreating the artwork at the scene\n\nHe added the artist's praise was \"good for Brummies\", and showed \"they care\".\n\nLuke Crane from the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District said it was now a priority to protect the artwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'God bless Birmingham', says Banksy as artwork appears in city\n\n\"We are very keen to make sure it is a part of our community and not something that is taken away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it comes at a great time of year - we obviously didn't know it was coming, but what a great time.\n\n\"And it's obviously about giving at a time of need for the homelessness that we have in these areas, and it's something that we've been working in partnership with the council and other organisations to try and tackle, so it's great to see it in our area.\"", "The father of one of the victims of the London Bridge attack has accused Boris Johnson of using his son's death \"to score points\" in the general election.\n\nAfter the attack on 29 November, the prime minister blamed Usman Khan's early release from prison on legislation introduced under the Labour government.\n\nThe father of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, who was stabbed to death in the attack, told Sky News that \"instead of seeing a tragedy, Boris Johnson saw an opportunity\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release \"for many years\".", "Ted Baker boss Lindsay Page, who was only appointed in April, has resigned in the latest blow for the troubled fashion retailer.\n\nThe brand's chairman David Bernstein has also quit, and it has issued another profit warning.\n\nTed Baker shares fell by as much as 36% on the news before paring some losses.\n\nThe firm, which is struggling with falling sales, said the past year had been the \"most challenging in our history\".\n\nIt has also been dealing with the fallout of a misconduct scandal involving previous boss Ray Kelvin. Mr Kelvin denies the allegations which centre on claims of \"forced hugging\".\n\nIssuing its profit warning, Ted Baker said it had seen worse-than-expected trading in November, including on Black Friday.\n\nAs such, it said its full-year profit - previously forecast by analysts at £28.4m - was now likely to be just £5m to £10m, depending on how well it trades over Christmas.\n\nThe firm said it had hired consultants Alix Partners to carry out an urgent review of the group's business. It also announced it had suspended its shareholder dividend payout.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said price discounting across the retail sector was hurting Ted Baker.\n\n\"It has left profits unravelling, and the higher price tags on Ted's clothes means it's more vulnerable to price-slashing than some rivals.\"\n\nShe also warned that weak consumer spending in its key UK and Europe markets showed no signs of strengthening. \"Ted isn't down and out at this point, but further blows can't be discounted,\" she said.\n\nShares in Ted Baker have fallen by more than 75% since January, in a year which has seen it give four profit warnings.\n\nLast week its bosses also revealed that the group's inventory had been overstated by between £20m and £25m, sparking another tumble in the share price.\n\nChief financial officer Rachel Osborne will become acting chief executive with immediate effect, with Mr Page helping with the transition.\n\nNon-executive director Sharon Baylay will take on the role of acting chair following the departure of Mr Bernstein.", "Temporary camps have been hit by extreme weather in recent years\n\nRefugees and people displaced within countries because of conflict are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather, experts say.\n\nHumanitarian agencies told the BBC this posed significant challenges for their operations in different parts of the world.\n\nTemporary camps for the displaced in Africa and Asia have been affected.\n\nExtreme weather has even caused secondary displacements for populations that have already had to move.\n\nScientists say that extreme weather events will be the new normal if warming continues at its present rate.\n\nBut experts said climate change could not be linked directly to those weather-related disasters.\n\nHowever, they argue, many of them concur with scientific predictions that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather will grow in a warming world.\n\n\"This has become our major challenge,\" Shabia Mantoo, a spokesperson with the UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency), told the BBC.\n\n\"An increasing number of camps for refugees and internally displaced people are being hit by extreme weather events and managing them in such conditions is proving to be increasingly difficult.\"\n\nIn most cases, flooding has been the major challenge.\n\nWhen tropical cyclone Idai hit South East Africa, killing more than 1,000 people in March this year, a refugee camp in Zimbabwe was affected too, according to UNHCR officials.\n\nThey said many were injured in the Tongogara refugee camp that hosts some 13,000 refugees in Chipinge district.\n\n\"Around 2,000 refugee houses, mainly built using mud bricks, were completely or partially damaged,\" the UNHCR said at the time.\n\n\"Over 600 latrines have collapsed, and borehole water is feared to be contaminated due to flood waters. There is a real danger of an outbreak of waterborne diseases.\"\n\nThe UN refugee agency said it faced a similar situation in South Sudan, last October when a refugee camp in Maban county, with 15,000 displaced people from the country's neighbour Sudan, was hit by unprecedented flooding.\n\nThe area is prone to inundation during that time of the year because of seasonal rains. But that was not the only factor in that case.\n\n\"Flooding rivers in South Sudan come from the highlands in neighbouring Ethiopia, where rainfall is becoming more intense and irregular, and is also carving its way through neighbourhoods in broad, swift rivers,\" UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said.\n\nIn Nigeria, temporary camps in Maiduguri sheltering people who fled Boko Haram insurgents from north-eastern parts of the country were also hit by floods following heavy rain in August this year, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDCM).\n\nThe insurgency has displaced nearly 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad Basin, according to the UN figures.\n\n\"And many of this displaced population are being hit by one extreme weather event after another,\" said Mamadou Sow, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in southern Africa.\n\n\"We call it double vulnerability and this is increasingly happening in our region.\"\n\nIn Asia, there is another example involving the Cox's Bazar camp in Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees are sheltered.\n\nDuring last year's monsoon, the camps there were not only flooded but some were also hit by landslides.\n\nOfficials with the International Migration Organisation (IOM) say the concentration of people in the camp, the way the land is used there and slope instability already made the site vulnerable.\n\n\"On top of that, the rains were so heavy they caused both floods and landslides,\" said Lorenzo Guadango of the IOM.\n\nClimate scientists say monsoon rains in South Asia are becoming increasingly erratic.\n\nIn the Middle East, two heavy storms within a week that brought in rains, winds and snow hit informal settlements of Syrian refugees in Arsal, Lebanon, in January this year.\n\n\"Some people had their tents torn or broken. Other people had their tents flooded. Some people left... and moved to their relatives' tents. There is no doubt that the situation was very difficult,'' Hiba Fares, a UNHCR official on the ground explained.\n\nIt is not only refugees and displaced people already sheltered in camps who have been affected.\n\nPeople in transit from one location to another are also hit by extreme weather\n\nHumanitarian agencies cite the example of cyclone Kenneth that hit the northern part of Mozambique last April.\n\nOfficials with the ICRC said people who had fled the violence in Cabo Delgado province in the northern part of the country in 2017 were hit by the cyclone.\n\n\"Some of the people were on the move while others were temporarily settled in villages and they were hit by the cyclone,\" said Mr. Sow of the ICRC.\n\n\"Today there are 60,000 such displaced people who fled the violence in the northern part of the country and they all fear that they might be hit by extreme weather events.\"\n\nA study by the UNHCR has also found that people already displaced for reasons other than natural disasters - including refugees, stateless people, and the internally displaced - often reside in climate change \"hotspots\" and may be exposed to secondary displacement.\n\nOf the 28 million new internally displaced people across the world last year, 17.2 million had to move because of disasters. Some 90% of these was weather-related.\n\nThe UN puts the total figure of people forcibly displaced worldwide at more than 70 million.\n\nThe world body does not yet recognise people displaced by natural- and weather-related disasters as refugees.\n\nIn some temporary camps, displaced people have been found to be unwilling to return even after the end of conflict and violence because their original homes are now affected by extreme weather.\n\n\"In the refugee camp of Sudan's Darfur, for instance, when the displaced people found that the region they came from is no more liveable because of acute drought conditions, they have refused to return,\" said Rofaida Elzubair with Practical Action, an international nongovernment organisation that has been helping communities in Sudan adapt to climate change.\n\n\"They don't want to go back even after the conflict has ended and as a result the UN has had to delay the closing down of the camp.\"", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "A GP who cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 women.\n\nManish Shah preyed on cancer concerns to carry out invasive intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of 25 counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nJurors acquitted 50-year-old Shah, of Romford, of five other charges.\n\nThey were told afterwards he had already been found guilty of similar allegations relating to 17 other women, bringing the total number of victims to 23.\n\nHe will be sentenced for all the offences on 7 February. The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said it was one of the biggest cases of its kind involving one doctor.\n\nThe trial heard Shah mentioned a news story to one patient about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy, before asking if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance involving a different complainant, he mentioned TV personality Goody - who died of cervical cancer - and advised an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC told the trial: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nOne of Shah's patients told the BBC how she became one of the GP's victims.\n\n\"He would say you need to have these sexual health tests, to make sure you're safe - you never know if somebody goes with somebody else even though you might have a safe partner,\" she said.\n\n\"He was just encouraging the tests along when I didn't think anything of it, I thought if a doctor suggests it you pretty much go along with it.\n\n\"He just duped so many people. He used our weaknesses and fears and took complete advantage. But not one time did I actually think he was doing anything untoward.\"\n\nThe NHS in London said it \"extended sympathies\" to the victims and added: \"As soon as the allegations came to light, swift action was taken and we have supported the police throughout their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "European clinical guidelines on how to treat a major form of heart disease are under review following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nEurope's professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for the guidelines, saying it was \"a matter of serious concern\" that some patients may have had the wrong advice.\n\nGuidelines recommended both stents and heart surgery for low-risk patients.\n\nBut trial data leaked to Newsnight raises doubts about this conclusion.\n\nThousands of people in the UK and hundreds of thousands worldwide will be treated for left main coronary artery disease each year. This is a narrowing of one of the main arteries in the heart.\n\nThe guidelines on how to treat it were largely based on a three-year trial to compare whether heart surgery or stents - a tiny tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel to keep it open - was more effective.\n\nThe trial called Excel started in 2010 and was sponsored by big US stent maker, Abbott.\n\nIt was led by eminent US doctor Gregg Stone and aimed to recruit 2,000 patients. Half were given stents and the other half open heart surgery.\n\nSuccess of the treatments was measured by adding together the number of patients that had heart attacks, strokes, or had died.\n\nThe research team used an unusual definition of a heart attack, but had said that they would also publish data for the more common \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack alongside it. There is debate around which is a better measure and the investigators stand by their choice.\n\nIn 2016, the results of the trial for patients three years after their treatments were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article concluded stents and heart surgery were equally effective for people with left main coronary artery disease.\n\nBut researchers had failed to publish data for the common, \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack.\n\nNewsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows that under the universal definition, patients in the trial that had received stents had 80% more heart attacks than those who had open heart surgery.\n\nThe lead researchers on the trial have told Newsnight that this is \"fake information\". But Newsnight has spoken to experts who say they believe the data is credible.\n\nStents are a less invasive option for patients too ill to have surgery\n\nProf Rod Stables, clinical lead for research at the British Heart Foundation, said this information should have been published and knowing it would have made a \"substantial contribution to our ability to appreciate the nuances of the results\".\n\nShortly after Excel was published, the professional bodies for heart surgeons and cardiologists got together to write a new set of guidelines.\n\nBut they had not seen the unpublished Universal definition data.\n\nCurrently, European guidelines recommend either a stent or open heart surgery for people who have less severe forms of this disease.\n\nThe European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EACTS), which helped draw up the guidelines, told Newsnight if the information on the trial is proven to be correct, \"the recommendation is unsafe\".\n\n\"It is a matter of serious concern to us that some results in the Excel trial appear to have been concealed and that some patients may therefore have received the wrong clinical advice,\" Prof Domenico Pagano, EACTS secretary general, said.\n\nNewsnight has also learned that as the guidelines were being drawn up, the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board - an independent body that looks after the interests of patients - was raising concerns.\n\nNewsnight has seen emails where they raised concerns about the higher mortality rate amongst those patients who were receiving stents.\n\nThe board thought this information should be made public, as they were aware new guidelines were being drawn up that would recommend stents or surgery.\n\nHowever, the main investigators chose not to do so at the time. They point out that the board allowed the trial to continue unchanged.\n\nProf Nick Freemantle worked on the guidelines. He told Newsnight he would \"never\" have agreed the treatments were interchangeable if he had seen the leaked data.\n\nHe said that the result of making the \"wrong recommendation\" is that \"patients who have received stents [for left main coronary artery disease] will have died who otherwise would have lived for longer, survived for longer, if they'd had open heart surgery\".\n\nThe European Society of Cardiology, the other professional body involved in writing the guidelines, rejected the claim that the guidelines may have caused harm to patients. They stand by the guidelines, which they say were based on more than the Excel trial.\n\nThis year the trial published a further set of its results, showing what had happened to the patients five years after their treatment.\n\nThis found for every 100 who died after having open heart surgery, 135 people with stents died. Overall, 10% of people who had surgery died in the trial compared with 13% who had stents.\n\nProf David Taggart, a surgeon at Oxford University, resigned from the trial. He says he \"had no choice\" as he believed the academic paper describing the five-year results did not give enough prominence to the mortality data in the trial.\n\nThe NEJM had recommended that the researchers should give it greater prominence too.\n\nProf Taggart said he believed the paper's final paragraph, which concluded that there was \"no significant difference\" between stents and open heart surgery was \"dangerous for patients\".\n\nWhen challenged by Newsnight, the trial's principal investigator, Dr Gregg Stone, said he believed that it had been given sufficient prominence and had been considered to meet NEJM's standards.\n\nSponsors of trials like this are also responsible for making sure all results are published.\n\nWhen Newsnight contacted Abbott, the sponsors of the trial, they directed the BBC towards the trial's main researchers.\n\nThe EACTS has now urged their members to \"disregard the guidelines relating to left main disease for the time being\".\n\n\"We recommend that patients seek the advice of the multidisciplinary heart team at their hospital before deciding which treatment option is most appropriate for them,\" said Prof Domenico Pagano.\n\nIn the course of the investigation, Newsnight found a larger debate within the medical community about the way that conflicts of interest are handled.\n\nThere is one school of thought that says they raise questions and need to be carefully managed because of potential bias - conscious or unconscious.\n\nOthers say that interactions between research and business are vital and there is a real public good to be gained by them.\n\nIn the Excel trial, the four main investigators all declared conflicts of interest.\n\nLead investigator Prof Gregg Stone declared he had received personal fees or held equity in 20 private medical companies, several of which made tools that helped with putting in stents.\n\nHe's also the course director for TCT, an annual medical conference where the results were presented.\n\nTCT makes money from exhibitors including some of the biggest stent makers - Abbott, who sponsored the trial, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.\n\nProf Pieter Kappetein, who worked on the trial and on the body that worked on the guidelines, declared that he had left the guidelines body to go and work for Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer that makes stents.\n\nNewsnight found that he'd become chief medical officer of Medtronic Structural Heart.\n\nBy Newsnight's count, around half of the investigators on the trial had declared personal fees from companies that made stents, and around a third of those on the taskforce writing the guidelines.\n\nThese relationships are all within the rules.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The New Zealand Red Cross's Family Links website has a list of 100 people who were registered as missing following the White Island eruption. Thirty-one have since confirmed themselves as safe. However, we know that only 47 people were on the island at the time, so many of them have not been caught up in the disaster.\n\nThe Red Cross stresses that the list is user-generated and not official. It encourages family members to update details when they get relevant information.\n\nMatthew Evans, 38, who is originally from Carmarthen in Wales, is one of the Britons listed as missing.\n\nHowever, his brother Ian told the Press Association that he had been found safe and well.\n\n\"He was travelling with his new wife, he was trekking at the time and we were concerned because we hadn't heard from him for 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"But they are safe. They were in the North Island, away from the Bay of Plenty.\n\n\"They said they had no idea what had gone on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTalking to voters around the country two big issues have had the elusive \"cut through\" in this campaign - the Tories promise to take us out of the EU at the end of next month and Labour's attack on their handling of the NHS.\n\nOf course, other subjects have been part of the conversation but those are the issues that have come up most often during the last few weeks when we've been travelling around the country.\n\nAnd in every election in recent history, the Labour Party has tried to sow doubts in voters' minds about whether or not the Tories can be trusted with the health service at all.\n\nThat's why Boris Johnson's terrible day on the campaign trail today matters.\n\nSadly, it's all too common for newspapers to feature terrible stories of patients' bad experiences in the health service.\n\nWhat was unusual today is how Boris Johnson was asked by an ITV Calendar reporter, Joe Pike, about the photograph of four-year-old Jack, who had been pictured on the front page of the Mirror, and refused at first really to engage with it all, then took the journalist's phone and put it in his pocket.\n\nI have seen some pretty weird things in nearly 20 years covering politics, but I have never seen anything quite like that.\n\nIt wasn't just a bizarre way of reacting to legitimate questions but the real risk for Mr Johnson is it gave the impression that he didn't want to, and maybe couldn't, understand or empathise with the predicament of the family concerned.\n\nWhen we asked him about the same subject a few hours later he didn't really want to engage then, resorting back to the party's political script on their spending promises on the health service, with echoes of Theresa May in her 2017 campaign, a million miles away from the punter-friendly campaigner his allies always claim Mr Johnson can be on a good day.\n\nThis certainly was not one of them.\n\nAnd not surprisingly at all, the other parties, particularly Labour who has been struggling to close the gap, have piled in, and piled on the political pressure.\n\nIn response, the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, was sent to the hospital in Leeds to meet the family, find out what had happened and try to smooth things over.\n\nBut he faced trouble too, as a small but very noisy group of protesters shouted at him and his team as they left the building.\n\nThe story, and the prime minister's weird and wooden response to it, provided the perfect chance for Labour to punch at one of the Conservatives' vulnerabilities, just when they were trying to make a big play for voters who have traditionally stuck with the Labour Party for generations.\n\nAnd today's events are a blast at any complacency that might have been building in Tory HQ, a reminder even at this late stage, this election isn't over.", "The arrest was made on Monday evening in Clifton\n\nA man has been arrested in Bristol on suspicion of Islamist-related terrorism offences, police have said.\n\nThe 33-year-old was detained at 23:00 GMT on Monday as part of a planned operation at a flat in Tyndale Court, Imperial Road, in Clifton.\n\nThe suspect is being held in custody while searches are carried out at the address.\n\nPolice said there was no risk to the public and the arrest was not linked to the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nInquiries were made by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), working alongside Counter Terrorism Policing South West, prior to that attack on 29 November, officers confirmed.\n\nThe suspect is being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under section 41b of the Terrorism Act (2000).\n\nHead of CTPSE Det Ch Supt Kath Barnes said: \"At around 23:00, counter-terrorism detectives arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism offences and are currently carrying out searches at a residential property in Bristol.\n\n\"This was part of a pre-planned operation.\"\n\nSupt Andy Bennett, of Avon and Somerset Police, said there would be an \"increased policing presence\" in the area.\n\nThe building where the raid took place is owned by property company, People for Places.\n\nA spokeswoman for the firm said it was \"supporting\" the police investigation.\n\n\"Our customers' safety and well-being are paramount and any customers who were directly affected by this incident are safe and being looked after,\" she added.\n\n\"As this matter is being managed by the police service we are not able to provide further details about the incident.\"\n\nPolice are carrying out searches at a flat in Imperial Road, Clifton\n\nOfficers were seen searching one of the properties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is asked whether he would scrap the TV licence fee\n\nBoris Johnson has said the possible abolition of the BBC licence fee needs \"looking at\".\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Sunderland, the prime minister questioned how much longer funding a broadcaster out of \"a general tax\" could be \"justified\".\n\nMinisters have agreed the licence fee will stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nThe fee for a colour TV licence is currently £154.50 a year. It will rise in line with inflation until 2022.\n\nLicence fee income was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in 2018-9, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues and funding TV, radio and online content. Last year, 25.8 million households had TV licences.\n\nThe government and the BBC are currently involved in a dispute over the funding of free TV licences for the over-75s.\n\nMr Johnson was asked by a member of the public whether he would consider axing all TV licences.\n\nThe prime minister said that, while he would not make up policy with three days to go before the election, it was an issue that was worth \"looking at\" in the future.\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels.\"\n\nVarious alternatives to the licence fee have been floated over the years, including subscription services or a compulsory broadcasting levy.\n\nIt is customary for election campaigns to strain relations between the BBC and whoever happens to be in government.\n\nBut the advent of social media - where criticism of the BBC frequently goes viral - and the rise of streaming giants which operate a different model, has increased pressure on the BBC recently.\n\nSo too has the prime minister's refusal to be interviewed by Andrew Neil for the BBC. Last week, Mr Neil, who interviewed all the other party leaders, issued a challenge to Mr Johnson, and showed an empty chair.\n\nThat clip has been viewed several million times on social media. No 10 didn't appreciate that much, and doubled down on its position.\n\nLured by the internet, many younger viewers now spend much more time on Netflix or YouTube than watching BBC services. That does pose a significant, perhaps existential, challenge to the BBC in the long term.\n\nThe BBC has always argued, however, that the licence fee is vital to its public service model and that if it moved to a subscription model it would necessarily be driven only by those who could afford a subscription, and not the whole country.\n\nSooner or later, a decision needs to be made about how best the BBC can compete, and satisfy the British public, in today's global media. It's probably best that discussion takes place when there isn't an election on.\n\nAt the time of the last Charter Renewal in 2016, the government said the licence fee was likely to become \"less sustainable in the long run\".\n\nWhile ministers said there were no plans to replace it with a subscription model, they said the BBC should be given an opportunity to explore whether to make any of its content available on a subscription-only basis.\n\nIn its manifesto, Labour says it will ensure a \"healthy future\" for all public service broadcasters, while the Liberal Democrats are promising to \"protect the independence of the BBC and set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission\".\n\nThe Brexit Party is pledging to \"phase out\" the licence fee.", "Politicians from seven political parties faced questions from young people on housing, climate change, Scottish independence and of course Brexit from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nWatch the full programme on iPlayer, listen back on BBC Sounds or and read more here.", "Stars including Drake, Chance The Rapper and Ellie Goulding have paid tribute to the star\n\nPolice say they found guns and drugs on the private jet that carried rapper Juice Wrld to Chicago before he died on Sunday morning.\n\nLaw enforcement officials were waiting for the plane when it landed, having received information that banned substances might be onboard.\n\nIt was during a subsequent search of the aircraft that the rapper had a seizure that led to his death.\n\nAn autopsy on the 21-year-old has proved inconclusive.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said on Monday that additional studies were needed before they could determine the cause of death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Will Lee\n\nPolice in Chicago said they did not suspect foul play; but gave some additional details that shed light on the sudden death of one of hip-hop's brightest rising stars.\n\nTheir search uncovered 41 \"vacuum-sealed\" bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, authorities told the US media, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times.\n\nTwo men identified by police as Juice Wrld's security guards have been charged with illegally possessing guns and ammunition.\n\nAnthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, said the star \"began convulsing (and) going into a seizure\" as authorities were searching two carts of luggage at about 2am on Sunday morning.\n\nFederal agents quickly administered Narcan, a drug used to revive people thought to be overdosing on opioids, and the Chicago Fire Department was on the scene in under seven minutes, Guglielmi said.\n\nHiggins woke up but was incoherent and, after being taken to hospital, was pronounced dead just after 3am.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Chicago-born star had emerged from the Soundcloud rap scene, and was known for his sweet-voiced, melodic brand of hip-hop, with songs often freestyled in just a few takes.\n\nHe scored a major hit in the UK last year with Lucid Dreams, a hazy lament for an ex-lover that sampled Sting's Shape Of My Heart; and had also worked with the likes of Ellie Goulding, BTS, Lil Yachty and Halsey.\n\nTributes from the music world flooded in after news of his death broke on Sunday.\n\nDrake wrote on his Instagram: \"I would like to see all the younger talent live longer and I hate waking up hearing another story filled with blessings was cut short.\"\n\n\"This is ridiculous,\" wrote Chance the Rapper. \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it. I'm sorry. Love you and God bless your soul.\"\n\nTravis Scott, with whom Juice Wrld collaborated on Scott's album Astroworld, shared a photo of them together in the studio with Future and wrote: \"You will live on forever.\"\n\n\"Rest in paradise man,\" Billie Eilish said on Instagram Stories; while Snoop Dogg commented: \"Rest ya soul, little homie.\"\n\nEllie Goulding also shared her condolences, calling the rapper a \"sweet soul\" and sharing a picture of the two together; while BTS shared a tweet that read: \"Rest in peace Juice WRLD #RIPJUICEWRLD.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by champagnepapi This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans have subsequently pointed out that Higgins \"predicted\" his death in a song called Legends.\n\n\"What's the 27 Club?/ We ain't making it past 21,\" he rapped. \"They tell me I'm-a be a legend/ I don't want that title now/ 'Cause all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's that time of night when we can share a few of tomorrow's front pages with you. One story in particular is dominating the newspapers...\n\nThe Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson Image caption: The Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson\n\nThe Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist Image caption: The Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist\n\nThe Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning Image caption: The Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning\n\nThe Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated Image caption: The Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated", "Many people are wearing face masks on the streets\n\nA shroud of smoke from Australia's bushfires has caused chaos in Sydney, bringing dangerous air quality, setting off smoke alarms and ruining visibility in its typically sparkling harbour.\n\nThe haze on Tuesday was described by many people as the thickest to blanket the city amid this year's fire crisis.\n\nIt caused the cancellation of ferry and boat rides, while smoke permeating buildings forced evacuations citywide.\n\nLocals described the situation as \"apocalyptic\" and \"insane\".\n\nSydney has been covered by thick smoke from bushfires outside of the city\n\nThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is almost entirely obscured by the smoke\n\nThe smoke from inland fires has reached all the way to the coast and Bondi Beach\n\nOnline, Sydney residents reported breathing problems and said they were \"choking\" on the smoke.\n\nThe city has endured air quality surpassing \"hazardous\" levels for weeks, as about 100 blazes continue to rage throughout New South Wales (NSW).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe closest fires are about an hour's drive away from Greater Sydney, which has a population of five million people.\n\nTuesday was \"the worst smoke day yet\", according to locals on social media. In previous days, ash has fallen from the sky.\n\nOn Friday, Sydney's Balmoral Beach was covered in ash from a bushfire 100km away\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Imogen Brennan shared videos online of the beach covered in ash\n\nAt its peak, air pollution in the city centre was 11 times worse than \"hazardous\" levels. It was even worse in suburbs and towns closer to the fires.\n\nSeveral office buildings - including the headquarters of the NSW Rural Fire Service - were briefly evacuated after the smoke triggered indoor alarms.\n\nHealth officials advised people to stay indoors, while many who ventured outside donned face masks.\n\nHospital admissions have risen by at least 25% in the past weeks due to an influx of people with respiratory and breathing problems, officials said.\n\nThe smoke worsened throughout Tuesday as fires intensified\n\nNot everyone has listened to warnings to avoid exercise outdoors\n\nTrips on the city's harbour ferries were suspended due to the poor visibility\n\nDaycare centres and schools were also keeping children inside during lunch and recess.\n\nLast week, authorities said the stretch of air pollution was \"the longest and most widespread\" for the state on record.\n\n\"[We have] recorded some of the highest air pollution ever seen,\" the New South Wales government said.\n\nA man takes a picture of the city's disappearing skyline as he crosses the Sydney Harbour Bridge\n\nSix people have died and more than 700 homes have been destroyed in bushfires that have ravaged Australia since September. More than two million hectares of land has been scorched in NSW alone, officials have said.\n\nPublic anger towards Australia's conservative government - and its efforts to address climate change -has grown as drought, water and bushfire emergencies have persisted.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media in Sydney on Tuesday but did not comment directly on the smoke's impact.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Ousalice told the BBC in May he was left isolated by his sacking from the Navy\n\nA Falklands veteran forced out of the Royal Navy over his sexuality will have a military honour returned.\n\nJoe Ousalice, 68, served as a radio operator for 18 years but was discharged in 1993 because of a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.\n\nHe said the Ministry of Defence (MoD)'s decision to reverse the removal of a good conduct honour, was a \"step forward\".\n\nIt is understood a scheme will be set up to return medals to other veterans.\n\nThe MoD admitted its policy had been \"wrong, discriminatory and unjust\".\n\nMr Ousalice, who lives in Southampton, was awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and three Good Conduct badges.\n\nHe served on board MV Myrmidon, part of the task force dispatched to liberate the Falkland Islands after the Argentinean invasion in 1982.\n\nHis career also included six tours of duty in Northern Ireland and he was seconded to a Nato task force.\n\nBut the medal was stripped from him when he was discharged because his bisexuality was believed to be \"prejudicial to good order and naval discipline\".\n\nMr Ousalice, who was living in Torpoint, Cornwall, when he was discharged, said he was left unemployed and penniless and had to scavenge for potatoes at a local farm to feed himself.\n\nSpeaking to Victoria Derbyshire, he described his treatment by his superiors while in the armed forces as \"abysmal\".\n\n\"Every couple of years they would drag me in and make some story up in an attempt to get shot of me - they knew I was bisexual,\" he said.\n\n\"On one occasion they said I had been seen taking drugs in Portsmouth. I've never taken drugs but it shows you the level they'd get up to\".\n\nHe said he still wanted an apology from \"someone in authority\" and for his medal to be returned to him by a rear-admiral - the same rank as originally awarded him the medal.\n\nMr Ousalice (highlighted) has not sought compensation and says he just wants his medals back\n\nMr Ousalice will be presented with his Long Service and Good Conduct medal at a ceremony at a later date.\n\nHe has been represented by human rights group Liberty, which had threatened court action if Mr Ousalice was refused the return of the medals.\n\nEmma Norton, its head of legal casework and Mr Ousalice's lawyer, said the MoD policy has had a \"devastating impact on a lot of lives\".\n\n\"I think its relevant that January is the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces,\" she said.\n\n\"I speculate [there is] something unattractive about the MoD celebrating that while at the same time vigorously defending a perfecting reasonably claim brought by someone like Joe.\"\n\nThe MoD said Mr Ousalice was \"treated in a way that would not be acceptable today and for that we apologise\".\n\n\"We accept our policy in respect of serving homosexuals in the military was wrong, discriminatory and unjust to the individuals involved,\" it added.", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "It could have been a double blow for Corryn Banham and boyfriend Jordon Parkinson. He planned a surprise proposal to Corryn, 24, during a holiday to Crete, but this had to be abandoned after Thomas Cook collapsed in September.\n\nLuckily Corryn's mum and dad, who were in on the plan, stepped in to pay for a holiday to Majorca and Jordon, 27, was able to pop the question. \"It could have ruined everything,\" said Corryn, a sales assistant who lives in Strood, Kent.\n\nNow they want to repay the hundreds of pounds back to Corryn's parents, but face more months of delay until the refund is processed. \"We couldn't afford another holiday, but my parents said we could pay them back when our refund arrives,\" she said.\n\nLike thousands of other disappointed Thomas Cook customers, she registered for a refund on 7 October, the first day the process opened. Travel regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - which has vowed to refund all Atol-protected payments - had told those customers to expect their money within 60 days.\n\nBut last week the CAA warned thousands of customers that payment would be delayed while further details are collected - and Corryn and Jordon are among them.\n\nShe said: \"I was contacted on the 59th day after submitting my claim, advising that because our package flights were with EasyJet, I have to declare either: 1) I have no plans to fly on my future flights (even though our holiday was 2 October), or 2) I did not fly on my past flight.\n\n\"They've sent us two identical forms. I emailed the claims company asking for the correct form and they've got back to say it takes 60 working days for a response to an email.\n\n\"So by the time I get a response, fill the correct form out, and send it back. We're looking at nine months total time for my refund to be correctly processed.\n\n\"This is disgusting. I am stressed, having panic attacks, and now my parents have been left short before Christmas when we should have received our refund.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA said about 40,000 customers owed money had been paid within the 60-day period, but that some 27,000 faced delay.\n\nLast week CAA boss Richard Moriarty thanked consumers for their patience, saying the regulator was working through \"the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme\".\n\nHe added that the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year,\" Mr Moriarty said.\n\nWhile the CAA said it had paid all first-day claims not requiring extra verification, some told the BBC they had still not received their money on Monday.\n\nBilly Latham said: \"I contacted the CAA on Saturday and was told my money was paid on Friday and if it did not hit my bank account on Monday to call back.\n\n\"Well Monday is here and no payments whatsoever, no one at the CAA is picking up the phones and even putting an answer message on stating they are too busy to speak with me due to high call volumes.\n\n\"The only question on my lips and the thousands of others with valid claims is 'when will we get our money back?'\"\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.\n\nThe CAA says about 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for. Customers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.", "Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed.\n\nThe Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love, from the film Pretty Woman.\n\nA statement said the singer had died on Monday, 9 December \"following a 17-year long battle with cancer\".\n\n\"You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years,\" her bandmate Per Gessle said. \"Things will never be the same.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Roxette This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen following a workout.\n\nThe tumour cost her the vision in her right eye - but after three years of treatment, she returned to public life and toured successfully again with Roxette from 2008 to 2016.\n\nHowever, the cancer eventually returned: Fredriksson's family said she had died following a recurrence of \"her previous illness\" earlier this week.\n\n\"Thank you, Marie, thanks for everything,\" said Gessle in a heartfelt statement.\n\n\"You were an outstanding musician, a master of the voice, an amazing performer. Thanks for painting my black and white songs in the most beautiful colours. You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years.\n\n\"I'm proud, honoured and happy to have been able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of humour. All my love goes out to you and your family.\"\n\n\"Her amazing voice - both strong and sensitive - and her magical live performances will be remembered by all of us who were lucky enough to witness them. But we also remember a wonderful person with a huge appetite for life, and woman with a very big heart who cared for everybody she met.\"\n\nHailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette first met in the late 1970s, when Fredriksson was a member of the pop outfit Strul & Ma Mas Barn and Gessle was playing with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups.\n\nThey teamed up in 1986, becoming huge stars in their homeland with the single Neverending Love, followed by a hit album, Pearls of Passion.\n\nDespite their popularity in Scandinavia, Capitol Records declined to release their records in the US.\n\nIt wasn't until an American student studying in Sweden brought a copy of their second album home to Minneapolis, and persuaded a local radio DJ to play The Look, that they achieved international fame.\n\nThat song became the first of four US number ones for the band, while its parent album, Look Sharp!, went platinum.\n\nThey achieved their biggest success when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must Have Been Love, was re-written for inclusion on the Pretty Woman soundtrack in 1990. It topped the charts in more than 10 countries, and gave the band their biggest UK hit, reaching number three.\n\nRoxette continued to tour and release albums throughout the 1990s - eventually selling more than 80m records worldwide.\n\nKnown for breezy pop hits like Dressed For Success and power ballads such as Listen To Your Heart, they cheekily summarised their songwriting philosophy in the title to their 1995 greatest hits album, Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus.\n\nAfter a brief hiatus, during which Gessle reunited with Gyllene Tider, the duo scored further hit albums with 1999's Have a Nice Day, and 2001's Room Service.\n\nThe singer retired from touring in 2015\n\nFredriksson's devastating cancer diagnosis came the following year. She spent three years receiving treatment, and later wrote about the \"fear\" she'd experienced in a solo record, called The Change.\n\n\"Suddenly the change was here,\" she sang, \"Cold as ice and full of fear / There was nothing I could do / I saw slow motion pictures / Of me and you.\"\n\nIn 2005, Fredriksson told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper her treatment had been successful, saying: \"It's been three really hard years [but] I'm healthy.\"\n\nThe singer took up painting during her treatment, but surprised Roxette fans by making a return to the stage with Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.\n\nThe band later mounted a comeback tour that sold out venues across Europe, and released several new albums but, by 2016, Fredriksson's health was failing and doctors advised her to stop touring.\n\nIn her autobiography, the singer wrote about the impact cancer had on her life.\n\n\"At last, it feels like I have reconciled myself to having a radiation injury to live with. That this is how it turned out,\" she said in The Love Of Life.\n\n\"I have lost many years through the disease. And it is also a sadness to age. But every day I think I'm grateful to be sitting here. And that I can still sing.\"\n\nIn her final single, 2018's Sing Me A Song, the star appeared to address her mortality, singing: \"The love I had and gave / Makes it hard to say goodbye\" over an elegant, mournful jazz backing.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Marie Fredriksson - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson is survived by her husband Mikael Bolyos and their two children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Work on constructing the line was completed on Tuesday\n\nA 45-year project to build a railway line between two Denbighshire towns has been completed.\n\nTen miles (16km) of the Llangollen steam railway line has been rebuilt between Llangollen and Corwen, with a platform created at the end.\n\nEarlier this year, the final £10,000 was raised to fill a gap in the embankment between the new Corwen station and the rest of the line.\n\nWork on the line was formally finished on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's a big occasion not just for the volunteers who have done the work but also for the people in Corwen who have supported this project,\" said George Jones from the Corwen Railway Project.\n\nDespite the full length not yet being open, people can still take trips, such as on the Santa Special\n\nThe track is due to open next year after testing and tweaking is carried out and then steam trains will be able to travel down its full length.\n\nWork on completing the platform at Corwen will also take place in the meantime ahead of its opening.\n\nWork has been going on for a number of years to get the project completed\n\nVolunteer project manager, Richard Dixon-Gough said: \"This represents a magnificent effort and is truly a very notable step forward in completing the extension of the railway into the centre of Corwen.\n\n\"With the connection of the track, within the station confines, to the existing railhead, it completes the original aim of returning the railway link between Llangollen and Corwen.\"\n\nLlangollen Railway president, Bill Shakespeare, 92, added: \"Little did I think, when the first track was laid at Llangollen back in 1975, it would take so long to reach a new build station at Corwen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An HGV crashed onto a police car on the A1 near Haddington\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds have been battering Scotland, causing disruption on the roads, railways and ferries.\n\nMet Office weather warnings for wind and rain are in place across much of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nTwo sections of the A1 in East Lothian were closed after lorries were blown over, while ferries have been cancelled in other parts of the country.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide which has left debris across the road.\n\nTrain services across the Central Belt and Highlands have been disrupted by rail line and platform closures.\n\nTourist attractions in Edinburgh, including the castle and Christmas market, have been closed due to the severe weather.\n\nThe road and train line were closed at Saltcoats because of waves crashing over the sea wall.\n\nThe disruption to rail services affected many routes across the country.\n\nPlatform one at Haymarket has been closed while possible damage was investigated, and flooding at Blairhill has caused delays and cancellations on many services.\n\nOn the roads, police advised drivers to avoid the A1 in East Lothian\n\nTwo HGVs were blown over, with one landing on a police car, at about 10:30 between the Abbots View roundabout, Haddington and the Thistly Cross Roundabout, Dunbar.\n\nPolice Scotland said that section of the road would be closed until at least 22:00 because it was not safe to recover the vehicles until winds subsided.\n\nTwo HGVs toppled on the A1 between Innerwick and Skateraw in East Lothian\n\nEarlier, two other HGV toppled over on the A1 between Skateraw and Innerwick at about 07:45.\n\nPolice are at the scene and both north and southbound carriageways have been blocked.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said three appliances and a heavy rescue unit attended the incident but all drivers managed to get out of their vehicles.\n\nDiversions are in place via the A68 and A697 through the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe road was also closed to HGVs between the services at the Old Craighall A720 junction and Cockburnspath, with diversions in place taking drivers between Edinburgh City Bypass to Berwick Castle.\n\nOrganisers of Edinburgh's Christmas market said all rides, Santa's grotto and the market would not operate until Wednesday.\n\nEdinburgh Castle was among the attractions closed due to severe weather\n\nStrong winds blew in the window of the Vodaphone shop on Princes Street in Edinburgh\n\nOne of the Queen's trees in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue\n\nEdinburgh Castle and Edinburgh Zoo were closed because of high winds.\n\nOne of the Queen's trees on the edge of Holyrood Park fell in the wind and landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue.\n\nAberdeen's Christmas village stayed open, although organisers said the Blizzard ride on Upperkirkgate was closed for the day.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide. Council staff are working to clear debris from more than 100m (328ft) of road.\n\nThe \"bottom\" road on neighbouring island Raasay was also blocked after a 30m (98ft) section of parapet wall collapsed.\n\nIn Fife, a double decker bus was pictured hanging off a grass verge between Kingseat and Cowdenbeath. Local residents said the vehicle had been blown off the road.\n\nA bus came off the road near Cowdenbeath\n\nDrivers were affected by delays following crashes elsewhere, including one on the M80 near Haggs outside, Falkirk, and another on the M80 near Robroyston, Glasgow.\n\nIn Dumfries, Whitesands has been closed from its junction with Buccleuch Street, Nith Place and Dockhead.\n\nEarlier, police warned drivers to remove their vehicles from Whitesands, Greensands and Dock Park car parks because of flooding from the River Nith. They have now told people to avoid the area.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the storm would not be named because conditions did not have enough certainty or strength to warrant it.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has been issued by the Met Office affecting the north of Scotland between 22:00 on Tuesday and 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAre you in the affected areas? Have your travel plans been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner?\n\nTo find out, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has organised a series of 'election blind dates' for the general election campaign.\n\nOwen Jones is a Guardian columnist and vocal supporter of the Labour Party.\n\nNimco Ali is an anti-FGM campaigner. She says she is undecided on how she will vote in this election, but doesn't want a Corbyn majority and is campaigning for some Conservative candidates.\n\nWatch more of the election blind dates series here, here and here.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 60 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nAbout 200 people had to leave their homes after a fire ripped through a block of flats in Glasgow.\n\nThe fire broke out at the building on Lancefield Quay, on the north bank of the Clyde, at about 18:40 on Monday.\n\nSixty firefighters and 15 appliances tackled the \"well-developed\" blaze in the second floor of the three-storey building. No-one was hurt.\n\nOne senior firefighter said they did a \"remarkable job in very challenging circumstances\", due to wind and rain.\n\nRoddie Keith, area commander for Glasgow, said it was a \"very significant and complex incident\".\n\n\"The fire was extinguished earlier this morning so we've scaled the incident down but we will have resources on site for quite some time to make sure there are no deeper-seated pockets of fire that could flare up at a later stage,\" he said.\n\nThe extent of the damage could be seen on Tuesday morning\n\nSome residents could be allowed to return to their homes at some point on Tuesday - at least to collect their belongings, he added.\n\nBut he was unable to give a timescale on when people would be able to return to flats directly affected by the blaze.\n\nThe property was an award-winning 1980s conversion of a quayside transit store, originally built in 1947, into 92 flats and maisonettes.\n\nOne resident told the BBC she was sure the building would have to be demolished.\n\nSheena Anderson, who has lived in the block for 17 years, said her home had been destroyed.\n\n\"It will be demolished,\" she said. \"They've got all the water that's coming down from the house above me.\n\n\"If a wee trickle comes, it pours down the walls, so my house will be demolished. Nothing surer. I can't believe it.\n\n\"I've got what I'm standing up in.\n\n\"OK, it could be worse, but that's a terrible fire. What caused it, they don't know.\"\n\nThe apartments face out onto the River Clyde\n\nThe Lancefield Quay flats opened in 1989 as part of an urban renewal plan by house builders Wimpey.\n\nThe homes were created from what had been a Glasgow City Council-owned warehouse between the Kingston Bridge and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.\n\nThe architectural design was described at the time as a \"triumph of ingenuity\" with each apartment's porthole-shaped windows looking out over the River Clyde.\n\nThe Broomielaw side of the building has also since been redeveloped into luxury flats, offices, shops and restaurants.\n\nAbdullah Alharbi, who has lived in the neighbouring flat with his family for two years, said: \"I'm feeling terrible.\n\n\"All my documents and papers, everything is at my flat and I'm scared about it.\"\n\nBBC reporter Graham Fraser said: \"There were lots of flames earlier. Now I can see a hole, about 15m long in the roof of the building with smoke pouring out still.\"\n\nFirefighers were dampening down on Tuesday morning\n\nThere were 60 firefighters on the scene at the height of the blaze\n\nGlasgow City Council said Lancefield Quay, the main road that runs alongside the Clyde in Glasgow, was closed between Elliot Street and Hydepark Street.\n\nIt added that Lancefield Quay was also closed eastbound at the junction with Finnieston Street. Anderston Quay is closed westbound at the junction with North Street.\n\nResidents of the building were sent to a local hotel, where support finding alternative accommodation was offered.", "Fifty years ago, the way people voted in the UK was largely determined by social class, but different influences are at play in the 21st Century.\n\nBack in the 1960s, political scientist Peter Pulzer famously stated that \"class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail\". People in middle-class jobs were more likely to vote Conservative, and the working class were more inclined to vote Labour. Any other differences were relatively unimportant.\n\nThe picture is now very different. The kind of job that someone does is expected to make very little difference to how they will vote at this election. On the other hand, whether they are young or old may matter a great deal.\n\nPolling companies divide voters into ABC1s (those employed in middle-class \"white collar\" jobs) and C2DEs (those in a working-class \"blue collar\" occupation). These two groups differ little in how they propose to vote at this election.\n\nAt 42%, support for the Conservatives is the same in both, while at 33%, support for Labour - a party originally founded to advance the interests of the working class - is only five points higher among the working class than the middle class.\n\n(The polls are GB-wide. Because of this, they cannot tell you anything meaningful about the demographic variation on the votes for SNP and Plaid Cymru).\n\nThis trend has been in evidence for some time. At each of the last three elections, the Conservatives have advanced more strongly than Labour among working-class voters. In the last election, the difference between the two groups had become quite small. This election looks set to repeat that pattern.\n\nConversely, the Liberal Democrats used to pride themselves on attracting support from both sides of the class divide. That claim is now more difficult to sustain. At 19%, the party's support among middle-class voters is markedly higher than among working-class supporters (10%).\n\nAlso striking, however, is the strength of support for the Lib Dems among graduates. On average, support is some 14 points higher among those with a degree than among those without. This reflects the fact that nearly all Lib Dem supporters voted Remain in the EU referendum, and that, in turn, university graduates are especially likely to back staying in the EU.\n\nSupport for the Conservatives is higher among those without a degree than among graduates - as might be expected, given that most of the party's support comes from those who voted Leave. This, in turn, helps explain why the party is no longer more popular among middle-class voters than those in working-class occupations.\n\nHowever, if voting no longer differs much between working-class and middle-class voters, it does differ between other groups.\n\nAt present the Conservatives are 15 points ahead of Labour among men, but by 11 points among women. According to Ipsos Mori, such a pattern - with Labour performing a little more strongly among women than men - has been in evidence since the 2005 election.\n\nA much bigger difference is to be observed between those from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\nIn contrast to the position in the polls in general, Labour are well ahead among those from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic (BAME) background. According to ICM, 56% of BAME voters intend to vote for Labour, while only 23% are likely to support the Conservatives. BMG puts the figures at 40% and 27% respectively.\n\nThe most striking difference of all is between younger and older voters.\n\nAbout three-fifths of those aged 65 or older are currently proposing to vote Conservative, compared with less than a quarter of those aged under 35. Conversely, nearly half of those aged less than 35 are backing Labour - but only 17% of those aged 65 or over.\n\nThere has always been a tendency for the Conservatives to be favoured in greater numbers by older rather than younger voters, with the opposite being true for Labour. Nevertheless, the gap widened noticeably in the 2015 election and even more so in 2017. It looks as though the generational gap could be just as big this time.\n\nYounger and older voters also disagree about Brexit. Younger voters are more likely to have voted Remain and older ones for Leave. This helps explain why younger voters are less willing to vote Conservative.\n\nHowever, the generational gap was widening before the EU referendum was held, so it must be about more than Brexit.\n\nSome other generational differences in the UK may be playing a role, such as attitudes towards immigration, ease of getting on the housing ladder, and the cost of university tuition.\n\nEither way, it is clear that age, not social class, is the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nThis piece uses Opinium polling on the leaders of the parties competing in the general election across the UK. Comparable results for parties with candidates in individual nations, including the SNP, are not available.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal came from behind to end their nine-match winless streak as Freddie Ljungberg enjoyed his first victory as interim manager at the expense of his former club West Ham.\n\nEighteen-year-old Gabriel Martinelli marked his full Premier League debut by side-footing an equaliser which cancelled out Angelo Ogbonna's deflected first-half opener at London Stadium.\n\nWithin nine minutes, Nicolas Pepe had curled a magnificent second into the top corner and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired in a third.\n\nThe salvo turned the game on its head and piled the pressure on West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini, whose side have taken four points from their past nine league games and conceded three times in three successive home games.\n\nThe Hammers remain a point above the relegation zone in 16th and face a trip to third-bottom Southampton on Saturday. Arsenal move up two places to ninth.\n• None Pellegrini 'not worried' about relegation after loss to Arsenal\n• None West Ham v Arsenal as it happened, reaction and analysis\n• None Football Daily: Ljungberg's Arsenal pull three points out of the bag\n\nArsenal's victory was all the more remarkable because until Martinelli added to the seven goals he has scored in cup competitions this season, the visitors had been utterly woeful.\n\nClub officials had spoken before kick-off about the improved atmosphere triggered by Ljungberg's appointment as Unai Emery's replacement but it appeared this game would end in frustration, just as the previous two had done under the Swede.\n\nThe visitors were bereft of confidence and mild boos from the travelling support accompanied the end of a first half in which their side failed to have a shot on target and went behind when Ogbonna's header bounced in off Ainsley Maitland-Niles.\n\nTrue, they did not have much luck. Hector Bellerin was injured in the warm-up and when Kieran Tierney was helped off in obvious pain with a shoulder injury sustained in a seemingly innocuous tangle with Michail Antonio, Ljungberg had lost both his first-choice full-backs in the space of half an hour.\n\nNevertheless, it was pitiful stuff and when Aubameyang surged down the right wing and sent over a cross that flew over everyone and straight out for a throw-in on the other side of the pitch, it was symptomatic of a club apparently heading nowhere fast.\n\nIt was 1977 when Arsenal last went 10 matches without a win. With an away Europa League game against Standard Liege followed by a home encounter with Manchester City to come, at the interval it was not beyond the realms of possibility that the 12-game barren sequence from 1974 was going to be threatened.\n\nWith Alexandre Lacazette and David Luiz on the bench, it was two of Arsenal's most inexperienced players who sparked the change in fortune.\n\nLjungberg had obviously seen enough of Martinelli in two substitute appearances to trust the Brazilian with his first league start. The reward was a nerveless finish when his side needed it most. Sead Kolasinac provided the cross but there was still a lot to do for the Brazilian, who steered a first-time effort into the corner.\n\nEmery paid a club record £72m for Pepe in August. With one league goal all season, the Frenchman has not really lived up to his billing but his goal here, a curling shot into the right-hand corner of David Martin's net, was perfect in its execution.\n\nAubameyang made certain of a win few would have anticipated 10 minutes earlier when his clinical finish took his tally for the season to 13. It disguised the fact he had been a virtual spectator for the first hour.\n\nAt the final whistle, Ljungberg ran to applaud the visiting fans, knowing he had given his own chances of replacing Emery a significant boost.\n\nWhat now for the unhappy Hammers?\n\nWhen they beat Chelsea 1-0 nine days ago to end their own winless sequence, it appeared West Ham were on an upward curve.\n\nThe combination of boos and thousands of empty seats that accompanied the final whistle on Monday underlined the truth of the matter.\n\nWest Ham are perilously close to dropping into the relegation zone, something the club cannot countenance after moving to the 60,000-capacity London Stadium.\n\nEven if Pellegrini survives this defeat, if West Ham lose again at Southampton on Saturday the calls for his dismissal will become piercingly loud.\n\nThis was the third home game running in which they had conceded three goals.\n\nThe Hammers were not particularly convincing when they were in front. Once they lost the advantage, the lack of confidence so clear in Arsenal's play transferred to theirs.\n\nRecord signing Sebastien Haller was left on the bench and even when he was introduced 20 minutes from time, he made no noticeable impact.\n\n'Like a Duracell battery' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg told BBC Sport: \"The players have belief and tried to move the ball with more tempo. West Ham got tired.\n\n\"The players ran their socks off and fought. I believe in them. When I could see them put their shift in, I could see the quality. I thought 'it is here for the taking'.\n\n\"Martinelli did amazingly. He is like a Duracell battery, he keeps going. Laca [Alexandre Lacazette] is a tremendous player but I had to make a tough decision.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini told BBC Sport: \"For 60 minutes there was just one team on the pitch. But football can be like this.\n\n\"We made mistakes in moments of defending. The problem was a lack of patience and quality to decide the game with a second goal and we made important mistakes in defence.\n\n\"The pressure for me is exactly the same if we win or lose. When you don't have results things are more difficult. If I had not seen the team play the way they did in the first 65 minutes, I might have doubts [about his ability to turn things around].\n\n\"After Southampton at the weekend we have a break. We must try to recover as quickly as we can and we must try to win those three points.\"\n\nRare Arsenal recovery away from home - the stats\n• None West Ham have lost three in a row at home in the Premier League for the first time since August 2015.\n• None Arsenal came from a half-time losing position to win a Premier League away game for the first time since October 2011 (5-3 v Chelsea).\n• None Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's fourth-youngest scorer in the Premier League (18 years 174 days), after Cesc Fabregas, Serge Gnabry and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been involved in 12 goals in his past 11 Premier League London derbies (nine goals, three assists).\n• None Since his Premier League debut in February 2018, Aubameyang has scored 43 goals in the competition, a joint-high along with Jamie Vardy.\n\nArsenal conclude their Europa League group phase campaign at Standard Liege on Thursday (17:55 GMT), still needing a draw to be sure of qualification before entertaining Manchester City at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30). West Ham visit Southampton on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi replaces Granit Xhaka because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nathan Holland (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The abuse of candidates on Twitter has escalated during the election campaign, research suggests, with Conservatives seeing the biggest rise.\n\nAbuse spiked after TV debates, a study by the University of Sheffield found - with abuse of Tories rising and Labour and Lib Dem levels remaining stable.\n\nLabour's Jeremy Corbyn received most, followed by Tory leader Boris Johnson.\n\nOthers have reported being threatened with sledgehammers and targeted by abusive graffiti and vandalism.\n\nConservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns told the BBC some of the abuse she received had been \"sexually violent\", while the SNP's Lisa Cameron said social media trolls had threatened to behead her.\n\nResearchers looked at the abusive replies candidates received on Twitter during the first four weeks of the general election campaign.\n\nThey cross-referenced a database of slurs and offensive words with the contents of responses to tweets sent by candidates standing on 12 December.\n\nWhile the Labour and Conservative leaders received the most abuse, the study found that Health Secretary Matt Hancock, cabinet minister Michael Gove and Labour candidate David Lammy received the next highest levels.\n\nConservative Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, and Labour's Diane Abbott also received substantial levels of abuse.\n\nOf the top 20 recipients of abuse between 3 November and 4 December, the study found that 11 were Conservative, seven were Labour and two were Lib Dem.\n\nAnd while candidates of all parties received abusive tweet replies, Conservative candidates saw a rising level of abuse towards them as the campaign got under way - something that was not echoed in responses to either Labour or Lib Dem candidates, researchers said.\n\nProfessor Kalina Bontcheva, who leads the research team behind the study, said the overall rise in abuse suggested \"extreme voter polarisation\", with people using a variety of insults to attack the political orientation or opinion of candidates.\n\n\"This is combined with an even more disturbing rise in vitriolic personal abuse and threats - often targeting the candidates due to their race, gender, country of birth, or religion,\" she said.\n\nMichael Gove saw a spike in abuse levelled at him around the time of Channel 4's election debate on climate change, the study found.\n\nHe had offered to take the place of Mr Johnson in the debate, but the broadcaster refused, saying the invitation was for leaders only. Instead, the programme \"empty chaired\" Mr Johnson.\n\nMore generally, Brexit, immigration and policing all drew fire on Twitter for the Conservatives, while Labour was attacked for tweets on immigration, Brexit, democracy and business and enterprise, according to the study.\n\nThe Lib Dems drew disproportionate amounts of abuse for posts on Brexit, democracy, community and society, it said.\n\nCandidates Andrea Jenkyns, Sarah Wollaston and Luke Pollard have all been victims of abuse\n\nAndrea Jenkyns, Conservative candidate for Morley and Outwood, has noticed the type and level of online abuse directed at her get worse. She said abuse had been directed at her from people with fake profiles.\n\nOne of her campaign team was recently chased down the street by a man with a sledgehammer. \"It can be pretty horrific, some of it, actually,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm a blunt northern lass who believes in fighting, but I think the sad thing is my threshold - my tolerance levels - has widened. I probably accept a lot more now than, ordinarily, I would have done.\"\n\nThe SNP's Lisa Cameron added: \"I've already had people online, particularly over the Halloween period, calling me a witch and a monster and, you know, making fun and mocking me, mocking my parents, mocking me in general.\"\n\n\"Then I received death threats online from individuals saying they were coming to behead me, sending pictures of beheaded corpses,\" she added.\n\nFor Sarah Wollaston, Liberal Democrat candidate for Totnes, abuse can feel relentless, with \"torrents\" of it often being whipped up online.\n\n\"It's a great shame. It's become normalised. For me I just don't notice it. I set my filters higher. Unpleasant messages I mute them. A lot of people I want to interact with but if you do, you are just feeding it.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is coming at you in every form - online, in the mail, even things like dirty underwear being delivered to my office - unpleasant stuff that my team then have to deal with.\"\n\nThe word \"pedo\" was sprayed across the front of a Labour candidate's office in Plymouth\n\nLuke Pollard, Labour candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has also received abuse on social media and has had his constituency office daubed with homophobic graffiti.\n\nAlthough there was no place for such abuse, he said, he called on politicians on all sides to take responsibility for the tone of the current debate.\n\n\"In the heated, divisive, contested atmosphere of a general election, you know people respond to the hate they see and the division they see from politicians - and that contributes to this very toxic atmosphere,\" he said.\n\nPolice told the BBC they had received almost 200 reports relating to election candidate security between 15 November and 4 December. However, about half of the reports did not constitute a crime.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, advised election candidates and their volunteers to familiarise themselves with police safety guidance and to contact police with any concerns.\n\n\"Police will investigate all reports of abuse and will seek to prosecute those who act outside the law,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as separate research revealed the extent of misleading advertising on social media by political parties and campaign groups at this election.\n\nNon-profit organisation First Draft looked at every paid-for Facebook ad from the three main UK-wide parties run over the first four days of December.\n\nFor the Conservatives, the group said 88% (5,952) of the party's most widely promoted ads either featured claims that had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations, including BBC Reality Check, as not correct or not entirely correct.\n\nFor the Lib Dems, it said hundreds of potentially misleading ads had featured identical unlabelled graphs, with no indication of the source data, to claim it was the only party that could beat either Labour, the Conservatives, or the SNP \"in seats like yours\"\n\nFor Labour, it said it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period. However, it noted that the party's supporters were more likely to share unpaid-for electioneering posts than those of its rivals.", "Ever since Nancy Pelosi announced last week that she was instructing the Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, speculation swirled as to what exactly they would look like. Would they be broad, sweeping in a hodgepodge of alleged presidential misdeeds that include evidence gathered over the course of Mr Trump’s three-year presidency? Or would they go narrow, and focus primarily on this latest Ukraine controversy.\n\nNow we have our answer. Narrow it is.\n\nDemocrats probably decided to, as the saying goes, \"keep it simple, stupid\". They have what they hope will be an easy-to-understand case of presidential abuse of power, by using the vast tools of foreign policy at his disposal for personal political gain. As a backstop to these charges, they are accusing the president of attempting to obstruct Congress’s investigation by denying relevant documents and witness testimony.\n\nAt stake, they will argue, is the security of the 2020 presidential election and the protection of congressional authority as a co-equal branch of government.\n\nThe main script from here appears clear – a quick vote in the Judiciary Committee, followed by one on the floor of the House of Representatives; presidential impeachment and a Senate trial.\n\nIn the meantime, much to the consternation of some liberals, congressional Democrats will move to hand the president a policy victory – by approving his renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.\n\nAnd during all of this, a fever of allegations and accusations – of intelligence agency misconduct in its investigation of 2016 Trump-Russia ties, presidential Twitter barbs at his own FBI director, criminal investigations of the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and much more – continue to swirl and threaten to erupt and disrupt the process in one way or another.\n\nWhile the main script may be clear, beneath the surface unpredictability is the only predictable result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior politicians faced questions on housing, climate change and trust from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nThe election debate also saw exchanges over Brexit and the possibility of another referendum.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner clashed with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage over what she said was a racist referendum poster, in one of the fieriest clashes.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls in a general election on Thursday.\n\nSitting on the panel were:\n\nThis special edition of Question Time certainly didn't lack passion or drama. At times it was lively and bad tempered, with the politicians talking over one another as they tried to win over younger voters.\n\nWe heard the now familiar arguments about Brexit which have been at the heart of this election campaign, but the politicians were also challenged over other issues such as changing the voting system which haven't made the headlines.\n\nThis wasn't a debate that saw seven party leaders go head-to-head, although four did take part, and as such was unlikely to deliver a knockout blow or even produce a clear winner.\n\nAnd it probably won't have converted anyone who was already determined to vote for a particular party.\n\nThe young voters in the audience will deliver their verdict, along with the rest of the country on Thursday.\n\nBut the gap between the current generation of political leaders and the under 30s was most vividly illustrated by the question about home ownership and underlined the challenge facing whoever is in power on Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: Politicians on when they bought their first house\n\nOn the subject of housing, the panel were asked what age they were when they bought their own home.\n\nMr Farage was the youngest, buying a property at 22, and Mr Price was the oldest at 30.\n\nMr Farage linked housing problems to population growth which prompted Mr Yousaf to accuse the Brexit Party leader of blaming \"everything on immigrants\".\n\nHe argued that \"One of the best things that we [the Scottish government] did was abolish the right to buy when it came to council houses.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said it was his \"personal mission to help more young people on to the housing ladder\" adding that his party would \"offer discounts and help with deposits\".\n\nWhile Ms Rayner said she would \"make no apologies\" for Labour wanting to build 100,000 council homes or introduce rent controls.\n\nAudience member Aiden Booth asked the panel how governments could say they are serious about climate change without dealing with one of the biggest contributors, meat consumption.\n\nMr Jenrick said the Conservatives would not \"ban people from eating meat\", but would instead encourage people to live environmentally by investing in public transport and energy efficient measure.\n\nBut Ms Swinson attacked the government's record saying it had abolished the climate change department and blocked subsidies for wind farms.\n\nShe said tackling climate change \"cannot wait\" drawing attention to the case of Ella Kissi-Debrah who died aged nine in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nMr Bartley said: \"We can solve the climate emergency and reverse austerity if we're willing to make the right choices.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the climate were a bank, we would have bailed it out by now.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Ms Rayner said in another referendum she would vote to leave the EU if \"we get a deal that protects jobs and the economy\". Labour has said that, if elected, it would renegotiate a new Brexit deal which would then be put back to the country in a referendum along with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Price, whose party wants another referendum, argued that \"the people are entitled to change their mind\". He said \"the opinion polls show a shift\" in opinion but added that \"only the people can end the impasse\".\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for the instability in politics in the years since the referendum, Mr Jenrick said he wished \"we had managed to get Brexit done a long time ago\", claiming that Parliament had blocked the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Yousaf said Scotland was the only nation \"to get shafted\" in the wake of Brexit. He argued that England and Wales voted to Leave, while Northern Ireland who voted to Remain would get a \"differentiated deal\".\n\nMr Farage accused the other five parties of having \"broken their promise\" to respect the result of the referendum.\n\nThe debate became particularly heated over a poster on immigration Mr Farage unveiled during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nMs Rayner told the Brexit Party leader to \"stop peddling hate in our country\". Mr Farage hit back accusing the Labour politician of \"bile and prejudice\".\n\nThe panellists were also asked about how they would improve trust in politics.\n\nMr Price said he would introduce a bill to \"make lying by politicians a criminal offence\" while Mr Farage promised to tackle postal vote fraud and abolish the House of Lords.\n\n\"I won't lie and I'll call out the people who do,\" replied Ms Rayner.\n\nMr Jenrick vowed to \"deliver the outcome of the referendum\" while Ms Swinson said she would \"stick to my principles\" on Brexit \"whether it is popular or not\".\n\nMr Yousaf said his party would \"fulfil the promise of the manifesto we stood on\".\n\nAnd Mr Bartley proposed lifting \"the ceiling on the fines\" that can be implemented by the Electoral Commission.\n\nYoung people make up a big share of non-voters in the UK - the British Election Study estimates that between 40-50% of those aged 18 to their mid-20s voted in 2015 and 2017 compared with about 80% of voters aged in their 70s.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice says age is \"the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December\".", "Classmates of a boy killed by a car outside his school have held a minute's applause in his memory.\n\nHarley Watson, 12, was among a group of pupils hit outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December.\n\nThe school said clapping in tribute felt more \"appropriate\" than a silence as he was a \"keen football fan\".\n\nA message on its Facebook page said: \"We have been inundated with messages of support from schools all over the country.\"\n\nAn inquest into Harley's death which opened earlier confirmed he died of a severe head injury.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Loughton, has been charged with Harley's murder and 10 counts of attempted murder. He will next appear in court in January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman has killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the Czech city of Ostrava before shooting himself in the head, police say.\n\nArmed police found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a vehicle three hours later.\n\nThe gunman was believed to be a patient at the hospital, one unconfirmed report said. His motive remains unclear.\n\nOfficers said they were called to the hospital in the north-eastern city at 07:19 (06:19 GMT).\n\nThe shooting took place in a matter of moments at Ostrava university hospital's trauma clinic. Hospital director Jiri Havrlant told Czech TV the gunman opened fire without warning, hitting nine patients.\n\nFour men and two women were killed and three other people were wounded, two seriously. All of the victims were patients at the hospital.\n\nThe hospital was initially locked down.\n\nA doctor inside the hospital told the Aktualne website that staff had been locked in a hallway waiting for the emergency to end.\n\nPatients and staff were eventually evacuated from the hospital by the emergency services\n\nOne eyewitness, Iwona Marusikova, told Reuters news agency that it was difficult to talk about what had happened. \"I work in the blood unit here. It was horrible, I am still in shock, it is a sad event... it is awful.\"\n\nPolice earlier asked for help in their search for the gunman, but warned people not to approach him, adding that the site in the Moravian-Silesian region had been \"secured\".\n\nThe suspect had used a handgun and had driven off in a silver Renault Laguna car, according to police. They said they had established the 42-year-old man's name, had photographs of him and had obtained his vehicle licence plate number.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Cameron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said that once they had obtained pictures of the suspect from security cameras they launched two helicopters to search for him. When one of the helicopters was flying over the car some 5km (3 miles) north of the hospital, the man shot himself in the head and later died of his injuries.\n\nThe gun used in the attack was described as a 9mm Czech-made handgun, which the suspect did not have a licence for.\n\nThe man described by police as the gunman was shown wearing a red jacket\n\nPolice initially posted an image of a man they said they needed to trace and said later he was the man behind the shooting, but they later removed the picture from their social media feed after he was found.\n\nPatrols were stepped up at what police described as soft targets, such as schools, shopping centres and other hospitals.\n\nColleagues of the suspected gunman told Czech media that he had recently gone on sick leave, declaring he was seriously ill. He was said to be a construction engineer who had been treated at the hospital's haemato-oncology department.\n\nPrime Minister Andrej Babis confirmed that six people had been killed and that the shootings occurred at close range. He said the suspect had visited his mother at her home following the attack to inform her of what he had done.\n\nMr Babis then cancelled a foreign trip to travel to Ostrava, reports said.\n\nThe hospital in Ostrava is about 300km (190 miles) east of Prague\n\nThe governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Ivo Vondrak, said the shooting was \"a great tragedy\".\n\nPolice said that officers responding to reports of a shooting had arrived at the scene within five minutes. Ostrava is about 300km (190 miles) east of Prague.\n\nPolice later offered their condolences to the families and staff affected by Tuesday's shooting and thanked the public for their assistance throughout the day.\n\nAfter announcing that the area was safe and that roads had been reopened, members of the public visited the hospital to lay flowers and light candles.\n\nPeople later paid their respects for the victims by laying flowers and lighting candles\n\nGun attacks in the Czech Republic are rare, although gun ownership is relatively high for Europe because of the popularity of hunting.\n\nIn 2015, a man opened fire in a restaurant in the eastern town of Uhersky Brod, killing eight people before turning the gun on himself.\n\nLast week, the Czech government lost a legal challenge to an EU law restricting private use of semi-automatic rifles. It was introduced by the European Union in 2017 after a spate of militant Islamist attacks in 2015.\n\nThe government in Prague said the law would do nothing to increase security.", "New Zealand is a wealthy Pacific nation dominated by two cultural groups - New Zealanders of European descent, and the Maori, who are descendants of Polynesian settlers.\n\nIt is made up of two main islands and numerous smaller ones. Around three-quarters of the population lives on the North Island, which is also home to the capital, Wellington.\n\nAgriculture is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important. Visitors are drawn to the glacier-carved mountains, lakes, beaches and thermal springs. Because of the islands' geographical isolation, much of the flora and fauna is unique to the country.\n\nNew Zealand plays an active role in Pacific affairs, and has special constitutional ties with the Pacific territories of Niue, the Cook Islands and Tokelau.\n\nChris Hipkins became prime minister in January 2023 following the unexpected resignation of his Labour Party predecessor Jacinda Ardern, who had won second term in October 2020 - Ardern had said she no longer had \"enough in the tank\" to lead the country.\n\nJacinda Arden had won praise at home and abroad for her handling of two major crises - the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting, and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Hipkins now faces the uphill task of retaining power in the upcoming general elections in October. Opinion polls have suggested that his party is trailing its conservative opposition, the National Party, in popularity.\n\nThe country was among the first to close borders, this won plaudits for keeping New Zealand virus-free early in the pandemic, but frustration set in later when people tired of the zero-tolerance strategy, which saw nationwide lockdowns over a single infection.\n\nBroadcasters enjoy one of the world's most liberal media arenas.\n\nThe broadcasting sector was deregulated in 1988, when the government allowed competition to the state-owned Television New Zealand (TVNZ). Privately-owned TV3 is TVNZ's main competitor.\n\nSatellite platform SKY TV is the leading pay TV provider. Freeview carries free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite TV.\n\nThe New Zealand Herald newspaper has the biggest circulation.\n\nSome key dates in New Zealand's history:\n\nc.1200-1300AD - Ancestors of the Maori arrive by canoe from other parts of Polynesia. Their name for the country is Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud).\n\n1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the south island and charts some of the country's west coast. It subsequently appears on Dutch maps as Nieuw Zeeland, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.\n\n1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.\n\n1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British law in New Zealand.\n\n1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.\n\n1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.\n\n1907 - New Zealand becomes dominion within British Empire.\n\n1914-18 - New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort during World War One. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.\n\n1939-45 - Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War Two.\n\n1951 - Anzus Pacific security treaty signed between New Zealand, Australia and USA.\n\n1985 - New Zealand refuses to allow US nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships to enter its ports. French secret service agents blow up Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. One person killed.\n\n2011 - Scores of people are killed in a major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, on South Island.\n\n2017 - A New Zealand-US firm, Rocket Lab, launches its first rocket into space, ushering New Zealand into the select group of countries which have carried out a space launch.\n\n2019 - Fifty people are killed when a far-right gunman attacks worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch. Government tightens gun laws.\n\n2020 - Jacinda Ardern wins landslide victory for Labour in parliamentary elections, in part over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew Zealand's parliament building, The Beehive, was officially opened in 1981", "Nigel Farage has urged traditional Labour supporters in Leave-voting seats to vote \"tactically and sensibly\" to ensure Brexit Party MPs are elected.\n\nHe said his party needed a \"bridgehead\" in the next Parliament to ensure Boris Johnson did not \"sell out\" the 17.4 million people who backed Brexit.\n\nMr Farage said his party could get \"over the line\" in a handful of seats.\n\nAnd he warned of \"years of indigestion\" unless there were major changes to the PM's \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal.\n\nAt his final press conference of the campaign, Mr Farage defended his party's election strategy, which has seen it focus on Labour-held seats such as Grimsby, Hartlepool and Barnsley which voted to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nHe has come under fire from within his own party for not doing more to help the Conservatives win a Commons majority, an outcome which Mr Johnson has said will enable the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nFour Brexit Party MEPs were suspended last week for urging Mr Farage, who has campaigned for the UK to leave the EU for decades, to scale back the party's efforts to help the Conservatives.\n\nA number of Brexit Party candidates in target Tory seats have said they have stopped campaigning in the final 48 hours before Thursday's election and urged people to vote for their opponents.\n\nMr Farage suggested his candidate in Lincoln, Reece Wilkes, may have been effectively coerced into backing the Conservatives, saying he could \"only imagine the pressure that individuals would have come under\".\n\nHe dismissed suggestions that the party was at risk of splitting the Leave vote, saying it was \"tearing chunks\" out of the Labour vote in seats like Grimsby, leaving the Conservatives in a strong position to win.\n\n\"Far from splitting the vote, in some parts of the country we are actually making Boris Johnson's life rather easier,\" he said.\n\nMr Farage said it was important his party was represented in the next Parliament to deliver a \"proper\" Brexit and keep Mr Johnson to his pledge to negotiate a Canada-style free trade deal with the EU, allowing the UK to fully diverge from EU rules and standards.\n\nThe PM has insisted he can negotiate an agreement by the end of 2020 before the transition period agreed with the EU ends, citing the existing close economic alignment between the UK and the bloc.\n\nBut Mr Farage said the EU would have the \"upper hand\" in the \"agonising\" negotiations that lay ahead and there was a risk of the UK getting trapped in an arrangement where it had to follow EU rules and standards without any say in setting them.\n\nUnless there were significant changes to the UK's blueprint for future relations, he said Mr Johnson's deal - which the PM has said is \"oven-ready\" and could be swiftly passed by Parliament - would give the country \"indigestion for years and years to come\".\n\n\"We can avoid that by establishing a bridgehead of Brexit Party MPs,\" he said. \"It does not matter if there aren't too many of them.\"\n\nHe added: \"As much as I want Brexit, I don't want to see Brexit sold out. I am convinced that without the Brexit Party's voice we will not get the Brexit that 17.4 million people voted for.\n\n\"I am also convinced that in some of our strongest seats we are going to get some over the line.\n\n\"My appeal is to Leave voters in those constituencies which have been Labour for ever and will be Labour when you wake up on Friday morning unless you use your vote tactically and sensibly... don't waste your vote\".", "Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they are stepping down from top roles at the online giant's parent company.\n\nThey will leave their respective roles as Alphabet's chief executive officer and president but remain on the board.\n\nGoogle's CEO Sundar Pichai will become Alphabet's CEO too, a statement said.\n\nAlphabet was created in 2015 as part of a corporate restructuring of Google, which Mr Page and Mr Brin famously founded in a California garage in 1998.\n\nThe parent company was intended to make the tech giant's activities \"cleaner and more accountable\" as it expanded from internet search into other areas such as self-driving cars.\n\nThe pair moved from Google to Alphabet when it was formed - saying they were making the jump to focus on starting new initiatives.\n\nBut in a blog post on Tuesday, the co-founders, both aged 46, announced they were stepping back from the day-to-day management of the company.\n\nA joint letter said they would remain \"actively involved as board members, shareholders and co-founders\", but said it was the \"natural time to simplify our management structure\".\n\n\"We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President,\" their letter said.\n\nThey also declared it was time to \"assume the role of proud parents - offering advice and love, but not daily nagging\" and insisted there was \"no better person\" to lead the company into the future than Mr Pichai.\n\nThe 47-year-old was born in India, where he studied engineering. He went on to study in the US at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Google in 2004.\n\nSundar Pichai will now serve as CEO of both companies\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"excited\" about the transition and paid tribute to Mr Page and Mr Brin.\n\n\"The founders have given all of us an incredible chance to have an impact on the world,\" Mr Pichai said. \"Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values, and a culture of collaboration and exploration that makes it exciting to come to work every day.\n\n\"It's a strong foundation on which we will continue to build. Can't wait to see where we go next and look forward to continuing the journey with all of you.\"\n\nThis move represents the most significant shake-up of leadership at Google since its inception - the first time the dynamic duo of Brin and Page, a legendary Silicon Valley partnership, won't hold important management roles in the company they founded.\n\nIn reality, though, that's been the case for some time - the public face of the firm has been Mr Pichai and, to a lesser extent, YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki. But Tuesday's announcement makes it absolutely clear - Mr Page and Mr Brin aren't running the company.\n\nYet while the pair are apparently relinquishing management duties, it won't mean giving up ultimate power. Between them, they control 51% of voting rights on Alphabet's board. This won't change. They likened their new role to being \"proud parents\" to the company, looking on with close interest and care.\n\nBut should they feel the need, they can override any decision Mr Pichai makes - with little more than a parental \"because we said so\".\n\nMr Page and Brin are ranked the 10th and 14th richest individuals in the world by Forbes, with each of them estimated to be worth about $50bn (£38bn).\n\nThe American business magazine ranks Alphabet as the 17th largest public company in the world, with an estimated market value of $863bn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'I absolutely promise' UK out of EU by January\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to pass his Brexit deal and bring a Budget within 100 days if he is elected PM.\n\nThe Tory leader said it would include his pledge to raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500, along with cash for schools and the NHS.\n\nHe has pledged a \"new government with a new approach\" - with a focus on better infrastructure, education and technology.\n\nBut Labour said Tories only offered \"more of the same failure\".\n\nThe Lib Dems called the Conservative plans \"pure fantasy\", while the SNP warned there were seven days left to \"lock\" Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nVoters will go to the polls on 12 December for the third election in just over four years.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out his wider legislative agenda in a Queen's Speech pencilled in for 19 December if he gets back into No 10.\n\nHe promised this would build on the programme that was approved by Parliament as recently as October, but which was then effectively mothballed after MPs voted to back an early election.\n\nAnd he has committed to bringing his EU withdrawal agreement back for initial approval by MPs before Christmas.\n\n\"All we need is a working majority to deliver it. Every single one of our candidates has signed up to this deal,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said the possibility that a Conservative government could fail to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 \"simply will not happen\".\n\nThis 11-month deadline covers the transition period that would follow if the UK left the EU in January, which critics say does not leave enough time to negotiate such a deal and could mean the UK ends up without one.\n\nThey include former Tory Justice Secretary - and now independent candidate - David Gauke, who said leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nHe added: \"Look at what we achieved in three months with the deal I did\".\n\nIn an interview with ITV's This Morning, he said a trade deal with the EU was a \"very exciting prospect\", could be agreed \"by the end of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson's plan for the first 100 days gives a timetable to a number of his existing pledges from the campaign trail, including:\n\nThe Conservatives have also said they would introduce a number of pieces of legislation in the 100-day timeframe to take the first steps on other promises including:\n\nMr Johnson vowed that, in government, the Tories would prioritise their plan to raise the National Insurance threshold, as it would deliver a tax cut for \"those who need the most help with the cost of living\".\n\nBut Labour, which is making an announcement of its own on schools funding on Thursday, said the Conservatives' record in office over the past nine-and-a-half years was one of total failure.\n\n\"In those days we've seen child poverty soar, rising homelessness, rising food bank use, and violent crime is up too while the NHS has more people waiting for operations, and record staff vacancies,\" said shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne.\n\n\"As the Conservatives approach 3,500 days of failure, it's clear that more of the same failed austerity, privatisation and tax giveaways for the few is not the answer.\"\n\nAnd as she prepared to embark on a week-long election bus tour, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party was the only one in Scotland capable of thwarting Mr Johnson's \"extreme Brexit\".\n\n\"If Boris Johnson wins a majority in seven days' time, Scotland will be dragged out of Europe within just eight weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"We have seven days to escape Brexit, lock Boris Johnson out of office and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\"", "Oliver George's sentencing hearing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados, the court heard\n\nA man who admitted drunkenly threatening bar staff with a £5.50 toy gun - then had his sentencing delayed so he could go to the Caribbean - has been given a community order.\n\nOliver George, 26, flashed the handle of a fake pistol in the Sandbanks Yacht Club in Poole when he became \"annoyed\" at being told he was too drunk.\n\nHe admitted possessing an imitation firearm in a public place in September.\n\nBut sentencing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados.\n\nPoole magistrates sentenced him earlier to 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nGeorge, of Panorama Road in Sandbanks, was a regular customer and had been drinking at the club during the afternoon of 10 September, the court heart.\n\nProsecutor David Finney described how George lifted up his cardigan and flashed the handle of the fake gun that was tucked into the waistband of his shorts.\n\nIn a statement, a member of staff said he was \"really scared\" at what he had seen.\n\n\"I felt threatened seeing it - I didn't know what he would do,\" he said.\n\nGeorge lives on the Sandbanks peninsula in Poole\n\nGeorge left the club and was arrested at his nearby family home a short time later, the magistrates were told.\n\nTerry Scanlan, mitigating, said: \"Mr George was in possession of a clearly harmless toy gun which he had bought for £5.50 from Amazon for his nephews.\"\n\nHe told the court George admitted he lifted his cardigan up so staff were aware of it and that it was a \"really silly thing to do\" but did not have a \"sinister\" intent.\n\nGeorge had \"significant mental health issues\" and was an alcoholic, the court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, magistrate David Senior told George: \"They believed it was a real weapon and you put people in fear.\"\n\nIn addition to his 18-month community order, he was also ordered to pay compensation of £200 each to two members of staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has hailed Nato as \"the most successful alliance in history\" after talks with leaders near London.\n\nThe PM insisted there was \"very great solidarity\" within the alliance, amid tensions on its 70th anniversary.\n\nHe also praised the role of the United States, adding the country had been a \"pillar of stability\" on security issues.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he wanted to ensure Nato focused on reducing \"tensions around the world\".\n\nLeaders of the 29-member military alliance have been discussing shared security issues at a special meeting to mark 70 years since its formation.\n\nIn a statement issued after talks at a luxury resort near Watford, leaders acknowledged the \"challenges\" posed by China and Russia, and pledged to take \"stronger action\" against terrorism.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said countries in the alliance had added $130bn (£100bn) to defence budgets since 2016, and that this number would increase to $400bn by 2024.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has frequently criticised how much other allies spend on defence.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at a press conference afterwards, Mr Johnson said member countries were making \"real progress\" towards meeting a target to spend 2% or more of their economic output on defence.\n\nAsked whether President Trump was good for the UK, the prime minister said the US had always \"should shoulder to shoulder\" with the country.\n\nHe added that the country's response after the Salisbury poisonings last year had been a \"fantastic testament to the transatlantic alliance\".\n\nPressed directly to comment on Mr Trump as a leader, Mr Johnson said the administration he leads \"could not have been more supportive\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party was committed to remaining part of the Nato alliance, adding it was \"important to be part of\".\n\n\"I think we'll have to contribute to world peace through Nato and any other alliance, principally through the United Nations,\" he added.\n\nAlthough Labour's manifesto pledges to maintain the UK's commitment to Nato, Mr Johnson accused Labour of wanting to \"destroy\" it.\n\nMr Corbyn has previously attacked the organisation \"as a danger to peace\", but on Wednesday said: \"We have decided we'll remain in Nato as a party, and that's it.\"\n\nHe added that he thought Nato was going in the \"wrong\" direction back in 2011, but the alliance has since \"changed its focus\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening, leaders attended receptions at Downing Street and at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe prime minister held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss Syria, Libya and counter-terrorism at No 10.\n\nHe had faced questions over whether he was avoiding a one-to-one meeting with Mr Trump, over concerns it could blow his election campaign off course, but Downing Street said the two men had a low-key, off camera meeting.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he had not talked about the NHS during the meeting, but did talk about \"all manner of areas of cooperation, from Nato to Syria to trade\".\n\nLabour has claimed throughout the election campaign that the future of the health service could be threatened by a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nLater in the evening, Mr Johnson was filmed chatting with a group of leaders during a reception at Buckingham Palace - they appeared to be discussing the US president.\n\nMr Johnson said it was \"complete nonsense\" to suggest he did not take Donald Trump seriously after the video emerged.\n\nPresident Trump has cancelled a planned press conference, telling reporters: \"We'll go directly back. I think we've done plenty of news conferences.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who said he intended to ask the US president for \"reassurances\" that the NHS would be \"off the table\" in post-Brexit trade talks - was also at the reception, but says he did not have an opportunity to speak to him.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference earlier in the day, Mr Trump had said he wanted \"absolutely nothing to do with\" the NHS, adding he would not touch it even if it was handed to his administration \"on a silver platter\".\n\nAsked whether he could work with Mr Corbyn as prime minister, he said he could \"work with anybody\", although earlier he said he thought Mr Johnson would do a \"good job\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reporters ask the US president his thoughts on the upcoming UK general election", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nThe family of a 12-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run near his school say they are \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHarley Watson was struck near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nA 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, as well as the attempted murder of four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Loughton school crash survivor 'blacked out' when hit by car\n\nEssex Police said the 51-year-old man was arrested in a pub car park in Fiddlers Hamlet at 23:00 on Monday.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman said there \"may be connections\" between the crash near Debden Park High School and an earlier incident of a car mounting a pavement near Roding Valley High School in Loughton, 10 minutes before the fatal collision.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct based on \"previous contact\" it had had with the arrested man.\n\nHarley's death has been described as a \"young life so tragically lost\"\n\nIt is understood all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected. The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students. We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock... battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit, but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could. It was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nDebden Park High School opened on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nEssex Police said officers are looking for a silver Ford Ka \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian police searching for the final member of a group who became stranded in the outback more than two weeks ago have found a body.\n\nThe body has not been identified but it is believed to be Claire Hockridge.\n\nMs Hockridge, 46, had been travelling with two others when their car got stuck in a riverbed on 19 November.\n\nHer partner Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, and friend Phu Tran, 40, were found alive earlier this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is said to have started in a \"bin room\" next to the Travelodge\n\nMore than 100 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze at a hotel in west London which has forced dozens of guests and staff to be evacuated.\n\nCrews from several fire stations were called to the Travelodge on the High Street, Brentford, at 02:52 GMT.\n\nThe fire started in the \"bin room\" on the ground floor of a neighbouring building and spread to the five-floor hotel.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said there were no reported injuries.\n\nThe fire was brought under control shortly before 07:00 and the cause of the fire is now being investigated by the fire brigade and the Met Police.\n\nStation commander Nathan Hobson said: \"Firefighters carried out a systematic search of the hotel and around 160 guests and staff evacuated the building.\"\n\nHe added that a \"rest centre\" had been set up by the local authority and the conditions had been \"challenging\".\n\nMore than 100 firefighters took just over four hours to tackle the blaze\n\nCrews from Chiswick, Heston, Acton, Richmond, Ealing, Hammersmith, Southall were called to deal with the fire\n\n\"Fire crews will be damping down pockets of fire and carrying out salvage work throughout the morning,\" he said.\n\nOne guest, who is from Barnsley and only gave his name as Nigel, said he initially thought the alarm was \"a hoax\".\n\n\"We woke up and the fire alarm was going off, we thought it was a prank and maybe a few lads having a bit too much ale - but obviously it wasn't,\" he said.\n\n\"We come down the stairs and come outside and that's where we saw all the bin storage in a blaze.\n\n\"Everyone was out really quick and everyone was fine, but we are all a bit tired and cold.\"\n\nAnother guest, Reg Williams, described the aftermath of the evacuation.\n\nHe said \"some people panicked\" and \"there was a few small children\".\n\nHe said one firefighter came round taking names and room numbers, \"just to make sure everyone was out\".\n\nBrentford High Street was closed by police while firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nThe blaze is out now, although the fire brigade is still hosing down the building.\n\nThe hotel is just off Brentford High Street in the middle of a residential area, and consequently many people have been evacuated from their homes.\n\nFire alarms in neighbouring buildings were going off because the smoke was filling the air.\n\nMany guests emerged from the hotel with only the clothes they had grabbed.\n\nNearly 20 emergency calls were made to 999 operators\n\nBuses were brought in to relocate guests to another Travelodge Hotel in Hounslow, but Mr Williams said there was not enough room for everyone. He said he had been told he would not be allowed back into the hotel until after midday.\n\nIn a statement, Travelodge said its guests were \"being looked after\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Our team are now making arrangements for their future accommodation and support.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Symonds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nurses voted to take the action by an overwhelming majority with the result announced on Thursday.\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have voted to strike over staffing numbers and pay disputes.\n\nIt is the first time in the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 103-year-history such action has been taken in the UK.\n\nIn a ballot which lasted four weeks, nurses were asked if they were willing to take industrial action, including strike action.\n\nRCN NI director Pat Cullen said nurses had \"spoken clearly\".\n\n\"Nurses are no longer willing to see patients being denied the health care services to which they are entitled,\" she said.\n\n\"The 3,000 nursing vacancies that currently exist within Health and Social Care (the public health body in Northern Ireland) are having a detrimental impact upon patient care and adding enormous pressure to the existing nursing workforce.\"\n\nMs Cullen said pay in Northern Ireland had \"fallen significantly\" behind the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said this made it \"difficult to recruit and retain the nurses that we desperately need\".\n\nThe total number of those balloted was around 8,000, with turnout of 43.3%.\n\nThe union now has four weeks to inform employers how they plan to proceed.\n\nAnalysis - Strike will be embarrassing for election candidates:\n\nStrike action is always significant but this one is particularly so as there is no devolved government or health minister in place for the nurses to negotiate with.\n\nUnless a resolution is found, it will play out during an election. It is unprecedented and somewhat incredible.\n\nSo why bother? Sources tell me there is never a good time to strike and things are so bad the RCN could not backpedal.\n\nThe strike will make the doorstep chats for politicians even more awkward and for some parties equally embarrassing.\n\nNorthern Ireland is used to unique predicaments, but potentially this could prove to be the most difficult to negotiate and to settle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said it would be holding \"detailed discussions\" with the RCN and other trade unions on Friday.\n\n\"Dialogue remains the only way forward,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"With a Northern Ireland public sector pay policy now in place for 2019/2020, we plan to table a formal pay offer as soon as possible.\n\n\"The budgetary pressures across health and social care are clear for all to see.\n\n\"Despite claims to the contrary, there is no separate or untapped source of funding for pay increases.\"\n\n\"It all comes out of the one health budget. Every pound spent on one priority area is a pound not available for another.\"\n\nThere are almost 3,000 unfilled nursing posts across the system in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe department added that it accepted staff felt \"deeply frustrated\".\n\nAccording to the RCN, nurses' pay within the health service continues to fall behind England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt argues that the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nDue to nursing shortages however, the cost of securing nursing staff via agencies has increased to over £32m last year.\n\nThere was a campaign of strike action over NHS pay in 2014, but while some nurses from other unions took part, the RCN did not.", "Speaking upon his arrival to the leaders' meeting, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Nato continued to provide \"peace and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people\" because of \"a very simple concept of safety in numbers.\"\n\n\"At the heart of it is a pledge that we will come to one another's defence - all for one and one for all.\"", "Otis with parents Donna (left) and Jasmine Francis-Smith (right)\n\nA couple have given birth to a son from an embryo that was in both their wombs, in what is claimed to be a world first.\n\nJasmine Francis-Smith gave birth to Otis two months ago after the embryo was implanted that had first been incubated by her wife Donna.\n\nThe \"shared motherhood\" procedure at London Women's Clinic used technology from a Swiss fertility company.\n\nJasmine said: \"It has emotionally brought us closer together. We are a true family.\"\n\nThe procedure works by placing the eggs of the biological mother inside a miniature capsule which is inserted into her womb, where they are incubated.\n\nAfter that, the eggs are taken out of the biological mother's womb and placed in the womb of the birth mother.\n\nThe process, called In Vivo Natural fertilization, was pioneered by Swiss firm Anecova.\n\nOtis was born after a \"world first\" procedure in London\n\nJasmine, 28, from Northamptonshire, said: \"The whole process was an amazing experience and we got everything we wanted from it.\"\n\nShe explained the procedure made her and her wife Donna, 30, from Nottinghamshire, \"feel equal in the whole process\".\n\nJasmine, who lives with Donna in Colchester, Essex, said \"there is nothing we would change\" about the pregnancy and the birth of Otis.\n\nDr Kamal Ahuja, managing and scientific director of London Women's Clinic, said this was \"the first birth in the world with shared motherhood\" using the technology.", "An advert featuring a woman diving into a Deliveroo delivery bag to retrieve multiple food orders has been banned.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said it might mislead viewers to think they \"could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together\".\n\nThe ASA received 300 complaints, the third highest of the year so far. Deliveroo said the advert was about emphasising \"choice\".\n\nIt is the second time this year that the ASA has banned a Deliveroo advert.\n\nIn September, the ASA banned a Deliveroo TV advert for wrongly implying that the firm's delivery \"was unrestricted throughout the UK\".\n\nThe latest ban involves an advert showing a woman taking a delivery from a Deliveroo driver at her front door and then distributing meals from various restaurants around the house from a single bag. At the end, she dives head first into the bag to retrieve the remaining items.\n\nDuring the distribution of the meals the woman calls out restaurant names and type of food: KFC, Wagamama, Pizza Express, Burger King, and others.\n\nBut complainants said the advert did not specify that each restaurant would need a separate order and incur a delivery fee, with each meal then delivered separately.\n\nAlthough the ASA noted that there was on-screen text to clarify the nature of Deliveroo's service, the regulator concluded: \"The overall impression [was] that customers could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together.\n\n\"Because that was not the case, and because the ad did not state that a delivery charge would be applied to each order from a different restaurant, we concluded it was likely to mislead.\"\n\nDeliveroo said the advert clearly stated on screen that \"separate orders must be made for each restaurant\" and had offered to make this clearer.\n\nA Deliveroo spokeswoman said: \"This advert underlined the huge choice of great restaurants available on Deliveroo. This is growing each day. For the record, you can't actually dive into your Deliveroo bag, however hungry you are.\"\n\nOnly two other adverts have received more complaints to the ASA this year, one for the comparison website GoCompare and another for a fireworks display.\n\nThe GoCompare advert, featuring a male opera singer involved in a car accident, received 336 complaints, mostly arguing it trivialised crashes and was distressing. The ASA said it did not break its rules.\n\nAn advert for Cheltenham Fireworks involving a poster with a picture of a dog wearing ear defenders received 317 complaints, with most saying that it made light of the animal distress caused by fireworks. The advertiser withdrew the poster, and the ASA took no further action.", "Joseph McCann's barrister told the Old Bailey he has \"declined to come\" to court\n\nA man on trial accused of a string of sex offences has declined to come to court and chosen not to give evidence.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is accused of 37 offences, including rape, kidnap and false imprisonment, against 11 women and children over the course of two weeks in April and May.\n\nMr McCann was expected to show up at the Old Bailey on Monday, having opted not to attend before.\n\nBut on Wednesday defence barrister Jo Sidhu QC said he \"declined to come\".\n\nMr Justice Edis said: \"His absence from the trial is not evidence in the case. You must not infer from his absence that he is guilty of these offences.\n\n\"His decision not to give evidence is a separate matter and I will come to that later.\"\n\nJurors were also told they must consider the case \"in an objective, calm way\".\n\nThe judge said: \"I gave you a warning that you would have an emotional reaction in this case and there is no doubt that warning turned out to be right in respect of some of what you listened to in the case.\n\n\"It was also intended to remind you and to direct you that an emotional reaction to material is unlikely to be a helpful guide to your decision-making when you come to decide the case.\"\n\nMr McCann, of Harrow, west London, denies the charges against him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elon Musk speaks to reporters after appearing in court\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has appeared in court in Los Angeles to answer a lawsuit brought by a British cave diver he called \"pedo guy\" on Twitter.\n\nVernon Unsworth, who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a Thai cave last year, is suing for defamation.\n\nMr Musk, the first to testify at the court, said Mr Unsworth had insulted him, so he had insulted him back.\n\nThe 48-year-old said the \"pedo guy\" tweet had not been meant to be taken literally.\n\nMr Unsworth's legal team have described Mr Musk's now-deleted tweet as \"vile and false\" and are seeking unspecified punitive damages.\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX billionaire posted the message after Mr Unsworth publicly rejected his proposal to use a mini-submarine to rescue the boys, members of a football team who became trapped deep inside a cave in northern Thailand in June 2018 in a case that captured the world's attention.\n\nBut in an interview on CNN after the successful rescue, Mr Unsworth called the idea a \"PR stunt\" and suggested the American \"stick his submarine where it hurts\". Two days later, Mr Musk wrote a series of tweets including one describing Mr Unsworth as a \"pedo guy\".\n\nIn his court testimony, Mr Musk - who has 29.8 million Twitter followers - said Mr Unsworth's comments were \"wrong and insulting, and so I insulted him back\", adding: \"It was an unprovoked attack on what was a good-natured attempt to help the kids.\"\n\nHe said he had thought Mr Unsworth \"was just some random creepy guy\" and \"unrelated to the rescue\", and that he had not expected the tweet to be taken literally. \"I assume he didn't mean to sodomise me with a submarine... Just as I didn't literally mean he was a paedophile.\"\n\nThe Tesla boss apologised to the cave diver in court, looking directly at him and saying: \"I apologised in a tweet and again in the deposition, and I'll say it again: I apologise to Mr Unsworth.\" Mr Unsworth did not testify on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nMr Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, said in his opening statements that the term \"pedo guy\" was a common insult in South Africa, where the billionaire grew up, meaning \"creepy old man\", and described the messages as \"joking, taunting tweets in a fight between men\".\n\nBut Lin Wood, a lawyer for Mr Unsworth, tried to show that Mr Musk had meant what he said by citing a separate tweet in which Mr Musk, after being questioned about the allegation by other users, said, \"Bet ya a signed dollar it's true.\" That tweet was also later deleted.\n\nThen, in an email exchange with a Buzzfeed reporter who had contacted him for comments on a threat of a legal case by Mr Unsworth, Mr Musk said, \"Stop defending child rapists.\"\n\nIn the packed courtroom, Mr Musk also acknowledged paying $52,000 (£40,000) to a man who had posed as a private detective to dig up information on Mr Unsworth after it became clear he would be sued. The investigator turned out to be a conman, Mr Musk said.\n\nVernon Unsworth arrives at the hearing in Los Angeles\n\nMr Musk's comments on Twitter have been controversial on other occasions and in April he reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his tweets, which also puts a restriction on his use of the platform.\n\nThe judge has denied the defence's request to define Mr Unsworth as a \"public figure\" - meaning lawyers for Mr Unsworth do not have to prove Mr Musk acted with \"actual malice\", lowering the bar necessary to win the case.", "The family of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan have said they are \"saddened and shocked\" by what happened and \"totally condemn his actions\".\n\nIn a statement, they expressed their condolences to the victims' families\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nSeparately, a porter who tried to fight Khan said he was coming to terms with the incident.\n\nLukasz, who works at the Fishmongers' Hall venue where Khan began his attack, said he \"acted instinctively\" by grabbing a pole to try to stop Khan.\n\nUsman Khan's family said in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police: \"We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done.\n\n\"We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured.\n\n\"We would like to request privacy for our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLukasz, who was among those praised for his bravery during the attack, also issued a statement through Scotland Yard.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively. I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family,\" he said.\n\nThe statement confirmed Lukasz was stabbed by Khan and taken to hospital but has now returned home.\n\n\"I would like to express my condolences to the families who have lost precious loved ones. I would like to send my best wishes to them and everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack,\" he added.\n\nLukasz said, contrary to some reports, that he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk in an attempt to stop the attack.\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the women remain in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut in 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his subsequent release in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS police tag.\n\nHe was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nIt comes as Leanne O'Brien, the girlfriend of Cambridge University student Mr Merritt who was killed, paid tribute to her partner on Facebook writing: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\nMs O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge on Monday to remember the victims.\n\nMr Merritt's father, David, also wrote a piece in the Guardian dedicated to his \"absorbingly intelligent\" and \"fiercely loyal\" son.\n\nAlso killed was Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who was a volunteer on the Learning Together programme, which was holding an anniversary event where the event took place.\n\nShe has been described as a \"lovely, lovely woman\" who was \"fearless\" by her former tutor.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were both involved with the Learning Together programme, which was holding an event when the attack took place\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nHe said he felt \"a huge amount of sympathy\" for the relatives of the victims.", "Energy giant Shell has won a court order preventing Greenpeace activists from boarding unmanned oil and gas installations in the North Sea\n\nThe company's lawyers sought an interim interdict to stop any repeat of an occupation which targeted platforms in the Brent field in October.\n\nShell welcomed Lady Carmichael's ruling that the activists had no right to enter the installations.\n\nGreenpeace described the Court of Session ruling as a \"setback\".\n\nIn October, climate activists staged a protest against the method of decommissioning platforms in the Brent field, which is about 116 miles (186km) north east of Shetland.\n\nActivists spent a night on the Brent Alpha platform and on the concrete legs of the former Bravo platform.\n\nGreenpeace said it was opposed to \"thousands of tonnes of hazardous oily sludge\" being left inside the concrete legs which remain after the rest of the structure has been removed.\n\nShell has defended the process and said there was a \"tightly-controlled regulatory process\" for decommissioning.\n\nGreenpeace are protesting against decommissioning methods which leave oil inside concrete legs of platforms\n\nThe company said it sought the court order to prevent protesters breaching the statutory 500m safety zones around platforms and \"putting themselves and Shell staff at risk\".\n\nThe judge concluded that since they were private property, Shell had a legal right to stop the activists from accessing the installations.\n\nShe also ruled that given the physical state of the installations, protesters could injure themselves.\n\nLady Carmichael said these health and safety considerations gave the company the right to stop Greenpeace from boarding the facilities.\n\nThe ruling means that Greenpeace can no longer go within a 500m (1,640ft) safety zone around platforms in the Brent field.\n\nGreenpeace protesters climbed on to the Brent Alpha in October\n\nShell said: \"We wholeheartedly support the right to protest peacefully and safely.\n\n\"We are pleased this decision recognises that the existing legal safety zone should be respected by campaigners.\"\n\nGreenpeace said it was waiting for a written ruling, which it would \"thoroughly analyse\" before deciding whether it would appeal against the judgement.\n\nIt added: \"This is a setback. Greenpeace has almost 50 years of experience with safe and peaceful protest.\n\n\"We strongly believe in the right to protest and will keep defending it. Shell can try to shut us up, but we will only get louder.\"\n\nVarious attempts were made to block a rig's path in June\n\nThe occupation in October came several months after a 12-day Greenpeace protest in the North Sea which led to numerous arrests.\n\nIn June, campaigners boarded the Transocean rig in the Cromarty Firth, which was bound for the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nGreenpeace said the aim was to thwart BP's plans to drill new oil wells.\n\nThe protest delayed its departure from the Cromarty Firth for five days. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise then shadowed the rig into the North Sea, and the group said the rig was forced to turn back towards land.\n\nA swimmer with a banner also entered the water as part of attempts to block the rig's path.\n\nBP said the \"irresponsible actions\" had put people and property at risk and \"diverted valuable time and resources away from public services\".", "US president Donald Trump has lambasted comments calling Nato \"brain dead\" by French president Emmanuel Macron as \"nasty, insulting, and disrespectful\".\n\nThe US president also said that some European countries hadn't been paying a fair share into the defence grouping and alluded to domestic struggles facing the French leader.", "UUP leader Steve Aiken (bottom centre) was speaking at the party's election manifesto launch\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party wants a hung parliament so its MPs can \"exert their influence\" and stop Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, its leader has said.\n\nSteve Aiken was speaking as he launched the UUP's general election manifesto.\n\nHe said the party wants \"to see Parliament come back in such a way that neither (Conservatives or Labour) has an opportunity to form a government\".\n\nHe added this would make any UUP MPs \"very influential\" in ensuring Mr Johnson's deal is taken off the table.\n\nThe UUP backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum but, after the result, said the decision to leave should \"be respected\" and that Northern Ireland should exit the EU on the same basis as the rest of the UK.\n\nHowever, the party has rejected the Brexit deal negotiated by Mr Johnson and claimed it creates \"a border down the Irish Sea\", meaning Northern Ireland would become \"a place apart\".\n\nLaunching the manifesto, Mr Aiken described the decision to leave the EU as \"the biggest political earthquake\" the UK has experienced since World War Two.\n\nHe added that, faced with Mr Johnson's deal, the party would prefer to remain in the EU than leave under his agreement.\n\nReferring to the deal, Mr Aiken said: \"Northern Ireland will be torn away from its most important economic market - Great Britain.\"\n\nThe new UUP leader also said \"no unionist could support Boris Johnson going forward\" and criticised Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, describing him as \"unfit to be prime minister\".\n\nThe party is standing in 16 seats across Northern Ireland, but is not running candidates in West Belfast or North Belfast.\n\nIn the latter, the UUP stepped aside to support Nigel Dodds from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nThe decision to step down came after a U-turn by the party leadership - originally Mr Aiken said the UUP would stand, leading to threats being issued against party staff.\n\nThe DUP has stepped aside in Fermanagh and South Tyrone to support UUP candidate Tom Elliott.\n\nMr Elliott, a former party leader, lost his seat in the 2017 general election along with the party's other MP Danny Kinahan.\n\nThe manifesto, entitled \"Northern Ireland Needs Change - Let's Change Together\", was launched at a Belfast hotel in front of journalists, candidates and party members.\n\nThis is Steve Aiken's first election as leader after he took over the party reigns in October following the resignation of Robin Swann.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Labour's shadow equalities spokeswoman Naz Shah has criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to apologise for anti-Semitism in the party in last week’s Andrew Neil interview.\n\nMr Corbyn has since made an apology, in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nBut Naz Shah suggested he had not handled the issue well.\n\nSpeaking at an election hustings for the Jewish community in North London, she said Mr Corbyn had apologised in the past and this week, but added: “I would have done things differently.\"\n\nMs Shah was suspended by the Labour Party three years ago for an anti-Semitic Facebook post published before she entered politics.\n\nBut she has since earned plaudits for making an effort to learn about anti-Semitism and build bridges with the Jewish community.\n\nShe said she wanted more people in the Labour Party to go on the \"same journey\" as her, admitting that she had known nothing about anti-Semitism.\n\nShe defended Mr Corbyn’s leadership, saying: “I have never sold something I wouldn’t buy. I definitely believe on a personal level that Jeremy does care because I have had conversations with him.”\n\nBut she added: “Whether he does it the right way and whether he is getting it right is a different question.\n\n“And that is a conversation I want to continue with the leadership.”\n\nFormer Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who is now a Liberal Democrat candidate, reacted angrily to her comments.\n\nHe said: “I am so angry and so disappointed that good people in the Labour Party defend the indefensible.\n\n\"I am fed up with it. He (Mr Corbyn) is guilty of racism. He is guilty of it.”", "A boy has been charged following the fire at the school\n\nA boy has been arrested and charged following a fire which badly damaged a secondary school in the Borders.\n\nPolice Scotland has also confirmed that a second boy had been arrested and released \"pending further inquiries\".\n\nIt follows a major fire at Peebles High School on Thursday which caused widespread damage to the site.\n\nA short statement from police said a boy had been charged in connection with wilful fireraising and a report would be sent to the children's reporter.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Reid, area commander for the Scottish Borders, said: \"We would like to thank the public for their patience while the investigation into the fire continues as we work alongside our colleagues at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\n\"We continue to liaise with the Scottish Borders Council in connection with the safety and security of the buildings, and the impact on the local community.\n\n\"We'd remind the public that, as the person charged is below the age of 18, he cannot be named or identified for legal reasons as per the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.\"\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday\n\nThe high school with a roll of about 1,300 has been shut until at least the new year and pupils have been using online learning tools at home this week.\n\nArrangements have been made for senior students (S4-S6) to return to the classroom - in Galashiels - from Monday.\n\nYounger pupils will be taught at other sites in Peebles.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday and paid tribute to the efforts of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who had worked \"astonishingly hard\" to salvage as much of the school as possible.\n\n\"I've also been discussing with the council what are the next steps forward because quite clearly there is going to have to be significant redevelopment of the Peebles High School site,\" he said.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant operation\" in the short term to provide education which was set to start on Monday.\n\n\"There will have to be a medium term approach taken which is about ensuring that there is a restoration of education provision on this site if at all possible,\" he said.\n\n\"Then obviously there has to be a longer-term solution and the government will engage with SBC in every aspect of that recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investors in one of the UK's biggest commercial property funds - worth £2.5bn - have been temporarily prevented from taking out their money.\n\nInvestment firm M&G said withdrawals from its property portfolio fund had been suspended after investors consistently withdrew their savings.\n\nThe firm blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the situation.\n\nThe fund has shrunk by £1.1bn so far this year.\n\n\"Given these circumstances, we have now reached a point where M&G believes it will best protect the interests of the funds' customers by applying a temporary suspension in dealing,\" M&G said in a statement.\n\nIt has waived 30% of its annual charge to investors, as they were unable to access their money, although some have called for action from the regulator on such charges.\n\nThe M&G Property Portfolio has invested in 91 UK commercial properties across shopping centres, other retail, industrial and office sectors on behalf of UK investors.\n\nThe same fund was suspended in July 2016 for four months following the UK's EU referendum when money flooded out of such funds.\n\nInvestors range from armchair, retail investors to institutional investors, dealing with millions of pounds.\n\nM&G has been unable to sell properties fast enough, particularly given its concentration on the retail sector, to meet the demands of investors who wanted to cash out.\n\nThe decision to suspend the fund, and its feeder fund, was taken by its official monitor - its authorised corporate director - and the City watchdog has been informed.\n\n\"The FCA is working closely with the firms involved to ensure that timely actions are undertaken in the best interests of all the fund's investors,\" a spokesman for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nM&G said the suspension would be monitored daily, formally reviewed every 28 days, and would only continue \"as long as it is in the best interests of our customers\".\n\nThis will allow assets to be sold over time, rather than as a fire sale, in order to meet investors' withdrawal demands. The firm has written to investors to explain the current situation.\n\nInvestors in general have been shaken in recent months by the demise of previously lauded fund manager Neil Woodford.\n\nWoodford Investment Management is shutting after Mr Woodford was sacked from its flagship fund in October.\n\nThe case raised questions regarding the oversight of funds which invest in assets that take a long time to sell, but from which investors can withdraw their money from at any time.\n\nThe M&G case will make the case stronger for regulators to take a tougher stance on these types of investments.\n\nThe suspension of a UK commercial property fund has been anticipated for some time.\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, has been on high alert, subjecting a number of funds to enhanced monitoring.\n\nOne of the main issues affecting M&G has been the state of retail. The High Street has been having a torrid time.\n\nAs more and more stores have closed, that has put pressure on property funds. Returns from these have been less than great recently and so many investors have been pulling out their cash.\n\nM&G admits it has been struggling to sell buildings with sufficient speed to be able to match the demand from investors wanting their cash back. Hence this suspension.\n\nSome analysts warn several other property funds could follow suit.\n\nWhen the M&G property portfolio last took this action, others did too. That was just after the EU referendum in 2016.\n\nAs the UK approaches yet another Brexit deadline, it could become even more difficult for funds to sell commercial property at a value they think is fair.\n\nInvestors have been pulling their money out of other large so-called open-ended property funds, and the FCA has recently introduced daily monitoring of property funds.\n\nYet financial planners have mixed views on whether the M&G suspension could be matched by other funds in the sector.\n\n\"Property is a long-term investment and we urge investors not to panic,\" said Patrick Connolly of financial advisers Chase de Vere.\n\n\"While the M&G fund is suspended, most other providers have far greater liquidity, and less exposure to retail properties, and so are better placed to meet redemptions, as long as there isn't a mad rush to the exit door.\n\n\"Property still remains an asset class which can play an important role in investment portfolios and, when we have some real clarity on Brexit, the prospects for this asset class will hopefully improve.\"\n\nHowever, Ryan Hughes, from AJ Bell, said investors would review their interest in other funds which could lead to \"a rush for the exits\".\n\n\"We could see a wave of suspensions now - several that offer daily redemptions are at risk,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Aviva, one of the other fund managers that suspended a fund in 2016, said it had \"pro-actively built cash levels in the Aviva Investors Property Fund\". These were now at around 30% after it made several sales over the summer.\n\n\"We are in a period of heightened market uncertainty and believe this is an appropriate level given market conditions. Robust liquidity management remains a key priority for the fund managers,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson on austerity vote: “I am sorry - it was not the right policy and we should have stopped it.”\n\nJo Swinson has apologised for voting to cut benefits while serving in government with the Conservatives.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil her party had been wrong to back the so-called bedroom tax in the coalition government and \"we should have stopped it\".\n\nAlthough some cuts were needed when her party came into office in 2010, she suggested austerity had gone too far.\n\nHer party was committed to spend more on welfare and childcare, she added.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview, Ms Swinson said she was determined to stop Brexit by whatever means possible, including working with other parties in the event of another hung Parliament to try and get another referendum.\n\nBut she conceded the Lib Dems were unlikely to form the next government and be in a position to fulfil their campaign pledge to revoke Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - without a further public vote.\n\nShe said she disagreed with her predecessor Sir Vince Cable that the pledge had become an \"unhelpful distraction\" for the party, which has found itself being squeezed in the opinion polls during the campaign.\n\nHaving only been elected leader in July, she insisted she was \"absolutely here to stay\" whatever the outcome on 12 December.\n\nMs Swinson was repeatedly challenged on her party's record in government between 2010 and 2015 and her personal backing for cuts to benefits and Sure Start children's centres.\n\nShe acknowledged she had voted nine times for the bedroom tax, the controversial policy which saw working-age families in council or housing association homes docked housing benefit if they were deemed to have more bedrooms than they needed.\n\nMs Swinson, who served as a junior business minister in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition between 2012 and 2015, was asked whether she would like to apologise to 240,000 of the poorest in society who suffered financially as a result and, in some cases, were forced into hardship.\n\n\"Yes, I am sorry I did that,\" she replied. \"It was not the right policy and we should have stopped it...I have previously said - and I am happy to say again - [it] was wrong. I am sorry about that and it is one of the things we did get wrong.\"\n\nAsked about other welfare changes she backed at the time but is now committed to reversing, such as a cap on the overall amount of benefits a single household could receive, she said she had voted for them \"as someone with collective responsibility in government\".\n\nShe said her party had \"won many battles\" with the Conservatives, such as in securing more money for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and taking many of the lowest paid out of income tax.\n\nBut she said she accepted the public services had borne too much of the brunt of the government's drive to slash the deficit in the public finances.\n\nThe coalition government made a priority out of rebalancing the public finances\n\n\"I am not going to say in a financial crisis that it was going to be possible with the deficit at the level it was in 2010 not to make any cuts at all,\" she said.\n\n\"Some cuts were necessary but the shape of those cuts, the balance between cuts and tax rises I don't think was the right balance.\"\n\nLabour have long argued that austerity was a political choice and not a financial necessity. Ms Swinson said cuts were unavoidable and the level of retrenchment under the coalition mirrored the plans set out by Labour in its 2010 manifesto,\n\nBut pressed by Neil on whether austerity was a \"necessary evil or terrible mistake\", she replied: \"Clearly too much was cut, clearly not enough was raised from taxation.\n\n\"And certainly the investment should have kicked in earlier in terms of more borrowing for capital investment.\"\n\nBut she said these decisions were \"almost a decade ago\" and her party was now committed to scrapping the bedroom tax and addressing in-work poverty by reversing cuts to work allowances for families on Universal Credit and helping families with two earners.\n\nShe said the £14bn the party was planning to spend on expanding free childcare - by funding 35 hours a week of provision for all children aged two to four - \"more than replaces the money that was cut\" during the coalition years.\n\n\"We have a plan for the future which identifies what our priorities are...and we are being upfront about where the money will come from.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, His interview with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be broadcast on Thursday.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n\nThe SNP launched an attack on Ms Swinson's record as part of the coalition government, following the interview.\n\nThe party's Pete Wishart said: \"Despite Jo Swinson's best attempts to dodge her shameful record when in government with the Tories, the reality is communities across Scotland will not forgive or forget the Lib Dems for their active part in inflicting austerity on the most vulnerable people in society.\"", "The four major Scottish party leaders have clashed in a debate ahead of next week's 12 December general election.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Conservatives' interim leader Jackson Carlaw, Willie Rennie of the Scottish Lib Dems and Scottish Labour's Richard Leonard all took part.\n\nThe politicians were challenged on their records and views on indyref2.\n\nThe first TV debate of the election in Scotland was broadcast by STV, hosted by political editor Colin Mackay.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland's future was \"on the line at this election\", adding: \"We want Scotland to be an independent, internationalist country and we are determined that the people of Scotland will have the right to make that choice.\"\n\nThe SNP leader was adamant that Boris Johnson was \"utterly unfit\" to be prime minister and \"must be stopped\".\n\nShe added that a Conservative government would have \"damaging consequences\" for Scotland and that her party could deny the Tories \"the majority they crave\" at Westminster.\n\nMeanwhile, Jackson Carlaw said Ms Sturgeon did not \"respect the result\" of referendums. He warned that if the Tories are not the largest party in the Commons after 12 December, Mr Corbyn could \"sell out Scotland and cave in to Nicola Sturgeon's demand\" for a second vote on independence in 2020.\n\nHe said \"the union is on the ballot paper\", and claimed she and Jeremy Corbyn could \"take over our country next week\".\n\n\"Next Friday, do you want Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 with Nicola Sturgeon pulling the strings?\", he asked.\n\nThe Lib Dem's Willie Rennie said he wanted to stop Brexit and indyref2, and called for \"an end to the constitutional division we have endured for almost a decade\".\n\nHe said the climate emergency, mental health, childcare and growing the economy should be the next UK government's focus.\n\nMr Rennie urged voters: \"If you want to stop Brexit, stop independence, so that we can build a brighter future then vote Liberal Democrat.\"\n\nAnd Richard Leonard said that Scottish independence would be \"economically devastating\". He said it \"would lead to a hard border\" between Scotland and the rest of the UK, as well as \"turbo-charged austerity\".\n\nHowever, he said there should not be an \"indefinite lock\" on another independence poll, saying that a majority for the SNP at the Holyrood elections in \"2021, 2026 or 2031\" would give them a mandate for a Section 30 order.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader also said that it was a \"straight choice\" for voters - either a Conservative or Labour government at Westminster. He said: \"Labour can get to work next week to build an economy that works not just for the few at the top, but which works for the many.\"\n\nThe TV debate gave the party leaders the chance to question their rivals on their records.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was taken to task by Willie Rennie on the standard of education in Scotland's schools, after an international report said performance in reading improved but declined in maths and science.\n\nBut she rebuffed criticism and said the attainment gap was closing. The first minister said the experts who carried out the research suggested that reading performance had increased \"substantially\" - while she claimed they had described maths and science performance as \"stable\".\n\nAnd Jackson Carlaw was challenged over the Tory government's implementation of universal credit, which replaced a number of previous benefits. Richard Leonard said \"tens of thousands of families across Scotland have been pushed into poverty\" by the benefit.\n\nMr Carlaw said he conceded there had been flaws and problems with its implementation. But he said it was \"designed to get people into work... and we now have a record number of people working\".\n\nWillie Rennie was challenged over the Lib Dems' record while they were in coalition with the Tories between 2010 and 2015. Nicola Sturgeon called them the \"co-architects of austerity\".\n\nBut Mr Rennie said the Lib Dems had been \"determined\" to \"get the finances back in order\". He added that his party stabilised the UK's finances and stopped £12bn of welfare cuts.\n\nRichard Leonard was challenged over his position on Trident by Nicola Sturgeon. While he supports nuclear disarmament (as does Nicola Sturgeon and the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn), it is Labour policy to support the renewal of the UK's nuclear deterrent, which is stationed at Faslane naval base on the Clyde.\n\nMr Leonard said there was an \"international atmosphere of rearmament\" which made it \"even more important\" to see a new \"international imitative around peace and disarmament\".\n\nOn Tuesday 10 December - just two days before the general election - the same Scottish party leaders will debate again. They will face questions from a live studio audience, presented by the BBC's Scotland editor Sarah Smith.", "Greetings card retailer Clintons has struck a deal that will stop it going bust this Christmas, administrators KPMG have said.\n\nThe chain will be salvaged through a complex transaction that allows it to be sold back to its existing owners.\n\nIt means Clinton's 334 stores can keep trading for now, saving 2,500 jobs.\n\nBoss Eddie Shepherd said he was pleased to have secured the firm's future ahead of the \"crucial\" Christmas trading period.\n\n\"Like so many of our fellow High Street retailers, we have worked tirelessly to contend with the maelstrom of issues impacting the sector, from business rates pressures, to fragile consumer confidence and the lack of clarity around the taxation of online retail businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We are confident that this deal will kickstart a new chapter for our business.\"\n\nClintons had initially tried to find a new buyer for its ailing business, but it is thought no acceptable offers were received.\n\nIt then explored a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) - a strategy that would have allowed it to shut under-performing stores and cut rents on others.\n\nBut it was unable to get the support it needed from landlords.\n\nInstead the company has effectively bought itself out of administration.\n\nIn what is known as a pre-pack process, the firm has removed its debt and secured breathing room to start negotiations with landlords afresh. However, there is no guarantee this will secure its long term future.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, said Clintons had failed to adapt to changing consumer tastes, both online and on the High Street.\n\n\"It's a tough ask for Clintons but if it is to survive and thrive it will need to modernise and revitalise its brand. Otherwise this pre-pack could just be a stay of execution for a retailer that has been a mainstay of the High Street for years.\"\n\nClintons, previously known as Clinton Cards, was formed in 1968, and has been owned by the US-based Weiss family since 2012.\n\nIt is the second time in seven years that the card retailer has been saved from administration.\n\nA string of retail chains in the UK have closed over the last few years amid a squeeze on consumer spending.\n\nNews of Clintons' restructuring comes a month after baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nOthers to have gone under include electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.", "Marcus Rashford scored twice as Manchester United condemned former manager Jose Mourinho to defeat on his return to Old Trafford and ended Tottenham's three-match winning streak under the Portuguese.\n\nRashford beat Tottenham keeper Paulo Gazzaniga at his near post after six minutes after the ball had broken to the England forward off Davinson Sanchez.\n\nThen, after a long wait for a VAR check, Rashford kept his nerve to convert a penalty four minutes after the break, once it had been ruled the striker had been fouled by Moussa Sissoko.\n\nDele Alli had equalised with a brilliant goal at the end of the first half but United were good value for their victory after creating a number of excellent chances they failed to take.\n\nRashford was unable to become the first United player to score a league hat-trick since Robin van Persie's memorable effort against Aston Villa in 2013 but he now has 12 goals in 13 games for club and country, and his nine Premier League goals leave him one short of his season best.\n\nAs expected, Mourinho was well received by the United fans, who never fell out with their former manager and have no particular axe to grind with him.\n\nThat respect will never match the affection Old Trafford has for Solskjaer though.\n\nAnd the Norwegian used memories from his playing days to get the crowd up for the game by emerging last from the tunnel, triggering a song in his honour and the start of what proved to be a lively atmosphere.\n\nEvidence of change at United came with a team that contained only five players Mourinho picked for the corresponding fixture last season.\n\nThat August night ended in a 3-0 defeat for United and an angry Mourinho demand for the media to show him some \"respect\" for his three Premier League titles.\n\nThe first of those triumphs is over 15 years ago now. Mourinho's task is to show his best days are not behind him.\n\nHe didn't make a particularly brilliant job of that in his last weeks in Manchester and, as happened so often then, tonight he spent long periods in his technical area with his hands in his pockets watching his team get outplayed.\n\nHis substitutes failed to inspire and with eight goals conceded in four games, Mourinho evidently has some work to do defensively.\n\nAt the end, he moved to shake Solskjaer's hand before striding purposefully away to try and lift his players.\n\nFor months, there had been a debate about what had happened to Dele Alli.\n\nOnce one of the golden boys of the English game, he had been reduced in influence and effectiveness and lost his place in Gareth Southgate's national squad.\n\nWho knew the answer was replacing the manager he loved?\n\nOne of the first things Mourinho did after replacing Mauricio Pochettino was to ask Alli whether it was him or his brother who had been playing for Tottenham in recent times.\n\nThis is definitely him.\n\nHis third goal in three Premier League games - he only scored three in his last 17 under Pochettino - was extraordinary.\n\nFred thought he had the situation under control as the ball looped up on the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nBut Alli leaned into the Brazilian, then rolled round him after a beautiful piece of control before turning a shot past De Gea into the far corner.\n\nIt was as breathtaking as the Cristiano Ronaldo-esque 35-yard shot Rashford rattled the bar with - and Mourinho loved it.\n\nIn his pre-match press conference, Solskjaer had dismissed as \"lies\" suggestions he had told his players he would be sacked if United lost against Tottenham, and again at Manchester City on Saturday.\n\nThe word remains from United that the Norwegian is under no immediate danger of losing his job amid an acceptance from those in senior positions that there will be bumps in the road this season.\n\nThis was the type of performance that gives credence to Solskjaer's belief genuine progress is being made.\n\nYet one look at the respective substitutes' bench shows United are crying out for reinforcements when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhereas Mourinho had six experienced full internationals to turn to as he tried to change the game in Tottenham's favour, Solskjaer had two and neither Luke Shaw nor Juan Mata have won a cap for quite some time.\n\nAt the end, Solskjaer milked the rapturous reception he was given.\n\nIf Sheffield United and Arsenal fail to win on Thursday, United will stay sixth. In order to stay there, Solskjaer will need more than the crowd behind him.\n\n'Rashford's best performance' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"You are always happy when you win. The boys are learning and improving all the time but tonight we were fantastic for long, long spells.\n\n\"The three points are massive for us. We've had too many draws this season and given too many points away from winning positions. It's a great lesson the last two games [Sheffield United and Aston Villa] and we came back in a great manner.\n\n\"We've started the rebuilding. We've made decisions that we had to and we're looking to build this club to be better again and I can't think short term when I'm trying to do that. When we turn the corner and win three or four games on the run, they will get that Man Utd feeling again.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"It's the best game he's had under me. He was mature and strong against good Premier League players. His penalty was calm and composed, and his [first] goal, we know he's got those strikes in him, and he had three or four chances.\n\n\"It's like he was back on the playground or in the back garden. We want them to have fun, there's nothing dangerous out there - just 75,00 people wanting to see the best [of them].\"\n\nTottenham head coach Jose Mourinho, also to BBC Sport: \"We started the second half with a goal that it is impossible to concede.\n\n\"We were not alert, sleeping at the throw-in and we let [Marcus] Rashford attack. Once he is inside the box it's more difficult to defend and he was clever and waited for the touch. In the first half they started more aggressive and more intense and deserved to be in front, maybe even 2-0, then we took control of the game.\n\n\"The goal at the start of the second half gave United the chance to play the way they did.\"\n\nOn Dele Alli: \"Dele is fine, he gave a good performance and tried everything, even in the second half when it's more difficult and they are more compact.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"When he plays from the left he is really dangerous and I knew that and gave the players the best information about it. His first goal is a typical Rashford goal coming on the inside. Our boys knew that clearly.\"\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last nine home matches in all competitions (W5 D4) since losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace in August.\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have lost more Premier League matches against Manchester United than against any other team (35 defeats).\n• None Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has won none of his last five away Premier League matches against the Red Devils (D3 L2), failing to beat four different managers in that time (Ferguson, Moyes, van Gaal and Solskjaer).\n• None Marcus Rashford has been directly involved in 11 goals in his last 10 appearances in all competitions for Manchester United (9 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances for Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions for the first time since March 2017 (a run of four).\n• None Manchester United have lost none of their last 138 home Premier League matches when scoring first (W125 D13).\n• None Tottenham have conceded twice in all of their four matches under Mourinho in all competitions - they only had a run of conceding 2+ goals in four consecutive matches once under Mauricio Pochettino, doing so in February and March 2015.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, 7 December (17:30 GMT). Tottenham are at home to Burnley on the same day (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Luke Shaw is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tanguy Ndombele (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt saved. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Farieissia Martin was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when she stabbed her ex-partner, campaigners say\n\nA woman who murdered an abusive ex-partner has \"hope\" after winning the first stage of a bid to overturn her conviction, her mother has said.\n\nFarieissia Martin, 26, stabbed Kyle Farrell, 21, during a row at her home in Liverpool in November 2014.\n\nThe Court of Appeal heard she suffered repeated physical and emotional abuse, which was never evaluated during the original trial, Lyly Maughan said.\n\nShe said her daughter never intended to hurt Mr Farrell \"in that way\".\n\nMartin was jailed for at least 13 years at Liverpool Crown Court in June 2015.\n\n\"I was devastated when it came back as murder,\" Ms Maughan said. \"The barristers had prepared us it would be manslaughter. I was in shock, it was unreal.\"\n\nThe Court of Appeal has given her the go-ahead to challenge the murder conviction.\n\nThe court heard Martin was the repeated victim of domestic abuse during the five-year relationship with Mr Farrell, including physical violence, insults, and isolation from family and friends.\n\nMs Maughan told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme during the relationship Martin had gone from being \"bubbly and bright and shining\" to \"dull and miserable\".\n\nShe added her daughter had tried to hide her bruises, but that she had seen her face \"black and blue\".\n\nThe mother of two would say the injuries had been sustained from an oven door that jammed, or make similar excuses, Ms Maughan explained.\n\n\"It was like he had some power over her.\n\n\"She'd come to my house and be adamant she was staying with me no matter what. Then the phone would ring and ring and she'd end up going home, in a panic.\"\n\nAfter Martin was convicted in 2015, police said the couple were in a sometimes \"volatile relationship and... there had been verbal and physical abuse from both sides in the past.\"\n\nClare Wade QC, for Martin, told the Court of Appeal a forensic psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist have both concluded she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic amnesia at the time of the killing, and her ability to exercise self control would have been \"substantially impaired\".\n\nLyly Maughan told the BBC her daughter's murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice\n\nMs Maughan said on the day of the stabbing, which took place at Martin's home in Charlecote Street, Dingle, \"she was defending herself\".\n\nShe told the BBC the murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice because Martin \"didn't intend to hurt [Mr Farrell] in that way\".\n\nMartin's spirits \"are lifted now, she feels more positive\" - but that she knows \"we've still got work to do\", Ms Maughan said.\n\nThe bid for appeal follows the successful challenge brought by Sally Challen over her conviction for the murder of her husband Richard.\n\nMs Challen's conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in a landmark decision in February, after her lawyers argued she had been the victim of her husband's coercive and controlling behaviour throughout their marriage.\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nMs Challen's lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, is also representing Martin - and said there were similarities between the two cases.\n\n\"Both their relationships were characterised by coercively controlling behaviour,\" she said. \"Violence, name calling, attempt to isolate her from her family and friends.\n\n\"A lot of that didn't come out at [Martin's original] trial... the legal team didn't explore the psychiatric evidence at all.\"\n\n\"Her reaction would have been hyper-vigilant, she may have lost control as the consequence of the operation of that mental state,\" Ms Wistrich explained.\n\nLady Justice Simler, sitting at the Court of Appeal, said it was \"arguable\" evidence about the mental disorders Martin had at the time of the killing would have affected the jury's verdict.\n\nMs Wistrich said if Martin's legal team were able to persuade a court that the conviction was unsafe, they would either look to substitute the murder conviction for manslaughter, or return for a retrial.\n\n\"She might then be free to come out for her children.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We just ventured forth to try and find some shelter and some water\", Tamra McBeath-Riley told reporters\n\nAustralian police searching for the final member of a group who became stranded in the outback more than two weeks ago have found a body.\n\nThe body has not been identified but it is believed to be Claire Hockridge, Northern Territory Police said.\n\nMs Hockridge, 46, had been travelling with two others when their car got stuck in a riverbed on 19 November.\n\nHer partner Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, and friend Phu Tran, 40, were found alive earlier this week.\n\nThe group - all Australians - and Ms McBeath-Riley's dog, Raya, had been travelling from Alice Springs to go on a hike when they became bogged in the Hugh River.\n\nThey had stayed by the car for around three days in an unsuccessful attempt to free it, before splitting up to find help.\n\nThey had used up all their supplies of water, as well as some vodka drinks, biscuits and beef noodles they had in the car.\n\nMr Tran and Ms Hockridge planned to head towards a highway, while Ms McBeath-Riley stayed in the area, thinking her dog would not survive a long walk.\n\nPolice despatched helicopters to search for the trio. They spotted Ms McBeath-Riley and Raya on Sunday, about 1.5km (0.9 miles) away from the car.\n\nMr Tran was found on Tuesday by a farmer who was performing checks on his vast property, about 12km from the vehicle.\n\nSupt Pauline Vicary, from NT Police, said the pair had managed to find groundwater to drink, describing their survival as a \"miracle\".\n\nMr Tran told police he had separated from Ms Hockridge two days earlier after they reached a fence on the property. He chose to follow the fence line, after which he encountered the farmer.\n\nHis account had narrowed the search for Ms Hockridge, police said, and they later found footprints believed to be hers.\n\nOn Tuesday, police said they feared Ms Hockridge had \"limited to no water supplies\".\n\nFood and water sources are scant in Australia's remote desert outback, and temperatures regularly exceed 40C (104F) during the day.\n• None Stay put or find a fence? How to survive the outback", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nThree men have admitted being involved in an attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones but denied it was motivated by homophobia.\n\nThe journalist was celebrating his birthday at the Lexington pub in Islington, north London, when he was targeted on 17 August.\n\nJames Healy, 40, Charlie Ambrose, 30, and Liam Tracey, 34, admitted a charge of affray at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nHe will now face a trial of issue in front of a judge to decide whether the attack was motivated by Mr Jones's sexuality.\n\nMr Jones, who is gay and campaigns for LGBT rights, suffered cuts and swelling to his back, head and bruises all down his body in the assault.\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in the Lexington pub on the Pentonville Road in Islington, north London, when he was targeted\n\nAt a previous hearing, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court heard Mr Jones was \"karate-kicked\" in the back.\n\nProsecutor Philip McGhee said if the attack was found to be motivated by homophobia \"it would have a material impact\" on sentence.\n\nThe trial of issue against Healy will take place at the same court in January and Mr Jones will be required to give evidence.\n\nAll three men are due to be sentenced on 11 February and were warned they could face prison. Judge Paul Southern granted the defendants conditional bail until then.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colum Eastwood said this election \"is about Sinn Féin's empty seats and the DUP's empty promises\"\n\nThe SDLP leader has made a strong attack on MPs who refuse to take their seats saying \"decisions are made by those who show up\".\n\nLaunching his party's manifesto, Colum Eastwood said the general election would be \"potentially decisive\" on Brexit.\n\nMr Eastwood is trying to win back Foyle from Sinn Féin, which won the seat for the first time in 2017 by 169 votes.\n\nWithout mentioning Sinn Féin by name, he said: \"History doesn't judge those who don't turn up at defining moments - it casts a far harsher verdict.\n\n\"It simply doesn't mention them because they make no difference.\n\n\"You only make a difference by being there. Decisions are made by those who show up.\"\n\nThe SDLP manifesto was launched at a hotel in Londonderry on Wednesday\n\nMr Eastwood added: \"In the next two months, Westminster will decide if we are forced out of the European Union.\n\n\"In the next two months it will decide and direct our future like never before.\n\n\"Quite literally there has been no time like the present - and it has never been more important to be present.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to the outgoing Independent Unionist Sylvia Hermon saying \"she was our Remain voice and she will be badly missed\".\n\nIn its manifesto, the SDLP pledges to:\n\nIn his speech, Mr Eastwood warned that if devolution is not restored, \"the current semi-skimmed direct rule could be very quickly replaced by the full fat Boris Johnson version\".\n\nHe added: \"This election is about Sinn Féin's empty seats and the DUP's empty promises.\n\n\"But it also has to be about an empty building at Stormont.\"\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Metrolink tram system in Greater Manchester is one scheme that could benefit\n\nThe Conservatives have promised £4.2bn of new spending on local train, bus and tram services if they win the 12 December general election.\n\nThe party said the cash, which would become available from 2022, would help fund transport projects outside London.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would transform services \"in towns and cities across the country\".\n\nBut Labour called it \"pathetic\" and the Liberal Democrats said the Tories \"simply don't get public transport\".\n\nThere has been much criticism of transport services outside London and particularly in the north, where fares are often higher and investment lower than in the capital.\n\nThere would be more money for local rail projects\n\nTreasury figures published on Wednesday suggest transport spending in London is almost two-and-a-half times more per person than across the north of England.\n\nBut Mr Shapps said the Conservatives' Local Public Transport Fund would \"kick start the transformation of services so they match those in London\".\n\nThis would ensure \"more frequent and better services, more electrification, modern buses and trains and contactless smart ticketing\".\n\nThe investment, which would be funded through the party's decision not to cut corporation tax, would go to eight mayoral or combined authority areas in England.\n\nThey include the North East, Tees Valley, West Yorkshire, Sheffield City Region, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, West Midlands and West of England.\n\nThe West Midlands Metro tram could also benefit\n\nLocal authorities would have to bid for the cash. They would also be given more control over things like setting fares, station upgrades and service patterns.\n\nBut they would also be expected to put money towards the schemes themselves. Examples of the sorts of projects that might get money include:\n\nThe Conservatives also promised a \"national bus strategy\" and a long-term funding settlement for buses in the 2020 Spending Review.\n\nThey said the new fund would not cover pan-regional transport projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail, which will be paid for from different budgets.\n\nThere are a couple of important caveats to this announcement. The first is that the funding will become available from 2022.\n\nSo although it would amount to a £4.2bn fund over five years, just £1.68bn of it would be made available for English city regions by the end of the next parliament.\n\nThe second is that £840m a year, shared among several city regions, won't go a very long way on transport infrastructure. However, the Conservatives are clear that the fund wouldn't cover all of the projects on their wish list.\n\nAnd they expect local authorities to generate extra capital through initiatives such as commercial developments in or around train stations.\n\nWhat's clear is that all of the parties want to be seen as champions of transport infrastructure outside of London.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said: \"This announcement is a pathetic attempt to cover up the government's disastrous and incompetent failure to invest in public transport.\n\n\"Tory cuts have caused public transport fares to rise at twice the rate of wages and thousands of bus routes to be cut, worsening congestion on our roads as a result.\n\n\"It's time for real change. Labour will invest in transport across the country delivering the major and local infrastructure projects every region of our country deserves.\"\n\nLabour's plans for local transport include slashing rail fares by a third across the country and making train travel free for under-16s.\n\nThe party also promises to reinstate 3,000 bus routes that have been cut and says it would deliver rail electrification and expansion across the country, including in Wales.\n\nLabour has promised to cut rail fares by a third\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have promised to invest more in buses, trams and railways, while encouraging walking and cycling to protect the environment.\n\nThey would also freeze peak-time and season ticket fares for five years.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said: \"The Conservatives have overseen a decline of more than 200 million bus journeys since 2015 and failed to invest in our railways across the UK, all while Johnson dreams up vanity projects like his island airport, a dud garden bridge and London buses that simply don't work.\n\n\"The Tories simply don't get the need for excellent public transport which gives people a real alternative to individual car use.\n\n\"At the same time, Boris Johnson's reckless Brexit plans would be disastrous for the economy, meaning less money to fund vital transport and infrastructure projects.\"", "London Bridge attacker Usman Khan attended two counter-terrorism programmes that had not been fully tested to see if they were effective, BBC News has discovered.\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, on Friday.\n\nHe had completed two rehabilitation schemes during the eight years he spent in prison and following his release.\n\nThe government says such programmes are kept \"under constant review\".\n\nThree others were injured after Khan launched the attack at a prisoner rehabilitation event inside Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge.\n\nInquests into the deaths of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones were opened and adjourned at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.\n\nThe court heard that both of them died after being stabbed in the chest. The date for the full inquests is still to be decided.\n\nCity of London senior coroner Alison Hewitt also opened and adjourned the inquest into Khan, who died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by police.\n\nThe inquest heard that Khan had been at the venue to participate in group workshops.\n\nDuring his time in prison, Khan completed a course for people convicted of extremism offences and after his release went on a scheme to address the root causes of terrorism.\n\nThe first course Khan went on, the Healthy Identity Intervention Programme, was piloted from 2010 and is now the main rehabilitation scheme for prisoners convicted of offences linked to extremism.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nLast year, the Ministry of Justice published the findings of research into the pilot project which found it was \"viewed positively\" by a sample of those who attended and ran the course.\n\nHowever, the department has not completed any work to test whether the scheme prevents reoffending or successfully tackles extremist behaviour.\n\nThere has also been no evaluation of the impact of the Desistance and Disengagement Programme, which Khan took part in after his release last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGovernment officials pointed out that the schemes have not been operating for long enough for the results to be assessed, but a spokesperson said all offender behaviour programmes were kept under constant review.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"All our offender behaviour programmes are monitored, evaluated and kept under constant review to ensure that they are effective in reducing reoffending and protecting the public.\"\n\nThe Home Office \"fact-sheet\" on the Desistence and Disengagement programme contains eight pieces of \"key information\".\n\nBut it omits the really key bit - that the programme has never been evaluated. In other words, we do not know if it works.\n\nThe same is true of the Healthy Identity Interventions course. Although the Ministry of Justice conducted a \"process evaluation\", to check the pilot version was being run properly, we will not know for another two years if it is achieving results.\n\nSo, these schemes, like many other offender behaviour projects, are, in essence, experimental.\n\nSome say the only way of knowing if they are any good is to try them out. Others argue the risks of doing that are too high, pointing to the once-flagship Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which was used for 25 years until research showed that it increased the likelihood of reoffending.\n\nRehabilitating convicted terrorists is as complex and challenging as it gets - but a little more openness and honesty is required about the methods that are being used.\n\nA man who recently went through the same Desistence and Disengagement programme as Khan says the London Bridge attacker \"shouldn't have been let out of prison\".\n\nThe man - who asked to remain anonymous - was acquitted of terror charges but was required to wear an electronic tag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Legal correspondent Clive Coleman looks at why Usman Khan was freed from prison\n\nSpeaking to Sima Kotecha on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"I had a mentor who came to see me at least twice a week.\n\n\"As time went on the authorities saw a change within myself.\"\n\nAsked why such mentoring worked for him but not for Khan, the man said: \"I wanted to make a change.\n\n\"Other people may think that [terror] is the only route because they've been radicalised and that's all they know.\"\n\nHe added that \"anybody can manipulate\" when asked whether people could convince their mentors that they have moved away from extremism.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know his character, but anybody can manipulate.\"\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for public protection with a minimum jail term of eight years, having pleaded guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his release from prison in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS tag.\n\nKhan was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nAmong those praised for their bravery during the attack was a porter - known as Lukasz - who tried to fight Khan at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nHe issued a statement through Scotland Yard on Tuesday, saying that contrary to some reports, he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk.\n\n\"The man attacked me, after which he left the building,\" he said. \"A number of us followed him out but I stopped at the bollards of the bridge. I had been stabbed and was later taken to hospital to be treated.\"\n\nHe said he was \"thankful\" that he had now returned home.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively,\" he said. \"I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family.\"\n\nHe wanted to express his condolences to the families who had \"lost precious loved ones\", he added, as well as sending his best wishes to \"everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack\".\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack. They remain in a stable condition in hospital.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would press ahead with a digital sales tax even after the US threatened to punish France for a similar move.\n\nIn a proposal first outlined last year, large online companies face a tax of 2% of UK sales from April 2020.\n\nDonald Trump has threatened to impose taxes on French goods in retaliation for a digital services tax that would affect Google, Amazon and Facebook.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's Nato meeting in Watford, the US President said: \"We've taxed wine and we have other taxes scheduled.\n\n\"We'd rather not do that, but that's the way it would work. So it's either going to work out, or we'll work out some mutually beneficial tax.\"\n\nThe US said it would apply tariffs of up to 100% on $2.4bn (£1.8bn) of cheese, Champagne, handbags and other French products.\n\nThe US has made clear that other countries pursuing a digital sales tax could face similar action.\n\nMultinational companies including Google and Facebook have been criticised for paying very little tax in some countries despite booking large revenues due to the way profits can be reported in lower tax jurisdictions.\n\nA multilateral solution is being sought but some countries, including the UK, are introducing interim taxes.\n\n\"On the digital services tax, I do think we need to look at the operation of the big digital companies and the huge revenues they have in this country and the amount of tax that they pay,\" Mr Johnson said late on Tuesday.\n\n\"We need to sort that out. They need to make a fairer contribution.\"\n\nThe UK's tax was first suggested by Philip Hammond, the former chancellor and could initially raise almost £500m a year.\n\nThe pledge to implement the tax is contained in the Conservative manifesto.\n\nThe Labour Party has also promised a tax on \"multinationals\". In the party's press release about the plans last month, \"Amazon, Facebook and Google\" were mentioned specifically.\n\nFrance is imposing a 3% tax on any digital company with revenue of more than €750m ($850m; £670m), of which at least €25m is generated in France.\n\nThe tax will be back-dated to early 2019, and is expected to raise about €400m this year.", "A former member of the Irish Defence Forces has been remanded into custody charged with a terrorist offence linked to the Islamic State group.\n\nLisa Smith, 38, from Dundalk, County Louth, appeared in court in Dublin on Wednesday.\n\nShe is charged with committing an offence outside the Irish state between October 2015 and 1 December 2019.\n\nMs Smith is further charged with being a member of the group known as Islamic State.\n\nA detective sergeant told the hearing at Dublin District Court that Ms Smith was arrested at 10:30 local time at Kevin Street Garda Station in the city.\n\nHe said she made no reply when she was charged.\n\nMs Smith applied for bail, but this was refused.\n\nShe was remanded to the Dóchas Centre women's prison at Mountjoy in Dublin.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster, RTÉ, her solicitor asked that she be separated from the general prison population.\n\nThe judge replied that he would send a request to the prison governor that she be segregated for her own security.\n\nShe is due to appear again at Dublin District Court on 11 December.\n\nShe was deported from Turkey on Sunday, along with her two-year-old daughter who was born in Syria.\n\nShe was taken into custody by gardaí (Irish police) when she arrived back in Ireland.", "Iceland and other Nordic nations are widely admired for family-friendly policies\n\nIceland's prime minister has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures.\n\nKatrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern to promote a \"well-being\" agenda.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir called for \"an alternative future based on well-being and inclusive growth\".\n\nShe said new social indicators were needed besides traditional GDP data.\n\nNobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is among several economists arguing that gross domestic product - measuring a country's production in goods and services - fails to capture the impact of climate change, inequality, digital services and other phenomena shaping modern societies.\n\nIn a Guardian article last month, Prof Stiglitz said the 2008 global financial crisis \"was the ultimate illustration of the deficiencies in commonly used metrics\".\n\nGDP failed to reveal distortions in the bloated US housing market which triggered the crisis.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said environmental devastation was a key factor driving Iceland to incorporate new social indicators besides GDP in its budget planning.\n\nShe began a speech at London's Chatham House think-tank by highlighting the disappearance of Iceland's Okjokull glacier. Scientists say the retreat of glaciers is clear evidence of global warming, which is blamed largely on CO2 pollution.\n\nAsked if a \"well-being\" budget was equally appropriate for developed and developing nations, she said: \"It's about how you prioritise in the public budget - you can always have an emphasis on well-being.\"\n\nDeveloping countries \"need to take a leap\" to embrace renewable energy, she said, rather than repeat the developed world's carbon-based industrialisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGDP's focus on economic performance means it tends to undervalue quality of life and the social damage caused by inequality.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said an Icelandic poet had joked that \"having sex with your wife doesn't count in GDP, but with a prostitute it does\".\n\nA Left-Green politician, Ms Jakobsdottir formed a coalition government in 2017 with the conservative Independence Party and centre-right Progressive Party.\n\nWhile acknowledging Iceland's progress in family-friendly policies, she said her nation - with a population of just 350,000 - still had big challenges, such as improving public transport and tackling depression.\n\n\"Iceland uses more anti-depressants than neighbouring countries,\" she said. \"We need to strengthen prevention [of depression], through sports and the arts.\"\n\nIn a TED talk in August, Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon made a similar plea for modern economies to put more resources into mental health, childcare and parental leave, and green energy.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said Iceland's adoption of universal childcare and shared parental leave was the product of grassroots women's activism, regardless of political differences.\n\nShe said the \"well-being\" initiative promoted by herself, Ms Sturgeon and Ms Ardern should not be seen as a gender-based backlash against populism.\n\n\"It's very important to have all genders at the table - it affects the way you think, and then different decisions are made,\" she said.", "Matt Baker has announced he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, fought back tears as he made the announcement on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to being able to put his kids to bed.", "The Reunion Nugget is in two parts and weighs a total of 121.3g\n\nA gold hunter claims to have discovered the UK's largest gold nugget in a Scottish river.\n\nThe lump of pure gold, which weighs 121.3g (4.2 oz), was unearthed in a mystery location in May this year.\n\nThe two pieces form a doughnut shape and could be worth £80,000. The previous largest find, in 2016, was the 85.7g (3oz) Douglas Nugget.\n\nHowever, gold panning experts are remaining sceptical until its provenance can be confirmed.\n\nThe treasure was discovered in two pieces but fits together perfectly, earning it the name The Reunion Nugget.\n\nThe gold-panning community is renowned for its secrecy, and the name of the river where it was found has not been revealed. The lucky finder is also remaining anonymous.\n\nThe finder brought the discovery to the attention of author Lee Palmer who was researching his book Gold Occurrences In The UK.\n\nMr Palmer, 50, said: \"This is now the largest nugget in existence in the UK. When you look at it, it's doughnut-shaped.\n\n\"There are no impurities in it, it is just pure gold nugget of about 22 carats. It really is a remarkable find.\"\n\nThe nugget was found using the method of \"sniping\", which sees gold hunters lying face down in a river while wearing a snorkel and dry suit.\n\nThe enthusiast unearthed the larger piece first, which weighs 89.6g (3.1oz), before finding the other half, weighing 31.7g (1,1oz) 10 minutes later.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"The man just threw the bigger piece in his bucket with the rest of his stuff - he knew it was big but didn't realise how big.\n\nThe Reunion Nugget could be the largest unearthed in the UK\n\n\"He found the second nugget 30cm (12in) away and chucked that in his bucket too.\n\n\"It wasn't until a couple of days later that he had a look at them and realised how big they were and that they fitted together.\"\n\nHe added: \"The hole in the middle could have been caused by a strike off a rock or glacier.\n\n\"One mineralogist thought it looked like an entry and exit hole that could've been made with a neolithic antler pick, which were used by farmers in the Iron Age.\"\n\nBoth the finder of the nugget and the owner of the land where it was discovered are keeping their identities secret due to its magnitude.\n\nMr Palmer hopes it will be purchased by either the National Museum Of Scotland or the Natural History Museum, but legally it may have to be handed over to The Crown Estate.\n\nHe believes the fact it is in two pieces should not affect its value.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"From the top you could say it looks like two bits, but when you see it from underneath, it's a perfect fit.\n\n\"It's like an exact jigsaw, there's no disputing it.\n\n\"Even if you took the largest individual piece, it is still the biggest one in the UK.\n\n\"Add together the second piece and the story behind it and you've got something amazing.\"\n\nThe Douglas Nugget holds the current record for the largest gold nugget found in the UK for 500 years.\n\nBoth the Reunion Nugget and the Douglas Nugget were found in Scottish rivers using the process of \"sniping\"\n\nIn a similar story, it was discovered in a Scottish river by a man in his 40s.\n\nHe kept quiet for two years before publicly revealing his incredible find.\n\nGold panning expert Leon Kirk said he was not going to get too excited just yet.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Unfortunately the world of gold is very divisive. If someone finds a nugget it is not necessarily true.\n\n\"This has come out of the blue and there is no confirmed provenance.\n\n\"I would like to think it is real but it can take many months to establish if it is genuine and at the moment there is no proof.\"", "Comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage after making Brexit jokes at a charity event on Monday night.\n\nKumar, who hosts the BBC's Mash Report, was performing at the Lord's Taverners annual charity cricket lunch.\n\n\"You are the only audience in my entire 13-year history of performing that have actually thrown something at me,\" Kumar said, after a bread roll hit the stage.\n\nRadio 1 DJ and Taverners' ambassador Greg James said the behaviour of some of the crowd was \"appalling\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames added he was \"embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe event, at London's Grosvenor House, was raising money to give vulnerable children a start in life through sport.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian on Tuesday, Kumar said: \"I made what I considered to be some extremely mild jokes about Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Theresa May and the Brexit process for not going well.\"\n\nHe said the audience was more \"easily offended\" than he thought they might be.\n\nVideo footage of the event showed Kumar being interrupted by hecklers, one of whom shouted \"don't do politics\".\n\n\"It's an election season and I thought it would be interesting to spark a conversation here,\" explained the comedian, \"but clearly the conversation I've sparked is, 'this guy is a bit of a dickhead.'\n\n\"I did think it would be nice to come here and talk to some people who had a different political outlook to me, and I thought it'd be interesting for me to share my perspective - but clearly that's not been the case.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I don't want to do is to detract from any of the fantastic work done by the charity,\" for which he received a round of applause.\n\nBut as the routine continued, the audience began a \"slow clap\", after which Kumar refused to leave the stage.\n\n\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Kumar said. \"Absolutely not. I'm full Bercow-ing it,\" referring to the former House of Commons speaker John Bercow.\n\n\"I know you want me to do it but I'm not gonna leave. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.\"\n\nKumar was eventually joined by the host of the event, who escorted him off stage.\n\n\"Can I shake your hand, sir?\" he asked. \"Ladies and gentlemen, Nish gave his time to come and support this charity today, and I think the very least we can do is say thank you for doing that.\"\n\nAfterwards, the comic took to Twitter to make light of the crowd's reaction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nish Kumar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also posted a 1966 clip of Bob Dylan mocking newspaper reports claiming that his latest concert inspired mass walkouts.\n\nReflecting on the incident, he told the Guardian: \"I'm sort of amazed by how fascinated people are by the whole thing. It's not the first time I've been booed off stage … I consider it the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.\"\n\nLord's Taverners said in a statement: \"This event alone raised a staggering £160,000, which will go towards helping to empower disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential through sport and build foundations for a positive future.\n\n\"We are not, and never will be, a political organisation and we don't endorse the views of the guest speakers at our events, which are their own.\n\n\"However, nor do we endorse the reaction of a minority of audience members at yesterday's event.\n\n\"Nish Kumar's attendance was arranged in good faith and he gave his time for free to support the charity and our work. He follows a long tradition of comedic special guests at the event.\n\n\"We are extremely proud that in the past year we have raised over £4m, with nearly 12,000 young people having participated in our cricket programmes all over the UK, and just over 31,000 items of sports kit having been recycled across 20 countries. We will continue to focus all our efforts on developing sporting chances for young people in 2020 and in many years to come\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Researchers say that carbon dioxide emissions this year have risen slightly, despite a drop in the use of coal.\n\nThe Global Carbon Project's annual analysis of emission trends suggests that CO2 will go up by 0.6% in 2019.\n\nThe rise is due to continuing strong growth in the utilisation of oil and gas.\n\nSince the Paris agreement was set out in 2015, CO2 emissions have risen by 4%.\n\nLast year saw a strong rise in emissions of almost 3%, with strong demand for coal in China being the main factor. There was also a surge in demand for oil, driven by a booming global market for cars, particularly SUVs.\n\nThis year's modest rise, if indeed it is a rise, as the margin of error is large, reflects some significant changes in the demand for fossil fuels.\n\nWhile global emissions from coal use fell by less than 1%, this masks some huge drops in countries like the US and across the European Union.\n\n\"Through most of 2019 it was looking as if coal use would grow globally, but weaker than expected economic performance in China and India, and a record hydropower year in India - caused by a strong monsoon - quickly changed the prospects for growth in coal use,\" said Robbie Andrew, a senior researcher at the Cicero Centre for International Climate Research, part of the Global Carbon Project.\n\n\"Coal use in both the US and the EU28 has dropped substantially, possibly by as much as 10% in both regions in 2019 alone, helping push down global coal consumption,\" Mr Andrew said.\n\nThe drop in coal as a source of energy was offset by the continued rise of oil and gas.\n\nThe data comes as the COP25 climate summit continues in Madrid amid a growing sense of crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COP25: What you need to know about the climate conference\n\nGas use rose by a robust 2.6%, and while renewable sources like wind and solar have also grown substantially, according to the authors the greener fuels have merely slowed the rise in the growth of fossil fuel emissions.\n\n\"Compared to coal, natural gas is a cleaner fossil fuel, but unabated natural gas use merely cooks the planet more slowly than coal,\" said Dr Glen Peters, also from Cicero.\n\nAccording to the Global Carbon Project researchers, the continuing use of fossil fuel-based technology is threatening the targets that countries have set for themselves in the Paris climate agreement.\n\n\"This is still not good news this year, as the emissions are still going up, the emissions are going more slowly, so we are making progress but the actions need to be higher in terms of implementing renewable energy and removing those tech that produce CO2,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia (UEA), another author of the research.\n\nCoal use has dropped substantially in both the US and EU28\n\nThere are some interesting developments on a country level in the emissions data.\n\nUS emissions have declined by around 1% per year every year since 2005. That trend continued in 2019.\n\nEven with President Trump's favourable policies towards fossil fuels, cheap gas, wind and solar are replacing coal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who took wind power to another level\n\nChina's emissions are expected to rise up by 2.6% but would have been higher if it wasn't for slower economic growth and a weaker demand for electricity.\n\nSimilarly in India, slower economic growth has seen a much smaller rise in emissions expected to be 1.8% compared to the normal recent rate of 5.1%.\n\nThe figures show just how far back the world is in terms of meeting the goals of cutting carbon quickly to avoid dangerous temperature rises.\n\n\"There are lots of countries now that are ramping up their policies on climate change but still not big enough,\" said Prof Le Quéré.\n\n\"There's not enough countries making commitments. The big emitters are still awaited at the table - so 2020 will be a really big year for countries on climate change.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Bob Willis has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe fast bowler took 325 wickets in 90 Tests from 1971 to 1984, claiming a career-best 8-43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 Ashes.\n\nHe captained England in 18 Tests and 29 one-day internationals before his retirement from all forms of cricket in 1984.\n\nIn a statement, Willis' family said he had died \"after a long illness\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken to lose our beloved Bob, who was an incredible husband, father, brother and grandfather,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"He made a huge impact on everybody he knew and we will miss him terribly.\"\n\nWillis subsequently worked as a summariser on BBC TV before joining Sky Sports as a commentator in 1991.\n\nHe continued to work for Sky and was part of their coverage of this summer's Ashes series.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened to say farewell\" to a \"legend of English cricket\".\n\n\"We are forever thankful for everything he has done for the game,\" it added. \"Cricket has lost a dear friend.\"\n• None Hugely admired around the world and a huge Bob Dylan fan - tributes to Willis\n\nWillis represented Surrey for the first two years of his professional career before spending 12 years at Warwickshire, finishing with 899 wickets from 308 first-class matches at an average of 24.99.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter , Surrey said the club was \"devastated\" by the news of Willis' passing.\n\nThe Sunderland-born bowler made his international debut aged 21 in the 1971 Ashes after being called up to replace the injured Alan Ward and played the final four Tests of the seven-match series as England won 2-0.\n\nDespite needing surgery on both knees in 1975, he became one of the finest fast bowlers of his generation, playing another nine years and claiming his 325 wickets at an impressive average of 25.20.\n\nAt the time of Willis' retirement, only Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee had taken more Test wickets.\n\nThe pinnacle of Willis' international career was arguably the stunning 18-run victory against Australia in the third Test of the 1981 Ashes at Headingley.\n\nEngland, trailing 1-0 in the series, were forced to follow on and needed Botham's spectacular 149 not out to force Australia to bat again, setting them 129 to win.\n\nWith his Test career on the line, Willis produced a devastating spell, taking a Test-best 8-43 as Australia were dismissed for 111 - the hosts at one point being 500-1 outsiders to win.\n\nEngland went on to win the series 3-1 and Willis finished with 29 wickets at 22.96 in six matches.\n\nWillis, who was named in England's all-time Test XI in 2018, was appointed captain for the 1982 India tour of England after Keith Fletcher was sacked.\n\nHe oversaw a weakened team during his tenure, after the likes of Graham Gooch, Geoffrey Boycott and Derek Underwood were banned from international cricket for three years from 1982 for taking part in a rebel tour to South Africa.\n\nHe finished with a record of seven wins, five defeats and six draws from his 18 Tests in charge before he was sacked and replaced with David Gower prior to what proved to be Willis' final Test series against West Indies in 1984.\n\nIn 29 ODIs under Willis, England won 16 and lost 13.\n\nWillis made his ODI debut in 1973 and played in the 1979 World Cup but sustained a recurrence of his knee injury in the semi-final win over New Zealand and missed the final, which West Indies won by 92 runs.\n\nHe captained England at the 1983 World Cup where his side were beaten by eventual winners India in the semi-finals.\n\nWillis played his final ODI in 1984, finishing with a record of 80 wickets from 64 matches at an average of 24.60.\n\nWillis moved into commentary soon after his playing career ended and worked alongside former team-mates Botham and Gower.\n\nAfter moving away from live commentary and summariser duties in 2006, Willis continued to work as a pundit on Sky Sports programmes such as The Debate and The Verdict.\n\nHe was frequently firm in his criticism of current players, which was seen by some as being unfair.\n\nYet Willis also played up to his persona and had a humorous side, telling current captain Joe Root he would \"have you back in the dock\" with bared teeth after the England batsman's impersonation of Willis during the 2015 Ashes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fay Jones said nobody should be \"using this as a political exercise\"\n\nBoris Johnson was \"wrong\" to use the language he did after the London Bridge terror attack, a Welsh Conservative election candidate has said.\n\nTwo people were killed by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister blamed Khan's early release from jail on legislation introduced by a \"leftie government\".\n\nWelsh Conservative election candidate Fay Jones said the prime minister should not have used the terrorist incident \"as a political exercise\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release, David Merritt - whose son Jack was one of the victims - said he would not wish his death \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales Live election debate in Wrexham on Tuesday, Ms Jones said: \"I don't think the prime minister or anybody should be using this as a political exercise.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was wrong, she replied: \"Yes, he was.\"\n\nMr Johnson has denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"\n\nKhan had served half of his sentence and the prime minister claimed scrapping early release would have stopped him.\n\nMr Johnson blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", insisting the automatic release scheme was introduced by Labour.\n\nHowever, he has been challenged about what the Conservatives had done to change the law over the past 10 years in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says about 74 convicted terrorists have been released early from prison\n\nLabour's David Hanson, a former policing and counter-terrorism minister, said the police had struggled following a reduction in the number of officers and he had concerns about the probation service.\n\n\"We need to have the 40% cut that was taken to the probation service put back in place because that's one of the issues that's led to the high risk on this particular case and others,\" he said.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said it was \"bonkers\" that convicted terrorists were being released early.\n\n\"If you plot mass murder of people, a terrorist attack, I want to see you go to jail for your whole life,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not understand that when the death penalty was taken away. We were told life would mean life, and now people serve just five or ten years and then they're let out.\"\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nPoliticisation of terror attacks like London Bridge was wrong, said Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, \"because it affects every one of us\".\n\n\"These are our communities\", he said, \"intolerance between different groups is something we should all condemn\".\n\nWhen pressed on whether Khan should have been released, Mr ap Iorwerth stressed each case was different.\n\n\"It was clear that Boris did play games on this and he saw an advantage,\" he said.\n\n\"We have people risking their lives and showing their bravery and he's essentially dodging questions and avoiding stepping up to the plate and answering interviews.\"", "The patient is receiving care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London\n\nA patient has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection monkeypox in the south west of England.\n\nIt is believed the patient contracted the infection while visiting Nigeria, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation, the condition is similar to human smallpox and although it is much milder, it can be fatal.\n\nThe patient has been transferred to a specialist infectious disease centre at Guy's and St Thomas' in London.\n\nPHE and NHS officials said they had been implementing \"rapid infection control procedures\" and contacting passengers who travelled in close proximity to the patient on the same flight to the UK.\n\n\"We are following up with those who have had close contact with the patient to offer advice and to monitor them as necessary,\" said Dr Meera Chand, consultant microbiologist at PHE.\n\nPHE says the infection is usually a self-limiting illness and most people recover within a few weeks, however severe illness can occur in some individuals.\n\nThe infection does not spread easily between people and the risk to the general public in England is very low.\n\nThis is not the first time the virus has been detected in the UK. The first reported cases in the UK were in September 2018.\n\nThe first patient to be diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK had been staying at a naval base in Cornwall.\n\nPHE said the south west region referred to Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.", "A woman who was allegedly sold for sex as a girl and abused has told a court no action was taken by teachers when rumours of it circulated at her school.\n\nGiving evidence behind a curtain, she said they did not ask \"if things were all right\" when they heard rumours.\n\nThe woman told Birmingham Crown Court she was traded to men in Telford for sex in the early 2000s.\n\n\"I would get called names,\" she said, after rumours spread at school that she was having sex with men.\n\nSome of the assaults were carried out in Wellington, Telford, the prosecution claims\n\nThe trial previously heard how she had \"lost count\" of how many men she was forced to have sex with after being groomed when she was 12 and then sold for sex.\n\nProsecutors said she was repeatedly raped on a dirty mattress above a takeaway and forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard.\n\nAt school, \"there used to be like actions, with their hand, hand by their mouth\" suggesting sex acts she said, which \"just made me keep it to myself even more\".\n\n\"Teachers heard people saying these things and not one teacher pulled me to the side and asked me if things were all right.\"\n\nShe said she came forward after recognising images of two alleged attackers, including Mr Ali Sultan, in reports about the Telford sex ring during Operation Chalice.\n\nThe jury heard that Mr Ali Sultan has previous convictions for similar offences against young girls, and the girl claimed he threatened her into keeping quiet.\n\n\"He knows what he did,\" she said, when challenged by his defence, \"and I know\".\n\nMr Sultan, 33, formerly from Telford, faces four charges of indecent assault and one of rape. The jury was told he already had convictions for \"similar offences against young girls\".\n\nMr Hussain, 38, of Acacia Drive, Leegomery, is accused of forcing the victim to perform oral sex on two occasions.\n\nMr Younas, 35, of Regent Street, Wellington, is accused of the same offence, said to have taken place in the same churchyard.\n\nMr Akhtar, 35, of Victoria Avenue, Wellington is accused of raping the girl in a lane, alongside Mr Sultan and Mr Hussain, and is also said to have urinated on her in an act of humiliation.\n\nMr Rizwan, 37, of Mafeking Road, Telford, faces two charges of indecent assault.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight: Kay Richardson was killed by her estranged husband, after he was released under investigation\n\nMore than 93,000 suspected violent criminals and sex offenders have been released without restrictions by police in England and Wales since 2017, figures obtained by BBC Newsnight show.\n\nPeople suspected of offences including rape and murder have been among those \"Released Under Investigation\" (RUI).\n\nRichard Miller of the Law Society said a \"major scandal\" was brewing over the way RUIs are being used.\n\nThe Home Office said the cases must be regularly reviewed and managed.\n\nIn 2017, the rules on pre-charge bail changed, making it more difficult for police to keep suspects on bail beyond 28 days.\n\nThe overuse of RUIs, Mr Miller said, is the unintended consequence of the changes.\n\nUnlike pre-charge bail, RUIs do not impose a limit on suspects' movements, stop them from contacting certain people or require them report to a police station.\n\nEarlier this month the government announced plans to review the 2017 changes.\n\nIn September 2018, Alan Martin, 53, was released under investigation by police in Sunderland, after his estranged wife Kay Richardson had gone to the police accusing him of rape.\n\nNo conditions were imposed and the police gave Martin the keys back to the home he had shared with Ms Richardson.\n\nMartin let himself into the house and waited for Ms Richardson, 49, before attacking her with a hammer and strangling her.\n\n\"They might as well have gone and opened the door for him,\" said Audrey Richardson, Kay's mother.\n\n\"He killed her,\" she said. \"We've got to accept this and the police is not taking a little bit of responsibility... We are haunted by what happened.\"\n\nMr Martin had a history of domestic violence. But Northumbria Police said, because he had not been bailed, officers had no legal right to keep the keys from him. The force were cleared of misconduct by The Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nViolence against the person and sexual offences account for almost 100,000 of the cases where an individual was Released Under Investigation since April 2017\n\nNewsnight's data - obtained under the Freedom of Information Act - revealed there were 322,250 RUI cases between April 2017 to October this year. Of these, 93,098 related to violence against a person and sexual offences cases.\n\nThe figures were provided by 20 of the 44 police forces in England and Wales - meaning the total number of RUIs since 2017 is likely to be much higher.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, said there were people being released without \"any form of judicial control or indeed police bail control\" which \"can be dangerous\" for victims.\n\nNewsnight found 2,772 of the cases involving violent and sexual offences had been classed as RUI for more than 12 months.\n\n\"It's unfair on defendants and complainants if these cases are not resolved quickly,\" said Mr Miller, head of justice at the Law Society.\n\n\"It also means that the quality of the evidence is impacted as the longer a case is left the more memories fade.\"\n\nNewsnight spoke to a man who was released under investigation for more than two years, after he was accused of rape.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC anonymously.\n\n\"Your life is effectively put on hold. You're put into this limbo where everything starts falling apart around you, you've got no control of it whatsoever,\" he said. \"I felt suicidal.\"\n\nHe protested his innocence and was eventually told he would not be charged.\n\n\"I would expect, with the nature of the crime I was accused of, to have been placed under specific instructions,\" he added.\n\n\"But there were no restrictions at all.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) released guidance to frontline officers this year stressing the importance of using pre-charge bail where necessary and proportionate, including in high harm cases.\n\nThe NPCC's criminal justice lead, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, said since the bail legislation was amended, \"a number of unintended consequences have followed\".\n\n\"To address the emerging issues, we issued operational guidance encouraging timely investigations and the proactive use of pre-charge bail to protect victims and vulnerable people,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will always give the police and the criminal justice system the full support and powers they need to protect the public from harm.\n\n\"We launched a review of pre-charge bail legislation to prioritise the safety of victims and empower the police investigating all types of offences, whilst continuing to make sure cases are dealt with as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy years of existence is clearly worth celebrating, but Nato is strangely low-key about this week's brief gathering of alliance heads of state and government outside London.\n\nNato spokesmen reject the label of \"summit\", insisting that this is really a lesser affair; that there was a full-scale summit only last year; and that this gathering will not release the traditional lengthy communiqué of conclusions and future plans.\n\nWhy so reticent? This is after all what many Nato advocates call, with some justification, the most successful military alliance in history.\n\nNato was founded in 1949 for the collective defence of its members, linking the security of the United States with its European allies against the Soviet Union. It witnessed the end of communism, defeating the Soviet bloc without firing a shot.\n\nIt went to war for the first time in the Balkans in the 1990s. It then set out on a new path - so-called \"out of area\" operations beyond Nato's frontiers, notably its operations in Afghanistan and the wider war against terror.\n\nNato also set about a programme of expansion, nearly doubling in size. Today it has 29 members and North Macedonia is soon to join its ranks.\n\nUS troops on a Nato exercise in Lithuania in June 2018\n\nNato - which is as much a diplomatic as a military alliance - has played a key role in stabilising the new democracies of Europe, whether it be in the Baltic or the Balkans, giving them a new self-confidence and locking them into a formidable security framework.\n\nBut has this actually produced a stronger Nato?\n\nThe respected British defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke says \"no\".\n\nUS President Harry Truman marks the beginning of Nato in 1949\n\n\"Nato is indeed the greatest alliance the world has ever seen,\" he told me, but \"today with some thirty members, it is less than half as strong as it was when it was half this size.\n\n\"Nato is in trouble\", he argues, \"even though it's still got lots of capabilities\".\n\nNato expansion is seen within the alliance as a good thing. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described it to me as a \"historical success\", the alliance helping to spread democracy and the rule of law.\n\nCountries once occupied by the Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union, like the three Baltic republics, or former Warsaw Pact allies of Moscow like Poland, are now firmly in Nato's orbit, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin does not like this.\n\nRussia is pushing back in every way it can, bolstering its nuclear arsenal and seeking to renew its influence abroad. Its controversial but successful campaign to prop up the Assad regime in Syria is a case in point.\n\nNato led a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo after bombing Yugoslavia in 1999\n\nIn Europe, Russia is criticised for cyber attacks; information operations to try to influence elections; even political assassination in the wake of a radiological and a chemical weapons attack - the former in London, the second in Salisbury in southern England.\n\nThe latter attack in Salisbury - which Moscow strenuously denies - prompted a mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers from Nato countries.\n\nMany have spoken of a new Cold War. But this one is very different from that of the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nRussia's power and influence is a shadow of that of the former Soviet Union's. This is a kind of shadow conflict waged below the threshold of combat, in what analysts call \"the grey zone\", where it is hard to assign blame for intrusive actions like cyber attacks or hacks against computers.\n\n\"There is a problem of political consensus in the western world and so we make it easy for Mr Putin,\" Mr Clarke says.\n\n\"Russia,\" he argues, \"will be a real nuisance to Nato for the next ten or twenty years.\n\n\"But they should not be a strategically important challenge to us unless we let them.\"\n\nPresident Putin has warned the West not to cross \"red lines\", meaning Russia's national security interests\n\nRussia is simply using the intrinsic weaknesses of the West to further its own goals, he says.\n\n\"If the Western world and if the Western democracies are not sufficiently cohesive to deal with this threat - and at the moment I have to say they're not - then the Russians will actually play a big role in European security for the future.\n\nThey'll dominate the agenda. They'll constrain people's choices. They'll intimidate and they'll use a certain amount of not very subtle blackmail.\"\n\nThis Nato \"summit\" is all about demonstrating solidarity and resolve and also about charting a path for the future. But in the days leading up to the meeting there has been more than a hint of the problems behind Nato's ceremonial façade.\n\nNato has proudly announced new spending projections which show that the defence budgets of its European allies will grow further in the years ahead.\n\nIt has also agreed a new formula to spread the costs of Nato's central budget between its members; a budget that covers its headquarters in Brussels and other commonly funded programmes.\n\nThe US in this case will pay less and Germany, which lags behind in the proportion of its resources that it devotes to defence, will pay more.\n\nIt is all an effort to mollify President Donald Trump and to avoid another embarrassing tirade from him aimed at his Nato partners. The burden-sharing debate has long dogged Nato. Mr Trump did not invent it.\n\nBut he seems to take a peculiarly transactional approach to the alliance, and often does not seem to share a fundamental sense that the survival of a healthy Nato is as much in Washington's interests as it is in those of its European allies.\n\nNonetheless, Nato governments have committed to spending at least 2% of their GDP on defence; and many of them are still far from that benchmark.\n\nDonald Trump: The uncrowned leader of the Western alliance or a divider?\n\nBut this focus on funding obscures other problems. Frustration is growing and this is what prompted the French President Emmanuel Macron recently to describe Nato as strategically \"brain-dead\".\n\nFar from regretting his comments, he amplified them last week, insisting that the alliance needed to stop talking about money all the time and spend more time dealing with its fundamental strategic problems.\n\nOnly days before this week's summit, a row erupted between France and Turkey. It illustrates how events in north-eastern Syria are straining relations within Nato.\n\nPresident Macron has repeatedly criticised both Washington's abrupt withdrawal of support for the Kurds and Turkey's related offensive into Syria - two strategic decisions that were taken without consulting other Nato allies.\n\nMr Macron (R), pictured with Mr Stoltenberg, criticised Nato's failure to respond to Turkey's offensive\n\nTurkey sees France as far too friendly towards the Kurds. It wants Nato as a whole to back its position in Syria.\n\nThis episode underscores another fundamental problem for the alliance: what many see as Turkey's drift away from Nato and the West.\n\nAnkara's purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system is an extraordinary step for a Nato ally.\n\nThe problem is that Turkey's size and geographical position make it an important, albeit for many troublesome, partner in Nato, despite some analysts questioning if it really should still be in the alliance at all.\n\nSo, Turkish and US unilateralism; rows over money; a resurgent but ill-defined Russian threat - there's plenty for Nato leaders to talk about when they meet in a luxury resort hotel near Watford, a town best known by many for its nondescript railway junction.\n\nNato too is at a kind of a junction itself. It has many of the problems of success. Many of the decisions it has taken - its expansion to bring in so many new members for example - were driven as much by politics as by strategy.\n\nTurkish and Russian forces are carrying out joint ground patrols in northern Syria\n\nBut the world has changed dramatically since Nato's founding. It is very different again from the world of the 1990s, in which Nato basked in its victory in the Cold War.\n\nPresident Macron's label of \"brain dead\" may be going a bit far. But he has a point.\n\nNato leaders need to get back to strategy, to the big thoughts about where the alliance should be heading.\n\nHow will it contend with the Russian threat? Does it need to rethink its strategy? Should Nato have a common approach to a rising China? What should be Nato's priorities in the 21st-Century world?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences.\n\nKhan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence when he launched his attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nKhan was shot dead by officers after members of the public restrained him.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"saddened\" by the attack.\n\nShe thanked the emergency services \"as well as the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted for terrorism offences in 2012. He was released from prison on licence in December 2018, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying he \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nAfter leaving prison he had moved into a Stafford property on the \"approved premises\" list.\n\nThe attack began at 13:58 GMT on Friday at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge, at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nThe Learning Together scheme, which featured in the BBC's Law in Action programme earlier this year, allows university students and prisoners to study alongside each other.\n\nKhan had been one of dozens of people at the event.\n\nMr Basu said the attack is understood to have started inside the building, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nPolice are carrying out a search, believed to be linked to the attack, at flats in Stafford, close to the town centre.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nMr Basu added police were not actively seeking anyone else in relation to the attack, although they were making \"fast time enquiries\" to make sure there was no outstanding threat to the public.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on London Bridge\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nThere is a general feeling of shock and disbelief here in Stafford, where a top floor flat is being searched.\n\nBlue screens and forensic tents are outside the front of the semi-detached property within a 50m police cordon.\n\nI've seen evidence bags being taken out of the house and the garden also appears to be part of the search.\n\nThe property is believed to be privately-owned and used, in part, as a halfway house. Local residents have told me it has a high turnover of tenants and Khan had only been living there for about six months.\n\nA man and a woman were killed during the attack. Three others - a man and two women - were also injured and remain in hospital.\n\nNHS chief Simon Stevens said, on Friday, that one person was in a critical but stable condition, another was stable and the third had less serious injuries.\n\nNone of those killed or injured has so far been named and officers were still working to identify those who died, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Friday.\n\nPolice believe the attacker had acted alone, the commissioner added on Saturday.\n\nThe actions of the public have been widely praised, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Ms Dick, who said they had shown \"extreme courage\".\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show passers-by holding Khan down, while a man in a suit could be seen running from him, having apparently retrieved a large knife.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tour guide Stevie Hurst told 5 Live he kicked the suspect in the head\n\nOne of those who rushed to help during the attack was a convicted murderer who was attending the prisoner rehabilitation event on day release, the Times reported.\n\nJames Ford, 42, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years in 2004 for the murder of Amanda Champion, a 21-year-old woman with learning difficulties.\n\nMr Basu said Khan was wearing what was believed to be a hoax explosive device.\n\nThe prime minister put election campaigning on hold on Friday to hold a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nMr Johnson visited the scene at London Bridge on Saturday with Met Commissioner Ms Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible\" response by members of the emergency services and the \"sheer bravery\" of members of the public who intervened.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"immediate takeaway\" from the attack was to \"toughen up sentences\" for serious and violent offences.\n\n\"When people are sentenced to a certain number of years in prison, they should serve every year of that sentence,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited the scene on Saturday alongside Met Commissioner Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan he was \"in awe of the bravery, the courageousness of ordinary Londoners\" who stopped the attacker.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there would be an increased presence of armed and unarmed police officers in London over the weekend, adding they were there to \"reassure us - not because there is an additional or heightened threat\".\n\nThe London mayor also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK had to make sure the \"right lessons\" were learned from the attack.\n\n\"You can't disaggregate terrorism and security from cuts made to resources of the police, of probation - the tools that judges have,\" he said.\n\nBut security minister Brandon Lewis told the programme funding for counter-terrorism policing had consistently increased since 2015.\n\n\"We will make sure that the police has got the resource that it needs,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says the system that allowed the killer out on early release \"does not make sense\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings will fly at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Einar Orn was on his lunch break when suddenly he saw police cars and heard gunshots\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories of the 2017 attack.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThis latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nSome of the early debate about the London Bridge attack has focused on the sentence imposed on Usman Khan.\n\nThe sentencing judge thought Khan should be freed from prison only when it was safe to do so, as part \"indeterminate penalty\" scheme (IPP).\n\nBut the Court Of Appeal replaced Khan's IPP with an extended sentence, which required his release at the halfway point of his 16-year custodial term.\n\nThe IPP regime was scrapped in 2012 - a decision that was widely supported at the time.\n\nSince Khan's conviction, legislation has been put in place for the Parole Board to determine when offenders on extended sentences should be let out.\n\nThe attack also raises questions about the extent to which people convicted of terrorism offences can be de-radicalised.\n\nKhan was one of 51 inmates with terror links let out of jail in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, so it's inevitable that the role of those monitoring him will now be scrutinised.\n\nDid the authorities pick up any warning signs about Khan? Was he meeting people he shouldn't have done or plotting the attack? If no signs were detected, why not? And if the authorities did spot concerns, what did they do?\n\nFriday's horrific attack was the second fatal stabbing at an offender rehabilitation event this month, after Hakim Sillah died at a knife awareness course in Hillingdon, west London.\n\nThese events will likely fuel concerns about safety at such venues and whether checks need to be strengthened.\n\nDid you witness what happened? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A Christmas advert from exercise bike company Peloton has been widely mocked on social media as being \"sexist\", \"out of touch\", and even \"dystopian\".\n\nThe ad, which has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, sees a woman receive an exercise bike for Christmas from her husband.\n\nShe then records her workouts over the following year in a vlog and presents it to him as a way of saying thank you.\n\n\"A year ago, I didn't realise how much this would change me,\" she says.\n\nThe criticism knocked the company's shares, which closed more than 9% lower on Tuesday.\n\nPeloton sells fitness equipment - with bikes priced at more than $2,000 - fitted with touchscreens. Users then purchase a subscription to access classes streamed live and on-demand.\n\nThe New York-based company released the ad in November, but criticism on social media has increased markedly in recent days.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Peloton This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSome people complained it is sexist for a man to give his wife an exercise bike for Christmas, as it suggested he wanted her to lose weight.\n\nOthers noted that - despite claims the bike has \"changed\" her - the already slim actress who plays the main character looks exactly the same.\n\nSome also said the ad had a dystopian vibe and compared it to a horror film.\n\nComedy writer Jess Dweck wrote on Twitter: \"The only way to enjoy that Peloton ad is to think of it as the first minute of an episode of Black Mirror.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Dweck This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Twitter account devoted to Limericks wrote: \"The Pelaton [sic] wife/Has a beautiful life/And a general aura of fear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Limericking This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeloton said the advertisement was meant to celebrate a \"fitness and wellness journey\".\n\n\"While we're disappointed in how some have misinterpreted this commercial, we are encouraged by - and grateful for - the outpouring of support we've received from those who understand what we were trying to communicate,\" it said in a statement.\n\nIt is not the first time Peloton's appeals to buyers have been spoofed.\n\nClueHeywood, a Twitter personality in Arizona, criticised the company earlier this year by suggesting the way it staged its adverts was absurd.\n\n\"Love putting my Peloton bike in the most striking area of my ultra-modern $3 million house,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Clue Heywood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe offered his take on the most recent commercial as well, describing it as an account of a \"116 lb woman's YEARLONG fitness journey to becoming a 112 lb woman\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Clue Heywood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Each fob is similar in size to a standard keyring and features a small fingerprint reader\n\nA bank is testing new technology that allows customers to make contactless payments for transactions up to £100 without a bank card or mobile phone.\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland has developed biometric payment fobs that use fingerprints to verify transactions.\n\nRBS, which has previously trialled biometric cards, said the fobs would allow payments above £30 without a card or mobile for the first time.\n\nRBS will test the technology with 250 customers over the next three months.\n\nEach fob is similar in size to a standard keyring and features a small fingerprint reader.\n\nRBS said customers would be able to use them at existing contactless and chip-and-pin terminals.\n\nWhen a fob is presented, a light indicates the fingerprint has been matched successfully.\n\nRBS has already piloted a biometric bank card that verifies a purchase using a customer's fingerprint\n\nIn April, RBS piloted a biometric bank card that allowed customers to verify a purchase using their fingerprint.\n\nThose taking part in the trial did not need to use a pin code to verify transactions of more than £30.\n\nRBS said the card was designed to increase security and make payments at tills easier.\n\nThe bank described the trial as \"successful\" but has not said when that technology will be introduced.\n\nDavid Crawford, head of Royal Bank Effortless Payments, said: \"After the successful pilot of our biometric debit card we are looking at how we can further develop the technology and push the boundaries to integrate it into our customers everyday lives.\"\n\nRBS is working with Visa and German-owned Giesecke and Devrient Mobile Security to develop the technology for UK customers.", "Jim Donegan was shot on Glen Road in west Belfast as he waited to collect his son from school\n\nPolice now believe that two republican paramilitary groups were involved in the murder of a man outside a west Belfast school a year ago.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead as he waited to pick up his 13-year-old son outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road on 4 December 2018.\n\nPolice have previously attributed the murder to the INLA.\n\nThey now believe another republican group, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH), was also involved in the shooting.\n\nOne gunman carried out the killing which police said was witnessed by hundreds of children and their parents.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said the investigation into the \"callous execution\" continues to progress.\n\nHe said the gunman is believed to have emerged from Clonelly Avenue onto Glen Road at about 15:10 GMT.\n\nPolice have said Mr Donegan had a number of enemies\n\n\"He then walked past numerous children at around 15:15, calmly activated the pedestrian crossing, crossed the road and walked up to Jim's car, firing his weapon eight times before fleeing the scene.\n\n\"He was wearing a high-vis, hip length, yellow jacket with security on the back, dark bottoms with a grey coloured hat or hood and carrying a dark bag over his shoulder which I believe contained the gun.\n\n\"I want to hear from you if you were in the area at the time. Did you see the gunman? Did he go into a house afterwards or get into a waiting car? Perhaps you have heard anyone talking about the killing?\n\n\"I also believe the same man tried to murder Jim five days earlier in circumstances that would appear to be the carbon copy of the actual murder.\"\n\nPolice previously released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like\n\nPolice have made 13 arrests, carried out 12 searches and viewed 342 hours of CCTV as part of their investigation, but no-one has been charged with Mr Donegan's murder.\n\nThey previously said that Mr Donegan had a number of enemies.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery appealed for the public's help to take the \"ruthless\" gunman off the streets.\n\n\"He may be late 30s to early 40s, approximately 5ft 8ins and may walk with a limp or may have an existing medical condition that impacts on his walking style,\" he said.\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the day of the murder, or the attempt that was abandoned the previous week, to contact police on 101.", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe crisis in Northern Ireland's health service is \"unacceptable\", NI Secretary Julian Smith has said, as industrial action by healthcare workers continues.\n\nMr Smith was speaking during a visit to Belfast where he met members of the NI Civil Service and trade unions.\n\nHe said he was \"extremely sorry\" that the strike was affecting patients, families and workers.\n\nHealth workers are protesting at pay and staffing levels which they claim are \"unsafe\".\n\nThe union, Unison, that represents more than 6,500 registered nurses and 3,500 health care assistants, has called for \"compromise and money on the table\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January 2017 when the power-sharing parties - the DUP and Sinn Féin - split after a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said he would have more conversations both with the NI Civil Service and the unions over the coming days.\n\n\"This area of health is a devolved matter so the decisions have to be taken by the NI Civil Service, they are working in difficult circumstances because Stormont's not running.\n\n\"But I am working with them to see if we can find a way through.\"\n\nHe added that the situation was \"unacceptable\" and that he would \"do whatever I can within the powers I have to help the NI Civil Service move this forward\".\n\nHowever, when asked about the possibility of extra money for the civil service to deal with the ongoing healthcare issues, Mr Smith maintained that the negotiations on health service issues would be led by the civil service.\n\nHis comments come as industrial action continues to affect the health service.\n\nAt the Ulster Hospital, routine afternoon outpatient appointments, with the exception of maternity and children's, have been cancelled.\n\nPatients in the South Eastern Trust area who have not received a letter of cancellation should attend as normal for their appointments.\n\nIn the Western Trust area, strike action by support services staff is expected to affect hospitals, day centres and residential homes.\n\nFull details and advice on current health care services can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nDr Michael McBride, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, has warned that there is a \"real risk\" of unintended consequences if industrial action continues.\n\nDr Michael McBride stressed that he respected the workers' right to take action\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Nolan Show, Dr McBride said the situation was \"very concerning\" given the fragile nature of Northern Ireland's health system.\n\nHe said that the scale and scope of industrial action at a time of significant pressure on the service meant that \"the risk of unintended consequences is real\".\n\nHe said he feared what these consequences might be, but stressed he also respected workers' rights.\n\n\"Front-line health and social care staff have genuine grievances and I absolutely accept the rights of those individuals to take industrial action,\" he said.\n\n\"Who wouldn't want hard working staff, totally dedicated and committed staff who are the backbone of our health service to get a fair day's pay, to have pay which is comparable to other parts of the United Kingdom?\"\n\nDr McBride repeated his appeal to all in the dispute to pause, take a step back and work to unlock the impasse.\n\nAmong those taking industrial action in Derry is Stephen Ward, a porter at Altnagelvin Hospital.\n\nHe said staff were \"at breaking point\".\n\nMr Ward said staff were not being rewarded for the work they carried out\n\n\"We are running around 24/7 after cardiac arrests and people with serious haemorrhages.\n\n\"There's so much to the role that keeps the place functioning and we are not getting rewarded for it,\" he said.\n\n\"We are basically on minimum wage and you can't live the best quality of life that you should.\n\n\"We are at breaking point and I think we should go into direct rule as soon as possible. It's emotional because we are always thinking about the patients.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Anne Speed of Unison welcomed the decision by the health trusts' chief executives to speak out in a joint statement.\n\n\"I was glad to hear that they didn't blame workers,\" she said.\n\n\"They have pointed in the direction of those who have access to money and those who can influence those who have access to money. That direction needs to be continued and the chief executives need to continue calling for that.\"\n\nMs Speed said that, so far, those who can offer compromise do not have access to money.\n\nAnne Speed, Unison, called for compromise and 'money on the table'\n\nShe said the basis on which the Department of Health had looked for a resolution of the dispute was insufficient at this stage.\n\nMs Speed said Unison was not walking away from its responsibilities and was working to manage risk.\n\nShe said the planned complete withdrawal of labour by nurses on 18 December would be \"very serious\".\n\n\"When nurses remove themselves from routine nursing care it will be a very big wake-up call for everybody with anything to do with the health service, especially those in the leadership,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, nurses from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) took action short of strike by refusing to do any work not directly related to patient care.\n\nMembers of the RCN took industrial action on Tuesday\n\nThe UK government said that as health is a devolved matter, only a restored Stormont executive could take decisions on the health service.\n\nIn a statement, the Northern Ireland Office said that while Julian Smith had further discussions with the NI Civil Service on Tuesday, he \"has no powers to direct them or take decisions on health matters\".\n\nTwo more days of industrial action, short of strike action, are to be held on 10 and 11 December.\n\nMembers of the RCN and trade unions Unite, Unison and NIPSA have voted to strike on 18 December.", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nAnd we thought Christmas only came once a year.\n\nThe first full-length trailer for No Time To Die has been released, giving fans a flavour of what to expect from Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.\n\nThe promo, which launched on Wednesday and can be seen below, shows Rami Malek in character as the latest villain for the first time, as well as a new female agent with a licence to kill.\n\nNo Time To Die is set to be released in April, but there have been one or two obstacles along the way - from Daniel Craig's ankle injury to the decision to change director.\n\nDanny Boyle was originally supposed to be at the helm for Bond 25, but he exited the project last August due to \"creative differences\".\n\nUS director Cary Joji Fukunaga stepped in, and there was a race against the clock to keep the film on schedule for its April 2020 release date.\n\n\"It has been an incredible honour, but it's also just been really hard,\" Fukunaga tells BBC News. \"This was a very ambitious script for the time we had.\n\nCary Joji Fukunaga stepped in to direct Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond\n\n\"I got the role in the middle of doing press for Maniac [the Netflix series he directed], so I was doing interviews like this while trying to process the enormous excitement but also responsibility of taking on this project.\n\n\"And I was very aware that with Daniel's departure, I had to get a script going and production going in a very short space of time. The lack of time was a sort of impetus for the pressure. It was like a very hot flame under our ass!\"\n\nThe project had the added complication of having to go back to the drawing board after Boyle's exit.\n\n\"I love Danny's films, but on this one we basically had to start from scratch,\" Fukunaga explains. \"It was the desire of the producers that we sort of start anew and figure out a new storyline for this one.\"\n\nThe writing process involved bringing Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on board to help polish the script.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFukunaga refers to a new plot, but No Time To Die also appears to continue the overarching storyline which has run through the last four films.\n\nSpectre's ending seemed to tie that narrative up, which left many wondering whether the 25th Bond film would start afresh. But the inclusion of Waltz's Blofeld in the trailer puts paid to that idea and suggests it's a continuation - something Fukunaga appears to confirm.\n\nLashana Lynch plays a new MI6 agent with a licence to kill\n\n\"I like to think of this as picking up from all the stories, from Casino [Royale] all the way through,\" he says. \"And those who are fans will appreciate the layers that exist there, but I also think for new audiences, people who have never seen any of the films before, younger audiences, it's strong enough that they can get involved.\"\n\nAs well as Maniac, Fukunaga has previously directed films including Beasts of No Nation and a 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of the trailer is Lashana Lynch's appearance as a new member of MI6.\n\nHaving a female double-O marks a slight change in direction in the franchise. No Time To Die is the first Bond film since #MeToo, but would the film series have evolved in this direction anyway?\n\n\"Yes, I think so,\" Fukunaga says. \"Bond started evolving probably 25 years ago, when Judi Dench's M called out Pierce Brosnan's Bond for being a misogynistic dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War.\"\n\n\"I think Lashana's role is not about being female, she's just a younger generation,\" Fukunaga says. \"There's the whole thing going around the internet right now about 'OK Boomer', and I just think of how younger generations challenge what the previous generations legacy means.\n\nFans have speculated about whether Rami Malek's villain is Dr No\n\n\"And I think for Lashana, she has a lot to prove, she's capable, she's physical, she's intelligent. And the world has changed, and she feels she's inheriting a world that agents like Bond had operated in. And it's like, they want to make their mark. That's how I think of it. Less so than just because she's female, we're in a world where that's not even the considerations. It's more, 'is she capable of being a double-O?'\"\n\nOne person who became (temporarily) incapable of being a double-O was Daniel Craig, who injured his ankle while shooting the film. But, Fukunaga says, that wasn't as disruptive to the schedule as you might imagine.\n\n\"If you think about a film this ambitious, this long, with this many stunts, the fact that we had one sprained ankle and a concussion over that period of time was a pretty high achievement,\" he says.\n\n\"[Craig's ankle injury] delayed us a little bit, but he didn't miss a day of being on set after that. He was on set working out and doing PT [physical therapy] the entire time. We had to do a little juggling on schedule and scenes, but that was pretty much it.\"\n\nNo Time To Die isn't actually finished yet. Filming wrapped last month but the movie is now in post-production, which means Fukunaga \"still hasn't had time to really process\" the whole experience. \"I think I'll probably have to sit down next summer and figure out what just happened,\" he says.\n\nAsk the directors of Cats or Sonic The Hedgehog whether launching a trailer is a positive experience and you might find them cowering in the corner of a room from the trauma.\n\nBut Fukunaga is less anxious about the social media reaction to the Bond trailer. \"We don't have any computer graphics animals in our trailer,\" he laughs, \"so we're less worried about that.\"", "Nato leaders are gathering in Wales for a summit expected to focus on Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine and continuing violence across the Middle East.\n\nBBC News outlines key points in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 65-year history - in 80 seconds.", "Les Rutherford escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door\n\nA veteran who escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door has died at the age of 101.\n\nLes Rutherford became trapped while fighting a rear-guard action during the evacuation of the port.\n\nHe and a fellow soldier used the door, which had been blown off a shed, to escape out to sea, where they were picked up by a French trawler.\n\nTributes paid to Mr Rutherford described him as \"a wonderful man who will be sorely missed\".\n\nTalking previously about his exploits in Dunkirk, Mr Rutherford said: \"The place was being bombed to bits.\n\n\"There was absolutely no hope, so another chap and I decided to take this big door which had been blown off a shed and we put out to sea.\"\n\nAfter being picked up, he said he was given a glass of rum and returned to England wearing only a blanket and socks.\n\nHe later joined Bomber Command and served as a bomb aimer in the RAF.\n\nHis role was to lie flat in the nose of the aircraft, directing the pilot during a bombing-run as the bombs were released.\n\nLes Rutherford in a Lancaster bomber on his 90th birthday\n\nMr Rutherford, who was based at RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire, served with Bomber Command\n\nDuring a raid over Germany in December 1943, Mr Rutherford was shot down and captured.\n\nHe was taken to Stalag Luft III shortly before the Great Escape took place in March 1944, although he was not part of it.\n\nWhilst there, he exchanged chocolate for a notebook which he used to record life in the camp.\n\nOne of the images in his notebook depicted the Great Escape\n\nAnother showed the withdrawal of troops from Stalag Luft III in 1945 in response to the Russian advance\n\nAt the end of the war he was repatriated to the UK.\n\nPaying tribute, a spokesperson for the International Bomber Command Centre, said: \"If ever a man served his country to the highest standards it was Les.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatt Baker has announced that he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, shared the news on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nIn a statement, he said the programme had been \"brilliant\" at showcasing the \"eclectic mix of Britain\".\n\nHe said he was excited about new opportunities - \"but most of all I'm looking forward to having dinner with my family and being able to put my kids to bed\".\n\nBaker, who has presented The One Show alongside Alex Jones, will continue to present the BBC's Countryfile and sports coverage.\n\nHe said: \"I've loved that The One Show has been such a big part of my life for the last nine years.\n\n\"It's been brilliant to showcase the eclectic mix of Britain, meet incredible people along the way and witness so many lives changed with the annual Rickshaw Challenge for Children In Need.\n\n\"I'd like to thank all those I've worked with over the years and especially you, the viewer, for showing me so much support during my time on the green sofa.\"\n\nThe former Blue Peter presenter joined The One Show on a permanent basis in February 2011, months after coming second in 2010's Strictly Come Dancing series. He replaced comedian Jason Manford.\n\nCharlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, said Baker's \"warmth and wit have helped to create many magical moments on the sofa\".\n\n\"He has a great connection with BBC One viewers and will continue to play an important role on the channel on Sunday nights in Countryfile and with BBC Sport on our gymnastics coverage,\" she added.\n• None Matt Baker to host The One Show", "As first-choice wicketkeeper for England, Geraint Jones was a member of the side which won the Ashes in 2005.\n\nSince retiring in Kent, the county he represented for most of his professional career, he's become a teacher.\n\nHe's also taking on a new challenge - by becoming a retained firefighter at his local station in Sandwich, Kent.", "The bank said it would cut fees on unarranged overdrafts\n\nHSBC is to bring in a single overdraft rate of 39.9% for UK customers from March 2020, as much as quadrupling the rate it charges some customers.\n\nHowever, the bank is removing a £5 daily fee for going into an unarranged overdraft and introducing an interest-free £25 buffer on some accounts.\n\nIt follows a similar move from Nationwide Building Society in July.\n\nThe new annual rate comes in response to tough new rules from regulators designed to protect consumers.\n\nBut one analyst warned that steep overdraft rates could now become the \"new normal\".\n\nHSBC UK currently charges rates of 9.9% to 19.9% on arranged overdrafts, but the higher rate will be applied across its whole range of accounts except for its student bank account.\n\nThe £25 buffer will apply to Bank Accounts and Advance Bank Accounts, providing leeway for those going slightly overdrawn.\n\nHSBC said that as a result of this and the removal of the £5 daily fee for unarranged overdrafts, seven in 10 who use an overdraft would be better off or the same as a result of the changes.\n\nBut that suggests around a third could end up worse off. The bank has eight to nine million current account holders in the UK.\n\nMadhu Kejriwal, HSBC UK's head of lending and payments, said: \"By simplifying our overdraft charging structure we are making them easier to understand, more transparent and giving customers tools to help them make better financial decisions.\"\n\nNationwide has also raised its overdraft rates\n\nThe move comes in response to Financial Conduct Authority's plans to shake up the \"dysfunctional\" overdraft market - including stopping banks and building societies from charging higher prices for unarranged overdrafts than for arranged overdrafts.\n\nThe new rules, which come into force next April, will require providers to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts and get rid of fixed fees.\n\nBut there have been concerns that banks will hike authorised overdraft charges to claw back some revenue lost from unauthorised overdraft fees.\n\nIn July, Nationwide also unveiled a new single rate of 39.9% across its adult current account range. Its changes came into force in November.\n\nHelen Saxon, banking editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, said: \"With both of the first banks to announce changes moving overdraft interest rates to around 40%, we have to wonder if this is the new normal.\"\n\nThe FCA has acknowledged banks may look to increase their arranged overdraft prices as a result of the new rules.\n\nBut it argues the net effect will still be better for consumers - and increased competition between providers as a result of the changes will constrain any price increases.\n\nRachel Springall, a finance expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk, said: \"It's disappointing to see such a hike in overdraft charges but there may be more brands coming out in the coming weeks to announce changes too.\n\n\"This shake-up is designed to make things fairer and more transparent to consumers.\n\n\"Borrowers would be wise to scrutinise any changes to their current account and look to switch elsewhere if they find that the account has lost its shine.\"", "Is this, at last, the true face of the Trump administration's foreign policy?\n\nUS ground troops withdrawn from Syria at short notice; the long-heralded departure of James Mattis - a much respected defence secretary - who can clearly no longer tolerate the president's mercurial approach to security and defence.\n\nNow there are reports (as yet unconfirmed) about a partial US pull-out from Afghanistan, where American forces provide the backbone of the train-and-assist effort that is helping the Afghan security forces in their faltering efforts to contain the Taliban insurgency.\n\nIn one sense, none of this should be a surprise. US President Donald Trump has long railed against the wars bequeathed to America by his predecessors.\n\nMany analysts question the value of the US troop presence in Syria, just as they point to the inherent problems in seeking to bolster an Afghan government riven by corruption, factional infighting and so on.\n\nBut to cite the deficiencies of these deployments and to question where they are going or what value they bring is one thing. Simply to up sticks and depart is quite another.\n\nWithdrawal, just as much as intervention, requires a game plan, a strategy or framework into which Washington's own actions are placed. And the simple fact is that President Donald Trump does not seem to do strategy.\n\nHow, for example, does the US withdrawal from Syria fit into any coherent plan either to stabilise the country or to contain the sizeable elements of the Islamic State (IS) group that still remain? How does it help the US to counteract Russia and Iran's rising influence in the region? And what signal does it send to America's allies about its commitment to their security?\n\nJames Mattis (right) resigned a day after President Trump said he was withdrawing troops from Syria\n\nThe departure of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis raises many similar questions.\n\nYes, he resigned, but he had clearly fallen out of favour with Mr Trump weeks ago.\n\nHe had fought a hard and pragmatic campaign against the president's disdain for Washington's Nato allies. Indeed, despite the rhetoric coming from the White House, US deployments of troops and equipment to Europe have increased significantly on Mr Trump's watch.\n\nMr Trump's Syria withdrawal, of course, leaves Washington's Kurdish allies in a predicament - potentially caught between three fires: that of the Turks who are threatening a further encroachment into northern Syria; the remnants of IS; and the Bashar al-Assad government which also has scores to settle.\n\nMany US experts see in Mr Trump's actions a betrayal which will long resonate in the region and beyond.\n\nBut it is the strategy question that is fundamental. The world is certainly changing.\n\nChina, a major new power, is rising. Russia, a resurgent player, seeks to return to the world stage and has chosen the Middle East as the first region in which it seeks to flex its muscles.\n\nFrom their rise, other less powerful countries are taking an example, arguing that a market economy can co-exist with an authoritarian form of government.\n\nIn many cases, this is bolstered by a rising tide of populism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nAnd this extends into the West, afflicting once settled Scandinavia, countries on the main European landmass, and across the Atlantic to the US itself.\n\nThe linkage of market economics and liberal democracy that seemed to triumph at the end of the Cold War is now on the back foot, having to defend itself from a variety of challenges.\n\nAmerica's allies are looking to Washington more than ever for a far-sighted strategy that can help all of them to resist these new challenges.\n\nBut no coherent strategy is offered. The president tweets, ignores the expert voices in his own administration - and policy changes.\n\nBut what is to be left behind in Syria, Afghanistan or anywhere else where President Trump's fleeting gaze lands?\n\nLet's be clear. The arguments for a continued US presence in Syria or indeed even ultimately in Afghanistan are complex, difficult and by no means always convincing.\n\nPresident Trump's predecessors made many errors along the way. These were situations that went badly wrong. But a precipitous withdrawal may only make matters worse.\n\nTo the dismay of its friends and allies, the US seems to have no grand strategy for the Middle East.\n\nThe current balance of power means that it has fewer levers to pull and certainly cannot enforce any settlement in Syria on its own.\n\nBut Mr Trump appears to be washing his hands and handing the whole job over to Russia, Turkey and Iran.\n\nThis absence of a strategic approach is reflected in so many other areas too.\n\nOn climate change and arms control, Mr Trump is at variance with Washington's closest friends.\n\nHe is ambivalent towards Russia, and his efforts to engage the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un amount to little more than mutual flattery and studied obfuscation of the real issues.\n\nAfter Mr Trump's first year in office, I went to Washington to make a programme looking at what had changed in defence and wider security policy over the past 12 months.\n\nSurprisingly, the answer then was very little. Block out the \"noise\" - the tweets and pronouncements from the White House press room - and it was the Pentagon that seemed to be steering a familiar course.\n\nNow though, things have undoubtedly changed. That helmsman - Jim Mattis - is departing.\n\nPresident Trump seems to be charting his own erratic course through an ocean of reefs, rocks and monsters without any strategic map to guide him.", "Home Secretary Sajid Javid has defended highlighting the ethnicity of some grooming gangs.\n\nThe home secretary faced criticism for a tweet earlier this year referring to \"sick Asian paedophiles\".\n\nBut speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today, Mr Javid - who has Pakistani heritage - said that ignoring the ethnicity of abusers gives \"oxygen\" to extremists.\n\nHe said he wanted officials researching the causes of gang-based exploitation to leave \"no stone unturned\".\n\nAsked by the British-Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, who was guest-editing the Today programme, whether he was concerned that his comments may have fuelled hate crimes, he said he was \"very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with their language\".\n\nBut he said: \"When it comes to gang-based child exploitation it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases there is a high proportion of men that have Pakistani heritage.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGrooming gangs have recently been convicted in Huddersfield, Oxford, and Rotherham.\n\nMr Javid said: \"There could be - I'm not saying that there are - there could be some cultural reasons from the communities that these men came from that could lead to this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nThe home secretary has ordered research into the \"characteristics and contexts\" of gangs abusing children, arguing that ignoring issues such as ethnicity is more likely to fuel the far-right.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Radio 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said: \"When I'm asking my officials to go away and do research to look into the causes of gang-based child exploitation, then I want them to leave no stone unturned and to look at everything.\n\n\"For me to rule something out just because it would be considered sensitive would be wrong.\n\n\"If I had ignored it, or been seen to ignore it, that is exactly what I think extremists would like to see in this country. It would give them oxygen and I refuse to do that.\"\n\nMr Javid was also asked about the decision to strip some offenders with dual citizenship of their British nationality and deport them to Pakistan, where there is no sex offenders' register and they may abuse more victims.\n\nHe said there was a \"very high bar\" on such decisions, which were usually only taken in cases of terrorism.\n\nMr Javid said: \"I'm the British home secretary and my job is to protect the British public, to do what I think is right to protect the British public. That's my number one job.\"", "The number of people heading to the Boxing Day sales has fallen for the third year running despite some heavy discounting, retail analysts have said.\n\nSpringboard, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said average footfall for the day was 3.1% lower than in 2017.\n\nIt suggested 26 December was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as midnight and the data does not include online sales.\n\nAnd retailers in London's West End declared a \"Boxing Day bounce\" saying there had been a 15% increase in footfall from last year.\n\nShoppers on London's Oxford Street told BBC News they braved the crowds to pick up a bargain and browse products in person rather than just buying them online.\n\nSome stores were offering discounts of as much as 70% after slow sales up to Christmas.\n\nSpringboard said in recent years Boxing Day had consistently seen fewer shoppers than the Black Friday sales at the end of November. The number of shoppers in the morning was said to be more than 9% lower than Black Friday.\n\nHowever, footfall does not include online sales, which made up 21% of retail sales in November, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nBargain-hunters raced into Selfridges in London as the doors were opened\n\nBlack Friday has been taking the wind out of Boxing Day sales for a few years now, and retailers have been forced to slash prices even further during the festive period.\n\nWhile this is good news for shoppers, analysts are concerned that struggling chains, with warehouses full of stock to shift, are now engaged in a race to the bottom, just when they need to be increasing profits.\n\nWhat's worse is that there is no sign of a spending splurge on the horizon. Even online giants such as Asos have had a hard time of it lately, as household debt is growing, and people have less disposable income altogether.\n\nOne place that seems to be bucking the trend - at least today - is the West End in London. That's driven, at least in part, by lots of visitors from overseas, hoping to take advantage of the weak pound.\n\nBut across the country as a whole there are only a few days left to make up for a miserable year.\n\nSome shops opened at 06:00 GMT, with queues of the keenest bargain-hunters having formed at 02:00.\n\nRetailers in London's West End expect to see 500,000 shoppers over the day and £50m in sales.\n\nJace Tyrrell, chief executive at New West End Company, representing businesses in Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, said: \"International tourists are out in force driven by the weaker pound, as well as domestic shoppers who are looking for a day out after family celebrations yesterday,\" he said.\n\nMyf Ryan, chief marketing officer for Europe at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, which owns the Westfield shopping centres, said: \"Boxing Day is always one of our peak trading days and has got off to a very busy start.\"\n\nCustomers hunted for the best bargains in Next, Edinburgh\n\nThe so-called \"Super Saturday\" before Christmas had failed to deliver the boost that retailers hoped for, with just a 1% increase in footfall.\n\nRetail analysts had been predicting bigger than usual Boxing Day discounts as shops tried to entice consumers back to the High Street.\n\nManagement consultancy Deloitte said it expected average discounts of 52% from retailers seeking to offload unwanted stock.\n\nMany stores had already begun discounting before Christmas, with the rise of Black Friday stretching the sales into November.\n\nOnline retailer Asos blamed \"unprecedented\" discounting for damaging November trading, which it said would lead to weak profit for the full year.\n\nStuart McClure, of price and discount tracking website LovetheSales.com, said that online, some retailers had kept discounts running from Black Friday right up until Christmas and increasing numbers were starting their Boxing Day sales early.\n\n\"The reductions have also been deeper. Right now the average discount online stands at 43% - this is the highest it's ever been on Boxing Day,\" he said.\n\nSome bargain-hunters queued overnight outside Selfridges in central London\n\nBrands including Primark, Ted Baker and John Lewis also warned of a slump in sales, while Mike Ashley, owner of Sports Direct and House of Fraser, said it was the \"worst November in living memory\".\n\nIncreased shopping online is thought to be one culprit: November in-store sales fell 2.6% compared with last year, while online sales rose by 18.2%, according to research by accountants and business advisers BDO.\n\nBut last-minute Christmas sales showed some signs of improvement. Ipsos Retail Performance said visits to non-food stores were up by 27.4% on Christmas Eve compared with 2017.\n\nStuart Rose, the former M&S boss who now chairs online supermarket Ocado, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme the \"pace of change\" in UK retailing in the last year had been extraordinary.\n\nHe said local authorities, governments, landlords and retailers had to work together to make British high streets a \"more exciting and interesting place\".", "Labour is promising to toughen up the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales, saying it will consult on jailing those caught breaking the law.\n\nAhead of the Boxing Day hunts, shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said jail terms would put penalties on a par with those for other wildlife crimes.\n\nAn unlimited fine is currently the most severe punishment available.\n\nThe pro-hunting Countryside Alliance says Labour's \"obsessive pursuit of hunting... looks increasingly bizarre\".\n\nSome 250 packs are expected to meet for traditional Boxing Day hunts, with up to 250,000 people taking part or watching.\n\nSince fox hunting was outlawed in 2004, pursuit of live animals has been replaced by trail hunting, which sees hounds and riders follow a pre-laid scent such as fox urine.\n\nActivists have claimed these events can effectively allow banned practices to continue, if trails are laid near where foxes are likely to be.\n\nMs Hayman said: \"Labour's 2004 Hunting Act was a key milestone in banning this cruel blood sport, but since then new practices have developed to exploit loopholes in the legislation.\"\n\nIn order for a prosecution to succeed, a person must be shown to be intentionally hunting an animal.\n\nLabour is considering a \"recklessness\" clause to stop trail hunts being used to disguise illegal hunting.\n\nSeparately, in Scotland, which outlawed hunting animals in 2002, Green MSP Alison Johnstone announced plans for a consultation on strengthening the nation's ban on fox hunting.\n\n\"The so-called ban has failed and urgent action is needed to close the loopholes that allow foxes to be chased and even killed by hunts,\" she said.\n\nUp until 2017, more than 460 individuals had been found guilty of breaking the law in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, earlier this month, Cheshire's police commissioner urged the government to change the law.\n\nDavid Keane said a review had found \"current legislation in the way it is drafted presents challenges to investigators and prosecutors\". He had ordered the inquiry after MPs raised concerns.\n\nIn January, Chester MP Chris Matheson (Labour) told the Commons \"at least four foxes\" had been \"killed by trail hunts\" in the four weeks after Boxing Day last year. A hunt organiser had described the kills as \"accidental\".\n\nHunt supporters have consistently argued that the ban has done nothing to protect foxes, which they say are now shot by farmers to control the population.\n\nThe Countryside Alliance has called on supporters to lobby politicians to support hunts in the face of \"misinformation\" from animal rights groups.\n\nChief executive Tim Bonner said: \"The Labour Party continues to focus on a narrow animal rights agenda, rather than issues that really matter to rural people.\n\n\"Labour's obsessive pursuit of hunting... looks increasingly bizarre to people in the countryside, as well as to those in towns and cities.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has in the past declared her support for fox hunting. However, in January, she dropped a manifesto pledge to hold a vote on repealing the ban, telling the BBC there had been a \"clear message\" against it from the public.\n\nLabour's promise came as a poll commissioned by the League Against Cruel Sports found only one in six of 1,072 rural residents questioned believed hunting with dogs reflected countryside values.\n\nIn the polling, by Survation, only 4% said they ever participated in hunting, compared with 63% who observed wildlife at least once a month and 59% who took part in walking or hiking at least once a month.\n\nA government spokesman said the 2004 Hunting Act set out tightly-drawn exemptions under which dogs may be used to hunt wild mammals, \"subject to very strict conditions\".\n\nThose found guilty were subject to \"harsh\" penalties, including the possibility of an unlimited fine.\n\n\"We are also increasing maximum sentences for those who commit the most heinous acts of animal cruelty tenfold, to five years in jail.\"", "Seven men and a woman are rescued from a dinghy\n\nForty migrants, including two children, have been rescued from boats in five separate incidents on Christmas Day in the English Channel.\n\nLifeboats and a coastguard helicopter intercepted a boat carrying 12 people and a child off the coast of Deal, Kent, at about 04:30 GMT.\n\nAnd a girl was one of eight who arrived in Folkestone at about 02:40 GMT.\n\nThe Home Office said some of the migrants identified as Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans.\n\nThe children will come under the care of social services, officials said.\n\nIn other incidents, a Border Force cutter was deployed at 05:50 GMT to the Channel to help a dinghy travelling towards the UK with seven men and a woman onboard.\n\nAll of them have undergone a medical assessment and the adults have been transferred to immigration officials to be interviewed.\n\nFrench maritime officials tweeted two images of the rescue, which appeared to show at least some of the eight people were wearing life jackets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PREMAR Manche This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn French waters within the English Channel, nine migrants were also rescued and are now in the UK after their vessel's engine failed.\n\nAnd a lifeboat later spotted a rowing boat with two people on board about eight miles from Dover. It was heading for the UK.\n\nThe 13 people on board the boat off Deal were not thought to be wearing life jackets.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The evidence shows there is organised criminal gang activity behind illegal migration attempts by small boats across the Channel.\n\n\"We are working closely with the French and law enforcement partners to target these gangs, who exploit vulnerable people and put lives at risk.\"\n\nHM Coastguard said in a statement: \"[We are] committed to safeguarding life around the seas and coastal areas of this country.\n\n\"We are only concerned with preservation of life, rescuing those in trouble and bringing them safely back to shore, where they will be handed over to the relevant partner emergency services or authorities.\"\n\nAs recently as Saturday, a boat containing 16 migrants, including two children, was intercepted by the French authorities as it travelled towards the UK.\n\nIt follows numerous attempts through November and December in which people on boats, many of them claiming to be Iranian, were stopped crossing the Channel.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says there is \"no extra pressure\" on his side as they head into the second half of the season top of the Premier League.\n\nThe Reds are four points clear of champions Manchester City before 26 December's fixtures.\n\nKlopp's side are unbeaten in the league and host Newcastle United on Wednesday (15:00 GMT kick-off).\n\n\"There's no celebration, no more happiness than before, only because now we are a few points ahead,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously we have played a very good season so far and it gives us a much better basis for the second part of the season than we had last year.\n\n\"That's all. Nothing else.\"\n\nThe German manager said on Monday that \"nobody should feel safe\" in the Premier League title race and insisted Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal - who are third, fourth and fifth respectively - also remain in the hunt with 20 games to play.\n\nIn eight of the past 10 seasons, the leaders on Christmas Day have gone on to win the Premier League.\n\n\"A lot of things can happen,\" added Klopp. \"Always in the moment you think you're OK - then something happens and it is not OK any more.\n\n\"We all have to fight. We all have to be focused, not nervous.\n\n\"If you want to have guarantees, go for another sport. If you want to enjoy the ride, to try everything you can to be as successful as possible - welcome. Let's go for it.\n\n\"I'm really relaxed. There's no extra pressure on us because of a four-point gap. These kind of poker games we do not play.\"\n• None Do Liverpool have a Christmas curse? The best Premier League stats\n\nSpurs are six points behind Liverpool after a 6-2 win at Everton on Sunday, with Chelsea and Arsenal 11 points behind the Reds.\n\nTalking specifically about the Newcastle game and the crowd at Anfield, Klopp added: \"Everyone's in Christmas mood, apart from us. We are not in a Christmas mood.\n\n\"Everyone in England wants Boxing Day games. Good. But don't be in a Christmas mood on Boxing Day - come in for those one and a half hours and and give us all that you have.\n\n\"We need again an exceptional atmosphere to beat a very difficult to beat team. Nothing is taken for granted. If you think that, then that's the moment things go wrong.\"", "TV art historian and nun Sister Wendy Beckett has died at the age of 88, it has been announced.\n\nIn the 1990s she became one of the most unlikely television stars.\n\nEmerging from her hermit-like existence in a caravan at a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk, she hosted unscripted BBC shows from galleries across the world.\n\nBorn in South Africa, Sister Wendy moved as a child to Edinburgh, where her father studied medicine, joining a convent when she was 16.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sister Wendy speaking about the true meaning of Christmas and iconography (video originally published in 2010)\n\nShe died at 14:30 GMT at the Carmelite monastery in Quidenham.\n\nBBC director of arts Jonty Claypole paid tribute, saying Sister Wendy had \"a unique presentation style, a deep knowledge of and passion for the arts\".\n\nHe added: \"She was a hugely popular BBC presenter and will be fondly remembered by us all.\"\n\nIn 1950 Sister Wendy's order sent her to Oxford University, where she lodged in a convent, and was awarded a Congratulatory First Class degree in English literature.\n\nShe returned to South Africa in 1954 to teach, but in 1970, with her health deteriorating, the Vatican gave permission for her to pursue a life of solitude and prayer.\n\nAfter obtaining permission to study art in the 1980s - largely through books and postcard reproductions of the great works obtained from galleries - Sister Wendy decided to write a book to earn money for her convent.\n\nContemporary Women Artists, published in 1988, was followed by more books and articles.\n\nIn 1991 the BBC commissioned her to present a television documentary on the National Gallery in London.\n\nDressed in black nun's habit, Sister Wendy stood in front of paintings, and without script or autocue discussed them to the camera.\n\nHer programmes included Odyssey, Sister Wendy's Grand Tour and Sister Wendy's Story of Painting.\n\nThe Grand Tour took Sister Wendy to cities including Paris, Madrid and Florence in 1996\n\nSister Wendy's Odyssey showed the unlikely TV star at her caravan in Norfolk in 1992", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people were injured outside the Tesco store\n\nA supermarket worker broke her back when a car drove into her and others outside the store, her colleague said.\n\nA blue Citroen C3 hit pedestrians before driving away from the Tesco car park in Rickmansworth on Sunday.\n\nPolice said a woman was taken to Watford General Hospital with serious injuries while a man was treated for slight injuries.\n\nA fundraising page set up to support the victim has already raised nearly four times its target.\n\nA video on social media shows the blue car being rammed by shoppers with trolleys and crashing into other vehicles nearby before it manages to drive away from the store car park.\n\nPolice are still trying to find the vehicle and its occupants and confirmed no-one had been arrested.\n\nJulia Matthews, a colleague and friend of the injured woman, set up the fundraising page.\n\nShe said: \"She shouldn't have had this happen to her ever, but especially not just before Christmas.\n\n\"She should be at home with her family, with her partner and her child enjoying the holiday.\"\n\nThe car had its rear windscreen smashed as it tried to leave a Tesco car park\n\nMs Matthews added she hoped the money would help her colleague to enjoy Christmas when she was allowed to go back home.\n\n\"I've created this for all those who have asked for a way to help, to help bring some positivity and love into her life when it has been shattered by selfish criminals,\" she added.\n\nMore than £800 had been pledged by 14:00 on Boxing Day.\n\nOfficers said the driver and a passenger had been involved in an \"incident\" inside the store in Harefield Road moments before.\n\nA person was challenged by security staff after allegedly attempting to steal alcohol.\n\nPolice said they were examining CCTV from the car park and store after a car was \"in collision with several people outside the Tesco store\".\n\nA spokesman for Tesco said it was \"shocked by the incident\" and staff were assisting police with their inquiries.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everyone involved and we are doing everything we can to support our colleague who was seriously injured,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen's Christmas Broadcast was the most watched TV programme on Christmas Day, according to overnight figures.\n\nBut Call the Midwife ended up the most watched programme overall once on-demand figures were calculated.\n\nOvernight figures revealed a combined audience of 6.4 million watched The Queen's annual message on BBC One, ITV, Sky One and Sky News.\n\nThat figure rose to 7.1 million once figures were consolidated - less than Call the Midwife's 8.7 million total.\n\nThe Barb figures show a continuing decline in Christmas TV viewing - 7.6 million watched the Queen last year.\n\nMichael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show on BBC One initially seemed the highest-rated programme on a single channel, with overnight figures putting its audience at 6.1 million viewers.\n\nYet even when its figures were consolidated, its 7.6 million viewers only saw it claim second place on the festive viewing rundown.\n\nThe overnight figures mentioned include people who watched a programme live or on catch-up on TV before 02:00 GMT on 26 December.\n\nBut they do not include those watching on-demand services on smartphones and computers, figures that are added later to obtain a total, \"consolidated\" figure.\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas broadcast to say that the Christian message of \"peace on Earth and goodwill to all\" was \"needed as much as ever\".\n\nZog, the BBC's animated version of Julia Donaldson's book, ended up fifth on the viewing chart with a consolidated seven-day audience of 6.9 million.\n\nThe BBC may have, as usual, dominated this year's ratings - but traditional TV viewing on Christmas Day is falling significantly.\n\nTen years ago, Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death was watched by an overnight audience of 14.3 million people. That's more than double the number who watched this year's highest rated programme, The Queen's Christmas Broadcast.\n\nEven solid performers like Mrs Brown's Boys lost large numbers of viewers compared with 2017. The comedy is down by more than 2 million year on year.\n\nThe growing impact of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon is undoubtedly partly to blame.\n\nIt's likely that a lack of \"event programmes\" that can deliver really big in the way that shows like Only Fools & Horses did, has also contributed.\n\nBut the most significant factor is probably a very straightforward one - people's viewing habits are changing, and TV viewing on Christmas Day is becoming less important to us.\n\nWhile the traditional image of families settling down to enjoy a variety of festive TV together is still an accurate one for many, for more and more people TV is no longer the automatic choice on Christmas Day.\n\nAudiences for Christmas Day have been falling in recent years and no programme has attracted more than 20 million viewers since 2001.\n\nThe single biggest Christmas Day TV audience was recorded in 1989 when 21.8 million watched the UK premiere of the film Crocodile Dundee.\n\nThe official figures do not include repeats - ruling out the late-night episode of EastEnders broadcast on Christmas Day 1986 featuring \"Dirty\" Den Watts handing divorce papers to his wife Angie.\n\nThe programme had an audience of 30 million if a repeat on 28 December is included, but only 18.9 million watched it on 25 December.\n\n4. The Queen's Christmas Broadcast (BBC One, ITV, Sky One, Sky News) - 7.1m", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to six points by beating Newcastle - because Manchester City, who started the day as their nearest challengers, lost at Leicester City.\n\nGoals by Dejan Lovren, Mohamed Salah from the penalty spot, Xherdan Shaqiri and substitute Fabinho, ensured Jurgen Klopp's side will start 2019 at the top of the table.\n\nNewcastle wasted a great chance to take the lead at 0-0 when Joselu failed to connect properly with Matt Ritchie's excellent cross and were punished when Lovren dispatched a half-volley into the roof of the net.\n\nSalah's penalty doubled the lead after referee Graham Scott judged that Paul Dummett had fouled the Egypt forward, before Shaqiri tucked home the third from an assist by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nLiverpool completed the scoring through Fabinho's header and reach the halfway point of the season six points ahead of second-placed Tottenham, who were 5-0 winners against Bournemouth.\n• None Reaction from Anfield and the rest of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Wednesday?\n\nNews of Manchester City's demise at Leicester - their second straight defeat - was greeted with a huge roar at Anfield.\n\nA week ago there was just one point between Liverpool and Pep Guardiola's reigning champions, yet Klopp's side will go into their final game of 2018 on Saturday against Arsenal with Tottenham their nearest challengers.\n\nThe Reds certainly look the part.\n\nThey have reached the halfway point unbeaten - just like City did on the way to the title last season.\n\nThe Reds secured a 12th top-flight clean sheet without too many scares, although Joselu's headed miss when the game was goalless was a let-off.\n\nShortly afterwards Lovren found the roof of the net with a sublime finish, before Salah doubled the lead from the penalty spot and Shaqiri pounced for his fourth goal in as many games.\n\nIt was at this point news filtered through from the King Power Stadium that Manchester City were losing 2-1 - and with Liverpool fans in party mood, substitute Fabinho headed the fourth to wrap up a 16th win in 19 league games.\n\nIn addition, this was Klopp's 100th win as Liverpool manager in his 181st match.\n\nBefore his return to Liverpool, the club he managed for six years from 2004, Rafael Benitez said it would be a \"miracle\" if his Newcastle side were to avoid relegation.\n\nDespite a third defeat in six games, they remain five points above the bottom three in 15th spot.\n\nBenitez might grumble at the award of the penalty that made it 2-0, when Salah and Dummett tangled and the referee pointed to the spot although the contact did not appear enough when the Egypt international hit the floor.\n\nHowever, Newcastle have scored just 14 league goals this season and this was the eighth time in 19 top-flight games they have failed to find the net.\n\nJoselu, one of six changes to the team, should have headed his side ahead when the game was goalless, while there will be questions as to why Salomon Rondon, leading scorer with five goals, was left on the bench and did not feature.\n\nNewcastle have picked up lately after a poor start but they were distinctly second best at Anfield.\n\nA response is required at Watford on Saturday, with matches against Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham on the horizon.\n\n'I didn't like the start of the game' - the managers\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The start of the game offensively was very lively, defensively a bit in between. I didn't like it too much.\n\n\"But apart from that the whole game was really good. We could've scored more, the chances were there with fantastic movements. Right to the end we were wanting to control the game but still wanted to score.\n\n\"It's difficult to break down Newcastle's formation. They worked hard but the boys stayed in the game and did the job.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez: \"We knew we were playing a very good team and knew staying in the game was crucial.\n\n\"At the start of the second half there was a light penalty - it's hard when you're 2-0 down. If you have chances and don't take them or make mistakes it is difficult.\n\n\"The first goal is a mistake and the second is key in terms of confidence.\"\n\nStill a miracle to keep Newcastle up? \"Yes. You can see the difference between some teams. We have to carry on doing things right and we have to be better than three teams.\"\n• None Liverpool are only the fourth Premier League team to be unbeaten at the halfway stage of a season, along with Arsenal in 2003-04, Manchester United in 2010-11 and Manchester City in 2017-18.\n• None This was Newcastle's heaviest league defeat at Anfield since December 1987 (also a 0-4 loss).\n• None Mohamed Salah has been involved in 35 goals in 28 home Premier League games for Liverpool (25 goals, 10 assists).\n• None Newcastle have now lost their last nine away league matches against the 'big six' teams and have been beaten in all six games those sides this season.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri has scored four goals in his past four Premier League matches - one more than he managed in the 20 before that.\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 20 matches in December, winning their past nine in a row.\n• None This was the Reds' seventh victory this month - their most in a calendar month since September 1996 (also seven).\n\nThe games come thick and fast and Liverpool face another huge match on Saturday when they host Arsenal (17:30 GMT) before heading to Manchester City on 3 January (20:00).\n\nNewcastle are at Watford on Saturday (15:00) before hosting Manchester United on 2 January (20:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Attempt saved. Sean Longstaff (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dejan Lovren with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Newcastle United 0. Fabinho (Liverpool) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Newcastle United 0. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Stock markets in the US have seen significant rises, with the Dow Jones up by nearly 5% and the technology-focused Nasdaq rising by nearly 6%.\n\nIn Asia, markets were following suit on Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 up more than 3% in early trade.\n\nIt contrasts strongly with the run-up to Christmas when stocks suffered their worst weekly falls in a decade.\n\nAnalysts say data from MasterCard showed US holiday retail sales up 5.1%, the strongest growth in six years.\n\nConfidence was also boosted by White House assurances that Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's job was safe.\n\nInvestors have been concerned by reports that President Donald Trump had discussed firing Mr Powell.\n\nThe partial US government shutdown and continuing US-China trade tensions also contributed to the recent downturn.\n\n\"The market is extremely oversold where we left it [on Monday],\" said Brett Ewing, chief market strategist at First Franklin Financial Services, based in Florida.\n\n\"You cannot make the assumption that this correction is over, but today's action is definitely a very positive signal.\"\n\nOn Monday, President Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, as the stock market plunged.\n\nThe president said the Fed was \"the only problem\" of the US economy.\n\nWhite House economic adviser Kevin Hassett later tried to calm Wall Street jitters, telling ABC News that Mr Powell's job was \"100%\" safe.", "Liverpool footballer Trent Alexander-Arnold spent his Christmas Day bringing festive cheer to 60 families from underprivileged backgrounds.\n\nAlexander-Arnold, ambassador for the An Hour for Others charity, paid for everyone's Christmas dinner and bought presents for all the children.\n\nJacob, 10, said it was \"amazing\" to get a present from the star.\n\nAlexander-Arnold, 20, of West Derby said \"he'll never forget\" the looks on the children's faces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe star, who is back to full fitness after injury, carried out the event at Liverpool's Hotel Tia.\n\nHe brought Christmas cheer between his morning training and evening match preparation for Liverpool FC's Premier League clash with Newcastle at Anfield later.\n\nHe said it was \"better to give than receive\", adding he hoped some of the youngsters would follow in his footsteps and \"help others out\".\n\nJacob, 10, said it was \"amazing\" to get a present from the footballer\n\nOne of the young guests, Jacob, said: \"It felt amazing to meet a football player - and to get a present off a football player - I can't describe it but it feels amazing.\"\n\nEven Everton fans were excited to meet the Liverpool footballer.\n\nLiberty, eight, said she was \"completely fine\" with him being a Red.\n\nAlexander-Arnold posted on his Instagram that he had had an \"unbelievable day\", adding: \"What @anhourforothers do for deprived families and individuals is life changing and I'm honoured to be a part of that.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trent Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe charity tweeted: \"He's not just a good footballer and our ambassador, he's a diamond.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by An Hour for Others This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post 2 by An Hour for Others\n\nKevin Morland, founder of An Hour for Others, said: \"He's just a normal lad - it's a genuine thing, it's from his heart - he understands the importance of sticking together when times are hard.\n\nHe said Alexander-Arnold had experienced hard times himself.\n\n\"He just wants to give back to his city.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colin O'Brady's Instagram page features a daily selfie of his chores, such as securing his tent each night\n\nA 33-year-old American man has become the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unassisted.\n\nExplorer Colin O'Brady finished in 53 days, ahead of British Army Captain Louis Rudd, 49, after an epic race across the ice.\n\nBoth men set out on 3 November to complete the journey, which killed a British ex-Army officer two years ago.\n\nThe 921-mile (1,482km) trek took them across the coldest continent on Earth in some of the most extreme conditions.\n\nO'Brady, a pro-athlete who posts his milestones on social media, spoke to the BBC on one his harshest days.\n\n\"I'm tired, man. I'm exhausted, but I'm making steady progress every day,\" he said from his satellite phone on 20 December - Day 47 - as he camped amid a storm and massive ridges of ice and snow known as sastrugi.\n\nAfter a day which was like being \"in the inside of a ping-pong ball\" O'Brady said he was grateful to have negotiated the wavelike ridges of hard snow and ice in low visibility without having broken a leg.\n\n\"I've been dragging an almost 375lb (170kg) sled for 12-13 hours per day through the coldest harshest place in the world,\" he said, adding that he had lost so much weight that his wristwatch had been slipping off and he is \"scared\" to look at his unclothed body.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by colinobrady This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe two men set off from the Ronne Ice Shelf after poor weather delayed their start for several days.\n\nOnly days earlier they had met for the first time at a hotel bar in Chile and agreed to turn their separate attempts to cross solo and unaided into a formal competition.\n\nBoth men come from very different backgrounds. In 2008 O'Brady suffered severe burns to 25% of his body during a holiday in Thailand, leading doctors to tell him that he may never walk normally again.\n\nHe recovered and went on to race in triathlons before climbing each of the Seven Summits - the highest peaks on every continent.\n\nHe has also skied to both the north and south pole and hiked to the highest point in every US state.\n\nO'Brady wore tape on his face to stave off frostbite\n\nSastrugi are hard wave-like ridges in the ice that can be extremely difficult to navigate\n\nThroughout it all, he has posted words of inspiration on Instagram, and used his satellite phone to take a question each night from one of the thousands of students who have followed his solo expedition.\n\nRudd, a father of three, was given leave from the military where he has spent his career, in order to train and attempt to make the crossing.\n\nHe was inspired to attempt the adventure after the death of his friend and colleague, Henry Worsley, along the same route.\n\nWorsley died of an illness after he was rescued only 30 miles from the finish line - the Ross Ice Shelf.\n\nCapt Louis Rudd has served in the Army for 33 years\n\nIn his daily dispatch from the ice on Christmas Eve, Rudd described carrying Worsley's flag to the places that his friend had come so close to reaching.\n\n\"I'm carrying Henry's flag... that he carried on all his journeys, and it's really important to me that, this time, the flag goes all the way, and completes the journey right to the end,\" he said, before completing his posts as he always does.\n\nAntarctica is well-known as the coldest continent on Earth, but it is also the highest and driest.\n\nThe cold freezes all moisture, technically making the landscape a desert.\n\nMile-thick sheets of ice covering the continent also make it the highest average-elevation landmass with a peak that the men reach of 9,613ft.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSunlight, which shines 24 hours a day in the summer, O'Brady says, \"is weird and disorienting but I actually kinda like it,\" since it allows him to charge his solar panels.\n\nThe men must carry all the calories they will consume throughout the journey, a nearly impossible task considering their level of energy exertion, and boil ice and snow for all their drinking water.\n\nCapt Rudd sent voice despatches from the ice along his journey\n\nApart from occasionally spotting each other as specks on the horizon, they have seen very few forms of life.\n\nAt the South Pole, O'Brady says he saw some signs of life from the polar researchers stationed there, but was forbidden from accepting any help which would have prevented him from achieving his goal unaided.\n\nO'Brady eats his morning oatmeal in near white-out conditions\n\nBefore bed, they each pack all their wet clothes into their sleeping bag, so they could use their body heat to dry the gear throughout the night.\n\nBut soon they will be back in their beds, looking back on their accomplishment and dreaming of the next previously-impossible goal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is Japan losing the taste for whale meat?\n\nHunting whales is irrelevant to feeding Japan's population, draws global condemnation and is certainly not economic. So why does Japan still do it?\n\nThe answer from the Japanese government is that whaling is an ancient part of Japanese culture, that fishermen have caught whales for centuries, and that Japan will never allow foreigners to tell its people what they can and cannot eat.\n\nOne Japanese official once said to me: \"Japanese people never eat rabbits, but we don't tell British people that they shouldn't\". I pointed out that rabbits are not exactly an endangered species.\n\nWada is one of five ports allowed to whale under Japan's coastal whaling program\n\nThere is a long history to anti-whaling protests\n\nStill, there is some merit to the government's argument.\n\nA number of coastal communities in Japan have indeed hunted whales for centuries, and continue to do so. Taiji in Wakayama prefecture is well known, many would say infamous, for its annual dolphin hunts. There are other places, in Chiba Prefecture and in Ishinomaki in northern Japan, that also do coastal whaling.\n\nFood festivals have been organised to get the public to eat more whale - even in curry\n\nSo, yes, coastal whaling is part of Japanese culture, like Norway and Iceland and the Inuit of northern Canada. But only Japan continues to sail a fleet of ships half way across the globe to hunt whales in the Antarctic and maintains a large factory ship that can process hundreds of whales at sea.\n\nNothing about these Antarctic whaling expeditions is historic. Japan's first whaling voyage to the Antarctic took place in the mid-1930s but the really huge hunts didn't get going until after World War Two.\n\nJapan lay in ruins, its population starving. With the encouragement of General Douglas MacArthur, Japan converted two huge US Navy tankers into factory ships and set sail for the Southern Ocean.\n\nFrom the late 1940s to the mid-1960s whale meat was the single biggest source of meat in Japan. At its peak in 1964 Japan killed more than 24,000 whales in one year, most of them enormous fin whales and sperm whales.\n\nToday Japan can afford to import meat from Australia and America. There is no deep-sea commercial whaling in Japan. The fleet that is now hunting in Antarctic waters is paid for by Japanese taxpayers to carry out what the Japanese government describes as \"scientific research\".\n\nJapan's other justification is that it needs to kill hundreds of whales each year to study them. But the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has systematically dismantled that argument. In 2014 it ruled that there was no scientific case for Japan's programme of \"lethal research\" in the Southern Ocean, and ordered Tokyo to stop.\n\nFor a year Japan stopped. But last year it sent its fleet to sea again insisting, to widespread disbelief, that its new, smaller, Antarctic whaling programme satisfies the ICJ's requirements.\n\nJunko Sakuma used to work for Greenpeace in Japan. For the last 10 years she has been researching Japan's whaling industry.\n\n\"There is no benefit to Japan from whaling...but nobody knows how to quit,\" she tells me at Tokyo's famously chaotic Tsukiji fish market, the biggest in the world renowned for its pre-dawn tuna auctions.\n\nOf the thousands of fish wholesalers in Tsukiji only two still deal in whale meat.\n\nAt one stand we find a few large hunks of minke whale meat, deep red and oozing blood. At the next there are two long slabs of lighter-coloured fin whale meat, an endangered species, its trading banned by CITES.\n\nBusiness is bad, complains the stall owner. Last year Japan caught no whales in the Antarctic, so there is less minke whale meat available, he says.\n\nIf there is a whale meat shortage, the price should be soaring. But according to Junko it is not.\n\n\"The fact is, most Japanese people do not eat whale meat,\" she says. \"Consumption has been falling for years,\" and adds that \"even as the amount of whale meat decreases, the price doesn't go up\".\n\nAccording to Junko's research, the average consumption of whale meat by Japanese people in 2015 was just 30g (one ounce) per person.\n\nIceland also whales, but sends some of the meat to Japan\n\nIf eating whale is such an integral part of Japanese culture, why are so few eating it?\n\nI turn to my old friend Etsuo Kato. Over the 20 years we have known each other he has, on occasion, tried to persuade me to eat whale meat with him. Kato-San grew up in Kita-Kyushu in western Japan, close to the big whaling port at Shimonoseki.\n\nWe are sitting in a cosy restaurant in Tokyo's notorious red light district, Kabukicho. Above us hangs a very large, and rather ancient, mummified whale penis. On the wall are picture of whales.\n\nThe first plate to arrive is whale sashimi - it is raw. The owner points to the different delicacies; steak, heart, tongue and even raw whale skin.\n\nMy stomach turns, but I steel myself. Gingerly, I put a bit of raw whale steak into my mouth. It has a strong gamey flavour, chewy and fibrous. Next, I try the tongue. It is salty and fishy. Kato-San points to the heart. I politely decline.\n\n\"When I was a child I ate this every day,\" he says. \"Meat meant whale meat. I didn't know what beef was, or pork. Steak was whale steak, bacon meant whale bacon.\"\n\nBut if Japan stopped whale hunting you would be sad?\n\nHe looks at me smiling and gently shaking his head.\n\n\"I don't need whale hunting\" he says. \"Once you have eaten beef there is no need to eat whale meat.\"\n\nThe other customers in the restaurant are all middle-aged salary men. Eating a bit of whale meat is nostalgic, remembering school meals 50 years ago.\n\nJapan's only whaling factory ship is ageing and some analysts suggest the country may be reluctant to fund a replacement\n\nConfrontations on the high seas are used by both sides to drum up support\n\nSo I come back again to my original question: why does Japan still do it?\n\nRecently I was at a private briefing with a high-ranking member of the Japanese government. Japan had just announced it was going to resuming whaling. I outlined to him why I thought it made no sense, and asked him to respond. His answer was astonishingly frank.\n\n\"I agree with you,\" he said. \"Antarctic whaling is not part of Japanese culture. It is terrible for our international image and there is no commercial demand for the meat. I think in another 10 years there will be no deep sea whaling in Japan.\"\n\n\"So why not stop now?\" asked another journalist.\n\n\"There are some important political reasons why it is difficult to stop now.\" he said. He would say no more.\n\nBut Junko Sakuma thinks the answer lies in the fact that Japan's whaling is government-run, a large bureaucracy with research budgets, annual plans, promotions and pensions.\n\n\"If the number of staff in a bureaucrat's office decreases while they are in charge, they feel tremendous shame,\" she says.\n\n\"Which means most of the bureaucrats will fight to keep the whaling section in their ministry at all costs. And that is true with the politicians as well. If the issue is closely related to their constituency, they will promise to bring back commercial whaling. It is a way of keeping their seats.\"\n\nIt may seem incredibly banal. But Japan's determination to continue whaling may come down to a handful of MPs from whaling constituencies and a few hundred bureaucrats who don't want to see their budgets cut.", "Aerial footage has captured the aftermath of two earthquakes that have struck Sicily.\n\nThe quakes followed the eruption of Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, on Monday.\n\nDozens of people were injured and buildings were damaged in several villages nearby.", "French authorities said the group were in a semi-rigid vessel\n\nThree migrants spotted in a small boat in the Channel have been brought ashore by the Border Force.\n\nThe men were about 10 miles (16.5km) off France when French authorities spotted them after midnight. the Prefecture Maritime de la Manche said.\n\nForty migrants, including two children, were rescued on Christmas Day. The Home Office has blamed organised crime, but Dover's MP has demanded action.\n\nCoastguards said they were not involved in the latest incident on Boxing Day.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Evidence shows there is organised criminal gang activity behind illegal migration attempts by small boats across the Channel.\n\n\"We are working closely with the French and law enforcement partners to target these gangs, who exploit vulnerable people and put lives at risk.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the three rescued by French teams overnight were transferred to UK authorities and brought to Dover.\n\nThe group, who presented themselves as Iranian, were medically assessed and passed to immigration officials, the spokesman said.\n\nThose rescued on Christmas Day presented themselves as Iraqi, Iranian and Afghan.\n\nDover's Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has said the Home Office and National Crime Agency \"do not appear to be on top of this situation\".\n\nHe said: \"With well over 100 migrants having broken into Britain in recent weeks they need urgently to explain what they are doing to put a stop to these crossings.\n\n\"This is an incredibly dangerous crossing to make in the middle of winter.\n\n\"Our volunteer lifeboat crews are being called out nearly every day - even during Christmas.\n\n\"The British and French authorities must get a grip and find and stop the traffickers behind these crossings before there is a tragedy in the English Channel.\"\n\nA statement from the French authorities also warned migrants planning to cross the the Dover-Calais strait - the world's busiest shipping lane - they were endangering lives.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "The rescued woman (second left) and her son (second right) are escorted by police officers\n\nAn Argentine woman seized in the 1980s by people traffickers has been reunited with her family in a joint operation by Argentine and Bolivian police.\n\nThe whereabouts of the woman, who is now 45, had been unknown until earlier this year when police received a tip-off she was in Bermejo, south Bolivia.\n\nThe police then located the house in which she was being held and freed her and her nine-year-old son.\n\nThe names of the rescued mother and son have not been revealed.\n\nIn a statement released on 25 December, Argentine police said that the woman had at last been able to go back to her family home in Mar del Plata.\n\nShe and her son were freed earlier this month.\n\nThe statement provided no further details about who was responsible for their abduction about 32 years ago.", "Wilham Mendes was found injured after a suspected robbery in Albert Place, Tottenham\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys have been charged with stabbing a keen boxer to death in north London.\n\nWilham Mendes, a Portuguese national, was found injured after a suspected robbery in Albert Place, Tottenham, at about 01:20 GMT on Saturday. He died shortly afterwards.\n\nThe 25-year-old athlete had been in the UK since 2015 and was living in Tottenham, police previously said.\n\nTwo teenagers arrested on Sunday have been charged with murder.\n\nThey are also charged with robbery and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 26 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Competitors in this year's edition of the Peter Pan Cup prepare to take the plunge\n\nJust short of 100 people braved near-freezing water to compete in the 155th Peter Pan Cup at London's Serpentine.\n\nThe race, which began in 1864, sees members of the Serpentine Swimming Club swim a 100-yard course in Hyde Park.\n\nThis year's race was won by Sakura Adams, 36, from London, who described her victory as \"absolutely amazing\".\n\nThe competition acquired its name in 1903 when JM Barrie, who wrote Peter Pan, was a member of the swimming club and competed in the Christmas event.\n\nRobin Hunter-Coddington, the president of the club, says between 80 and 90 members competed this year, up from around a dozen in the early 1990s.\n\nMs Adams, a 13-year member of the club, told the BBC it was a \"dream\" to win the cup - one that she is \"over the moon\" to have fulfilled.\n\nThe temperature of the water was around 5C (41F)- with the temperature outside around 8C.\n\nThe start of the race is staggered, depending on each competitor's handicap\n\nBut while some take pleasure from the competitive side of the event, all at the club stress it is the community of swimmers that keeps them coming back.\n\n\"It's not only about the swim,\" says Ms Adams. \"It's seeing the hundreds of people on the Serp-side cheering us on.\n\n\"This is more than a club, it's a family and seeing everyone on Christmas morning is part of the family spirit, that's why we come out.\"\n\nIt is a family that requires commitment, however, with members having to compete in seven of the nine winter races to be eligible for the event on Christmas Day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Close to 100 swimmers brave the cold of Christmas morning to race in London's Serpentine\n\nJohanna Allberg, who swam for the Swedish national team in her youth, came over to London to watch the race.\n\nShe had been hoping to be allowed to compete but was not allowed.\n\nHer husband, Jhnar, says: \"She swam in Sweden, I filmed her and sent the film to the club here and hoped she will get in but she didn't.\n\n\"She wanted to come and do this anyway so she came and swam in the lake before the race.\"\n\nJohn Tierney, 54, from Kensington has been taking part in the race since 2007.\n\n\"You make friends,\" he says. \"Gradually you become more involved in the club, more involved in the people - it's a social scene.\n\n\"We have a race every Saturday so in some ways it's just another race for us - but it's a very special one.\"\n\nAfter the race, each competitor is given a glass of port, while family members wander through the crowd handing out home-made biscuits.\n\nThen, after the crowds have dispersed, members head indoors to exchange gifts.\n\n\"It's very much a family club,\" says Mr Tierney.\n\nElsewhere around the UK, people have also been braving chilly waters.\n\nIn Porthcawl, more than 1,300 swimmers sported superhero costumes and swam in icy sea water for the Christmas morning swim, now in its 54th year.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, bathers dressed up as Santa and his elves to take part in the annual white Christmas dip at Boscombe Pier to raise money for Macmillan Caring Locally.\n\nMeanwhile, in the West Midlands, people took part in the Christmas tradition of jumping into Blackroot Pool, in Sutton Coldfield.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mount Etna has first 'flank eruption' in over a decade\n\nA 4.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Sicily near Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, injuring at least 28 people, Italian officials say.\n\nTen people were taken to hospital suffering from light injuries caused by falling debris.\n\nSome buildings were damaged in what was the strongest in dozens of tremors since Etna erupted on Monday.\n\nVolcanic ash had earlier covered nearby villages and Catania airport had to temporarily suspend operations.\n\nThe earthquake struck at 03:19 local time (02:19 GMT) on Wednesday near the municipality of Viagrande.\n\nIn the village of Fleri, an 80-year-old man had to be rescued from his home. A local church was also damaged.\n\nItalian media reported panic among residents, many of whom ran out into the streets. People on the mountainside were told to escape quickly.\n\nThere were also reports of buildings shaking in Catania, a city of more than 300,000 people.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (centre, front row) are joined by some survivors of Christian persecution\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review into the plight of persecuted Christians around the world and how much help they get from the UK.\n\nThe review, led by the Bishop of Truro, will look at government efforts to help some of the 215 million Christians who faced discrimination and violence last year, according to the Foreign Office.\n\nOfficials say violence against Christians is rising dramatically, with an average of 250 killed every month.\n\nMr Hunt said the UK \"must do more\".\n\n\"Britain has long championed international religious freedom,\" he said.\n\n\"So often, the persecution of Christians is a telling early warning sign of the persecution of every minority.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said the review would \"consider some tough questions and offer ambitious policy recommendations\".\n\nThe Bishop of Truro - the Rt Reverend Philip Mounstephen - is expected to report back by Easter. The review will have three aims:\n\nAsia Bibi's husband pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada\n\nThe intervention comes after an outcry over the treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced death threats after being acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan.\n\nMs Bibi spent eight years on death row until her conviction was reversed by Pakistan's Supreme Court earlier this year.\n\nLarge crowds took to the streets to protest against the court's decision, as her husband pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada, saying the family were in danger.\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May defended herself in Parliament after being asked whether she had intervened to stop the UK government offering asylum.\n\nMrs May told Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith he \"shouldn't necessarily believe everything he reads in the papers\", adding \"the absolute prime concern\" was the \"safety and security\" of Asia Bibi and her family.\n\nChristians have also been targeted in other parts of the world. In China there has been a recent surge of police action against churches, raising concern that the government is getting tougher on unsanctioned Christian activity.\n\nAnd Coptic Christians in Egypt have faced a series of attacks by extremists including the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nThere were protests in Pakistan against the acquittal of Asia Bibi", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the Royal Family greeted well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service\n\nThe Royal Family have greeted hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were all smiles as they left the service on the Queen's estate in Norfolk.\n\nPrince Charles attended but the Duchess of Cornwall missed church due to a heavy cold.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh also stayed home - but is said to be in good health.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry greet the crowds as they leave the church service\n\nSpeaking to members of the crowd, Catherine revealed her children had woken her up very early\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex appeared to be on friendly terms\n\nCatherine and Meghan, who is pregnant with her and Prince Harry's first child, walked side by side to church, chatting and smiling. The pair have been the subject of media reports of a rift.\n\nMany of those gathered had brought bouquets of flowers and called out \"Merry Christmas\" as the royal party went past.\n\nThere were huge cheers from the crowd when the royal family arrived for the morning's church service - especially for the Queen.\n\nThe queen was driven there by a chauffeur while the rest of the family walked up and greeted people when they went past. Some well wishers were waving Stars and Stripes flags for the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nDespite newspaper reports about rifts and rivalry, the royals looked happy and relaxed with Princes William and Harry and their wives walking into church together.\n\nAfterwards the Duchess of Cambridge told one member of the crowd that like many parents her children had woken her very early on Christmas morning.\n\nAfter the service, Meghan hugged one of her former Instagram followers, who she spotted in the crowd.\n\nJessica Daniels, 17, from Peterborough, said it was an \"amazing\" experience to meet the duchess, who she'd been following since watching her on TV's Suits.\n\n\"There were a group of us girls on social media she became kind of close with and interacted a lot online.\n\n\"This is the first time I've met her, she just said 'it's so lovely to meet you, incredible to finally see you' and she was asking how we all are and if we're still talking and supporting each other.\"\n\nPrincess Eugenie of York and her husband Jack Brooksbank married in October\n\nAutumn Phillips and Princess Beatrice were among the Royal party\n\nZara Tindall and Mike Tindall had their second child this year\n\nThe Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor, James Viscount Severn and the Earl of Wessex arriving at the service\n\nPeter Phillips with his daughters Isla and Savannah\n\nThe son of the Princess Royal, Peter Phillips, arrived with his daughters Savannah and Isla, followed by Princess Beatrice and Peter's wife Autumn Phillips.\n\nBehind them were Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank; the Earl and Countess of Wessex with their children, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn; and Princess Anne and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, and Zara and Mike Tindall.\n\nTariro, aged seven, got up at 3:00 GMT to get a good view of the royals arriving.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said the Queen was her favourite because \"she is always wearing the crown with beautiful jewels\".\n\nHer twin sister Tatenda said she was looking forward to seeing the Duchess of Sussex whose \"elegant dresses\" she admired.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tatenda, aged seven: 'I like Meghan... she wears elegant dresses'", "Silke Sollfrank is a professional athlete from Germany who turned her back on gymnastics and Olympic aspirations and found parkour and fresh inspiration.\n\nShe spoke to BBC World Service about what made her change her sporting ambitions and the physical and mental challenges of parkour.\n\nListen to The Conversation for more on this story.", "Casper Platt-May (left) and his brother Corey were on a family trip when they were killed\n\nA driver who killed two brothers in a hit-and-run crash while high on drugs has been found dead in prison.\n\nRobert Brown, 53, was jailed for 10 and a half years for killing Casper Platt-May, two, and Corey, six, as they crossed a road in February.\n\nHe had previously been jailed for possessing a machete and was let out on licence six days before the crash.\n\nSerco, which runs HMP Dovegate, confirmed a prisoner had been found dead on Christmas Day.\n\nBrown was jailed in April after admitting causing the boys' deaths by dangerous driving, and had his sentence increased in July from nine years to 10 and a half.\n\nCasper and Corey were with their mother Louise on the way to a park when they were hit by Brown's Ford Focus as they crossed MacDonald Road in Coventry.\n\nRobert Brown was found dead in his cell on Christmas Day\n\nBrown, who had 30 previous driving convictions, had never had a driving licence and was banned from driving at the time of the crash.\n\nWest Midlands Police's Collision Investigation Unit calculated that Brown, who had taken cocaine, diazepam and zopiclone, was driving at more than 60mph.\n\nBoth boys were taken to hospital but neither could be saved. Their mother was unhurt.\n\nAt a plea hearing, the court was told Brown, of Attwood Crescent, Wyken, and his passenger Gwendoline Harrison had tried to flee the scene on foot but members of the public attempted to stop them.\n\nHarrison, 42, of Triumph Close, Wyken, hit someone who intervened. She admitted a charge of assault intending to resist arrest and was jailed for six months.\n\nIn May, the boys' father Reece Platt-May was found dead in a hotel in Greece.\n\nA spokesman for Serco, which manages the prison where Brown had been serving his sentence, said: \"We can confirm a prisoner died [on Christmas Day] at HMP Dovegate and, as is normal, the death will be subject to a coroner's investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Smoke was seen rising over a mountain near Damascus on Tuesday night\n\nRussia has branded as \"provocative\" an alleged Israeli air strike on Syria late on Tuesday.\n\nReports from Syria said an arms depot in Qatifah, about 40km (25 miles) north-east of Damascus, was hit, injuring three soldiers.\n\nIsrael has not commented, but after the reported strikes it said it had fired at a Syrian anti-aircraft missile. It did not report any damage or injuries.\n\nIsrael has carried out dozens of strikes on Syria in recent years.\n\nIt says it is acting to thwart advanced weapons transfers from Iran to the Lebanese pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement and the strengthening of Iran's military presence in Syria.\n\nIsrael considers Iran and Hezbollah to pose a particularly dangerous threat.\n\nThe foreign ministry of Russia, a key Syrian ally, said it was \"very concerned\" by the alleged Israeli air strikes.\n\n\"The provocative actions of the Israeli air force... directly threatened two airliners,\" it said.\n\nThe statement said the unidentified airliners \"not from Russia, were preparing to land at the airports of Beirut and Damascus\".\n\nThe Syrian military said the attacks were carried out from within Lebanese air space. Syrian state news agency, Sana, said most of the missiles were intercepted.\n\nVideo footage posted on social media shows an object moving over Damascus. Then the sound of a loud explosion is heard, followed by a burst of artillery shelling.\n\nNewsweek magazine quoted an unnamed US defence department source as saying several Hezbollah leaders had just boarded a flight to Iran and were injured in the strikes.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later tweeted that its air defence systems had been \"activated in response to an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Israel Defense Forces This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIsrael rarely admits carrying out attacks on targets in Syria.\n\nBut in May, Israel said it had struck almost all of Iran's military infrastructure there in its such biggest assault since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011.\n\nThose strikes came after rockets were fired at Israeli military positions in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.", "More than £17,000 has been raised for the families of Jason Francis and Alice Robinson\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to help the families of a British couple who died within hours of each other in Australia.\n\nFormer Market Drayton Town footballer Jason Francis, 29, was hit by a car near the home he shared with partner Alice Robinson in Scarborough, Perth.\n\nMs Robinson, who was said to have been \"heartbroken\", was later found dead.\n\nMore than 32,000 Australian dollars (£17,938) has been donated since Christmas Eve.\n\nA Go Fund Me Page said this would help their relatives with any costs that might be incurred in sending the couple's bodies home.\n\nMr Francis had been on a day out with friends from Cottesloe Rugby Club, before getting a taxi home on Saturday evening.\n\nWestern Australia Police said a white VW Jetta, driven by an 18-year-old man, hit a male pedestrian on Stanley Street in Scarborough.\n\nThe force confirmed it was also investigating the death of a woman, and was preparing a report for the coroner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSam Diamond, president of the rugby club, which Mr Francis joined at the beginning of the year after moving to the area, said of the couple: \"They were two of the finest people you could meet.\n\n\"They well and truly ingrained themselves in our club.\"\n\nHe said he understood Ms Robinson had gone outside the couple's home to investigate when she saw the flashing emergency lights.\n\n\"She was told by first responders that it was Jason they were working on,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know what happened to her after this. I know the police have launched an inquiry into it.\n\n\"She has gone missing after notifying some of our friends of what's happened (to Mr Francis) and hasn't been found until the next morning.\"\n\nHe described Ms Robinson, who worked for a digital marketing company but was also a talented artist, as having \"an infectious laugh\" and being \"very bubbly\".\n\nMr Diamond added: \"Jason was the sort of person that's always got the time of day for everyone. Loved talking, loved working out, loved staying fit and healthy.\n\n\"They were just genuine, down-to-earth, fantastic people.\"\n\nHe said the mothers of both Mr Francis, who was in the process of becoming a firefighter, and Ms Robinson had expressed their appreciation for the funds raised.\n\nA number of Shropshire sports clubs paid tribute to Mr Francis, including the captain of Market Drayton Town FC.\n\nPaul McMullen said: \"You young man were such a fine piece of our puzzle at MDTFC during our success and it was a pleasure to be part of it playing alongside of you.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Bridgnorth RFC This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Falmata was just 13 when she was snatched from the side of the road. Months later, she was sent on a mission. Her captors told her that if she killed non-believers, she would go straight to paradise.", "More than 300 people were laid off from the Kaiam factory just before Christmas\n\nA crowdfunding appeal has raised thousands of pounds for workers who lost their jobs at a computer factory in West Lothian just before Christmas.\n\nThe initiative was organised as part of community efforts to support more than 300 people who were laid off from the Kaiam plant in Livingston.\n\nThey were made redundant without being paid wages expected before Christmas.\n\nBy 09:00 on Boxing Day, more than £17,000 had been raised on the crowdfunding site JustGiving.\n\nThe initial target had been set at £10,000.\n\nThe appeal was set up by Mhairi Duff, who works in a community centre in Livingston.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It started after a group of women from all walks of life and backgrounds, who had never met each other, decided to get together and help those who lost their jobs get through the next few weeks, not just Christmas.\n\n\"We have been overwhelmed with the support that has been shown from the community.\"\n\nMhairi Duff said the support shown from the community had been overwhelming\n\nThe crowdfunding appeal read: \"The community have come together amazingly to help ease Christmas a little but these employees still have bills to pay and families to feed. Every penny is hugely appreciated.\"\n\nMs Duff said £4,000 had already been passed on to former Kaiam workers thanks to the support of a local bowling club, which provided a loan until cash from the appeal can be accessed.\n\nThe crowdfunding appeal will remain open for the time being, she added.\n\nMeanwhile, local people and businesses made thousands of pounds worth of donations to help employees who missed out on their Christmas pay.\n\nThe community response was led by Emma Black, whose step-father is employed by Kaiam.\n\nShe set up a Facebook group appealing for help for those affected, and over the weekend thousands of donations, including toys and vouchers, were left a community centre in Livingston.\n\nIt is understood that any toys remaining will be offered to local community organisations, including charities.\n\nThousands of pounds worth of toys and vouchers have been donated by local people and businesses\n\nMeanwhile, administrators from KPMG have said they were still hoping to find a buyer for the plant.\n\nIn a statement, the administrators said they had no option but to make 310 of the 338 employees redundant with immediate effect.\n\nThe remaining 28 employees have been kept on to help the administrators \"explore a sale of the business.\"\n\nThey are also working alongside Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland and West Lothian Council to ensure that \"a full range of support is available\" to affected workers.\n\nThe administrators are also liaising with the UK government \"in relation to the timing of redundancy payments via the Insolvency Service\".\n\nBusiness minister Jamie Hepburn has pledged to write to the UK government to accelerate payments for workers from the usual four to six weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Merseyside Police said the man had been identified and his next of kin had been informed\n\nA pedestrian was run over and killed by a police car responding to an emergency call in Liverpool on Christmas night.\n\nThe man was knocked down on Scotland Road at about 18:50 GMT and was later pronounced dead in hospital, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe force has reported the collision to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said investigators had assessed the scene and decided to carry out an independent investigation.\n\nScotland Road was closed following the accident, which Merseytravel said also prompted the closure of the Bootle-bound sliproad from the Wallasey Tunnel.\n\nA Merseyside Police spokesman said: \"At around 6.50pm a collision occurred between a police vehicle and a male pedestrian on Scotland Road.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and the pedestrian was taken to hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead.\"\n\nThe force, which is appealing for witnesses to the accident, said the man had been identified and his next of kin had been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pregnant Duchess of Sussex puts a hand on her bump while greeting crowds at Sandringham on Christmas Day\n\nAn amateur photographer who caught smiling Royals leaving church on Christmas Day 2017 has struck again - with a snap of the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nKaren Anvil, 40, took the picture of Meghan stroking her bump at Sandringham where last year she captured Princes Harry and William with Kate and Meghan greeting wellwishers.\n\nMs Anvil also got in a quick chat, too.\n\nShe said she planned to avoid Sandringham next year after being photographed herself.\n\nMs Anvil said she was hoping her latest images of the expectant Duchess would please the thousands of Meghan fans who follow her on social media.\n\nKaren Anvil, who spoke to the duchess, took this photo and said it was \"clear she loves being pregnant\"\n\nShe said it was \"especially lovely\" to have a chat with the duchess \"as one mother to another\".\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex reached for her bump and said, \"We're nearly there\", when asked by Ms Anvil if she was excited about her baby, which is due in spring.\n\nMs Anvil said: \"She loves that child. Her bump holding was pure instinct, natural and not staged at all.\"\n\nMs Anvil's shot of the Royals leaving church on Christmas Day 2017 led to her taking on an agent after the photo was sold to the media in almost 50 countries around the world.\n\nThis snap of the Royals in 2017 picture provided Karen Anvil with a regular monthly income, ranging from £600 to £6,000\n\nThis year she only managed to snap the back of the four Royals alongside Prince Charles, but said she must have an eye for taking pictures as the same shot has been put up on the Kensington Palace website.\n\nMs Anvil is keeping the paparazzi on their toes with her photos of the Royals at Sandringham\n\nThe photographer, from Watlington, Norfolk, said despite the 2017 picture earning her almost £40,000 so far, she would be avoiding Sandringham next Christmas after the paparazzi turned the cameras on her.\n\n\"That's not what I'm here for,\" said Ms Anvil, \"I hate having my picture taken.\"", "Nadia Sparkes said the \"Trash Girl\" nickname made her feel \"like a superhero\"\n\nA 13-year-old who was nicknamed \"Trash Girl\" by bullies for clearing litter from the streets has gained a global following for her work.\n\nNadia Sparkes, from Norfolk, refused to let the taunts deter her from litter-picking on her way to and from school.\n\nAfter her story went viral she became an ambassador for the wildlife charity WWF, and now has more than 4,000 followers on social media.\n\nNadia said she was \"really pleased\" to see her efforts make a difference.\n\nSince starting her crusade, the teenager has collected more than 1,100 litres of rubbish - enough to fill about 40 kitchen bins.\n\nShe leaves an hour early to go to school each day so she can \"clear her route\" using her bicycle basket, doing one side of the road on the way in and the opposite side on the way back.\n\nSchoolgirl Nadia Sparkes is depicted as a superhero in a cartoon by Creative Nation\n\nEarlier this year, Nadia - who said being called \"Trash Girl\" made her feel like a superhero - was immortalised in cartoon form.\n\nThe teenager, who loves to draw, is also being given the chance to publish her own on-message cartoon in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper.\n\nShe even has her own range of merchandise and hopes to use the money to buy refillable water bottles for every pupil at her school.\n\nNadia said she was \"really pleased\" to be able to make a difference with her litter-picking\n\nPaula Sparkes said her daughter wanted to \"give people a wake-up call about litter\" but despite her achievements, the name-calling at school had not stopped.\n\n\"It's very hard to change the attitude of teenagers,\" she said.\n\n\"Nadia always felt alone in her litter-picking and was made to feel different, but then she realised all litter-pickers felt like that.\n\n\"She wanted to create a group to bring them all together and she's done that - she has been contacted by people from all over the world.\n\n\"We're incredibly proud of her.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Christian message of \"peace on earth and goodwill to all\" is \"needed as much as ever\", the Queen has said in her Christmas Day broadcast.\n\nShe said the message is \"never out of date\" and can be \"heeded by everyone\".\n\nThe Queen also joked that family events during a \"busy year\", including weddings and births, had kept \"a grandmother well occupied\".\n\nThe monarch, 92, highlighted the importance of people with opposing views treating each other with respect.\n\nIt comes as Parliament remains divided over the PM's Brexit deal, as the UK prepares to leave the EU in March.\n\nHowever, as head of state, the Queen is publicly neutral on political matters.\n\nIn the broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room, the Queen referred to 2018 being a \"year of centenaries\" , recalling how her father served in the Royal Navy during World War One and \"like others, he lost friends in the war\".\n\n\"At Christmas, we become keenly aware of loved ones who have died, whatever the circumstances,\" she added.\n\nThe photograph featured in the Queen's Christmas message\n\nThe message, which was recorded on 12 December, includes highlights of 2018, from the Commonwealth Games and England reaching the World Cup semi-finals to the weddings of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, and the 70th birthday of the Prince of Wales.\n\nAnd she looks ahead to the birth of first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex next spring.\n\nThe Queen added: \"Some cultures believe a long life brings wisdom. I'd like to think so.\n\n\"Perhaps part of that wisdom is to recognise some of life's baffling paradoxes, such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.\"\n\nShe went on to talk about the summit of Commonwealth leaders at Windsor in April, saying the Commonwealth's \"strength lies in the bonds of affection it promotes, and a common desire to live in a better, more peaceful world.\n\n\"Even with the most deeply held differences, treating the other person with respect and as a fellow human being is always a good first step towards greater understanding.\"\n\nShe emphasised her own strong Christian beliefs in the broadcast.\n\nShe said: \"Through the many changes I have seen over the years, faith, family and friendship have been not only a constant for me but a source of personal comfort and reassurance.\"\n\nThe Queen attended the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at Sandringham\n\nWere the Queen's words in her Christmas broadcast an oblique, coded encouragement to the different sides in the Brexit debate to treat each other with greater respect?\n\nIt really isn't clear. When she talked about \"deeply held differences\" she was actually talking about the unifying power of the Commonwealth.\n\nWhen she referred to the need for \"peace and goodwill\" she was referring to the story of the birth of Jesus.\n\nShe never mentioned the word \"Brexit\" at all.\n\nIt wouldn't have been difficult to have fashioned a speech which referred to the intense political debate in the UK and which urged people to keep in mind that there is \"much more that unites us than those things that divide us\".\n\nBut Elizabeth II is an extremely cautious monarch, wary of saying anything which might be deemed politically contentious. It is a principle which has been exercised with some skill and which has served her throughout her long reign.\n\nSome might say that this was one moment when Britain's head of state might have used her immense authority to try to calm the Brexit debate and reassure the country that we can cope, whatever the outcome.\n\nShe and her advisers chose not to be explicit.\n\nBut notwithstanding the lack of clarity in the speech itself, it is clear that the Palace - by highlighting the passages about goodwill and treating each other with respect - is hoping that the wider world will interpret the broadcast as an attempt by the monarch to soothe the whole Brexit debate.\n\nThe Queen wore an Angela Kelly ivory silk cocktail dress, with a gold Scarab brooch, with ruby and diamond embellishments, for the broadcast produced this year by Sky News.\n\nThe brooch was a 1966 gift from the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nShe was sitting beside a framed black and white photograph of herself, Prince Philip and a baby Prince Charles, taken in 1948.", "Jakelin Caal's brother Abdel carries her photograph outside their home in San Antonio Secortez village\n\nThe body of seven-year-old Guatemalan girl Jakelin Caal - who died earlier this month while in the custody of the US Border Patrol - has been returned to her home country.\n\nJakelin was crossing the US-Mexico border with her father as part of a caravan of Central American migrants. They handed themselves in to US border agents in New Mexico in early December.\n\nWhile in custody, Jakelin developed a high fever and died of liver failure several days later.\n\nClaudia Maquin sits and waits for the arrival of her daughter's body\n\nLocal residents have gathered to prepare her grave in her village\n\nA small grave has been dug in the cemetery\n\nThe white coffin, containing the girl's body, was flown from the US to Guatemala City\n\nJakelin's grandmother, Elvira Choc, is among those waiting for its arrival\n\nVillagers have set up a makeshift memorial in her memory\n\nHer death triggered protests in the US - such as this one in El Paso, Texas - against President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liver transplant beneficiary: 'I have a baby boy thanks to you'\n\nEllie Lacey was just hours from death, desperately needing an urgent liver transplant. Two years on, the 32-year-old from Cardiff is a new mum and has written to her organ donor's family to express her joy at life while acknowledging their terrible loss.\n\nIt was seven long months after finding out I was pregnant, that I finally mustered the courage to sit down and write.\n\nI had been putting it off, not because I didn't want to write, but because I didn't know how.\n\nI was so happy about my news, I knew how blessed and fortunate I'd been, but as I began to scratch out the words, an enormous wave of emotion and sadness hit me.\n\nBaby Otto was born on 21 December weighing in at weighing 7lb 8oz\n\nIt has been nearly two years since my liver transplant and I have something to tell you…\n\nBut then I stopped, my pen down, my head in my hands.\n\nFor as much as I wanted to let them know that their loved one's liver had not only allowed me to live, but had allowed me to bring new life into the world, I also knew hearing from me must be so bittersweet.\n\nThe brutal truth of the situation was that I was only alive because their loved one had died.\n\nYet how could I not keep thanking them, and letting them know how much they are in my hearts?\n\nEllie Lacey was hours from death in desperate need of a transplant\n\nIt wasn't the first letter I had written to them.\n\nJust after my operation, when I was on a massive high at having cheated death, I wrote, gushing with excitement.\n\nI had hoped my joy might be a silver lining to their sadness.\n\nI never got a reply and I'm not surprised. I was so insensitive and blind to their loss.\n\nI wrote again last Christmas, a very short letter to say I never stopped thinking about them - and now this.\n\nOf course, like every young person, I never expected to be in the position where I would need a donor organ in my body.\n\nI had been very fit and healthy, newly married and looking forward to life.\n\nI worked in marketing and spent weekends competing around the UK in wild, windy fell races.\n\nThen, out of nowhere and for no discernible reason, in January 2017, my liver failed and I needed a transplant.\n\nI began to get very ill, turning yellow and ending up in intensive care.\n\nOver a matter of days, my body had collapsed.\n\nEllie in hospital, 10 days before her transplant\n\nEventually, I was in and out of consciousness, connected to machines and wires with a team of doctors rushing around me.\n\nMy family members weren't compatible donors, so I was put at the very top of the worldwide donor list for my blood type O.\n\nDoctors told my family that a liver would likely be found for me that night.\n\nIn the end, it took three days, coming in at the point I had just hours to live.\n\nDuring that time, I had said goodbye to the world.\n\nYes, I wanted to live - to have more time with my loved ones and one day start a family, but I was also at peace.\n\nI knew I had loved and been loved, and I knew - after setting up a marathon in Uganda - that I had also made a difference in the world.\n\nEllie organises the Running The Rift marathon in Uganda to raise money for charity\n\nThen, amazingly, an organ was found.\n\nIt came in late at night to a hospital in the Midlands.\n\nIt was transported down, then I was operated on the following day.\n\nWhen I woke up, although I was incredibly weak, to the point I couldn't walk, I was also euphoric.\n\nHow many other terminally ill people get a chance to live again?\n\nOf course, the euphoria was eventually replaced by a huge low as I came to terms with everything.\n\nBut as I struggled to get back to normal, there was barely a moment I didn't think about my donor.\n\nI was told she was a woman in her sixties who had died from a stroke.\n\nAnd I was told I was allowed to write to her family, via the hospital, if I didn't reveal my full name.\n\nI can't explain how much I wanted to write to thank them.\n\nIt was down to them that I was able to live.\n\nI also wanted to tell them about the pregnancy and how much it meant to me.\n\nYou see, trying for a baby had not been an easy decision to make.\n\nBecause of my transplant, I was high risk.\n\nEllie competing in the British Transplant Games in 2017\n\nThere was a 10% chance my body might reject the liver.\n\nThere was also a bigger risk of pre-eclampsia - a condition caused by high blood pressure - and having a premature baby.\n\nFirst and foremost, I did not want to be a burden on the NHS again - or to need a new organ.\n\nBut I had also vowed to myself, after coming so close to death, that I would live life to the full, not just for me but for my donor too - so that's what I and my husband Paul, who's 33, decided to do.\n\nFollowing her transplant, Ellie wanted to live life to the full and experience motherhood\n\nAnd my beautiful boy, Otto Lacey, was born on 21 December 2018, weighing 7lb 8oz (3,5kg) and becoming our best Christmas present ever.\n\nHe really is perfect in every way.\n\nEventually, I did finish and send my letter to the family, explaining that while nothing will bring their loved one back to them, she has left a lifelong legacy within our family and that she's our hero.\n\nWhether they reply or not, I will have to wait and see.\n\nEither way, my boy will now grow up knowing about this lady who saved my life.\n\nHe will know there are good people in the world who think of others.\n\nAnd he will know what it means to be kind and selfless.", "Former JLS star Aston Merrygold has lifted the trophy in Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas special, after scoring a perfect 40 from the judges.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood said Merrygold and professional partner Janette Manrara's jive to CeeLo Green's What Christmas Means To Me was \"outstanding\".\n\nFellow judge Bruno Tonioli said the singer was \"born to jive\".\n\nMerrygold was up against Anita Rani, Ann Widdecombe, Caroline Flack, Jake Wood and Michael Vaughan.\n\nWhen the judges read out their scores for the jive, Merrygold fell to the ground in shock before doing his famous backflip.\n\nHis partner Manrara said: \"It's a dream come true.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Strictly ✨ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTV presenter Anita Rani also impressed the judges with a foxtrot to Winter Wonderland, scoring 35 out of 40.\n\n\"You managed to melt all the ice. You brought the magic to Christmas,\" said lead judge Shirley Ballas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWiddecombe asked Revel Horwood to give her at least a score of two because it was Christmas. However, he said: \"I'm not feeling that generous, darling.\"\n\nThe couple were awarded 22 in total - Widdecombe's highest score ever.", "Tony Carroll's family said he was \"always the life and soul of the party\"\n\nA pedestrian who died after being hit by a police car on Christmas Day had enjoyed the \"best day ever\" before the crash, his family said.\n\nTony Carroll, 70, was knocked down on Scotland Road, Liverpool, at about 18:50 GMT and later pronounced dead.\n\nHis family said Mr Carroll was \"much loved by all who knew him for his kindness and generosity\".\n\nThe crash has been reported to the watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nIn a tribute, Mr Carroll's family said: \"Tony was a much-loved brother and uncle and will be greatly missed by all his family.\n\n\"He was always the life and soul of the party, and he lived life the way he wanted to.\"\n\nThey added: \"As a very close knit family we spent Christmas Day together and as he left he told us all that he had had the best day ever.\n\n\"This tragedy has devastated all our family and Tony will be remembered in our hearts forever.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to the crash\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said investigators had assessed the scene and decided to carry out an independent investigation.\n\nThe watchdog's spokesman said: \"On current information, we understand the police car was responding to an emergency call when it collided with the man crossing the road at around 6.50pm.\"\n\nScotland Road was closed following the crash, which Merseytravel said also prompted the closure of the Bootle-bound sliproad from the Wallasey Tunnel.\n\nA Merseyside Police spokesman said: \"At around 6.50pm a collision occurred between a police vehicle and a male pedestrian on Scotland Road.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and the pedestrian was taken to hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Final results from October's parliamentary elections have not yet been declared\n\nNext year's presidential election in Afghanistan has been postponed by three months, election authority sources say.\n\nIt was initially due in April. A new date in mid-July or early August is to be announced on Thursday.\n\nMany potential candidates had been unable to meet registration requirements and extreme weather meant their teams could not organise for a spring date, the sources told the BBC.\n\nIt comes days after reports that the US was to withdraw thousands of troops.\n\nAbout 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military presence in the country - could go home within months, the US media reports said.\n\nOn Monday 43 people died in a suicide and gun attack on the Afghan ministry of public works in Kabul, officials said.\n\nMeanwhile Iran has held talks with the Afghan Taliban, a senior Iranian security official said.\n\nThe decision to postpone the presidential vote also comes after a series of problems affected parliamentary elections in October, which was disrupted by the Taliban and Islamic State group.\n\nViolence affected campaigning and the polls themselves, with 10 candidates killed and deadly blasts at polling stations, nearly a third of which were closed because of security concerns.\n\nThere were widespread problems with biometric identification devices used in October\n\nThe vote in Ghazni province has not yet taken place because of insecurity and will now happen at the same time as the presidential election.\n\nVoting in Kandahar province was delayed for a week after its police chief there was assassinated.\n\nThere were also problems with a biometric verification system as well as delays at many polling stations because staff arrived late.\n\nFinal results from other major provinces such as Kabul, Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif have not yet been declared. The new parliament is due to begin sitting in March.\n\nPast elections in the country have also been marred by corruption, fraud, and voter intimidation.\n\nThe previous presidential election - which saw Ashraf Ghani take power - was only resolved after a power-sharing agreement was negotiated by the US with Mr Ghani's main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who was given the position of chief executive.", "Labour has accused the Tories of overseeing a \"rail standstill\" on Boxing Day - and pointed out they complained about a lack of trains on the bank holiday while in opposition.\n\nFive out of 28 operators are running vastly reduced services on 26 December.\n\nShadow transport minister Andy McDonald said: \"The Tory hypocrisy on this issue is astounding.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said engineers are working to deliver \"vital investment\" in Britain's railways.\n\nNetwork Rail says it uses the Christmas and new year period to carry out engineering and other improvement work because fewer people use trains.\n\nIt said its workers will undertake more than 330 projects as part of a £148m programme to improve services and facilities.\n\nAccording to the National Rail Enquiries website, only Chiltern, ScotRail, Southeastern, Southern and the Stansted Express will be running limited services on 26 December.\n\nMr McDonald said: \"Tory ministers' handling of the Boxing Day rail standstill is making it much harder for families and friends to visit one another this Christmas break.\n\n\"In opposition the Tories attacked the Boxing Day rail shutdown, but they've now had more than eight years to do something about it and haven't lifted a finger.\"\n\nA DfT spokesman said most of the network is open for business in the festive period but some routes will be heavily affected.\n\nHe said: \"We expect the industry to deliver the highest standards of customer service, including giving passengers the information they need to plan their journeys accordingly.\"", "Whales are known to be intelligent and sociable animals\n\nFew conservation issues generate as emotional a response as whaling. Are we now about to see countries killing whales for profit again?\n\nCommercial whaling has been effectively banned for more than 30 years, after some whales were driven almost to extinction.\n\nBut the International Whaling Committee (IWC) is currently meeting in Brazil and next week will give its verdict on a proposal from Japan to end the ban.\n\nYes, they do - but it's complicated.\n\nIWC members agreed to a moratorium on hunting in 1986, to allow whale stocks to recover.\n\nPro-whaling nations expected the moratorium to be temporary, until consensus could be reached on sustainable catch quotas.\n\nJapan used a clause allowing scientific whaling to continue its hunt\n\nInstead, it became a quasi-permanent ban, to the delight of conservationists but the dismay of whaling nations like Japan, Norway and Iceland who argue that whaling is part of their culture and should continue in a sustainable way.\n\nAmong other things, it says it's investigating stock levels and to see whether the whales are endangered or not.\n\nCritics say this is just a cover so they can kill whales for food. And in fact, the meat from the whales killed for research usually does end up for sale.\n\nHideki Moronuki, Japan's senior fisheries negotiator and commissioner for the IWC, told the BBC that Japan wants the IWC to get back to its original purpose - both conserving whales but also \"the sustainable use of whales\".\n\nWhaling in the 19th and early 20th Century brought the giant mammals to the brink of extinction.\n\nBy the 1960s improved catch methods and giant factory ships made it obvious that whale hunting could not go unchecked. Hence the moratorium.\n\nToday, whale stocks are carefully monitored, and while most species are still endangered, others - like the minke whale which Japan primarily hunts - are not.\n\nSo Japan, the current chair of the IWC, is suggesting a package of measures, including setting up a Sustainable Whaling Committee and setting sustainable catch limits \"for abundant whale stocks/species\".\n\nAs an incentive to anti-whaling nations, the proposals would also make it easier to establish new whale sanctuaries.\n\nAnti whaling activists are of course up in arms about the proposal.\n\nMany whales are endangered, minke whales however are not\n\n\"These graceful giants face so many threats in our degraded oceans such as entanglement, plastic and noise pollution, and climate change, the last thing they need is to be put back in the whalers' crosshairs,\" says Kitty Block, president of Humane Society International.\n\nThere's also the argument that whales are very intelligent animals with highly developed social structures. Killing them causes them fear, panic and pain.\n\nThe old way of whaling with a plain harpoon meant a slow and agonising death.\n\nModern hunters though aim to kill the animal instantly, usually with an exploding harpoon, but conservations argue it can still take very long for a whale to die.\n\nTraditional whaling often resulted in a drawn-out death for the animal\n\nTwo years ago the Australian government released graphic footage from 2008 showing a Japanese research ship harpooning a whale which activist group Sea Shepherd said took more than 20 minutes to die.\n\n\"And that's not to mention that they are killing them with their family members, with their pods having to witness their family members screaming out in pain,\" says Jeff Hansen, managing director of Sea Shepherd in Australia.\n\nThose in favour of whaling say such cases are exceptions - accidents that also happen in any abattoir.\n\nYet their main point is that they argue that opposition to sustainable whaling of non-endangered stocks is deeply hypocritical.\n\nSustainable whaling is no less moral that commercial farming, say pro-whaling groups\n\nIndustrial meat production keeps pigs, cows and chicken in grim captivity from birth to slaughterhouse, but this seldom stops shoppers from reaching for a nice cut of pork or beef.\n\nThere is also the hunter's defence that killing a wild animal is more ethical than raising an animal in captivity with the sole purpose of eating it.\n\nLars Walloe, former head of Norway's delegation to the IWC, told the BBC whaling is the same as killing \"other large mammals in the forest, like deer, elk, moose\".\n\n\"We kill them for meat and we don't see the difference between killing a minke whale and a moose as long as it's done humanely.\"\n\nLeading anti-whaling nations like Australia have already said they would band together to reject any attempts to undermine the current ban.\n\nAustralia has long been Japan's major opponent when it comes to whaling and wants to strengthen the IWC's protection of whales. It would face fierce opposition at home if it changed its mind.\n\nCanberra took the issue to the International Court of Justice, which in 2014 ruled against Japan, saying it was not necessary to kill whales in order to study them.\n\nScientific whaling is widely seen as a poor disguise\n\nBut that was in reference to one specific scientific programme - so Japan simply changed said programme and resumed whaling.\n\nJapanese officials, however, have told the BBC they hope the new proposal will be considered and adopted. \"This issue should be resolved based on science and international law, but not with emotion,\" urges Hideki Moronuki.\n\nDonald R Rothwell, professor of international law at Australia National University, told the BBC an end to the moratorium might not ultimately have much impact.\n\n\"If Japan would offer to end its scientific programme, a future commercial whaling quota would likely see very little change in the actual number of whales killed,\" he said.\n\nUnder the scientific programme, Japan takes around 300 to 400 animals each year and a commercial quota could limit them to a similar number.\n\nCurrently, some of the whales are hunted in a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic. Japan argues the sanctuary is to protect against commercial whaling but that scientific whaling does not break any rules.\n\nWhales caught by Japan for research do often end up on the plate\n\nIf in future, Japan was to whale under an IWC quota for commercial purpose, it would be bound by the sanctuary rules.\n\nAnd if Japan were simply to leave the IWC, it would still be bound by international laws that bind countries to \"co-operate on whale conservation\".\n\nBut ultimately, there's a good chance the contentious issue will gradually die down by itself.\n\nJapanese demand for whale meat has long been on the decline.\n\nThe industry already survives on state subsidies so eventually, changing tastes might mean commercial whaling is undone by plain commercial arithmetic.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the UK to forget the \"languages of hatred, tribalism [and] rivalry\" in his Christmas Day sermon.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby told his congregation to aim for peace and unity at a time of challenge and discord.\n\nWhile he did not specifically mention the UK's political future, he stressed the importance of the language of love replacing the language of conflict.\n\n\"God's language of love is exclusive,\" he said at Canterbury Cathedral.\n\nOther church leaders used their Christmas messages to highlight social action fighting homelessness and poverty.\n\nBishop of London the Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally said 33,000 Church of England \"social action\" projects included food banks, night shelters and dementia cafes.\n\nRight Rev Dame Sarah Mullally highlighted the Church of England's social projects\n\nThe leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, used his homily to thank volunteers working to help the needy.\n\nBoth leaders acknowledged that many people faced challenging times and that society had become more divided.\n\nSpeaking before delivering her first Christmas midnight service since becoming the first woman Bishop of London, Bishop Mullally told the BBC the UK was facing \"a lot of turbulence\".\n\n\"Debates in politics around the EU referendum have created division,\" she said. \"My belief is that diversity creates strong community; division weakens it.\"\n\nBut she said the Church had been working across generations and social groups and that churches working together could help in \"breaking down barriers... so we create stable communities\".\n\n\"The Church needs to speak confidently about faith in Jesus Christ but it also needs to reflect the compassion we see in God and Jesus which is why, not just in London but right across the country, churches are involved in social action projects,\" said Bishop Mullally.\n\n\"[There are] something like 33,000 social action projects across the Church of England; people setting up food banks, credit unions, dementia cafes and night shelters demonstrating the love of God.\"\n\nCardinal Nichols, pictured conducting Mass in April 2017, said volunteers would be ready if hardship increased\n\nIn his homily, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Nichols, pointed to \"difficult times, times of uncertainty and an absence of consensus\".\n\nBut he also spoke of \"countless acts of kindness\", saying: \"Our society is full of generosity and compassion, although we do not shout about it.\"\n\n\"In our parishes, for example, there are over 130 projects responding to food poverty and homelessness,\" he told worshippers at Westminster Cathedral.\n\n\"So many of our schools provide breakfasts and vouchers for the most needy. Volunteers constantly come forward... If, in the coming year, hardship increases, then we are ready to help in every way we can.\"\n\nAround the country, bishops used Christmas messages to urge people to come together.\n\nGraham Usher, the Bishop of Dudley, said: \"Our current political debates... put up barriers between those who voted in different ways.\n\n\"Our country needs, more than ever, to seek grace and generosity in our political conversation so that there are not winners and losers, just the flourishing of all.\"\n\nBishop of Bath and Wells Peter Hancock pointed out that Christmas is \"a joyful time but for many people it's a tough time and lonely time too\".\n\nMeanwhile, Bishop of Taunton Ruth Worsley wondered \"if this Christmas we might think about how we can offer some hope to other families who might be struggling?\"", "In October, North and South Korea agreed to begin work on reconnecting inter-Korean railways and roads, almost 70 years after they were severed.\n\nA groundbreaking ceremony has now taken place in North Korea, attended by delegates from each country.\n\nAround 100 South Korean officials, politicians and people displaced by war came to the border town of Kaesong for the event.\n\nSouth Korea's Unification Ministry also said a delegation of 100 North Koreans attended, as did officials from the United Nations, China, Russia and Mongolia .\n\nHowever materials needed to complete the project are subject to sanctions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nora Quoirin's parents speak publicly for the first time since her death\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died on a family holiday in Malaysia believe there was a \"criminal element\" involved in her disappearance and death.\n\nNora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from her accommodation, 10 days after she disappeared in August.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the 15-year-old died from internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress.\n\nHer parents told RTÉ that they are determined to get the truth.\n\nIn an interview with the Irish broadcaster, Meabh and Sebastian Quoirin said that many serious questions still remain about Nora's disappearance.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents said that they will push for an inquest and to find some answers\n\nMeabh said that it would have been \"impossible physically, mentally to imagine that she [Nora] could have got any distance at all\".\n\n\"She never even walked as far as our neighbours' front door by herself,\" she added.\n\n\"For us something very complex happened. We have insisted from the beginning that we believe there was a criminal element to what happened.\"\n\nSebastien said then when they could not find Nora in the vicinity of the hotel they realised something serious had happened.\n\n\"To think that Nora might get up in the middle of the night, naked, barefoot, get out of the bungalow into the jungle, bearing in mind the terrain is extremely steep and dangerous, in total darkness, makes absolutely no sense,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"We think it is absurd to think about this possibility.\"\n\nThe Quorins said they do not believe their daughter would have wandered off alone\n\nHer unclothed body was found after a 10-day search in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers.\n\nShe was described by her family as vulnerable having been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nMalaysian Police said there was no suspicion Nora was the victim of foul play.\n\nThe Quoirins said they are still waiting on the full post mortem results from Malaysia.\n\nAnother post-mortem examination was carried out in London - they are awaiting the results of it as well.\n\nSebastien said they can get \"some degree of closure\" if they can understand what happened.\n\nMeabh Quoirin said Nora is with them every day\n\n\"We are determined to fight for her rights as a human, as a child with special needs,\" said Meabh.\n\n\"We really believe that if they'd listened to what we were trying to explain, in terms of what Nora was capable of and not capable of, then we might have been able to achieve more while we were still in Malaysia.\n\n\"But with all the right support we will push for an inquest and hope that we can still find some answers.\n\n\"I think we will be living with the horror of what happened in Malaysia for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I think we will seek justice in so far as we can. We have to find peace in our own hearts.\n\n\"We will carry Nora with us forever. She's with us here every day. I talk to her every day. She holds my hand. We hear her, we see her in all that we do at home. We will forever be a family of five.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners have criticised prosecutors over the failure to charge many rape cases\n\nRape prosecutions are being delayed for years in a justice system close to \"breaking point\", says a report into record-low conviction rates.\n\nA \"damning\" number of cases are lost amid \"under-resourced\" investigations, the prosecution inspectorate said.\n\nThe government said the findings were \"deeply concerning\". Women's groups said the review failed to explain \"woeful\" conviction rates.\n\nBut the report rejected claims that prosecutors only charge \"easy\" cases.\n\nBut Sarah Green, a campaigner from End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was increasingly risk-averse and its handling of cases was causing unnecessary delays.\n\nShe highlighted a recent rape case in Liverpool case where the CPS delayed a prosecution for more than six month while they requested a victim's school records.\n\n\"They asked for those school records in a case where a woman was unconscious when she was raped, when there was a recording of part of the rape by her friends and where there was forensic evidence. And there was indeed a conviction,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe presiding judge on the case expressed concern about the amount of time between the attack and charges being laid, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nThe report, published by HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate, found an average of 237 days elapsed between the first report of an offence to police and the police's first submission of the file to the CPS.\n\nIncomplete police files caused further delays and the CPS is currently not meeting its own time targets to make decisions, the Inspectorate said.\n\nFigures published earlier this year showed there were a record 58,657 allegations of rape in the year up to March, but only 1,925 successful prosecutions.\n\nIt is the lowest number in England and Wales since records began in 2008.\n\nBut the report said fewer rape cases are being referred by police to prosecutors - a fall of 23%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Annie Tisshaw spoke about her experience earlier this year\n\nSeveral women who say they were raped have waived their anonymity to complain about the charging decisions made by crown prosecutors.\n\nAnnie Tisshaw told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the police investigation into her case took many months and, after being passed to the CPS, requests for further evidence led to it being dropped altogether.\n\nThe former North West chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said it seemed as though Ms Tisshaw was the subject of the investigation rather than the alleged perpetrator.\n\n\"Resources are really, really poor. We are at breaking point,\" he added.\n\n\"We're beyond breaking point, actually, I think. We've got to the stage where cases are not being prosecuted with any speed.\"\n\nPolice and prosecutors were criticised over their handling of a case in 2017 when a student was acquitted on 12 counts of rape and sexual assault because text messages which undermined the complainant had not been disclosed.\n\nThe inspectors said cases have become more complex due to the volume of evidence from mobile phones and social media, placing more pressure on an overstretched system.\n\nChief inspector Kevin McGinty said the justice system as a whole is \"under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point\". For police, he said \"it may have gone beyond that\" and \"the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning\".\n\nTo address claims that the CPS was being too selective about the cases it prosecutes, inspectors examined a sample 250 cases.\n\nIn five of these (2%), the decision was found to be \"wholly unreasonable\". In 2016, the inspectors found that applied to 10% of decisions.\n\nThe inspectors said that this suggested prosecutors were improving the way they apply the test for charging or releasing suspects, rather than selecting \"easy cases\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the findings were \"deeply concerning\" and that \"victims deserve to know they will be supported\".\n\nThe government has promised more police officers, an extra £85m for the Crown Prosecution Service and longer prison sentences for sex offenders.\n\n\"Clearly there is more to do, but this government is committed to restoring confidence in the justice system and providing better support for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said investigators were \"under huge strain\" and rape is \"one of the most complex crimes\" they deal with.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, the NPCC lead for adult sexual offences and rape, said police were working with prosecutors to address these issues, while the government's promised 20,000 additional police officers would \"ease the pressure\".\n\nAnd crown chief prosecutor Siobhan Blake, a CPS lead for sexual offences, told the BBC that the report demonstrates there is \"no evidence that prosecutors are risk averse or that we at the CPS are choosing to prosecute easy cases\".\n\nSome women's campaigners disagree. Sarah Green said the report was \"profoundly disappointing\" and failed to uncover the real reasons for the decline in successful prosecutions.\n\nThe report left \"many questions at the police front door\" she said.\n\nIn particular she pointed to the number of cases which the CPS had decided to prosecute, which had declined faster than the number of cases referred by police to prosecutors.", "The heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nIt comes ahead of the first ever strike by nurses in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nA joint statement has been issued by the heads of the five regional healthcare trusts, as well as the head of the ambulance service.\n\nThe head of the Health and Social Care Board is also a signatory.\n\nIndustrial action is being taken by health workers in Northern Ireland in a dispute over pay and working conditions.\n\nThe latest information on exemptions to strike action can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\n\"Funding has been increasingly stretched year on year, while demand for care has risen and will continue to do so,\" the statement from the health trusts reads.\n\n\"Political and budgetary uncertainties have exacerbated the situation.\"\n\nHealth bosses acknowledge in the letter that workers taking the action \"are not doing so lightly\".\n\nIt adds the situation with industrial action is made more challenging by a \"significant rise in emergency department attendances and hospital admissions\".\n\nIn what is set to be a challenging day for Northern Ireland's healthcare services, on Wednesday paramedics, nurses, and other healthcare workers will take strike action.\n\nNurses are set to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday, following on from previous industrial action which has stopped short of a strike.\n\nParamedics are also set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nThe last number of weeks has seen industrial action taken by other healthcare workers in Northern Ireland.", "Emily Thornberry warned privately in September that Labour's election chances would be hampered by taking a neutral position on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference, for a BBC film being broadcast on Tuesday, she said she was worried about Jeremy Corbyn saying he \"didn't have a view\" on the biggest decision facing the UK.\n\nShe was \"really pushing\" at the time for Labour to openly back Remain.\n\nLabour's defeat has led to a bitter internal row over its Brexit policy.\n\nSome Labour candidates who lost their seats have blamed the party's offer of another referendum for their defeat alongside doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nMs Thornberry, the re-elected MP for Islington South who is expected to be a candidate in the contest to succeed Mr Corbyn, revealed on Monday that she had begun legal action against a former colleague who claimed the shadow foreign secretary called some Leave voters \"stupid\".\n\nShe said Caroline Flint's claim she had told an MP from a Leave-voting area \"I am glad my constituents aren't as stupid as yours\" was \"a complete lie\". But Ms Flint, who lost her seat at the election, has stood by her remarks.\n\nLabour went into the election offering another Brexit referendum on a new withdrawal deal it hoped to negotiate if it won power.\n\nAt its conference in Brighton, the leadership saw off an attempt by party members to force it to campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Corbyn went further by saying that he personally would not take sides in any future public vote, arguing this would make it easier for him to implement whatever choice the people made.\n\nWhile Ms Thornberry has never hidden her view that she thinks Brexit is a mistake, an interview she gave to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg during the conference makes clear the extent of her doubts.\n\nIn the documentary, entitled The Brexit Storm Continues, she warned that a neutral position on Brexit would be politically dangerous.\n\nShe also revealed she had privately urged the leadership to take a much more overt pro-Remain stance.\n\n\"I think Jeremy is trying to find a compromise but if he goes into an election saying 'I don't have a view' on the single biggest decision that we have to make - I think - what worries me is that every single interview he does will all be about Brexit.\"\n\nAsked if Labour could win an election with that position, she said: \"Well, I think it makes it more difficult and that's why I'm really pushing this because I want Jeremy in Number 10.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the Labour leadership's position on Brexit seemed to thwart the views of the party's traditional supporters.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Labour Party had always been a coalition between supporters in working-class communities and \"university educated liberal left\" and Labour \"had not been speaking to both sides of that coalition for some time\".\n\nBefore he became mayor, Mr Burnham was the MP for the Labour stronghold Leigh, which elected a Tory MP last week.\n\nIt would \"help\" if the next Labour leader was from the North, Mr Burnham added, and he said he would lend his support to a candidate that supported devolution.\n\nHowever, Labour's Jenny Chapman who lost her Darlington seat in the election said it was \"patronising\" to think that \"presenting someone who speaks with a northern accent means you are going to win support in the North\".\n\n\"I don't think you need a particular accent to have empathy and compassion,\" she said explaining she wants shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to run in the Labour leadership contest.\n\nMr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have apologised for Labour's \"catastrophic\" performance, which saw them lose 59 seats.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"sorry that we came up short\", while Mr McDonnell told the BBC: \"I own this disaster.\"\n\nThe Brexit Storm Continues was broadcast on BBC2 on 17 December at 21:00 and is available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Police officer Amjad Ditta is among 16 men charged with sex offences against children\n\nSixteen men including a police officer have been charged with historical sex offences against children aged between 13 and 16.\n\nWest Yorkshire PC Amjad Ditta, also known as Amjad Hussain, 35, has been charged with sexual touching.\n\nHe and 15 other men are charged with offences against three girls in the Halifax area, dating from 2006 to 2009.\n\nThe allegations include several counts of rape, sexual assault, supplying drugs and trafficking.\n\nMr Ditta, who was attached to West Yorkshire Police's Protective Services Operations, was a serving officer at the time of the offence he has been accused of.\n\nHe has been suspended from duty, the force said.\n\nThe 16 men, all from Halifax, will appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 6 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright\n\nAn ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed.\n\nHomo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.\n\nNew dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.\n\nThis means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.\n\nDetails of the result are described in the journal Nature.\n\nIn the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central Java.\n\nIn subsequent decades, researchers have attempted to date the fossils. But this proved difficult because the surrounding geology is complex and details of the original excavations became confused.\n\nProf Russell Ciochon with replicas of the Homo erectus skull caps found at Ngandong\n\nIn the 1990s, one team came up with unexpectedly young ages of between 53,000 and 27,000 years ago. This raised the distinct possibility that modern humans overlapped with Homo erectus on the Indonesian island.\n\nNow, researchers led by Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa in Iowa City opened up new excavations on the terraces beside the Solo River, reanalysing the site and its surroundings.\n\nThey have provided what they describe as a definitive age for the bone bed of between 117,000 and 108,000 years old. This represents the most recent known record of Homo erectus anywhere in the world.\n\n\"I don't know what you could date at the site to give you more precise dates than what we've been able to produce,\" Prof Ciochon told BBC News.\n\nProf Chris Stringer, research leader on human evolution at London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved with the work, commented: \"This is a very comprehensive study of the depositional context of the famous Ngandong Homo erectus partial skulls and shin bones, and the authors build a strong case that these individuals died and were washed into the deposits of the Solo River about 112,000 years ago.\n\n\"This age is very young for such primitive-looking Homo erectus fossils, and establishes that the species persisted on Java for well over one million years.\"\n\nResearchers think the collection of remains represent a mass death event, possibly the result of a lahar upriver. A lahar - which comes from a Javanese word - is the slurry that can flow down the slope of a volcano when heavy rainfall occurs during or after a volcanic eruption. These violent events will sweep away anything in their path.\n\nPreviously, team-member Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.\n\nThe excavation sites lie along the Solo river in central Java\n\nThe relatives were able to provide him with photographs of the original dig, maps and notebooks. Huffman was able to resolve much of the uncertainty that had hampered previous attempts to understand the site.\n\n\"He was able to tell us exactly where to dig,\" Prof Ciochon said of the University of Texas researcher.\n\nCiochon and his colleagues excavated part of an untouched reserve area left alone by the Dutch team in the 1930s. Informed by records of the original excavations, the team was able to identify the gravelly deposit - or bone bed - from which the Homo erectus fossils had come, and date it.\n\nOn other islands in South-East Asia, Homo erectus appears to have evolved into smaller forms, such as Homo floresiensis - the \"Hobbit\" - on Flores, and Homo luzonensis in the Philippines. This probably occurred because there were limited food resources on these islands. But on Java, there appears to have been enough food for erectus to maintain its original body size.\n\nThe specimens at Ngandong appear to be between 5ft and 6ft in height - comparable to examples from Africa and elsewhere in Eurasia.\n\nThe findings further underline the shift in thinking this field of study has undergone over the decades. We used to think of human evolution as a progression, with a straight line leading from apes to us. This is embodied in the so-called March of Progress illustration where a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.\n\nThese days, we know things were far messier. The latest study highlights a mind-boggling truth: that many of the species we thought of as transitional stages in this onward march overlapped with each other, in some cases for hundreds of thousands of years.\n\nBut why did Homo erectus survive so late on Java? In Africa, the species was probably gone by 500,000 years ago; in China it vanished some 400,000 years ago. Russell Ciochon thinks that it was probably outcompeted by other human species elsewhere, but Java's location allowed it to thrive in isolation.\n\nHowever, the results show the fossils came from a period when environmental conditions on Java were changing. What were once open woodlands were transforming into rainforest. Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island.\n\nNo Homo erectus are found after this time, he explained, and there's a gap with no human activity at all until Homo sapiens turns up on Java around 39,000 years ago. Prof Ciochon believes H. erectus was too dependent on the open savannah and too inflexible to adapt to life in a rainforest.\n\n\"Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest,\" he explained. \"I think it's mainly because of the cultural attributes of Homo sapiens - the ability to make all these specialised tools.\"\n\n\"Once this rainforest flora and fauna spread across Java, that's the end of erectus.\"\n\n\"The authors claim that this is therefore the last known occurrence of the species, and that this indicates there was no overlap of the species with Homo sapiens in Java, as H. sapiens arrived much later,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not convinced about that as other supposedly late Homo erectus material from Javanese sites like Ngawi and Sambungmacan remain to be properly dated, and they may be younger still. Alternatively, they may correlate with the ages of the Ngandong fossils, but that should be the next stage of investigation.\"", "Mark Ovland (front), Luke Watson (top left) and Cathy Eastburn (top right) were found guilty\n\nThree Extinction Rebellion activists who glued themselves to a train have been found guilty of obstructing the railway.\n\nCathy Eastburn, Mark Ovland and Luke Watson were charged after a protest halted Docklands Light Railway services at Canary Wharf station on 17 April.\n\nA jury at Inner London Crown Court unanimously found the trio guilty.\n\nJudge Silas Reid said most defendants do not come to court \"for such noble purposes\".\n\nWatson, 30, Eastburn, 52, and Ovland, 36, all denied obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway and will be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nJurors convicted the defendants after an hour of deliberations, but the foreman added it was \"with regret\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion, an activist group whose protesters are urging government action on climate change, said the trial was the first to be dealt with by a crown court as opposed to a magistrates' court.\n\nThe trio were arrested during two weeks of demonstrations organised by the group, which brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it had warned the relevant authorities of their actions beforehand\n\nWatson, of Manuden in Essex; Eastburn, of St Gerards Close in Lambeth, south London; and Ovland, of Keinton Mandeville in Somerton, Somerset, have been released on unconditional bail.\n\nIn her closing speech to the court, Eastburn, who spent a week in prison on remand, compared the action to raising the alarm when your house is on fire.\n\nWatson told the court the group warned the relevant authorities of their actions beforehand and had chosen a station that was above ground to avoid unnecessary distress.\n\nJudge Reid indicated that a conditional discharge was possible, telling the jury: \"I don't see at the moment that there's any possibility of any of these defendants going back to prison.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour \"pursued a path of almost comic indecision\" over Brexit during the election and \"alienated both sides of the debate\", Tony Blair has said.\n\nIn a speech in London, the ex-PM said he believed the party could have kept much of the vote in traditional Labour areas under a different leadership.\n\nThe situation was \"made impossible by failure to take a clear position and to stick to it\", Mr Blair said.\n\n\"The result has brought shame on us. We let our country down,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Blair said \"the Labour Party, by its self-indulgence - and that's what it was in the end - was the effective handmaiden of Brexit.\n\n\"It's not our fault, because the fault is with those who advocated it - but our combination of misguided ideology and utter incompetence allowed it to happen.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn told MPs on Tuesday that he \"took responsibility\" for Labour's worst electoral performance, in terms of seats won, since 1935.\n\nAnd some of his supporters within the party, including shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, have called Mr Blair's comments an \"oversimplification\" and said Mr Corbyn should not be blamed for the loss.\n\nLabour's leader in Wales, and First Minister, Mark Drakeford, said there was \"nothing wrong\" with the party's \"basic message\" and it just had to be \"retuned\" in five years' time.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will stand down as Labour leader \"early next year\".\n\nBut he was criticised to his face by some Labour colleagues, with former MP Mary Creagh saying the lack of a personal apology showed he was a \"man without honour and without shame\".\n\nMeanwhile, Emily Thornberry has become the first MP to officially put herself forward to replace Mr Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, she said she has already \"pummelled\" Boris Johnson across the despatch box and said she would be able to exploit the prime minister's failings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Creagh on Jeremy Corbyn: \"He should be apologising\"\n\nIn his speech, ex-Labour leader Mr Blair - a longstanding critic of the party's move to the left under Mr Corbyn - said: \"I believe with different leadership we would have kept much of our vote in traditional Labour areas.\n\n\"Instead, we pursued a path of almost comic indecision - alienated both sides of the debate.\"\n\nAnd he said the party should never have fallen into the \"Elephant trap\" of agreeing to a \"Brexit election\" without a clear position on Brexit and with a leader who had a \"net approval rating of minus 40%\".\n\nMr Blair knows his intervention will probably be dismissed by many in the Labour Party, and he will be reviled by Corbynites.\n\nBut what, I think, he is trying to do is open a genuine debate, in the aftermath of Labour's worst defeat since 1935.\n\nHis analysis is the scale of the defeat now threatens the very future and survival of the Labour Party - that under Mr Corbyn it has travelled so far from electability that if it carries on on that trajectory it will never be returned to government and it will be replaced by another force, another party.\n\nSo his analysis is a pretty stark one: Either the party claws back from the Corbyn agenda - or it's over.\n\nLabour fought the 2017 general election on a platform of leaving the EU.\n\nBut it switched to backing another referendum, under pressure from its members and senior figures in the shadow cabinet.\n\nDuring this year's election campaign, Mr Corbyn said he wanted renegotiate a Brexit deal with the EU and then put it to a public vote, with the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nBut he said he would not take sides during the referendum campaign, and would act instead as an \"honest broker\" who could unite the Leave and Remain factions.\n\nMr Blair said \"it would have been better\" if Mr Corbyn had just said he was pro-Brexit, in line with his longstanding Euroscepticism.\n\n\"When things are really tough in politics, you might as well do what you believe in, because at least you'll be more convincing defending it,\" he said.\n\nMr Blair insisted his criticism of Mr Corbyn as leader was not an attack on him \"as a person\".\n\nBut he added: \"People saw him as fundamentally opposing what Britain and Western countries stand for.\"\n\nMr Corbyn personified \"a brand of quasi-revolutionary socialism - mixing far-left economic policy with deep hostility to Western foreign policy\" - and that this combination \"never has and never will\" appeal to traditional Labour voters, he argued.\n\nAnd the far-left \"protest movement\" which was born out of Mr Corbyn's leadership was supported by \"cult trimmings\" and was \"utterly incapable\" of being voted in as a \"credible government\".\n\nTurning to allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour, Mr Blair said: \"The failure to deal with it is a matter of disgust that left some of us who voted Labour feeling for the first time in our lives conflicted about doing it.\"\n\nHe also hit back at Mr Corbyn's claim that Labour's policies were popular, arguing that individual policies, such as renationalising the railways, may have been popular but taken together, the party's manifesto was a \"100-page wish list\".\n\n\"Any fool can promise everything for free - but the people weren't fooled,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair, won three general elections in a row between 1997 and 2005, said Labour's challenge was to become a \"modern progressive coalition\" with the ability to win and hold power or admit it had \"exhausted its original mission\".\n\nHe did not support the idea that the next Labour leader had to be a woman or come from outside London, as some in the party have suggested.\n\n\"What (the public) want is someone who is going to govern the country with a creditable programme,\" he told the audience.\n\nAmong the Labour seats in the North of England to fall to the Conservatives was Mr Blair's former constituency Sedgefield, which he represented for 24 years, and which has not had a Tory MP since the 1930s.\n\nBut Shadow Justice Secretary Mr Burgon insisted Labour's election defeat should not be blamed on Mr Corbyn.\n\nHe told BBC Politics Live: \"I think it's a mistake to put everything down to a single leader or personality.\"\n\nHe blamed the \"the right-wing press\" for trying to \"toxify\" Mr Corbyn and said that the \"mistake\" Labour made \"was underestimating how much people wanted to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Burgon said Mr Blair's analysis was an \"oversimplification\", saying: \"Does he really think that Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer are 'hard left'?\"\n\nSam Tarry, Labour's new MP for Ilford South, said: \"It's very easy for Blair to come out with these simplistic sort of problems.\n\n\"It's under his regime that we really began to break down the trust in the electorate.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he is \"seriously considering\" standing to be the next Labour leader.\n\nHe said the party had a \"mountain to climb\" following their election defeat.\n\nReflecting on Labour's election defeat, Sir Keir - who like Mr Blair backed another EU referendum - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party had failed to \"knock back\" the Conservatives' \"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions secretary Yvette Cooper said she would \"decide over Christmas\" on whether she would stand, saying the party needed to tackle anti-Semitism, restore \"kindness to our politics\" and be more \"inclusive\".\n\nLabour ended up with 59 fewer MPs than two years ago. Its share of the vote, at 32.2%, was higher than in either its 2010 or 2015 defeats, it was a long way from the 41.9% it secured under Mr Corbyn in 2017.\n\nOther candidates believed to be considering running to be Labour leader include:", "Jordan Davies was a father of two young children and was a keen footballer\n\nFamily of a man who was fatally stabbed in a town centre said he was \"a loving son, brother and father\".\n\nJordan Davies died on Holton Road in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, after being assaulted at about 16:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nHis family said the father of two young children would be \"greatly missed by everyone who knew and loved him.\"\n\nA 24-year-old man who was charged with murder appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and was remanded in custody.\n\nHe later appeared at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark O'Shea from South Wales Police said: \"I would like to again express our thanks to those who tried to help in an extremely distressing situation.\"\n\nPolice were called to Holton Road, Barry on Monday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver as he was walking home from work has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nEwan Ireland was 17 when he attacked Peter Duncan, 52, at the entrance to a shopping centre in Newcastle in August.\n\nA court heard the two brushed past each other when the teenager pulled out a screwdriver he had shoplifted and stabbed Mr Duncan in the heart.\n\nIreland admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nThe killer, who was able to be identified after he turned 18 in October, had 17 previous convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nAt the time of the murder he was on bail for an offence of affray, was under investigation for a robbery and still subject to a 12-month conditional discharge for a battery offence the previous summer.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Duncan's widow Maria said her life \"was ruined by a senseless and unprovoked act\".\n\n\"The person who did this had convictions. Nothing stopped him. He continued and he murdered my husband,\" she said.\n\nPeter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nMr Duncan came into contact with Ireland at the entrance to Eldon Square shopping centre when they were walking in opposite directions.\n\nThe court heard the teenager was looking for another youth with whom he had previously argued about cigarettes.\n\nMr Duncan, who was an in-house lawyer for an international maritime firm, raised his arm to let Ireland past, but \"the defendant took exception to that\" and a struggle ensued, prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said.\n\nAfter pushing him off, Mr Duncan was stabbed once through the heart and collapsed a short distance away near a Greggs outlet.\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan's 15-year-old son was in the city centre that evening for a cinema trip and saw the cordoned off area without realising his father had been attacked.\n\n\"I am angry he was out free, and cannot understand why he was not locked up,\" he said in a victim impact statement.\n\n\"If he had been we would still have my dad to this day.\"\n\nEwan Ireland had a string of convictions when he murdered Mr Duncan\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender said it was Mr Duncan's \"bad luck to bump into you that day on his way home from work\".\n\n\"You started a fight, in the course of which you took out a screwdriver and stabbed him through the heart,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Ireland's offending started at the age of 14, with a string of convictions including theft, battery and making threats with knives.\n\n\"All too often, young men like you, who get into the habit of carrying weapons and using them to threaten others, move on to using those weapons to harm others, as you have done,\" he added.\n\nIreland also admitted stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, defending, said the teenager \"had spoken of his absolute remorse and devastation at the act he occasioned which was needless and senseless and took away from the family their father\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Fairlamb said Ireland had been a promising young footballer who had been offered a lot of help to change his criminal behaviour.\n\n\"I think one of the most shocking elements of this crime is that it was in such a public place in a major shopping centre in our city and we probably all had that feeling that it could have been any one of us walking home from work,\" she said.\n\n\"With every contact that Ewan Ireland has had with the police and criminal justice system he gets opportunities to change his behaviour - support from different agencies to change that life of crime - he's had those opportunities.\"\n\nShe also said Mr Duncan's family was devastated by the loss and she did not have the words to express how deeply they were grieving.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts are warning that people eating a vegan diet need to make sure they get enough B12 - because the risk of deficiency is \"not a myth\".\n\nThey were speaking ahead of 'Veganuary', when increasing numbers turn to a vegan diet each January.\n\nThe diet is generally high in fibre and low in cholesterol, but some nutrients are harder to get enough of - including B12.\n\nThe Vegan Society said it was available in supplements or fortified foods.\n\nAdults need around 1.5 micrograms of B12 a day.\n\nIt is found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, but not in fruits, vegetables or grains - so those eating a vegan diet are advised to eat fortified foods, like cereals, or take supplements.\n\nB12 deficiency, which can lead to nerve damage, tends to take three or four years to cause symptoms - usually first appearing as pins and needles in the hands or feet.\n\nTim Key, professor of epidemiology and deputy director of the Cancer Epidemiology unit at Oxford University, said: \"You're not going to get B12 deficiency in Veganuary.\"\n\nBut Prof Key, a vegan for many years who takes B12 supplements himself, added: \"If people become vegan because of that, and don't ever bother to read up about what you need to eat as a vegan, I would be worried they won't know about B12.\"\n\nSuggestions online or on social media that vegans do not need extra B12 are not based on evidence, scientists say.\n\nTom Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London, said: \"Of all the micronutrients, B12 is the one we're most concerned about. I'm concerned many people think B12 deficiency is a myth.\"\n\nHe highlighted the case of a breastfeeding mother who had B12 deficiency, and whose child developed neuropathy, leading to long-term damage.\n\n\"It's something that can be easily avoided, and what concerns me is that many new people becoming vegan are unaware of the need to combine sources of plant proteins. And they're not aware of the need to ensure they have adequate levels of B12.\"\n\nThere is limited data on the health effects of a vegan diet - with one UK and one US study covering around 10,000 people.\n\nSo far, the evidence suggests people who are vegan are less likely to be overweight, and at less risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.\n\nBut they appear to have a higher risk of bone fracture, and a recent study suggested an increased risk of haemorrhagic stroke.\n\nHeather Russell, dietitian at the Vegan Society, said: \"Whether you're vegan or not, nutritional planning is essential for everyone.\n\n\"Going vegan is an opportunity to learn more about nutrition, including how to balance food groups, and the roles of fortified foods and supplementation.\n\n\"For example, vegans obtain vitamin B12 from fortified foods or supplementation, and guidance is available on on the Vegan Society's website.\"", "Josh Taylor become the unified IBF and WBA super-lightweight champion in October\n\nWorld boxing champion Josh Taylor has been fined £350 after admitting racially abusing a doorman when he was thrown out of an Edinburgh nightclub.\n\nThe 28-year-old made racist comments to an Asian bouncer at Shanghai club at about 03:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe super-lightweight champion pleaded guilty to charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.\n\nHe later apologised and said he would take time off to \"reflect on my actions and ensure it never happens again\".\n\nTaylor, nicknamed the Tartan Tornado, currently holds the WBA and IBF world boxing titles after beating Regis Prograis on points in October.\n\nBefore becoming a professional boxer, he won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nEdinburgh Sheriff Court was told that Taylor had been at the nightclub with a group of friends when he was asked to leave the premises following \"a disturbance\".\n\nPolice were called by club staff and Taylor, from Prestonpans, East Lothian, was arrested and charged.\n\nProsecutor Alistair Millar said: \"Security staff said the accused was clearly intoxicated and was also asked to leave the premises.\"\n\nSolicitor Cameron Tait, defending, said his client was a first offender who had \"achieved exceptional heights\" in his boxing career.\n\nHe said Taylor had been catching up with friends that evening when one of them was asked to leave the club due to being drunk.\n\nMr Tait said: \"Mr Taylor said he would look after his friend and he was told he must leave as well.\n\n\"He remonstrated with the door staff and advises me they were rude and aggressive. He felt a sense of frustration.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Taylor said he was \"ashamed\" by the incident.\n\nOn Twitter, he wrote: \"I can only apologise, not only to those whom I offended, but to my family and friends for the upset I've caused.\n\n\"There's no excuse for the comments and the disturbance. I'm going to take some time off over Christmas to reflect on my actions and ensure it never happens again.\"\n\nTaylor had also been charged with possessing cocaine at an Edinburgh police station, but his not guilty plea was accepted by the Crown.\n\nHe added: \"I'm regularly tested by all the relevant authorities - and could be at any time regardless of when I'm fighting. I would never risk my career and reputation with drugs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Part-time working for GPs is becoming commonplace, regulators say, raising concerns about the government's drive to recruit extra doctors.\n\nSome 45% of GPs are working less than full-time, with a third cutting their hours in the past year, a General Medical Council survey indicated.\n\nThe poll also suggested more intended to follow suit amid rising workloads.\n\nThe regulator said it was essential to retain more full-time GPs if numbers were going to rise.\n\nDr Lucinda McWhor is one of many doctors who is part-time.\n\nShe works three days, but still clocks up 35 to 40 hours a week - the equivalent of a full-time role.\n\n\"All GPs I know work around two to four hours a day unpaid.\n\n\"This is why they are part-time, they are doing full-time hours but getting paid part-time rates.\n\n\"Because we are a predominantly female workforce this has been allowed to happen.\n\n\"Women have often worked part time in general practice and we tend to be ready to do more without the pay.\n\n\"At this current level of workload it is simply not safe to have GPs working five days per week.\n\n\"The days are non-stop and we need constant mental alertness.\"\n\nThe findings - part of an annual report into the entire medical workforce - come after the government promised to recruit extra GPs, as part of their election campaign.\n\nIt has set a target to recruit 6,000 extra by 2025 in England.\n\nBut GMC chief executive Charlie Massey said while more GPs were coming through training, it was not enough to keep up with demand.\n\n\"The clinical work of GPs is changing,\" he said.\n\n\"They're seeing more patients, many with complex needs and some who have high expectations of what primary care can do for them.\n\n\"To break this cycle of workforce shortages we need a clear plan, in all four countries of the UK, for a sustainable increase in the number of GPs.\"\n\nIn 2015, the government in England set a target of increasing the number of full-time equivalents by 5,000 by 2020.\n\nBut latest figures show the numbers have hardly changed.\n\nThe survey, of nearly 3,900 doctors - more than 1,000 of whom were GPs - suggests GPs are the most likely to work part-time as well as the most likely to report dissatisfaction with their working lives.\n\nRising workloads and patient expectations were cited as key reasons, with one in 10 having to take time off work because of stress.\n\nNine in 10 also reported working extra hours beyond what they were contracted to work.\n\nProf Martin Marshall of the Royal College of GPs said the profession should not be criticised for this.\n\n\"Working 'full-time' in general practice is simply not doable for many,\" he said.\n\nBut even when doctors reduced their hours, they may still be contributing to patient care in others through education, research or leadership roles.\n\nThe government in England has promised to further increase the number of GPs being trained, do more to improve retention and recruit from abroad.", "Lynch as he appeared in 2015 BBC show VE Day: Remembering Victory\n\nTributes have been paid to Kenny Lynch, the British singer and entertainer, who has died at the age of 81.\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker remembered him as \"a delightful, funny, talented man\", while Boy George said he had been a \"huge part of my 70s life\".\n\nLynch had two Top 10 hits in the 1960s, toured with the Beatles, wrote songs for the Small Faces and appeared on Celebrity Squares and other TV shows.\n\nAccording to his family, Lynch died in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nHis songs Up on the Roof and You Can Never Stop Me Loving You reached number 10 in 1962 and 1963 respectively.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in east London in 1938, Lynch was one of the few black British pop singers to find fame in the early 1960s.\n\nLynch was the first artist to cover a Beatles song when he released a version of Lennon and McCartney composition Misery in 1963.\n\nA decade later, he was one of the celebrities to appear with Paul and Linda McCartney on the sleeve of the Wings album Band on the Run.\n\nLynch performed alongside the Beatles on their first British tour\n\nLynch, whose film work included appearances in The Plank and Carry On Loving, was awarded an OBE in 1970 for services to entertainment.\n\nBroadcaster Danny Baker described him on Twitter as \"one of the key witnesses to the 20th [Century] UK music [and] entertainment scene\".\n\n\"Everything is funny to me, everything's musical to me, everything is readable to me,\" said Lynch, who had previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\n\"That's how I go through life and how I shall go for the next few weeks I've got left,\" he said in a recent interview for the 1000 Londoners project.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Cerys Price, 28, said she could not account for high levels of tramadol in her blood after the fatal car crash\n\nA nurse who crashed her car after taking prescription painkillers has been found guilty of death by dangerous driving.\n\nRobert Dean, 65, died after Cerys Price, 28, crashed into his car in July 2016 on the A467 near Newport.\n\nPrice, from Brynmawr, was also found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the passenger in her car, ex-boyfriend Jack Tinklin.\n\nShe will be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 6 February.\n\nRobert Dean died in the crash near Newport\n\nProsecutor Timothy Evans had told the court Price had consumed an amount of tramadol \"significantly higher than any therapeutic range\" and was in a \"drugged-up state\" and \"no way fit to drive a car\".\n\nPrice had said she could not account for high levels of the drug in her blood after the fatal crash.\n\nThe court had heard the medication had not been prescribed but had been purchased by Price while in Mexico.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Helen Howell, Mr Dean's daughter, said they had lost him to an \"act of recklessness\".\n\n\"The way in which a loving husband, father and grandfather was taken from us was so unfair, and the impact on our family has been devastating,\" she said.\n\n\"The hurt will never go away, and again we eat our Christmas lunch with an empty chair at the table.\n\n\"Justice has been a long time coming, and we finally feel now that we can attempt to draw a line under it without being constantly reminded of how he died.\"\n\nHelen Howell (left) and Katherine Harris said their father had been driving to a family celebration\n\nHer sister Katherine Harris added: \"The catastrophic effects of opioid abuse, tramadol in this case, was the reason our dad innocently died that day.\n\n\"He was on his way to a family gathering, to celebrate my daughter - his granddaughter's - birthday.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility as drivers to ensure the safety of others by adhering to the proper standards expected of us, and Cerys Price fell woefully short.\"\n\nSgt Bob Witherall of Gwent Police said it had been a long and complex investigation, adding: \"We hope this has served as a warning of the tragic consequences of misusing non-prescribed medication and then driving.\"\n\nKelly Huggins, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Being a qualified nurse, Cerys Price should have known the dangers of driving after taking these tablets, but she drove nevertheless.\n\n\"Her actions resulted in tragic consequences for an innocent motorist, her passenger and herself.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Mr Dean's family and friends at this difficult time.\"", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA German shepherd belonging to a YouTube star and his mother is set to be destroyed after it seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has nearly 10 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog after it bit the woman when his mother let it out on 23 July 2018.\n\nA court heard a later assessment found the animal, named Tank, \"didn't come across as a friendly, sociable dog\".\n\nOlatunji was fined and his mother was ordered to pay the victim compensation.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, of Holme, near Peterborough, previously admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nOlatunji, 23, also of Holme, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI, Olatunji posts videos of pranks and gaming and has 2.5 million followers on Instagram.\n\nOlatunji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized in September last year\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told Cambridge Crown Court that Ms Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nThe dog, which was then 13 months old, bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nOlayinka Olatunji was given a community order and ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid work\n\nAfter Tank was seized by police it was assessed by Candy D'Sa, who told the court she did not feel able to take the dog off a lead.\n\nShe said while most dogs accept a muzzle, she found Tank \"was very frightened with the attempts to muzzle him\".\n\nAs well as ordering the destruction of the dog, Judge Farrell ordered Ms Olatunji to pay £8,000 of compensation to the victim.\n\nHe also gave her a 12-month community order and 80 hours unpaid work.\n\nOlatunji was fined £2,500, while both were also ordered to pay kennelling costs and given a restraining order from contacting the victims for four years.\n\nThe Olatunjis have 28 days from Friday to appeal against the decision to destroy the dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of the Alzheimer’s Society says that the UK is facing a humanitarian crisis, because the care system is failing those with dementia and their families.\n\nThe number of us who will provide care at home for a loved one with dementia is set to rise by almost one million by 2035.\n\nHere are the stories of Anne and Julia – who both care full time for their husbands.\n\nAnne’s husband John has been assessed as having no mental capacity and goes to a day centre two days a week.\n\nJulia spent months fighting for social services and occupational therapy help for her husband Bob.\n\nHe is currently being assessed in a home, after he went missing and was found during an extensive police search.", "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair warns about \"irreparable damage\" to the Labour Party if it \"whitewashes\" its historic election defeat.\n\nMr Blair says the party's \"almost comic indecision\" on Brexit left voters \"without guidance and leadership\".", "Four of Stormont's main parties have criticised Julian Smith after refusing to meet with them\n\nStormont parties have criticised the secretary of state for not meeting them on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming healthcare strike.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP all hit out at the decision. The NIO said health is a devolved matter.\n\nAbout 9,000 nurses are to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday from 08:00 GMT.\n\nThe five main Stormont party leaders have sent a letter to Julian Smith, which they said \"provides cover\" for him to intervene.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said the strikes pose a \"major challenge\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nRepresentatives from the five parties met with with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, David Sterling, and Department of Health Permanent Secretary Richard Pengelly on Tuesday afternoon in a last-minute effort to avert the strike action.\n\nThe parties had hoped they could then meet with Mr Smith, but the Northern Ireland Office said health remained a devolved matter.\n\nSDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon said she is \"angry\" Mr Smith did not meet the parties.\n\n\"On the eve of significant strike action in our health service by healthcare workers who have been left with no other choice, it is unacceptable that the secretary of state chose not to engage with parties this evening.\n\n\"What message does that send to healthcare staff?\" she asked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the decision not to meet was \"regrettable\".\n\n\"The pay and staffing issue must not be used as a political football within the talks,\" she said.\n\n\"Party leaders restated there is consensus if the Executive is restored by 13 January that we will adopt a policy to award pay parity.\"\n\nThe letter to Julian Smith, signed by Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Steve Aiken, said there was \"collective support for the restoration of pay parity\".\n\n\"In our view this statement, making clear that any health and finance ministers in any future Northern Ireland Executive formed before 13 January 2020 would restore pay parity, provides cover for you as secretary of state to intervene to ensure that pay parity is restored independently of the ongoing talks to restore the Executive,\" the letter said.\n\nSteve Aiken, leader of the UUP, said: \"Here we had today an opportunity for both politicians here and for the secretary of state to do what was right.\"\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said: \"It is disappointing that on such an important issue, one that effects people in Northern Ireland directly and could have serious consequences tomorrow, he wasn't willing to actually come into the room and have the conversation with us this evening.\"\n\nNurses and other healthcare workers have been taking industrial action for several weeks amid complaints of poor pay and staffing levels.\n\nParamedics are set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said \"major challenges are expected across all health and social care services in Northern Ireland tomorrow\".\n\nThe HSCB announced that the South Tyrone Hospital Minor Injury Unit (MIU), Mid Ulster MIU, Bangor MIU and Ards MIU will all be closed on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted about their Trust then they should attend their appointment/ service as normal.\n\nAll emergency departments remain open, but \"significant pressure\" was expected within the departments.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first. Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in NI is within 13%, compared with about 11% in England and about 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nLast year, the local health service spent £52m on agency nurses to fill these gaps in the workforce.\n\nThat money, the RCN argues, could be better managed to train and pay health service nurses.\n\nThese are exceptional times which require an exceptional intervention.\n\nThe RCN says no time is a good time to strike but years of negotiations between various health ministers failed and years of warnings were ignored.\n\nKevin McAdam from the Unite union said the trade unions were \"working hard\" to ensure there was necessary staff cover.\n\n\"All of the local reps (of the trade unions) have been given authority to ensure that where critical care is required it is delivered,\" he added.\n\nTrade unions have said they are working to ensure there is necessary staff cover\n\nAnne Speed from Unison said joint meetings were taking place with employers on Tuesday and that it had provided an exemption from striking for staff working in \"cancer treatment and children's homes\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it was working with management to ensure there is enough staff cover in \"critical departments\".\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.", "One of the posts featured singer Lily Allen\n\nFour vaping companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT), have had Instagram posts promoting e-cigarettes banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nThe posts showed models and celebrities such as Lily Allen holding electronic cigarettes.\n\nThe advertising of these products is banned on social media.\n\nOne of the groups that had complained said the ruling was \"a huge step forward\".\n\n\"While the ASA ruling is great news, urgent policy change is needed from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to prevent BAT and other tobacco companies from using social media to advertise their harmful products to young people around the world,\" the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said in a statement.\n\nThe company behind this post - Global Vaping Group - said it could not verify the model's age\n\nThe four vaping companies under scrutiny were:\n\nThe complaint was backed by UK anti-smoking groups Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) and Stopping Tobacco Organisations and Products (Stop).\n\nThe companies were accused of promoting nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and featuring models who appeared to be under 25, which is banned under the advertising code.\n\nIn its response, British American Tobacco said its online communications \"aimed to impart factual information regarding products but stopped short of direct or indirect promotion\".\n\nThe Vype Instagram account in question did not allow under-18s and clearly stated its Vype e-cigarettes contained nicotine, it said.\n\nAnd it \"used these platforms to interact with users when they ask questions or request information and to communicate factual information about Vype that adults vapers and smokers\" wanted.\n\nThe company behind this post - Ama Vape - said it had removed it following the complaint\n\nBut Ash chief executive Deborah Arnott said: \"The law has always been clear that any advertising of e-cigarettes online is not permitted.\n\n\"BAT's defence that all they were doing was providing 'information' on social media not promoting their products has been blown out of the water.\n\n\"The ASA ruling leaves no doubt that BAT's social media tactics for Vype were both irresponsible and unlawful and must never be repeated.\"\n\nThe ASA ruled the posts must not appear again in their current form.\n\nIt told all four companies posts promoting nicotine-containing e-cigarettes \"should not be made from Instagram in future\" unless steps were taken to make sure they could not be viewed by under-18s and the people featured must be 25 or older.\n\nGlobal Vaping Group accepted its post had been \"beyond purely being factual\" and admitted it was unable to verify the age of a woman shown vaping.\n\nAttitude Vapes did not respond to the ASA's inquiries and was told it must do so \"in future\".\n\nAma Vape said it had removed its post and reviewed its other social-media content.\n\nA spokesman for Instagram said the platform was also updating its rules to state that it will no longer allowing paid promotions of vapes or tobacco products on the app.\n\n\"Earlier this year we updated our policy to restrict organic content that depicts the sale or purchase of tobacco products to over 18s,\" parent company Facebook added in a statement.\n\n\"We are currently updating our branded content policies to no longer allow paid promotions of these products too.\"", "Neil Shipperley's lawyer said that \"everything came to a crescendo on the day in question\"\n\nA former Premier League striker who masturbated in front of a mother and her 16-year-old daughter has been given a 12-month community order.\n\nEx-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley, 45, exposed his genitals from inside his van, in Hillingdon, west London, on 17 September.\n\nThe mother said she was \"disgusted\" by the sight.\n\nShipperley must complete 20-days of rehabilitation as part of the order given at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nProsecutor Shaan Sethi told the court Shipperley had driven his van up to the victims, winding down his window and stopping the vehicle.\n\nMr Sethi said the pair had turned to thank Shipperley for letting them cross the road but \"they then noticed he was holding his penis in his hand and staring directly at them\".\n\nThey walked away from the vehicle, but Shipperley, from West Drayton, west London, followed in his van.\n\nShipperley (right) was a professional footballer for 15 years\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the mother said: \"Some people may see flashers as pests or a nuisance to society. My view of Neil Shipperley is as a predator. His aim was to intimidate us, to violate us, to shock us and to scare us.\"\n\nShipperley, who admitted intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would be caused alarm or distress, had \"expressed anguish, embarrassment, shame, but above all remorse,\" the court heard.\n\nHe is said to have sought counselling for personal issues, including the death of his father, gambling problems and debts.\n\nMitigating for Shipperley, Sarah O'Kane said: \"Everything came to a crescendo on the day in question. This was, he thinks on reflection, a cry for help.\"\n\nShipperley, who played for among others Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon, Chelsea and Southampton during his 15-year career, must also complete 120 hours' unpaid work and pay a £90 victim surcharge, £85 in costs and £200 in compensation.\n\nHe is subject to a five-year sexual offences notification requirement order and must report to Hayes police station within three days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump is the third president in US history to be impeached by Congress.\n\nIn a vote that went along party lines, the House voted in favour of two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\n\nAbuse of power was passed with 230 in favour, 197 against.\n\nAround a quarter of an hour later, obstruction of Congress was approved - 229 in favour, 198 against.\n\nBefore casting her vote, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi called this a \"solemn\" moment and called for lawmakers to vote according to their conscience.\n\nBut as applause broke out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Democrats not be celebratory.\n\nThe votes came after nearly 12 hours of rancorous debate and weeks of deliberation in committees.\n\nTrump delayed his rally in Michigan by nearly an hour, and appears to have timed his appearance to coincide with the historic vote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Labour MP Emma Dent Coad: Why I kept my cancer quiet\n\nA former Labour MP who lost her seat at last week's general election has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer just a month before polling day.\n\nEmma Dent Coad told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she chose not to disclose the diagnosis as she did not want it to become an issue in the campaign.\n\nMs Dent Coad lost Kensington to the Conservatives by 150 votes.\n\nShe said she has undergone surgery and described her treatment at Charing Cross Hospital as \"amazing\".\n\nThe 65-year-old was diagnosed on 14 November following routine screening and underwent a procedure to remove the cancer just three days before the election on 12 December.\n\nShe told Victoria Derbyshire: \"I was very lucky, it was picked up very early after a screening. It was pre-lump stage. I always knew it was a possibility.\n\n\"I have four sisters, two of them have been through it and survived. I was hoping I had got away with it.\n\n\"I'm OK, actually, because I'm going through the process and I feel quite positive about it. But it was a horrible shock at a really terrible time.\"\n\nShe added that doctors at Charing Cross were \"amazing\" and she is being supported by family but the timing meant juggling her work in the campaign.\n\n\"It was really hard especially because of the campaign having to deal with that at the same time,\" she said.\n\nMs Dent Coad said she chose not to reveal the diagnosis partly because she was focused on dealing with the news herself and \"partly because I did not want it to be a factor at all either positively or negative in my campaign\".\n\nHow the Kensington vote broke down:\n\nShe added that her experience of social media had been \"brutal and nasty\" and her campaign began in an unpleasant way after accusations were made that, as a local councillor, she had a role in discussing the flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower.\n\nMs Dent Coad confirmed that she is pursuing legal redress over the comments, which were made by her Liberal Democrat opponent, the former Conservative minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nShe has stated that when she was on the board of the organisation which managed Grenfell, the principle of refurbishing the tower was discussed, but she had left by the time there were any detailed discussions about cladding.\n\n\"I witnessed the [Grenfell Tower] fire and saw people I know die and I was accused of complicity which was untrue,\" she said. \"On so many levels it was a really nasty campaign from day one.\"\n\nIt is an offence to make a false statement about a candidate in a general election campaign but the Lib Dems said in a statement that the party was not currently aware of any police investigation - or the basis for one - regarding Mr Gyimah's campaign.\n\nAsked whether the diagnosis might have made a difference to the result, she said: \"I don't think so. I don't think it would have made a difference. We were facing a barrage of lies and nastiness throughout the campaign which was a disgrace.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is among the highlights of the school year, but how do you perform a Christmas panto with only seven pupils?\n\nThat is exactly the challenge staff face at Wales' smallest school.\n\nYsgol Abersoch in Gwynedd has seven full-time and nursery children, aged three to eight, available to choose from for the performance of Cardiau Nadolig (Christmas Cards in English).\n\nHead teacher Linda Jones said: \"It's one heck of a challenge, but the children are so excited.\"\n\nPeople living in the seaside village of Abersoch, with a population of about 800, are used to doing things on a small scale.\n\nHowever, for the village's schoolchildren, that means a lot more work when it comes to putting on a modern nativity.\n\nScott, eight, is one of only two boys in the school but has a starring role as the postman\n\nThe school has seven full-time pupils and two nursery children, though two children are not taking part in the Christmas show on religious grounds.\n\nIt leaves the Welsh-language school's only full-time member of staff, Mrs Jones, with a juggling act to get a show on the stage.\n\nShe said: \"After 30 years of teaching I've got a collection of Christmas pantos, but most of them are for a lot more children than seven.\n\n\"It's a lot of hard work because they all have to play a couple of roles. So we've had to do a shortened version, with not so many costume changes.\n\n\"We've also got the children to sing a lot of songs so they don't have so many different roles to learn. But they've still got 13 to sing, so they've got a lot to learn.\n\n\"But they have done so well that people are amazed there are only seven of them, they sound so good.\"\n\nHead teacher Linda Jones is desperate this will not be the school's last Christmas show\n\nCardiau Nadolig - which will be performed on Wednesday - is a tale of a postman delivering cards with the message of remembering the reason behind Christmas.\n\nThe lead role is played by the eldest pupil, eight-year-old Scott, who is one of only two boys in the school. The youngest is three-year-old Melissa.\n\nThere has been a village school in Abersoch since 1924.\n\nHowever, behind the scenes, there is a genuine fear this could be the school's last Christmas show.\n\nGwynedd Council is considering closing the school, given it is well under its capacity of 34.\n\nThe council's cabinet member for education, Cemlyn Rees Williams, said the authority had \"a duty\" to consider the situation, with projections predicting the low numbers are unlikely to rise over the coming years.\n\nThere has been a village school in Abersoch since 1924\n\nHowever, Mrs Jones - herself a former pupil - said the school plays a vital role in the rural community.\n\n\"It's not just a school, it's right at the heart of the community.\n\n\"For those of us staff and parents who are ex-pupils, it's very emotional.\n\n\"Fingers crossed this is not the last Christmas show. If it is, we'll make sure we go out with a bang.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fallon Sherrock says female darts players need \"more opportunities\" after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old booked her place in the second round with a 3-2 victory over Ted Evetts on Tuesday.\n\nSherrock was one of only two women to qualify for the 96-player event.\n\n\"I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"The women's game has come on leaps and bounds and it was time we beat a man.\"\n\nHer historic victory came two years after she was subjected to online abuse about her physical appearance during the 2017 BDO World Championships, when she had a reaction to treatment she was receiving for a kidney problem, and Sherrock says those comments \"inspired me to get better and prove everyone wrong\".\n\n\"I cannot repeat those comments but they were harsh, basically calling me a 'big-faced person',\" she told the Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\n\"There are more women that can play to my level, if not better - we just need more opportunities. There are only two women that can qualify but maybe raising it to four would help.\"\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered on by a partisan crowd as she came from behind to make history at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock thanked the crowd for their \"amazing\" support, saying it helped \"me relax and boosted my confidence\".\n\n\"It is all just sinking in a little bit now,\" she said. \"Realisation is hitting me but I'm still speechless and over the moon.\"\n\nSherrock comes from a family of darts players - her father and her twin sister Felicia still play the game - and first picked up a dart at 17.\n\n\"I love the darts,\" she added. \"The sport has come on - we do not just play in pubs any more and there are massive international competitions.\"\n\nSherrock became ill after the birth of her son Rory in 2014 and has suffered from kidney problems since, with the treatment she was receiving in 2017 causing her face to swell and totally altering her appearance.\n\nWhy is her victory so significant?\n\nSherrock is only the fifth woman to play at the PDC World Championship.\n\nCanadian Gayl King was the first in 2000, followed by Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia in 2009.\n\nLast year's championship was the first at which two women were guaranteed entry and Dobromyslova was joined by England's Lisa Ashton, both women losing in the first round.\n\nFemale players can reach the main draw as winners of the UK and Rest of the World qualifying events for women.\n\nJapan's Mikuru Suzuki, winner of the Rest of the World qualifier, took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday, and Sherrock says Suzuki's defeat \"made her determined\".\n\n\"She came so close,\" Sherrock, who won the UK qualifying event, told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was screaming at the TV, egging her on, and I was gutted she didn't get over the line.\"\n\nSherrock says she has often faced sexist abuse online but her victory over Evetts has \"just proved them wrong\".\n\n\"In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men,\" she added.\n\n\"I do not see myself at a physical disadvantage, we just do not get the opportunity to play against these men which is why you do not see it more often.\n\n\"I practise about three to four hours a day and I will play one night a week, or at the weekend in a competition.\n\n\"As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.\"\n\nIs enough being done to promote the women's game?\n\nThe 25-year-old says promotion and more air time for the women's game will help bridge the gap and encourage more women to take up darts.\n\n\"We do play against the men but it's not televised,\" she said. \"If there was more on TV, it would be so much better.\n\n\"I hope [the victory over Evetts] inspires a lot of girls to take the sport up. It's competitive and fun and I would recommend anyone to try it.\"\n\nSherrock will face 47-year-old Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round, a tie she has been targeting since the \"draw came out\", but she does not want her tournament to end there.\n\n\"Mensur is one of the best in the world so I'm very excited to play him,\" she said.\n\n\"When the draw came out I was so determined to win my first round because I really wanted to play him.\n\n\"If I can just keep up with the [male players] and hit the doubles, who is to say I cannot win the championship?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's Speech: Brexit, the NHS and what happened next\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his programme for government is the \"most radical Queen's Speech in a generation\".\n\nThe prime minister said planned new laws to toughen up criminal justice and increase NHS spending would deliver on the \"people's priorities\".\n\nBut his main priority is the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said many of the PM's promises mimicked the \"language of Labour policy but without the substance\".\n\n\"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even when it's a very pale imitation, but I fear those swayed by the prime minister's promises will be sorely disappointed,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the PM of \"denying [Scotland] the right to choose our own future\" referring to the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"Why did democracy stop in the prime minister's world with the independence referendum in 2014?\" he asked.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he felt a \"colossal sense of obligation\" to the voters.\n\nHe told MPs that \"a new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach\" adding that the government would \"work flat out to deliver it\".\n\nAddressing Parliament for the second time in less than three months, the Queen said the priority for her government was to deliver Brexit on 31 January, but ministers also had an \"ambitious programme of domestic reform that delivers on the people's priorities\".\n\nOf the more than 30 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, seven were on Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as the government says it will close its Department for Exiting the European Union on 31 January.\n\nThe seven bills announced that were devoted to Brexit cover legislation on trade, agriculture, fisheries, immigration, financial services and private international law.\n\nThe first to be put to Parliament will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that enables the UK to leave the EU - on Friday before the Christmas recess.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn walked to the House of Lords together in silence\n\nFollowing last week's general election, the prime minister has a Commons majority of 80 - the largest enjoyed by a Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.\n\nThe prime minister's increased parliamentary authority and command of his party means it is likely to pass without major changes in the New Year in time to meet the 31 January deadline.\n\nIn another move welcomed by Tory MPs, the bill will also enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nOn the NHS, the government says it will enshrine in law a commitment on the health service's funding, with an extra £33.9bn per year provided by 2023/24.\n\nThe PM's commitment on the NHS amounts to a 3.4% year-on-year increase in expenditure, a significant increase on what the NHS received during the five year Tory-Lib Dem coalition government as well as under his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nBut it is significantly lower than the 6% average annual increases seen under Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And when adjusted for inflation, and factoring in the increased cost of equipment, medicines and staff pay, it could actually be worth £20.5bn by 2023-4.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said: \"If the Conservatives' plans to put funding increases into law is to be anything other than an empty gimmick, we would urge them to pledge the extra £6bn a year which experts say is needed to start to make up the cuts they've imposed for a decade.\"\n\nThere was also a commitment announced for ministers to seek cross-party consensus for long-term reform of the social care system and the government will continue work to reform the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis government wants to try to give the appearance that they are completely new, completely different, even though the Conservatives have been in power for nearly a full decade.\n\nThat is quite a political stunt to try to pull off.\n\nBut it's clear also that Boris Johnson came to the Commons today to present a vision that he hopes can straddle left and right, or what has traditionally been seen as Labour's place in politics and the Conservatives' place in politics.\n\nThat is what the results of the general election gave him as an opportunity.\n\nAnd the challenge for Boris Johnson is not just to hold onto that for five years, but show to people who voted Tory for the first time that the party was worth the risk - that their vote was the right decision.\n\nThe test will be enormous - whether or not all that rhetoric actually matches up to the reality of the actions and decisions that this government will make.\n\nMr Johnson has had a reputation for years of being hungry with ambition to get to this place.\n\nWe're going to find out in the next months and years whether he's hungry to take the decisions that actually will cement his place in history.\n\nPlans for longer sentences for violent criminals, were also unveiled, as well as the establishment of a Royal Commission to improve the \"efficiency and effectiveness\" of the criminal justice process and there are bills that will ensure the most serious violent offenders serve longer prison terms.\n\nAnd those charged with knife possession will face \"swift justice\".\n\nOther announcements in the Queen's Speech included:\n\nThursday's State Opening of Parliament was the 66th time the Queen has opened Parliament - and has come only weeks after the last one on 14 October.\n\nThere was less pageantry than usual, as was the case the last time a snap election was held in 2017.\n\nThe Queen travelled by car from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, rather than by horse-drawn carriage, and she did not wear ceremonial dress.\n\nGentlemen at Arms prepare for the Queen's arrival in Parliament\n• None Why do prisoners serve only half their sentence?", "The number of cod which can be legally caught by the UK's fishermen will be halved next year.\n\nIt was agreed in the early hours of Wednesday at Brussels talks on fishing quotas for 2020.\n\nPrior to those discussions, representatives of Scottish trawlermen agreed to a 50% reduction in the cod catch in an effort to preserve stocks.\n\nThe UK government said that in order to protect the future of the industry it had to fish sustainably.\n\nScottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) chief executive Elspeth Macdonald said: \"The reduction in the total allowable catch for North Sea cod will have a serious economic impact on the Scottish white fish sector next year, and will present major practical difficulties for the fleet.\n\n\"We welcome the commitment to review and update the stock assessment model for North Sea cod, reflecting the changing distribution of cod in the North Sea, most likely as a result of climate change.\"\n\nRegulation of the fishing industry will be controlled by the UK after Brexit\n\nFisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing, who was at the talks in Brussels, added: \"With Brexit about to happen it has been clear the EU is already prioritising other members over the state about to walk away.\n\n\"That is perhaps unsurprising, but coupled with the challenging scientific advice, it has made this a difficult two days.\"\n\nBritain is preparing to leave the Common Fisheries Policy regime as a result of Brexit.\n\nMike Park of the Scottish White Fish Producers' Association (SWFPA) said the next year would be \"extremely challenging\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: \"It's a stock that's quite prolific in the northern North Sea.\n\n\"There's been significant changes over the whole of the North Sea but essentially next year that will cause the fleet problems which is now our focus to try and resolve that.\n\n\"In the next year, as the UK prepares to leave the Common Fisheries Policy, it is vital that the right scientific work is done to improve our understanding of the current status of the stock to enable better decisions to be taken on fishing opportunities for 2021.\"\n\nSpeaking after the talks concluded, UK fisheries minister George Eustice said: \"This year there has been some very challenging science for cod stocks in many parts of the North East Atlantic and we have responded to conserve stocks.\n\n\"I know that some of the quota reductions will be very difficult for some sectors of the industry and there has been considerable debate this year about the importance of bycatch allowances to support the delivery of the discard ban.\n\n\"However, we also know that to protect the profitability of fisheries in the future, we must fish sustainably today.\"\n\nThe talks have resulted in small increases in the allowable catches for North Sea ling and skate, as well as the relaxation of some proposed control and management measures\n\nLast year, the UK government set out its plans for the future of fishing after Brexit.\n\nIt said devolved nations would have a say in setting annual quotas for third countries, but the environment secretary's decision was final.\n\nIt intends to move to a system of quota management which it believes will guarantee a fairer share of the fish in UK waters for UK registered boats.\n\nThe rules of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy will continue to apply until December 2020.\n\nMr Eustice claimed some of the challenges faced by the UK fishing industry had resulted from EU rules.\n\nHe said: \"Some of the problems have been exacerbated by the fact that the EU's outdated method for sharing quota between member states means that the UK gets a very small share of the cod in our own waters.\"\n\nMarine sustainability group Open Seas said in a statement: \"Devastatingly this decision commits to yet more overfishing in the coming year. Quota for North Sea cod has been set roughly 30% above scientific advice.\"\n\nOpen Seas said the agreements represented \"bad decisions for the health of our sea, bad debts that will be owed by future generations, and fail legal pledges to end overfishing\".\n\nWhat difference will this make to prices on the street?\n\nCod is a traditional fish and chips favourite in England, with battered haddock more popular in Scotland\n\nIndustry sources say it is actually very hard - almost impossible in fact - to tell what impact the quotas will have on prices on the street.\n\nWith takeaway fish and chips for example, cod is more popular in England - whereas haddock is the staple of the fish supper in Scotland.\n\nWith the haddock quota up, in theory it could mean that with more haddock then prices would be a bit lower, and with less cod prices could be a slightly higher.\n\nHowever a lot of the cod that hits fish and chip shops in England comes from frozen at sea suppliers from Norway.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Edwards died following the attack on a Christmas night out\n\n\"We had everything set in place to live a wonderful life together, but it was all taken away in an instant.\"\n\nIt is two years since Christine Edwards' husband Vaughan was attacked on a night out to celebrate Christmas.\n\nHe sustained traumatic head injuries and died in January 2018 after the assault in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\n\nMrs Edwards has backed Dyfed-Powys Police's \"Just Walk Away\" campaign, aimed at cutting alcohol-related violence over the festive period.\n\n\"Christmas will never be the same - nothing ever will,\" said Mrs Edwards, of Llannon.\n\n\"What I've had to go through, with grieving, the court case and taking on the business, has been too much to deal with.\"\n\nShe was with her husband for the family business Christmas party celebrations in their home town when he was assaulted as he headed home from a bar.\n\n\"It was horrendous,\" she said.\n\n\"He went down and he wasn't getting up. I told my daughter Emma 'he's gone' - I just knew it.\"\n\nThere is a \"dark cloud\" over the family at Christmas, says Christine Edwards and her daughter Emma\n\nHe was rushed to the major trauma unit at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and put on a life-support machine, but died on 17 January.\n\nIn June 2018, 37-year-old David Wayne Jenkins was jailed for five years and three months for manslaughter.\n\n\"Every Christmas there will be a dark cloud over us. My children have lost a father, our grandson - who Vaughan absolutely doted on - has been affected, and I've been left alone at the age of 57.\n\n\"It's not right and life shouldn't have been this way.\"\n\nVaughan Edwards was killed while on a night out over Christmas\n\nEvery year since 2015, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had recorded an average of 87 serious alcohol-related assaults over the three-week period into the new year.\n\nThroughout December it hits about 120 attacks, where alcohol is an aggravating factor.\n\n\"It's undeniable that the number of violent incidents has a huge impact on police resources,\" said temporary Det Ch Insp Phil Rowe.\n\n\"But more importantly, each of these assaults affects people's lives.\"\n\nVaughan Edwards died in hospital after being on a life support machine\n\nHe said people needed to think before they act on a night out.\n\n\"Could you live with going to prison, spending Christmas in custody and the emotional weight of knowing your actions seriously injured or even killed someone?\" he said.\n\n\"If you get into a confrontational situation on a night out, please be the bigger person and just walk away.\"", "Neville Herron estimates he has paid an extra £32,000\n\nMortgage borrowers \"unfairly trapped\" on high interest rates when their lenders were nationalised are launching legal action against the companies they say are responsible.\n\nSome 150,000 homeowners are said to have been overcharged for years, unable to switch to a cheaper deal after their mortgages were transferred.\n\nOne man who says he paid an extra £32,000 said it was a \"disgrace\".\n\nThe Treasury said it was working to \"remove barriers\" to cheaper deals.\n\nThe group legal action, brought by the UK Mortgage Prisoner Action Group, is now looking to claim repayment of the extra interest.\n\nMany of those affected - usually having taken out mortgages in the late 2000s with Northern Rock or Bradford & Bingley - have been paying more than 5% interest on their mortgages for the past 12 years.\n\nIn some cases, this amounts to more than double the cost of the best rates available on the market.\n\nNorthern Rock was nationalised during the financial crisis\n\nNeville Herron took out a Northern Rock loan in 2003 to pay for his bungalow in Lancashire.\n\nAfter the bank was taken into public ownership following the financial crash, his mortgage was transferred to Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM), owned by UK Asset Resolution.\n\nBut when his existing mortgage deal came to an end, he was not offered a new fixed-rate mortgage - and so had to pay standard variable interest rates.\n\nHe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the extra cost amounted to \"well over\" £32,000.\n\n\"It's placed a great strain on our marriage,\" he said. \"We didn't have a holiday for five or six years.\"\n\nMr Herron said the mortgage repayments for the home had put strain on his marriage\n\nBut because it looked like his loan was in negative equity, he failed the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority's, strict affordability criteria - and was unable to do so.\n\n\"We were on something like six or 7% interest, which was a lot more than other people were on,\" he said.\n\n\"I was having to do two jobs, getting home late at night, working really hard.\"\n\nMr Herron's mortgage was later sold by NRAM to Whistletree, owned by TSB Bank, which did offer him a new deal - but Mr Herron said it had saved him only £40 a month.\n\nTSB said it was \"fully committed\" to supporting Whistletree customers. A spokesman said: \"Since purchasing the portfolio from UKAR, we have developed the capability for customers to switch to a new product and we are constantly looking for other ways to improve this service.\"\n\nThe action group legal action is being taken against numerous companies.\n\nDamon Parker, from law firm Harcus Parker, which is bringing the legal action on behalf of the UK Mortgage Prisoner Action Group, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme mortgage companies had a \"duty\" to offer customers a \"fair rate\".\n\n\"And we say that our clients have been unfairly treated because they're paying too much... at a time when every other mortgage customer is paying unprecedented low rates.\"\n\n\"It's not fair to charge people just because they're collateral damage caught up in a nationalisation.\n\n\"Some people have got into terrible financial situations. Some people have been repossessed.\"\n\nIn March, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed loosening its affordability checks for those affected, saying it would \"make it easier for customers to get a more affordable mortgage\".\n\nBut banks and building societies would still need to agree to take on these customers.\n\nThe Treasury said in a statement it had \"worked with the Financial Conduct Authority to introduce new rules that remove barriers preventing some customers from accessing cheaper deals and continue to work on this matter\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has stood down from the show after being charged with assault by beating.\n\n\"I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six,\" she said, describing ITV2's Love Island as \"the best show on telly\".\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, London, last week, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear before magistrates on Monday.\n\n\"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life,\" she said in her Instagram story on Tuesday.\n\n\"While matters were not as have been reported, I am committed to working with the authorities and I can't comment further on these matters until the legal process is over.\"\n\nThe star, who was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January - added: \"However, Love Island has been my world for the last five years, it's the best show on telly.\n\n\"In order not to detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six. I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town.\"\n\nFlack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"ITV has a long-standing relationship with Caroline and we understand and accept her decision.\n\n\"We will remain in contact with her over the coming months about future series of Love Island.\"\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nOn Monday, Burton wrote on Instagram that his girlfriend had been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since being charged, describing her as \"the most lovely girl\".\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt, this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nThe TV star mentioned him personally online, writing: \"My boyfriend Lewis... I love you.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "When scrolling through Instagram, you've probably seen celebrities advertising loads of products like make-up and weight loss drinks.\n\nBut do the influencers try the product and check the ingredients they're promoting to their followers?\n\nNot always, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nThree big name Instagram influencers - Lauren Goodger, Mike Hassini and Zara Holland - have been caught auditioning to promote a poisonous cyanide drink.\n\nThe reality TV stars were secretly filmed being asked to promote a fake diet drink in the BBC Three series Blindboy Undestroys the World, despite it not being ready for production.\n\nThe made-up drink - called Cyanora - included the ingredient hydrogen cyanide, which is a chemical that can kill you.\n\nThe toxic substance was used during the second world war by Nazi Germany in gas chambers.\n\nMike Hassini appeared on The Only Way Is Essex\n\nLauren, Mike and Zara - who collectively have more than 1.3m Instagram followers - were informed the product wasn't being launched for a few months.\n\nThey were told they would not be able to drink it until it was.\n\nZara's agent did point out she couldn't do that without trying it first.\n\nWe see them film video clips promoting the drink, mentioning the ingredient \"hydrogen cyanide\".\n\nThe undercover filming was part of an investigation by the show into whether celebrities actually use the products they're paid to promote on social media.\n\nAccording to the advertising watchdog, the brand and the celebrity promoting a product are \"responsible for the claims that are made in the advert\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"The issue of whether a celebrity who is promoting a product has actually tried/used it themselves is not something we've had cause to investigate.\"\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland said she would never \"deliberately mislead\" her followers.\n\nIn response to the investigation, she said: \"My agent did state that I would not promote a product without trying it first, and we needed to be provided with more details.\n\n\"I would never deliberately mislead my followers or promote a product that was dangerous.\"\n\nLauren Goodger's former agent replied: \"Our client would not endorse the promotion of products that contained harmful or suspect ingredients, or without knowing the contents.\n\n\"Our client was told the product was in production.\"\n\nThe ex-TOWIE star is also seen talking about a product she promoted called Skinny Coffee - which she previously said helped her lose two stone.\n\nDuring filming, she says: \"I've not tried skinny coffee.\"\n\nThe ASA has previously ruled that Lauren Goodger was involved in making misleading claims for other weight loss products.\n\nA statement by Lauren - posted on her talent agency's Instagram story - says she agreed to promote the drink without trying it \"in the heat of the moment\".\n\nIt read: \"This script was given to me at that precise moment. No deals were signed and it was an audition. They asked me would I promote the drink without using it.\n\n\"In the heat of the moment I said yes and also said I hadn't tried Skinny Coffee in the hope of getting the job.\n\n\"Of course I would never promote anything that contains poison and proper checks would have been made before any promotion.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Lauren's been in trouble about a product she's promoted\n\nShe also denied saying she'd lost two stone through the coffee.\n\nLauren's fellow Towie star Mike Hassini has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nIn a statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, the ASA said: \"Our primary concern is whether the claims a celebrity (or anyone else) makes about a product in an ad, which can include social media posts, are not misleading and are socially responsible.\n\n\"When considering claims around weight loss products, our investigations tend to focus on whether the advertiser is making any unauthorised health claims or promoting unsafe dietary practices.\n\n\"If a celebrity claimed that using a dietary product had helped them lose weight when, in fact, they had never used the product that could potentially be a problem under our rules. Though we'd have to carefully assess the context in which the claims appeared.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys has been named as the highest earning YouTuber, for the second year in a row.\n\nRyan, of Ryan's World, earned $26m (£20m) in 2019, up from $22m in 2018, according to an annual top-10 ranking by Forbes, based on estimated earnings between June 2018 and June 2019.\n\nYouTube accounts Dude Perfect and Nastya came in second and third, with $20m and $18m respectively.\n\nAnd between them, the 10 highest paid YouTubers of 2019 earned $162m.\n\nDude Perfect features five friends in their 30s playing with toys such as Nerf guns and attempting various trick shots.\n\nThe Nastya channel features Anastasia Radzinskaya, who was born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy.\n\nAnd Jeffree Star's account has dozens of videos of him giving makeup tutorials.\n\nRyan - who lives with his mother, father and twin sisters in Texas - usually releases a new video for his 22.9 million subscribers each day.\n\nThey frequently receive millions of hits - and a couple have more than a billion.\n\nLast November, he told NBC people liked his videos because he was \"entertaining and funny\".\n\nRyan's most popular video, which has 1.9 billion views, is a five minute 56 second clip of him running around on an inflatable in his garden, retrieving plastic eggs with toys inside.\n\nThe youngster, whose estimated earnings doubled from 2017 to 2018, has rebranded his account from Ryan ToysReview to Ryan's World since last year's ranking.\n\nBut Ryan is something of an outlier, according to Chris Stokel-Walker, an internet culture writer and author of the book YouTubers.\n\n\"The vast majority of people who start a YouTube channel, or engage in any career as an influencer, won't make it,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"96.5% of YouTubers don't make enough from advertising revenue alone to break the US poverty line - and with the number of creators on the platform constantly increasing, the competition is only getting tougher.\"\n\nYouTube videos with children in them receive three times more views on average than other types of videos from high-subscriber channels, according a study from US think tank the Pew Research Centre.\n• None $162mis the total sum made by the highest paid creators in 2019.\n• None on 2018's figure, when the combined amount was$180m.\n\nMinecraft and Fortnite player Dan TDM (Daniel Middleton) is the only Briton to make the list. He dropped from fourth to ninth as his earnings fell $6.5m year-on-year.\n\nPewDiePie jumped from ninth to seventh despite facing criticism for anti-Semitic and racist videos.\n\nBut Logan Paul, who showed the body of an apparent suicide victim last January, dropped off this year's list, as did his brother Jake, who came second in 2018.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock, the BDO Women's World Championship runner-up in 2015, fell 2-1 behind but rallied to make history.\n\n\"I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,\" she said.\n\nSherrock ended the night in joyful tears after a thrilling victory over 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts, also from England.\n\nShe had secured one of two places for female players in the 96-strong field. The other qualifier - Japan's Mikuru Suzuki - took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday.\n• None I can use crowd to my advantage - Sherrock\n\nCanadian Gayl King - in 2000 - was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to this year's event.\n\nAfter her victory, Sherrock was serenaded with the chant \"we love you Sherrock, we do\" by fans and was the top trend on social media. She faces Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" she said. \"I don't know what to say. Thank you every one. I feel really happy because I have made something for women's darts.\n\n\"I can't believe it. To do that on the biggest stage, wow. I am so happy that I can continue it rather than go out.\n\n\"This is definitely one of the best moments I've had. I'm just so happy. I've just made history. I can't believe it. I've made a great achievement for women's darts.\"\n\nSherrock, having won a leg with 106 checkout, left herself on 80 for the first set - but did not manage to leave herself a shot at a double with her final dart, allowing Evetts to take a 1-0 lead.\n\nWith the throw, she started the second set with a 13-dart leg, was on a nine-dart finish with six perfect throws but missed the seventh before taking the set with a cool 80 finish.\n\nIn the third set, Sherrock punished Evetts' miss at double eight to break twice, but a missed dart at double eight and three more at double four proved extremely costly, as Evetts took the next two legs to go 2-1 up.\n\nBut she forced a decider and broke Evetts in the final set and held her throw to go 2-0 up, and though Evetts pulled a leg back, Sherrock coolly finished off the contest with double 18.", "Actor Joe Alwyn says his biggest competition this Christmas is... Kermit The Frog.\n\nBoth play Bob Cratchit in versions of A Christmas Carol.\n\nJoe's in the latest BBC adaptation from the makers of Peaky Blinders. Kermit, of course, is in the 1992 Muppets classic.\n\n\"I've never actually seen A Muppet Christmas Carol,\" says Joe, despite it being on all Christmas, every Christmas.\n\nSafe to say, the 2019 version is as far from Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear as you can get - a far darker take on the classic Charles Dickens novel.\n\nCharlotte Riley says her favourite Christmas movie is Dudley Moore's Santa Claus and her favourite festive song is Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree\n\nThe plot is the same - The mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Guy Pearce) gets a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley.\n\nThree other ghosts then show him his past, his present and his deathly future.\n\n\"There is a psychological thriller element to it,\" says Charlotte Riley, who plays the Ghost of Christmas Present.\n\n\"You understand a lot more about Scrooge and why he is the way that he is.\n\n\"I think it humanises him and it makes the story of redemption even more satisfying.\"\n\nJoe Alwyn's favourite Christmas movie is Home Alone, with Silent Night as his favourite Christmas song\n\nShe thinks executive producer Steven Knight has \"read between the lines\" of Dickens to put this new twist on the plot.\n\nKnight is the brains behind Taboo and Peaky Blinders, and this version shares the aesthetic of both those shows.\n\n\"It's not the glossy, sanitised, cheery Dickensian world that we might know previously,\" says Joe Alwyn.\n\n\"It looks at Scrooge's pain and that goes into some uncomfortable themes and areas that haven't been explored before.\n\n\"It's totally in the vein of Peaky Blinders.\"\n\nStephen Graham's Christmas classic is It's A Wonderful Life, while he argues Imagine by John Lennon is his favourite Christmas song\n\nOther cast members include Jason Flemyng as the Ghost of Christmas Future, Vinette Robinson as Mary Cratchit and Andy Serkis as the Ghost of Christmas Past.\n\nPlaying the role of Jacob Marley - Scrooge's old business partner - is Stephen Graham, who says Knight has put an \"earthy, working class spin\" on the festive tale.\n\n\"What this version has done is make a good representation of what's happening in society now in certain respects.\n\n\"It bangs a mirror up and says, 'Be careful'. Look at how you treat people and your fellow man.\n\n\"You don't want to go to your grave with all those horrible resentments.\"\n\nA Christmas Carol marks the end of arguably the most high-profile year of Stephen Graham's career so far, with major roles in Line Of Duty, The Virtues and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.\n\n\"It's been alright hasn't it?\" he smiles.\n\n\"I still pinch myself sometimes as I'm still that little kid that just wanted to be an actor when he grew up.\"\n\nHe admits that more people now recognise him, which he puts down to Line Of Duty in which he played series five's protagonist, John Corbett.\n\n\"I never realised how massive that show is. And the momentum of that seemed to carry on to The Virtues.\"\n\nA Christmas Carol begins on BBC One on Sunday 22 December at 21:00.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Lady Hale will be replaced by Lord Reed (left) as Supreme Court president next month\n\nOutgoing Supreme Court President Lady Hale has warned against politicians choosing the UK's top judges in a speech marking her retirement.\n\nShe advised against adopting a US-style approach \"whether in powers or in process of appointment\".\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to review the \"relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts\".\n\nLady Hale recently announced the court's ruling on the prorogation of Parliament wearing a big spider brooch.\n\nShe will officially retire from her post when she turns 75 next month - the mandatory retirement age for judges appointed before 1995.\n\nIt comes as Downing Street said the government's Brexit bill will enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nIn her final speech in the role, Lady Hale said: \"We (Supreme Court justices) do not know one another's political opinions - although occasionally we may have a good guess - and long may that remain so.\n\n\"Judges have not been appointed for party political reasons in this country since at least the Second World War.\n\n\"We do not want to turn into the Supreme Court of the United States - whether in powers or in process of appointment.\"\n\nUK Supreme Court judges are appointed on legal experts' advice, whereas in the US the President can nominate them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Hale reads the Supreme Court ruling on the suspension of Parliament\n\nIn September, the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks was unlawful.\n\nLady Hale delivered that ruling, saying the unanimous decision of the 11 justices meant Parliament had effectively not been prorogued, triggering the resumption of Parliamentary business the following day.\n\nIn response, attorney-general Geoffrey Cox QC told MPs in the Commons there could come a time for \"parliamentary scrutiny\" of senior judicial appointments.\n\nHowever, just days later he said that US-style hearings \"would be a regrettable step for us in our constitutional arrangements.\"\n\nDuring the election, however, the Conservative Party pledged to review the UK's unwritten constitution.\n\nIn its manifesto, it said: \"After Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: the relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts; the functioning of the royal prerogative; the role of the House of Lords; and access to justice for ordinary people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Hale: \"Not everyone thinks I'm such a good thing\"\n\nLady Hale - who was born Brenda Hale, and is widely known as Judge Brenda - became the Supreme Court's first female president when she was appointed in 2017.\n\nSigning off, she joked that you had to feel sorry for the male institutions which had had to adjust.\n\n\"If Judge Brenda has inspired a younger generation to believe in the ideals of justice, fairness and equality, and to think that they might put them into practice, Judge Brenda will retire content\", she said.\n\nLord Reed will replace her in January.\n\nAlso speaking at the ceremony, he praised her for her handling of the prorogation hearing, calling it \"her greatest achievement\", with a ruling which would be \"of lasting importance\".\n\nAnd he suggested that the spider brooch she wore when delivering the verdict had become \"a symbol of swashbuckling womanhood\".\n\nShe is \"an inspiration to women, and especially to women lawyers\", he said, adding that he would miss \"an inspiring pioneer, a distinguished scholar and judge, and a valued friend.\"", "One of the more obvious campaign metaphors saw the PM drive through a wall to denote breaking Parliament's deadlock over Brexit Image caption: One of the more obvious campaign metaphors saw the PM drive through a wall to denote breaking Parliament's deadlock over Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has written the diary for the Christmas edition of the Spectator - the magazine he used to edit.\n\nYou can read the whole thing on the Spectator's website , but here's a particularly interesting section, where the PM references some of the stranger moments of his general election campaign...\n\n\"Perhaps I should mention especially the media team, who had to explain such mysteries as why I chose to shut myself in a giant fridge and what exactly I was thinking when I confiscated a TV reporter’s mobile live on air.\"\n\nHere are the moments the PM is referring to, in case you need reminding:\n\nMr Johnson also extends his thanks to \"the ‘ops’ team\" who \"basically manage your life\".\n\n\"They tell you when to get up, what to wear, where to stand, and they organise brilliantly vivid metaphors for the political points you are trying to make.\n\n\"In the space of 24 hours they had me driving a JCB through a Styrofoam wall to symbolise breaking the parliamentary deadlock; delivering milk on the doorstep, to denote delivery of our domestic agenda; baking an oven-ready pie to show that we have a ready-made withdrawal agreement with the EU; and working in a wonderful Welsh wrapping-paper factory - to show that we could get it ‘wrapped up’ by Christmas (more or less).\n\n\"Some said these metaphors were clunking, but in a general election campaign, clunking is what you need.\"\n\nOne of the PM's final stops on the election campaign trail involved delivering milk \"to denote delivery of our domestic agenda\" Image caption: One of the PM's final stops on the election campaign trail involved delivering milk \"to denote delivery of our domestic agenda\"", "Boris Johnson has been urged to get the UK back on track with tackling the emissions heating the planet.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change, the UK's official climate watchdog, says the government needs to be meeting its own targets to have credibility with other nations.\n\nBut it warns that UK efforts to address the climate crisis have so far fallen short.\n\nThe comments come ahead of a vital global climate conference next November hosted by the prime minister in Glasgow.\n\nA letter from the climate committee's chairman, Conservative peer Lord Deben, says urgent action is needed in five areas:\n\nAn ambitious, well-funded strategy for entirely removing fossil fuels from the UK's building stock - that will mean much better insulation and switching gas boilers for cleaner alternatives.\n\nAn early consultation on phasing out petrol and diesel cars by 2030 - the current date is 2040.\n\nDelivering on the Conservatives' manifesto commitment for 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 - that will mean huge expansion of wind farms offshore.\n\nWorking out how to fund emissions reductions from industry and how to pay for an infrastructure for hydrogen heating and equipment to capture emissions from heavy polluters.\n\nIntroducing a world-leading package through the Agriculture and Environment Bill to cut emissions from farming and pay for the 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of annual tree planting promised in the manifesto.\n\nPhasing out petrol and diesel cars is high on the agenda for the committee\n\nThe Climate Change Committee says that most of all, the prime minister should make it clear that he is putting the government's target for net zero emissions by 2050 at the heart of the UK's economic strategy.\n\nAnd urgent action is also needed on adapting to climate change in the UK itself.\n\nLord Deben said: \"We are worryingly unprepared for the changes ahead. Many departmental plans do not even include a basic assessment of climate risk.\"\n\nHe claimed the government could increase flood defence spending by £4bn and stop people paving over open ground in cities.\n\nMinisters should find ways to stop people over-heating in homes, workplaces and public buildings, and they should also protect the natural environment by increasing tree planting and restoring peatland.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously said he wants the UK to be a world leader in climate change.\n\nMostly when he speaks on the subject he promotes the notion that technology can solve climate problems.\n\nEnvironmentalists celebrate the role of technology too - but warn that lifestyle changes will still be needed.\n\nIn a previous paper, the Climate Change Committee assumed that some people would have to cut down on meat as a contribution to meeting emissions.\n\nTransport academics have also said that Conservative plans for road building - and possibly airport expansion - would both increase emissions.", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières has warned of an unfolding health emergency as refugee camps on the Aegean islands see a spike in new arrivals from war-torn countries.\n\nIt comes as ministers from around the world are meeting for the first ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.\n\nOn the Greek Island of Lesbos, almost 18,000 people are crammed into a camp that was originally built for around 2,000 people.\n\nPregnant women, new mothers and their babies are some of the most vulnerable people in the camp.\n\nOne woman Zainab, who’s eight months pregnant, spoke to our global health correspondent, Tulip Mazumdar.", "Boris Johnson visited the North East the day after his election victory\n\nIt is a phrase that has been repeated many times to me during two decades of reporting politics in the North East - the Tories can't win here.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said it again when he came to County Durham on the eve of the 2019 campaign.\n\nThe Conservatives took seven Labour seats, and had it not been for the Brexit Party complicating the picture, they might have taken more.\n\nThere are now 10 Tory MPs in the region - the most since 1935. This was the North's version of what happened in the south of England during Labour's 1997 win.\n\nCandidates who had never expected to triumph have suddenly found themselves with a new career.\n\nTake Jacob Young, the 26-year-old who turned Labour's supposedly safe Redcar seat blue.\n\nHe has handed in his notice in at the Teesside chemical plant where he works, but will still be working a Christmas Day shift he had been rostered to do.\n\nAnd these 2019 generation Tories do feel different. Many are rooted in their communities, with northern heritage and a local outlook. Yes, there's a lawyer, but also an NHS worker.\n\nThat sense people were voting for candidates who cared about where they lived certainly helped win the apparently unwinnable.\n\nThen there was the context of this election. Tory and Labour candidates told me the prime minister's \"get Brexit done\" mantra was parroted back to them by voter after voter.\n\nThose who wanted out of the European Union were always unlikely to back Labour, but they were also joined by those weary of the debate.\n\nThen there was the Labour leader. Their candidates said if they managed to get past the hostility on Brexit, they hit a brick wall when it came to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn did not go down well on the doorstep\n\nMany of the new Conservative converts came from working class areas. Places loyal to Labour, but even more committed to their country.\n\nThe North East has always been a rich source for army recruitment. There are many families with military connections. For them, Mr Corbyn was just not patriotic enough to lead.\n\nThe charge that he sided too often with the nation's enemies - fair or not - hit home.\n\nAnd appeals to memories of Thatcherism fell flat. Folk memory of the 1980s struggles have faded, and now Tory MPs represent ex-steel towns like Consett and former mining communities like Blyth.\n\nBut was there genuine enthusiasm for Boris Johnson? I am not sure. We never really got to test out the thesis as the PM's three carefully-controlled campaign appearances kept him away from too many members of the public.\n\nSo there is a sense, as the prime minister has acknowledged, that some previously-Labour voters have been prepared to lend him their votes to deliver Brexit and keep Mr Corbyn away from power.\n\nBut perhaps some seeds of victory were sown a little earlier too.\n\nAlthough the June 2017 general election was a huge disappointment for the region's Tories, the previous month's local elections were a triumph.\n\nTheir candidate, Ben Houchen, pulled off the biggest shock becoming the first Tees Valley Mayor - an election Labour expected to win.\n\nHe has proved adept at getting into the local media, but he has also honoured campaign pledges his rivals said were unachievable.\n\nAnd some of those pledges do not feel very traditionally Tory.\n\nMr Houchen bought the local airport to try and arrest its apparent terminal decline under a private sector owner. There are early signs of revival under public ownership.\n\nHe has called for intervention to save the area's steel industry, and demanded contracts for local trains to go to County Durham-based Hitachi.\n\nThese are not the actions of a Conservative prepared to entirely trust the market. But it also means he has looked and sounded like a champion for the area.\n\nIn the same election, the Conservatives defeated Labour to take control of Northumberland Council.\n\nTheir regime may have made fewer headlines than Mayor Houchen, but so far it has exuded an air of quiet competence.\n\nBoth regimes may well have helped detoxify the Conservative brand in the North East. Maybe it's no coincidence then that Blyth Valley in Northumberland, and constituencies in and close to Tees Valley, were prepared to vote Conservative.\n\nIn contrast, many of the Labour councils have had to oversee nine years of cuts in their communities. But instead of pinning the blame on government-imposed austerity, some voters seem to have started asking whether they are getting a good deal out of generations of loyalty to Labour.\n\nSo in this year's local elections, Labour lost control of councils like Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Darlington.\n\nNow the Conservatives may be sensing an opportunity to colonise Labour's heartland. Last week's results have left even more seats teetering on the brink. Small majorities the Conservatives could conquer in 2024.\n\nAnd empires do end. You only have to look over the border into Scotland to see how lost ground for Labour can become a wipe out.\n\nThe prime minister then is already talking about big investment in the north - the warm words of the Northern Powerhouse turned into action.\n\nBut promises must be delivered to make borrowed votes permanent, and any infrastructure investment takes time.\n\nAnd then there is getting Brexit done.\n\nEvery economic study suggests the North East and its export-led economy has the most at stake. The likes of Nissan cannot wait years for trade deals, and they cannot afford delays of a few minutes for parts to clear ports.\n\nA Brexit that costs jobs, and reduces the ability to invest in the North East's public services, could see Labour bounce back.\n\nThe Conservative roots remain shallow in the North East. The PM and his new band of MPs will need to dig in hard and make rhetoric real to make them permanent.", "A hospital has been told to pay compensation to the family of a baby who died because of \"serious failings\".\n\nSix-month-old Harris James was mistakenly treated for pneumonia when he had a heart condition, and multiple opportunities to save him were missed.\n\nThe ombudsman's report ruled there were serious failings at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk, which said it had apologised to the family.\n\nThe trust has been ordered to pay the baby's mother £15,000.\n\nThe report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found mistakes were made in Harris's care and the trust mishandled his mother Mary Gunns' complaint, while also failing to properly investigate the death.\n\nHarris was admitted to the Gorleston hospital on 2 November 2015, after being referred by his GP.\n\nHe had experienced weight loss following gastroenteritis but, after some tests at the hospital, was given an appointment with a dietician four weeks later.\n\nHowever, on 12 November he was taken by ambulance to the trust's A&E department after he vomited and became \"floppy\".\n\nA chest X-ray showed his right lung had changed and part of his left lung had filled with fluid.\n\nStaff suspected he had sepsis and possibly aspiration pneumonia - a type of pneumonia caused by breathing something in, such as vomit, rather than by bacterial infection.\n\nHarris James was \"affectionate and sweet\" according to his family\n\nHarris, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, was transferred to a paediatric ward but his condition got worse.\n\nAn electrocardiogram (ECG) showed several heart abnormalities but Harris was still not referred to a specialist and did not see a consultant until the next day.\n\nSoon after that, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.\n\nThe ombudsman's report concluded the trust had failed to act on the results of the ECG and X-ray, failed to consider Harris's history and symptoms, failed to ask for input from specialist staff and failed to escalate his care when his condition was getting worse.\n\nThe report said had Harris received the appropriate treatment it was \"more likely than not that his death would have been avoided\".\n\nHarris's parents, Mary and Ryan, said: \"Our son was an affectionate and sweet little boy whose sudden death devastated our family.\n\n\"We won't ever be able to forgive James Paget Hospital for its failings, nor will we forget the additional pain caused by its mishandling of our complaint.\"\n\nAnna Hills, chief executive at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said the trust had apologised to his family for its failings, how it communicated with them and for how it handled their complaint.\n\nThe trust's latest Care Quality Commission inspection report, published on Tuesday, saw it rated \"good\" although the safety of services was rated as \"requires improvement\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\nBlack cab rapist John Worboys has been handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more women.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London.\n\nThe four victims came forward after a public outcry caused by a Parole Board ruling that he was safe to be freed.\n\nSentencing Worboys, Mrs Justice McGowan said she did not know when \"if ever you will cease to be a risk\".\n\nIn 2009, Worboys was locked up indefinitely for the public's protection with a minimum term of eight years after being found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.\n\nIn January 2018, the Parole Board said Worboys would be freed after serving 10 years but victims challenged the decision.\n\nThat decision was later overturned by the High Court, leading to a review of the decision where the Parole Board decided Worboys must remain in jail.\n\nAmong the reasons given for refusing Worboys parole were his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and a need to control women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becki Houlston told the BBC that Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC told the Old Bailey that psychiatrist Philip Joseph found Worboys had been \"fantasising\" about attacking women since 1986.\n\nA probation report in August this year found \"he is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence\".\n\nAfter the four women came forward, Worboys, of Enfield, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.\n\nMr Penny said the first victim was targeted in 2000 or early 2001 after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street in Soho.\n\nThe second victim, a university student living in north London, was picked up after a night out with friends at a club on New Oxford Street in 2003.\n\nWorboys' third victim was picked up after a night out on King's Road in 2007 where he told her he had won £40,000 at a casino and offered her champagne.\n\nWorboys would win victims' trust before pouring them a glass of drug-laced alcohol\n\nThe court heard Worboys told the fourth victim he had won the lottery and offered her and her friend miniature bottles of champagne.\n\nMr Penny said: \"She woke up in bed the following morning. The bedclothes had not moved and her hands were crossed over her chest, which was unusual.\n\n\"She was sufficiently unnerved to check herself. There were no visible signs she had been touched.\"\n\nMr Penny told the court: \"The consistent themes throughout, together with the content of what took place, seems to be the profound effect not knowing what happened has had in each of these women throughout their lives, as a result of having been unfortunate enough to get into the defendant's black cab.\"\n\nIf an offender tells lies, does that increase their risk to the public? That's the key issue at the heart of this case.\n\nJohn Worboys lied to psychologists before his parole hearing in 2017, giving a carefully-crafted account that tallied only with the crimes he'd been convicted of.\n\nHe was assessed as safe to be released from prison. But, when more victims came forward Worboys changed his story.\n\nDespite this Dr Jackie Craissati, an experienced clinical forensic psychologist, told the court she believes Worboys poses a low risk of sexual reoffending.\n\nShe says she doesn't expect offenders to give \"truthful and full\" accounts of their behaviour when assessing how dangerous they are.\n\nThe judge clearly did not agree, and many others may baulk at the idea that someone who can't be trusted to tell the truth about their crimes can nevertheless be trusted in the community.\n\nThe black cab used by Worboys in his attacks\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London.\n\nBecki Houlston, who has waived her right to anonymity, said Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth.\n\n\"He was pretty pre-meditated from the get-go, and I was a woman on my own,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"He is highly manipulative and relentless. It becomes easier to just accept a drink to shut him up.\"\n\nIn Ms Houlston's case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\nReacting to the sentencing, the CPS's Tina Dempster said: \"John Worboys is a dangerous predator who still poses a clear threat to women.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vienna State Opera says it has already cut the number of performances for dancers, after their training burden was criticised\n\nChildren at Vienna State Opera's high-profile ballet academy were encouraged to smoke to control their weight, an investigation has found.\n\nA special commission is investigating claims that the academy endangered pupils' wellbeing.\n\nIt claimed that the young dancers had been exposed to harsh routines of training, practising and performing.\n\nCommission head Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf said students were addressed by their first names and clothes sizes.\n\n\"It is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, neglect and negative medical effects,\" the commission's report stated.\n\nIt also said the training burden was poorly controlled and \"endangering their wellbeing\".\n\nIn response, Vienna State Opera said it had already cut the number of students' performances and would study the report before giving a full response.\n\nThe academy, created in 1771, is one of Europe's most prestigious ballet schools. Many of its alumni dance for companies such as London's Royal ballet and New York's American Ballet Theatre.\n\nThe scandal hit the headlines in April when Austrian newspaper Falter published an investigation which alleged that some young dancers were physically hit and scratched, and others mocked for their physiques.\n\nAustria's culture minister Alexander Schallenberg has called for urgent action to resolve the issues.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nHolders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nLeicester City will take on Aston Villa in the other last-four clash, with the ties to be played over two legs in the weeks commencing 6 and 27 January.\n\nManchester United and Leicester will be at home in their first legs.\n\nPep Guardiola's Manchester City have won the tournament in each of the last two seasons and four times in the last six years.\n\nManchester City beat League One Oxford United 3-1 on Wednesday, while Manchester United overcame League Two Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.\n\nLeicester City, who won the competition in 1999-2000, beat Everton 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park.\n\nAston Villa, who reached the semi-finals for the first time since 2012-13, beat a youthful Liverpool 5-0 on Tuesday.\n\nManchester City were beaten 2-1 by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United in the Premier League on 7 December.\n\nThe two sides last met in the competition at the fourth round stage in 2016 with United winning 1-0.\n\nThey last met at this stage in 2010 with United winning 4-3 on aggregate.", "Whirlpool have decided to recall machines after identifying a safety issue with some Hotpoint and Indesit machines made since 2014.\n\nBoss Jeff Noel said they understand how important washing machines are to family life, especially at Christmas, and apologise to customers, but say safety comes first.", "Nurses are on picket lines across Northern Ireland\n\nStrike action by 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland over pay and staffing has ended.\n\nIn total, more than 20,000 people who work in the health service in Northern Ireland were involved in Wednesday's action.\n\nNine thousand Royal College of Nursing nurses ended their 12-hour strike at 20:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNurses in the Unison union remained on strike until midnight, along with the majority of NIPSA members.\n\nMembers of the Unite union are on strike until 06:00 on Thursday, while NIPSA ambulance workers are due to end their action at 07:00 GMT.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board said 4,749 hospital appointments were cancelled on Wednesday.\n\nPaul Cummings, deputy chief executive of the Health and Social Care Board, said two-hourly calls were being made to each of the health trusts to assess the situation.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra, he said so far there had been \"no reported issues of patient safety\".\n\n\"Every aspect of health and social care has been affected,\" he said.\n\n\"Pressure is continuing to grow on our emergency departments, but so far our preparations [for the strike] have paid dividends.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is unprecedented for us'\n\nSpeaking at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, RCN member Nuala Murray told BBC News NI: \"This was incredibly difficult. I've been nursing for 37 years.\n\n\"This is so unprecedented for us to have to strike but nurses are so fed up, they've just had enough.\n\n\"Their patients aren't safe and they need to do something.\"\n\nMany appointments and treatments have been cancelled because of the strike, and a number of minor injury units are closed.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board said all emergency departments would remain open as normal, but would be under significant pressure.\n\nSean Smyth, whose daughter died in June, joined the picket line at Belfast City Hospital.\n\n\"I'm here to show solidarity with the fantastic health workers we have,\" he said.\n\n\"The care and support Eimear got was equally matched by the support they showed me and my family and we'll never be able to thank them.\n\nSean Smyth said he was frustrated at the state of the health service in Northern Ireland\n\n\"Eimear was first treated in England. We have first hand experience of the nursing staff in St James's in Leeds.\n\n\"The nurses nurse in England. Here in Belfast we have seen the nurses nurse, clean, cook, do every task there is possible. And the work they do is unbelievable.\n\n\"I've witnessed what their colleagues get in England. The pay get and the conditions they work in, the staffing levels compared to ours. It is chalk and cheese, we are the poor country cousin to England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Where Eimear died, it was something from the 1980s - a horrible grey room. It's a horrible environment, the facilities are poor.\n\n\"Our hospitals need major investment, our staff need major support from our politicians.\"\n\nMairead Meenan, a staff nurse at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said the \"fair pay\" issue had brought her to the picket line.\n\n\"Everybody wants equal pay and equal rights,\" she said, adding that nurses in Northern Ireland felt \"undervalued\" compared to their counterparts doing the same jobs in Great Britain.\n\nShe called on politicians to \"start talking\" and sort the dispute out.\n\n\"You get paid loads and loads of money and you would not last 10 minutes in our job,\" said Ms Meenan.\n\nOne woman, whose appointment at Altnagelvin went ahead as scheduled on Wednesday morning, came out to support nurses and health workers on the picket line.\n\nShe has had two operations at the hospital since May.\n\n\"I was extremely well looked after and am very appreciative of all the care I've had,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I'm also totally disgusted with Stormont and its lack of getting on with sorting out Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This wouldn't have happened if they [politicians] had thought about it properly and fought for our good health service.\"\n\nOn so many measures, Northern Ireland lags behind the other UK nations when it comes to NHS performance.\n\nNot only does it has the highest vacancy rates, it also has the worst record in terms of meeting waiting time targets for cancer, A&E and routine operations.\n\nThe best indication of this is the figures for the proportion of patients seen in four hours in A&E.\n\nEngland has just seen its performance sink to a record low of just over 81%. In Northern Ireland it is currently below 66%.\n\nWhy? The suspension of a devolved government has certainly not helped - delaying everything from new policy to pay rises.\n\nBut modernisation of health care in Northern Ireland was already behind schedule before that happened.\n\nServices are spread too thinly across too many sites, so there is a lot of catching up to do - and the more it is delayed the longer it will take.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth workers say they want to be paid the same as their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nPay parity between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK ended in 2014 when the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Jim Wells was health minister.\n\nHe imposed a \"degree of restraint\" on pay for health care workers, due to financial challenges in the department.\n\nSpeaking earlier this month, Mr Wells said the decision had been \"very difficult because the choice was very stark\", explaining that another increase in pay at the time could have led to redundancies or services being closed.\n\nThe issue has not been looked at again because Northern Ireland has not had a devolved government since 2017.\n\nDowning Street said the strike highlighted the importance of Northern Ireland's political parties working together to restore devolved government.\n\nThe \"quickest and best\" way to resolve the dispute was to get the Stormont executive up and running again, said the Prime Minister's spokesman.\n\nHe added that the Northern Ireland Department of Health had been working closely with trust chief executives, unions and staff to make sure that services were delivered safely during the strike.\n\nThese are unprecedented times. For the first time in UK history close to 20,000 health and social care works are on picket lines, including about 15,500 nurses.\n\nWith more than 300,000 people in Northern Ireland waiting for an appointment, today's strike is going to push all services over the limit.\n\nAs healthcare workers protest and wave flags calling for pay parity and safer staffing levels, what they are also shouting about is a desire to get devolved government back up and running.\n\nWhile there is a skeleton staff today, and while many appointments have been cancelled, a shortage of staff has been an issue for many years.\n\nParamedics join the picket line outside the Royal Hospital in Belfast\n\nThe RCN argues the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe RCN estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in Northern Ireland is 13%, compared with about 11% in England and 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board said major challenges were expected across all health and social care services on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted, they should attend their appointment/service as normal.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first,\" said the spokesperson.\n\n\"Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods.\"\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nAre you a patient who will be affected by the strike? Are you a nurse on strike? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Ali Zahawy was jailed for life after being convicted of murdering Andre Aderemi\n\nA convicted murderer will be \"disciplined\" after posting a Snapchat video of himself in prison appearing to \"mock\" the family of the person he stabbed to death.\n\nAli Zahawy, 22, was found guilty of murdering Andre Aderemi in Croydon, south London, in August 2016.\n\nA video sent to Mr Aderemi's mother and seen by the BBC showed Zahawy in his cell saying he was \"still banged up\".\n\nThe Prison Service said Zahawy would face longer in prison.\n\nMr Aderemi, 19, was chased around the Monks Hill estate by four men and stabbed 26 times in broad daylight.\n\nZahawy - along with Rodney Mukasa - was found guilty in May 2017 of Mr Aderemi's murder following a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nBoth were given life sentences by Judge Zoe Smith and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.\n\nMr Aderemi's mum, Yemi Hughes, was sent the Snapchat video, which the Ministry of Justice confirmed was recorded inside one of its prisons.\n\nIn the video Zahawy swears and says he is still locked up, then adds \"but still it could be worse - I could be dead\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yemi Hughes asked 2019 election candidates about how to tackle knife crime in Croydon\n\nReacting to the video Ms Hughes - who taught Zahawy at school in Croydon - told BBC London she had a mixture of emotions.\n\nShe said: \"At first I was really angry by the content of it. It was like he was mocking my son.\n\n\"Then I got really emotional - why should I see your face and not my son? Then I felt annoyed.\n\n\"I am not for locking them up and throwing away the key, but there needs to be some sort of rehabilitation and some sort of sanction.\"\n\nAndre Aderemi was 19 years old when he was stabbed to death in Croydon\n\nMs Hughes also called on \"better protection for victims' families\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact they can video themselves in their cells, what they are up to and how they feel - we should not have to see that.\"\n\nA BBC investigation in 2018 found that UK prisons were \"awash\" with at least 15,000 smuggled phones and SIM cards.\n\nThe Prison Service apologised to Ms Hughes for the \"distress the video has caused\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We are undertaking cell searches and disciplinary action against Zahawy.\n\n\"We are spending an extra £100m on prison security, and anyone found with a mobile phone in prison faces longer behind bars.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bet365 boss Denise Coates has received a £323m payday, confirming her position as the UK's best paid executive.\n\nThe co-founder of the online gambling firm was paid a £277m salary plus dividends as the popularity of online gambling continues to grow.\n\nThe firm's accounts show that in the year to end-March her salary rose from £220m on the previous period.\n\nBut the rise comes as the industry faced mounting criticism, including over children gambling.\n\nThe privately held company is owned jointly by Ms Coates and members of her direct family, including her brother John, who is joint chief executive, and her father Peter, the firm's chairman.\n\nMs Coates earned a first-class degree in econometrics - the application of statistical methods to economic data - from Sheffield University before joining the High Street betting firm, run by her father.\n\nShe identified the potential of online gambling in 2000 and invested in the domain name Bet365.com so that she could drive the family business in that direction.\n\nBet365 made a profit before tax of £791m in the year, compared with £661m the year before.\n\nThe firm paid dividends of £92.5m, half of which are thought to have gone to Ms Coates, as the owner of about half of Bet365's shares.\n\nThe group of firms owns Stoke City Football Club, which made a loss of £8.7m in the year.\n\nThe High Pay Centre, a think tank which monitors income, said the timing of the release of the Bet365 results looked \"cynical\", given it was just after a general election.\n\nHigh Pay Centre executive director Luke Hildyard said: \"This looks like cynical timing, sneaked out straight after a general election campaign where excess wealth, taxes on the rich and the vast gap between those at the top and everybody else have been key issues.\"\n\nHe added: \"Business success should be incentivised and rewarded, but a payment a fraction of this size would still afford a lifestyle beyond the wildest dreams of most people.\"\n\nMr Hildyard said there was \"clearly scope\" for those accumulating such sums to pay their workers more or contribute more in taxes.\n\nIn October, Cardiff University research suggested that two-fifths of 11 to 16-year-olds had gambled in the past year.\n\nThe study said this was \"particularly concerning, given that across the UK, most forms of commercial gambling are only legal for those aged 18 and over\".\n\nFruit machines were the most popular form of gambling, followed by playing cards for money with friends and scratchcards.\n\nDr Graham Moore of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement said at the time: \"The evidence shows that people who gamble earlier in life are more likely to become problem gamblers in adulthood.\"\n\nHowever, a Gambling Commission study in October suggested that 11% of children had gambled within a week of the survey being conducted.\n\nBut in addition, the regulator warned in July of research that indicated links between \"problem gambling and suicidal thoughts or attempts\".\n\nBet365 says it has \"an unwavering commitment to deliver industry-leading approaches to player protection\", including monitoring customer gambling, and says it will \"terminate the [customer] relationship if it feels the risk of harm is too high\".", "Carina Lepore said hearing the words 'You're hired' was \"an incredible feeling\"\n\nLord Sugar has hired his new Apprentice - and will be going into business with Carina Lepore after picking the artisan bakery owner as this year's winner.\n\nCarina, 30, from south London, beat 32-year-old recruitment consultant Scarlett Allen-Horton in the final of the BBC One contest on Wednesday.\n\nCarina will now use Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment to attempt to build an empire of high street bakeries.\n\n\"It's been an amazing, amazing achievement for myself,\" she said.\n\nCarina currently runs the Dough Artisan Bakehouse in Herne Hill - with her father as head baker - and has said she wants a branch on \"every high street across the UK\".\n\nCarina impressed Lord Sugar by being on the winning team in nine out of the 10 tasks during the series, including winning all three episodes in which she was project manager.\n\n\"First of all, I think the amount of tasks she won and the manner in which she won really showed that she knows what she's doing as far as business is concerned,\" the business mogul said afterwards.\n\nLord Sugar took into account the high demand for cafés and food outlets, whereas he had invested in two recruitment firms in the past.\n\nWhile weighing up his decision, he told the finalists: \"When you look at the high street these days, that's all it's packed with - food.\n\n\"Scarlett - two past winners are recruitment companies, and do I want to throw more eggs into that basket?\"\n\nIn Wednesday's final, Carina and Scarlett were asked to create digital screen and TV adverts for their proposed businesses, and present them to Lord Sugar and 250 experts at London's City Hall.\n\nAfter being hired, Carina told the Press Association news agency: \"It's like this euphoric relief. I was so overwhelmed and so happy. It's a feeling that I haven't really felt.\n\n\"Me and Scarlett said it the whole way through - we have got massive respect for each other. She is a great businesswoman and she was tough competition for me. I knew that.\n\n\"To get told 'You're hired' by Lord Sugar, it was an incredible feeling.\"\n\nThe 15th series of the BBC One programme was popular with viewers but also made headlines away from the screen.\n\nIn October the BBC told candidate Lottie Lion that comments she made to a fellow candidate on a WhatsApp group were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt followed reports that she said \"shut up Gandhi\" to Lubna Farhan.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Alex Acteson has phoned Whirlpool 40 times on behalf of her mother, Chris, who had a stroke two years ago\n\nAlex Acteson gave up on Whirlpool's website once it buckled under the weight of consumers frantically trying to find out if their washing machine needed to be recalled.\n\nInstead, on behalf of her elderly mother Chris who has a potentially fire-prone washing machine, Ms Acteson rang Whirlpool's helpline.\n\nForty phone calls later, Ms Acteson is still waiting to get through to Whirlpool. \"I'm worried,\" she said.\n\nWhirlpool - which owns the Hotpoint and Indesit brands - announced on Tuesday it had been forced to recall about 500,000 washing machines built between 2014 and 2018 after discovering some were a fire risk.\n\nCustomers were unable to check the safety of their machines online because of technical difficulties. The special recall website crashed immediately and only began working again on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nAt the same time, customers have been struggling to get through to the company's helpline.\n\nWhirlpool apologised for the problems and its vice president of communications and public affairs, Jeff Noel, said on Wednesday that the recall was \"now up and running\".\n\nBut Ms Acteson, from Chichester in West Sussex, has been calling the phone line for hours and said she has been \"hung up on\", \"put on hold for 25 minutes\", told the phone line doesn't exist or advised to call back via a recorded message.\n\n\"They have a duty of care to look after their customers so if they are going to have a recall, at least have the systems in place to be able to have the recall,\" she said.\n\nThe company apologised to customers about the fault on its model checker website\n\nWhirlpool announced on Wednesday that the recall of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines will start on 9 January\n\nOwners of the affected machines who register on a dedicated website will be asked from that date whether they want a repair or a replacement.\n\nHowever, that is a long wait for someone like Ms Acteson's mother Chris, who is in her seventies and had a stroke two years ago.\n\n\"She doesn't need to be worried about this over Christmas,\" she said. \"And due to the fact that she has had a stroke, things like this do worry her more than probably your average person.\n\n\"It is just not acceptable by Whirlpool.\"\n\nHalf a million appliances need to be fixed or replaced as the door locking system can overheat.\n\nWhirlpool said it had recorded 79 incidents in which washing machines had caught fire because of the electronic door.\n\nWhirlpool's Mr Noel said: \"It has been an unfortunate situation. It is not the way that any of us would want to start a recall, especially something so important during the holidays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Noel said recall website was now \"up and running\"\n\n\"But it is such that we have done everything we can to resolve it. We've done everything we can to improve and I'm proud to say that these folks that have worked so hard, that we are up and running.\"\n\nWhirlpool was already reeling after problems with fire-prone dryers.\n\nIt was heavily criticised for its initial response when more than five million tumble dryers, sold over 11 years, were found to be a fire danger. It only launched a full recall for that issue after four years, following an intervention by the regulator.", "London Victoria was left \"at a standstill\" because of a \"major signal failure\" during rush-hour.\n\nPart of the station, the country's second busiest, was closed due to overcrowding fears. Services faced delays and cancellations until the end of Wednesday.\n\nSouthern Rail, which operates many of the services, advised passengers not to travel from Victoria.\n\nAbout 75 million passengers passed through the station last year.\n\nImages posted on social media showed hundreds of passengers held on the station concourse, unable to catch Southern, Southeastern and Gatwick Express trains.\n\nThameslink services out of London Bridge were also affected by the problems.\n\nTrains were running in the area at 20:00 GMT on Wednesday, but disruption lasted until the end of service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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He described the central London hub as being \"at a standstill\".\n\nMr Kyle, said the disruption means he may miss Christmas dinner with his staff.\n\nA signal failure near East Croydon has been blamed for the travel chaos\n\nHe tweeted: \"I'm sorry to every passenger, I know there's a lot more that needs sorting on this service, I'm fighting for that. You have been let down badly this evening.\"\n\n\"The woman next to me is in floods of tears as she's missing her flight from Gatwick.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rob Broomby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRob Broomby, a TV producer, stuck at Victoria said it was the \"worst transport chaos\" he had seen.\n\nHe added: \"There was a lot of good humour in the bar as people settled in for a long wait, but when the platform indicators began flashing on and off it felt more like a Christmas tree with dodgy wiring.\"\n\nNetwork Rail apologised and warned that disruption could continue into Thursday morning's rush-hour.\n\nIt said: \"Some trains will be finishing the day in the 'wrong' place, so we do expect there to be some disruption tomorrow morning as operators move their stock and crew around.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the signal failure at Victoria station? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Baroness Warsi has criticised her party's inquiry into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice, arguing it does not address past problems.\n\nThe former Conservative chairwoman said it needed to cover previous cases rather than just complaint handling.\n\nAnd she said the party's choice of a psychiatry professor, who she claimed did not believe in institutional racism, to head it did not \"bode well\".\n\nProf Swaran Singh was announced as the chairman of the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Live, Tory MP Suella Braverman defended the inquiry as a \"welcome step\".\n\n\"What I think this does show is the robust and swift action that Boris Johnson is taking on this issue,\" she said.\n\nBut speaking earlier to Radio 4's Today programme, Baroness Warsi said in order to be \"credible\" the inquiry needed to cover \"everything that has happened over last four years\".\n\n\"Unfortunately the remit of the inquiry does not cover that,\" she said.\n\n\"All it does is to see how we can improve our process.\n\n\"There is no look at what has actually gone on, no look at the extent of the cases, no detail of how bad the problem has been and how badly it has been dealt with.\"\n\nShe also criticised the appointment of Prof Singh - the former commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the watchdog currently investigating anti-Semitism allegations within Labour.\n\n\"The Runnymede Trust [a race equality think tank] encapsulated it when they said he is somebody who believes racism is a contested term and that institutional racism simply doesn't exist.\n\n\"That gives an indication of where the inquiry will end up,\" she said.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said the appointment of Professor Singh was \"at risk of being seen in the same light as the Conservative Party's customary approach to Islamophobia, that of denial, dismissal and deceit\".\n\nIt also criticised the scope of the inquiry saying: \"We were promised an independent inquiry into Islamophobia specifically - now we have a review that aims to broaden the scope to examine discrimination more generally.\n\n\"A laudable aim if it were not for the fact that the Conservative Party is afflicted with a particular type of bigotry which it refuses to countenance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson apologises for \"the hurt and offence that has been caused\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Prof Singh would look at how it could improve its procedures and ensure \"any instances are isolated and that there are robust processes in place to stamp them out\".\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said his party was committed to stamping out \"unacceptable abuse\".\n\n\"The Conservative Party has always worked to act swiftly when allegations have been put to us and there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind and it is right to hold an independent review, so we can stamp out unacceptable abuse that is not fit for public life.\"\n\nDuring the general election campaign Conservative leader Boris Johnson apologised for \"all the hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in his party.\n\nThe prime minister has previously been criticised for saying Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there were protests outside the match in Barcelona\n\nProtesters clashed with police outside a Barcelona and Real Madrid football match at the Nou Camp in Spain.\n\nThousands of fans inside Barcelona's stadium held banners urging the Spanish government to \"sit and talk\" with those demanding Catalan independence.\n\nThe match had been postponed in October over protests against the jailing of nine Catalan separatist leaders.\n\nMany Barcelona fans and other protesters want a legal independence referendum for the region.\n\nBefore the game a secretive Catalan protest group, Democratic Tsunami, said on Twitter it would distribute 100,000 banners to fans. It also told them to bring inflatable balls and to write on them a \"message for the world\".\n\nIt later posted footage of fans inside the stadium holding up the banners and chanting \"freedom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tsunami Democràtic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group is classed by Spanish officials as a criminal organisation. In October it organised mass protests at Barcelona's airport in October and blocked a major motorway.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of protesters gathered outside the stadium, chanting \"Independence\" and \"Free political prisoners\". They made makeshift barricades that were later cleared by police.\n\nAt least 12 people were reportedly injured in the clashes.\n\nThe match, known as \"El Clásico\", was been due to be played two months ago but was postponed due to unrest after Spain's Supreme Court in October sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to up to 13 years in prison.\n\nThe game ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving Barcelona top of the league ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference.", "Caroline Davis was injured and her friend was killed in the Manchester Arena attack\n\nA school set a homework assignment about the Manchester Arena bombing where pupils were asked whether \"all terrorists should be forgiven\".\n\nBridlington School asked children to imagine themselves being a parent of a victim of the May 2017 blast.\n\nA woman who was injured in the bombing said it was \"disgusting that they feel the need to use Manchester\".\n\nThe head teacher of the East Yorkshire secondary school has apologised \"for any upset\".\n\nKate Parker Randall said the work was part of a lesson \"which was considering the consequences of crime and the aims of different punishments\".\n\n\"It followed a discussion in class about a newspaper report that the mother of one of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack had forgiven the bomber for killing her son,\" she wrote in an online apology.\n\nBridlington School's head teacher has apologised \"for any upset\" caused by the homework\n\nCaroline Davis, from Otley in West Yorkshire, suffered a shoulder injury and her friend was killed as they waited in the foyer to pick up their children after the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe described the question as \"disgusting\" and said she had written to the school to complain.\n\n\"It's still so raw for us all that were there and went through what we did, and I can't believe that they would use that,\" she said.\n\nThe question was also criticised by local Conservative MP Sir Greg Knight who described it as \"totally unsuitable and in rather bad taste\".\n\nThe school's head Ms Parker Randall issued an online apology after the homework attracted criticism on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Parker Randall said \"in hindsight we would have posed the homework question in a different way\".\n\n\"The homework was intended to allow students to formulate their own views about whether hate and forgiveness are the best response to even such terrible crimes,\" she added.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the attack after Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device on 22 May 2017.\n\nIn November, Greater Manchester Police was accused of jeopardising the start of the public inquiry into the bombing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn 'badly let down' by advisers, says Thornberry\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has become the first MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, she said she thinks she can win the contest because she comes \"from the heart of the party\".\n\nShe also accused Jeremy Corbyn's advisers of \"badly letting him down\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy have said they are also considering standing to be leader.\n\nMeanwhile Tony Blair has accused Labour of \"letting the country down\" and attacked the Labour leadership for going into the election with a \"strategy for defeat\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will stand down as leader \"early next year\" and the race to replace him could start on 7 January.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's political editor, Ms Thornberry said she had warned Mr Corbyn it would be \"catastrophic\" for Labour to go into \"an election about Brexit when we weren't sufficiently clear on what our position was\".\n\n\"Because we had a single issue election on an issue on which we weren't clear, we were in grave danger,\" she said.\n\nShe said, as leader, Mr Corbyn had brought Labour \"back to who we really are\" and offered a \"clarity of vision that was incredibly appealing, but that then that got lost\".\n\n\"I think that Jeremy has been really badly let down by people who advised him badly and picked up their own agenda,\" she said.\n\nSeeking to underline her own leadership credentials, she said she was \"tested\" at taking on Boris Johnson because she had shadowed him for Labour when he was foreign secretary, and knows how to \"get under\" his skin.\n\nMaking reference to a description of ex-PM David Cameron by Mr Johnson, she said she was a \"girly swot\" who was able to \"look at the details\".\n\nIn a Guardian article announcing her candidacy, she said she had \"pummelled\" Mr Johnson every week in Parliament when she was his opposite number.\n\nMs Thornberry has been the MP for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005.\n\nWe're off - Emily Thornberry is the first to formally say she's definitely going to stand to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThere's been an awful lot of huffing and puffing without people putting their heads above the parapet, and I think she's decided she might as well get on with it.\n\nShe's the shadow foreign secretary and was was highly critical of Mr Corbyn for his neutral stance over the UK's membership of the EU.\n\nThe fact that the party membership is still overwhelmingly Remain will help her cause, as will the fact that she was seen to have done pretty well when she stood in for Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nShe's been loyal to Mr Corbyn but, at the same time, she doesn't identify closely with Mr Corbyn's team.\n\nI suspect her difficulty, maybe, is that she will be fishing in similar waters to a number of other female MPs who may enter the leadership race such as Jess Phillips, Lisa Nandy and Yvette Cooper.\n\nThey've got to get 22 Labour MPs to back them if they want to get on the ballot paper - so that is the first hurdle they've got to get over.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said he welcomed the fact Ms Thornberry had entered the race, although he said he would prefer shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey to become leader.\n\nHe told BBC 2's Politics Live it was important that someone \"from the left of the Labour party\", who had backed Mr Corbyn's original leadership bid, should be among the list of leadership contenders.\n\nHe said that Ms Long-Bailey - who has not formally declared her candidacy - understood why the party lost support in seats that had supported Brexit, and knew how to help areas that have lost industrial jobs.\n\n\"But I think it's welcome that the members are going to have a real choice,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he is \"seriously considering\" putting himself forward for the Labour leadership.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary said Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" following its general election defeat.\n\nAnother potential contender Yvette Cooper, who lost to Mr Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, said she would \"decide over Christmas\" about whether to stand.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that Labour had \"a long road to travel,\" adding that the party needed to tackle anti-Semitism, restore \"kindness to our politics\" and be more \"inclusive\".\n\nReflecting on Labour's defeat, Sir Keir - who was calling for another EU referendum - said the party had failed to \"knock back\" the Conservatives' \"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nHe also attacked the Labour's manifesto arguing it \"had too much in it\" adding \"we couldn't see the wood for the trees\".\n\nLooking to the party's future, he said: \"What Corbyn bought to the Labour party was a change of emphasis - radicalism that really matters - we need to build on that, not oversteer and go back to a bygone age.\"\n\nAsked whether he considered himself to be a Corbynite, Sir Keir said: \"I don't need someone else's name tattooed on my head to make decisions.\"\n\nLabour's defeats in the North of England constituencies has led some to say the next leader should not come from London.\n\nHowever Sir Keir said the Labour leader needed to \"be able to talk to everyone\" in the UK.\n\nThe former director of public prosecutions also insisted that \"my background isn't what people think it is\", adding that he had \"never been in any other workplace than a factory\" before he went to university.\n\nOther candidates believed to be considering running to be leader include:", "Boris Johnson has toured Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in north-east England, with three days to go before polling day.\n\nIn a speech in Sunderland - 61% of which voted to Leave - the PM told voters: \"The Labour Party has let you down.\"\n\nHe attacked Parliament, saying it had \"delayed\" and \"denied\" Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson will also travel to south-west England, where he will warn against voting for the pro-EU Lib Dems.\n\nAt the event in Sunderland, Mr Johnson took questions from the public and the press.\n\nMr Johnson spoke of his \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal with the EU, saying the alternative to voting for the Conservatives was \"yet more delay\" and \"division and deadlock\".\n\nHe criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, arguing he did not have a credible Brexit plan, adding that every Conservative election candidate had pledged to support his own withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nMr Johnson also challenged Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell's plans, which he said \"will put up taxes\" and be a \"recipe for disaster\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr McDonnell promised to deliver a budget to \"end austerity\" within its first 100 days if the party wins Thursday's election.\n\nIn a speech in London setting out his priorities, he also pledged to get \"money moving out of Whitehall and the City\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says the prime minister is intending to \"visit every region in England and Wales\" in the final three days of the election campaign, with a message that a vote for his party is a vote to \"get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential\".\n\nMr Johnson started the day at a fish market in Grimsby, one of a number of longstanding Labour areas that voted heavily to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum that both the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are targeting.\n\nOn his visit to Sunderland, Mr Johnson said it had been 1,264 days since the city voted to leave the EU. \"People voted to get out of the European Union - our democratic duty to do so.\n\n\"Our economy is suffering right now because of the uncertainty\" created by the Brexit delay, he said.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly warned that the only alternative to a Conservative majority is a hung Parliament, with Mr Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon forming a coalition and resulting in further referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is confident an agreement on a second independence vote could be done if Labour needed SNP support to form a government if there is a hung parliament.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has ruled out supporting a Scottish independence referendum until after the next Holyrood election in 2021.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are, meanwhile, pledging to table legislation to stop Brexit immediately after the election by introducing two draft bills they say would pave the way for another EU referendum.\n\nThe first would enable the Electoral Commission to start the necessary consultation around a referendum question and lead campaign designation - and the second would provide a referendum on the government's Brexit deal versus remaining in the EU.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told Radio 4's Today programme the \"most likely way\" to stop Brexit was through another vote as the possibility of her party winning power on its own and revoking Article 50 looked increasingly remote.\n\nBetween now and the election on 12 December, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our Outside The Box here (UK users only).", "Georgian-born American artist David Datuna has eaten a banana used in an art work by Maurizio Cattelan, which had sold for $120,000 (£91,000).\n\nThe artwork, titled Comedian, was on display at Art Basel in Miami, one of the world's most high-profile art fairs.\n\nThe banana was swiftly replaced and no further action will be taken against Datuna - who said eating the banana was his \"art performance\".", "Kamil Biecke, a former professional goalkeeper, was last seen in the early hours of 8 December in Luton\n\nPolice searching for an ex-professional goalkeeper who went missing a year ago have appealed to people who knew him from casinos or betting shops for help.\n\nKamil Biecke, 35, played for Polish side Baltyk Gdynia until 2013 before moving to the UK in 2016.\n\nHe was last seen on Maple Road in Luton in the early hours of 8 December 2018.\n\n\"We know Kamil was a gambler and had some debts, so it is this line of inquiry we are keen to pursue,\" said Det Insp Emma Pitts.\n\n\"Our previous appeals to the public have led us to some information - but nothing which has helped us locate him.\"\n\nShe appealed for help from people who recognised Mr Biecke from Luton-based gambling outlets.\n\nMr Biecke's former club, in Gdynia on the Baltic coast north of Gdansk, is currently in the fourth tier of the Polish football league pyramid.\n\nBedfordshire Police previously said it was concerned his gambling associations may have led to him being killed and they believed he had been involved in \"drug-related activity\".\n\nMr Biecke's estranged wife, who lives in Poland, reported him missing on 14 December 2018 as she was concerned she was unable to contact him.\n\nOfficers \"upgraded\" their investigation to a murder inquiry in June after \"extensive searches failed to find him alive\".\n\nKamil Biecke played for the Polish football team Baltyk Gdynia until 2013\n\nDet Insp Pitts is appealing for information from anyone who may recognise Mr Biecke from Luton-based casinos and betting shops, or who may know of any of his associations.\n\n\"Though a lot of time has passed, we have not given up hope of locating Kamil, for the sake of his family and friends who love and miss him,\" she said.\n\nThe force said Mr Biecke lived in Luton but has links to Cambridgeshire, Milton Keynes and Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On a street in the Nottinghamshire town of Arnold, there is a Liberal club, a Labour club and a Conservative club, all within a five-minute walk of one another. But how much do the people who patronise these establishments actually care about politics?\n\nThere's an intense silence among the members of Arnold's Balfour Conservative Club as the president calls out numbers. That's because Wednesday night is bingo night - and bingo night is taken seriously. Certainly more seriously than politics.\n\nIn the lull between the rounds, 82-year-old Shirley Wilmot, who has always voted Labour, says she's never really thought about the club's Conservative connections.\n\n\"I'm a member of the Liberal club and the Labour club as well,\" she says. \"But this is my favourite because it's so friendly.\n\n\"I go to the Liberal on a Saturday because they have two artists on, here on the Wednesday for the bingo and the Labour club on Sunday for the dinner. They're not political places.\"\n\nThe Labour club is seen by its regulars as a handy place to go for a cheap pint served by friendly staff\n\nJust down the road at the Arnold Labour Club, president John Wood, 60, would agree with that sentiment.\n\nHe says its link to the party ended about 10 years ago and that the association had become \"damaging\". He is even looking to change the club's name.\n\nOf the nine people asked at the Labour club, not one could say they would definitely vote for the Labour Party, and a few know they certainly will not.\n\nAmong them is Ann Rogers, 50, a member of a motorbike group which meets there weekly.\n\n\"I come for the friendly people and the amazing bar staff,\" she says. \"I've been here for four years and never heard anyone talk about politics. It's just a name over the door. It doesn't matter if you support Labour or Conservative, you're welcome here.\n\n\"I used to be an avid Labour supporter and always voted for them. I voted for them last election. But not this time. It's hard for me but I feel they've let us down, and I don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Wood says the club and local party used to support one another financially and political meetings were once held here. But he understands they went their separate ways well before he took over two years ago.\n\nHe says some of his regulars refuse to become full club members because of the name and he has even been denied loans from banks and grants for renovation work because of the perceived political ties.\n\n\"I couldn't be tied to any party,\" Mr Wood says. \"The only one I've ever supported is UKIP. But I don't get involved and we never talk politics.\"\n\nInstead, they host events ranging from coffee mornings for the elderly and a Parkinson's support group, to weddings and weekly discos.\n\nInside are four rooms, each with its own bar. One room is dominated by a snooker table, and another has a skittles alley where members sometimes play against members of the Conservative club and the Liberal club - although the rivalry isn't fuelled by differing political allegiances.\n\nAlex Hunt says he has no idea who he will vote for on 12 December\n\nOne of the team members is 27-year-old handyman Alex Hunt. Snooker cue in hand, he says: \"I love the company, all my friends are here, it's lively and you can drink.\n\n\"I used to be a member of the Liberal and Conservative club but they don't have the same atmosphere.\"\n\n\"I've not got a clue who I'm voting for this election,\" he says. \"I don't know anything about politics. It just doesn't matter to me.\"\n\nThe club's bar manager, Paula Martin, says she gets a call about twice a month from people asking to speak to the local Labour candidate. A man came in a couple of weeks ago asking why there were no pictures at the club of the candidate, she says.\n\n\"I told him it's just not like that any more.\"\n\nAt both the Labour and Conservative clubs, located either side of an Asda supermarket, members pay £10 to join in their first year and £5 every year after\n\nIn the Conservative club, there's also an absence of political chat and certainly no division along party lines.\n\nIndeed, a number of the Labour club's members and some of its bar staff are here to play \"sticky 13s\", a form of card bingo popular in Nottingham pubs.\n\nUnlike its Labour counterpart, the Balfour Conservative Club is still affiliated to the political party and pays an annual subscription to the Association of Conservative Clubs. Its rules state that every member should also be a member or supporter of the Conservative Party, but the secretary admits this is not something that is enforced these days.\n\nThe same rulebook's stated aim is to \"promote the principles of Conservatism and the implementation of the Conservative Party's policies\", although this does not seem to go much further than hosting a few party meetings and a Christmas meal.\n\nThe blue interior and a portrait of the early 20th Century prime minister Arthur Balfour suggest a Tory heritage - but one club member sitting below a picture of the Queen admits he now supports the Brexit Party.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley, 66, says the strength of its association with the Conservatives has weakened in the five decades he has been coming here.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley in front of a portrait of Arthur Balfour\n\nAs he prepares to set up the bingo, he says: \"I don't talk politics at the club. The days when you were a member of just one of the political clubs are done. If we said you had to be a Conservative Party member to join, we'd have no-one in.\"\n\nFor the members, the subsidised pints, the friendly atmosphere, the snooker and pool tables seem to be the main draw.\n\nThat's certainly the case for Labour supporter Andy Gallagher, who has come here for a game. \"This is the most convenient pool table - I don't care what the place is called,\" he says. \"I know I'm not the only Labour voter but we never discuss politics.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson walked in here I wouldn't talk to him but I'd not tell him to get out either.\"\n\nTony Barnsley: \"I do have a political opinion - I don't think politics works\"\n\nBack at the Labour club, 37-year-old industrial truck driver Tony Barnsley says he's been a member for the past four years, because the staff \"treat him well\" and \"pull a great pint of Stella\".\n\nBut he has only voted once in his life, almost 20 years ago. \"If anyone tries to talk politics they walk out because no-one is bothered; they won't even listen to it,\" he says.\n\n\"If Jeremy Corbyn walked in here I'd say 'get me a drink'.\"", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney, famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on children's TV show Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85.\n\nHe passed away at his home in Connecticut after living with dystonia for some time, a Sesame Workshop statement said.\n\nHe had retired last year at the age of 84.\n\nSpinney had portrayed the characters - including providing their voices - since the show's start in 1969.\n\n\"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending,\" the statement said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of the show's importance to his life.\n\n\"Before I came to Sesame Street, I didn't feel like what I was doing was important,\" he said. \"Big Bird helped me find my purpose.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpinney developed a love for puppetry at the age of five after watching a performance of Three Little Kittens.\n\nHe explored puppeteering throughout his childhood and teenage years and used his performances to raise money for college tuition.\n\nAfter serving in the US Air Force, Spinney performed as a professional puppeteer in Las Vegas and Boston in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually meeting Muppets creator Jim Henson, who also starred in Sesame Street.\n\nSpinney later joined the cast for the show's inaugural series in 1969.\n\nSpinney's work on the children's programme has earned him two Grammy honours and six Emmy awards, plus a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award which he received in 2006.\n\nThe puppeteer also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the Library of Congress' Living Legends award in 2000.\n\nHis life and career have been documented in the widely acclaimed 2014 film, I Am Big Bird.\n\nAnd perhaps one of his greatest achievements was meeting his wife of 40 years, Debra, on the Sesame Street set in 1973.\n\n\"His genius and his talent made Big Bird the most beloved yellow feathered friend across the globe,\" said Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the Sesame Workshop.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Large numbers of arrests are \"making no difference\" to dealing with drug problems, a charity has said.\n\nSouth Wales Police has arrested 178 people in eight months as part of an operation to crack down on drug dealing in Cardiff and the surrounding area.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tom Moore said the city was becoming a \"more hostile\" place for drug dealers to operate.\n\nMartin Blakebrough, of the Kaleidoscope Project, said more support for addicts would provide a better solution.\n\nIn September, a charity worker said Wales was \"drowning\" in drugs gangs, with more than 100 operating across the country.\n\nSouth Wales Police launched Operation Crater in April and has seized more than £175,000 worth of drugs and £100,000 in cash from various raids, while more than 30 people arrested in the operation have been convicted of drug-related crimes.\n\nMore than £175,000-worth of drugs has been seized in eight months by South Wales Police\n\nDCI Moore said the operation had been \"really successful\" and made a \"real difference\".\n\n\"What we're seeing is the prevalence and the ease you can obtain drugs on the streets has reduced,\" he said.\n\n\"Every major city in the UK has got problems with drugs and violent crime, which are linked. What we have done is to make it a more hostile city for those that want to sell drugs.\n\n\"County lines and drug lines are an issue that's faced by an awful lot of cities across the UK. We have identified what the issues are and put resources into it, which is tough everywhere at the moment.\"\n\nCash and items were seized from a raid in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nBut Mr Blakebrough, chief executive of drugs charity the Kaleidoscope Project, said arresting such a large number of people was not helping the problem.\n\n\"We're not seeing any reduction in the number of people coming into our services or people selling drugs on the street,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an outdated way of doing things. It doesn't keep the community safer. The consequences of getting tough on drugs is that they [drug dealers] get tough on each other.\n\n\"It's supply and demand. If there's a demand there'll always be people who take risks to supply. It just means that more the difficult it is, the more extremes people will go to.\"\n\nMr Blakebrough said arrests would not solve the problem and resources needed to be pushed into prevention measures and treatment for addicts.\n\n\"What we have to do is make sure there's support for people in the first place as to reduce demand.\n\n\"There are people who want to get help who can't get help. How many of these people are trying to get into treatment services?\n\n\"There aren't enough treatment services to treat them. It doesn't solve the problem.\n\n\"Where they're brilliant, the police, is actually helping people not getting into crime and assisting them into treatment and that's where the resources need to go. But you can't arrest your way out of drug issues.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nBoris Johnson has said an investigation is needed into the source of leaked documents on UK-US trade negotiations posted on Reddit.\n\nLabour says the documents show the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nOn Friday, forum website Reddit said unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nThe government said it was looking into the matter with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said \"we do need to get to the bottom\" of the leak but said he had seen \"no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in any democratic event in this country\".\n\nThe Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said this all pointed towards foreign involvement: \"I understand from what was being put on that website, those who seem to know about these things say that it seems to have all the hallmarks of some form of interference.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald reiterated his call for Mr Johnson to release an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, which No 10 has been accused of suppressing until after the election.\n\nIn a post on its site, Reddit did not provide any further details about the evidence behind its conclusions, nor did it identify any specific individuals.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson but they have yet to comment.\n\nThe contents of the documents have played a significant part in Labour's election message on the NHS, after Mr Corbyn highlighted them at a press conference on 27 November.\n\nThe Labour leader said the papers were evidence that the UK government was in advanced stages of negotiations with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.\n\nLabour have not said where they obtained their copy of the documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA version of the documents, heavily redacted, was also produced by Mr Corbyn at an earlier leader debate on 19 November.\n\nAt the time, Labour said these were the result of a Freedom of Information request by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe dossier was posted on Reddit more than a month prior to Mr Corbyn's announcement, prompting questions about how they got there - and why few people seemed to notice them before.\n\nA bit like journalists never reveal their sources, Labour are quite happy to focus on what these documents say rather than where they come from.\n\nIf you look at where Reddit's comments leave the discussion, it's both helpful and slightly problematic for Labour.\n\nOn the one hand, people are asking \"where exactly did you get those documents from?\" Remember, they were online in their unredacted form for several weeks before Labour brought them to everyone's attention.\n\nBut at the same time, we're still talking about these documents and what Labour claims that they show - that the NHS is up for sale, in their words. Boris Johnson and the Conservatives flatly deny that.\n\nSo it's a double-edged sword for Labour.\n\nFor the Conservatives, you've got this uneasiness around Russian interference in an election campaign - which isn't good for them because attention will turn to the report by Parliament which the government hasn't released.\n\nAnd that's not very helpful for the Tories either.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the Labour leader said the controversy surrounding the source of the documents was \"nonsense\" and accused Mr Johnson of wanting to \"hide the issues and the truth\" over the future of the NHS in trade deals.\n\nMr Johnson said the documents \"didn't prove what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party hoped it would prove\" adding \"it was just another distraction from the void at the heart of Labour's policy on Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says leaked US-UK trade documents are 'just another distraction'\n\nNeither UK nor US governments have disputed the authenticity of the documents.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Gordon Correra said crucial questions remained as to how the document circulating online originally appeared.\n\nHe said there would be a significant difference between a state-led operation from Moscow which hacked the material and then leaked it as opposed to someone who is based in Russia simply opportunistically using an already leaked document to cause mischief.\n\n\"That question is one that national security officials will be trying to answer.\"", "Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was considered to be a rising star of rap music\n\nJuice Wrld, a US rapper who shot to fame on music streaming platforms, has died at the age of 21.\n\nCelebrity news website TMZ said he died after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport on Sunday morning.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause was unknown.\n\nJuice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was best-known for his viral 2018 hit Lucid Dreams. Mental health, mortality and drug use were common themes in his music.\n\nHis record label, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, said Juice Wrld was an \"exceptional human being\" who \"made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time\".\n\nChicago police told the BBC a 21-year-old man suffered a medical emergency at around 02:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun Times there were \"no signs of foul play\" and it was unclear whether drugs played a role in his death.\n\nBorn in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, Juice Wrld was raised by his single mother, described as a religious and conservative woman who forbade him from listening to hip hop.\n\nHe started rapping in high school, using online music streaming platform SoundCloud to upload and promote his music.\n\nJuice Wrld went on to release his debut full-length EP, 999, on the platform in 2017, garnering him attention from fellow Chicago-based artists such as G Herbo and Lil Bibby.\n\nJuice Wrld shot to fame in 2018, when hit single Lucid Dreams reached number two in the charts\n\nThe rapper rose to fame in 2018, when hit singles All Girls Are the Same and Lucid Dreams, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, drew the attention of music fans and record labels.\n\nMore plaudits followed the release of his first studio album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, in 2018, cementing him as one of the rising stars of US rap.\n\nIn early 2018, he was signed by Interscope Records, landing a record deal reported to be worth more than $3m (£2.2m). He topped the Billboard chart this year with his second album Death Race for Love.\n\nIn one of his songs, Juice Wrld rapped about the short lives of artists, saying \"all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nThe song, titled Legends, was dedicated to two late rappers, 20-year-old XXXTentacion and 21-year-old Lil Peep, who died in 2018 and 2017, respectively.\n\nIn the song Juice Wrld rapped: \"What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21. I been going through paranoia.\"\n\nJuice Wrld had celebrated his 21st birthday last week. In a tweet, he said it was \"one of his best\" birthdays yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grime artist Ransom FA spoke to the BBC about the challenges of breaking into the music industry\n\nHis music has been described as emo rap, a genre that draws influences from hip hop and alternative rock.\n\nIn a four-star review of his second album, music publication NME said the rapper \"makes songs that stick, his vocal dissonance capturing what it feels like to be young and in pain, and feeling a sense of indifference towards authority figures\".\n\nIn a 2018 interview with the New York Times, Juice Wrld opened up about his use of cannabis and Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.\n\n\"I smoke weed, and every now and then I slip up and do something that's poor judgment,\" he told the paper.\n\nIn other interviews, he has been candid about his use of lean, a liquid concoction containing prescription-strength cough syrup and soft drinks. In another of his songs, titled Empty, he references lean, saying it solves problems.\n\nIn a statement, Juice Wrld's record label said he was \"a gentle soul whose creativity knew no bounds\", adding: \"To lose someone so kind and so close to our hearts is devastating.\"\n\nIn a tweet, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, who collaborated with Juice Wrld on her 2019 single Hate Me, described the rapper as \"such a sweet soul\" who had \"so much further to go\".\n\nChicago-based artist Chance the Rapper paid a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, writing: \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it.\"\n\n\"Wow, I cannot believe this. Rip my brother juice world,\" tweeted fellow rapper Lil Yachty.\n\nUS rapper Lil Nas X, also writing on Twitter, said it is \"so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Brexit Party will change its name to the Reform Party after the UK leaves the European Union, leader Nigel Farage has said.\n\nIt will campaign for changes to the voting system and the abolition of the House of Lords, he told Sky News.\n\nMr Farage, who has already registered the new party name, said it would \"change politics for good\".\n\nThe announcement comes after a week in which the Brexit Party lost four Members of the European Parliament.\n\nOne of the MEPs, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, warned that \"the Brexit Party are permitting votes to go away from the Conservatives, providing us with a Remain coalition that will do anything not to honour the Brexit referendum\".\n\nAnd Conservative chair James Cleverly has previously said the party could \"frustrate\" Brexit.\n\nThe Brexit Party was set up to campaign for a no-deal Brexit ahead of the 2019 European elections, in which it won 29 seats - more than any other UK party.\n\nAt the start of the general election campaign, Brexit Party candidates were set to stand in nearly 600 seats.\n\nHowever, after coming under pressure not to split the Leave vote, it later pulled back from the 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017.\n\nMr Farage - who had previously been very critical of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - said he had made the decision after what he said was a \"shift\" in the prime minister's position.\n\nThursday saw the three Brexit Party MEPs quit the party and urge voters to support the Conservatives.\n\nAnother MEP, John Longworth, lost the party whip on Wednesday for criticising the party's election strategy.\n\nMs Rees-Mogg, said the Brexit Party was \"now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nBut Mr Farage said of his former MEPs: \"They've changed their principles. I haven't changed mine.\"", "Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.\n\nThat's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.\n\nWhile nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.\n\nAround 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.\n\nResearchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.\n\nThe threat to oceans from nutrient run-off of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and industry has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the sea waters and still remains the primary factor, especially closer to coasts.\n\nHowever, in recent years the threat from climate change has increased.\n\nAs more carbon dioxide is released enhancing the greenhouse effect, much of the heat is absorbed by the oceans. In turn, this warmer water can hold less oxygen. The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nThat may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.\n\nEven small changes can impact marine life in a significant way. So waters with less oxygen favour species such as jellyfish, but not so good for bigger, fast-swimming species like tuna.\n\n\"We have known about de-oxygenation but we haven't known the linkages to climate change and this is really worrying,\" said Minna Epps from IUCN.\n\n\"Not only has the decline of oxygen quadrupled in the past 50 years but even in the best case emissions scenario, oxygen is still going to decline in the oceans.\"\n\nFor species like tuna, marlin and some sharks that are particularly sensitive to lack of oxygen - this is bad news.\n\nBigger fish like these have greater energy needs. According to the authors, these animals are starting to move to the shallow surface layers of the seas where there is more of the gas dissolved. However, this make the species much more vulnerable to over-fishing.\n\nIf countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.\n\nThis is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.\n\nTuna are suffering from lack of oxygen, says IUCN\n\nLow levels of oxygen are also bad for basic processes like the cycling of elements crucial for life on Earth, including nitrogen and phosphorous.\n\n\"If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish,\" said Minna Epps.\n\n\"It will also change the energy and the biochemical cycling in the oceans and we don't know what these biological and chemical shifts in the oceans can actually do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Durwood Zaelke has arguably saved the world half a degree Celsius of warming\n\nChanging the outcomes for the oceans is down to the world's political leaders which is why the report has been launched here at COP25.\n\n\"Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification,\" said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor.\n\n\"To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources.\"", "Rosslyn (far left) pictured with Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel in 1987\n\nThe daughter of former Australian PM Bob Hawke has alleged she was raped in the 1980s but he asked her to stay silent to avoid harming his career.\n\nRosslyn Dillon's allegations are made in court documents seen by Australian site the New Daily.\n\nShe says she was raped by Bill Landeryou, an MP in Hawke's Labor Party. Both men are now dead.\n\nMs Dillon, 59, is currently pursuing an A$4m (£2m; $2.7m) claim on her father's estate.\n\nIn an affidavit, Ms Dillon alleges she was raped by Landeryou while working for his office. At the time Hawke was attempting to become Labor leader.\n\nAccording to the papers, Ms Dillon says she was sexually assaulted three times, in 1983.\n\nAfter the third time she told her father she had been raped and wanted to go to the police, but he responded by saying: \"You can't. I can't have any controversies right now. I am sorry but I am challenging for the leadership of the Labor Party,\" the documents show.\n\nMs Dillon's sister, Sue Pieters-Hawke, told The New Daily the family was aware of the allegation.\n\n\"She did tell people at the time. I believe there was a supportive response but it didn't involve using the legal system,\" she told the site. Other family members have not commented to Australian media.\n\nA former union official, Landeryou served as an MP from 1976-1992. He and Hawke are said to have been on good terms throughout Hawke's premiership.\n\nHawke was the dominant figure in 1980s Australian politics, winning four general elections.\n\nHe introduced sweeping economic and social change to his country, while cultivating a public persona of a down-to-earth, beer swigging rogue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson \"must answer\" for anti-Semitism, Labour says\n\nThree Conservative election candidates are being investigated over allegations of anti-Semitism, the party has confirmed.\n\nSally-Ann Hart, Richard Short and Lee Anderson are facing claims relating to their social media use.\n\nLabour has called for the candidates to be suspended, adding that leader Boris Johnson \"must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name\".\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said abuse or discrimination of any kind is wrong.\n\nAmong those who are facing an investigation is Sally-Ann Hart, the Tory candidate in Hastings and Rye, which is ex-Home Secretary Amber Rudd's former seat.\n\nAlso being investigated is Richard Short, who is standing in St Helens South and Whiston, and Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield and Eastwood.\n\nA Conservative Party spokeswoman said: \"These matters are being investigated.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community.\n\n\"Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one, but there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour, including conditions to undertake training, periods of suspension and expulsion, and these are applied on a case-by-case basis.\"\n\nThe probe comes after leader Mr Johnson previously told reporters that \"if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce\".\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's national campaign co-ordinator, said: \"Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce'. So why is he refusing to suspend these three candidates, none of whom appear to have apologised?\n\n\"Johnson has never called out and condemned anti-Semitic Soros narratives among his supporters.\n\n\"On the contrary, the Conservatives whipped their MEPs to vote in support of the Hungarian government which peddles the Soros conspiracy and appointed a senior government adviser who promotes this narrative.\"\n\nMr Gwynne added: \"Anti-Semitism is clearly rife in the Conservative Party from top to bottom.\n\n\"Johnson must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name.\"\n\nJewish multi-billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given away £32bn, has been the topic of numerous fake news stories and conspiracy theories, many of which are anti-Semitic.\n\nUnder electoral law, if a candidate is suspended after nominations close, they will still appear on the ballot paper and affiliated to that party.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in the Tory Party.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn has apologised for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour on several occasions and said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\".", "Avanti West Coast has taken over from Virgin Trains as the operator running the West Coast Main Line.\n\nThe new operator's parent company is a partnership between Aberdeen-based firm FirstGroup and Italy's Trenitalia.\n\nAvanti's first train left Euston for Manchester on Sunday at 08:10 GMT and arrived three minutes late, according to the National Rail app.\n\nIt replaces Virgin Trains, which was Britain's longest-running rail franchise after 22 years of service.\n\nThe end of the Virgin Trains franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard Branson said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nCustomers who had train tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys will be able to use them on Avanti West Coast, the operator said.\n\nThe new operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.", "The strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day\n\nWeekend travellers on South Western Railway (SWR) have faced disruption due to ongoing strike action compounded by engineering work.\n\nTwenty-seven days of strike action by Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members began on Monday.\n\nUnion leaders have called for fresh talks with rail bosses in the long-running row over train guards.\n\nThe company has warned passengers travel will be \"especially challenging\" throughout December.\n\nWeekend engineering and maintenance work has also meant a number of line closures, including between Bournemouth and Poole, in the Twickenham area, and between London Waterloo and Kingston.\n\nAll lines in the Leatherhead area are closed all day on Sunday for maintenance work.\n\nThe strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day and many commuters have complained about overcrowded trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nThe two sides remain deadlocked in the dispute over the role of guards.\n\nOn new trains due to start running next year, SWR wants drivers to operate the doors at every stop to save time.\n\nUnion members want guards to decide when to close the doors.\n\nLetters have been exchanged in recent days, with the union calling for fresh talks at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe RMT says the dispute now centres on whether guards should have a few seconds to make sure trains leave platforms safely.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The union will continue to push for a negotiated settlement that protects passenger safety and our members remain rock-solid in the ongoing action.\"\n\nSWR managing director Andy Mellors said in a letter that further talks must be on the proviso that the union has a \"new solution\" to safely delivering over 10 million more peak-time passenger journeys on time each year.\n\nUnion members have staged pickets at stations on the SWR network\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nHas your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (centre) has so far been tight-lipped about the latest test\n\nNorth Korea says it has carried out a \"very important test\" at a satellite-launching site.\n\nThe KCNA state news agency said the results would be used to upgrade the country's strategic status. It provided no further details.\n\nAnalysts believe it could be a ground-based test of an engine to power a satellite launcher or an intercontinental ballistic missile.\n\nIt comes after Pyongyang appeared to shut the door on further US talks.\n\n\"We do not need to have lengthy talks with the US now, and denuclearisation is already gone out of the negotiating table,\" the North Korean envoy to the UN, Kim Song, said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nNorth Korea had set an end-of-year deadline for the US to come up with a new denuclearisation deal that would involve significant sanctions relief and said it would otherwise adopt a \"new path\".\n\nOn Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he still hoped to reach an agreement.\n\nMr Trump made pursuing diplomacy with North Korea a centre-piece of his foreign policy agenda in 2018 but has failed to extract significant concessions on denuclearisation despite holding two summits with leader Kim Jong-un and even setting foot in North Korea.\n\nThe latest test took place at the Sohae satellite launch site, which the US once said Mr Kim had promised to close.\n\n\"The results of the recent important test will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK [North Korea] once again in the near future,\" KCNA reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The war that never officially ended\n\nDespite facing a host of UN and other sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes, North Korea earlier this year re-started testing of short-range ballistic missiles.\n\nAnd earlier this week it renewed verbal attacks on Mr Trump for the first time in over a year after he said the US reserved the right to use military force against the country.\n\nAnalysts believe that North Korea could launch a satellite if it does not obtain concessions from the US. This would allow it to test and show off its rocket capabilities in a less provocative way than launching a long-range ballistic missile.", "Liam Payne has been accused of reinforcing stereotypes about bisexuality on his new album.\n\nLP1 came out on Friday and the song Both Ways immediately came in for criticism online.\n\n\"My girl, she like it both ways,\" he sings, going on to depict group sex. \"She like the way it all taste / Couple more, we'll call it foreplay / No, no, I don't discriminate.\"\n\nMeg Murphy from campaign group Bi-Pride UK says the lyrics play into harmful ideas about bisexual people.\n\n\"As a woman who exists on dating apps you get pretty tired very quickly of people asking things about threesomes, and his lyrics very much reinforce those stereotypes,\" she says.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeg says that bisexual women are only seen as valid \"when they're performing for the male gaze or when men can join in with threesomes\".\n\n\"The song shames bi women for being sexual while simultaneously condoning such sexual expression when it's carried out to the straight male gaze,\" the 24-year-old says.\n\nResearch has previously suggested that compared with heterosexual or lesbian women, bisexual women are more likely to have suffered sexual violence.\n\nAnd the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) says lesbian and bisexual women are \"especially at risk\" of being victims of sexual violence.\n\nMeg believes that adds a level of danger to Liam Payne's lyrics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If people who are young and impressionable and still questioning their identity hear lyrics like that, they then think they have to perform in that way - and if they don't, that poses a risk to their lives.\"\n\nShe adds: \"It's not the place of straight men to talk about bi issues unless they have lived experiences or they are an active ally and as far as I am aware Liam Payne has not been an ally of the LGBT community.\"\n\nEarlier this year Radio 1 Newsbeat spoke to Sali, a bisexual woman who says she was raped by a straight couple due to her sexuality.\n\n\"Bisexuality is seen by a lot of people as just a type of porn with two women and one man and that definitely influenced what happened to me,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Liam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSali didn't report what happened to the police because she didn't think she'd be successful in court.\n\n\"Although I fully support people who do go to the police about sexual violence... bi women are seen as greedy, slutty, 'asking for it'.\n\n\"So if I'd even had got as far as it having made it to court - which wouldn't happen anyway because it would've been dropped long before that - there's no way I'd win.\"\n\nLast year, Rita Ora apologised after a number of LGBT musicians accused her of exploiting bisexuality.\n\nRita Ora said she'd \"never intentionally\" cause harm to LGBT people.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Liam Payne's team for a comment about the reaction to Both Ways, but is yet to hear back.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "HM Coastguard and police are involved in the search off Gourock\n\nRescuers have halted their search for a man missing in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nTwo men were recovered from a vessel near Cardwell Bay, Gourock, on Saturday night.\n\nBut one man, who was in a separate boat, has not been found during the search which has involved an RNLI lifeboat and coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it had \"terminated\" the operation pending further information.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 23:35 on Saturday when Greenock Coastguard were called to two small drifting vessels.\n\nTwo men aged 33 and 36 were helped from one of the boats by Helensburgh RNLI lifeboat.\n\nThey were passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the lifeboat returned to search for the third man on the second boat.\n\nA coastguard search and rescue helicopter, Police Scotland, Ministry of Defence police and coastguard teams from Kilgreggan and Greenock also joined the search.\n\nA RNLI spokesman said weather conditions at the time were poor with heavy rain, force five to seven winds and poor visibility.\n\nThe search was stood down at 04:00 due to darkness and weather conditions, according to Greenock Coastguard.\n\nIt resumed on Sunday though stormy weather conditions meant the helicopter could not take part.\n\nAn MCA spokeswoman said they had carried out an extensive search of both shorelines in the area up towards the Erskine Bridge.\n\nHowever, the missing man had not been found.\n\n\"The decision has been taken to terminate the search, pending any further information,\" she added. \"Our thoughts are with the family at this time.\"", "Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has hinted she may return to politics when the Tories are in opposition at Westminster, even suggesting she could lead the party.\n\nShe said: \"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson stood down as leader in August, citing Brexit and changing priorities after the birth of her son.\n\nShe does not plan to stand for re-election in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nIn an interview for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine, she hinted she could make a bid to lead the UK party - perhaps re-entering politics when the Conservatives are in opposition at Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"It may well be that my time in politics doesn't come again until we're in opposition.\n\n\"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson continued: \"If someone tapped on my door and asked me to help, I'd be there in a heartbeat.\n\n\"But at the moment, I've got four or five years when my son isn't at school and that is not a time that I'm contemplating moving 450 miles away for the majority of the week. It's just some things are more important than politics.\"\n\nMs Davidson tweeted a picture of herself with Finn and her partner Jen Wilson\n\nMs Davidson stood down as Scottish Conservative leader in August. She said her personal priorities had changed after she and her partner, Jen Wilson, had a son, Finn, last October.\n\nOver the eight years she led her party, she was widely credited with turning around the fortunes of the Tories in Scotland\n\nShe has previously ruled out wanting to be prime minister because she valued her \"mental health too much\".\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview for Stella, she also spoke about coming out her family as gay and about the abuse she receives as a politician.\n\nShe said: \"I've never really spoken about it because the relationship I have with my family [now] is not the same as the [one] I had with them at the time I came out.\n\n\"It's to protect them. I put myself in this position. I'm not naive. But there are people in my life who didn't choose that.\"\n\n\"I was in my mid-20s [when I came out] - quite late. I didn't know for ages, which is surprising, looking back,\" she added.\n\n\"I came out to one member of my very close family, it didn't go well, so I didn't come out to the rest for two years.\"\n\nMs Davidson said she had to learn to be \"a bit of a street fighter\" in Scottish politics, saying she could get up to 1,000 abusive tweets a day.\n\nShe said: \"It wears you down. I've had a lot of 'string her up by a lamppost' type stuff; 'unionists, turncoats, traitors'... And I had an incident where someone got my phone number and made threats.\n\n\"It turned out not to be that sinister, but I didn't know that when I was being told they wanted to burn all gays.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Davidson was at the centre of controversy after she accepted a \"contentious\" job with a lobbying firm.\n\nSome opposition politicians said it was a conflict of interest and in October she said she would not take the job.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.\n• None Ruth Davidson on motherhood, coming out and quitting politics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A stained glass window was smashed when the 900-year-old church was broken into\n\nThieves who targeted a church caused between £5,000 and £10,000 of damage, before making off with a charity pot containing less than £200.\n\nThe Rev Nathan Ward said when he arrived at St Margaret's Church, in Rainham, Kent, he found the 900-year-old building had been ransacked. A stained glass window was also smashed.\n\nPolice said they were called to the church at 07:40 GMT.\n\nBut Mr Ward said the break-in \"would not dampen spirits\" ahead of Christmas.\n\nThe damage caused to the building is put at thousands of pounds\n\nHe added: \"This is a season where we especially think of those whose lives have taken a wrong turn and would welcome an opportunity to meet with those involved so we can help and support them.\n\nThe thieves forced doors and cupboards open, ransacked the church office, and stole the CCTV camera.\n\nMuch of Sunday, he said, would be spent clearing up and increasing security, before services resumed in the evening.\n\nMr Ward said the break-in was \"particularly sad\", given how old the stained glass windows were, and that the small amount of money kept in the church was meant for charity.\n\nA second church in Rainham - St Thomas of Canterbury in London Road - was also broken into. Police were called to that church at 09:15.\n\nKent Police confirmed inquiries into both break-ins were ongoing, and appealed for anybody with information to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders has died at the age of 87, the club have announced.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the First Division title in 1981, before departing during their European Cup-winning campaign the following season.\n\nHe also won two League Cups during his eight years at Villa Park.\n\n\"Ron Saunders died at 15:00 GMT on Saturday and his family have asked for their privacy to be respected at such a difficult time,\" a club statement said.\n\nVilla players will wear black armbands and hold a period of applause when they host Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the top flight in 1974 with promotion in his first season in charge.\n\nHe also achieved the distinction of reaching three successive League Cup finals as manager of three different clubs - Norwich in 1973, Manchester City in 1974 and Villa in 1975.\n\nHe ended his managerial career at West Bromwich Albion, retiring in 1987.\n\nHe remains the only manager to have taken charge of midlands rivals Villa, West Brom and Birmingham City - leading the Blues between 1982 and 1986.\n\nA distinguished playing career as a prolific striker took in spells at Everton, Gillingham, Watford and Charlton, but it was at Portsmouth where he enjoyed sustained success, scoring 162 goals in 261 appearances between 1958 and 1964. He remains the third-highest scorer in the club's history.\n\nFormer Villa striker Stan Collymore was among the first to pay tribute, tweeting: \"Sincerest condolences to Ron's family and friends.\n\n\"The man who made many Villans fall in love with a club and a team that gave us the very best of days.\n\n\"Wembley, Old Trafford, Highbury, which all lead to one special night in Rotterdam. Rest in peace, boss.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"I have always held Ron in very high regard and I have the utmost respect for his achievements throughout his career and, in particular, his committed service to the three midlands rivals.\n\n\"His record of reaching the League Cup final three consecutive times with three different clubs is testament to his determination and dedication to his profession.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at the LMA are with Ron's family and friends at this sad and difficult time.\"", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said leaked documents reportedly showing the NHS would be at risk after a post-Brexit trade deal with the US are genuine.\n\nMr Corbyn said \"at no stage did the prime minister or anybody deny that those documents were real\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said an investigation is needed into the source of the documents on UK-US trade negotiations, posted on the Reddit website.\n\nReddit said the unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nThe forum website has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".", "Peter Teich and Ms Becko say they felt 'numb' after almost losing £193,000 worth of inheritance\n\nA pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance.\n\nPeter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly transferred to another Barclays customer's account, who refused to return it.\n\nHe expected to receive the money in April after his father's death.\n\nBut he realised there was an issue when his sister received her inheritance and he did not.\n\nMr Teich says his solicitor immediately contacted Barclays and was told it would take a week for the money to be returned.\n\nIn May, Barclays wrote to Mr Teich saying he had been \"mis-advised\" about the funds being restored - and credited his account with a \"small token gesture\" of £25.\n\n\"I freely acknowledge my mistake in this unhappy saga,\" said Mr Teich.\n\n\"I provided the sort code of the wrong Barclays branch. But my error fades into near insignificance when considered in the context of Barclays' conduct.\"\n\nHe said he had given his correct name, address and Barclays account number in Cambridge to his solicitor, but the last two digits of his sort code were incorrect.\n\nHe decided to seek legal advice and in June, after spending £12,000 in legal and court fees, he managed to obtain the other Barclays customer's name.\n\nBut costs continued to rack up with Mr Teich spending £34,000 for a court injunction to force the other Barclays customer to pay.\n\nIn July the inheritance was finally paid into his account.\n\nHis wife, Veronica Becko, 75, told the Press Association: \"We just felt numb. It didn't seem possible or right that a big bank like Barclays could not sort this out. It was an obvious mistake.\n\nWhen Mr Teich asked the bank to repay the £46,000 he had spent in legal fees, he claims Barclays refused.\n\nMs Becko said it was only after they contacted the Guardian newspaper that the bank agreed to pay the fees and offer a further £750 for their inconvenience.\n\n\"Barclays has done the right thing, finally, although through a rather long-winded way,\" Ms Becko said.\n\n\"We hope our story will help other people who find themselves in a similar situation.\"\n\nIn a statement, Barclays said: \"It is evident that on this occasion we have failed to meet the high standards that Mr Teich can expect to receive from Barclays, and for this we have offered our sincere apologies.\n\n\"After taking a closer look at this situation, we can confirm that Mr Teich can expect the fees he has incurred to be refunded in full with interest, together with a payment for the distress and inconvenience this matter has caused.\"\n\nAt present, anyone wanting to transfer money enters the intended recipient's name, account number and sort code. However, the name is not checked.\n\nUnder plans from the UK's payments operator, from next spring the sender will be alerted if the name does not match the account. The change was originally set to begin in summer 2019, but was delayed.\n• None Name checks to begin on bank payments", "Boris Johnson has insisted there will not be any checks for goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Great Britain under his Brexit deal.\n\nHe told Sky News that a leaked Treasury analysis document was \"wrong\" to suggest this would be the case.\n\nHis Brexit deal means there will be goods checks from GB to NI, but there has been confusion on whether there will be checks in the other direction.\n\nLabour said the PM's claims about his deal with the EU were \"fraudulent\".\n\nAnd DUP leader Arlene Foster said she still had concerns over the withdrawal agreement Mr Johnson reached with other European leaders in October.\n\nThe comments come as the main political party leaders continue to push their pledges ahead of Thursday's general election.\n\nUnder the PM's agreement, Northern Ireland would continue to follow many EU rules on food and manufactured goods, while the rest of the UK would not.\n\nNorthern Ireland would also continue to follow EU customs rules but would remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis: 'We are not going to have a border down the Irish sea'\n\nA government risk assessment published in October said it would lead to new administration and checks on goods from west to east.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has insisted Northern Irish businesses will not be hit with additional paperwork or fees, telling a BBC phone-in during the election campaign: \"We will make sure that businesses face no extra costs and no checks for stuff being exported from NI to GB.\"\n\nHe has said the only checks would be on British exports to the Republic of Ireland going via Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the BBC's Northern Ireland business and economics editor John Campbell said these comments \"do not accurately reflect what is in the deal\" and, because of EU law, products would have to be checked even if they were not going on to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBoris Johnson is right to say that under his Brexit deal goods travelling east - from Northern Ireland into Great Britain - would be treated differently from goods travelling west - from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he's wrong to say there will no checks in either direction.\n\nThat assertion runs counter to what is written in his own withdrawal agreement.\n\nBusinesses sending goods from Northern Ireland into Great Britain will have to fill out export declaration forms - only a small piece of online bureaucracy, but still different from goods travelling elsewhere within the UK.\n\nFrom Great Britain to Northern Ireland, though, tariffs will have to be paid on goods if their final destination is - or could be - the Republic of Ireland, inside the EU.\n\nThis will necessitate some form of checks. It's also important to remember that checks aren't just about customs.\n\nUnder the prime minister's deal, Northern Ireland will continue to follow many of the rules of the EU single market for goods. And that means EU law requires checks on, for example, all food and animal products - at their point of entry.\n\nThe more the UK diverges from EU rules, as Mr Johnson says he wants to be able to do, the more checks there will be.\n\nThe internal Treasury document leaked on Friday laid all this out in more detail. The prime minister says it is all nonsense, but his own deal says something rather different.\n\nWhen asked on Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday whether there would be checks, in light of the leaked Treasury document, Mr Johnson replied: \"No, absolutely not.\n\n\"The deal we've done with the EU is a brilliant deal and it allows us to do all the things that Brexit was about, so it's about taking back control of our borders, money, laws.\n\n\"But unlike the previous arrangements, it allows the whole of the UK to come out of the EU, including Northern Ireland, and the only checks that there would be would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the government's document was therefore wrong and if his Brexit secretary - who in October said goods going from Northern Ireland to Great Britain would be subject to exit declarations - was also wrong, Mr Johnson replied: \"Yes.\n\n\"Because there's no question of there being checks on goods going from NI to GB or GB to NI, because they are part of - if you look at what the deal is, we're part of the same customs territory and it's very clear that there should be unfettered access between Northern Ireland and the rest of GB.\n\n\"The only reason - this is another of these things that has been produced by the Labour Party as a kind of distraction.\"\n\nGiving evidence to the House of Lords Exiting the EU committee in October, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay initially said he did not believe exit forms would be necessary for trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut he later conceded: \"The exit summary declarations will be required in terms of NI to GB.\"\n\nWhen security minister Brandon Lewis was challenged on the subject of post-Brexit goods checks on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"We have some checks now, with customs and live animals, things like that.\n\n\"It's right that we continue that. But we've been very clear - there will be no border down the Irish Sea.\n\n\"The UK as a whole will leave the European Union together and, of course, Northern Ireland itself will have that self-determination around things as we go forward.\"\n\nDUP leader Ms Foster told BBC 5 live's Pienaar's Politics her party had a \"large concern\" about how it would be determined which goods travelling through Northern Ireland had the Irish Republic as the final destination.\n\n\"By definition you would need checks to see that that happens,\" she said. \"There have been differing views even within the Conservative Party as to what it meant.\"\n\nMs Foster said there had to be \"clarity in relation to that for those of us living in Northern Ireland, because, of course, Great Britain is our largest market by far, and we need to be able to, from an economic point of view, know what it's going to mean for us in the future\".\n\nAt a press conference in London on Friday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the 15-page Treasury document - entitled Northern Ireland Protocol: Unfettered Access to the UK Internal Market - disproved Mr Johnson's claims there would be no checks, and showed his claims about his own deal were \"fraudulent\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard evidence\" NI would be \"symbolically separated\" from the rest of the UK after Brexit.\n\n\"What we have here is a confidential report by Johnson's own government, marked 'official', 'sensitive', that exposes the falsehoods that Boris Johnson has been putting forward,\" he said.\n\n\"This is cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact a damaging Brexit deal would have on large parts of our country, 15 pages that paint a damning picture of Johnson's deal on the issue of Northern Ireland in particular.\"", "Mike Horn poses in front of the Lance icebreaker boat\n\nTwo explorers who trekked hundreds of miles at the North Pole and were running out of food have reached safety after an epic journey across the ice.\n\nSouth African Mike Horn and Norwegian Boerge Ousland covered about 1,800km (1,120 miles) on treacherous drifting ice in the past couple of months.\n\nBecause of delays, they had been expected to run out of food by Friday.\n\nHowever, they managed to meet up with two Norwegians sent to rescue them despite a local storm.\n\nThe latest Instagram update on Sunday showed a picture of the four men on their way to the Norwegian polar research ship, the Lance, which was due to pick them up.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn earlier entry described how the two pairs had got closer and closer to each other until they spotted each other's headlamps in the distance and began shouting \"cries of joy\".\n\nThe men are now recuperating on the Lance, which will make its way out of the ice to the Pangaea, another ship which will collect them to bring them back to Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic archipelago.\n\nThe Norwegian pair - Bengt Rotmo and Aleksander Gamme - set off on Tuesday, carrying food for the Horn-Ousland team.\n\nExpedition organiser Lars Ebbesen, who was maintaining contact with both teams via satellite phone, told the BBC on Friday that the Horn-Ousland team did not want to be rescued by helicopter, but that they agreed to meet up with the Norwegian pair.\n\nAt that point, the wind was building up and they had little food. If they had got trapped, they would not have had enough food to last.\n\nThe pair faced many obstacles during their journey, including frostbite and extreme fatigue\n\nThe pair set off on 23 September and should have completed their trek in mid-November. They spent weeks alone on the ice in the dark - in the Arctic winter, there is no daylight.\n\nThe pair faced many obstacles, including fluctuating temperatures on the ice - from -40C to +2C (35F), a sign of climate change, according to Horn.\n\nSometimes at night, when they were camping, the drifting ice moved them backwards, adding to the distance they had to cover. Thinner polar ice than normal also added to the risks and slowed them down.\n\nAt one point, Horn fell into the icy water resulting in frostbite to his hands and nose. The pair had lost a lot of weight, and were feeling weak and tired by the end of the journey, he said.\n\nA key aim of the expedition was to collect data on the Arctic ice melt, which scientists attribute to global warming.\n\nThe journey began on the Alaskan side of the North Pole and was due to end in Svalbard.\n\nThe explorers crossed the polar ice sheet in darkness and bitter cold\n\nMike Horn, 53, became famous after completing a solo journey around the equator without motorised transport in 1999-2000.\n\nIn 2004, he completed a two-year solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, and in 2006, along with Borge Ousland, became the first man to travel without dog or motorised transport to the North Pole during winter, in permanent darkness, according to his website.", "The woman died at the scene in Wellingborough Road, Rushden\n\nA 13-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed in the street.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked at 20:30 GMT on Saturday in Wellingborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.\n\nParamedics were called but she died at the scene, near St George's Way.\n\nPolice said the arrested man has serious injuries, and another 27-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of his attempted murder.\n\nDet Insp Pete Long, said: \"This was an extremely tragic incident in which a young woman has lost her life and I want to reassure people that we are doing all we can to bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"A large team of detectives have been working on this case around the clock and a number of lines of inquiry are being pursued as part of this fast-paced investigation.\n\n\"This incident has really shocked the Rushden community, many of whom were on the scene last night, and I would ask anyone who was there and saw what happened to please come forward with your information.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anthony Joshua became a two-time world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr in a tense rematch in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSix months on from the night Ruiz stunned boxing, Joshua risked seeing his career left in tatters with a second defeat, but served up 36 minutes of movement and well-timed punching to take the IBF, WBA and WBO titles back to Britain.\n\nAfter cutting his Mexican rival inside the first round he never looked back and picked out smart jabs and right hands throughout before being serenaded with chants of \"AJ, AJ, AJ\" by 14,000 or so fans in the Diriyah Arena.\n\nRuiz never looked close to landing a knockdown and when scores of 118-110 118-110 and 119-109 were read out, Joshua jumped up and down in the ring in celebration, just as the man who had wrecked his US debut did in June.\n\nJoshua gets it right all night\n\nJoshua, 30, now joins a small cluster of men including Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson to have reclaimed the world heavyweight title.\n\nPatterson fell to the canvas seven times in one round as he lost his belts to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 but regained them in a rematch. The question in Saudi Arabia was whether Joshua could show the same mental fortitude after being knocked down four times by Ruiz in June. His answer was emphatic.\n\nA downpour in a country that barely sees rain stopped moments before Joshua strode to the ring, prompting him to carefully dry his feet on the canvas.\n\nFrom that moment on, his feet moved with grace. Seconds before the off, Ruiz was told \"let's go Andy\" by his corner but he was rarely allowed to get close to his rival and inflict the damage he did in the first fight.\n\nRuiz, the bookmakers' underdog again, was cut above his left eye in the first. He landed two jabs of his own in the second but took a left hook as Joshua moved with the lightness of a man at his lowest weight in five years.\n\nHe was burning energy but was slick and showed variety in working head and body in the third. A crowd unfamiliar with the sweet science at such close quarters offered audible applause and cheers as the smart work landed.\n\nThere was always tension given the speed with which Ruiz's gold gloves can move, and in the eighth he served up a first scare. As the pair tangled, Ruiz made things ugly and winged in a hook. The crowd stamped their feet while Ruiz's fighting compatriot Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez stood and screamed ringside.\n\nThe ninth felt key, Joshua needed to establish distance again. He landed a solid uppercut but saw Ruiz fire back wildly instantly. Again, the incredible durability of the champion and the constant threat he carried was evident.\n\nDeep in the 12th, Ruiz beat his chest as if to dare Joshua close. After a night of lateral movement and poise, it was never going to happen. Joshua glared out at the crowd as the bell sounded. It was a look of a defiance. It was the look of a man who had proved his point.\n• None Listen: Highlights of Joshua & Ruiz's 'Clash on the Dunes'\n\nSome seeing Ruiz's showing here will ask what was wrong with Joshua in their first meeting - the Mexican was never able to rediscover the heights he hit in New York.\n\nHis weight gain of 15lb was the same as James 'Buster' Douglas piled on after stunning Mike Tyson in 1990. Douglas lost easily to Holyfield months later and as the scorecards widened on Saturday and Ruiz ate shots, it looked as if his new status and its attached distractions might have taken a similar toll.\n\nHauling 20st 3lb around a ring is no easy feat. Only Nikolai Valuev - who was 7ft tall - has weighed more and held a world title. And as Saudi royalty watched on at ringside, Ruiz was consistently unpicked and outmanoeuvred.\n\nHe will at least leave with a career-high pay day in excess of £10m. He can live the rest of his life as a former world champion who stunned boxing. But if he shoots for titles again, he will simply need to be better.\n\nJoshua had said defeat would have been \"catastrophic\" for a career that promised so much, delivered plenty and then, from nowhere, was shaken to its core.\n\nSome close to him had expressed how nervous they were all week. The fact his entire team stayed with him in the ring for over 30 minutes after his win pointed to their relief.\n\nHe has promised to fully explain what happened on that June night but it is to his credit that he pushed for a new approach to his training, made adjustments and lived out the lessons he gleaned from his lowest point in the paid ranks.\n\nTo use a boxing term, he 'boxed the ears off' a man who had prompted him to ask so many questions of himself.\n\nThe talk of facing Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury - temporarily derailed by Ruiz in June - will resume. Another rematch, though neither party is obligated this time, also has legs.\n\nJoshua has earned such options after such a clinical response to adversity.\n\nBoxing history will never forget what Ruiz did to him. Joshua can at least draw some comfort in putting things right.\n\nWhat they said - 'When was the last time we had a role model like this?'\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn: \"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong. It was an absolute masterclass, a shutout, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that - the discipline was incredible. All the things no-one thought he possessed. That's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has a resume like him? Give him respect; he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"\n\nJoshua's trainer Robert McCracken: \"I think he was where I wanted him to be for this fight. He has listened in camp, worked really hard, and I thought he boxed very well against a dangerous fighter.\n\n\"Andy Ruiz is a real danger and he is very quick and heavy-handed. There were a couple times Josh went into mid-range and came unstuck but he settled back down in the corner and got back on it. His weight was great and his jab was tremendous.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing pundit Steve Bunce: \"AJ was absolutely clinical and he never wasted a shot. That was class and he stuck to his plan. Beautiful to watch.\n\n\"He got it right in spectacular fashion. He has been steely and nasty.\"", "Former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa has won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! after spending three weeks in the Australian jungle.\n\nThe actress was named queen of the jungle, following in the footsteps of previous winners like Harry Redknapp, Stacey Solomon and Kerry Katona.\n\nCo-presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly revealed the winner at the end of the final of the ITV reality show.\n\nActor Andy Whyment was the runner-up, with radio DJ Roman Kemp in third.\n\nJossa played Lauren Branning in BBC soap EastEnders between 2010 and 2018.\n\nAfter she was named queen of the jungle, she said: \"I have no words.\"\n\nThis year's series - the 19th - was the first not to have live insects eaten as part of the show's \"bushtucker trials\".\n\nCoronation Street actor Andy Whyment took part in a \"bushtucker bonanza\" before he came second\n\nAny insects consumed on the show were already dead - though live creepy-crawlies were still dumped on its celebrity contestants.\n\nBut the show was not without controversy, with former sports stars James Haskell and Ian Wright being accused of bullying their fellow campmates.\n\nViewers also contacted media watchdog Ofcom to complain that some of the show's challenges were too hard and thus unfair.\n\nThere was contention before the series even aired, with former Commons Speaker John Bercow demanding a newspaper apologise for claiming he had asked for £1m to appear.\n\nDJ Tony Blackburn was the first celebrity to be crowned King of the Jungle when the show first aired in 2002.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kate Lindsey will play the title role of Orlando\n\nFor the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna State Opera is staging an opera by a woman.\n\nAustrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes of gender fluidity and duality.\n\nThe title role is played by the singer Kate Lindsey.\n\nOrlando lives for centuries, beginning as a man in Elizabethan England and then changing into a woman.\n\nThe story by Virginia Woolf has been updated for the 21st Century\n\nOlga Neuwirth says androgyny and the rejection of gender stereotypes have inspired her ever since she first read Woolf's novel as a teenager.\n\n\"Not only is it a journey through centuries, but it is a journey of constant questioning of imposed norms by society, and society is made by man,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOrlando, for all of us, should be a symbol of freedom, humanity and freedom of opinion, but in a very playful and ironic way - which I like so much\n\n\"Each human being is allowed to choose what they feel is inside them,\" she said. \"There is no binary role model anymore.\"\n\nConductor Matthias Pintscher says the 'in-betweenness\" of the story of Orlando is reflected in the music.\n\n\"She is mixing it all up,\" he said. \"We have a traditional orchestra in the pit. On top of that we have three keyboards, a jazz band and a lot of pre-recorded samples that interestingly, beautifully blend into the texture of the live instruments.\"\n\nOlga Neuwirth says \"it feels a little bit strange\" to be the first female composer to have a work staged at the Vienna State Opera.\n\nThe opera house cancelled her previous attempt to put on an piece with a libretto by the Nobel Prize winning author Elfriede Jelinek.\n\nThe opera has special significance for Justin Vivian Bond, who plays Orlando's child\n\n\"One hundred and fifty years is a long time. But I've always said it's never too late. So it's good that they finally have thought about it. And at least if you're the first, there has to be a second and a third and so on. So it's always good to have a starting point.\"\n\nThe costumes are by another woman, designer Rei Kawakubo, of Commes des Garçons.\n\nThe story has been brought up into the 21st Century.\n\nFor transgender and trans-genre artist Justin Vivian Bond, who plays the role of Orlando's child, this opera has a personal significance.\n\n\"Conceptually, I am the legacy of what the novel Orlando began to express about gender and transgression and about the difference between what it's actually like to be a man or a woman, if indeed there is that much of a difference,\" said Bond.\n\n\"And since I'm a non-binary person who's trans-feminine, I guess you could say I am happily stepping into a moment and I'm the sort of representation of where we've come.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucia Lucas tells the BBC what it's like to be a transgender opera singer but still have to play male roles\n• None First transgender opera singer on London stage. Video, 00:01:50First transgender opera singer on London stage", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were \"aware of a video circulating on social media\" which appears to show a supporter making monkey gestures towards United players.\n\nThey have pledged to issue a lifetime ban to \"anyone found guilty of racist abuse\".\n\nThe FA plans to speak to the clubs, referee Anthony Taylor and the police.\n\nThe incident in question happened when United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half.\n\nThe 26-year-old Brazilian said it was a shame that such incidents still happen in 2019.\n\n\"We are still in a backward society,\" Fred told ESPN Brazil after the 2-1 win for Manchester United.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this is happening in some stadiums. It happened here, it happened in Ukraine with some friends.\n\n\"It's sad, but we have to keep our heads up and forget about that. We can't give them any attention because that's all they want. I spoke to the referee after the match, they will do something about it and that's all.\"\n\nFred also appeared to be hit by an object thrown at Etihad Stadium.\n\nAnti-racism body Kick It Out says it has been \"inundated\" with reports of alleged racist abuse after the incidents were captured by television cameras.\n\n\"We hope swift action is taken to identify the offenders,\" Kick It Out said.\n\nMore than one United player said they had been abused after the game, with the Old Trafford club reporting their comments to referee Anthony Taylor and Manchester City.\n\nCity said they are working with Greater Manchester Police to help them identify any individuals who were involved. Greater Manchester Police said that no arrests had been made but that \"enquiries into the incident are ongoing\".\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind,\" City added.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association welcomed City's prompt response, adding: \"Racist abuse is a criminal offence and must be dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I've seen it on the video and the fella must be ashamed of himself. It is unacceptable and I hope he won't be watching any football any more.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola said he does not want to see any more alleged racist abuse \"happen again\".\n\n\"It is a battle to fight every day. Unfortunately, it has happened in many places,\" he said.\n\nUnited forward Marcus Rashford, who was also playing when England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was overshadowed by racism in October, called for more to be done to tackle the problem.\n\n\"The fact it is still happening is not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"We seem to be speaking about it an awful lot over last six to eight months. Even speaking about it now is not nice.\n\n\"The necessary departments need to do the right things to stop it in the game. It is a big negative in the sport and the country.\"\n\nWith United leading 2-0, a number of objects were thrown by supporters in the home end when Fred went to take a corner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Brazilian moved away from the corner flag before going back to take the set-piece.\n\nCity midfielder Fernandinho, along with other home players, urged the fans in that corner to calm down.\n\nPlay resumed a few moments later once referee Taylor picked up a number of objects in that area of the pitch.", "A police investigation has been launched into an alleged internal financial fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.\n\nThe probe relates to the quango's Glasgow office and the allegation is understood to involve a six-figure sum of money.\n\nThe SQA said a \"suspected case of financial irregularity\" had been referred to the police.\n\nPolice Scotland was first made aware of the fraud claims in June last year.\n\nThe SQA's latest accounts refer to an \"instance of suspected financial irregularity\" and the 2017-18 report also highlights two cases of suspected financial irregularity which were under investigation internally.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said the force had \"received reports of possible fraudulent activities linked to a business in Glasgow\".\n\nShe added: \"The circumstances are currently being investigated and no further comment will be made until this is complete.\"\n\nA spokesman for the SQA said: \"A suspected case of financial irregularity has been referred to Police Scotland for investigation.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to comment further.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, the authority has been forced to disclose details about the travel expenses of senior executives after the Sunday Mail raised the matter with the Scottish Information Commissioner.\n\nThe SQA had argued publishing such details would put the security of its travelling staff at risk but the commissioner ruled publication was in the public interest.\n\nThe paper's investigation highlighted a number of trips, including one for three executives to Saudi Arabia in 2015 which cost £17,000.\n\nIt reportedly involved business class flights and a stay at \"one of the most luxurious hotels in the world\".", "The woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight\n\nA woman has been stung by a scorpion while travelling on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.\n\nThe woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight on Thursday morning.\n\nWhen she went to the toilet, the scorpion fell out of her trousers and scuttled away.\n\nThe passenger was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital, the airline told the BBC. She has not been named and her condition is not known.\n\n\"After learning that one of our customers on flight 1554 from San Francisco to Atlanta was stung during flight, our crew responded immediately and consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided medical guidance,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\n\"The customer was transported to a local hospital,\" it added. \"We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being.\"\n\nA picture of the scorpion in what appears to be a United Airlines-branded box was published by celebrity news website TMZ, which first reported the story.\n\nAlthough rare, it's not the first time a scorpion has been found on a commercial flight.\n\nUnited Airlines said the woman was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital\n\nEarlier this year, a scorpion was filmed crawling out of the overhead luggage rack on a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.\n\nA similar incident happened in 2017, when a Canadian man said he was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight.\n\nRichard Bell said the scorpion fell on his head from above him while he was eating lunch on a flight from Houston, Texas to Calgary in Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Bell describes the moment a scorpion fell on his head during a United Airlines flight\n\nThe airline offered Mr Bell flying credit as compensation, which he accepted.\n\nLater in 2017, an EasyJet flight from Paris to Glasgow was delayed overnight after a passenger spotted a scorpion on board.", "The main political party leaders are continuing to push their election pledges to voters, as the campaign enters its final few days.\n\nConservative leader Boris Johnson says in an open letter that Thursday's poll is \"historic\" and a choice to \"move forwards\" after Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"chance to vote for hope\" and he had \"the most ambitious plan to transform our country in decades\".\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on Thursday.\n\nAhead of this, the candidates are travelling around the country in a bid to spread their election messages.\n\nAmong the manifesto pledges being highlighted by the main UK parties on Sunday are:\n\nMeanwhile, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is warning that \"the very future of Scotland\" is at stake in the election.\n\nShe is appealing to voters to back her party \"to escape Brexit, protect the NHS, and to put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands\".\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told Sky News her party was looking to make \"real progress\" by increasing its number of MPs on Thursday.\n\nShe added: \"We will be absolutely working to stop Brexit, doing so in a co-operative way with others who share our values and share that goal.\"\n\nIn his letter to voters published in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson says the election will be one that \"shapes future decades\", urging voters to create a \"working Conservative majority government that will get Brexit done, end the uncertainty and allow Britain to move on\".\n\nThe Conservatives have released some details about how their points-based immigration system would work.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, Home Secretary Priti Patel, said it would start in January 2021 and aimed to \"attract the best talent that our country and economy needs, while reducing overall numbers\".\n\nThere would be fast-track entry to the UK for entrepreneurs and some people working for the NHS, and sector-specific schemes for low or unskilled workers to meet labour market shortages.\n\nThe prime minister and members of the cabinet visited the Conservative Party's headquarters\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Mr Johnson declined to say if he would resign if he failed to win a majority in the House of Commons.\n\nHe said: \"What I'm going to do is concentrate on the five days before us, because that is what I think the people of this country would expect.\"\n\nIn the same interview, the prime minister insisted there would not be any checks for goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Great Britain under his Brexit deal.\n\nA leaked Treasury analysis document was \"wrong\" to suggest this would be the case, he said.\n\nAnd in a short speech at the Conservative Party's headquarters, Mr Johnson warned his supporters that the \"horses can still change places\" in the final week of the campaign, saying: \"This is a close-fought election.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn spoke at a rally at Bangor University in north Wales\n\nMeanwhile, Labour is restating its plan to help alleviate pressure in social care through the introduction of free personal care for older people.\n\nThe party says its new funding will help working-age adults and pensioners with care costs, which will also be capped under the proposals.\n\nAccording to the King's Fund, providing free personal care would require an additional £6bn on top of planned spending by 2020-21, taking the social care budget to roughly £26bn.\n\nLabour is also talking about its own research on the issue, which it says shows 9,290 people have approached their local authority since April 2017 for help with care costs after draining their savings.\n\nAt a rally at Bangor University in north Wales, Mr Corbyn attacked \"cruel\" Universal Credit - which his party has said it would scrap.\n\nHe also repeated his pledge to compensate so-called Waspi women, who lost out on years of state pension payments when the retirement age was raised under the coalition government.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that Labour would \"transform our economy\" if it won a parliamentary majority at the election.\n\nHe added: \"I want to make sure our economy works for everybody... It means transforming capitalism into a new form.\"\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to focus on people's priorities, including urgent investment in the NHS and action on the cost of living.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the last stretch on the campaign trail, Mr Corbyn said Mr Johnson \"cannot be trusted to deliver Brexit, or anything else\".\n\nHe said Labour would \"rescue\" the NHS and \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nJo Swinson has been campaigning in Sheffield\n\nElsewhere, the Lib Dems said their plans would \"address the historic investment disparities between our nations and regions\".\n\nIts plans would boost railway electrification, increase the availability of charging points for electric vehicles and improve broadband access, the party added.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said: \"Neither Labour or the Tories can square their spending promises today with the cost of Brexit. They are writing promises on cheques that will bounce.\n\n\"Every vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote to stop Brexit so we can invest billions across the UK, helping to tackle ingrained inequality.\"\n\nOn the campaign trail in Sheffield, Liberal Democrat leader Ms Swinson also encouraged her supporters to make a final push for votes, telling them: \"When you wake up and deliver those 'good mornings' when there's frost on the ground, I want you to know that everything that you do will make that difference.\"", "Storm Atiyah has already had an impact in County Kildare, with felled trees disrupting traffic in Newbridge\n\nStorm Atiyah has made landfall, with winds hitting speeds of up to 80mph (130km/h).\n\nEarlier on Sunday a \"status red\" wind warning was issued by Met Éireann for County Kerry.\n\nExtreme caution is advised, especially in coastal areas and on high ground.\n\nESB Networks has said its crews have dealt with several thousand power outages across the Republic of Ireland. Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that the south-west area is the worst affected.\n\nThe \"status red\" warning for Kerry was in place from 16:00 to 19:00 local time on Sunday. It is now under a \"status orange\" wind warning.\n\nKerry County Council has reported a number of incidents following the \"status red\" wind warning.\n\nIt said a tree fell on a car near Mountcoal Cross on the N69.\n\nMet Éireann said there was a possibility of coastal flooding due to a combination of high seas and a storm surge.\n\nThe UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm\n\nA number of flights from Cork Airport were cancelled while there was also disruption at Shannon Airport.\n\nTrains in Cork and Kerry were forced to travel at reduced speeds, resulting in delays.\n\nStorm Atiyah was tracking between Iceland and Ireland on Sunday.\n\nAlthough the UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm, the Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for Wales, with gales of up to 70mph set to hit coastal areas.\n\nThe warning is in force until 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOrange wind warnings have also been issued for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Limerick, which came into effect from 13:00.\n\nThe warnings will remain in place until 06:00 on Monday, with a yellow wind warning in place for the rest of the Republic of Ireland until 13:00 on Monday.\n\nKerry County Council advised people to stay indoors during the status red warning.\n\nAn emergency helpline has been set up by the council to report fallen trees, flooding or debris on roads. Anyone wishing to use it should call 066 718 3588.\n\nA status red marine warning has also been put in place, with winds reaching gale force eight to storm force 10 in all Irish coastal waters.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service said Killarney National Park and Gardens and Muckross Park and Gardens are closed.\n\nSeven other parks in the west of the country are also closed while the weather warnings remain in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Barra Best explains how weather warnings are set, and why they may differ.\n\nThe UK Met Office works in partnership with both Met Éireann and KNMI (The Dutch national weather forecasting service) to name storms.\n\nThe criteria used for naming storms are based on both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring.\n\nA storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning.\n\nWhen the criteria for naming a storm are met, any of the three partners - the Met Office, Met Éireann or KNMI - can do so.\n\nThat does mean that sometimes, like today, Met Éireann have named Storm Atiyah and issued a Red Warning in County Kerry.\n\nNo warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland by the Met Office, however gusts close to 60mph (100km/h) can be expected in western areas on Sunday evening.\n\nThis is the first named storm of the season, last year there were eight storms - the last was Storm Hannah in April.\n\nMet Éireann issue weather warnings based on a criteria, for example, if winds are set to reach a certain speed, whereas the Met Office issues warning based on the impact the weather is expected to have.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Everyone's had a quick break while the adverts have been on, but now we're back with host Cathy Newman who is asking the audience what they want to hear.\n\nThe next question is on the subject of crime. Should convicted terrorists serve the whole of their sentence without the chance of early release?\n\nPlaid Cymru's Adam Price answers first, saying \"public protection needs to be at the heart of the policy\".\n\nBut he adds that, in the most recent case at London Bridge, the lessons will only be known once there has been an investigation into what happened.\n\n\"So I think it's important not to rush to judgement in terms of that specific case.\"\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner says \"the most important thing is that the public are kept safe\".\n\nShe says prisons are \"overstuffed\" and \"lots of people re-offend on petty crime doing time for that\".\n\nShe gets a brief clap after saying that if convicted terrorists need to spend 10 or 20 years in prison \"they should do that\" - but adds that rehabilitation must be part of the justice system.\n\nMs Rayner says that when people are allowed out, then \"they have to be watched and monitored\".\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson says there must be a proper assessment \"before anyone is released\".\n\n\"One of those grieving parents, David Merritt, he has called on politicians not to politicise his son's death,\" says Ms Swinson.\n\nMs Rayner interjects: \"That's why I didn't mention that.\"\n\nMs Swinson says she is angry at Boris Johnson for ignoring Mr Merritt's request.", "Conservative chairman James Cleverly has apologised for cases of Islamophobia in his party.\n\nMr Cleverly said he was \"sorry\" when Tory members and candidates \"do or say things that are wrong\".\n\nBut he added that he was \"confident\" there was now \"a robust mechanism\" in place to deal with the issue.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Tory party of having a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and of not doing enough to tackle it.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Cleverly said an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.\n\nHe said: \"We said it will be initiated this calendar year.\n\n\"We have been doing, in parallel to the general election campaign, preparatory work ahead of that and we'll be making a more formal announcement as soon as the election is done.\n\n\"It will specifically look into Islamophobia in my party. It will, by definition, also have to look at other stuff as well, because you can't always unpick this.\n\n\"But we are and absolutely have always been clear on this. We recognise that in mass membership organisations that there will always be people that say and do things which are completely inappropriate.\"\n\nTory leader Boris Johnson has also come in for criticism for a newspaper column last year in which he said Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nTory election candidate Parvez Akhtar said the effect of the column has been \"to reinforce the widely held view that the Conservative Party has a blind spot when it comes to Muslims\".\n\nMr Cleverly told John Pienaar the prime minister had already apologised for his comments.\n\nPushed again after being informed that Mr Johnson only apologised for any offence caused by the comments, not the comments themselves, he added: \"If you read the piece, the points that he was making in that piece was that unlike other European countries who have put a blanket ban on the wearing of the burka or hijab, the UK does not do that.\n\n\"The point he was making was that actually in a healthy liberal democracy like we have here in the UK, just because someone has, you know, a personal discomfort with that does not mean that it should be banned.\n\n\"That is a defence of our liberal democracy.\"\n\nEarlier in the election campaign, Mr Johnson himself apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" caused by Islamophobia within the Conservative Party ranks.\n\nMr Cleverly claimed there was a \"massive gulf\" between the scale of Labour's problems with anti-Semitism and the issue of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nAsked if he would apologise for cases of Islamophobia in his party, Mr Cleverly said: \"Well, of course, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry when, you know, people do or say things that are wrong.\n\n\"I am confident that my party has a robust mechanism for dealing with it.\n\n\"We investigate this. It's done independently. We have independent people looking at this and they come to adjudications and where people have had to be either sanctioned or expelled from the party. That has happened.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party suspended a number of members last month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suspended a Glasgow election candidate, Flora Scarabello, after she was accused of using \"anti-Muslim language\".\n\nAnd the party's candidate in Aberdeen North, Ryan Houghton, was suspended over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments he made seven years ago.\n\nMr Houghton has apologised for any hurt caused but insisted the comments were taken out of context.", "Thousands of people have camped out overnight as part of a global effort to raise cash to tackle homelessness.\n\nCelebrities were among the hundreds taking part in the World's Big Sleep Out in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.\n\nOrganisers were expecting more than 50,000 to take part globally, with other events in cities including New York, Brisbane and Dublin.\n\nThe initiative hopes to raise around £38m ($50m) for homelessness charities.\n\nIn London's Trafalgar Square, those camping out faced temperatures of about 10C and heavy rain - conditions which supporters said rough sleepers face every day.\n\nDame Louise Casey, a former head of the government rough sleepers' unit and trustee of the Big Sleep Out, told the BBC she hoped the event would be \"symbolic\".\n\nLondon's Big Sleep Out was hit by heavy rain on Sunday morning\n\nThe Edinburgh Sleep Out took place in Princes Street Gardens\n\n\"It seems absolutely bloody crackers right now - the rain is so heavy - but we're doing it because basically the world has a homelessness problem, it has a displaced people problem, it has refugees,\" Dame Louise said.\n\n\"All of these people are here tonight walking in the shoes of people who are homeless, or people who are refugees, we're just experiencing something for one minute, we're experiencing something that people have to experience all year round.\n\n\"It is a privilege to be here this evening - wet and cold as it is.\"\n\nHelen Mirren read a bedtime story to the participants in Trafalgar Square\n\nThe actress Dame Helen Mirren read bedtime stories to those camping in the square while the band Travis played a set.\n\nAmong those sleeping out in the capital were the ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, who hosted the first head-to-head TV debate of the general election.\n\nFilm star Will Smith speaks at the Big Sleep Out event in New York\n\nMeanwhile in Edinburgh, veteran actor Brian Cox spoke to crowds in West Princes Street Gardens and in New York, film star Will Smith delivered a speech.\n\nIn Cardiff, hundreds slept rough in the city's castle with Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones joining those taking part.\n\nThe World's Big Sleep Out campaign was created by Josh Littlejohn, the co-founder of the Scottish charity and sandwich shop Social Bite.\n\nThe charity has hosted visits from a number of celebrities, including George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\nMr Littlejohn said he wants \"to send a message to the world's political leaders to enact compassionate policy and find solutions for homelessness locally and the global refugee crisis that affects us all\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics has said estimates for the number of people rough sleeping suggest numbers are increasing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but estimates based on homelessness applications suggest numbers are decreasing in Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "United midfielder Fred said he was hit by an object during Saturday's derby\n\nA man has been arrested after objects and racist abuse appeared to be targeted at Manchester United players during Saturday's derby.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a fan making alleged racist gestures in the game against Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were working with police \"regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play\".\n\nA 41-year-old man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order and remains in custody.\n\nOn Saturday, a man was filmed apparently making monkey gestures and sounds towards Manchester United players during the derby at City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nIt happened as United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half and appeared to be hit by an object hurled from the crowd.\n\nAfter the match, the 26-year-old Brazilian said: \"On the field, I didn't see anything. I saw it only in the locker room afterwards. The guys showed me. [A man] even threw a lighter and it hit me.\"\n\nUnited boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"Fred and Jesse [Lingard] were in the corner, taking a corner, and I've seen the video, heard from the boys.\"\n\nHe said the apparent behaviour of the supporter caught on camera was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester City said they were working with police to identify offenders, adding: \"The club are also working with GMP regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play.\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life.\"\n\nFred later joined United players as they celebrated their 2-1 victory at City's Etihad Stadium\n\nAfter social media speculation that the person allegedly making the monkey gestures worked for the infrastructure firm Kier Group, the company tweeted an employee had been suspended \"pending an investigation\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're aware of a video circulating on social media. We take allegations and instances of racism very seriously and are currently investigating potential links between the individual involved and Kier.\n\nThe FA said it would investigate the incident, while the Premier League said it \"will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"If people are found to have racially abused Premier League players they deserve to be punished and we will support any action taken by the authorities and the clubs,\" a Premier League spokesperson said.\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nRacism hit the headlines again when Raheem Sterling and other black players faced abuse in the past year\n\nFred said the alleged incidents on Saturday showed \"we are still in a backward society\".\n\nUnited won the match 2-1 after goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's longest-running rail franchise came to an end on Saturday after more than 22 years.\n\nVirgin Trains, which began serving the West Coast Main Line in 1997, is being replaced by Avanti West Coast.\n\nAlmost 500 million journeys have been made with Virgin Trains, which is co-owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Stagecoach.\n\nThe final service pulled out of London Euston at 21:42 GMT, bound for Wolverhampton.\n\nBut the historic day was marred by disruption when Virgin's last-ever London to Manchester service terminated early at Stockport due to a train fault just before midnight.\n\nEarlier, Sir Richard tweeted his thanks to \"all our wonderful people\" and their \"incredible work\".\n\nAvanti West Coast, which will begin running the service on Sunday, told customers that tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys are still valid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe end of the franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nVirgin Trains, which is 49% owned by Stagecoach, introduced a series of innovations on the railways, including automatic delay compensation payments, a system to allow passengers to stream films and TV programmes on demand from their own devices, and the provision of digital tickets available for all fare types.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRail expert Mark Smith, founder of Seat61.com, said the operator had, with the help of major infrastructure improvements, \"transformed\" its network by almost tripling passenger numbers and doubling services on some routes such as London to Glasgow.\n\n\"I think they've done pretty well,\" he said. \"They do have a certain panache and they communicate that to the staff and to the service. Quirky things like the toilets that talk to you, to onboard service with the food and wine. I'm going to be sorry to see them go.\"\n\nThe service has had a variable record - the proportion of Virgin trains which arrived at their final destination within 10 minutes of the timetable ranged from 33% in the final quarter of 2000 to 91% between July-September 2010.\n\nThe latest figure, for July-September 2019, was 78%.\n\nVirgin Trains managing director Phil Whittingham, who will hold the same position with the new operator, said he was \"concentrating on a smooth handover\" to Avanti, adding: \"It's been a wonderful 22 years transforming services on the west coast and we're proud of everything our people have achieved in that time.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast is owned by First Trenitalia, a partnership between Aberdeen-based FirstGroup and Italian firm Trenitalia.\n\nThe operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'I absolutely promise' UK out of EU by January\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to pass his Brexit deal and bring a Budget within 100 days if he is elected PM.\n\nThe Tory leader said it would include his pledge to raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500, along with cash for schools and the NHS.\n\nHe has pledged a \"new government with a new approach\" - with a focus on better infrastructure, education and technology.\n\nBut Labour said Tories only offered \"more of the same failure\".\n\nThe Lib Dems called the Conservative plans \"pure fantasy\", while the SNP warned there were seven days left to \"lock\" Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nVoters will go to the polls on 12 December for the third election in just over four years.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out his wider legislative agenda in a Queen's Speech pencilled in for 19 December if he gets back into No 10.\n\nHe promised this would build on the programme that was approved by Parliament as recently as October, but which was then effectively mothballed after MPs voted to back an early election.\n\nAnd he has committed to bringing his EU withdrawal agreement back for initial approval by MPs before Christmas.\n\n\"All we need is a working majority to deliver it. Every single one of our candidates has signed up to this deal,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said the possibility that a Conservative government could fail to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 \"simply will not happen\".\n\nThis 11-month deadline covers the transition period that would follow if the UK left the EU in January, which critics say does not leave enough time to negotiate such a deal and could mean the UK ends up without one.\n\nThey include former Tory Justice Secretary - and now independent candidate - David Gauke, who said leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nHe added: \"Look at what we achieved in three months with the deal I did\".\n\nIn an interview with ITV's This Morning, he said a trade deal with the EU was a \"very exciting prospect\", could be agreed \"by the end of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson's plan for the first 100 days gives a timetable to a number of his existing pledges from the campaign trail, including:\n\nThe Conservatives have also said they would introduce a number of pieces of legislation in the 100-day timeframe to take the first steps on other promises including:\n\nMr Johnson vowed that, in government, the Tories would prioritise their plan to raise the National Insurance threshold, as it would deliver a tax cut for \"those who need the most help with the cost of living\".\n\nBut Labour, which is making an announcement of its own on schools funding on Thursday, said the Conservatives' record in office over the past nine-and-a-half years was one of total failure.\n\n\"In those days we've seen child poverty soar, rising homelessness, rising food bank use, and violent crime is up too while the NHS has more people waiting for operations, and record staff vacancies,\" said shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne.\n\n\"As the Conservatives approach 3,500 days of failure, it's clear that more of the same failed austerity, privatisation and tax giveaways for the few is not the answer.\"\n\nAnd as she prepared to embark on a week-long election bus tour, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party was the only one in Scotland capable of thwarting Mr Johnson's \"extreme Brexit\".\n\n\"If Boris Johnson wins a majority in seven days' time, Scotland will be dragged out of Europe within just eight weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"We have seven days to escape Brexit, lock Boris Johnson out of office and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\"", "Thomas Griffith Jones' family are facing a 270-mile round trip to visit him\n\nThe family of an 82-year-old Welsh-speaker with dementia said they were \"shocked\" to find out he could be moved to England for care.\n\nThomas Griffith Jones, of Gwalchmai, is currently being cared for at Ysbyty Cefni, Llangefni, close to his home.\n\nDespite understanding \"only a bit of English\" he is to be moved 135 miles (217km) from Anglesey to Stafford.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said such a move was a \"last resort\" when no suitable care was available locally.\n\nThe health board said Mr Jones required specialist support for his complex needs.\n\nHowever, his granddaughter Louise Renshaw has called for a different solution.\n\n\"We were shocked and couldn't believe they were going to move him to England, away from the family,\" she said.\n\n\"We were worried about the impact as we are so close as a family and the impact it would have on his dementia.\"\n\nLouise Renshaw is worried about the impact on her grandfather's dementia\n\nMr Jones's family fear the move will be \"very confusing and quite scary\" for him and would mean relatives would not be able to see him as often.\n\n\"They are not listening to my grandfather's best interests. He mostly speaks in Welsh now, he only understands a bit of English,\" Mrs Renshaw said.\n\nOlder People's Commissioner for Wales, Heléna Herklots, said it was crucial not to overlook the \"significant impact\" moving someone from away from their community could have on their quality of life and wellbeing.\n\n\"For Welsh speakers, particularly those living with dementia, who may only be able to communicate in Welsh, being relocated away from a Welsh-speaking area can also create communication difficulties and create distress,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said patients who have been assessed at its units are either discharged back home with a suitable care package or transferred to an appropriately staffed and skilled nursing home.\n\n\"It is sometimes necessary to commission external providers to meet the complex needs of people who have a diagnosis of dementia and require very specialist support,\" he said.\n\nBut a \"very small number\" of patients will be placed in specialist care outside north Wales each year because their needs cannot be safely met closer to home.\n\n\"We recognise how unsettling this can be for patients, particularly those who speak Welsh as a first language,\" he said.\n\n\"These decisions are only ever taken as a last resort, once all alternative arrangements have been exhausted.\"\n\nHe said a specialist team would monitor the situation and \"as soon as it is clinically appropriate to do so, these patients are repatriated to care homes closer to their home\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some buses in Shanghai have had facial recognition systems fitted to them\n\nA survey by a Beijing research institute indicates growing pushback against facial recognition in China.\n\nSome 74% of respondents said they wanted the option to be able to use traditional ID methods over the tech to verify their identity.\n\nWorries about the biometric data being hacked or otherwise leaked was the main concern cited by the 6,152 respondents.\n\nFacial recognitions systems are being rolled out in stations, schools, and shopping centres across the country.\n\nThe survey, first reported in the West by The Financial Times, was released on Thursday by the Nandu Personal Information Protection Research Centre.\n\nIt has been described as being one of the first major studies of its kind into public opinion on the subject in mainland China.\n\nSome 80% of respondents said they were concerned that facial recognition system operators had lax security measures.\n\nSeparate research suggests that they have good reason to be concerned.\n\nChina was ranked the worst of 50 surveyed countries in a study looking at how extensively and invasively biometric ID and surveillance systems are being deployed. The work was carried out by the cybersecurity firm Comparitech.\n\nIt said China had no \"specific law to protect citizens' biometrics\" and highlighted a \"lack of safeguards for employees in the workplace\".\n\nSome cities are deploying facial recognition systems at road crossings to identify and deter jaywalkers\n\nNandu's survey was carried out via the internet between October and November.\n\nIn its sample, 57% of respondents voiced concern about their movements being tracked.\n\nIn addition, 84% of people said they wanted to be able to review the data that facial recognition systems had collected on them and to be able to request that it should be deleted.\n\nThe majority said they wanted an option to be able to use ID cards, driving licenses and/or passports as an alternative. But the survey also suggested that between 60 to 70% of Chinese residents believed facial recognition made public places safer.\n\nChina has more facial recognition cameras than any other country and they are often hard to avoid.\n\nEarlier this week, local reports said that Zhengzhou, the capital of the northeastern Henan province, had become the first Chinese city to roll the tech out across all its subway train stations.\n\nCommuters can use the technology to automatically authorise payments instead of scanning a QR code on their phones. For now, it is a voluntary option, said the China Daily.\n\nEarlier this month, university professor Guo Bing announced he was suing Hangzhou Safari Park for enforcing facial recognition.\n\nProf Guo, a season ticket holder at the park, had used his fingerprint to enter for years, but was no longer able to do so.\n\nThe case was covered in the government-owned media, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party is willing for the private use of the technology to be discussed and debated by the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC's John Sudworth put a Chinese facial recognition system to the test in December 2007\n\nBut the state continues to make some uses of the tech mandatory.\n\nAt the start of the month, a new regulation came into force that requires mobile phone subscribers to have their faces scanned when they sign a new contract with a provider.\n\nThe authorities say the move is designed to prevent the resale of Sim cards to help combat fraud.\n\nBut country-watchers have suggested it may also be used to help the police and other officials keep track of the population.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton have sacked manager Marco Silva after 18 months, with the club in the Premier League relegation zone after their Merseyside derby humiliation.\n\nWednesday's 5-2 defeat by Liverpool at Anfield was their ninth of the season and leaves them 18th in the Premier League after three successive losses.\n\nSilva, who took charge in May 2018, won 24 and lost 24 of his 60 games.\n\nShanghai SIPG boss Vitor Pereira is a contender to succeed Silva, while David Moyes' return can not be ruled out.\n\nFormer striker Duncan Ferguson has been put in temporary charge and will manage the side against Chelsea on Saturday.\n\nThe club said they aim to appoint a new manager \"as swiftly as possible\".\n\nEverton are now searching for their fourth permanent boss since Roberto Martinez was sacked in May 2016.\n\nFormer Everton manager Moyes has been considered as a potential interim successor, but the suggestion has sparked a largely negative reaction from supporters and it remains to be seen whether majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and his boardroom colleagues ignore that and invite the 56-year-old Scot to return.\n\nMoyes spent 11 years as Everton manager, and his return has been seen by fans as a retrograde step given his lack of success since leaving for Manchester United in 2013.\n\nHe was sacked at United and Real Socieded and was in charge of Sunderland when they were relegated from the Premier League before having a short spell at West Ham.\n\nIt has been suggested that if Moyes does return he could bring another Everton old boy, Tim Cahill, back as his assistant.\n\nPortuguese Pereira, 51, won two league titles with Porto, the league and cup double with Olympiakos and the Chinese Super League with Shanghai.\n\nPortuguese Silva, 42, is the fifth managerial dismissal in the Premier League this season, after the departures of Javi Gracia - who had replaced Silva at Vicarage Road - and Quique Sanchez Flores from Watford, as well as Tottenham's Mauricio Pochettino and Arsenal's Unai Emery.\n\nFormer Hull City boss Silva succeeded Sam Allardyce at Goodison Park. He was brought in with the hope hewould get Everton to play more attractive football and was backed with almost £90m of signings in the summer of 2018.\n\nEverton finished eighth in Silva's first campaign but, after spending more than £100m on players in the summer, they have won just four league games this season.\n\nThe Toffees face a tricky run of league fixtures over the next month when they play Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, and also Leicester in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.\n\nAfter Martinez was dismissed in 2016, Ronald Koeman led Everton into the Europa League in his first season in charge, but was sacked when the club fell into the relegation zone following a poor start to his second campaign.\n\nDavid Unsworth then lost five of eight games as interim boss, while Allardyce made way following an eighth-place finish after fans frequently expressed their displeasure at the lack of attacking flair under the former England coach.\n\nRecent record of Everton managers in the Premier League\n\nSilva has now had three jobs in English football that have all ultimately ended in failure and been characterised by promising starts followed by steep declines.\n\nIn his four months in charge of Hull, his side accumulated 17 points from his first 11 games - but only four from the next seven as they were relegated from the Premier League.\n\nTwo days after leaving the Tigers, Silva joined Watford in May 2017 and took the team into the top four during his first few months in charge.\n\nHis side took 21 points from 13 games but the Hornets only won once in his next 11 matches, before Silva was sacked in January 2018.\n\nSome of this was attributed by the Vicarage Road hierarchy to Everton's approach for Silva the previous November - before hiring Allardyce.\n\nWatford fiercely resisted the Toffees' unwanted advances and complained to the Premier League with a demand for compensation.\n\nHe was eventually appointed Everton boss in May 2018 and won 22 points from his first 13 league games in charge, but has only taken 42 points from the following 38 matches.\n\nBefore his time in England, Silva guided Estoril into the Portuguese top flight and they qualified for the Europa League the following season.\n\nIn one season at Sporting Lisbon he won the Portuguese Cup, and in his year at Olympiakos, who he also managed in the Champions League, he took them to the Greek league title.\n\nEverton fans will ask why the club can't go for Mauricio Pochettino, but the honest answer is he just wouldn't be interested.\n\nI know Eddie Howe is of interest to the Everton board but getting him mid-season might be difficult.\n\nI don't know how David Moyes going back would work, because he was in control of everything when he was there last time.\n\nThat wouldn't be the case now with director of football Marcel Brands.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nInter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku says the 'Black Friday' headline used by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport is \"one of the dumbest\" he has seen, while Roma's Chris Smalling condemned it as \"wrong and insensitive\".\n\nThe headline accompanied pictures of Lukaku and Smalling prior to Friday's match between their two sides.\n\n\"You guys keep fuelling the negativity and the racism issue,\" Lukaku said.\n\nSmalling urged the newspaper's editors to \"understand the power they possess\".\n\nRoma, along with Inter's rivals AC Milan, announced later on Thursday they will not work with Corriere dello Sport until January.\n\nA joint statement released at the same time by Roma and AC Milan said: \"We have decided to ban Corriere dello Sport from our training facilities for the rest of the year and our players will not carry out any media activities with the newspaper during this period.\n\n\"Both clubs are aware the actual newspaper article associated with the 'Black Friday' headline did portray an anti-racist message and for this reason we have only banned Corriere dello Sport until January.\n\nSmalling is on loan from Manchester United, whose Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the club had been in touch with the England defender.\n\nAt a news conference on Friday, Solskjaer said: \"When you see that paper, you say: 'Wow. Really? Is that possible?' It's the worst front page I've ever seen. It has to be.\n\n\"Of course we have been in touch with Chris, just so he knows that we'll back him and we support him, and with Romelu as well.\"\n\nCorriere dello Sport defended the \"innocent\" headline in a comment piece on its website.\n\n\"It was only a way to celebrate diversity,\" the newspaper said.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Roma's chief operating officer Francesco Calvo said he did not think the headline was a \"clear case\" of racism, but called on people in positions of authority - including clubs, players and media - to be more careful with the language they choose.\n\n\"This isn't like the racism we've experienced many others in Italy in the recent period, this is superficial and unfortunate of people not understanding of how messages can be mixed up in words and perceived in a bad way,\" Calvo told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"All of us who work in football have a bigger responsibility, which is giving the right message to people, being a role model and trying to educate people.\n\n\"This is what everyone should do, including this newspaper. We should be very careful with the words we use.\n\n\"This only allows people to talk about racism in Italy instead of giving a message against racism because people will only read the headline and not the article.\"\n\nAll 20 Serie A clubs made a united pledge last week to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\" with racism because there is no more \"time to waste\".", "George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing his family, their attorney, the US state and others for around $100m (£77m).\n\nThe neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of the 17-year-old's murder in one of Florida's most-high profile criminal cases.\n\nUS law allowed him to say he shot Trayvon in self-defence, but the teenager's family and friends always insisted it was murder.\n\nThe lawsuit claims the Martin family and lawyers used a fake witness against George Zimmerman.\n\n\"The prosecution's key witness in his 2013 murder trial... was an imposter\" who \"provided false statements to incriminate Zimmerman based on coaching from others\", his lawyer Larry Klayman said in a statement.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses Trayvon's parents and the family's lawyer Benjamin Crump of forcing Brittany Diamond Eugene, 16, who was reportedly the teen's girlfriend, to make a recorded statement that implicated George Zimmerman as the person who started the row with Trayvon.\n\nBrittany was on the phone with the 17-year-old moments before it happened, the suit said.\n\nIt also alleges that Brittany's half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, pretended to be Brittany when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate George Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial.\n\nBenjamin Crump said in a statement, on behalf of himself and the Martin family, that he has confidence that the \"unfounded and reckless\" lawsuit will be revealed as \"another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.\"\n\nTrayvon's uncle, Ronald Fulton, 56, claimed the lawsuit was no more than a publicity stunt to promote a forthcoming documentary titled the \"Trayvon Hoax\" that claims Rachel Jeantel was an impostor.\n\nWhile serving as a neighbourhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Florida in February that year, George Zimmerman spotted Trayvon Martin.\n\nHe was wearing a hoodie and had been to the shop to buy some Skittles and a soft drink.\n\nBelieving the teenager was up to no good, after a spate of robberies in the area, he tackled him.\n\nNobody witnessed what happened between them but a neighbour's call to the emergency services picked up cries for help and the fatal gunshot.\n\nGeorge Zimmerman's lawyer always said he was viciously assaulted by Trayvon Martin.\n\nGun laws in the US allow those who own firearms to shoot somebody if they feel they're in danger of being killed or seriously injured.\n\nBecause of this, Florida police didn't arrest George Zimmerman for six weeks after the shooting, provoking mass rallies in Florida and throughout the US.\n\nGeorge Zimmerman has always claimed he acted in self-defence.\n\nThe killing was instrumental in sparking the Black Lives Matter social movement.\n\nIt began after an activist in California named Alicia Garza wrote a post on Facebook. \"Black people. I love you. I love us,\" she wrote. \"Our lives matter.\"\n\nShe was angry that George Zimmerman had been cleared of the murder of Trayvon Martin.\n\nShe and two others started using the phrase \"Black Lives Matter\" as a hashtag online.\n\nBenjamin Crump, the Martin family lawyer, said at the time: \"Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history... as a symbol for the fight for equal justice for all.\"\n\nThe gun George Zimmerman used to killed Trayvon Martin\n\nIn May 2016, George Zimmerman sold the gun that killed Trayvon Martin for $250,000 (£172,000) by auction.\n\nCritics said he was seeking to profit from the killing.\n\nGun rights advocates said he was exercising his legal rights under US law.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Fiona Mackenzie set up the campaign group We Can't Consent To This\n\nWomen in Scotland are frequently \"appalled\" at the violence they experience during sex with men they are on a date with, activists say.\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This said it knew of victims - many aged in their 40s or 50s - who had been strangled, slapped and spat on.\n\nThe group said brutality that features in pornography was often to blame.\n\nThey are calling for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened.\n\nIt follows a number of recent murder trials in which a \"rough sex\" defence has been used by the accused.\n\nThis argument is sometimes used in court when a man has been accused of killing or attacking a woman while having consensual sex.\n\nAn accused's legal team may bring up the victim's sexual preferences or argue she \"asked\" for the act of violence that led to her death or injury.\n\nIn the recent case of Grace Millane, a 21-year-old British backpacker who was murdered while on a date in New Zealand, the defence unsuccessfully argued she died after being consensually choked during sex.\n\nUniversity of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nWhile her killer was convicted of murder, campaigners say they have now seen a surge in this sort of defence being used during trials in the UK - often resulting in a lesser conviction such as manslaughter.\n\nWe Can't Consent To This is pushing for clarification that individuals cannot consent to violent acts during consensual sex in Scots law.\n\nFounder Fiona Mackenzie said women often do not see this sort of violence as assault, rather as something they've \"put themselves into\".\n\n\"There's one thing that's extremely concerning which is the widespread normalisation of violence against women in sex,\" she said.\n\n\"We hear from women who have been choked, punched, slapped and spat on. I think that's really concerning and I think that's meaning that these defences are much more likely to work.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC published research that suggests that more than a third of women, aged between 18 and 39, had experienced unwanted slapping, choking, gagging or spitting during consensual sex.\n\nHowever, Ms Mackenzie said that since launching her campaign, a large proportion of the women she has heard from are aged in their 40s and 50s while some have even been in their 60s.\n\nShe said: \"We hear particularly from women who return to dating after maybe a long relationship who are appalled by the level of violence they are being subjected to.\n\n\"I don't think it is just the younger age groups.\"\n\nMs Mackenzie opened up about her own experience of violence during sex after being choked by a partner.\n\nShe continued: \"I'd like to say it was a long time ago but I think even at the time I blamed myself, I thought it was something that I was responsible for.\n\n\"Many of these women live with quite extreme trauma, they can't wear clothing that's close to their neck or jewellery.\n\n\"Many of them say they just don't date men anymore because it's too scary and they've been assaulted too many times. Being subjected to that kind of assault is absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nIn 2009, the law in Scotland changed to clamp down on the possession of violent pornography.\n\nThe law was clarified to ban \"realistic depictions\" of rape attacks as well as life-threatening and violent sexual acts, bestiality and necrophilia.\n\nA 2016 study indicated a majority of children are exposed to online pornography by their early teens, which researchers called \"worrying\".\n\nMs Mackenzie said that while the effort to clamp down on violent pornography in Scotland was important, it is \"almost never enforced.\"\n\nShe continued: \"If you go onto any of the main porn sites you see again and again, women being strangled to unconsciousness.\n\n\"I would hope that porn companies would take action to crack down on that - I don't think they have any incentive to at the moment.\n\n\"We hear that pornography is normalising the choking of women in sex - we hear from men who use pornography that that's where it's coming from.\"\n\nAt present the campaign has no concrete changes to present to Holyrood but has urged the Scottish Law Commission to clarify that a person cannot consent to violence leading to injury.\n\nMs Mackenzie, whose campaign has backing from charities such as Zero Tolerance, said that societal changes were crucial.\n\nShe has called for more public bodies to collect data on the issue as well as better sex education in schools and a review of how police handle complaints from potential victims.\n\nPrior to the suspension of the Westminster parliament, changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill were proposed in England and Wales to reinforce the fact that consent can be no defence for death. There have been calls for the bill to be reintroduced after the general election.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was aware of cases in Scotland where the accused has argued the victim consented to the acts resulting in their death, but these resulted in conviction for murder or culpable homicide.\n\nIt said it had strengthened the criminal law on sexual offences, that the law was being kept under review and it will carefully consider any proposals to reform it.", "Oliver George's sentencing hearing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados, the court heard\n\nA man who admitted drunkenly threatening bar staff with a £5.50 toy gun - then had his sentencing delayed so he could go to the Caribbean - has been given a community order.\n\nOliver George, 26, flashed the handle of a fake pistol in the Sandbanks Yacht Club in Poole when he became \"annoyed\" at being told he was too drunk.\n\nHe admitted possessing an imitation firearm in a public place in September.\n\nBut sentencing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados.\n\nPoole magistrates sentenced him earlier to 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nGeorge, of Panorama Road in Sandbanks, was a regular customer and had been drinking at the club during the afternoon of 10 September, the court heart.\n\nProsecutor David Finney described how George lifted up his cardigan and flashed the handle of the fake gun that was tucked into the waistband of his shorts.\n\nIn a statement, a member of staff said he was \"really scared\" at what he had seen.\n\n\"I felt threatened seeing it - I didn't know what he would do,\" he said.\n\nGeorge lives on the Sandbanks peninsula in Poole\n\nGeorge left the club and was arrested at his nearby family home a short time later, the magistrates were told.\n\nTerry Scanlan, mitigating, said: \"Mr George was in possession of a clearly harmless toy gun which he had bought for £5.50 from Amazon for his nephews.\"\n\nHe told the court George admitted he lifted his cardigan up so staff were aware of it and that it was a \"really silly thing to do\" but did not have a \"sinister\" intent.\n\nGeorge had \"significant mental health issues\" and was an alcoholic, the court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, magistrate David Senior told George: \"They believed it was a real weapon and you put people in fear.\"\n\nIn addition to his 18-month community order, he was also ordered to pay compensation of £200 each to two members of staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says portraying his party as harbouring candidates with extreme views is \"completely wrong\".\n\nNigel Farage has defended his \"difficult\" decision not to contest Tory-held seats, insisting he was putting \"country before party\".\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil that his party had stopped the \"Lib Dem surge\" and were \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\".\n\nHe said his party was the challenger in Labour-Leave areas in next week's poll.\n\nIt comes as three Brexit Party MEPs quit to support the Tories, saying the party will split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nAnnunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris resigned the whip on Thursday, with Ms Rees-Mogg - Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister - saying it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nMr Farage announced in November that his party would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nSome have been critical of this decision, including MEP John Longworth, who lost the Brexit Party whip in the European Parliament on Wednesday for not support his leader's strategy. He is now backing the Conservatives.\n\nAndy Wigmore, from the Leave.EU group Mr Farage fronted at the 2016 referendum, said the former Brexit Party MEPs had made the \"right decision at the right time\" to back the Conservatives.\n\n\"It's time for Nigel to join them,\" he added in a tweet.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Farage was asked about his election strategy, Islamophobic remarks made by two of his candidates and whether the NHS should be \"on the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader denied being marginalised at the general election.\n\nMr Farage said: \"I don't think if you came with me and visited some of the Labour heartlands in the north you would think that and I also think that what we've done is have a very dramatic effect on this election.\n\n\"I think, number one, the decision, difficult decision, I took in 317 seats to stand down.\n\n\"What that's done is that's poleaxed the Liberal Democrats. They were going to win in south London down through Surrey, right out to the west of England they were going to win a lot of seats if we'd stood. And I knew that wasn't the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMr Farage claimed the Brexit Party had prevented a \"surge\" from the pro-EU Lib Dems and had, therefore, blocked a second EU referendum.\n\n\"What we are actually doing now is tearing chunks out of the Labour vote,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed his failure to form a so-called \"Leave alliance\" between his party and the Conservative Party for the election on the Tories.\n\n\"The Conservative Party didn't want to do it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nOn his call for political reform, including scrapping the House of Lords and changing the voting system, he said: \"At this stage we don't look like fundamentally reforming British politics, but do I think there is an appetite for it? Absolutely.\"\n\nMr Farage said he believed Boris Johnson would win the election and that was his preference in a choice with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he said he was undecided who to vote for in the Conservative-held constituency where he lives.\n\nAndrew Neil also challenged Mr Farage on Islamophobic comments made by two of his candidates in in Edinburgh South West and Birmingham Ladywood.\n\n\"Any attempt that gets made to try and paint the Brexit Party into being a right-wing political party that would harbour anybody with extreme views is completely and utterly wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"We are, in terms of the mix of our candidates, if I look at what we put forward for the European elections, we had more diversity of background, of class, of race, than any other party.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Farage said he wanted to see \"some amendments\" to Mr Johnson's Brexit deal, saying: \"If we don't we are not going to get a clean break from the EU.\"\n\nAnd on whether he thinks NHS drug prices would be \"on the table\" in post-Brexit trade deal talks with the US, Mr Farage said the suggestion was \"ludicrous because no British government will sign up to more expensive drugs\".\n\nHe said he believed that \"wealthier people should be encouraged to take out private insurance to lift the burden off a system that is struggling to cope\".\n\n\"When it comes to opening up the NHS for privatisation, do you want the truth? It's already happened.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Andrew Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n• None What are the Brexit Party's 12 key policies?", "Labour is promising to base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe party says the advisers would form part of a wider agency to help firms access advice and bid for government contracts.\n\nThe party says it would also help small firms by replacing business rates with a tax based on land value.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Labour would bring higher taxes and uncertainty.\n\nThe Tories have pledged to reduce business rates for smaller firms, and give them a bigger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said smaller companies are \"being stretched to breaking point by global corporations which evade their taxes and fail to pay their suppliers on time\".\n\n\"Labour wants business support and finance to be available for entrepreneurs from the moment the seed of an idea is planted,\" she said. \"Labour's Business Development Agency will create thriving businesses within our communities, bringing life back to local economies.\"\n\nThe party also plans to set up a website offering support to smaller firms, and free full-fibre broadband for every business and home by 2030.\n\nIt also says it will establish a £250bn national investment bank providing loans for businesses.\n\nIn addition, it says it would requiring government contractors to pay their suppliers on time or else face a ban from bidding for public cash.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats said Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to renegotiate the PM's Brexit deal and put it to a referendum undermined Labour's plans to support business.\n\nLabour has pledged to offer voters a choice between its deal or remaining in the EU - it has not said which option it would back and Mr Corbyn has said he would stay \"neutral\" during the campaign.\n\nLib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah said smaller firms have \"made it abundantly clear that any form of Brexit - be it red or blue - will harm their ability to hire staff, make it more difficult to export to our closest partners and ratchet up the cost of doing business\".\n\n\"It is only the Liberal Democrats who will stop Brexit and bring forward a bold vision to support small businesses in the UK,\" he added.\n\nHis party also wants to replace business rates with a levy on commercial properties based on land values, and create a new \"start-up allowance\" to help those setting up businesses with their living costs.\n\nParties are competing to offer more help to high streets ahead of the general election\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said it welcomed Labour's plan for an agency to support small firms, as well as the party's commitment to clamp down on suppliers that make late payments.\n\nHowever its chairman Mike Cherry said the party needed to provide \"urgent clarity\" on its tax changes to dividend payouts.\n\n\"The party promised that no business owner making less than £80,000 would be targeted if it wins power,\" he said\n\n\"But, as things stand, it's hard to see how that will be the case.\"\n\nThe Conservatives also criticised Labour plans to raise the corporation tax rate paid by smaller companies from the current 19% to 21% by 2023/24.\n\nThe party also said Labour plans to introduce a 32-hour working week within ten years would \"hit businesses hard\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"Despite what they claim, Labour are not on the side of small businesses\".\n\nShe added that smaller companies \"don't need a new quango, they need certainty\".\n\n\"All Corbyn's Labour will bring is higher taxes and uncertainty with no plan for Brexit\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' business spokesman Sam Gyimah said: \"Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has dropped any pretence of being friendly to industry, returning to plans from the 1970s to take over company shares and nationalise swathes of the economy.\"\n\nHe also accused both Labour and the Conservatives of being united by Brexit, \"the most anti-business policy of all\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is promising to cap class sizes at 30 pupils across all schools in England if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe pledge is an extension of the party's commitment in its manifesto to limit classes to this size at all primary schools.\n\nThe party said it would fulfil the pledge by recruiting nearly 20,000 extra teachers over five years.\n\nThe Conservatives said English schools were rising up international rankings.\n\nThe party has pledged an extra £7.1bn by 2022-23 for schools in England.\n\nLabour's pledge to recruit nearly 20,000 teachers is similar to a promise made two weeks ago by the Liberal Democrats.\n\nLib Dem education spokeswoman Layla Moran accused the party of trying to \"copy\" them, but added that Labour had \"no hope of meeting this target\".\n\nShe said Labour would not be able to \"square these promises\" with leaving the EU if voters back the party's Brexit deal in its planned referendum, due to \"thousands of EU teachers coming to work in schools each year\".\n\nLabour said the recruitment would be funded from an extra £25bn in schools spending over the next three years. The party has also committed to ensuring all teachers have formal teaching qualifications within five years.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast a Labour government could not make changes \"overnight\", but they would \"reversing the trend\" of increasing class sizes and lack of spending under the Conservatives.\n\n\"The investment would go in immediately, so the money that schools have had cut they would instantly see,\" she said.\n\n\"On 13 December, I can't bring in 20,000 teachers, of course not. But what I can do through our National Education Service [is] bring in the training and skills.\n\n\"So, things will move. Will it happen immediately over night? Of course not. But immediately from day one of me being education secretary we will put it in place.\"\n\nThere is a teacher shortage in England, with the latest official statistics showing a 15% shortfall in numbers beginning training for secondary schools.\n\nBut Labour's promise to recruit more may not be easy to deliver.\n\nIn subjects such as physics, fewer than half the required graduates have begun to train.\n\nSchools hire teachers, not the government, and it is harder to attract and keep teachers to work in poorer areas.\n\nThe party also says it would cap all class sizes at 30. At the moment, just over 12% of secondary pupils are taught in classes with between 31-35 pupils.\n\nIn 2009, when Labour was last in government, it was just over 10%.\n\nWhile slightly smaller class sizes could appeal to parents, the international evidence suggests it may make less of a difference to results than the quality of teaching.\n\nLabour is also promising to train up 24,958 unqualified teachers. Official statistics suggest 98.7% of the teachers in England have at least a degree-level qualification, so who is the party talking about?\n\nSome are trainees working towards becoming a qualified teacher. Some are teachers who qualified overseas. Others are described as instructors who bring a special skill from their previous working life.\n\nSome are working in smaller units with excluded children or in schools for children with special needs.\n\nBut there have always been some teachers in these categories in England's schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said 47,000 secondary teachers and 8,000 primary teachers would be needed by 2024 to keep pace with an expected increase in pupil numbers.\n\nIts general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"We need significantly more recruits than Labour are suggesting just to meet rising demand, never mind reduce current class sizes.\"\n\n\"The new recruits we need will not magically appear, and nor will they stay if we don't also address the stress and unnecessary workload that is widespread in the system.\"\n\nPushed on whether Labour's pledges were enough, Ms Rayner said the party was being \"realistic\".\n\n\"We are promising a huge amount more than what the other parties are,\" she told Breakfast.\n\n\"Over the last seven years, the government has missed their recruitment and retention target. Under Labour, you would get 20,000 new teachers and 25,000 unqualified teachers getting qualified.\"\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said that in government Labour would \"would wreck the economy, leaving no money for public services\".\n\nHe added that figures this week from the OECD's international school rankings showed English schools had risen up the league tables.\n\nMr Gibb added that schools in Wales, where schools are run by the Labour-led devolved government, were the lowest performing within the UK.\n\n\"Conservative education reforms are improving standards in our schools, meaning children can get a better start in life,\" he added.\n\nLabour is also announcing new plans to tackle homelessness, including £100m a year for emergency winter shelters, £600m to build new hostels, and £200m to refurbish existing ones.\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that people living on the streets was not \"inevitable\", but a \"direct result of decisions the government has taken in the past 10 years\".\n\n\"Some of these things aren't political,\" he said. \"It shames us all that we have people dying on our streets because they are homeless and shames Conservative ministers most of all.\n\n\"The tragedy is we know what needs to be done as we have done it before... It is a new moral mission for Britain.\"\n\nA Conservative party spokesman said: \"There is record investment going in to tackling homelessness - £1.2bn until April 2020 with a further £422m for 2020-21.\"\n\nThe Conservatives, like Labour, have pledged to end rough sleeping within five years if elected to government.", "Gareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train in July\n\nThere were no formally appointed lookouts at the site where two rail workers were hit and killed by a train, a report has said.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, were hit by a Swansea to Paddington train on 3 July.\n\nAn interim report from the Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) said a third worker came \"very close\" to being hit in Margam, Port Talbot.\n\nThe three were part of a group of six carrying out maintenance work.\n\nThe train driver made an \"emergency application of the train's brakes\" about nine seconds before the accident, the report said.\n\nIt was travelling at about 50mph (80km/h) when it hit the track workers.\n\nPlanning paperwork indicated work was due to start at 12:30 to coincide with the planned blockage of the a line, but workers began at about 08:50.\n\nWitness evidence suggested there was a widespread belief at the local maintenance depot there was \"no need to wait\" for the planned line closure, the RAIB found.\n\nThere was a \"general lack of understanding\" as to how the planning paperwork should be interpreted, investigators added.\n\nThe men were hit and killed by the 09:29 service from Swansea to London Paddington\n\n\"The RAIB's preliminary conclusion is that the accident occurred because the three track workers were working on a line that was open to traffic, without the presence of formally appointed lookouts to warn them of approaching trains,\" the report said.\n\nThe report said the plan for repairs provided \"no clarity on the safe system of work\".\n\nAt the time of the accident, the six workers at had split into two groups - none of them were aware a train was approaching \"until it was too late to move to a position of safety\".\n\nInvestigators said the victims were \"almost certainly\" wearing ear defenders because a noisy power tool was being used to carry out repairs and a \"vital safety barrier\" was missing in the absence of a lookout.\n\nThe RAIB said its investigation was continuing, but the factors outlined \"created conditions that made an accident much more likely\".\n\nFurther aspects of the accident will be investigated including group behaviour, the planning and paperwork, safety auditing and the selection and training of track workers.\n\nSpeaking after their deaths, families of the men said Mr Delbridge, from Kenfig Hill, was the \"most loving husband, father, brother and granddad\" while Mr Lewis, from North Cornelly, was \"loved by everyone\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials have issued fresh warnings for blazes around Sydney\n\nAbout 100 bushfires are raging in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), with the most severe forming into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney.\n\nMore than 2,000 firefighters are battling bushfires, which escalated in intensity late on Thursday.\n\nFootage of one blaze on the southern fringe of the city showed firefighters fleeing as flames surged forward.\n\nAustralia's largest city has been blanketed by thick smoke all week, causing a rise in medical problems.\n\nSince October, bushfires have killed six people and destroyed more than 700 homes across Australia.\n\nThe severity of the blazes so early in the fire season has caused alarm, and prompted calls for greater action to tackle climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters flee intense flames in Sydney, in a video shared by them to show the dangers of bushfires\n\nMore than 1.6 million hectares of land in NSW have been burnt already. Fires have also raged across Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\nFires spanned the entire NSW coastline on Friday, with some sparking emergency warnings amid hot and windy conditions.\n\nAuthorities confirmed three fires had merged into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney on Friday, covering more than 300,000 hectares. That blaze is about the size of greater Sydney, officials said.\n\n\"We have also seen the fires coming in very close proximity to major population centres,\" said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany fires have raged for weeks, feeding off tinder-dry conditions from a severe drought which has affected much of the nation.\n\n\"We are in for another tough day,\" said NSW Rural Fire Service assistant commissioner Rob Rogers, adding that several properties had been destroyed in the past 24 hours.\n\nFire crews from the US and Canada arrived in NSW this week to help tackle the blazes.\n\nIn Queensland, authorities said at least two homes had been destroyed in the past day.\n\nSydney's air quality deteriorated beyond \"hazardous\" levels this week as smoke from the fires again blanketed the city. The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Friday read: \"Sydney chokes as state burns\".\n\nThe smoke haze over the city on Thursday\n\nHospital admissions have risen 25% in the past week said officials, with people reporting asthma and breathing problems. About five million people live in greater Sydney.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay indoors, but the smoke in some areas has also seeped into buildings.\n\nEarly on Friday, the NSW capital ranked number 19 on the Air Visual global rankings of cities with the worst air pollution - putting it ahead of Shanghai and Mumbai.\n\nThe smoke has also affected towns closer to the fires for weeks. The state government said on Thursday that the air pollution event was \"the longest and most widespread in our records\".\n\nBushfires are common in Australia, but this year's fire season is more intense and has begun earlier than usual - something meteorologists say is exacerbated by climate change.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology says that climate change has led to an increase in extreme heat events and raised the severity of other natural disasters, such as drought.\n\nLast week, the bureau noted that NSW had endured its driest spring season on record. It also warned that Australia's coming summer was predicted to bring similar conditions to last year's - the nation's hottest summer on record.\n\nOfficial figures have shown 2018 and 2017 were Australia's third and fourth-hottest years on record respectively.\n\nAs the fires rage on, the Australian government has been criticised over its efforts to address climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed accusations linking the crisis to his government's policies.\n\nHundreds of bushfire survivors and farmers converged on the nation's capital, Canberra, this week in protest. One woman displayed the charred remains of her home outside Parliament - on which she had written: \"Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home.\"\n\nMelinda Plesman called for the government to take action on climate change\n\nLast week the UN reiterated that Australia is among seven G20 nations needing to do more to meet their climate promises. The list also includes Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and the US.\n\nThe UN has previously noted that Australia is falling short of its Paris agreement commitments to cut CO2 emissions.\n\nAustralia has pledged to a 26-28% cut on its 2005 levels by 2030. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 to keep temperature rise under 1.5C.", "Winston Trew said his life fell apart after he served eight months in prison\n\nThree men who were jailed nearly 50 years ago on the evidence of a corrupt police officer have had their convictions quashed.\n\nWinston Trew, Sterling Christie, George Griffiths and another man were accused of stealing handbags in 1972.\n\nThe group known as the Oval Four spent eight months in prison for assaulting a police officer and attempted theft.\n\nThe Court of Appeal overturned the convictions due to the unreliability of a detective's evidence.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Trew urged anyone wrongfully convicted by evidence given by Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell to bring forward a challenge.\n\n\"If you are innocent, don't give up,\" he said.\n\nJudges described the cases as \"a very unhappy story\" and all three men thanked those who helped overturn their convictions.\n\nThe men, who belonged to a political organisation representing black people in London, were aged between 19 and 23 at the time.\n\nUniversity lecturer, Winston Trew, thanked those who helped overturn his conviction\n\nMr Trew, Mr Christie, now both 69, and Mr Griffiths, 67, were arrested with another man, Constantine \"Omar\" Boucher, at Oval tube station by officers who accused them of mugging women.\n\nA plain clothes police operation was set up on the Northern Line led by Ridgewell, who was later jailed for seven years for conspiracy to steal.\n\nJudge Lord Burnett said there was \"an accumulating body of evidence that points to the fundamental unreliability of evidence given by DS Ridgewell... and others of this specialist group\".\n\nMr Griffiths' solicitor Jenny Wiltshire welcomed the decision, but said it was \"deeply concerning that it has taken so long to happen\".\n\n\"Both the British Transport Police and the Home Office were warned about this police officer's corrupt methods in 1973.\n\n\"They did nothing except move him to a different unit, where he continued to offend so that by 1980 he was serving a seven-year prison sentence for theft,\" she added.\n\nRidgewell was moved to a department investigating mailbag theft, where he joined up with two criminals splitting the profits of stolen mailbags.\n\nIn 1982 he died of a heart attack in prison aged 37.\n\nMr Boucher's conviction was not quashed as the criminal cases review team had been been unable to find him.\n\nThe Oval Four were originally jailed for two years but that was reduced on appeal\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett who was sitting with Mrs Justice McGowan and Sir Roderick Evans said it was: \"Clear that these convictions are unsafe.\n\n\"We would wish only to note our regret that it has taken so long for this injustice to be remedied,\" he added.\n\nLast January, the 1976 convictions of another man, Stephen Simmons was quashed after Ridgewell was found to have been involved in his case.\n\n\"It is a travesty that these men have waited 47 years for exoneration for crimes that they did not commit. Justice has now finally been done,\" said Mr Christie's lawyer Steven Bird.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former climbing instructor has been found guilty of indecently assaulting three boys.\n\nRobert Pugh, 75, of Cardiff, assaulted the boys at Storey Arms outdoor activity centre in the Brecon Beacons during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court the jury were previously directed to find Pugh not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse due to a lack of evidence.\n\nPugh was remanded in custody and will be sentenced in January.\n\nThe 75-year-old was emotionless as guilty verdicts were read out on the 10 charges.\n\nPugh had faced trial for the third time over the indecent assault allegations.\n\nStorey Arms outdoor activity centre is in the Brecon Beacons National Park\n\nThe first trial in 2018 was halted for legal reasons, and following that trial a second victim came forward.\n\nA jury failed to reach a verdict in a second trial in August 2019 and after that, a third victim was identified.\n\nAll three victims said they were under the age of 16 when Pugh started abusing them at the outdoor pursuits centre.\n\nThe court heard the boys seen as Pugh's favourites were offered additional courses, received gifts and were taken to a pub.\n\nThey were given the opportunity to sleep in single rooms rather than dormitories.\n\nThe prosecution said that beneath Pugh's respectable exterior \"there was something that drove him to touch these boys\".\n\nThe jury was told one of the boys was \"petrified\" when asked to share a tent with Pugh on a camping trip.\n\nAnother told the court that it was easier to let it happen than to try and fight Pugh off.\n\nAfter the verdict, one of Pugh's victims thanked South Wales Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"My friends and family have also been a huge support, considering they have also suffered a lot throughout this process,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Ultimately this trial was about victims. Having suffered some very dark times during this process, I'm getting myself better, and can look forward to moving on with my life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has been accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, has been charged with murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe is due to appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nThe 10 charges of attempted murder relate to a 23-year-old woman, six boys and three girls who were also injured in the collision, said Essex Police.\n\nDebden Park High School opened the day after Harley's death for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers of defunct tour operator Thomas Cook have reacted angrily after learning they will face delays in getting refunds for Atol-protected package holidays.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority originally said all valid claims made on the first day of its refund programme would be paid within 60 days, or by this Friday.\n\nBut now it says only two-thirds will be paid on time.\n\nIt said it had asked the remaining claimants for more information.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stacey ♡ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCustomers have reacted angrily on Twitter, with some arguing they should have been made aware from the start that the process could take longer than 60 days.\n\nOthers say they have struggled to reach the CAA by phone to get information.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCAA boss Richard Moriarty acknowledged many would be worried about not getting their money back before Christmas.\n\n\"We thank consumers for their ongoing patience as we continue to do all that we can to work through the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year.\"\n\nWhen Thomas Cook ceased trading on 23 September, anyone who had paid for a future Thomas Cook package holiday protected under the CAA's Atol scheme was entitled to a full refund.\n\nFrom 7 October an online refund application system opened, and customers were told the Civil Aviation Authority aimed to pay out within 60 days.\n\nThe CAA said it had received 67,000 claims on the first day, and two thirds would be paid by this weekend, bringing the total amount of compensation paid to date to £160m.\n\nThe Thomas Cook collapse triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation\n\nSue Moore applied for a refund for her Thomas Cook holiday on the day the CAA launched its online form.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We submitted our claim online and gave the information that they asked for, which was only the information on our Atol form. They did not ask for full booking information or evidence of payment.\n\n\"We have waited nearly 60 days only to be told that this additional information was now required, and that we would have to wait a further 60 days before we would receive our refund.\n\n\"We are very disappointed and feel that the agency working for the CAA should have thought through what information would be required in the first instance before people submitted their claims. I wonder if this was a deliberate delaying tactic to delay the payment of refunds?\"\n\nBut it said the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims, and some 85,000 claims it had received so far were invalid or duplicates.\n\nIt said it had \"paused\" the 60-day claims period for certain customers, and urged anyone who had been asked for further information to respond at \"the earliest opportunity\".\n\nThe regulator stressed that all valid Atol-protected payments would be refunded, without giving a specific timeframe. But some who spoke to the BBC said they had been told they would have to wait a further 60 days.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed in September after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178-year-old holiday firm failed.\n\nIt triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, aimed at bringing more than 150,000 British holidaymakers home. It also put 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, although some of those roles have been saved.\n\nThe refunds process has been rocky, with the CAA's online form crashing due to high demand on the day it launched.\n\nThe website was also targeted by scammers, while many customers have said the long wait for refunds has stopped them rebooking holidays.\n\nThe CAA said it had received 260,000 valid claims to date. But around 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for.\n\nCustomers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nOne of the reassuring things about booking a holiday with a tour operator is that the trip is Atol protected - you know you'll get your money back if anything goes wrong with the company.\n\nSo the 300,000 customers who had booked package deals with Thomas Cook were at least comforted that they'd get their money back. However, the process has not been an easy one.\n\nIt's been a difficult job to weed out any hoaxes, and verify passengers across different Thomas Cook booking systems. But the CAA set themselves a tight deadline, to make sure people weren't out of pocket for long.\n\nBut now it's more disappointment for 22,000 of those early bird customers who applied immediately for a refund and still haven't received a penny back. For many it'll mean things are extra-tight this Christmas, or a longer wait before they can afford to book a new holiday.\n\nThose customers are being advised to provide any extra information asked for, and be patient.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage has hit out at three MEPs who quit the party and are now urging voters to back the Conservatives in the election.\n\nHe told the BBC that Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris had strong personal links to the Tories.\n\nBut the MEPs say the Brexit Party's participation in the election will split the Leave vote.\n\nA fourth MEP, John Longworth, lost the whip on Wednesday for criticising the party's election strategy.\n\nThe Brexit Party, which is not contesting seats won by the Conservatives in the 2017 general election, has maintained it is taking votes away from Labour in Leave-supporting areas where it is standing.\n\nAnd it says it is saving the Tories from losses to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats in the south of England.\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are asking voters to back Boris Johnson's Conservatives in order to \"deliver\" Brexit, by giving him enough MPs to get his deal with the EU through Parliament.\n\nAsked about the resignations of Ms Rees-Mogg, Ms Harris and Mr Forman from his party, Mr Farage told the BBC's Andrew Neil: \"One of them [Ms Rees-Mogg] is the sister of a cabinet minister. Another one has a boyfriend working for that cabinet minister and another one is a personal friend of Boris Johnson's.\"\n\nWhen challenged on whether he was smearing the MEPs, Mr Farage said he was presenting the facts.\n\n\"They joined the Brexit Party. They joined the coalition that I put together. They clearly were disaffected with Mrs [Theresa] May as leader,\" he said. \"We are not the Conservative Party.\"\n\nMr Farage added: \"I tell you something - Boris Johnson's deal unamended is unacceptable. I certainly stand by that.\"\n\nThe MEPs have also called for Mr Farage to stand down his candidates in the 12 December election.\n\nMs Rees-Mogg, a former Tory parliamentary candidate and sister of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, said it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\n\"It is clear to me that the Brexit Party is splitting the vote of Leavers in marginal and not-so-marginal constituencies,\" Ms Rees-Mogg said.\n\n\"The Brexit Party are permitting votes to go away from the Conservatives, providing us with a Remain coalition that will do anything not to honour the Brexit referendum.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMs Rees-Mogg said it had \"not been an easy decision for any of us\" to quit the Brexit Party, but \"we all feel it's one we had no choice but to make\".\n\nShe said that Mr Johnson's Brexit deal was \"the only Leave option we have\", with the others being \"more damaging delays, a second Remain-Remain referendum or straight revoke\".\n\nShe also rejected the suggestion that her brother had influenced her decision as \"disturbingly old-fashioned\", saying: \"We have completely independent views from each other and I am only concerned about Brexit.\"\n\nThe four MEPs have said they will continue with their roles in the European Parliament, with Miss Harris saying they would stay as MEPs in order to vote for the prime minister's withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe Brexit Party, formed earlier this year, won 29 seats in July's European Parliament elections.\n\nIn November Mr Farage announced it would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nMr Longworth has been critical of this decision, arguing that the party should be targeting between 20 and 30 seats.\n\nEarlier, Mr Farage said he was \"disappointed that four of our MEPs don't seem to understand that we both saved the Conservative Party from large-scale losses to the Liberal Democrats in the south and south-west of England\".\n\nHe added that the Brexit Party was \"hammering the Labour Leave vote in its traditional heartlands, making it much easier for the Conservatives to win many of those seats\".\n\nHowever, Mr Farage said he would continue to target Labour-held Leave areas, despite these being a key part of the Conservatives' plan to win a majority and pass a Brexit deal.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said there had been a Brexit Party \"takeover of the Tory party\", adding that \"Boris Johnson is only attracting the support of Farage and his stooges\".\n\nWhile Mr Johnson is campaigning to leave the EU under the terms of his deal, the Brexit Party is calling for what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\". This would mean leaving the EU without a formal deal and trading under World Trade Organisation terms.\n\nLabour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. Leader Jeremy Corbyn says he would remain neutral during that referendum.", "Matt Baker has announced he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, fought back tears as he made the announcement on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to being able to put his kids to bed.", "Investors in one of the UK's biggest commercial property funds - worth £2.5bn - have been temporarily prevented from taking out their money.\n\nInvestment firm M&G said withdrawals from its property portfolio fund had been suspended after investors consistently withdrew their savings.\n\nThe firm blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the situation.\n\nThe fund has shrunk by £1.1bn so far this year.\n\n\"Given these circumstances, we have now reached a point where M&G believes it will best protect the interests of the funds' customers by applying a temporary suspension in dealing,\" M&G said in a statement.\n\nIt has waived 30% of its annual charge to investors, as they were unable to access their money, although some have called for action from the regulator on such charges.\n\nThe M&G Property Portfolio has invested in 91 UK commercial properties across shopping centres, other retail, industrial and office sectors on behalf of UK investors.\n\nThe same fund was suspended in July 2016 for four months following the UK's EU referendum when money flooded out of such funds.\n\nInvestors range from armchair, retail investors to institutional investors, dealing with millions of pounds.\n\nM&G has been unable to sell properties fast enough, particularly given its concentration on the retail sector, to meet the demands of investors who wanted to cash out.\n\nThe decision to suspend the fund, and its feeder fund, was taken by its official monitor - its authorised corporate director - and the City watchdog has been informed.\n\n\"The FCA is working closely with the firms involved to ensure that timely actions are undertaken in the best interests of all the fund's investors,\" a spokesman for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nM&G said the suspension would be monitored daily, formally reviewed every 28 days, and would only continue \"as long as it is in the best interests of our customers\".\n\nThis will allow assets to be sold over time, rather than as a fire sale, in order to meet investors' withdrawal demands. The firm has written to investors to explain the current situation.\n\nInvestors in general have been shaken in recent months by the demise of previously lauded fund manager Neil Woodford.\n\nWoodford Investment Management is shutting after Mr Woodford was sacked from its flagship fund in October.\n\nThe case raised questions regarding the oversight of funds which invest in assets that take a long time to sell, but from which investors can withdraw their money from at any time.\n\nThe M&G case will make the case stronger for regulators to take a tougher stance on these types of investments.\n\nThe suspension of a UK commercial property fund has been anticipated for some time.\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, has been on high alert, subjecting a number of funds to enhanced monitoring.\n\nOne of the main issues affecting M&G has been the state of retail. The High Street has been having a torrid time.\n\nAs more and more stores have closed, that has put pressure on property funds. Returns from these have been less than great recently and so many investors have been pulling out their cash.\n\nM&G admits it has been struggling to sell buildings with sufficient speed to be able to match the demand from investors wanting their cash back. Hence this suspension.\n\nSome analysts warn several other property funds could follow suit.\n\nWhen the M&G property portfolio last took this action, others did too. That was just after the EU referendum in 2016.\n\nAs the UK approaches yet another Brexit deadline, it could become even more difficult for funds to sell commercial property at a value they think is fair.\n\nInvestors have been pulling their money out of other large so-called open-ended property funds, and the FCA has recently introduced daily monitoring of property funds.\n\nYet financial planners have mixed views on whether the M&G suspension could be matched by other funds in the sector.\n\n\"Property is a long-term investment and we urge investors not to panic,\" said Patrick Connolly of financial advisers Chase de Vere.\n\n\"While the M&G fund is suspended, most other providers have far greater liquidity, and less exposure to retail properties, and so are better placed to meet redemptions, as long as there isn't a mad rush to the exit door.\n\n\"Property still remains an asset class which can play an important role in investment portfolios and, when we have some real clarity on Brexit, the prospects for this asset class will hopefully improve.\"\n\nHowever, Ryan Hughes, from AJ Bell, said investors would review their interest in other funds which could lead to \"a rush for the exits\".\n\n\"We could see a wave of suspensions now - several that offer daily redemptions are at risk,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Aviva, one of the other fund managers that suspended a fund in 2016, said it had \"pro-actively built cash levels in the Aviva Investors Property Fund\". These were now at around 30% after it made several sales over the summer.\n\n\"We are in a period of heightened market uncertainty and believe this is an appropriate level given market conditions. Robust liquidity management remains a key priority for the fund managers,\" he said.", "A boy has been charged following the fire at the school\n\nA boy has been arrested and charged following a fire which badly damaged a secondary school in the Borders.\n\nPolice Scotland has also confirmed that a second boy had been arrested and released \"pending further inquiries\".\n\nIt follows a major fire at Peebles High School on Thursday which caused widespread damage to the site.\n\nA short statement from police said a boy had been charged in connection with wilful fireraising and a report would be sent to the children's reporter.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Reid, area commander for the Scottish Borders, said: \"We would like to thank the public for their patience while the investigation into the fire continues as we work alongside our colleagues at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\n\"We continue to liaise with the Scottish Borders Council in connection with the safety and security of the buildings, and the impact on the local community.\n\n\"We'd remind the public that, as the person charged is below the age of 18, he cannot be named or identified for legal reasons as per the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.\"\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday\n\nThe high school with a roll of about 1,300 has been shut until at least the new year and pupils have been using online learning tools at home this week.\n\nArrangements have been made for senior students (S4-S6) to return to the classroom - in Galashiels - from Monday.\n\nYounger pupils will be taught at other sites in Peebles.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday and paid tribute to the efforts of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who had worked \"astonishingly hard\" to salvage as much of the school as possible.\n\n\"I've also been discussing with the council what are the next steps forward because quite clearly there is going to have to be significant redevelopment of the Peebles High School site,\" he said.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant operation\" in the short term to provide education which was set to start on Monday.\n\n\"There will have to be a medium term approach taken which is about ensuring that there is a restoration of education provision on this site if at all possible,\" he said.\n\n\"Then obviously there has to be a longer-term solution and the government will engage with SBC in every aspect of that recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManagerless Arsenal's season plummeted to a new low as they were beaten by Brighton in interim manager Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette marked his 100th Gunners appearance by heading his side level after Adam Webster had given the visitors a first-half lead.\n\nWith the score 1-1, there was frustration for Ljungberg and Arsenal when David Luiz thought he had made it 2-1 with a volley but it was correctly ruled out following a VAR check for offside.\n\nNeal Maupay headed Brighton's winner from Aaron Mooy's cross to leave Arsenal on their worst winless run since 1977 - and 10 points off a Champions League spot.\n• None Ljungberg should not get manager's job - Sutton\n• None 'I've had to leave all my WhatsApp groups' - how fans reacted to Gunners' loss\n\nWhere do Arsenal go from here?\n\nArsenal, who are 10th in the table, have now failed to win any of their last nine games in all competitions and fans who stayed for the final whistle booed their team off the pitch after a tepid performance.\n\nTwelve years after his last appearance for Arsenal as a player, Ljungberg was given a chance to show fans inside a far-from-full Emirates he is capable of managing the club where he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups.\n\nIt started well, with the Swede given a decent reception by the crowd, before rapidly going downhill as Brighton, who had lost their previous four away games, took control.\n\nLjungberg dropped Shkodran Mustafi from his 18 after last Sunday's 2-2 draw with struggling Norwich, yet Arsenal were still a shambles at the back.\n\nMaupay had already forced Bernd Leno into a one-handed save when Webster struck from a corner after lashing home following Dan Burn's downward header.\n\nArsenal improved with the introduction of club record signing Nicolas Pepe after half-time and France forward Lacazette lifted the mood by climbing above the Brighton defence to head his side level after Mesut Ozil's first Premier League assist since February.\n\nYet the Gunners were short on confidence and ideas - while Mat Ryan produced a superb save at the end to frustrate the home side further.\n\nThe Brighton keeper flung himself across his line to keep out substitute Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal, who have home games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United on the horizon, failed to win for the 11th time in 15 top-flight attempts.\n\nThe home side's night was summed up towards the end of the first half when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a go at team-mate Joe Willock after a home move had broken down.\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter was making his first return to Arsenal since his Ostersunds team beat the Gunners in the Europa League in February 2018.\n\nAsked before the game whether he would be a Premier League manager if Ostersunds had not had a good run in Europe, Potter said: \"Probably not. We all get to a certain point by doing something and everyone's path is different. Ostersunds was mine.\"\n\nThe Seagulls had given leaders Liverpool a late score on Saturday and, on a night to remember, they carried on from where they left off at Anfield to climb three places up the table to 13th - one point behind Arsenal.\n\nBrighton's first Premier League win since 2 November was built on guts and determination.\n\nWhile Maupay, who now has five goals this season, and 19-year-old Aaron Connolly tormented lacklustre Arsenal, Webster and Dunk were solid at the back for the visitors.\n\nIn addition, Potter's arrival at Brighton has seen them become a menace at set-pieces.\n\nSeven of Brighton's last 10 league goals have been scored via set-piece situations.\n\n'This is not Arsenal' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg: \"We didn't show up in the first half, didn't work hard and want to play.\n\n\"Second half we had a word and were better but we are suspect on the counter and we have no confidence. I need to work on that and get confidence back into the boys.\n\n\"At half-time we said 'This is not Arsenal, we have to give it a crack.'\n\n\"We're in a difficult situation, we've lost a lot of games and the confidence has gone down.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"It's a nice moment for us. It gives us a little bit of belief. It was a good game for us, not perfect but we showed real courage and belief.\n\n\"Credit to our players, they did what I think an away team has to do in terms of frustrating but it still takes courage from the players and that's what I'm pleased with.\n\n\"We dug in, I'm very pleased.\"\n• None Arsenal have faced 52 shots on target in Premier League home games this season - in the entire Invincibles season in 2003-04, they allowed just 48 opposition shots on target at home.\n• None Including caretakers, only one of Arsenal's last five managers has won their first home game in charge - Pat Rice against Sheffield Wednesday in September 1996.\n• None Brighton have beaten 'big six' opposition away from home in the Premier League for the very first time at the 17th attempt; they had lost 15 of the previous 16 such games.\n• None Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette has scored 25 of his 32 Premier League goals at the Emirates Stadium.\n• None Brighton ended a six-match winless run away from home in the Premier League this season.\n\nArsenal do not play again until Monday when they visit West Ham (20:00 GMT) in a London derby while Brighton are in action on Sunday when they host in-form Wolves (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Kieran Tierney tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson on austerity vote: “I am sorry - it was not the right policy and we should have stopped it.”\n\nJo Swinson has apologised for voting to cut benefits while serving in government with the Conservatives.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil her party had been wrong to back the so-called bedroom tax in the coalition government and \"we should have stopped it\".\n\nAlthough some cuts were needed when her party came into office in 2010, she suggested austerity had gone too far.\n\nHer party was committed to spend more on welfare and childcare, she added.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview, Ms Swinson said she was determined to stop Brexit by whatever means possible, including working with other parties in the event of another hung Parliament to try and get another referendum.\n\nBut she conceded the Lib Dems were unlikely to form the next government and be in a position to fulfil their campaign pledge to revoke Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - without a further public vote.\n\nShe said she disagreed with her predecessor Sir Vince Cable that the pledge had become an \"unhelpful distraction\" for the party, which has found itself being squeezed in the opinion polls during the campaign.\n\nHaving only been elected leader in July, she insisted she was \"absolutely here to stay\" whatever the outcome on 12 December.\n\nMs Swinson was repeatedly challenged on her party's record in government between 2010 and 2015 and her personal backing for cuts to benefits and Sure Start children's centres.\n\nShe acknowledged she had voted nine times for the bedroom tax, the controversial policy which saw working-age families in council or housing association homes docked housing benefit if they were deemed to have more bedrooms than they needed.\n\nMs Swinson, who served as a junior business minister in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition between 2012 and 2015, was asked whether she would like to apologise to 240,000 of the poorest in society who suffered financially as a result and, in some cases, were forced into hardship.\n\n\"Yes, I am sorry I did that,\" she replied. \"It was not the right policy and we should have stopped it...I have previously said - and I am happy to say again - [it] was wrong. I am sorry about that and it is one of the things we did get wrong.\"\n\nAsked about other welfare changes she backed at the time but is now committed to reversing, such as a cap on the overall amount of benefits a single household could receive, she said she had voted for them \"as someone with collective responsibility in government\".\n\nShe said her party had \"won many battles\" with the Conservatives, such as in securing more money for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and taking many of the lowest paid out of income tax.\n\nBut she said she accepted the public services had borne too much of the brunt of the government's drive to slash the deficit in the public finances.\n\nThe coalition government made a priority out of rebalancing the public finances\n\n\"I am not going to say in a financial crisis that it was going to be possible with the deficit at the level it was in 2010 not to make any cuts at all,\" she said.\n\n\"Some cuts were necessary but the shape of those cuts, the balance between cuts and tax rises I don't think was the right balance.\"\n\nLabour have long argued that austerity was a political choice and not a financial necessity. Ms Swinson said cuts were unavoidable and the level of retrenchment under the coalition mirrored the plans set out by Labour in its 2010 manifesto,\n\nBut pressed by Neil on whether austerity was a \"necessary evil or terrible mistake\", she replied: \"Clearly too much was cut, clearly not enough was raised from taxation.\n\n\"And certainly the investment should have kicked in earlier in terms of more borrowing for capital investment.\"\n\nBut she said these decisions were \"almost a decade ago\" and her party was now committed to scrapping the bedroom tax and addressing in-work poverty by reversing cuts to work allowances for families on Universal Credit and helping families with two earners.\n\nShe said the £14bn the party was planning to spend on expanding free childcare - by funding 35 hours a week of provision for all children aged two to four - \"more than replaces the money that was cut\" during the coalition years.\n\n\"We have a plan for the future which identifies what our priorities are...and we are being upfront about where the money will come from.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, His interview with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be broadcast on Thursday.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n\nThe SNP launched an attack on Ms Swinson's record as part of the coalition government, following the interview.\n\nThe party's Pete Wishart said: \"Despite Jo Swinson's best attempts to dodge her shameful record when in government with the Tories, the reality is communities across Scotland will not forgive or forget the Lib Dems for their active part in inflicting austerity on the most vulnerable people in society.\"", "Seventy serving and ex-Labour officials have given sworn statements to an official investigation into the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nThe statements form part of a submission - seen by the BBC - from the Jewish Labour Movement to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nJeremy Corbyn said processes in the party to deal with allegations had \"improved a great deal\".\n\nThe Labour leader also said he \"completely rejected\" allegations he had made the party \"a welcoming refuge for anti-Semites\".\n\nBut Sam Matthews - a whistleblower who used to work in the governance and legal unit of the party - told a press conference: \"No amount of tinkering is going to fix this process. It is [an issue] of culture that can only be challenged by a leadership [which is] willing to be uncompromising.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement is asking the EHRC to urge Labour to acknowledge it has become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\" and needs to change.\n\nThe organisation - affiliated to the party for a century and representing about 2,500 members - asked the EHRC to look in to Labour's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nIts submission argues that anti-Semitic conduct has become \"pervasive\" in recent years.\n\nMr Matthews said he had first understood something was \"seriously wrong\" during Mr Corbyn's re-election as leader in 2016.\n\n\"For the first time I noticed that people who hold deeply anti-Semitic views were feeling that the Labour Party was their home and that it was their right to be a part of this movement that reflected the values and views they held,\" he added.\n\nHe said anti-Semitism, holocaust denial, and bullying those who fought against them were now \"commonplace\" in Labour.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said the total number of incidents when compared to the size of the membership was \"very, very low indeed\", adding: \"But one case of antis-Semitism is one too many.\"\n\nThe submission also suggests there are no reliable figures for how many cases of anti-Semitism still have to be dealt with by the party's complaints team, despite the Labour leadership arguing processes have been speeded-up.\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement is claiming that 136 complaints were outstanding in October, while around 100 allegations were not logged in the system at all.\n\nIts national secretary, Peter Mason, said there had been an \"abject failure, if not deliberate attempt, to not deal with the situation\".\n\nThe EHRC declined to comment, saying its investigation was \"live and ongoing\".\n\nLabour says the Jewish Labour Movement's figures are inaccurate but has not provided any official statistics on the issue since July.\n\nMr Corbyn said there were \"obviously some [cases] in chain\", which he insisted the party would deal with \"as quickly as possible, and as expeditiously and fairly as possible\".\n\nAnd he said updated statistics were released every six months - with the next set due for publication in January - adding: \"We are the only party who has a process and is open about it.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement's submission includes a signed affidavit from a former Labour official who alleges they were asked to transfer details of complaints being investigated at Labour's headquarters to Mr Corbyn's office.\n\nBut the Labour leader said: \"I do not interfere with cases and... it is an independent process.\"\n\nMr Corbyn added: \"I deeply regret that there is any anti-Semitism within our society and obviously I regret the way in which some people have been hurt by it.\n\n\"I do not want that to be the case. That's why I sped up the processes and gave more resources to ensure the cases were investigated in a timely manner.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman added that under the party's new procedures there would be more rapid expulsions - and Labour was co-operating with the EHRC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Andrew Neil wants to ask Boris Johnson\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has issued a challenge to Boris Johnson to take part in a sit-down interview with him before next week's general election.\n\nMr Johnson is the only leader of a main party not to have faced a half-hour, prime-time BBC One grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nThe Conservative leader has denied claims he is avoiding scrutiny.\n\nBut Mr Neil addressed the PM directly at the end of his fourth leader interview at this election, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\n\"It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say,\" he said, in a monologue.\n\n\"The theme running through our questions is trust - and why at so many times in his career, in politics and journalism, critics and sometimes even those close to him have deemed him to be untrustworthy.\n\n\"It is, of course, relevant to what he is promising us all now.\"\n\nMr Johnson has also declined an invitation to be grilled by ITV's Julie Etchingham, as part of her series of leader interviews.\n\nMr Neil said that no broadcaster \"can compel a politician to be interviewed\".\n\nBut he added: \"Leaders' interviews have been a key part of the BBC's prime-time election coverage for decades.\n\n\"We do them, on your behalf, to scrutinise and hold to account those who would govern us. That is democracy.\n\n\"We have always proceeded in good faith that the leaders would participate. And in every election they have. All of them. Until this one.\"\n\nMr Neil then listed the questions he wanted the prime minister to answer.\n\nThese include whether he can be trusted to deliver on his promises for the NHS - and keeping the health service \"off the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nMr Neil said he would also ask the PM about his claim that he has always been an opponent of austerity, another \"question of trust\".\n\nHe ended the monologue by saying: \"The prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China.\n\n\"So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me.\"\n\nAndrew Neil grilled Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism and other issues\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have all faced a grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nIn his interview with Mr Neil, the Labour leader repeatedly declined to apologise to the Jewish community for anti-Semitism in his party, something he has now done in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson apologised for supporting welfare cuts when she was part of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition in her Neil interview.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was pressed about Scottish independence and the EU, and her party's record on the NHS in Scotland, while Nigel Farage was forced to defend his decision not to contest Tory seats.\n\nMr Johnson was quizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, on why he had not yet agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nHe denied avoiding prime-time scrutiny, saying he had done TV debates, interviews and a \"two-hour phone-in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why are you avoiding being interviewed by Andrew Neil?'\n\nSeparately, on Thursday evening, The Labour Party complained about BBC bias, in a letter to Director General Tony Hall.\n\nLabour's co-campaign coordinator Andrew Gwynne highlighted Mr Johnson's failure to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Gwynne claimed the Conservatives were being allowed to \"play\" the corporation, making the BBC effectively \"complicit in giving the Conservative Party an unfair electoral advantage\".\n\nHe said Labour had agreed Mr Corbyn's interview with Mr Neil based on the \"clear understanding\" that Mr Johnson had agreed the same terms.\n\n\"Instead, the BBC allowed the Conservative leader to pick and choose a platform through which he believed he could present himself more favourably and without the same degree of accountability.\"\n\nThe BBC is expected to respond in writing to the Labour complaint.\n\nBut a spokesperson said in a statement: \"The BBC will continue to make its own independent editorial decisions, and is committed to reporting the election campaign fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nIn another development, the prime minister's team have confirmed that Mr Johnson will not find time for an interview with ITV before the general election.\n\nHe is the only leader of a major party to turn down the request from the channel's Tonight programme.\n\nA spokesman for ITV said the programme had bid for Mr Johnson when the general election was called.\n\n\"They have contacted his press team on repeated occasions with times and dates offered to film an interview,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's team have today confirmed he will not be taking part.\n\n\"The programme will instead feature a profile of the prime minister using fresh interviews with other contributors and archive footage.\"\n\nITV Tonight presenter Julie Etchingham has recorded an interview with Jeremy Corbyn, which was broadcast on Thursday evening.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Boris Johnson thinks he's born to rule and doesn't have to face scrutiny.\n\n\"He's running scared because every time he is confronted with the impact of nine years of austerity, the cost of living crisis and his plans to sell out our NHS, the more he is exposed.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson must stop ducking scrutiny. His cowardly behaviour shows why he simply isn't fit to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe said it was \"bad enough\" that her party had been \"excluded\" from the BBC's head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn, and \"even worse that right now Boris Johnson won't be held properly to account for his lies and extreme Brexit plans\".\n\nMr Johnson will face Mr Corbyn in a prime ministerial debate at 2030 GMT, on BBC One, on Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Bob Willis has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe fast bowler took 325 wickets in 90 Tests from 1971 to 1984, claiming a career-best 8-43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 Ashes.\n\nHe captained England in 18 Tests and 29 one-day internationals before his retirement from all forms of cricket in 1984.\n\nIn a statement, Willis' family said he had died \"after a long illness\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken to lose our beloved Bob, who was an incredible husband, father, brother and grandfather,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"He made a huge impact on everybody he knew and we will miss him terribly.\"\n\nWillis subsequently worked as a summariser on BBC TV before joining Sky Sports as a commentator in 1991.\n\nHe continued to work for Sky and was part of their coverage of this summer's Ashes series.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened to say farewell\" to a \"legend of English cricket\".\n\n\"We are forever thankful for everything he has done for the game,\" it added. \"Cricket has lost a dear friend.\"\n• None Hugely admired around the world and a huge Bob Dylan fan - tributes to Willis\n\nWillis represented Surrey for the first two years of his professional career before spending 12 years at Warwickshire, finishing with 899 wickets from 308 first-class matches at an average of 24.99.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter , Surrey said the club was \"devastated\" by the news of Willis' passing.\n\nThe Sunderland-born bowler made his international debut aged 21 in the 1971 Ashes after being called up to replace the injured Alan Ward and played the final four Tests of the seven-match series as England won 2-0.\n\nDespite needing surgery on both knees in 1975, he became one of the finest fast bowlers of his generation, playing another nine years and claiming his 325 wickets at an impressive average of 25.20.\n\nAt the time of Willis' retirement, only Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee had taken more Test wickets.\n\nThe pinnacle of Willis' international career was arguably the stunning 18-run victory against Australia in the third Test of the 1981 Ashes at Headingley.\n\nEngland, trailing 1-0 in the series, were forced to follow on and needed Botham's spectacular 149 not out to force Australia to bat again, setting them 129 to win.\n\nWith his Test career on the line, Willis produced a devastating spell, taking a Test-best 8-43 as Australia were dismissed for 111 - the hosts at one point being 500-1 outsiders to win.\n\nEngland went on to win the series 3-1 and Willis finished with 29 wickets at 22.96 in six matches.\n\nWillis, who was named in England's all-time Test XI in 2018, was appointed captain for the 1982 India tour of England after Keith Fletcher was sacked.\n\nHe oversaw a weakened team during his tenure, after the likes of Graham Gooch, Geoffrey Boycott and Derek Underwood were banned from international cricket for three years from 1982 for taking part in a rebel tour to South Africa.\n\nHe finished with a record of seven wins, five defeats and six draws from his 18 Tests in charge before he was sacked and replaced with David Gower prior to what proved to be Willis' final Test series against West Indies in 1984.\n\nIn 29 ODIs under Willis, England won 16 and lost 13.\n\nWillis made his ODI debut in 1973 and played in the 1979 World Cup but sustained a recurrence of his knee injury in the semi-final win over New Zealand and missed the final, which West Indies won by 92 runs.\n\nHe captained England at the 1983 World Cup where his side were beaten by eventual winners India in the semi-finals.\n\nWillis played his final ODI in 1984, finishing with a record of 80 wickets from 64 matches at an average of 24.60.\n\nWillis moved into commentary soon after his playing career ended and worked alongside former team-mates Botham and Gower.\n\nAfter moving away from live commentary and summariser duties in 2006, Willis continued to work as a pundit on Sky Sports programmes such as The Debate and The Verdict.\n\nHe was frequently firm in his criticism of current players, which was seen by some as being unfair.\n\nYet Willis also played up to his persona and had a humorous side, telling current captain Joe Root he would \"have you back in the dock\" with bared teeth after the England batsman's impersonation of Willis during the 2015 Ashes.", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nAnd we thought Christmas only came once a year.\n\nThe first full-length trailer for No Time To Die has been released, giving fans a flavour of what to expect from Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.\n\nThe promo, which launched on Wednesday and can be seen below, shows Rami Malek in character as the latest villain for the first time, as well as a new female agent with a licence to kill.\n\nNo Time To Die is set to be released in April, but there have been one or two obstacles along the way - from Daniel Craig's ankle injury to the decision to change director.\n\nDanny Boyle was originally supposed to be at the helm for Bond 25, but he exited the project last August due to \"creative differences\".\n\nUS director Cary Joji Fukunaga stepped in, and there was a race against the clock to keep the film on schedule for its April 2020 release date.\n\n\"It has been an incredible honour, but it's also just been really hard,\" Fukunaga tells BBC News. \"This was a very ambitious script for the time we had.\n\nCary Joji Fukunaga stepped in to direct Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond\n\n\"I got the role in the middle of doing press for Maniac [the Netflix series he directed], so I was doing interviews like this while trying to process the enormous excitement but also responsibility of taking on this project.\n\n\"And I was very aware that with Daniel's departure, I had to get a script going and production going in a very short space of time. The lack of time was a sort of impetus for the pressure. It was like a very hot flame under our ass!\"\n\nThe project had the added complication of having to go back to the drawing board after Boyle's exit.\n\n\"I love Danny's films, but on this one we basically had to start from scratch,\" Fukunaga explains. \"It was the desire of the producers that we sort of start anew and figure out a new storyline for this one.\"\n\nThe writing process involved bringing Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on board to help polish the script.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFukunaga refers to a new plot, but No Time To Die also appears to continue the overarching storyline which has run through the last four films.\n\nSpectre's ending seemed to tie that narrative up, which left many wondering whether the 25th Bond film would start afresh. But the inclusion of Waltz's Blofeld in the trailer puts paid to that idea and suggests it's a continuation - something Fukunaga appears to confirm.\n\nLashana Lynch plays a new MI6 agent with a licence to kill\n\n\"I like to think of this as picking up from all the stories, from Casino [Royale] all the way through,\" he says. \"And those who are fans will appreciate the layers that exist there, but I also think for new audiences, people who have never seen any of the films before, younger audiences, it's strong enough that they can get involved.\"\n\nAs well as Maniac, Fukunaga has previously directed films including Beasts of No Nation and a 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of the trailer is Lashana Lynch's appearance as a new member of MI6.\n\nHaving a female double-O marks a slight change in direction in the franchise. No Time To Die is the first Bond film since #MeToo, but would the film series have evolved in this direction anyway?\n\n\"Yes, I think so,\" Fukunaga says. \"Bond started evolving probably 25 years ago, when Judi Dench's M called out Pierce Brosnan's Bond for being a misogynistic dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War.\"\n\n\"I think Lashana's role is not about being female, she's just a younger generation,\" Fukunaga says. \"There's the whole thing going around the internet right now about 'OK Boomer', and I just think of how younger generations challenge what the previous generations legacy means.\n\nFans have speculated about whether Rami Malek's villain is Dr No\n\n\"And I think for Lashana, she has a lot to prove, she's capable, she's physical, she's intelligent. And the world has changed, and she feels she's inheriting a world that agents like Bond had operated in. And it's like, they want to make their mark. That's how I think of it. Less so than just because she's female, we're in a world where that's not even the considerations. It's more, 'is she capable of being a double-O?'\"\n\nOne person who became (temporarily) incapable of being a double-O was Daniel Craig, who injured his ankle while shooting the film. But, Fukunaga says, that wasn't as disruptive to the schedule as you might imagine.\n\n\"If you think about a film this ambitious, this long, with this many stunts, the fact that we had one sprained ankle and a concussion over that period of time was a pretty high achievement,\" he says.\n\n\"[Craig's ankle injury] delayed us a little bit, but he didn't miss a day of being on set after that. He was on set working out and doing PT [physical therapy] the entire time. We had to do a little juggling on schedule and scenes, but that was pretty much it.\"\n\nNo Time To Die isn't actually finished yet. Filming wrapped last month but the movie is now in post-production, which means Fukunaga \"still hasn't had time to really process\" the whole experience. \"I think I'll probably have to sit down next summer and figure out what just happened,\" he says.\n\nAsk the directors of Cats or Sonic The Hedgehog whether launching a trailer is a positive experience and you might find them cowering in the corner of a room from the trauma.\n\nBut Fukunaga is less anxious about the social media reaction to the Bond trailer. \"We don't have any computer graphics animals in our trailer,\" he laughs, \"so we're less worried about that.\"", "When you register to vote, your name and address are placed on the electoral roll - a public document that is available to all. For some, that can lead to a potentially dangerous dilemma.\n\n\"If I were being really cynical about it, one could argue that it's almost sexual discrimination by the back door,\" says a women we'll call Kate, as we talk about her struggle to access the vote after escaping an abusive relationship, with the two small boys.\n\nKate was always politically engaged. She had been registered to vote by post at her previous address - but it was too dangerous for her to return there to pick up her ballot paper and she couldn't make her new address public for fear her abusive partner could catch up with her.\n\nBut she still wanted to vote. So she began researching her options. Initially, she found nothing online to help her. Eventually, her mother suggested asking her local council.\n\n\"The first person she spoke to said she had no idea what my mother was talking about but when pressed did find a senior officer,\" Kate says.\n\n\"This officer knew that Icould register anonymously and checked my current address and advised there was a special form that would be posted to me.\"\n\nIt was the first time Kate had heard of the system. It seems many others don't know it exists.", "Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has launched a legal challenge to a decision by US regulators to classify it as a national security threat.\n\nIt comes after the US Federal Communications Commission put curbs on rural mobile providers using a $8.5bn (£6.5bn) government fund to buy Huawei equipment.\n\nThe firm said evidence that it was a threat to security \"does not exist\".\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of challenges between Huawei and the US.\n\nThe company has asked the US Court of Appeal to overturn the decision.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, the company's chief legal officer, Song Liuping, said: \"The US government has never presented real evidence to show that Huawei is a national security threat. That's because this evidence does not exist.\"\n\nThis is the second legal challenge this year by the company as it fights back against the Trump administration's policies.\n\nHuawei launched similar legal action in May, challenging a decision to ban US government agencies from buying its equipment.\n\nThe company has been drawn into the disputes against the backdrop of the bitter trade war between the world's two biggest economies.\n\nIt has a leading role in manufacturing and selling key technology for next generation 5G telecoms infrastructure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will superfast 5G mobile be worth the money?\n\nMeanwhile, Washington has been pressuring other nations to not allow Huawei to build their critical 5G telecoms infrastructure.\n\nAt the Nato summit in the UK on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the decision on whether to allow Huawei a role in building Britain's 5G networks would be based on ensuring continued co-operation with the US over intelligence sharing.\n\n\"On Huawei and 5G, I don't want this country to be unnecessarily hostile to investment from overseas,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"On the other hand, we cannot prejudice our vital national security. Nor can we prejudice our ability to co-operate with other vital... security partners - and that will be the key criteria that informs our decision about Huawei.\"", "Marcus Rashford scored twice as Manchester United condemned former manager Jose Mourinho to defeat on his return to Old Trafford and ended Tottenham's three-match winning streak under the Portuguese.\n\nRashford beat Tottenham keeper Paulo Gazzaniga at his near post after six minutes after the ball had broken to the England forward off Davinson Sanchez.\n\nThen, after a long wait for a VAR check, Rashford kept his nerve to convert a penalty four minutes after the break, once it had been ruled the striker had been fouled by Moussa Sissoko.\n\nDele Alli had equalised with a brilliant goal at the end of the first half but United were good value for their victory after creating a number of excellent chances they failed to take.\n\nRashford was unable to become the first United player to score a league hat-trick since Robin van Persie's memorable effort against Aston Villa in 2013 but he now has 12 goals in 13 games for club and country, and his nine Premier League goals leave him one short of his season best.\n\nAs expected, Mourinho was well received by the United fans, who never fell out with their former manager and have no particular axe to grind with him.\n\nThat respect will never match the affection Old Trafford has for Solskjaer though.\n\nAnd the Norwegian used memories from his playing days to get the crowd up for the game by emerging last from the tunnel, triggering a song in his honour and the start of what proved to be a lively atmosphere.\n\nEvidence of change at United came with a team that contained only five players Mourinho picked for the corresponding fixture last season.\n\nThat August night ended in a 3-0 defeat for United and an angry Mourinho demand for the media to show him some \"respect\" for his three Premier League titles.\n\nThe first of those triumphs is over 15 years ago now. Mourinho's task is to show his best days are not behind him.\n\nHe didn't make a particularly brilliant job of that in his last weeks in Manchester and, as happened so often then, tonight he spent long periods in his technical area with his hands in his pockets watching his team get outplayed.\n\nHis substitutes failed to inspire and with eight goals conceded in four games, Mourinho evidently has some work to do defensively.\n\nAt the end, he moved to shake Solskjaer's hand before striding purposefully away to try and lift his players.\n\nFor months, there had been a debate about what had happened to Dele Alli.\n\nOnce one of the golden boys of the English game, he had been reduced in influence and effectiveness and lost his place in Gareth Southgate's national squad.\n\nWho knew the answer was replacing the manager he loved?\n\nOne of the first things Mourinho did after replacing Mauricio Pochettino was to ask Alli whether it was him or his brother who had been playing for Tottenham in recent times.\n\nThis is definitely him.\n\nHis third goal in three Premier League games - he only scored three in his last 17 under Pochettino - was extraordinary.\n\nFred thought he had the situation under control as the ball looped up on the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nBut Alli leaned into the Brazilian, then rolled round him after a beautiful piece of control before turning a shot past De Gea into the far corner.\n\nIt was as breathtaking as the Cristiano Ronaldo-esque 35-yard shot Rashford rattled the bar with - and Mourinho loved it.\n\nIn his pre-match press conference, Solskjaer had dismissed as \"lies\" suggestions he had told his players he would be sacked if United lost against Tottenham, and again at Manchester City on Saturday.\n\nThe word remains from United that the Norwegian is under no immediate danger of losing his job amid an acceptance from those in senior positions that there will be bumps in the road this season.\n\nThis was the type of performance that gives credence to Solskjaer's belief genuine progress is being made.\n\nYet one look at the respective substitutes' bench shows United are crying out for reinforcements when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhereas Mourinho had six experienced full internationals to turn to as he tried to change the game in Tottenham's favour, Solskjaer had two and neither Luke Shaw nor Juan Mata have won a cap for quite some time.\n\nAt the end, Solskjaer milked the rapturous reception he was given.\n\nIf Sheffield United and Arsenal fail to win on Thursday, United will stay sixth. In order to stay there, Solskjaer will need more than the crowd behind him.\n\n'Rashford's best performance' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"You are always happy when you win. The boys are learning and improving all the time but tonight we were fantastic for long, long spells.\n\n\"The three points are massive for us. We've had too many draws this season and given too many points away from winning positions. It's a great lesson the last two games [Sheffield United and Aston Villa] and we came back in a great manner.\n\n\"We've started the rebuilding. We've made decisions that we had to and we're looking to build this club to be better again and I can't think short term when I'm trying to do that. When we turn the corner and win three or four games on the run, they will get that Man Utd feeling again.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"It's the best game he's had under me. He was mature and strong against good Premier League players. His penalty was calm and composed, and his [first] goal, we know he's got those strikes in him, and he had three or four chances.\n\n\"It's like he was back on the playground or in the back garden. We want them to have fun, there's nothing dangerous out there - just 75,00 people wanting to see the best [of them].\"\n\nTottenham head coach Jose Mourinho, also to BBC Sport: \"We started the second half with a goal that it is impossible to concede.\n\n\"We were not alert, sleeping at the throw-in and we let [Marcus] Rashford attack. Once he is inside the box it's more difficult to defend and he was clever and waited for the touch. In the first half they started more aggressive and more intense and deserved to be in front, maybe even 2-0, then we took control of the game.\n\n\"The goal at the start of the second half gave United the chance to play the way they did.\"\n\nOn Dele Alli: \"Dele is fine, he gave a good performance and tried everything, even in the second half when it's more difficult and they are more compact.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"When he plays from the left he is really dangerous and I knew that and gave the players the best information about it. His first goal is a typical Rashford goal coming on the inside. Our boys knew that clearly.\"\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last nine home matches in all competitions (W5 D4) since losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace in August.\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have lost more Premier League matches against Manchester United than against any other team (35 defeats).\n• None Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has won none of his last five away Premier League matches against the Red Devils (D3 L2), failing to beat four different managers in that time (Ferguson, Moyes, van Gaal and Solskjaer).\n• None Marcus Rashford has been directly involved in 11 goals in his last 10 appearances in all competitions for Manchester United (9 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances for Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions for the first time since March 2017 (a run of four).\n• None Manchester United have lost none of their last 138 home Premier League matches when scoring first (W125 D13).\n• None Tottenham have conceded twice in all of their four matches under Mourinho in all competitions - they only had a run of conceding 2+ goals in four consecutive matches once under Mauricio Pochettino, doing so in February and March 2015.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, 7 December (17:30 GMT). Tottenham are at home to Burnley on the same day (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Luke Shaw is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tanguy Ndombele (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt saved. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live BBC Radio 5 Live commentary with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app 'One Night: Joshua vs Ruiz' - watch documentary which relives one of boxing's greatest upsets on iPlayer\n\nAnthony Joshua says he would \"definitely be bothered\" if his world title fight with Andy Ruiz Jr was being used to 'sportswash' human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe Briton bids to reclaim three of the heavyweight world titles from Ruiz on Saturday and has faced criticism for the fight being staged in Diriyah.\n\nCampaigners have urged him to \"speak out\" about issues in the country.\n\n\"In the future maybe I can bear a different kind of flag,\" Joshua said.\n\n\"But at the minute it's a world championship flag. I just want to do a job.\"\n• None What Andy Ruiz Jr did next\n\nJoshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has openly stated that a huge financial commitment by Saudi's General Sports Authority (GSA) left little option but to stage the bout in the kingdom.\n\nJoshua, who holds ambassador posts with several high-profile brands and who works closely with a number of charities, told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that fighting in Saudi did not \"necessarily\" detract from his image as a role model.\n\nAsked how he would feel if the event was part of a move to 'sportswash' over wrongdoing, he said: \"If that was the case I would definitely have to say I would be bothered - but my only focus is the boxing.\n\n\"I feel like taking boxing globally is what a world champion should be doing. You fight around the world.\"\n\nJoshua was also asked if his status as a role model may be undermined by fighting in the country.\n\n\"Not necessarily,\" he said. \"I just came here for the boxing opportunity. I look around and everyone seems pretty happy and chilled. I've not seen anyone in a negative light out here, everyone seems to be having a good time.\n\n\"As an individual I try to bring positivity and light everywhere I go. I'm just seeing it from my eyes alone but for sure the country in itself is trying to do a good job politically.\n\n\"For the sporting side of things, I just feel I've got a fight to focus on.\"\n\n'No-one can tell a fighter where they can and can't go'\n\nThe move to stage high-level sport in Saudi Arabia forms part of a wider strategy - known as Vision 2030 - that seeks to improve how the country is viewed and progressively move it away from its oil-dependent economy.\n\nFormula E, golf's European Tour and World Wrestling Entertainment have moved to hold events in the country, while a number of pop stars have staged concerts.\n\nCampaigners say sport is being used as a soft power by the Saudi government to hide long-standing issues including women's rights abuses, the treatment of the LGBT community and the restriction of free speech.\n\nPromoter Hearn insists Saudi involvement is \"here to stay in boxing\" but he has repeatedly referenced the fact other sporting institutions have worked in the country, while well-known brands found on UK high streets are also open to business in the capital city Riyadh.\n\nAsked by BBC Sport whether money was influential in Joshua's decision, Hearn replied: \"Of course.\n\n\"There are so many hypocrites. You're here covering the event, why? Because you want as many eyeballs on the BBC website or news piece as possible.\n\n\"No individual, journalist or media outlet can possibly tell a fighter where they can or can't go to earn money in a sport like this.\n\n\"We can't be seen to be endorsing anything other than our job to provide life-changing opportunities for our clients who take part in one of the most barbaric and dangerous sport that exists.\n\n\"If we don't get on board then someone else will anyway.\"\n\nJoshua has freely fielded questions on the politics around what is a critical fight in his career following his shock loss to Ruiz in New York in June.\n\nHe explains his first professional loss has left \"scar tissue\" but says it taught him to \"never lose grip of your goals\".\n\nAsked whether victory at Diriyah Arena on Saturday would therefore top his list of achievements he replied: \"Yes, this would be number one. There are now doubters.\n\n\"I feel like I belong here so it's not like it's something I am chasing. It's just a quest for greatness in myself.\n\n\"How much do I want it? A whole heap. But not to prove anything to anyone, just to prove it to myself. When I win, I am not going to be too surprised as I believe this is my destiny and I belong in this position.\"\n\nJoshua and Ruiz will walk to the ring at around 20:30 GMT for a controversial and highly anticipated rematch that will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.", "Daddy Yankee, Stormzy and Billie Eilish racked up millions of views for their music videos in 2019\n\nStormzy's infectious single Vossi Bop was the most-watched music video of 2019 in the UK, YouTube has revealed.\n\nBased around a viral dance craze, the video sees the star rapping on Westminster Bridge and features a cameo from Idris Elba.\n\nSam Smith and Normani's Dancing With A Stranger was the second-biggest video. Billie Eilish's Bad Guy came third.\n\nOutside the UK, Latin music dominated, accounting for all of YouTube's top five music videos.\n\nTop of the list is Daddy Yankee's Con Calma - which interpolates Snow's 1990s rap classic Informer; while electro-flamenco singer Rosalía takes second place with the earworm groove of Con Altura.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Daddy Yankee This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt's the third year in a row that a Latin song has topped YouTube's global chart. In 2018, the honour went to Nio García's Te Boté; while in 2017, it was Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito (which is the most-viewed video in the site's history, with 6.5bn views).\n\nThe figures reflect Latin America's increasing importance to the music industry: It's the world's fastest-growing music market - revenues increased by 16.8% last year, with Brazil the largest contributor.\n\n\"Without any doubt, there was always huge music consumption in Brazil - it's a country that truly has music at its heart - but, due to copyright infringement, this was never recognised,\" said Afo Verde, chairman of Sony Music Latin Iberia, earlier this year.\n\n\"When consumption began to take the form of streaming, the results were impressive.\"\n\n\"I think it has been a sleeping giant for years and years, and the reality is that it's a country with more than 200 million people. And it's a country that loves music,\" added Jesus López, chairman of Universal Music Latin America.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by RosaliaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHowever, the spectre of piracy still looms over the market. It's notable that Latin artists thrive on YouTube, an advertising-supported platform, but have a lesser impact on services like Spotify and Apple, which generate larger revenues through monthly subscriptions.\n\nThere have also been accusations that record labels in South America are \"buying\" views on YouTube to boost their artists' profiles.\n\nBoth Spotify and Apple Music released their own most-streamed charts this week, and artists like Daddy Yankee were conspicuously absent; with Western stars like Camila Cabello, Lil Nas X and Post Malone populating the countdown.\n\nYou can compare the various charts below:\n\nApple also released data about the year's most searched-for songs on the music discovery app Shazam - with Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved coming out on top.\n\nMeanwhile, Joel Corry's sad-banger Sorry broke the record for the most Shazams in a single day. A total of 41,000 people looked the song up after it featured in an episode of ITV 2's Love Island on 24 July.\n\n\"My phone went into meltdown when it happened,\" the producer said at the time. \"It's got everyone talking, and helped launch the single up the Official Charts. I'm just buzzing everyone is loving Sorry!\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Joel Corry This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An alleged neo-Nazi, who is accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels to call for \"total war\", has appeared in court charged with 12 terror offences.\n\nAndrew Dymock, 22, of Weymouth Street, Bath, was arrested on Wednesday morning by counter-terrorism officers.\n\nThe charges relate to alleged online activity by British neo-Nazi groups.\n\nMr Dymock - a student at the time of the alleged offences - indicated not guilty pleas to all counts at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nProsecutors say the defendant, who appeared in the dock wearing a Hawaiian shirt over a rainbow t-shirt, was a member of the extremist groups System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division.\n\nThe chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, granted him conditional bail ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey on 20 December.\n\nIt is alleged that he used the System Resistance Network (SRN) website - which later became a site for the Sonnenkrieg Division - to upload articles that directly encouraged terrorist violence, with one post said to call for the extermination of Jewish people.\n\nHe is also accused of using the SRN Twitter account to quote Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, and ask that readers \"join your local Nazis\".\n\nAnother post allegedly stated: \"Death to the System. Hail the new order!\"\n\nThe terrorist funding charges relate to Mr Dymock allegedly seeking - and receiving - money via the SRN website.\n\nHe is further accused of possessing a poster that called for people to \"rape the cops\".", "Lucy and her dog Olga in the Radio 1 studio\n\nWhen Lucy Edwards found out she had been chosen to be a presenter on Radio 1, she spent the day \"jumping up and down like a bunny rabbit\".\n\n\"But then I was like, 'Right, let's do this',\" she says.\n\nShe will be taking over the late morning slot on 28 and 29 December and says she wants to create a show that feels \"like family\".\n\n\"We've got my lovely guide dog Olga at my feet. We've got cute cuddly vibes. We've got some amazing tunes to be played.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucy Edwards👩🏻‍🦯 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLucy came through Radio 1 and 1Xtra's search for new presenters - which will see 35 guests taking over the airwaves for five days over Christmas.\n\nAmong them are students, podcasters, a tattooist and a shop manager.\n\nLucy - who has a YouTube channel and is a freelance reporter and presenter - will have the honour of playing Radio 1's greatest hits during her slots.\n\nAnd there's one artist she's told her producers to get on the playlist.\n\n\"We need to have Katy Perry. Because I just think she's a babe, really.\"\n\nLucy - who's had to keep the job secret for a couple of weeks - says she feels \"a sense of responsibility\" as the first blind presenter on Radio 1.\n\n\"I'm so excited to be representing the blind crew, the disabled community,\" she says.\n\n\"I personally think it's really important to stand up and be out there as a blind person saying, 'Hey, I am really really proud of my disability'.\n\n\"I'm proud to be who I am. I'm a small, blind, ginger woman from Birmingham.\"\n\nLucy has a condition called Incontinentia Pigmenti which affected her eyesight at a young age.\n\nShe lost sight in her right eye at the age of 11, and in her left eye at 17.\n\nLucy will get to present Radio 1's greatest hits\n\nLucy has been presenting for a few years.\n\nAs well as her YouTube channel, she's worked on the BBC's Ouch podcast about living with disabilities and Radio 4's programme In Touch - which is about blind and partially-sighted people.\n\nSo what advice does she have for others who want to become presenters?\n\n\"Always take every opportunity. You don't want to miss anything that comes to you in life,\" she says.\n\n\"I never want to say no to things - building your portfolio is really important.\n\n\"Get your microphone out where you are. Maybe even make your own podcast, your own YouTube channel.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish.\n\nSteve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, from Exeter, took four months to circumnavigate the globe in the first trip of its kind in a Spitfire.\n\nThey stopped off in 100 locations, across 30 countries.\n\nThe project, called Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight, started and finished at Goodwood Aerodrome, the base of Boultbee Flight Academy, the first-ever school for Spitfire pilots, in West Sussex.", "June Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity\n\nThe BBC has announced its plan to promote black and ethnic minority colleagues as \"senior leaders\".\n\nCorporation boss Tony Hall outlined the new strategy around \"our BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] talent\" in an email to staff on Thursday.\n\nThe note was titled \"Going further in building a creative, inclusive BBC\".\n\n\"We can't be the creative, inclusive organisation we want to be if we're not representative of the whole of the UK,\" wrote Lord Hall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're making some good progress, but we want to do more, particularly in relation to senior leaders.\"\n\nHe added: \"So we've decided to take immediate action to promote a generation of talented leaders who'll bring the diversity of thinking we need.\"\n\nEarlier this week the broadcaster promised a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nIn October TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity, and last summer the broadcaster committed to having at least two BAME members on every senior leadership group by the end of 2020.\n\n\"But we also want to nurture and develop new leaders to extend the range of our thinking - as part of a culture that's open to new people,\" Lord Hall went on, \"new ideas, and different ways of doing things.\n\n\"In other words, a culture that enables diversity of thought.\"\n\nHe explained the BBC will \"appoint two advisers to every one of our key leadership groups\" from talent within the organisation, with roles lasting for 12 months alongside people's existing jobs.\n\nAs well as announcing they will be putting on a \"festival of creative diversity\" in June, headed up by Sarpong.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 5 December 2019.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon rejected suggestions there is a police crisis after Susan Deacon, the head of the Scottish Police Authority, quit citing \"fundamentally flawed\" governance.\n\nHer departure prompted Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie to claim at first minister's questions that the police were \"in crisis once again\".\n\nMs Sturgeon did not agree saying: \"No. I have to say to Willie Rennie the police is not in crisis and I think it does a disservice to the police officers around the country working so hard to keep us safe to say so.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr called on the first minister and the justice secretary to have an \"immediate review to learn what has gone wrong with the SNP's centralisation project\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had invested in and supported 1,000 extra police officers for Scotland while numbers elsewhere in the UK were \"slashed\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called on the first minister to apologise over her government's public services \"failure\", but Ms Sturgeon highlights crime was at one of its lowest levels for decades.", "Grigolo admitted his personality could be \"very exuberant at times\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House and New York's Metropolitan Opera have dropped tenor Vittorio Grigolo over \"inappropriate and aggressive behaviour\" on tour.\n\nThe London venue said the behaviour occurred \"at a curtain call and afterwards\" in Tokyo in September.\n\nGrigolo posted an apology, saying \"the situation deteriorated unexpectedly due to a brawl between colleagues\".\n\nHe will no longer star in the ROH's Lucia Di Lammermoor next summer or appear in the Met's current season.\n\nThe ROH had suspended him following the incident, which happened after a performance of Faust in Japan.\n\nThe company said: \"Following an independent investigation into an incident involving Vittorio Grigolo in Tokyo in September, the ROH has concluded that his inappropriate and aggressive behaviour at a curtain call and afterwards fell below the standards we expect of our staff and performers.\n\n\"We have therefore concluded that he will not return to perform in Lucia Di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in 2020. We will announce new casting for this role in due course.\"\n\nThe Italian tenor has been one of the stars of opera over the past decade, and was described by The New York Times in February as \"perhaps the most dependably exciting singer in opera\".\n\nHe appeared alongside Sir Bryn Terfel in Tosca at the ROH earlier this year and has appeared at the London venue in La Traviata, Rigoletto and La Boheme.\n\nOn Instagram, Grigolo said he was sorry \"that this episode clouded the effort, passion and love of art that every single one of my colleagues in this production\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even though it was never my attention to offend anyone, the situation deteriorated unexpectedly due to a brawl between colleagues.\n\n\"I'm truly saddened that my behaviour towards everyone in the cast, people whom I have always respected and continue to respect from the bottom of my heart, was perceived to be below Royal Opera House standards.\"\n\nHe admitted his personality could be \"very exuberant at times\", promising that \"what happened will not happen again in the future\".\n\nThe episode \"allowed me to learn a precious life lesson\", he added.\n\nA statement from the Met said: \"Following the Royal Opera House investigation into misconduct concerning Vittorio Grigolo and his subsequent suspension from performances there this season, the Metropolitan Opera confirms that he will not be singing at the Met this season.\"\n\nHe had been scheduled to sing Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata there this winter, according to The New York Times.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The bank said it would cut fees on unarranged overdrafts\n\nHSBC is to bring in a single overdraft rate of 39.9% for UK customers from March 2020, as much as quadrupling the rate it charges some customers.\n\nHowever, the bank is removing a £5 daily fee for going into an unarranged overdraft and introducing an interest-free £25 buffer on some accounts.\n\nIt follows a similar move from Nationwide Building Society in July.\n\nThe new annual rate comes in response to tough new rules from regulators designed to protect consumers.\n\nBut one analyst warned that steep overdraft rates could now become the \"new normal\".\n\nHSBC UK currently charges rates of 9.9% to 19.9% on arranged overdrafts, but the higher rate will be applied across its whole range of accounts except for its student bank account.\n\nThe £25 buffer will apply to Bank Accounts and Advance Bank Accounts, providing leeway for those going slightly overdrawn.\n\nHSBC said that as a result of this and the removal of the £5 daily fee for unarranged overdrafts, seven in 10 who use an overdraft would be better off or the same as a result of the changes.\n\nBut that suggests around a third could end up worse off. The bank has eight to nine million current account holders in the UK.\n\nMadhu Kejriwal, HSBC UK's head of lending and payments, said: \"By simplifying our overdraft charging structure we are making them easier to understand, more transparent and giving customers tools to help them make better financial decisions.\"\n\nNationwide has also raised its overdraft rates\n\nThe move comes in response to Financial Conduct Authority's plans to shake up the \"dysfunctional\" overdraft market - including stopping banks and building societies from charging higher prices for unarranged overdrafts than for arranged overdrafts.\n\nThe new rules, which come into force next April, will require providers to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts and get rid of fixed fees.\n\nBut there have been concerns that banks will hike authorised overdraft charges to claw back some revenue lost from unauthorised overdraft fees.\n\nIn July, Nationwide also unveiled a new single rate of 39.9% across its adult current account range. Its changes came into force in November.\n\nHelen Saxon, banking editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, said: \"With both of the first banks to announce changes moving overdraft interest rates to around 40%, we have to wonder if this is the new normal.\"\n\nThe FCA has acknowledged banks may look to increase their arranged overdraft prices as a result of the new rules.\n\nBut it argues the net effect will still be better for consumers - and increased competition between providers as a result of the changes will constrain any price increases.\n\nRachel Springall, a finance expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk, said: \"It's disappointing to see such a hike in overdraft charges but there may be more brands coming out in the coming weeks to announce changes too.\n\n\"This shake-up is designed to make things fairer and more transparent to consumers.\n\n\"Borrowers would be wise to scrutinise any changes to their current account and look to switch elsewhere if they find that the account has lost its shine.\"", "A US sailor shot dead two workers before taking his own life at the Pearl Harbor military base near Honolulu in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials say the gunman also injured a third worker before he killed himself.\n\nThe incident prompted a lockdown at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, which is on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.\n\nThe shooting was reported at about 14:30 (00:30 GMT) local time. The identities of those involved in the shooting have not yet been confirmed.\n\nAll three victims were civilian defence department employees and the survivor is in a stable condition, officials said.\n\nRear Admiral Robb Chadwick, speaking at a press conference, said it was unclear if the victims were targeted or shot at random.\n\nHe said the gunman has tentatively been identified as an active duty serviceman assigned to the USS Columbia.\n\nThe submarine is currently undergoing maintenance at the base, US media reports.\n\n\"Obviously our thoughts are with the families of the victims and everyone involved,\" Rear Adm Chadwick added.\n\nRear Admiral Robert Chadwick said the gunman died from \"an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound\"\n\nThe shooting prompted a lockdown at the military base, which is home to US navy and air force personnel.\n\nBoth base security and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the shooting, a spokesman said.\n\nHawaii's governor, David Ige, responded to the shooting in a tweet and confirmed the White House had offered federal assistance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shooting comes just three days before the 78th anniversary of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor naval station, which left more than 2,300 Americans dead.\n\nThe surprise attack, on 7 December 1941, prompted the US to declare war on Japan and enter World War Two.", "Debts excluding mortgages are on the rise in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nDebts including credit card debt and personal loans rose 11% to £119bn in the two years to March 2018, according to the ONS study, which is published every two years.\n\nMuch of the increase is a result of higher student loan and hire purchase debt.\n\n\"The figures are skewed slightly by the £32bn of student debts - which the vast majority of graduates will never pay back in full,\" said Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"However, even excluding that we're carrying £87bn in loans, credit cards, hire purchase agreements, overdrafts and arrears.\"\n\nMedian financial debt - taking the middle household as the norm, rather than dividing total debt by the number of households - grew 12% to £4,500. This figure excludes households with no debt and suggests these debts are not evenly spread.\n\nThe poorest 10% of households have debts three times bigger than the value of assets they own, while the top 10% have total wealth - property, pensions and other assets- worth 35 times larger than their debt.\n\n\"Not all these debts are the same: there's a world of difference between taking an affordable, low-cost loan for vital home improvements, and living on your overdraft month after month, because it's proving so difficult to make your salary stretch to the end of the month,\" said Ms Coles.\n\n\"But if you're one of the 44% of people who see their borrowing as a burden, it's worth taking steps to deal with your debts.\"\n\nBudgeting can tighten up finances, but there are many free advisers who can help find the best way forward.", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nThree men have admitted being involved in an attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones but denied it was motivated by homophobia.\n\nThe journalist was celebrating his birthday at the Lexington pub in Islington, north London, when he was targeted on 17 August.\n\nJames Healy, 40, Charlie Ambrose, 30, and Liam Tracey, 34, admitted a charge of affray at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nHe will now face a trial of issue in front of a judge to decide whether the attack was motivated by Mr Jones's sexuality.\n\nMr Jones, who is gay and campaigns for LGBT rights, suffered cuts and swelling to his back, head and bruises all down his body in the assault.\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in the Lexington pub on the Pentonville Road in Islington, north London, when he was targeted\n\nAt a previous hearing, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court heard Mr Jones was \"karate-kicked\" in the back.\n\nProsecutor Philip McGhee said if the attack was found to be motivated by homophobia \"it would have a material impact\" on sentence.\n\nThe trial of issue against Healy will take place at the same court in January and Mr Jones will be required to give evidence.\n\nAll three men are due to be sentenced on 11 February and were warned they could face prison. Judge Paul Southern granted the defendants conditional bail until then.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Private investment is bringing down the cost of renewable energy'\n\nNationalising UK energy companies will delay the UK's move towards a zero carbon future, according to the chief executive of Scottish Power, Keith Anderson.\n\nHe said that investment by the private sector had seen the cost of renewable energy plummet over the last decade and that debates about nationalisation would only serve as a distraction from averting a climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to focus on hitting zero carbon by 2050. Anything else is a distraction.\n\n\"Having big arguments about who owns what is the worst thing we could do right now. It would slow everything down when what we need to do is speed up.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Anderson's comments were \"hardly surprising\" as they represented \"vested interests\".\n\n\"Labour has set out our plans to dramatically expand the rollout of renewable generation - so that we can hit net zero by the 2030s - not 2050,\" he said.\n\n\"While generous public subsidies have led to some private sector investment in renewable generation, private ownership of the UK's grid has been a disaster, with shareholder dividends prioritised over investment.\"\n\nMr Anderson told the BBC: \"We estimate we need to install 4,000 electric car charging points a day between now and 31 December 2050, and if we delay that for a year arguing about ownership that is 1.5 million charging points that won't get installed in time.\"\n\nLabour says it would increase charging points at a faster rate than the private sector has managed. But Mr Anderson said that competition and innovation had revolutionised his company and the industry.\n\n\"If you look back 20 years we were predominantly a coal burning generator. Now, we have shut down all our coal mines, got rid of gas and we are now a 100% renewable energy company. That's what we want us and other companies to deliver.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has described Labour's plans as radical\n\nLabour plans to nationalise the big six energy providers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into 14 state-owned regional agencies.\n\nIt's not just energy. A Labour government would also take water, the Royal Mail and BT's broadband business into public ownership.\n\nSo how much would this cost?\n\nThat's a tricky question to answer. Labour say parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners - which of course includes many worker's pension funds - but the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates it would add at least £200bn to government debt.\n\nHowever, the government would collect the associated revenue - apart from broadband which it eventually wants to give away for free.\n\nArguments about who is better at delivering key public services and utilities are not new.\n\nBut the Labour Party manifesto proposes one of the most radical overhauls of how companies are owned and run in decades.\n\nThe private sector will tell you that the prospect of nationalisation is deterring private investment at a crucial time - while Labour would say only the state has the power to borrow and invest at the scale and pace that's needed.\n\nIn Scotland, as in most of Europe, the water industry is already nationalised and the SNP wants to extend public ownership of rail, buses and ferries.\n\nProf Andrew Cumbers of Glasgow University says that many breakthroughs in innovation and technology - particularly in renewable energy - have been achieved thanks to state subsidies.\n\n\"It sounds radical but it's only what happens in many other countries. The government can borrow much more cheaply than companies. If you leave it all to the private sector, research and development inevitably gets cut to divert profits into shareholder dividends.\"\n\nSmaller companies - such as Bulb, Ovo and Octopus in energy, and Virgin Media and Talk Talk in broadband - would not face nationalisation. That would leave them competing with the state.\n\nTough if you are giving services like broadband away for free or others at less than market prices.\n\nEven Labour describe their own policies as radical. On that at least business would agree.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Aramco traces its history back to the 1930s\n\nState-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has raised a record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) in its initial public offering in Riyadh.\n\nThe share sale was the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba which raised $25bn in 2014 in New York.\n\nAramco relied on domestic and regional investors to sell a 1.5% stake after lukewarm interest from abroad.\n\nThe IPO will value it at $1.7tn when trading begins - short of its $2tn target, but making it the most valuable listed company in the world.\n\nThe share sale is at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the Saudi economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.\n\nThe country urgently needs tens of billions of dollars to fund megaprojects and develop new industries.\n\nAramco has found the journey to its public offering testing.\n\nIt initially sought to raise $100bn on two exchanges - with a first listing on the kingdom's Tadawul bourse, and then another on an overseas exchange such as the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut it scaled back its plans after foreign investors raised concerns about climate change, political risk and a lack of corporate transparency.\n\nInternational institutions also baulked at the firm's $1.7tn valuation, prompting Aramco to pull marketing roadshows in New York and London.\n\nInstead, it focused its marketing efforts on Saudi investors and wealthy Gulf Arab allies. Saudi banks also offered citizens cheap credit to bid for the shares following a nationwide advertising campaign.\n\nShares were priced at 32 Saudi riyals ($8.53) on Thursday and were heavily oversubscribed, according to reports.\n\nBut it remains to be seen whether the share price rises or falls when trading begins, most likely later this month.\n\nThe IPO's pricing came as Saudi Arabia met with Russia and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in Vienna to discuss oil production.\n\nThe allies - who together pump 40% of the world's oil - agreed to deepen output cuts as part of ongoing efforts to prop up global prices.\n\nOil prices collapsed in mid 2014 and have yet to fully recover, leaving oil-dependent economies under pressure.\n\nThe market is struggling with slower global growth and a flood of new production from countries such as the US.\n\nThree years after it was first announced Saudi Arabia is finally taking the world's most profitable company public. The market valuation is less than the $2tn target that Crown Prince Bin-Salman - had initially hoped to achieve.\n\nThe company has committed to a large annual dividend until 2024 to ensure investors don't sell shares in the near future leading to a drop in market valuation.\n\nBut analysts believe the biggest challenge for the company will be if it decides to list on an international stock exchange in the future to expand its investor pool. The core business of Saudi Aramco - oil - is considered by many experts its biggest risk.\n\nDemand for crude has been falling, which could make it difficult for the company to grow in the long term. The climate crisis and geopolitical risks are also key factors that could deter potential investors.", "Searches have been carried out after the body of a man was found in the wreckage of a house that was destroyed in an explosion.\n\nWitnesses have spoken of their shock at the scene in Andover, Hampshire, after the blast at about 02:30 GMT.\n\nEmergency services have searched through the rubble and a number of other properties have been evacuated.\n\nHampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) has confirmed other occupants had been accounted for.", "A majority stake in Gatwick Airport is to be sold to French operator Vinci Airports for £2.9bn.\n\nVinci Airports, part of infrastructure group Vinci, will buy 50.01% of the UK's second-busiest airport.\n\nThe other 49.99% will be managed by current owners Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).\n\nThe airport was closed in the run-up to Christmas after reports of drone sightings, in what is thought to be the most disruptive incident of its kind.\n\nFlights were grounded and about 140,000 passengers affected over three days during the incident.\n\nIn 2016, Gatwick's expansion plans were dealt a blow when the government rejected its proposal for a new second runway while giving the go-ahead for Heathrow to build a third runway.\n\nGatwick was acquired by a GIP-led consortium in 2009.\n\nMore than 45 million passengers travel through Gatwick each year, flying to 230 destinations in 70 countries, according to its website.\n\nThe deal would make Gatwick the largest airport in Vinci's network, which will grow to 46 airports in 12 countries - with a total traffic of about 228 million passengers a year, according to the company.\n\nIt follows Vinci's takeover of Airports Worldwide's portfolio earlier this year, which included Belfast International and stakes in 12 airports across the US.\n\nCommenting on recent disruption at Gatwick, Nicolas Notebaert, president of Vinci Airports, said he had \"every confidence\" in the teams currently in place.\n\n\"We will of course work with the airport operational team and the existing shareholders to make Gatwick as resilient as it can be in the face of these new risks,\" he added.\n\nBefore Christmas, Gatwick was in the public eye for all the wrong reasons. It was brought to a standstill and around 1,000 flights were cancelled due to apparent drone activity.\n\nBut the fact remains, London's second airport is potentially a lucrative asset. It handles more than 45 million passengers every year and makes hundreds of millions of pounds in profit.\n\nVinci says it also offers \"significant potential for growth\". The question is, where will that growth come from? Gatwick is already operating at a high level of efficiency, squeezing the maximum number of landings and takeoffs from its single runway. Its proposal to build a second runway was rejected by the government in 2016.\n\nBut it has a back-up idea. Earlier this year, it set out a \"masterplan\" for the future - which suggested that an emergency standby runway could be expanded and brought into daily use, to increase capacity.\n\nThat would certainly be a controversial move - but if it succeeded, there could be major benefits for Vinci. So perhaps the French firm thinks it's worth a gamble.\n\nUS-based GIP said it expected the transaction to be completed \"by the middle of next year\".\n\nThe executive team at Gatwick, including chief executive Stewart Wingate, is to be unchanged.", "A 20-year-old British cruise ship entertainer is missing after going overboard on Christmas Day, operator Royal Caribbean has said.\n\nThe US Coast Guard has been searching through the night for Arron Hough after he went missing from the Harmony of the Seas.\n\nThe vessel was 267 miles northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, at the time.\n\nThe alarm was raised when Mr Hough, from Sunderland, failed to report for work on Tuesday.\n\nHis talent agency Russell Smith Associates tweeted that it was shocked and saddened by the news.\n\nLondon drama school Urdang Academy, which Mr Hough attended, said staff were praying for the entertainer and his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Royal Caribbean spokesman confirmed a member of the entertainment team had not reported to work as scheduled on Tuesday, with the ship en route to Philipsburg, St Maarten.\n\n\"We are saddened to report that after a review of the ship's closed-circuit camera footage he was observed entering an area on Deck 5 at around 4am and was not seen again,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Local authorities were notified and a ship-wide search for the crew member was conducted.\n\n\"Our care team is providing support to the family and friends of our colleague, and our thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time.\"\n\nThe US Coast Guard said: \"Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Juan received a notification from the cruise ship stating a crew member went overboard Tuesday.\"\n\nRussell Smith Associates tweeted in July that Mr Hough would be joining the cast of Grease The Musical.\n\nHarmony Of The Seas is on a seven-night tour that departed Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 23 December, calling at St Maarten, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Haiti.", "Nine migrants landed at Sandgate, Folkestone, and were met by the Border Force and Kent Police\n\nSome 23 migrants, including three children, have been detained in Kent after crossing the Channel in small boats.\n\nNine were found on a beach in Folkestone, six at Dover and eight rescued off the coast nearby.\n\nFrench authorities also rescued 11 people, five of whom were suffering from hypothermia, from a small boat.\n\nOn Boxing Day, three migrants were brought ashore by the Border Force. Forty were rescued on Christmas Day.\n\nLifeboat crews were sent from Dover and Littlestone-on-Sea to Sandgate, Folkestone, at 00:45 GMT.\n\nCharlie Davies, operations manager of Littlestone-on-Sea RNLI, said it was called to reports of a \"craft off the beach at Sandgate\", but the boat had landed by the time they arrived.\n\n\"The people on the boat had got on the beach, but they were met by Border Force and Kent Police,\" he said.\n\nHe said the craft was a 4m (13ft) rigid-hulled inflatable boat with an outboard motor.\n\nThe boat's occupants - five men, one woman, two boys and a girl - were detained by Border Force officers.\n\nFrench authorities rescued 11 migrants, five of whom were suffering hypothermia\n\nThe Home Office said Border Force officers were \"deployed to attend on shore\" in Folkestone and detained nine migrants, who are \"being processed in line with the Immigration Rules\".\n\nSeparately, the Border Force assisted with a small boat at Dover on Thursday, the Home Office said.\n\nAt about 08:45 an inflatable boat carrying eight adult male Iranian migrants was spotted.\n\nAll were brought to shore for medical assessment and transferred to immigration officials for interview.\n\nSix Iranian migrants were earlier detained on Shakespeare Beach in Dover at about 08:30.\n\nFrench authorities said several passenger ships reported a small boat in French waters off the coast of Calais between 22:40 GMT and 23:40 GMT.\n\nEleven adults, five of whom were suffering from hypothermia, were rescued by the gendarmerie maritime at 00:45 GMT. They were taken to Boulogne.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three British tourists, including a young child, have died after their vehicle crashed while crossing a bridge in Iceland.\n\nThe vehicle - a 4x4 - was carrying seven British people when the accident happened at around 9:30 GMT on Thursday, Icelandic Police said.\n\nThe other four passengers in the car were critically injured and airlifted to hospital, police said.\n\nTwo of those seriously injured are children aged between seven and nine.\n\nThe Toyota Land Cruiser crashed through a railing on a one-lane bridge in southern Iceland.\n\nIt then fell around eight metres onto a sandy river bank.\n\nThe accident happened in an area called Núpsvötn on Iceland's ring road between the town of Kirkjubæjarklaustur and area of Skaftafell, which is part of the Vatnajökull National Park beauty spot.\n\nSveinn Kristjan Runarsson, Chief Superintendent of south Iceland Police said police have not yet been able to talk to the injured passengers - who are now in hospital in Iceland's capital Reykjavik - about what happened.\n\nThe group involved in the crash are from two British families.\n\nPolice said it is not thought the road was icy, but humidity could have made the bridge's surface - which is made of steel - slippery.\n\nOne of the first people on the scene was tour guide Adolf Erlingsson, who told BBC News he believed the driver had lost control.\n\nThe accident took place on a 200-300 metre bridge over the area of Núpsvötn on Iceland's ring road\n\nMr Erlingsson said the car \"went through the railing and crashed down onto the bank\".\n\n\"It's kind of sandy, there's no rivers so it wasn't submerged in water. It just landed there on a sandy bottom and flipped over and was totally destroyed,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he got out of his van and went to see if he could help.\n\n\"The car was a total wreck. When I got there four people were out of the car, one of them deceased. Then there were three people trapped in the car.\n\n\"The driver was alive and trapped more or less under the dashboard. We were trying to get the people out of the car and helping them, it was a very difficult situation.\"\n\nA police car blocks off part of Route 1 - Iceland's main ring road around the country\n\nHe said he spoke to some passengers who were \"semi-conscious\", adding: \"I tried to talk a bit to the driver to calm him down.\"\n\nAccording to BBC correspondent Ben Ando, the 4x4 has been recovered and will be transported to the town of Selfoss where the bodies of two of the occupants will be taken out of the wrecked car.\n\nThe UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: \"We are supporting the family of several British nationals who were involved in a road traffic accident in Iceland and are in close contact with the Icelandic authorities.\"\n\nIceland's national ring road, also known as Route 1, is popular among tourists. The accident happened near Skaftafell in the south-east, which is made up of mountains, glaciers, waterfalls and beaches.", "Is this, at last, the true face of the Trump administration's foreign policy?\n\nUS ground troops withdrawn from Syria at short notice; the long-heralded departure of James Mattis - a much respected defence secretary - who can clearly no longer tolerate the president's mercurial approach to security and defence.\n\nNow there are reports (as yet unconfirmed) about a partial US pull-out from Afghanistan, where American forces provide the backbone of the train-and-assist effort that is helping the Afghan security forces in their faltering efforts to contain the Taliban insurgency.\n\nIn one sense, none of this should be a surprise. US President Donald Trump has long railed against the wars bequeathed to America by his predecessors.\n\nMany analysts question the value of the US troop presence in Syria, just as they point to the inherent problems in seeking to bolster an Afghan government riven by corruption, factional infighting and so on.\n\nBut to cite the deficiencies of these deployments and to question where they are going or what value they bring is one thing. Simply to up sticks and depart is quite another.\n\nWithdrawal, just as much as intervention, requires a game plan, a strategy or framework into which Washington's own actions are placed. And the simple fact is that President Donald Trump does not seem to do strategy.\n\nHow, for example, does the US withdrawal from Syria fit into any coherent plan either to stabilise the country or to contain the sizeable elements of the Islamic State (IS) group that still remain? How does it help the US to counteract Russia and Iran's rising influence in the region? And what signal does it send to America's allies about its commitment to their security?\n\nJames Mattis (right) resigned a day after President Trump said he was withdrawing troops from Syria\n\nThe departure of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis raises many similar questions.\n\nYes, he resigned, but he had clearly fallen out of favour with Mr Trump weeks ago.\n\nHe had fought a hard and pragmatic campaign against the president's disdain for Washington's Nato allies. Indeed, despite the rhetoric coming from the White House, US deployments of troops and equipment to Europe have increased significantly on Mr Trump's watch.\n\nMr Trump's Syria withdrawal, of course, leaves Washington's Kurdish allies in a predicament - potentially caught between three fires: that of the Turks who are threatening a further encroachment into northern Syria; the remnants of IS; and the Bashar al-Assad government which also has scores to settle.\n\nMany US experts see in Mr Trump's actions a betrayal which will long resonate in the region and beyond.\n\nBut it is the strategy question that is fundamental. The world is certainly changing.\n\nChina, a major new power, is rising. Russia, a resurgent player, seeks to return to the world stage and has chosen the Middle East as the first region in which it seeks to flex its muscles.\n\nFrom their rise, other less powerful countries are taking an example, arguing that a market economy can co-exist with an authoritarian form of government.\n\nIn many cases, this is bolstered by a rising tide of populism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nAnd this extends into the West, afflicting once settled Scandinavia, countries on the main European landmass, and across the Atlantic to the US itself.\n\nThe linkage of market economics and liberal democracy that seemed to triumph at the end of the Cold War is now on the back foot, having to defend itself from a variety of challenges.\n\nAmerica's allies are looking to Washington more than ever for a far-sighted strategy that can help all of them to resist these new challenges.\n\nBut no coherent strategy is offered. The president tweets, ignores the expert voices in his own administration - and policy changes.\n\nBut what is to be left behind in Syria, Afghanistan or anywhere else where President Trump's fleeting gaze lands?\n\nLet's be clear. The arguments for a continued US presence in Syria or indeed even ultimately in Afghanistan are complex, difficult and by no means always convincing.\n\nPresident Trump's predecessors made many errors along the way. These were situations that went badly wrong. But a precipitous withdrawal may only make matters worse.\n\nTo the dismay of its friends and allies, the US seems to have no grand strategy for the Middle East.\n\nThe current balance of power means that it has fewer levers to pull and certainly cannot enforce any settlement in Syria on its own.\n\nBut Mr Trump appears to be washing his hands and handing the whole job over to Russia, Turkey and Iran.\n\nThis absence of a strategic approach is reflected in so many other areas too.\n\nOn climate change and arms control, Mr Trump is at variance with Washington's closest friends.\n\nHe is ambivalent towards Russia, and his efforts to engage the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un amount to little more than mutual flattery and studied obfuscation of the real issues.\n\nAfter Mr Trump's first year in office, I went to Washington to make a programme looking at what had changed in defence and wider security policy over the past 12 months.\n\nSurprisingly, the answer then was very little. Block out the \"noise\" - the tweets and pronouncements from the White House press room - and it was the Pentagon that seemed to be steering a familiar course.\n\nNow though, things have undoubtedly changed. That helmsman - Jim Mattis - is departing.\n\nPresident Trump seems to be charting his own erratic course through an ocean of reefs, rocks and monsters without any strategic map to guide him.", "The number of people heading to the Boxing Day sales has fallen for the third year running despite some heavy discounting, retail analysts have said.\n\nSpringboard, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said average footfall for the day was 3.1% lower than in 2017.\n\nIt suggested 26 December was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as midnight and the data does not include online sales.\n\nAnd retailers in London's West End declared a \"Boxing Day bounce\" saying there had been a 15% increase in footfall from last year.\n\nShoppers on London's Oxford Street told BBC News they braved the crowds to pick up a bargain and browse products in person rather than just buying them online.\n\nSome stores were offering discounts of as much as 70% after slow sales up to Christmas.\n\nSpringboard said in recent years Boxing Day had consistently seen fewer shoppers than the Black Friday sales at the end of November. The number of shoppers in the morning was said to be more than 9% lower than Black Friday.\n\nHowever, footfall does not include online sales, which made up 21% of retail sales in November, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nBargain-hunters raced into Selfridges in London as the doors were opened\n\nBlack Friday has been taking the wind out of Boxing Day sales for a few years now, and retailers have been forced to slash prices even further during the festive period.\n\nWhile this is good news for shoppers, analysts are concerned that struggling chains, with warehouses full of stock to shift, are now engaged in a race to the bottom, just when they need to be increasing profits.\n\nWhat's worse is that there is no sign of a spending splurge on the horizon. Even online giants such as Asos have had a hard time of it lately, as household debt is growing, and people have less disposable income altogether.\n\nOne place that seems to be bucking the trend - at least today - is the West End in London. That's driven, at least in part, by lots of visitors from overseas, hoping to take advantage of the weak pound.\n\nBut across the country as a whole there are only a few days left to make up for a miserable year.\n\nSome shops opened at 06:00 GMT, with queues of the keenest bargain-hunters having formed at 02:00.\n\nRetailers in London's West End expect to see 500,000 shoppers over the day and £50m in sales.\n\nJace Tyrrell, chief executive at New West End Company, representing businesses in Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, said: \"International tourists are out in force driven by the weaker pound, as well as domestic shoppers who are looking for a day out after family celebrations yesterday,\" he said.\n\nMyf Ryan, chief marketing officer for Europe at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, which owns the Westfield shopping centres, said: \"Boxing Day is always one of our peak trading days and has got off to a very busy start.\"\n\nCustomers hunted for the best bargains in Next, Edinburgh\n\nThe so-called \"Super Saturday\" before Christmas had failed to deliver the boost that retailers hoped for, with just a 1% increase in footfall.\n\nRetail analysts had been predicting bigger than usual Boxing Day discounts as shops tried to entice consumers back to the High Street.\n\nManagement consultancy Deloitte said it expected average discounts of 52% from retailers seeking to offload unwanted stock.\n\nMany stores had already begun discounting before Christmas, with the rise of Black Friday stretching the sales into November.\n\nOnline retailer Asos blamed \"unprecedented\" discounting for damaging November trading, which it said would lead to weak profit for the full year.\n\nStuart McClure, of price and discount tracking website LovetheSales.com, said that online, some retailers had kept discounts running from Black Friday right up until Christmas and increasing numbers were starting their Boxing Day sales early.\n\n\"The reductions have also been deeper. Right now the average discount online stands at 43% - this is the highest it's ever been on Boxing Day,\" he said.\n\nSome bargain-hunters queued overnight outside Selfridges in central London\n\nBrands including Primark, Ted Baker and John Lewis also warned of a slump in sales, while Mike Ashley, owner of Sports Direct and House of Fraser, said it was the \"worst November in living memory\".\n\nIncreased shopping online is thought to be one culprit: November in-store sales fell 2.6% compared with last year, while online sales rose by 18.2%, according to research by accountants and business advisers BDO.\n\nBut last-minute Christmas sales showed some signs of improvement. Ipsos Retail Performance said visits to non-food stores were up by 27.4% on Christmas Eve compared with 2017.\n\nStuart Rose, the former M&S boss who now chairs online supermarket Ocado, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme the \"pace of change\" in UK retailing in the last year had been extraordinary.\n\nHe said local authorities, governments, landlords and retailers had to work together to make British high streets a \"more exciting and interesting place\".", "An incident on CBB involving Ryan Thomas and Roxanne Pallett attracted the most complaints\n\nCelebrity Big Brother was the most complained about TV programme of 2018, broadcasting regulator Ofcom has confirmed.\n\nThe show received 27,602 complaints in total, the vast majority of which related to an incident involving Roxanne Pallett and Ryan Thomas.\n\nPallett claimed Thomas had punched her, but viewers who'd seen the footage said he was only play fighting.\n\nThe Emmerdale actress later apologised, acknowledging she \"got it wrong\".\n\nThis was the last series of Celebrity Big Brother to air on Channel 5 after the network announced they were not renewing either the celebrity or regular version of the show.\n\nJanet Street-Porter attempted to mediate between Coleen Nolan (left) and Kim Woodburn\n\nThe second most complained about programme was an episode of Loose Women which saw Kim Woodburn clash with Coleen Nolan.\n\nThe pair, who had fallen out on a previous series of Celebrity Big Brother, attempted to sort out their differences live on air.\n\nBut the row ended with Woodburn becoming emotional and walking off set. Nolan took a break from the show and cancelled all her other work after the clash.\n\nOther TV shows to receive complaints included Sky News, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.\n\nAn episode of Love Island, in which Dani Dyer became visibly distressed when shown footage of boyfriend Jack being housed with an ex-girlfriend, also attracted complaints.\n\nIf his reaction to topping last year's chart is anything to go by, Piers Morgan will be disappointed that Good Morning Britain was only in seventh place this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "TV art historian and nun Sister Wendy Beckett has died at the age of 88, it has been announced.\n\nIn the 1990s she became one of the most unlikely television stars.\n\nEmerging from her hermit-like existence in a caravan at a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk, she hosted unscripted BBC shows from galleries across the world.\n\nBorn in South Africa, Sister Wendy moved as a child to Edinburgh, where her father studied medicine, joining a convent when she was 16.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sister Wendy speaking about the true meaning of Christmas and iconography (video originally published in 2010)\n\nShe died at 14:30 GMT at the Carmelite monastery in Quidenham.\n\nBBC director of arts Jonty Claypole paid tribute, saying Sister Wendy had \"a unique presentation style, a deep knowledge of and passion for the arts\".\n\nHe added: \"She was a hugely popular BBC presenter and will be fondly remembered by us all.\"\n\nIn 1950 Sister Wendy's order sent her to Oxford University, where she lodged in a convent, and was awarded a Congratulatory First Class degree in English literature.\n\nShe returned to South Africa in 1954 to teach, but in 1970, with her health deteriorating, the Vatican gave permission for her to pursue a life of solitude and prayer.\n\nAfter obtaining permission to study art in the 1980s - largely through books and postcard reproductions of the great works obtained from galleries - Sister Wendy decided to write a book to earn money for her convent.\n\nContemporary Women Artists, published in 1988, was followed by more books and articles.\n\nIn 1991 the BBC commissioned her to present a television documentary on the National Gallery in London.\n\nDressed in black nun's habit, Sister Wendy stood in front of paintings, and without script or autocue discussed them to the camera.\n\nHer programmes included Odyssey, Sister Wendy's Grand Tour and Sister Wendy's Story of Painting.\n\nThe Grand Tour took Sister Wendy to cities including Paris, Madrid and Florence in 1996\n\nSister Wendy's Odyssey showed the unlikely TV star at her caravan in Norfolk in 1992", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people were injured outside the Tesco store\n\nA supermarket worker broke her back when a car drove into her and others outside the store, her colleague said.\n\nA blue Citroen C3 hit pedestrians before driving away from the Tesco car park in Rickmansworth on Sunday.\n\nPolice said a woman was taken to Watford General Hospital with serious injuries while a man was treated for slight injuries.\n\nA fundraising page set up to support the victim has already raised nearly four times its target.\n\nA video on social media shows the blue car being rammed by shoppers with trolleys and crashing into other vehicles nearby before it manages to drive away from the store car park.\n\nPolice are still trying to find the vehicle and its occupants and confirmed no-one had been arrested.\n\nJulia Matthews, a colleague and friend of the injured woman, set up the fundraising page.\n\nShe said: \"She shouldn't have had this happen to her ever, but especially not just before Christmas.\n\n\"She should be at home with her family, with her partner and her child enjoying the holiday.\"\n\nThe car had its rear windscreen smashed as it tried to leave a Tesco car park\n\nMs Matthews added she hoped the money would help her colleague to enjoy Christmas when she was allowed to go back home.\n\n\"I've created this for all those who have asked for a way to help, to help bring some positivity and love into her life when it has been shattered by selfish criminals,\" she added.\n\nMore than £800 had been pledged by 14:00 on Boxing Day.\n\nOfficers said the driver and a passenger had been involved in an \"incident\" inside the store in Harefield Road moments before.\n\nA person was challenged by security staff after allegedly attempting to steal alcohol.\n\nPolice said they were examining CCTV from the car park and store after a car was \"in collision with several people outside the Tesco store\".\n\nA spokesman for Tesco said it was \"shocked by the incident\" and staff were assisting police with their inquiries.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everyone involved and we are doing everything we can to support our colleague who was seriously injured,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to six points by beating Newcastle - because Manchester City, who started the day as their nearest challengers, lost at Leicester City.\n\nGoals by Dejan Lovren, Mohamed Salah from the penalty spot, Xherdan Shaqiri and substitute Fabinho, ensured Jurgen Klopp's side will start 2019 at the top of the table.\n\nNewcastle wasted a great chance to take the lead at 0-0 when Joselu failed to connect properly with Matt Ritchie's excellent cross and were punished when Lovren dispatched a half-volley into the roof of the net.\n\nSalah's penalty doubled the lead after referee Graham Scott judged that Paul Dummett had fouled the Egypt forward, before Shaqiri tucked home the third from an assist by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nLiverpool completed the scoring through Fabinho's header and reach the halfway point of the season six points ahead of second-placed Tottenham, who were 5-0 winners against Bournemouth.\n• None Reaction from Anfield and the rest of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Wednesday?\n\nNews of Manchester City's demise at Leicester - their second straight defeat - was greeted with a huge roar at Anfield.\n\nA week ago there was just one point between Liverpool and Pep Guardiola's reigning champions, yet Klopp's side will go into their final game of 2018 on Saturday against Arsenal with Tottenham their nearest challengers.\n\nThe Reds certainly look the part.\n\nThey have reached the halfway point unbeaten - just like City did on the way to the title last season.\n\nThe Reds secured a 12th top-flight clean sheet without too many scares, although Joselu's headed miss when the game was goalless was a let-off.\n\nShortly afterwards Lovren found the roof of the net with a sublime finish, before Salah doubled the lead from the penalty spot and Shaqiri pounced for his fourth goal in as many games.\n\nIt was at this point news filtered through from the King Power Stadium that Manchester City were losing 2-1 - and with Liverpool fans in party mood, substitute Fabinho headed the fourth to wrap up a 16th win in 19 league games.\n\nIn addition, this was Klopp's 100th win as Liverpool manager in his 181st match.\n\nBefore his return to Liverpool, the club he managed for six years from 2004, Rafael Benitez said it would be a \"miracle\" if his Newcastle side were to avoid relegation.\n\nDespite a third defeat in six games, they remain five points above the bottom three in 15th spot.\n\nBenitez might grumble at the award of the penalty that made it 2-0, when Salah and Dummett tangled and the referee pointed to the spot although the contact did not appear enough when the Egypt international hit the floor.\n\nHowever, Newcastle have scored just 14 league goals this season and this was the eighth time in 19 top-flight games they have failed to find the net.\n\nJoselu, one of six changes to the team, should have headed his side ahead when the game was goalless, while there will be questions as to why Salomon Rondon, leading scorer with five goals, was left on the bench and did not feature.\n\nNewcastle have picked up lately after a poor start but they were distinctly second best at Anfield.\n\nA response is required at Watford on Saturday, with matches against Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham on the horizon.\n\n'I didn't like the start of the game' - the managers\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"The start of the game offensively was very lively, defensively a bit in between. I didn't like it too much.\n\n\"But apart from that the whole game was really good. We could've scored more, the chances were there with fantastic movements. Right to the end we were wanting to control the game but still wanted to score.\n\n\"It's difficult to break down Newcastle's formation. They worked hard but the boys stayed in the game and did the job.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez: \"We knew we were playing a very good team and knew staying in the game was crucial.\n\n\"At the start of the second half there was a light penalty - it's hard when you're 2-0 down. If you have chances and don't take them or make mistakes it is difficult.\n\n\"The first goal is a mistake and the second is key in terms of confidence.\"\n\nStill a miracle to keep Newcastle up? \"Yes. You can see the difference between some teams. We have to carry on doing things right and we have to be better than three teams.\"\n• None Liverpool are only the fourth Premier League team to be unbeaten at the halfway stage of a season, along with Arsenal in 2003-04, Manchester United in 2010-11 and Manchester City in 2017-18.\n• None This was Newcastle's heaviest league defeat at Anfield since December 1987 (also a 0-4 loss).\n• None Mohamed Salah has been involved in 35 goals in 28 home Premier League games for Liverpool (25 goals, 10 assists).\n• None Newcastle have now lost their last nine away league matches against the 'big six' teams and have been beaten in all six games those sides this season.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri has scored four goals in his past four Premier League matches - one more than he managed in the 20 before that.\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 20 matches in December, winning their past nine in a row.\n• None This was the Reds' seventh victory this month - their most in a calendar month since September 1996 (also seven).\n\nThe games come thick and fast and Liverpool face another huge match on Saturday when they host Arsenal (17:30 GMT) before heading to Manchester City on 3 January (20:00).\n\nNewcastle are at Watford on Saturday (15:00) before hosting Manchester United on 2 January (20:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Attempt saved. Sean Longstaff (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dejan Lovren with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Newcastle United 0. Fabinho (Liverpool) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Newcastle United 0. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Carl Davies said that they have received support from their neighbours\n\nA family whose presents were stolen on Christmas Eve have described the loss as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nCarl Davies, from Rhymney, Caerphilly, said they were alerted when their neighbour shouted up the stairs that their door was open.\n\nThe family later noticed that their BMW had been stolen alongside the gifts, and the car was then found burnt out.\n\nGwent Police said they were investigating, although there had been no arrests.\n\nMr Davies said: \"We've started to tally [the cost] up now and it's way over £1,500 already.\n\n\"As you can appreciate, it's not the monetary value, it's the fact that it's less than 24 hours before Christmas and everybody had worked hard all year to provide these presents - really thought about what they were going to buy.\n\n\"And that's the really disappointing thing - how can people do that to you on Christmas Eve?\"\n\nThe BMW was later found burnt out\n\nThe family said they had been amazed by the support of their neighbours who had given them presents and money.\n\n\"It's really really humbling and renews your faith in mankind after something like that happens,\" said Mr Davies.\n\n\"If there's anything positive to come out of it, it's the support we feel from the neighbours.\"", "The plane carrying Mr Habyarimana was shot down by a missile in April 1994, triggering the Rwandan genocide\n\nFrench judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.\n\nHis death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide.\n\nA French inquiry began four years later at the request of relatives of the French crew members who died.\n\nA judge accused Tutsi rebels, led by the current president, Paul Kagame, of the attack; arrest warrants were issued for a number of people close to him.\n\nThe charges were dropped on 21 December, a judicial source said on Wednesday.\n\nFrench prosecutors had recommended in October the charges be dismissed because of insufficient evidence against the suspects.\n\nLawyers for Habyarimana's widow, Agathe, have told the AFP news agency the plaintiffs in the case would appeal against the decision.\n\n\"We have to interpret this decision by French judges as a form of resignation faced with a political context which prosecutors did not know how to fight,\" lawyer Philippe Meilhac said. \"Rwandan authorities have never sought to help bring the truth to light.\"\n\nMr Habyarimana - a Hutu backed by France - was on his way back to Rwanda when his plane was shot down\n\nThe plane carrying Habyarimana was shot down by a missile in April 1994, triggering the Rwandan genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.\n\nHabyarimana - a Hutu who had signed a peace deal with Tutsi rebels - was flying into the capital, Kigali, with his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira when a missile brought the plane down, killing all on board.\n\nThe enquiry was launched in 1998, at the request of relatives of the pilot, who was French. The probe was a major source of tension between France and Rwanda.\n\nIt was initially conducted by a prominent judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, who concluded that Mr Kagame - who led the RPF rebels in 1994 - had ordered the attack. In 2006, Mr Bruguière issued arrest warrants against several aides of President Kagame.\n\nThe Rwandan government described the enquiry as a politically motivated and accused France - which had supported the previous Hutu regime - of continuing to support those who had carried out the genocide.\n\nRelations between the two countries later improved. In 2012, a report by the French judge who succeeded Mr Bruguière cast doubt on the idea that the rebels had shot down the plane, and suggested that Hutu extremists were likely to have been responsible.\n\nAn inquiry by Mr Kagame's government said the missile that brought down the jet had been fired from an army camp controlled by Hutus.\n• 1994: France sends troops to Rwanda; Rwanda later accuses France of protecting genocide suspects\n• 2011: Mr Kagame visits Paris, says it is time to leave history behind", "Stock markets in the US have seen significant rises, with the Dow Jones up by nearly 5% and the technology-focused Nasdaq rising by nearly 6%.\n\nIn Asia, markets were following suit on Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 up more than 3% in early trade.\n\nIt contrasts strongly with the run-up to Christmas when stocks suffered their worst weekly falls in a decade.\n\nAnalysts say data from MasterCard showed US holiday retail sales up 5.1%, the strongest growth in six years.\n\nConfidence was also boosted by White House assurances that Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's job was safe.\n\nInvestors have been concerned by reports that President Donald Trump had discussed firing Mr Powell.\n\nThe partial US government shutdown and continuing US-China trade tensions also contributed to the recent downturn.\n\n\"The market is extremely oversold where we left it [on Monday],\" said Brett Ewing, chief market strategist at First Franklin Financial Services, based in Florida.\n\n\"You cannot make the assumption that this correction is over, but today's action is definitely a very positive signal.\"\n\nOn Monday, President Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, as the stock market plunged.\n\nThe president said the Fed was \"the only problem\" of the US economy.\n\nWhite House economic adviser Kevin Hassett later tried to calm Wall Street jitters, telling ABC News that Mr Powell's job was \"100%\" safe.", "US stock markets rallied late on Thursday to end in positive territory, continuing their roller coaster ride towards the end of the year.\n\nIn Asia, most markets were following suit except Japan's Nikkei 225, which was down 0.5% in Friday morning trade.\n\nMarkets have been volatile as global, political and economic uncertainty continues to haunt investors.\n\nThe Dow Jones - which fell by more than 500 points or 1.8% earlier on Thursday - finished the trading day 1.1% up.\n\nThe S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq also rallied by the end of the Thursday's trading day.\n\nThe S&P 500 had fallen by 48 points or 2% at one point, while the Nasdaq also sank by more than 2% or 135.4 points.\n\nThe earlier sell-off was sparked by weak US consumer confidence data for December. However, analysts had cautioned that volatile share price movements were exacerbated by thin holiday trading.\n\nEarlier, European markets slumped in their first post-Christmas trading session.\n\nLondon's FTSE 100 slid as the day progressed, ending 1.5% down, with UK shares at their lowest in over two years.\n\nFrankfurt's Dax was 2.8% lower, while the Cac 40 in Paris suffered a smaller fall, down just 1.1%.\n\nConcerns about US-China trade tensions also resurfaced, with reports saying US President Donald Trump is considering an executive order banning the use of Chinese technology.\n\nThe US, Australia, Japan and New Zealand have restricted use of ZTE and Huawei equipment in 5G mobile networks, and the UK is now considering doing the same.\n\nOn 20 December, the US indicted two Chinese men accused of hacking into computer networks of Western companies and government agencies, and accused Beijing of cyber-spying.", "A crack in the building's wall caused residents to evacuate on Monday.\n\nHundreds of people have been told to leave a Sydney tower block for a second time, after a crack appeared in its walls on Monday.\n\nMany residents of the 38-storey Opal Tower had moved back in, after the alarm was first raised when loud noises were heard and a crack was discovered.\n\nThe company that built the tower said it remained \"structurally sound\" and the relocation was just a precaution.\n\nIt says this will allow engineers and investigators to work around the clock.\n\nThe builder, Icon, said that no residents were in danger, but this would help them repair the site in the quickest time possible without further disruption to residents.\n\nThe investigation was expected to take up to 10 days and Icon said it would provide all accommodation.\n\nSome residents complained about having to leave their apartments for a second time\n\nAngry residents complained about being forced to leave their apartments.\n\n\"I think no one can trust [them] because they forced people to go back to their property and today they're standing in front of us [to] say everyone has to leave the building,\" said one.\n\nAnother said: \"We're a bit frustrated. We were planning on spending the New Year here with family and friends. That's actually one of the reasons why we moved into this building three months ago.\"\n\nAll tower inhabitants have been told to leave\n\nAuthorities had previously said 51 of the tower's 392 units were affected and the newly completed building in Sydney Olympic Park was declared safe for a majority of residents to return.\n\nAs many as 3,000 people were evacuated on Monday, after an internal support wall failed on the 10th floor of the building, according to police.\n\nIcon confirmed that a pre-cast concrete panel had cracked in the building.\n\nA team of engineers from Icon and the building's developer Ecove have been assessing the building, which was only completed earlier this year.\n\nOn Wednesday, the New South Wales government said it was also investigating the building's structural integrity and that of neighbouring residential towers.\n\nLocal news outlets have published pictures of the building damage, showing loose plaster and crumbling walls.\n\nEngineers earlier said the high-rise tower had moved up to 2mm.\n\nHowever, Ecove has defended the building's \"high quality\", which it said was above the industry standard.", "Colin O'Brady's Instagram page features a daily selfie of his chores, such as securing his tent each night\n\nA 33-year-old American man has become the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unassisted.\n\nExplorer Colin O'Brady finished in 53 days, ahead of British Army Captain Louis Rudd, 49, after an epic race across the ice.\n\nBoth men set out on 3 November to complete the journey, which killed a British ex-Army officer two years ago.\n\nThe 921-mile (1,482km) trek took them across the coldest continent on Earth in some of the most extreme conditions.\n\nO'Brady, a pro-athlete who posts his milestones on social media, spoke to the BBC on one his harshest days.\n\n\"I'm tired, man. I'm exhausted, but I'm making steady progress every day,\" he said from his satellite phone on 20 December - Day 47 - as he camped amid a storm and massive ridges of ice and snow known as sastrugi.\n\nAfter a day which was like being \"in the inside of a ping-pong ball\" O'Brady said he was grateful to have negotiated the wavelike ridges of hard snow and ice in low visibility without having broken a leg.\n\n\"I've been dragging an almost 375lb (170kg) sled for 12-13 hours per day through the coldest harshest place in the world,\" he said, adding that he had lost so much weight that his wristwatch had been slipping off and he is \"scared\" to look at his unclothed body.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by colinobrady This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe two men set off from the Ronne Ice Shelf after poor weather delayed their start for several days.\n\nOnly days earlier they had met for the first time at a hotel bar in Chile and agreed to turn their separate attempts to cross solo and unaided into a formal competition.\n\nBoth men come from very different backgrounds. In 2008 O'Brady suffered severe burns to 25% of his body during a holiday in Thailand, leading doctors to tell him that he may never walk normally again.\n\nHe recovered and went on to race in triathlons before climbing each of the Seven Summits - the highest peaks on every continent.\n\nHe has also skied to both the north and south pole and hiked to the highest point in every US state.\n\nO'Brady wore tape on his face to stave off frostbite\n\nSastrugi are hard wave-like ridges in the ice that can be extremely difficult to navigate\n\nThroughout it all, he has posted words of inspiration on Instagram, and used his satellite phone to take a question each night from one of the thousands of students who have followed his solo expedition.\n\nRudd, a father of three, was given leave from the military where he has spent his career, in order to train and attempt to make the crossing.\n\nHe was inspired to attempt the adventure after the death of his friend and colleague, Henry Worsley, along the same route.\n\nWorsley died of an illness after he was rescued only 30 miles from the finish line - the Ross Ice Shelf.\n\nCapt Louis Rudd has served in the Army for 33 years\n\nIn his daily dispatch from the ice on Christmas Eve, Rudd described carrying Worsley's flag to the places that his friend had come so close to reaching.\n\n\"I'm carrying Henry's flag... that he carried on all his journeys, and it's really important to me that, this time, the flag goes all the way, and completes the journey right to the end,\" he said, before completing his posts as he always does.\n\nAntarctica is well-known as the coldest continent on Earth, but it is also the highest and driest.\n\nThe cold freezes all moisture, technically making the landscape a desert.\n\nMile-thick sheets of ice covering the continent also make it the highest average-elevation landmass with a peak that the men reach of 9,613ft.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSunlight, which shines 24 hours a day in the summer, O'Brady says, \"is weird and disorienting but I actually kinda like it,\" since it allows him to charge his solar panels.\n\nThe men must carry all the calories they will consume throughout the journey, a nearly impossible task considering their level of energy exertion, and boil ice and snow for all their drinking water.\n\nCapt Rudd sent voice despatches from the ice along his journey\n\nApart from occasionally spotting each other as specks on the horizon, they have seen very few forms of life.\n\nAt the South Pole, O'Brady says he saw some signs of life from the polar researchers stationed there, but was forbidden from accepting any help which would have prevented him from achieving his goal unaided.\n\nO'Brady eats his morning oatmeal in near white-out conditions\n\nBefore bed, they each pack all their wet clothes into their sleeping bag, so they could use their body heat to dry the gear throughout the night.\n\nBut soon they will be back in their beds, looking back on their accomplishment and dreaming of the next previously-impossible goal.", "Aerial footage has captured the aftermath of two earthquakes that have struck Sicily.\n\nThe quakes followed the eruption of Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, on Monday.\n\nDozens of people were injured and buildings were damaged in several villages nearby.", "Graduates of a Santa Claus school in Rio de Janeiro get together to celebrate its 25 year anniversary.", "The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.\n\nBBC Sport tells the remarkable story of a man who went from making bullets in a factory to winning football's highest individual honour, the Ballon d'Or.", "Casper Platt-May (left) and his brother Corey were on a family trip when they were killed\n\nA driver who killed two brothers in a hit-and-run crash while high on drugs has been found dead in prison.\n\nRobert Brown, 53, was jailed for 10 and a half years for killing Casper Platt-May, two, and Corey, six, as they crossed a road in February.\n\nHe had previously been jailed for possessing a machete and was let out on licence six days before the crash.\n\nSerco, which runs HMP Dovegate, confirmed a prisoner had been found dead on Christmas Day.\n\nBrown was jailed in April after admitting causing the boys' deaths by dangerous driving, and had his sentence increased in July from nine years to 10 and a half.\n\nCasper and Corey were with their mother Louise on the way to a park when they were hit by Brown's Ford Focus as they crossed MacDonald Road in Coventry.\n\nRobert Brown was found dead in his cell on Christmas Day\n\nBrown, who had 30 previous driving convictions, had never had a driving licence and was banned from driving at the time of the crash.\n\nWest Midlands Police's Collision Investigation Unit calculated that Brown, who had taken cocaine, diazepam and zopiclone, was driving at more than 60mph.\n\nBoth boys were taken to hospital but neither could be saved. Their mother was unhurt.\n\nAt a plea hearing, the court was told Brown, of Attwood Crescent, Wyken, and his passenger Gwendoline Harrison had tried to flee the scene on foot but members of the public attempted to stop them.\n\nHarrison, 42, of Triumph Close, Wyken, hit someone who intervened. She admitted a charge of assault intending to resist arrest and was jailed for six months.\n\nIn May, the boys' father Reece Platt-May was found dead in a hotel in Greece.\n\nA spokesman for Serco, which manages the prison where Brown had been serving his sentence, said: \"We can confirm a prisoner died [on Christmas Day] at HMP Dovegate and, as is normal, the death will be subject to a coroner's investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 5p fee for plastic carrier bags in England will be doubled to 10p, and extended to all shops, under plans set out by the environment secretary.\n\nThe change is contained in a government consultation aimed at further reducing the plastic used by consumers and could come into effect in January 2020.\n\nSmaller retailers, who are exempt from the current levy, supply an estimated 3.6 billion single-use bags annually.\n\nSchools in England are also being told to eliminate unnecessary plastic.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds is urging school leaders to replace items such as plastic straws, bottles and food packaging with sustainable alternatives by 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways to break up with plastic\n\nIn August, Theresa May promised there would be a consultation on changes to the plastic bag levy.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said: \"We want to do even more to protect our precious planet and today's announcement will accelerate further behaviour change and build on the success of the existing charge.\"\n\nSince the 5p fee was introduced in 2015 for retailers with at least 250 employees, an estimated 15 billion bags have been taken out of circulation.\n\nTrade bodies representing about 40,000 small retailers have launched a voluntary approach to a 5p charge, but this accounts for less than one-fifth of companies likely to be affected by the proposed changes.\n\nThe government wavered for years before imposing a plastic bag tax for England - but the result of the policy eventually introduced is crystal clear: taxes change behaviour.\n\nPeople who previously thought nothing of carting home their supermarket shopping in half a dozen flimsy plastic bags seem appalled by the prospect of a 30p charge, and dig into their handbags for nylon bags instead.\n\nA similar shift in behaviour will surely be seen now in local stores, although the change may be less marked because people tend to buy smaller quantities from corner shops, so may be willing to pay an extra 10p for convenience.\n\nIt's also possible that these convenience store bags disproportionately harm the environment because they're used by people picking up snacks while visiting beauty spots or beaches.\n\nThe announcement of a consultation on an increased charge is part of a broader move towards environmental taxation - an issue which can easily cause governments trouble if they don't protect the poorest from the impact of the taxes.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, all retailers - including smaller shops - already charge a minimum of 5p for plastic bags.\n\nThe Marine Conservation Society says the levies have had an impact on reducing plastic waste on beaches and in the sea.\n\nOceanographer Laura Foster, head of Clean Seas at the MCS, said: \"We are able to measure the impact of legislation and we've seen that since the introduction of the plastic bag charge in the UK the amount we find on the beaches has gone down.\n\n\"That's also been replicated by studies that have been done offshore. They've also seen a reduction in the amount of plastic bags they find.\"\n\nWhile retailers are given the choice on what to do with the money consumers pay for plastic bags, they are expected to give it to good causes. According to Defra, an estimated £51m was donated in 2017-18.\n\nThe Association of Convenience Stores, which is backing Defra's plans, says about half of the small shops it represents in England are currently charging for plastic bags.\n\nACS chief executive James Lowman said: \"This has been shown to be highly effective at reducing waste, whilst also raising money for local, national and environmental charities.\"", "More than £17,000 has been raised for the families of Jason Francis and Alice Robinson\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to help the families of a British couple who died within hours of each other in Australia.\n\nFormer Market Drayton Town footballer Jason Francis, 29, was hit by a car near the home he shared with partner Alice Robinson in Scarborough, Perth.\n\nMs Robinson, who was said to have been \"heartbroken\", was later found dead.\n\nMore than 32,000 Australian dollars (£17,938) has been donated since Christmas Eve.\n\nA Go Fund Me Page said this would help their relatives with any costs that might be incurred in sending the couple's bodies home.\n\nMr Francis had been on a day out with friends from Cottesloe Rugby Club, before getting a taxi home on Saturday evening.\n\nWestern Australia Police said a white VW Jetta, driven by an 18-year-old man, hit a male pedestrian on Stanley Street in Scarborough.\n\nThe force confirmed it was also investigating the death of a woman, and was preparing a report for the coroner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSam Diamond, president of the rugby club, which Mr Francis joined at the beginning of the year after moving to the area, said of the couple: \"They were two of the finest people you could meet.\n\n\"They well and truly ingrained themselves in our club.\"\n\nHe said he understood Ms Robinson had gone outside the couple's home to investigate when she saw the flashing emergency lights.\n\n\"She was told by first responders that it was Jason they were working on,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know what happened to her after this. I know the police have launched an inquiry into it.\n\n\"She has gone missing after notifying some of our friends of what's happened (to Mr Francis) and hasn't been found until the next morning.\"\n\nHe described Ms Robinson, who worked for a digital marketing company but was also a talented artist, as having \"an infectious laugh\" and being \"very bubbly\".\n\nMr Diamond added: \"Jason was the sort of person that's always got the time of day for everyone. Loved talking, loved working out, loved staying fit and healthy.\n\n\"They were just genuine, down-to-earth, fantastic people.\"\n\nHe said the mothers of both Mr Francis, who was in the process of becoming a firefighter, and Ms Robinson had expressed their appreciation for the funds raised.\n\nA number of Shropshire sports clubs paid tribute to Mr Francis, including the captain of Market Drayton Town FC.\n\nPaul McMullen said: \"You young man were such a fine piece of our puzzle at MDTFC during our success and it was a pleasure to be part of it playing alongside of you.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Bridgnorth RFC This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Defence Secretary has reportedly said he has \"very deep concerns\" about Chinese firm Huawei being involved in upgrading the UK's mobile network.\n\nGavin Williamson's comments - reported by the Times - came after some nations restricted use of the firm's products in 5G networks over security concerns.\n\nMI6's head recently said Britain faced decisions on Chinese ownership of tech.\n\nThe UK says China is behind hackers targeting commercial secrets. Huawei denies any link to the Chinese state.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Williamson was reported as saying: \"I have grave, very deep concerns about Huawei providing the 5G network in Britain. It's something we'd have to look at very closely.\"\n\nAustralia, New Zealand and the US have restricted use of Huawei technology in 5G mobile networks, and Mr Williamson said the UK would look at their example.\n\n\"We've got to recognise the fact, as has been recently exposed, that the Chinese state does sometimes act in a malign way,\" he added.\n\nHuawei was founded by a former officer in the People's Liberation Army but the company denies having any ties to the Chinese government, beyond complying with tax laws.\n\nThe firm has strongly rejected any suggestion that it poses a security threat, saying it has \"never been asked by any government to build any backdoors or interrupt any networks\".\n\nEarlier this month, MI6 chief Alex Younger said the UK needed to \"decide the extent to which we are going to be comfortable with Chinese ownership of these technologies\".\n\nUK communications company BT has already said it is removing Huawei equipment from its 3G and 4G networks, and pledged not to use the firm's products in the \"core\" of its 5G service.\n\nThis week it confirmed that Huawei equipment was being removed from the heart of a communication system being developed for the UK emergency services, although it was not explicit as to why.\n\nOn 20 December, the US indicted two Chinese men accused of hacking into computer networks of Western companies and government agencies, and accused Beijing of cyber-spying.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt described the men's actions as \"one of the most significant and widespread cyber intrusions against the UK and allies uncovered to date\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said hackers acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security were stealing commercial secrets from firms in Europe, Asia and the US.\n\nOfficials said their activities were so extensive, they were \"putting at risk\" economic growth in the UK and the wider global economy.", "A student who told an undercover MI5 officer he wanted to travel to fight in Libya has been found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nAqib Imran, 22, from Birmingham, was convicted after an Old Bailey retrial.\n\nDuring the trial, Imran denied having terrorist intentions, saying he had been sucked into a fantasy that began when he was attracted to a girl online.\n\nThe jury heard the 22-year-old had educational difficulties and had left school with no GCSEs.\n\nHis college had provided him with a dedicated assistance teacher to help him complete a course which would lead to work in social care.\n\nBy the early Autumn of 2017 Imran, from Sparkbrook in Birmingham, had met another man, Naa'imur Rahman, online.\n\nNaa'imur Rahman: Convicted in August 2018 of plot to kill prime minister\n\nRahman, 21, and originally from Walsall, had been radicalised by his uncle who was, by then, fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nProsecutors told the Old Bailey that Imran and his new friend Rahman began talking online to people whom they both thought were commanders from the Islamic State group.\n\nBut the mysterious personas were in fact a series of undercover investigators, starting with one from the FBI and eventually officers from the UK's MI5.\n\nBoth agencies have been increasingly deploying online \"role players\" to identify potentially violent suspects who are seeking to fight overseas or carry out acts of terrorism at home.\n\nRahman told investigators he wanted to kill the prime minister - and he was convicted of that plot last August after an extraordinary undercover operation involving a fake bomb-maker.\n\nAqib Imran was not part of Rahman's attack plan - but prosecutors say he wanted to travel to Libya to fight, or possibly Jordan with the aim of reaching Syria.\n\nThey alleged he gathered cash for travel and discussed with one of the undercover officers how he would get hold of a fake passport.\n\nProsecutors say Imran became involved in online extremism\n\nHe also downloaded an infamous jihadi guidebook which gives tips to would-be fighters and travellers - and before his arrest Rahman had sent a video to his friend to act as an introduction to IS recruiters.\n\nBut Imran's defence team told the Old Bailey that the student did nothing to further what amounted to a fantasy of a troubled young man.\n\nThe jury heard Imran's interest in travelling had been sparked by an online crush on someone he only knew as \"Aisha\".\n\nThis supposed woman - whom he never met - was purportedly in Denmark and they discussed travelling together to the Middle East.\n\nThe trial heard no evidence about the real identity of Aisha - but she provided Imran with the initial contact who turned out to be an undercover investigator offering to help Imran get a fake passport.\n\nWhile he shared a picture of his current passport with an undercover investigator, Imran told his trial he never handed over any money for a forged document, despite having savings to do so, or sent pictures of himself required to create a fake.\n\nThe jury heard that Imran then stopped communicating with the MI5 investigator - while his friend Rahman separately continued his own contact.\n\nFollowing Imran's first trial, a jury convicted him of possessing the jihadi manual - but were split on the more serious charge of preparing for an act of terrorism by intending to travel to overseas.", "Alan Meloy took the photograph from the front step of his Sheffield home\n\nThe US president's aircraft was spotted by an aviation enthusiast as it flew over the UK on its secret trip to visit troops in Iraq.\n\nAlan Meloy photographed Air Force One in the skies above Sheffield on 26 December.\n\nThe plane carrying Donald Trump and the First Lady left Washington in total secrecy in the dead of night.\n\nAfter Mr Meloy's picture was shared on social media people began to track the flight online.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by WikiLeaks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Meloy said he was \"amazed\" at the response to his photograph, which has seen him contacted by three US TV networks.\n\nHe said he captured the image purely by chance as he photographed aircraft from the front step of his house.\n\n\"It was a lovely sunny morning,\" he said. \"I looked up and as soon as I saw it I thought, 'that's shiny'. It was in a clear blue sky and perfectly lit.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Falmata was just 13 when she was snatched from the side of the road. Months later, she was sent on a mission. Her captors told her that if she killed non-believers, she would go straight to paradise.", "Data abuse has \"darkened\" technology's potential, the EU's Competition Commissioner has warned.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC's Today programme, Margrethe Vestager criticised the tech giants for misusing data and failing to respect citizens' rights.\n\nNew EU rules governing what could be done with data provided some protection, she said.\n\nBut she added that the need for more concerted action was becoming pressing.\n\n\"Over these 12 months our relationship with tech has both been darker and more muddy because it becomes increasingly clear that all the bright and shiny positive potentials of tech are at the risk of being darkened by forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual rights,\" she told Martha Lane Fox who carried out the interview.\n\n\"There is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to do something and to do that together.\"\n\nBaroness Lane-Fox, who is a board member of Twitter, is guest editor of this morning's Today radio programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nBaroness Lane-Fox of Soho co-founded Lastminute.com before becoming a crossbench peer\n\nThe tech firms' actions had changed views about how the industry could influence people and society, said Ms Vestager.\n\nThe EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force in May 2018, gave people new privacy rights and more control over their data, but more work was needed, said Ms Vestager.\n\nThe European Commission is also looking into Amazon's business practices\n\nThe civil service was now talking about ways to force tech firms to be more \"transparent\" about what they did with data gleaned from people's uploads, shares and views, she added.\n\nBut Ms Vestager described herself as being positive about the future.\n\n\"One thing I do hope over the next 10 years is that we get a much more... transparent way of dealing with data and giving access to data,\" she said.\n\n\"I tend to be an optimist by choice. I think it's a moral obligation because pessimists don't seem to get anything done.\"\n\nBut failure to act, Ms Vestager cautioned, could lead to situation in which one or two massive firms dominated use of our personal data.\n\nBaroness Lane-Fox asked if this meant that the commission would take concrete steps to break up monopolies or tackle markets where dominance stifled competition.\n\nCommissioner Vestager responded that while dismantling companies had served Brussels well in the past, the speed at which changes occurred in the tech sector made it a less appropriate response.\n\nInstead, she said, the commission might look at how larger firms got access to data and resources in a bid to limit their power.\n\nRegarding Brexit, Ms Vestager noted that European competition authorities had become stronger by working together.\n\nBut she added that the UK had \"clever skilled people with a very strong dedication\" to making sure the market served consumers.", "The pregnant Duchess of Sussex puts a hand on her bump while greeting crowds at Sandringham on Christmas Day\n\nAn amateur photographer who caught smiling Royals leaving church on Christmas Day 2017 has struck again - with a snap of the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nKaren Anvil, 40, took the picture of Meghan stroking her bump at Sandringham where last year she captured Princes Harry and William with Kate and Meghan greeting wellwishers.\n\nMs Anvil also got in a quick chat, too.\n\nShe said she planned to avoid Sandringham next year after being photographed herself.\n\nMs Anvil said she was hoping her latest images of the expectant Duchess would please the thousands of Meghan fans who follow her on social media.\n\nKaren Anvil, who spoke to the duchess, took this photo and said it was \"clear she loves being pregnant\"\n\nShe said it was \"especially lovely\" to have a chat with the duchess \"as one mother to another\".\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex reached for her bump and said, \"We're nearly there\", when asked by Ms Anvil if she was excited about her baby, which is due in spring.\n\nMs Anvil said: \"She loves that child. Her bump holding was pure instinct, natural and not staged at all.\"\n\nMs Anvil's shot of the Royals leaving church on Christmas Day 2017 led to her taking on an agent after the photo was sold to the media in almost 50 countries around the world.\n\nThis snap of the Royals in 2017 picture provided Karen Anvil with a regular monthly income, ranging from £600 to £6,000\n\nThis year she only managed to snap the back of the four Royals alongside Prince Charles, but said she must have an eye for taking pictures as the same shot has been put up on the Kensington Palace website.\n\nMs Anvil is keeping the paparazzi on their toes with her photos of the Royals at Sandringham\n\nThe photographer, from Watlington, Norfolk, said despite the 2017 picture earning her almost £40,000 so far, she would be avoiding Sandringham next Christmas after the paparazzi turned the cameras on her.\n\n\"That's not what I'm here for,\" said Ms Anvil, \"I hate having my picture taken.\"", "Britain's black and ethnic minority workers face a \"pay penalty\" and earn less than white colleagues in the same jobs, according to a research group.\n\nA report from the Resolution Foundation says overall the 1.9m BAME workers are paid about £3.2bn less than their white counterparts every year.\n\nIt used data from a survey of 100,000 people over 10 years.\n\nThe government says it is planning measures to help employers tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation report calls on the government to follow its initiative requiring companies with more than 250 employees to publish gender pay gaps highlighting the different treatment of male and female employees by doing the same according to ethnic background.\n\nIt noted that BAME workers have long earned less, on average, than white male workers, due in part due to differences in qualification levels and the types of jobs they do.\n\nBut the foundation said its \"pay penalty\" calculation took into account factors including industry sector, occupations, contract types, education level and degree attainment of individual workers.\n\nThe foundation's research says the biggest impact was on black male graduates, who were paid 17%, or £3.90 an hour, less compared to their white peers.\n\nPakistani and Bangladeshi male graduates earned an average of 12% less an hour, while among female graduates, black women were said to face a pay penalty of £1.62 an hour, or 9%.\n\nAmong non-graduates, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men were reported to be the worst affected. The research said they earned £1.91 an hour, or 14%, less than white colleagues, with black male non-graduates £1.31 an hour, or 9%, worse off.\n\nKathleen Henehan, research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"A record number of young BAME workers have degrees, and a record number are in work.\n\n\"However, despite this welcome progress, many... face significant disadvantages in the workplace.\"\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission said it supported the mandatory reporting of staff recruitment, retention and promotion by ethnicity.\n\nA government spokesperson said \"diversity is good for businesses\" and it is committed to ensuring the workplace \"works for everyone\".\n\nThey added: \"We've introduced new laws to help companies ensure the make-up of their boards and senior management is representative of their workforces and we're currently consulting on proposals for mandatory ethnicity pay reporting as part of a series of measures to help employers tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace.\"", "The 118 service to Brixton crashed into a front garden\n\nOne person was taken to hospital after a London double-decker bus crashed into the front garden of a house.\n\nThe 118 Brixton service ploughed through a fence and hit the home in Streatham Vale, south London, shortly before 21:00 GMT on Boxing Day.\n\nThree people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. The Met Police said no arrests had been made.\n\nStreatham Vale was closed in both directions while the emergency services responded to the crash.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) has been approached for comment.\n\nPhotos from the scene also appear to show damage to cars on the street.\n\nA damaged car could also be seen in photos from the scene\n\nA spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said paramedics attended at 20:55 GMT.\n\nShe said: \"We were called to reports of a bus colliding with a car and a house and we sent numerous resources.\n\n\"Three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries - one person was taken to hospital by ambulance.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kira This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four in 10 NHS hospitals in England have increased car parking prices in the last year, new data suggests.\n\nA total of 124 of the 152 trusts running hospitals responded to Freedom of Information requests by the Press Association, with 53 saying prices had gone up for visitors or staff, or both.\n\nSome trusts had doubled the cost of certain stays for visitors in 2017-18.\n\nSeveral hospitals defended the charges, saying some or all of it goes back into patient care or maintaining car parks.\n\nBut unions said some staff were having to pay \"through the nose\" to park at work.\n\nPaul Mulligan, from Horley, Surrey, says his son - then aged one - had an operation in July to remove his tonsils at Evelina London Children's Hospital.\n\nThey were told not to travel by public transport in order to minimise the risk of infection and were instead directed to the hospital's car park.\n\nHe said the car park had an uncapped hourly rate and that after staying two nights in hospital they had to pay £130 for parking.\n\n\"I understand the need to pay for parking but charging an uncapped hourly rate is ridiculous.\n\n\"In my opinion there should be a daily rate and an overnight rate for patients and family.\"\n\nFrank Green, 75, from Aldershot, Hampshire, had 36 days of radiotherapy for prostate cancer at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, earlier this year.\n\nParking charges at the hospital are capped for cancer patients but he says he still had to pay £144 during the course of his treatment.\n\n\"My attitude is there should be a fee but it shouldn't be a rip-off,\" he said.\n\nHelen Davies, from Hay-on-Wye, Powys, said she had to spend £275 on parking while visiting her mother at Hereford Hospital over a six-week period earlier this year.\n\n\"I had to drive. My mother was the absolute priority and I live 25 miles from the hospital,\" she said.\n\nShe said her brother parked at a nearby supermarket as he refused to pay the parking fees.\n\n\"He got two parking tickets so he may as well have paid the fees,\" she added.\n\nA hospital registrar based in south-west England, who asked not to be named, said he paid between £300 and £400 a year to park at work.\n\nHe has to rotate through hospitals as part of his contract, and says many are not served by public transport, \"especially when you work odd hours\".\n\nThe charges also affected the health of his patients, he said: \"They often come in very stressed and the main reason they're stressed is because they're worried their time is going to run out in the car park if appointments are delayed.\"\n\n\"Blood pressure results for my patients can often be unreliable because they're so stressed about parking,\" he added.\n\nData published by NHS Digital in October shows NHS trusts made more than £226m from parking fees, including penalty fines, in the last financial year.\n\nCar park charges have been abolished in Wales and most of Scotland, and while they remain in England and Northern Ireland, there can be discounts for cancer and dialysis patients.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth described car parking charges in England as a tax on the sick, and reiterated Labour's pledge to abolish them in power.\n\nLiberal Democrat health spokeswoman Judith Jolly said the charges were \"not the answer\" to financial pressures on hospitals.\n\nRachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association, said parking charges do generate revenue while hospital finances are \"under immense pressure\" but patients should not be \"effectively charged for being ill\".\n\nUnison's head of health Sara Gorton said many hospital employees - including shift workers - have little option but to \"pay through the nose simply to park at work\".\n\n\"If the government put more money into the health service, charges could be scrapped,\" she added.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"We have made it very clear that patients, their families and our hardworking staff should not be subjected to unfair parking charges.\n\n\"NHS trusts are responsible for these charges and ensuring revenue goes back into frontline services, and we want to see trusts coming up with options that put staff, patients and their families first.\"", "The couple met on the set of the 2010 film The Last Song\n\nUS pop star Miley Cyrus has confirmed her marriage to Australian actor and long-standing partner Liam Hemsworth.\n\nShe shared images from the ceremony, reported to have been held on Sunday, on social media.\n\nThe couple met nearly a decade ago on the set of the film The Last Song.\n\nIn November, they lost their home in California in the state's devastating wildfires. The wedding is reported to have taken place at another property owned by Cyrus, in Franklin, Tennessee.\n\nIt was a small ceremony attended by family and close friends, reports said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Miley Ray Cyrus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple became engaged in 2012 but then broke it off the following year and separated. They were seen together in 2015 and it was later announced that they were again engaged.\n\nIn November, Cyrus tweeted that she and Hemsworth had \"made it out\" safely as fire ravaged properties in Malibu.\n\nBut she also revealed that her house \"no longer stands\".\n\nThe singer recently overhauled the lyrics to Santa Baby, turning the Christmas classic into a feminist anthem.\n\nShe sang her version on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon after pointing out that the lyrics ask Santa for \"a car, a yacht and cheques\" in exchange for a \"hook up with Santa\".\n\nIn her version, she said she doesn't need Santa's presents because she can buy her \"own damn stuff\".\n\nShe and musician Mark Ronson also released a version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Christmas War is Over, recorded with the couple's son Sean Ono Lennon.", "Officers remained at the scene throughout Thursday\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the deaths of two children.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Castle Drive, Margate, Kent, at about 03:35 GMT on Thursday.\n\nAmbulance crews also attended, and two young children were taken to hospital where they were later declared dead.\n\nPolice said a 37-year-old woman was in custody. Some 45 minutes earlier she had been involved in a crash on the A299 Thanet Way.\n\nShe was also taken to hospital with minor injuries, discharged and then taken to a police station.\n\nThe children were found at a home in Castle Drive, Margate\n\nTwo uniformed police officers stood outside the terraced house on Thursday evening and forensics officers were seen at the address earlier on.\n\nLocal priest Father John Taylor, who did not know those involved, said: \"As a priest and as a parent, when I heard I was shocked, very disturbed and saddened.\"\n\nHe added: \"I came down to see if I could help and will say a prayer for the children. Something like this affects the whole community.\"\n\nOne neighbour said: \"I just don't know how to process it really, it's so deeply shocking.\"\n\nAnother neighbour said: \"It's terrible. It's just a thing that shouldn't happen, especially not to children.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA car believed to have been driven at several people in a \"hit-and-run\" in a supermarket car park has been recovered by police.\n\nThe Citroen C3 drove away from outside the Tesco store in Rickmansworth on Sunday and was later found in Watford.\n\nA woman injured in the incident is now \"out of hospital and recovering\", a police spokeswoman said.\n\nHertfordshire Police said no arrests had been made, and officers were still searching for the car's occupants.\n\nA video shared thousands of times on social media shows the car crashing into other vehicles in the car park as shoppers try to stop it.\n\nA viral video shows the car being rammed by shoppers using trolleys\n\nOfficers said the driver and a passenger had been involved in an \"incident\" inside the store in Harefield Road moments before.\n\nA person was challenged by security staff after allegedly attempting to steal alcohol.\n\nPolice said they were examining CCTV from the car park and store after a car was \"in collision with several people\".\n\nA Tesco spokesman said the store was \"shocked by the incident\" and staff were assisting police with their inquiries.\n\nA fundraising page set up to support the victim had raised more than £1,800 by 15:00 GMT on 27 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK will leave Europol after Brexit and will not be a member of the European Arrest Warrant scheme\n\nThe public could be put at risk if the UK leaves the EU in March without an official agreement, the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said a no-deal exit would threaten access to EU-wide criminal databases and make it harder to extradite people from abroad.\n\nShe told the BBC the Met was talking to other police forces across Europe about contingency arrangements if needed.\n\nParliament will vote on the UK's proposed withdrawal deal next month.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.\n\nThe agreement negotiated by Theresa May with the EU - which sets the terms of the UK's exit and a declaration on future relations - will only come into force if MPs approve it.\n\nThe prime minister has said she wants the UK to have the most comprehensive security partnership with the EU of any country outside the bloc.\n\nAfter Brexit, the UK will cease to be a member of law enforcement agencies Europol and Eurojust, and will no longer be a member of the European Arrest Warrant scheme, which enables EU nations to fast-track the extradition of criminal suspects.\n\nThe agreement on future relations commits the two sides to putting in place reciprocal arrangements to try and match existing law enforcement and judicial co-operation.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe priority areas for future law enforcement co-operation include the exchange of data such as DNA, fingerprints, passenger records, wanted alerts, and vehicle registrations.\n\nThe EU needs the UK in many of these areas, but the document is not legally binding and also makes clear that there is a variety of technical issues to be overcome.\n\nMs Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the UK's policing co-operation with the EU was based on a framework of \"legal instruments\" which would have to be replaced after its exit.\n\nWhile she hoped the two sides would end up with \"something very similar\", she accepted that if the UK left without a deal, this would be \"very difficult to do short term\".\n\n\"We will have to replace some of the things we currently use in terms of access to databases, the way in which we can quickly arrest and extradite people, these kinds of things, we'll have to replace as effectively as we can.\n\n\"That will be more costly, undoubtedly, slower, undoubtedly and, potentially, yes, put the public at risk.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, she said, was working with other UK forces to determine how best to maintain European co-operation after Brexit.\n\nShe also disclosed that she was taking to European counterparts on a country-by country basis about contingency plans needed to maintain co-operation, if this became necessary.\n\n\"We can talk about how they may happen but while so much is unknown, nothing can be put in place and it would be improper to do so,\" she said.\n\n\"But we can talk with our colleagues and indeed I and my senior colleagues across policing are doing that all the time.\"\n\nMs Dick's comments were welcomed by opponents of Brexit, with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan saying the public should be given the final say in another referendum to stop the UK \"crashing out\" of the EU.\n\nBut campaign group Stand Up 4 Brexit, which opposes Mrs May's deal, said it would be \"mutually beneficial\" for the UK and EU to respect existing security arrangements until deciding on what replaces them.\n\nThe organisation, which says it has the backing of more than 50 Conservative MPs, said it was \"very confident\" that bilateral agreements could be agreed once the UK left.\n\n\"Cressida Dick accepted that they are already discussing arrangements so it can be put in place quickly,\" its director Rebecca Ryan said.\n\nThe Home Office said it had proposed an ambitious and legally-binding agreement on internal security as part of the withdrawal deal but the UK had to be prepared for all eventualities.\n\n\"The Home Office is working intensively with operational partners and others to ensure we are ready to make best use of the alternative channels with member states, should we exit without a deal,\" a spokesperson said, adding that the National Police Chiefs' Council was working with individual UK forces on how to manage this.\n\nIn the BBC interview, Ms Dick also defended the police response to the drone disruption at Gatwick Airport, which shut the UK's second largest airport for more than 36 hours last week and ruined the Christmas plans of thousands of holidaymakers.\n\nShe said the Met was supporting Sussex Police in investigating what was a \"serious crime\" and suggested whoever was ultimately found to be responsible would \"undoubtedly face a prison sentence\".\n\nThe authorities faced a \"difficult challenge\" in working out what had happened and there would have to be much closer working between the private sector and the military to ensure there was no repeat.", "Sophie Wilson was in hospital in Thailand for almost a month\n\nA backpacker who broke her neck diving into a swimming pool in Thailand is back in the UK, thanks to people donating more than £67,000.\n\nThe money has gone towards Sophie Wilson's hospital bills and a medical flight from Thailand.\n\nInsurance company Insure and Go refused to pay out as they said she had acted in a way which put herself at risk.\n\nMedics do not know whether the 24-year-old, from Shepshed, Leicestershire, will be able to walk again.\n\nMiss Wilson landed at Heathrow on Wednesday and was then taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.\n\nHer sister Georgina Wilson said: \"She's feeling so much more positive and happy about being back in the UK and there are no issues with the language barrier.\n\n\"She's still making good progress every day, so she's getting more and more strength in her arms and hands but there's still no movement from the chest down at the moment.\"\n\nSophie Wilson was only a week into her solo trip around the world\n\nSophie Wilson is expected to be in Nottingham for four or five weeks before being moved to a hospital in Sheffield, where she will spend at least six months.\n\n\"They've said there's a chance she may not walk,\" said her sister.\n\n\"We've got to play it by ear and take every day as it comes.\"\n\nThe former coffee shop worker had set off on a six-month trip as part of her lifelong dream to travel the world, and had been in Thailand for only a week when she had the accident on 1 December.\n\nShe thought the pool was deeper than it was and did not see a sign warning that diving was not allowed.\n\nMiss Wilson received treatment at a hospital in Chiang Mai and had about 10 hours of surgery.\n\nBefore leaving Thailand she wrote on Facebook: \"I really am truly amazed by everything that everyone has done for me.\"\n\nMiss Wilson's spinal cord became compressed when she dived into the pool\n\nInsure and Go said in a statement: \"We do understand that people go on holiday to have fun and enjoy themselves, but we are not able to cover circumstances where the customer has acted in a way that puts themselves at risk.\n\n\"This is clearly stated in the policy terms and conditions.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police remain at the scene alongside workers from the gas board\n\nA man's body has been found in the wreckage of a house that was destroyed in an explosion.\n\nNeighbours said they were awoken by a \"loud bang\" when the blast occurred in Andover, Hampshire, at about 02:30 GMT.\n\nPhotos from the scene of the collapse in Launcelot Close, off King Arthurs Way, appear to show the remains of a roof on top of a large pile of rubble.\n\nThe body of a 48-year-old man was found at the scene. His next-of-kin have been informed.\n\nFollowing a search, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) said all other occupants had been accounted for.\n\nResidents in neighbouring properties were evacuated, the local council said.\n\nLocal resident William Cooper said he was awoken by the explosion in the early hours.\n\n\"I looked out of the window and there was just loads of rubble,\" he added.\n\nHe said only the \"skeleton of a house\" had been left following the explosion.\n\nA bathroom wall was blown away in the explosion\n\nThe explosion happened in Launcelot Close, Andover, at about 02:30 GMT\n\nGas firm SGN said its engineers joined the emergency services on site in the early hours of the morning.\n\n\"We understand an occupant in the property at the time of the explosion has died and our thoughts are with them and their family,\" it added in a statement.\n\n\"While it is too early to speculate as to what has happened, we're working closely with the emergency services to help identify the cause.\n\n\"In conjunction with the authorities, we're currently working to isolate gas supplies to property numbers one and two for safety.\"\n\nLiam Robinson said he he was \"in shock\"\n\nLiam Robinson said he only avoided being at home overnight because he was in hospital with a broken hip.\n\n\"I'm still in shock. I came back from hospital and the next thing I knew my house was blown up,\" he said.\n\n\"I wouldn't be here right now if I hadn't broken my hip. I've got mixed emotions - I'm happy I wasn't in there.\"\n\nCh Insp Kory Thorne, of Hampshire Constabulary, said: \"This is a tragic incident in which a man has died, and we are working hard to find out what happened.\n\n\"This process will take some time and a cordon will remain in place in the coming days.\n\nHe appealed for anyone who had witnessed to blast to come forward.\n\nNo-one else was inside the building at the time of the collapse\n\nPhil North, leader of Test Valley Borough Council, said: \"This is truly devastating and our thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nHe said the council had also been on the scene since the early hours and was helping to look after those residents who had been evacuated from their homes at a community facility.\n\nA spokesman for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said fire crews had now left the scene.\n\nHe said: \"We had the one fatality and other persons were soon accounted for. Fire crews have now left the scene and the search and rescue is now finished.\n\n\"It is being handed over to police and the gas board are continuing their investigations.\"\n\nSGN engineers and members of Test Valley Borough Council are also at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tony Carroll's family said he was \"always the life and soul of the party\"\n\nA pedestrian who died after being hit by a police car on Christmas Day had enjoyed the \"best day ever\" before the crash, his family said.\n\nTony Carroll, 70, was knocked down on Scotland Road, Liverpool, at about 18:50 GMT and later pronounced dead.\n\nHis family said Mr Carroll was \"much loved by all who knew him for his kindness and generosity\".\n\nThe crash has been reported to the watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nIn a tribute, Mr Carroll's family said: \"Tony was a much-loved brother and uncle and will be greatly missed by all his family.\n\n\"He was always the life and soul of the party, and he lived life the way he wanted to.\"\n\nThey added: \"As a very close knit family we spent Christmas Day together and as he left he told us all that he had had the best day ever.\n\n\"This tragedy has devastated all our family and Tony will be remembered in our hearts forever.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to the crash\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said investigators had assessed the scene and decided to carry out an independent investigation.\n\nThe watchdog's spokesman said: \"On current information, we understand the police car was responding to an emergency call when it collided with the man crossing the road at around 6.50pm.\"\n\nScotland Road was closed following the crash, which Merseytravel said also prompted the closure of the Bootle-bound sliproad from the Wallasey Tunnel.\n\nA Merseyside Police spokesman said: \"At around 6.50pm a collision occurred between a police vehicle and a male pedestrian on Scotland Road.\n\n\"Emergency services attended and the pedestrian was taken to hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Instagram regulars did not react positively to the horizontal scrolling test\n\nInstagram has apologised after a test feature was accidentally rolled out to millions of people using its app.\n\nThe change meant moving through a feed had to be done by swiping horizontally rather than vertically.\n\nAlmost as soon as the change was made, users took to Twitter to complain and demand the return of the familiar up-and-down scrolling method.\n\nThe unwelcome update - which was likened to Tinder - was live for about an hour before it was rolled back.\n\nIn a tweet, Instagram's head of product Adam Mosseri said: \"Sorry about that, this was supposed to be a very small test but we went broader than we anticipated.\"\n\nThe change trended under the #instagramupdate hashtag on Twitter, accompanied by mostly negative comments.\n\nMany asked who had thought changing the scrolling direction would be a good idea. Several called on co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger - who quit earlier this year - to return.\n\nSome wondered if it was a way to stop people just scrolling endlessly through updates by making them tap and examine posts before moving on.\n\nInstagram user Elise Michelle called it: \"By far the worst update in Instagram history.\"\n\nSoon after the backlash, Mr Mosseri tweeted that the change had been \"rolled back\".\n\nHe added: \"If you're still seeing it you can simply restart your app and you should be good to go.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by rush This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Maurice Saatchi has quit the advertising agency he co-founded in 1995 along with three other directors in the wake of an accounting scandal.\n\nM&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence after profit warnings.\n\nThe company also revealed a £11.6m hole in its earnings last week.\n\nLord Saatchi founded the firm with his brother Charles after being forced out of Saatchi & Saatchi after a shareholder revolt.\n\nAs well as Lord Saatchi, Lord Dobbs, Sir Michael Peat and Lorna Tilbian all quit the board of the firm.\n\nLord Dobbs, a Conservative politician, is best known for creating the House of Cards novels, which were turned into TV series in the UK and the US.\n\nSir Michael is a former accountant and courtier, and Ms Tilbian is a media analyst and stock broking executive.\n\nM&C Saatchi is famous for the controversial New Labour, New Danger campaign for the Conservatives in 1997. Labour won with a majority of 179.\n\nMuch more successful was the brothers' 1979 Conservative campaign, Labour Isn't Working.\n\nJeremy Sinclair, the company's chairman, said: \"We have accepted the decision of these directors to resign. We are determined to restore the operational performance and profitability of the business.\"\n\nLast week the company warned 2019 profit would be \"significantly below the levels expected\".\n\nIn September it revealed a slide in sales and profit for the first half of the year. Profit fell 67% to £2.5m.", "A new artwork by Banksy, which highlights homelessness, has been defaced in Birmingham.\n\nThe street artwork featured in a film on Instagram shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nNow it's been covered with a protective plastic sheet after the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.", "About 725,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar over the past 12 months, many for Bangladesh\n\nIndiscriminate killing; villages burned to the ground; children assaulted; women gang-raped - these are the findings of United Nations investigators who allege that \"the gravest crimes under international law\" were committed in Myanmar last August.\n\nSuch was their severity, the report said, the army must be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine state.\n\nThe investigators' conclusions came despite them not being granted access to Myanmar by the government there, which has since rejected the report.\n\nThis is how the investigators came to their conclusions.\n\nOn 24 March 2017, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to form an independent fact-finding mission on Myanmar to look into \"alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces\".\n\nFive months after the mission was formed, Myanmar's army launched a major assault on Rakhine state, following deadly attacks by Rohingya militants on police posts.\n\nThe military's campaign became the main focus of the investigation, which also looked into rights abuses in Kachin and Shan states.\n\nThe mission wrote to Myanmar's government three times asking for access to the country. It received no response.\n\n\"The first rule was 'do no harm',\" says Christopher Sidoti, one of the three people who headed the investigation.\n\n\"Those people we spoke to had been heavily traumatised, and if our staff considered that an interview would be re-traumatising, it wouldn't have been conducted.\n\n\"No evidence is so important that it warrants re-traumatising someone who has gone through all these experiences.\"\n\nAt least 725,000 people have fled Rakhine state over the past 12 months, many to neighbouring Bangladesh. As a result, despite not getting access to Myanmar, investigators were able to gather a vast amount of testimony from people who had experienced violence at first-hand before fleeing.\n\nMany made the treacherous journey from Rakhine to Bangladesh by sea\n\nThey spoke to 875 people in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the UK, and made a decision early on that the most valuable testimony would come from people who had not shared their stories before.\n\n\"We didn't want to interview people who had been interviewed by other organisations,\" Mr Sidoti, an Australian human rights law expert, says. \"We didn't want a situation where people's evidence could have been tainted.\n\n\"We tried to get people from a wide variety of areas and when we became more and more focused later on, we would deliberately, through a community network, seek out others from that area to get a better picture of what went on.\"\n\n\"We would never use just one account as proof,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"We always sought corroboration from primary and secondary sources.\"\n\nThose sources included videos, photographs, documents and satellite images, which showed the destruction of Rohingya villages over several months in 2017.\n\nIn one case, investigators had received several reports from refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, that a village had been destroyed in particular circumstances at a particular time.\n\nInvestigators were then able to source satellite images that corroborated what witnesses had said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rohingya girls in danger: The stories of three young women\n\nGetting hold of photographic evidence from the ground proved to be more of a challenge.\n\n\"When people were leaving Rakhine state, they were being stopped, searched and deprived of their money, gold and mobile phones,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"It seemed pretty clear this was an attempt to get video or photographic evidence they had recorded.\n\n\"There wasn't much left but we made use of it.\"\n\nThe report names six senior military figures it believes should go on trial, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy.\n\nHow were investigators able to point the finger directly at these men?\n\nThe case here is not based on a paper trail, or a recording, but instead on research.\n\nInvestigators relied heavily on others' detailed understanding of how Myanmar's government works. Among them was a military adviser who had co-operated with war crimes tribunals in the past.\n\n\"We have been able to access extraordinary international advice on various aspects of Myanmar's military,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"The conclusion we have come up with is that the army is so tightly controlled that nothing happens involving the army in Myanmar without the commander-in-chief and his deputies knowing.\"\n\nWhile the people believed to have given the orders have been named, work is ongoing to identify the members of the military who may have committed atrocities.\n\n\"We do have a list of alleged perpetrators on the ground and they will remain confidential for now,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"Their names have come up frequently enough for them to be put on lists to face more investigation.\"\n\nIdentifying what appears to be genocide and proving that what happened fits the legal definition of genocide are two different things.\n\n\"Evidence of crimes against humanity was very quickly obtained and was quite overwhelming,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"Genocide is a much more legally complex issue.\"\n\nChristopher Sidoti: \"None of us thought the evidence for genocide would be as strong as it was\"\n\nAs the report states, genocide is when \"a person commits a prohibited act with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group\".\n\nThe key word is \"intent\". Investigators believe the evidence of that intent by the Myanmar army is clear.\n\nThey cite statements by commanders and suspected perpetrators, and the degree of planning required to carry out such an operation. But still, identifying a genocide from a legal perspective took a significant amount of legal work.\n\n\"We arrived at a position we had not expected to be in when we were beginning,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"None of the three of us thought the evidence for genocide would be as strong as it was. That came as a surprise.\"\n\nThe report says that the six military officials should face trial. It also condemns Myanmar's de facto leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, for failing to intervene to stop attacks, and the UN's outgoing rights chief this week said she should have resigned as a result.\n\nThe report also makes a series of recommendations, including the referral of the investigation to the International Criminal Court or to a new tribunal, and the imposition of an arms embargo.\n\nHowever, China has so far resisted strong action against its neighbour and ally Myanmar on the UN Security Council, where it holds a veto.\n\nMr Sidoti acknowledges that officials in Myanmar are unlikely to investigate the allegations themselves. Last year, an internal investigation by the army exonerated itself of blame in the Rohingya crisis, and Myanmar's Permanent Representative to the UN last week told BBC Burmese the report was full of \"one-sided accusations against us\".\n\n\"We have made recommendations and it is up to others to act on them,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"I have a high expectation that the Security Council will act on its responsibilities. But I'm not naive.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Ashworth: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker\"\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth has apologised to his party after criticising Jeremy Corbyn in a secret recording by his Tory activist friend.\n\nIn a recording leaked to Tory-supporting website Guido Fawkes, Mr Ashworth is heard saying he did not believe Labour would win the election.\n\nMr Ashworth has insisted he was \"joshing around\" in the conversation.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was \"not the sort of thing I would do\", but claimed the story was \"irrelevant\".\n\nThe Labour leader added that Mr Ashworth had said it \"was all about reverse psychology banter - as in football\".\n\nHe suggested that shadow health secretary has an \"odd sense of humour\" but added that he \"makes jokes the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I'm cool with Jon, we get along great\"\n\nHe also accused the Guido Fawkes website of \"just trying to deflect away from the Tories' mess of the National Health Service\" and insisted that the shadow health secretary had his \"full support\".\n\nThe conversation appears to have been recorded over a week ago and Mr Ashworth said: \"The reason this has come out today is because the Tories know the crisis in the NHS is ruining their campaign and we've got babies - babies - on the front page of the Daily Mirror unable to get a bed.\"\n\nMr Ashworth named the friend he was speaking to as former local Conservative Association chairman, Greig Baker, and he did not deny that he made the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn dismissed claims that he was a \"problem on the doorstep\" for Labour activists, saying it was \"not a presidential election\".\n\nIn the recording, Mr Ashworth appears to refer to an unsuccessful plot to oust Mr Corbyn, instigated by some of his MPs in the aftermath of the EU referendum.\n\n\"People like me were internally saying 'this isn't the right moment' but I got kind of ignored,\" Mr Ashworth is recorded as saying.\n\nOn Labour's election chances, Mr Ashworth is heard saying: \"I've been going round these national places, it's dire for Labour… it's dire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: An excerpt from the secret recording of Jonathan Ashworth\n\n\"I'm helping colleagues, banging on about the NHS for them but it's awful for them, and it's the combination of Corbyn and Brexit… outside of the city seats…it's abysmal out there…they can't stand Corbyn and they think Labour's blocked Brexit.\"\n\nOn the recording, Mr Ashworth is asked: If Mr Corbyn \"got in would he be as bad as I suspect?\"\n\n\"I don't know, on the security stuff, I worked in No 10, I think the machine will pretty quickly move to safeguard security, I mean the civil service machine. But it's not going to happen. I cannot see it happening.\"\n\nA Twitter account appearing to belong to Mr Baker later defended leaking the recording.\n\nHe tweeted: \"If someone tells you about a threat to national security - that they say could only be avoided by asking civil servants to act unconstitutionally - there's a duty to tell people about it.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Ashworth said: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker, but it's not what I mean when I'm winding up a friend, trying to sort of, pull his leg a bit.\"\n\nHe said he was \"having a bit of banter\" with his friend \"because he was saying 'oh, the Tories are going to lose' and I was, like saying, 'no you're going to be fine', joshing as old friends do.\n\n\"And he's only gone and leaked it to a website - selectively leaked it - and I thought he was a friend, Greig Baker, but obviously he's not.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed, as the recording suggested, that Mr Corbyn was a threat to the UK's national security, Mr Ashworth replied: \"Of course I don't.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Live, he said: \"I look like an idiot as a result of doing it... I apologise to Labour Party members.\"\n\nConservative Party leader Boris Johnson said Mr Ashworth was \"saying what hundreds of Labour candidates and millions of voters are thinking\", adding that Mr Corbyn was \"unfit to be PM because he is blocking Brexit\".\n\nMr Ashworth's remarks were \"an honest and truly devastating assessment\" of Mr Corbyn's leadership \"by one of his most trusted election lieutenants\", Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said.\n\nIt's striking that in the dying embers of this campaign - which has been so carefully scripted and choreographed by the parties - suddenly events have burst into it and changed the dynamic.\n\nYesterday it was that photo of four-year-old Jack lying on a hospital floor. Today it's that recording of Jonathan Ashworth - by someone who was meant to be his friend.\n\nThey clearly knew his views of Jeremy Corbyn and basically it amounts to what looks like a sting - because the individual he was talking to is a Conservative activist.\n\nNevertheless, the remarks are out there and they are damning.\n\nHere you have the man who is meant to be fronting Labour's attack on the NHS basically saying they haven't a hope of winning, that voters believe they blocked Brexit and they don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd, perhaps most damning of all, seeming to suggest that Mr Corbyn is a risk to national security.\n\nSo this is absolutely going to dominate the headlines today.\n\nEarlier, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn was challenged on his leadership credentials amid reports that some candidates are finding voters do not want to support him personally.\n\n\"It's not a presidential election,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a Parliamentary election in which we elect members of Parliament. I'm the leader of the Labour Party and I'm very proud to have that position.\"\n\nWhen asked about some candidates not including his name in their leaflets, he said he was \"proud\" of his party's manifesto and \"my job is to deliver it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn denies his personal ratings are 'hindering' his party\n\nOn the case of a sick four-year-old boy who was photographed on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary, Mr Corbyn said it was an example of what was happening in the NHS.\n\n\"It is obviously awful for that little boy and the family, the way they were treated,\" he said.\n\n\"But it does say something about our NHS when this happened, and then all research shows there's a very large number of hospitals where patients are at risk because of staff shortages, because of a lack of equipment, because of poor maintenance of hospital buildings.\"\n\nHe insisted his spending plans \"are completely credible\" and will \"give sufficient resources to the NHS\".\n\nIn the interview, Mr Corbyn was also challenged on his party's Brexit policy and his own position.\n\nLabour wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and then put it to the public as a \"credible Leave option\" alongside the option of Remain in another referendum - which the Labour leader would remain neutral in.\n\n\"I will be the honest broker,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThe Conservatives argue that Labour would bring further \"dither and delay\" to Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice loss from 1992 to 2018 has occurred mostly around the coast (Imbie/ESA/Planetary Visions)\n\nGreenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.\n\nThe assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period.\n\nThey say Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a pessimistic projection of the future.\n\nIt means an additional 7cm of ocean rise could now be expected by the end of the century from Greenland alone.\n\nThis threatens to put many millions more people in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding.\n\nIt's estimated roughly a billion live today less than 10m above current high-tide lines, including 250 million below 1m.\n\n\"Storms, if they happen against a baseline of higher seas - they will break flood defences,\" said Prof Andy Shepherd, of Leeds University.\n\n\"The simple formula is that around the planet, six million people are brought into a flooding situation for every centimetre of sea-level rise. So, when you hear about a centimetre rise, it does have impacts,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe British scientist is the co-lead investigator for Imbie - the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise.\n\nIt's a consortium of 89 polar experts drawn from 50 international organisations.\n\nThe group has reanalysed the data from 11 satellite missions flown from 1992 to 2018. These spacecraft have taken repeat measurements of the ice sheet's changing thickness, flow and gravity. The Imbie team has combined their observations with the latest weather and climate models.\n\nWhat emerges is the most comprehensive picture yet of how Greenland is reacting to the Arctic's rapid warming. This is a part of the globe that has seen a 0.75C temperature rise in just the past decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Shepherd: \"Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than we expected\"\n\nThe Imbie assessment shows the island to have lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice to the ocean since the start of the study period. This mass is the equivalent of 10.6mm of sea-level rise. What is more, the team finds an acceleration in the data.\n\nWhereas in the early 90s, the rate of loss was equivalent to about 1mm per decade, it is now running at roughly 7mm per decade.\n\nImbie team-member Dr Ruth Mottram is affiliated to the Danish Meteorological Institute.\n\nShe said: \"Greenland is losing ice in two main ways - one is by surface melting and that water runs off into the ocean; and the other is by the calving of icebergs and then melting where the ice is in contact with the ocean. The long-term contribution from these two processes is roughly half and half.\"\n\nIn an average year now, Greenland sheds about 250 billion tonnes of ice. This year, however, has been exceptional for its warmth. In the coastal town of Ilulissat, not far from where the mighty Jakobshavn Glacier enters the ocean, temperatures reached into the high 20s Celsius. And even in the ice sheet interior, at its highest point, temperatures got to about zero.\n\n\"The ice loss this year was more like 370 billion tonnes,\" said Dr Mottram.\n\nBack in 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the authoritative body that reconciles all climate science - gave a mid-range projection for global sea level rise of about 60cm by 2100. A mixture of ice melt and expansion of warming water.\n\nBut when Imbie published its companion review of Antarctica in 2018, it found the White Continent's contribution by 2100 was likely being underestimated by 10cm. Now, for Greenland, Imbie is saying the shortfall is 7cm. The IPCC will have to incorporate these updates when it releases its next major assessment report (AR6) of Earth's climate in a couple of years' time.\n\nProf René Forsberg, from the Technical University of Denmark, said the Imbie exercise underlined the importance of flying satellites, especially those that can observe the top of Greenland, higher than 83 degrees North. Only two of the present fleet can, and one of those spacecraft is operating beyond its design life.\n\n\"Most of the changes we've seen in Greenland have been in the west, south and east; and now it has slowly moved up to the north. So, yes, the next satellite in the European Union's Copernicus programme needs to go to higher latitudes, and this is being discussed by the EU and the European Space Agency,\" Prof Forsberg told BBC News.\n\nThe new satellite system - for the moment known as Cristal, but to be called a Sentinel if it flies - would be a radar altimeter to measure the changing shape of Greenland.\n\nImbie's Greenland analysis is published in the journal Nature. Its release has been timed to coincide with the annual COP climate convention taking place this year in Madrid, and with the American Geophysical Union meeting here in San Francisco, where leading Earth scientists have gathered.\n\nThe Arctic has warmed 0.75C in the past decade, relative to 1951–1980\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This previously unpublished picture shows London Bridge soon after the attacker was shot - with the bus on the right that was hit\n\nA ricochet from a police bullet could have passed through the entire top deck of a bus during the London Bridge terror attack, pictures reveal.\n\nThe police have suggested a ricochet could have hit the bus, stopped near to where attacker Usman Khan was shot.\n\nA picture given to BBC News by an eye witness on the bus behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window.\n\nBut a closer examination of other photos from the bridge reveals a hole in the front window of the bus as well.\n\nThe front window of the bus also appears to have been hit - with a forensic examination taking place\n\nThe eye witness, who does not want to be named, believes the bus he was on was also clipped.\n\nHe was at the front of the upper deck when he saw, heard and felt the impact of the back window of the bus in front shattering, and immediately dived to the floor.\n\n\"We are talking about a split-second of noise,\" he said.\n\nThe picture given to BBC News by a passenger on the bus directly behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window\n\n\"In no more than a half-a-second I was on the floor.\"\n\nIt suggests there was more of a fortunate near miss than had previously been recognised - and might explain how the ricocheting bullet had reached the back window.\n\nArmed officers shot Khan after he had been tackled by members of the public using improvised weapons including fire extinguishers and a narwhal tusk.\n\nKhan had been chased from nearby Fishmongers' Hall, after a knife attack in which he had killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who had been working at a prison rehabilitation event at the hall.\n\nThe damage to the bus seems to have happened after the initial shots that had stopped Khan, raising questions about further shots that might have been fired.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating, said that establishing the cause of damage to the bus was \"a line of enquiry for us\".\n\nDr Rachel Bolton-King, associate professor of forensic science at Staffordshire University says the specifics of what happened will have to be established by the formal investigation.\n\nBut she says it might be possible for a ricocheted bullet to \"pass through one window, through the length of the bus and out the window at the opposite end of the bus\".\n\n\"Ricochet bullets are often unstable once they have hit their first target surface,\" she said.\n\nA close-up shows the hole in the front window of the bus, along with the reflections of nearby buildings\n\nThey could continue \"nose on\" in the normal direction of flight but could also be deflected sideways or into other angles.\n\nAnd investigators would be able to find the direction of travel by examining the front and back surfaces of the window.\n\nPhilip Boyce, of forensic services company Forensic Equity, said the bullet could have entered through the front window and glanced off the ceiling of the bus before going out through the back.\n\nRicochets could carry for hundreds of yards, depending on the surfaces they hit but well within the distance between the bus and the site of Khan's shooting, he said.\n\nAnd their path could be altered by what they hit or passed through, such as laminated or toughened glass.\n\nTransport for London confirmed that a bus was damaged during the incident - with the Metropolitan police suggesting that it could have been a ricochet from a police bullet.", "The Conservatives have told the Andrew Neil Show they do not want to put anyone up for interview the night before the election.\n\nSo instead, Neil is interviewing former deputy prime minister Lord Michael Heseltine - who has made his Remain beliefs very clear during the campaign.\n\nAsked if Boris Johnson is fit to be prime minister, he says he has \"avoided discussion about personality issues\" in the run-up to the election as \"great issues become slanging matches\".\n\nBut Lord Heseltine says the \"overarching\" issue of the campaign has been Brexit.\n\nHe says there needs to be a coalition \"for one reason only\" and that is to get another referendum on Brexit \"now that the issues are clearer than they were three years ago\".\n\nHowever, he doesn't want Jeremy Corbyn to lead it.\n\nLord Heseltine says Labour is \"itching to get rid\" of Mr Corbyn, and there were many moderates who could take his place.\n\n\"We are facing a period of prolonged uncertainty,\" he adds. \"There is no way of getting Brexit done in a matter of weeks or months.\n\n\"The alternative is we have a no overall control Parliament, out of which comes a short-term coalition for the one purpose of another referendum.\n\n\"There would be delay, yes, but much shorter delay than the anxiety and uncertainty of going through with Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nRyan Sessegnon marked his first Tottenham start with a goal but could not prevent Spurs from losing 3-1 to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.\n\nBoth sides had already qualified for the last 16, with Bayern progressing as Group B winners and Tottenham going through as runners-up, and consequently they made numerous changes for Wednesday's encounter at the Allianz Arena.\n\nBayern beat Spurs 7-2 in their first meeting in this season's competition at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and took an early lead through Kingsley Coman.\n\nSpurs hit back soon after when Sessegnon showed great composure to bring a pass under control inside the area and rifle a powerful finish beyond Manuel Neuer.\n\nThomas Muller, on as a first-half substitute after Coman picked up an injury, then struck just before the break when he tapped in after Alphonso Davies had hit the post.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho went close to scoring a spectacular third for the hosts but his fierce drive from distance bounced off the underside of the crossbar before being cleared.\n\nThe former Liverpool forward got on the scoresheet in the second half when he curled into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nSpurs will face one of Barcelona, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Valencia or RB Leipzig in the last 16, with the draw on Monday.\n\nAfter the game, Bayern said France forward Coman would be out for \"some time\" with a capsule tear in the left knee\".\n• None What have we learned in Champions League?\n• None Which teams are into Champions League last 16?\n\nWith qualification to the last 16 and positions in the group already sorted before this game, Spurs boss Jose Mourinho understandably opted to give his fringe and young squad players a chance to shine.\n\nAfter a testing start to his Spurs career, Sessegnon grasped his opportunity with both hands. The 19-year-old signed from Fulham on deadline day but a hamstring injury he picked up in the summer while with England Under-21s had limited him to just three first-team appearances from the bench.\n\nHe took just 20 minutes to make an impression in Munich, thundering an unstoppable strike past Neuer after first taking a touch to control Giovani lo Celso's deflected pass.\n\nAt 19 years and 207 days, Sessegnon became Spurs' youngest Champions League scorer and went on to put on an assured performance.\n\nHe was the standout player for an otherwise flat Spurs who struggled to compete against a Bayern team that barely got out of third gear.\n• None Bayern Munich became just the second club to win all six of their group games in a single Champions League campaign (in the competition's current format, since 2003-04) after Real Madrid, who have done so twice (in 2011-12 and 2014-15).\n• None By collecting maximum points (18) and a goal difference of +19 Bayern became the best group winner in the history of the competition.\n• None Spurs manager Jose Mourinho has lost each of his three away games at Bayern Munich, with all three coming in the Champions League in charge of different teams (3-2 with Chelsea, 2-1 with Real Madrid and 3-1 with Spurs).\n• None Bayern Munich have gone unbeaten at home in the Champions League group stage for the sixth consecutive campaign, winning 17 of their 18 games at the Allianz Arena since the 2014-15 season (D1).\n• None Spurs have conceded at least two goals in five of their six games under Jose Mourinho in all competitions (11 in total), including in all three of their away games.\n• None Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller scored his 28th Champions League goal at the Allianz Arena - only four players have ever scored more at a single venue in the competition (Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp and Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Karim Benzema at the Bernabeu).\n• None Ryan Sessegnon is the third-youngest player to score a Champions League goal under Jose Mourinho, after Carlos Alberto (19y 167d) and Mario Balotelli (18y 84d).\n\n'I learned important information' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho said: \"It would be unfair to speak about conclusions. No conclusions, just information and that is very important for me.\n\n\"Some of the players played their first minutes with me. Some of the players like Foyth was the first time he played.\n\n\"It was important to collect some information, information you normally collect in the season or in pre-season. I just arrived and I need information.\n\n\"I am happy with the decisions I made, I hope our supporters understand what I did. Internally we made this decision and we think it was the best decision for the team.\"\n\nTottenham return to Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Wolves on Sunday (14:00 GMT). Meanwhile, the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is on Monday (11:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Sessegnon with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg criticised CEOs and politicians for their lack of action\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.\n\nThe 16-year-old is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.\n\nSpeaking at a UN climate change summit in Madrid before the announcement, she urged world leaders to stop using \"creative PR\" to avoid real action.\n\nThe next decade would define the planet's future, she said.\n\nLast year, the teenager started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.\n\nSince then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. Earlier this year, she was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nAt the UN Climate Conference in New York in September, she blasted politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change. In a now-famous speech, she said: \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We'll be watching you.\"\n\nReacting to the nomination on Twitter, the activist said: \"Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.\"\n\nTime magazine's cover for its Person of the Year edition\n\nThe teenager's message, however, has not been well received by everyone, most notably prominent conservative voices. Before her appearance in Madrid, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro called her a \"brat\" after she expressed concern about the killing of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.\n\n\"Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that,\" he said, using the Portuguese word for brat, \"pirralha\".\n\nThe activist responded by briefly changing her Twitter bio to \"Pirralha\".\n\nShe has previously been at odds with US President Donald Trump, who has questioned climate science and rolled back many US climate laws, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who once called her a \"kind but poorly informed teenager\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nAnnouncing Time's decision on NBC, editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said: \"She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement.\"\n\nThe magazine's tradition, which started as Man of the Year, recognises the person who \"for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year\". Last year, it named murdered and imprisoned journalists, calling them \"The Guardians\".\n\nAt the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid, Greta Thunberg accused world powers of making constant attempts \"to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition\".\n\n\"The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when, in fact, almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR,\" she said, drawing applause.\n\n\"In just three weeks we'll enter a new decade, a decade that will define our future,\" she added. \"Right now, we're desperate for any sign of hope.\"\n\nThis was meant to be a big moment in the talks, the elixir of the \"Greta effect\" bringing new energy to a flagging process. The teenager is almost certainly the most famous person here, attracting far more attention than other celebrities like Al Gore, and the UN badly needs a boost.\n\nHer talk came over as measured, grounded in the latest research, and avoided the flash of hurt and anger she displayed in New York in September. Looking around the hall, it was striking how many of the national delegations had not turned up for this morning session at the conference.\n\nA snub by the big fossil fuel economies? Or maybe they were too busy in the negotiations themselves?\n\nIn any event, the passion among the millions of young people who have taken to the streets to demand action on climate change feels very remote from the diplomatic struggles in these halls.\n\nMeanwhile in Brussels, the European Commission - the EU executive - announced ambitious environmental proposals to cut the bloc's dependency on fossil fuels, hoping to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on 1 December, called the European Green Deal Europe's \"man on the Moon moment\". It includes proposals that affect everything from transport and buildings to food production, and air and water pollution.\n\nThe package will be debated by EU leaders at a summit on Thursday and includes:\n\nReacting to the proposals, Jagoda Munic, director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe, said they were \"too small, too few and too far off\", adding: \"We're on a runaway train to ecological and climate collapse and the EU Commission is gently switching gears instead of slamming on the brakes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does this cattle farmer moves his cows every day?", "Jaden Moodie moved from Nottingham to London with his mum for a \"new start\"\n\nThe mother of a 14-year-old boy hunted down and knifed to death in gang violence said she will never forget the image of her youngest child lying face down in a pool of his blood.\n\nJaden Moodie was dealing drugs on 8 January in Leyton, north-east London, when he was mowed down by a car. As he lay in the road, he was repeatedly stabbed by a rival gang.\n\nOne of his attackers - 19-year-old Ayoub Majdouline was found guilty of his murder on Wednesday. Jaden's mother explains how her son became embroiled in a drug turf war.\n\nThe 14-year-old was stabbed to death in Bickley Road, Leyton\n\nJada Bailey was cooking at home in Walthamstow when she got a knock on the door on the evening of 8 January.\n\n\"It was Jaden's friends. They told me that he was not responding. I didn't know what they were talking about at first,\" she said.\n\nJaden had been riding down Bickley Road on a moped at about 18:30 when a Mercedes ploughed into him head on, launching him over the car's bonnet.\n\nHe was then set upon and stabbed to death within seconds.\n\n\"I ran [there] with my two daughters,\" Jada said. \"Everything was taped off and there were lots of police and paramedics. I will never forget being pulled to one side and being told Jaden was no longer with us.\n\n\"At that moment I was just in disbelief - in a state of shock. I asked immediately to see him - and when I saw him, he was laid out in the crucifixion pose.\n\n\"That image has not left me.\"\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nJada said her son was caring and loving - but the trial into his murder revealed he had become increasingly troubled as he entered his teenage years.\n\nIn March 2018 - by the time he was 13 - he was handed a youth conditional caution after police seized an air-powered pistol, a Rambo-style knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nFour months later, Jada called police to say she had been threatened on her doorstep by a 16-year-old boy who told her Jaden owed him money - and if he did not pay, she and her son would be stabbed.\n\nTen months after that she complained to social services that she had handed £300 to stop the boys from threatening her. She also said she had found a large knife in her home - a clear sign, she thought, that her son was being groomed into a life of crime.\n\nJaden pictured wearing his school uniform on his first day at the Redhill Academy in Nottingham\n\nFearing for her family's life, Jada decided to move 140 miles from the market town of Arnold in Nottinghamshire to Waltham Forest in east London.\n\nBut his mother said that despite being close to male role models like his uncles, the teenager was soon excluded from his new school in Chingford and lured back into criminality.\n\nLast year, he admitted appearing in a Snapchat video with an imitation firearm and was found with crack-cocaine at an address in Bournemouth.\n\nOn the afternoon before being stabbed, Jaden had called a friend to tell him \"I'm in beef again\".\n\nIt was only after his death that his mother learned of his involvement with one of the biggest and most organised gangs in Waltham Forest - the \"Beaumont Crew\".\n\nHe had been dealing cannabis for the gang when he was set upon by his rivals, the \"Mali Boys\".\n\nAyoub Majdouline and four other boys were part of the Mali Boys gang and on 8 January were cruising the streets around Bickley Road in a stolen Mercedes.\n\nThey had covered their hands and faces, armed themselves with knives and were looking for trouble.\n\nJaden was in the area at the same time, having visited a youth bus run by Christian charity, Worth Unlimited. He then set off down Bickley Road on a moped.\n\nIt was here where Majdouline and his accomplices spotted the teenager and drove the Mercedes right at him.\n\nMajdouline, wearing yellow washing up gloves, got out of the car with three other boys and repeatedly stabbed the 14-year-old in the back while he lay on the ground.\n\nHe suffered nine stab wounds in the 14-second attack and bled to death in the road.\n\nBlood-stained rubber gloves worn by Majdouline were found near the crime scene\n\nForensic practitioner Ian Hounsell, who was nearby, told jurors he could hear the teenager \"grunting\" and that he noticed several slit marks at the back of his jacket.\n\nHe administered CPR, but the 14-year-old was pronounced dead just after 19:00 GMT.\n\n\"The way in which he died was barbaric,\" Jada said. \"How could they [his attackers] do that - to a child?\"\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said these young men had \"no qualms about carrying and using deadly weapons to kill, no qualms about attacking their victim on a public street, and no qualms about playing out their petty rivalries using the blade of a knife.\"\n\nJurors heard social services were worried Majdouline was being groomed by sophisticated adult dealers and he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation.\n\nGiving evidence, the defendant told the court how he sold drugs \"for and with\" the Mali Boys, including county lines deals in Basingstoke, Ipswich and Andover.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time went back to dealing.\n\n\"I was not getting really any money from social services - £50 a week. Everyone in Leyton that I knew was selling drugs to make money so I just thought... to survive.\n\n\"I was selling drugs for this older guy. He didn't want me to get robbed or lose his drugs so he gave me a knife for my own safety.\"\n\nMajdouline said he carried a knife for his own safety\n\nThe relative naivety of Jaden's attackers was highlighted in the way they tried to get rid of the evidence in the moments after the murder.\n\nThe obviously damaged Mercedes, which had Jaden's blood on the bonnet, was abandoned in a cul-de-sac five minutes away from Bickley Road.\n\nBlood-stained yellow rubber gloves worn by Majdouline and the knife used in the attack, both covered in the defendant's DNA, were put down a drain near the abandoned car.\n\nMajdouline was seen on CCTV buying cigarettes at Bercey Food and Wine shop 10 minutes after Jaden was murdered, while the T-shirt, jeans and Nike Air Max trainers he wore during the attack were found in a burnt pile opposite the shop, in the grounds of St Mary's Church on Church Road.\n\nMajdouline's burnt clothing was found in the grounds of St Mary's Church in Leyton\n\nThe evidence was enough to convince a jury of eight men and four women that Majdouline was guilty of Jaden's murder.\n\nTwo other males arrested for their involvement in the attack remain under investigation.\n\nThe Met said it was committed to bringing all five people in the Mercedes to justice.\n\n\"No child is safe while Jaden's [uncaught attackers] are on the streets of London,\" said Jada. \"Since 8 January, more people have died and something has to change.\n\n\"My son will not be dying in vain because I will save more children like that around here - the ones who have been excluded from school particularly.\"\n\nJaden's mother has set up a foundation for vulnerable children following the death of her son\n\nResearch by City Hall showed more than 4,000 people in London were recruited by gangs to supply drugs through networks across the UK in the last year.\n\nAlmost half of these were aged between 15 and 19, while 29% were aged from 20 to 25.\n\nJaden, who lied about his age to other gang members, was believed to be the youngest member of the Beaumont Crew. He was also the youngest murder victim in London since 14-year-old Corey Junior Davis was shot in 2017.\n\nJada has set up the Jaden Moodie Movement - a foundation to provide safe spaces for vulnerable children and young adults.\n\n\"We loved our son and he did have structure. But certain individuals and structures failed him,\" she said. \"Now we want to help these kids get off the streets and show them that there is a better future to be had away from drugs and knives.\n\n\"If there are people on our streets capable of killing a 14-year-old child, then no one is safe. No more children need to die.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Director General of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo says it will take \"a few months\" to fix its main body for settling trade disputes.\n\nIt has ground to a halt because the US has blocked the appointment of new judges.\n\nA minimum of three are needed and today there is just one in place.\n\nThe Appellate Body has the final say on disputes that cover billions of dollars of international trade and its decisions are supposed to be binding.\n\nHowever, now that it has ceased to function and can't take on new cases Mr Azevedo conceded that \"significant changes in the dispute settlement mechanism\" will be needed and that \"intensive consultations\" will start immediately.\n\nThese are likely to include \"looking at issues like how fast can the disputes settlement work\", he said in a BBC interview\n\nThe WTO's Appellate Body's been called \"probably the busiest international dispute settlement system in the world\"\n\nThose changes are being demanded by President Trump's administration in Washington. Their argument is that the WTO has treated the United States unfairly. Some of their criticisms are shared by other countries but others are not. Despite this Mr Azevedo says that Donald Trump's tenure as US president is not a barrier to reaching a solution.\n\n\"It's whether we can find fixes that everybody can live with\".\n\nHe adds that, \"these are extremely complex conversations and negotiations and very political in nature, so we have to understand this is not something that is going to be solved overnight, just like that\".\n\nMr Trump's role is disputed by Professor James Bacchus, a former chairman, or chief judge, of the WTO Appellate Body as well as a former US trade negotiator. He told the BBC there is \"little chance of resolving this while Donald Trump is still president in a way that will continue to preserve the independence and impartiality of the Appellate Body and the rest of the WTO dispute settlement system\".\n\nHe says that whilst the US has won the vast majority of cases it has bought at the WTO it has repeatedly violated the trade remedies imposed on it by the organisation.\n\nPresident Trump has denied that he would pull the US out of the WTO\n\nProfessor Bacchus says that many of the US claims against the WTO are \"trumped up\".\n\nThe US, however, thinks that the WTO dispute system interprets the WTO rules in a way that creates new obligations for WTO members, according to US ambassador to the WTO, Dennis Shea.\n\nOne area that particularly grates in Washington is dumping, when a foreign supplier sells goods abroad more cheaply than at home. The US and others have used a disputed method for assessing whether goods have been dumped and how much the the price is below what it should be.\n\nIt's not explicitly prohibited by the WTO rules, but the Appellate Body took the view that it was in effect against their spirit.\n\nProfessor Bacchus says that immobilizing the WTO Appellate Body is an attempt by the US to replace the rule of law in trade \"with the rule of power\".\n\nInstead of turning to the WTO President Trump has repeatedly used tariffs to address his trade concerns, seeing them as a way to gain leverage over his adversaries. This has meant tit for tat tariffs against China in what is becoming a protracted trade war. They have also been used in disputes with countries including Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and the European Union.\n\nWith the WTO paralysed, these other countries may now be tempted to lend their support to the EU plans for a new an alternative interim system for settling international trade disputes. China, the world's second biggest economy, is also now reported to be looking to support the move.\n\nIn a statement the EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan said the WTO's problems are a \"regrettable and very serious blow to the international rules-based trade system\". And despite believing that a \"comprehensive package of reform\" is needed for the WTO he thinks it remains indispensable for ensuring open and fair trade.\n\nThe WTO's Director General isn't concerned that any interim arrangement for settling disputes, however widely supported, will replaced his organization just 24 years after it was founded.\n\nMr Azevedo says \"I think what we need to do is not lose focus on finding the permanent solution while at the same time we're working on some temporary fixes\".", "Flights were cancelled after a private plane came off the runway at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.\n\nFour people were on board but no-one was hurt when the plane landed at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nA source at Liverpool FC confirmed the private jet had flown from the United States and was carrying one of the club's owners, Mike Gordon.\n\nThe airport tweeted at 23:20 to say that \"normal operations have now resumed\".\n\nMore than 9,000 passengers had flights cancelled, delayed or transferred to Manchester Airport and many booked into hotels for the night.\n\nMike Gordon (right) pictured with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in June 2019\n\nMr Gordon, who is the president of Fenway Sports Group, was on a flight from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Liverpool to attend a regular meeting at the club.\n\n\"He was not injured but would like to pass on his appreciation to the staff at Liverpool John Lennon Airport and the emergency services for their amazing work,\" the source said.\n\nThe airport - which has apologised to passengers - issued several updates, saying work to deal with the problems was continuing, before later confirming that normal operations had resumed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA specialist removal team and firefighters had been struggling all day to remove the plane's wheels, which became embedded in mud 59m (194ft) to the side of the runway.\n\nThey had been trying to dig out a track with the aim of dragging the plane out on to the runway.\n\nOnce the jet was removed, a runway inspection had to be carried out before the airport could reopen.\n\nLiverpool Airport has apologised to passengers for the inconvenience caused\n\nLiverpool Airport operations director Paul Staples earlier said the jet was too close to the landing strip to use the runway.\n\n\"We can't compromise safety,\" Mr Staples said, adding runways must have 75m of clear space.\n\nA spokeswoman for VistaJet added: \"We are fully co-operating with the airport and relevant authorities.\"\n\nPassengers due to fly from the airport to Malaga and Faro were transported to Manchester Airport\n\nPassengers due to fly were advised to contact their airlines for further information.\n\nEric Henderson, from Preston, was due to travel to Amsterdam for work.\n\n\"Our flight was due to leave at 07:30. We noticed at ten to that the flight had been moved to 11:40,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no explanation until we looked out of the large windows on the concourse and saw all the blue flashing lights.\"\n\nThe private plane came off the runway shortly after landing at about 06:00\n\nSteven and Kerry Grounds, from Warrington, were due to fly to Amsterdam to celebrate Kerry's 40th birthday.\n\n\"I don't think we will be going anywhere, so we're going back home,\" she said.\n\nThree crew members and one passenger were on board the plane when it came off the runway after landing.\n\nLiverpool Airport earlier tweeted to say the work was expected to take some time\n\nFlights arriving from Salzburg, where Liverpool FC played on Tuesday night, the Isle of Man and Dublin were diverted to Manchester, while planes from Belfast and Amsterdam were cancelled.\n\nLiverpool FC flew back to the UK shortly after the match finished, the club has confirmed.\n\nEasyJet earlier confirmed that six flights had been cancelled and four flights had been re-routed to Manchester.\n\n\"Customers on cancelled flights have been given the option of transferring their flight free of charge or receiving a refund,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMike Gordon was uninjured when his plane overshot the runway\n\nMike Gordon is the president of Fenway Sports Group, the owners of Liverpool FC.\n\nHe is a director of the club and is one of three board members who own more than a 10% share, alongside principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner.\n\nHe is also a director of the Boston Red Sox baseball club.\n\nMr Gordon lives in Massachusetts with his wife and four children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Genaro García Luna was considered an architect of Mexico's \"war on drugs\"\n\nA former Mexican security minister has been arrested in the US, charged with taking bribes from a drugs cartel.\n\nGenaro García Luna is accused of allowing the Sinaloa cartel of \"El Chapo\" Guzman to operate in Mexico in exchange for millions of dollars.\n\nProsecutors say Mr García Luna gave the cartel safe passage for drug shipments and access to sensitive information.\n\nThey say that on two occasions cartel members delivered up to $5m (£3.7m) in two briefcases to him in person.\n\nHe has previously denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr García Luna, 52, served as public security chief in the administration of President Felipe Calderon between 2006 and 2012.\n\nHis arrest in Texas is a major development in Mexican politics, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant reports.\n\nMr García Luna was not just an important figure in Mr Calderon's administration - he was Mexico's secretary of public security, the face of the country's federal police force, our correspondent adds.\n\nMr Calderon, with US backing, deployed troops against the cartels for the first time. Tens of thousands died in Mexico in drug-related violence during his \"war on drugs\".\n\nMr García Luna was taken into custody in Dallas, Texas, on Monday, prosecutors in New York said.\n\nCourt documents unsealed on Tuesday in Brooklyn showed he had been charged with cocaine trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.\n\n\"García Luna stands accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from 'El Chapo' Guzman's Sinaloa cartel while he controlled Mexico's Federal Police Force and was responsible for ensuring public safety in Mexico,\" said US Attorney Richard Donoghue, announcing the arrest.\n\nHe was also accused of lying about his criminal past when he applied for US naturalisation in 2018.\n\nGuzmán was jailed for life in July following a three-month trial in the US.\n\nDuring that trial, ex-cartel member Jesus \"Rey\" Zambada alleged that he had personally delivered two suitcases containing millions of dollars in bribes to Mr García Luna at a restaurant.\n\nMr García Luna denied those allegations at the time, calling them \"lies, defamation and perjury\".\n\nUS prosecutors allege that the former minister used his position to protect the Sinaloa cartel's trafficking operations from 2001 to 2012, enabling it to operate \"with impunity\" in Mexico.\n\nIf found guilty, he faces between 10 years to life in prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?", "The Sudd: Microbes in saturated soils will produce methane\n\nScientists think they can now explain at least part of the recent growth in methane (CH4) levels in the atmosphere.\n\nResearchers, led from Edinburgh University, UK, say their studies point to a big jump in emissions coming from just the wetlands of South Sudan.\n\nSatellite data indicates the region received a large surge of water from East African lakes, including Victoria.\n\nThis would have boosted CH4 from the wetlands, accounting for a significant part of the rise in global methane.\n\nPerhaps even up to a third of the growth seen in the period 2010-2016, when considered with East Africa as a whole.\n\n\"There's not much ground-monitoring in this region that can prove or disprove our results, but the data we have fits together beautifully,\" said Prof Paul Palmer.\n\n\"We have independent lines of evidence to show the Sudd wetlands expanded in size, and you can even see it in aerial imagery - they became greener,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane is a potent greenhouse gas, and - just like carbon dioxide - is increasing its concentration in the atmosphere.\n\nIt's not been a steady rise, however. Indeed, during the early 2000s, the amount of the gas even stabilised for a while. But then the concentration jumped in about 2007, with a further uptick recorded in 2014.\n\nCH4 (methane) is now climbing rapidly and today stands at just over 1,860 parts per billion by volume.\n\nThere's currently a debate about the likely sources, with emissions from human activities such as agriculture and fossil-fuel use undoubtedly in the mix. But there is a large natural component as well, and a lot of current research is centred on contributions from the tropics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lunt: \"There is still huge uncertainty about methane sources\"\n\nThe Edinburgh group has been using the Japanese GOSAT spacecraft to try to observe the greenhouse-gas behaviour over peatlands and wetlands in Africa, and found significant rises in methane emissions above South Sudan centred on the years 2011-2014.\n\nBelieving the region called the Sudd could be the culprit (soil microbes in wetlands are known to produce a lot of methane), the team started looking through other satellite data-sets to make the link.\n\nLand surface temperature observations supported the idea that soils in the region had become wetter; gravity measurements across East Africa also detected an increase in the weight of water held in the ground; and satellite altimeters had tracked changes in the height of lakes and rivers to the south.\n\n\"The levels of the East African lakes, which feed down the Nile to the Sudd, increased considerably over the period we were studying. It coincided with the increase in methane that we saw, and would imply that we were getting this increased flow down the river into the wetlands,\" explained Dr Mark Lunt.\n\nMuch of the extra water likely resulted as a consequence of dam releases upstream.\n\nTropomi detects a methane hotspot right over the Sudd (green square)\n\nThe Edinburgh group published its findings on Wednesday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and, as an update to the story, Dr Lunt is presenting new data here at the American Geophysical Union meeting.\n\nHe's been looking at methane observations made by the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. Its Tropomi instrument sees CH4 at a finer resolution than GOSAT, and it's clear from the European mapper that methane emissions are still elevated over South Sudan.\n\nThe level of activity is nothing like the same as in the early 2010s, but the Sudd wetlands remain an important source.\n\n\"It's a huge area so it's not surprising that it's pumping out a lot of methane. To give context - the Sudd is 40,000 sq km: two times the size of Wales. And being that big we expect to see the emissions from space,\" Dr Lunt told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "On almost any measure, we face a huge set of decisions.\n\nShould we leave the EU next month, or vote on it again?\n\nDo we set on a path that would lead steadily to another decision on the make up of the UK?\n\nDo we choose a much bigger state, or a revised version of the status quo with a slight easing up on the public spending squeeze that came after crash?\n\nThose are fundamental questions about our place in the world, the very nature of the relationship between government and its people.\n\nAnd voters are all too aware of the scale of the choice before them.\n\nBut there is exhaustion and frustration with the political class, and the two main leaders that are asking them to choose.\n\nBoth of the men who want to take office can reach parts of their parties other can't in the same way. But they are both famously flawed too.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, he has long enthused a certain strand of Tory voter, and is one of the few politicians, like it or not, who is impossible to ignore.\n\nFor him, this election is the ultimate make or break political moment, not just in terms of the last few months, but in terms of recent political history.\n\nOne of his old friends says: \"Boris Johnson has been the most famous politician in the country for more than a decade.\n\n\"His entire adult life has been defined by others as all about getting to No 10. He did make it - and not at a time or in circumstances he ever imagined or wished.\n\n\"Lose and he will be pilloried. He will never be able to prove the critics wrong or be the leader he desperately wants to be.\"\n\nOn the other side, this is a massive moment and a huge chance, not just for Jeremy Corbyn himself, but for his ardent backers.\n\nFor those on the left of the Labour Party who fought off critics from the moment he was chosen by members, after years when his grouping had been in the wilderness, the stakes are enormous too.\n\nFor Labour supporters who are not in that group, however, or for Conservatives who are not ardent Brexiteers, this whole campaign has been a strange and discombobulating experience, almost as if they can't feel the ground beneath their feet.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are competing for the keys to No 10\n\nThe main messages of the leaders are clear. But beyond two separate ardent cores, they can struggle to convince even everyone on their own side.\n\nThe wider public's mantra is not \"get Brexit done\" or \"it's time for real change\", but perhaps instead \"we're not convinced by any of you\".\n\nBut this election has not been an exercise in enthusiasm - there is a sense that the politicians available may not be the ones to answer convincingly the questions they have set.", "Police said they had seen a recent \"dramatic rise\" in the off-street sex trade in the area\n\nNine people have been arrested and 11 women rescued during raids at suspected brothels.\n\nPolice raided 15 places on Tuesday night where they found Romanian and Hungarian women, in their 20s, believed to be victims of sexual exploitation.\n\nThe searches, in Luton, were part of an investigation into human trafficking, exploitation and modern day slavery.\n\nThe five men and four women are suspected of managing and controlling brothels, among other charges.\n\nThey include six Romanians, one Hungarian and one Briton and are in custody at Luton police station.\n\nFive men and four women were arrested in the raids\n\nThe raids were part of Operation Thame and the latest intelligence-led operation involved 150 police officers and specialist staff.\n\nOfficers seized substantial amounts of cash and at one property three officers were attacked with pepper spray.\n\nThe rescued women spoke little or no English and were taken to a place of safety.\n\nInsp Jim Goldsmith said some women are offered contracts to come to the UK to work in a proper job but \"unfortunately that's not the case\" and the raids were the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"We've seen quite a dramatic rise over the last eight to nine months in the off-street sex trade in Luton which has seen numerous brothels open and as such, has prompted the action we've taken.\n\n\"We try to keep these woman as safe as we can and that was the purpose of [these raids] to take the women out of that environment, give them the opportunity to exit that life and get them back to their families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains, Regis UK, has been bought out of administration, saving 1,000 jobs.\n\nEntrepreneur Lee Bushell has agreed to buy 140 outlets trading under the two brands across the UK.\n\nBut, as first reported by Sky News, the deal will also involve the closure of about 60 sites risking 200 jobs.\n\nRegis fell into administration in October blaming a \"perfect storm\" of pressures.\n\nIt has been struggling with a fall in customer numbers in shopping centres where many of its salons are located. It also said higher wage costs had worsened its \"cash flow issues\".\n\nLast year, it negotiated a cut in the rent it paid through a legal process known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), but landlords challenged the proposals in court.\n\nRegis UK was sold by its US parent company to the private equity firm Regent in 2017. But it has faced a challenging retail environment since then, as people rein in their spending.\n\nLast week, card chain Clintons struck a deal to stop it going bust before Christmas, while baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration last month.\n\nA string of other firms has gone under including electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.\n\nCommenting on the Regis deal, Matt Cowlishaw, of administrators Deloitte, said: \"We are pleased to have concluded the sale and for being able to preserve a significant number of jobs at two well-known brands.\"", "Gifts from the community Santa's grotto included children's books, modelling clay and card games\n\nMore than 600 Christmas presents for children have been stolen from a community Santa's grotto.\n\nThe gifts were being kept in buildings at the bowling green in Eastville Park, Bristol, after Father Christmas was unable to deliver them on Sunday.\n\nHigh winds cancelled the event so the wrapped presents were being stored while organisers worked out what to do.\n\nVolunteers called police and said the theft overnight on Monday and Tuesday had \"knocked them for six\".\n\nFriends of Eastville Park had planned a wildlife winter wonderland themed Santa's grotto along with entertainment and crafts for its first Christmas event for children.\n\nVolunteer Chrissy Quinnell, said: \"It's really hard to conceive that somebody would take children's presents.\"\n\n\"Hundreds of people were involved in the preparations but we had to cancel the event because of really high winds,\" said Ms Quinnell. \"So the fact the event didn't take place was a bit of a low point for us and then to find this as well.\n\n\"We're all pretty flat at the moment.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nAlong with wrapped gifts - including children's books, modelling clay and card games - thieves also \"helped themselves to everything of value\" including bottles of mulled wine and catering equipment.\n\nVolunteers said it would take them a while to \"bounce back\".\n\nPosting on the group's Facebook page, Andrew Gee said the loss of over 600 children's presents was \"particularly upsetting\".\n\n\"We are currently looking at CCTV footage from the car park area in the hope that something might come up,\" he said.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone who knows where the presents are following the burglary between 16:00 GMT Monday and 10:00 GMT Tuesday to get in touch.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"We'd appeal for anyone who saw or heard any suspicious activity around the building to contact us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky\"\n\nHundreds of birds found dead on a north Wales road are to be tested to discover how they died.\n\nAbout 225 starlings were discovered with blood on their bodies in a lane on Anglesey, North Wales Police said.\n\nDafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if \"they had dropped down dead from the sky\".\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency has collected them for testing and will examine whether they could have been poisoned.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was investigating the \"very strange\" discovery and has appealed for information.\n\n\"We don't know how it has happened,\" said PC Dewi Evans.\n\nMr Edwards, 41, said his partner Hannah Stevens first saw the birds alive as she went to an appointment on Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"She said she saw hundreds of them flying over and thought it looked amazing but on her way back around an hour later they were all dead in the road.\n\nThe birds have been collected for testing\n\nMs Stevens reported seeing the birds eating something in the road.\n\n\"I counted 150 last night but I gave up as there's just hundreds of them littered everywhere.\n\n\"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky.\"\n\nA spokesman for the RSPB said: \"This is obviously very concerning for us and we will await the test results.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate as to how they have died.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police searched the man's vehicle and found multiple sheets of fake coffee stickers\n\nA motorist stopped by police was found with hundreds of fake McDonald's coffee stickers in his car.\n\nThe driver in Bradford was found with multiple sheets of stickers, similar to ones McDonald's customers are given when they buy hot drinks.\n\nPolice said he was trying to defraud the loyalty scheme, in which six stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nMcDonald's said anyone with counterfeit stickers would be refused a free drink.\n\nThe man was stopped on Westgate Hill Street on Sunday by the Steerside Enforcement Team, which deals with anti-social and criminal use of the roads in Bradford.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police confirmed the driver was given a \"community resolution\" for fraud in relation to the stickers and also arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.\n\nHe will be summonsed to court for the drug-driving offence.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the enforcement team said: \"It may seem inconsequential, but it is illegal to cheat a company like this.\n\n\"Just pay for your coffee!\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police shared a picture of the fake stickers on Twitter\n\nMcDonald's customers get a sticker with a coffee bean on it every time they purchase a coffee.\n\nSix stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nA spokesman for McDonald's said: \"Anyone attempting to use what our restaurant teams believe to be counterfeit stickers will be declined their free coffee.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The 16-bedroom Glenborrodale Castle is on the list of five\n\nMore than a quarter of those clicking on property websites have no intention to buy. No wonder they end up looking at the most striking homes available.\n\nA castle, a multi-million pound penthouse, and an audacious mirrored bedroom ceiling are among the most-viewed, according to Rightmove.\n\nThe properties include a boathouse, private cinemas, and a replica Angel of the North - in Essex.\n\nIn contrast, the UK housing market has been relatively undramatic this year.\n\nRelatively few homes have been put up for sale owing to political uncertainty and worries about the economy.\n\nOne bedroom feature - part of another property in the most-viewed - is clearly a talking point\n\nIt might not be to everyone's taste but the master bedroom in one mansion in Chigwell, Essex, features a huge mirror above the bed. It also has a replica, but smaller, Angel of the North sculpture outside.\n\n\"Suffice to say the properties with the biggest personalities or quirkiest features are usually the most popular,\" said Miles Shipside, of Rightmove.\n\nA survey of 6,000 people by rival property portal, Zoopla, earlier this year suggested that 27% of people had no intention to buy or sell. Fewer were actively looking for a specific property to buy than those browsing in general with an ambition to move or buy a first home.\n\nIt also suggested that 31% of those asked knew the exact house or street they wanted to live in next. This increases to 48% in London.\n\nSo, many of them may end up viewing and sharing top-end listings. They often feature cinema rooms, swimming pools, and those with a rich history.\n\nThe asking prices of Zoopla's five most-viewed properties are no less than £3.5m each.\n\nA pool features in this mansion in Cheshire among the top five\n\nThis Manchester penthouse on the 45th level is the only apartment on the list\n\nSeeing such homes on the site may be a source of frustration for regular sellers, trying to gain the attention of buyers - particularly during the winter.\n\nYet, there are ways in which they can make their home more attractive, according to property buyer Good Move.\n\nIts tips for viewings include fixing the nagging DIY jobs, taking it easy on strong-smelling scents, ensuring it is warm, doing what you can to keep rooms well-lit, keeping the garden tidy, and putting pets out of the way during potential buyers' visits.\n\n\"Winter can be a really difficult time to make a sale, with the gloomy weather, people's reluctance to move house during the colder, shorter days, and even buyers and estate agents taking time off for Christmas,\" said Ross Counsel, director at Good Move.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Olivia Newton-John next to her jacket before the auction\n\nThe leather jacket Olivia Newton-John wore in Grease has been given back to the actor by the man who bought it from her at auction for $243,200 (£185,000).\n\nThe Australian sold the black jacket and other possessions in November, with part of the proceeds going to her cancer research centre.\n\nBut the anonymous buyer has now handed it back to a \"grateful\" Newton-John.\n\nHe said: \"It should not sit in a billionaire's closet for country-club bragging rights.\"\n\nThe buyer was seen with his face blurred out in a video as he surprised the actor with the jacket.\n\nHe said: \"The odds of beating a recurring cancer using the newest emerging therapies is a thousandfold greater than someone appearing out of the blue, buying your most famous and cherished icon, and returning it to you.\"\n\nA tearful Newton-John, 71, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, hugged him and said: \"That is the most incredibly generous thing to do for me. I'm so grateful and I'm just blown away.\"\n\nShe wore the jacket in the final scene of the 1978 film, when she and John Travolta perform You're the One That I Want and We Go Together.\n\nIt was among the star lots in last month's auction, which raised a total of $2.4m (£1.8m).\n\nNewton-John has recently been having treatment for stage-four breast cancer. She set up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre near Melbourne in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Newton-John: \"I'm not going to be a victim\"", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The clock is ticking towards decision time - Wednesday is the last full day of campaigning before voters go to the polls in the general election.\n\nBut what remain the key battlegrounds in December 2019 - especially for those still undecided?\n\nBBC Wales' correspondents take one last look at some of the policies that could make all the difference come Thursday.\n\nAll parties would increase police officer numbers - putting them back to roughly where we were in 2010 - give or take.\n\nLots of talk too of investing in youth services, from the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid, to prevent them being drawn into a life of crime.\n\nWhile the Conservatives focus on tougher sentencing policies, particularly for the more serious crimes, Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid look at the other end of the scale and want to reduce the numbers going to prison for less serious offences, by doing away with short sentences.\n\nConservatives would ramp up stop and search, Labour and Lib Dems would curb it.\n\nA fair bit of consensus here - Labour and Plaid talk of harm reduction rather than criminalising drug use, likewise the Lib Dems wouldn't jail those caught with drugs for personal use.\n\nThe Conservatives aren't that specific here, but say they'd reduce drug deaths and break the links between addiction and crime.\n\nA necessary part of the belt-tightening caused by the financial crash or proof the poorest have borne the burden of ideologically-motivated austerity?\n\nThe UK government spends £10bn a year on benefits in Wales, about half of which goes towards the state pension.\n\nConservative-led governments have tried to simultaneously cut the bill and modernise a fiendishly complex system.\n\nUniversal Credit was their answer. It replaces six benefits with a single monthly payment. If the Tories win, it will roll on.\n\nBut their manifesto implicitly acknowledges criticism of the policy, promising to \"do more to make sure that UC works for the most vulnerable\".\n\nIt also promises to reduce reassessments for disabled people and end a freeze on benefits - both of which have been attacked from the left for being cruel.\n\nLabour says the problems are so bad that tweaking things isn't enough.\n\nUniversal Credit would be scrapped by Labour, but their manifesto isn't entirely clear on what will replace it or what would happen to the more than 130,000 people in Wales already receiving it.\n\nIt's possible Labour would eventually introduce a similar system - albeit a more generous and, Labour would say, more compassionate one.\n\nPlaid Cymru's answer is to devolve a whole set of benefits.\n\nThey accuse the Tories of dragging more people into poverty and Labour's Welsh Government of failing to protect the vulnerable.\n\nBut as a recent inquiry by assembly members pointed out, devolving powers doesn't necessarily mean people will be better off.\n\nIn their coalition with the Tories, the Liberal Democrats helped launch the era of austerity, but they blame the Conservatives for the design of Universal Credit.\n\nThere's very little mention of Universal Credit in their manifesto, beyond promises to reform the way it works.\n\nThe Brexit Party, meanwhile, says Universal Credit should be reviewed - an offer pitched at Labour's Leave-voting heartlands.\n\nCountless opinion polls show health and the NHS to be towards the top of the list people's priorities in any election so even though health is devolved - meaning the Welsh Government is in charge of it here - and nobody standing in this election will end up in charge of the Welsh NHS - it is inescapable as an issue.\n\nWhoever forms the next UK government will have to decide on how much money to give the NHS in England.\n\nThe more money Westminster allocates to the NHS, and other public services such as schools and councils, in England - the more money will come to the Welsh Government's coffers.\n\nAnalysis by BBC Wales suggests there's a substantial difference in the degree Wales would benefit as a result of the UK manifesto commitments of the main parties.\n\nBut ultimately it'll be up to the Welsh Government how exactly to spend the extra cash.\n\nThe NHS has also featured prominently in the campaign as politicians want to try to convince people it would be safer in their hands.\n\nThey want voters to trust them and distrust their opponents.\n\nThat's why pictures of children lying on hospital floors or debates about any impact of future trade deals on NHS resonate.\n\nBut the truth is the NHS is under a huge amount of pressure in all four nations of the UK and performance on targets to varying degrees have deteriorated in each over the course of the past 10 years or so.\n\nThough education is devolved, in many ways this UK election will have a significant impact on universities in Wales.\n\nBrexit is the big issue for higher education, and especially what replaces European funding and schemes such as Erasmus+.\n\nDecisions on tuition fees and student finance are taken by the Welsh Government but in this area any dramatic reforms in England are likely to prompt changes in Wales too.\n\nIf tuition fees are scrapped, as some parties are promising, it would have a direct impact on thousands of Welsh students who study in English universities.\n\nAnd practically and politically it would be difficult for Welsh institutions to keep charging £9,000 if higher education cost less or was even free over the border.\n\nBrexit is the main issue facing business in Wales.\n\n61% of Welsh exports go to the European Union, with 14% being sold to the USA and almost 17% to the rest of the world.\n\nThe major parties are offering clearly different approaches to Brexit.\n\nThere's the current deal, a renegotiation, another referendum, leaving without a deal or revoking Article 50 and not leaving the EU at all.\n\nOrganising how we leave the EU is only one part of the Brexit process.\n\nThe future trading relationship, which still has to be negotiated, is crucial for Welsh business.\n\nIt's not just about tariffs, there are other barriers to trade such as regulations - which companies will want to be kept to a minimum in order to keep sales and movement of goods flowing as smoothly as possible.\n\nBrexit supporters campaigned on the opportunities for trading with the rest of the world after leaving the EU.\n\nBut there have been concerns over what a US trade deal may mean, including for food standards and NHS drug prices.\n\nWhat's agreed in one trade deal will likely have an impact on what can be agreed in others.\n\nThe parties are also offering different approaches to immigration if freedom of movement from the EU comes to an end.\n\nCompanies have been concerned that any changes shouldn't hamper the flexibility they want to allow people to come to Wales to tackle skill shortages.\n\nIncreased public spending has been a theme that's run through the parties' promises.\n\nWhere they differ is on the levels of spending and on what - capital spending on infrastructure - or day-to-day spending on services.\n\nThey also would adopt varying levels of borrowing.\n\nWhat the parties are not doing is arguing that austerity should continue.\n\nInvesting in green industries is proposed by parties as a way of reducing our carbon use, combating climate change and trying to kick-start sluggish economic growth at the same time.\n\nWhat they mean in detail ranges from insulating homes, encouraging electric vehicles, innovative ways of using technology to reduce carbon use and planting millions of trees.\n\nYou can find every candidate for every seat being contested in the general election here:\n\nThe new fee will come into effect on 1 April\n\nFunding for the arts and culture are devolved issues, but responsibility for broadcasting is retained by Westminster.\n\nThere is a consensus among the party manifestos that free TV licences should continue to be provided for the over-75s, reversing a decision announced by the BBC in June 2019.\n\nThe Brexit Party takes this further, stating it would phase out the licence fee altogether. Some of the most notable interventions in media policy have come on the campaign trail, rather than in party manifestos.\n\nBoris Johnson questioned how much longer the TV licence fee could be \"justified\", while Conservative sources briefed some journalists that \"if we are re-elected, we will have to review Channel 4's Public Service Broadcasting obligations\".\n\nWhat happens with Brexit will impact the Welsh environment in all sorts of ways.\n\nBut let's focus on one of the key issues - funding for farmers, who manage more than 80% of our landscape.\n\nEU subsidies make up a large part of their incomes at the moment.\n\nThere have already been a series of Welsh Government consultations on proposed new payment schemes.\n\nBut the big unknown is how much money will be handed over from Westminster to Wales to make them work if we leave.\n\nDuring the election campaign the Conservatives have pledged to guarantee funding at the same level as now until 2024, Labour and the Brexit Party say they'll also maintain subsidies and grants for farmers.\n\nThe Lib Dems and Green Party want to cancel Brexit, but say they favour reducing payments to larger farms to give more money for supporting the environment.\n\nPlaid Cymru also want to stay in the EU, but say direct subsidy payments must be maintained if we leave.\n\nThe parties are talking much more about green issues in general at this election.\n\nPerhaps the area that will have the biggest impact on Wales is how quickly they want to end the UK's contribution to global warming by reaching effectively a 100% cut in greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nWant to know more about all the UK parties' policies for Election 2019? We've pulled together this guide:\n\nIf you cannot see this interactive click or tap here.\n\nThis guide is a concise version of the main pledges from each party's manifesto.\n\nThe issue areas in the guide are based on those highlighted in Ipsos Mori's Issues Index, which measures the issues the public believe to be the most important facing the country.\n\nMore information on how the issues and parties were selected is in our methodology.", "A GP who cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 women.\n\nManish Shah preyed on cancer concerns to carry out invasive intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of 25 counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nJurors acquitted 50-year-old Shah, of Romford, of five other charges.\n\nThey were told afterwards he had already been found guilty of similar allegations relating to 17 other women, bringing the total number of victims to 23.\n\nHe will be sentenced for all the offences on 7 February. The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said it was one of the biggest cases of its kind involving one doctor.\n\nThe trial heard Shah mentioned a news story to one patient about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy, before asking if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance involving a different complainant, he mentioned TV personality Goody - who died of cervical cancer - and advised an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC told the trial: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nOne of Shah's patients told the BBC how she became one of the GP's victims.\n\n\"He would say you need to have these sexual health tests, to make sure you're safe - you never know if somebody goes with somebody else even though you might have a safe partner,\" she said.\n\n\"He was just encouraging the tests along when I didn't think anything of it, I thought if a doctor suggests it you pretty much go along with it.\n\n\"He just duped so many people. He used our weaknesses and fears and took complete advantage. But not one time did I actually think he was doing anything untoward.\"\n\nThe NHS in London said it \"extended sympathies\" to the victims and added: \"As soon as the allegations came to light, swift action was taken and we have supported the police throughout their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Food packs should display how much exercise a person would need to take to burn off the calories contained in the product, UK researchers say.\n\nAppreciating it would take four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza or 22 minutes to run off a chocolate bar creates an awareness of the energy cost of food, they say.\n\nThe labels would help people indulge less, exploratory studies suggest.\n\nThe aim is to encourage healthier eating habits to fight obesity.\n\nAccording to the researchers from Loughborough University, who looked at 14 studies, this type of labelling could cut about 200 calories from a person's daily average intake.\n\nThis may not sound like much but, they say in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would have an impact on obesity levels across the country.\n\nMore than two-thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.\n\nLead researcher Prof Amanda Daley said: \"We are interested in different ways of getting the public to make good decisions about what they eat and also trying to get the public more physically active.\"\n\nAnd labelling food with \"exercise calories\" made it easier for people to understand what they were eating and nudge them into making better choices.\n\nProf Daley said many people would be shocked to realise how much physical exercise would be required to burn off calories from certain snacks and treats.\n\n\"We know that the public routinely underestimate the number of calories that are in foods,\" she said.\n\n\"So if you buy a chocolate muffin and it contains 500 calories, for example, then that's about 50 minutes of running.\n\n\"This definitely isn't about dieting.\n\n\"It's about educating the public that when you consume foods, there is an energy cost, so that they can think, 'Do I really want to spend two hours burning off that chocolate cake? Is the chocolate cake really worth it?'\"\n\nThe Royal Society for Public Health would like to see the labelling introduced as soon as possible and says it is a move many consumers would also welcome.\n\nIt says: \"This type of labelling really does put an individual's calorie consumption in the context of energy expenditure and knowing how out of kilter we can be partly explains the record levels of obesity we face.\n\n\"Small changes can make a big overall difference to calorie consumption, and ultimately weight gain.\"\n\nProf Daley hopes a large food chain or company will be willing to try the new labels on their products so the system can be given a \"real life\" trial.\n\nBut concerns have been raised about labelling food in this way.\n\nTom Quinn, from the eating disorder charity Beat, said: \"Although we recognise the importance of reducing obesity, labelling food in this way risks being incredibly triggering for those suffering from or vulnerable to eating disorders.\n\n\"We know that many people with eating disorders struggle with excessive exercising, so being told exactly how much exercise it would take to burn off particular foods risks exacerbating their symptoms.\"", "So that’s it... campaigning is over! We hear what the party leaders got up to on the final day, Jeremy Vine quizzes Adam on the Labour and Conservative manifestos and we bring you an Ele-Xmas carol.", "Some schools say they need donations for \"necessities\", such as books\n\nPupils in some of the poorest regions of England are losing out because parents cannot afford to fill a funding shortfall with donations, BBC News has found.\n\nIn 2017-18, the average school in London raised £43,000 from donations. In Yorkshire, it was just £13,300.\n\nThe Fair Education Alliance said this gap \"exacerbates unfairness between rich and poor\".\n\nThe main political parties have all pledged to improve school funding.\n\nMoney is often brought in through fundraising events, such as this mud run\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme's analysis of Department for Education data shows the average school in England generated £59 per pupil from donations in 2017-18 - 1.07% of its overall budget.\n\nThe money is often raised through events, such as fun runs and school fairs.\n\nBut there is a clear divide across the UK.\n\nWhile schools in London, the east of England (£24,585 per year) and the North West (£20,844) are the most likely to profit; those in Yorkshire (£13,288), the North East (£13,394) and East Midlands (£17,044) struggle.\n\nOne school in Sunderland gained just £679 from donations, the equivalent of 43p per pupil, in 2017-18.\n\nAt Westmoor Primary School - just outside Newcastle - fewer than 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere, a recent muddy fun run raised £4,500 for pupils. While such events last year brought in £16,000 - or £45 per child.\n\nThe money, head teacher Sharon Trundley says, will go towards \"necessities\", such as books.\n\nThe school also has a set of iPads, \"which we wouldn't have been able to buy outright [otherwise]\", she adds.\n\nIts donations are below the national average but above par for the North East.\n\nIn the north east, school donations are below the national average\n\nSome schools, like Hawthorn Primary, fare much worse.\n\nBased in Newcastle's city centre, nearly 50% of its pupils have free school meals.\n\nLast year its donations brought in just £1,200 - less than £5.50 per pupil.\n\nHead teacher Jane Dube says it is struggling with failing equipment such as outdated laptops.\n\n\"The parents we work with, the little they do have they need for their families and their homes,\" she said.\n\n\"They are incredibly generous with the school but we can't always expect that to happen.\"\n\nIt has just formed a parent teacher association to try to look for ways to bring in funding.\n\nSam Butters, head of the Fair Education Alliance - a coalition of 150 organisations aimed at tackling perceived inequalities in the school system - said: \"The fact that parents in wealthier areas can afford to fill some of this funding gap exacerbates unfairness between rich and poor.\n\n\"We know that schools in all areas are cash-strapped as funding has decreased in real terms during the period of austerity, so it is not surprising that they are making efforts to seek funds from alternative sources.\n\n\"Teachers and school leaders are increasingly reporting a lack of funding for necessities - including, for example, teaching assistants to support in classrooms.\n\n\"If insufficient school funding requires donations from parents to meet shortfalls, schools in deprived areas are going to lose out.\"\n\nAnalysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in June found since 2009, spending had fallen by 8% per pupil once rising costs such as pay and pension contributions were taken into account.\n\nOne head teacher in in south London told BBC News in March she had had to scrub the toilets, clean the school and work in the canteen because of funding shortages.\n\nAll five main parties in England have made pledges on education. Here are some of their key policies:\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Jaden Moodie was the youngest murder victim in London this year\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy in a \"violent and frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was knocked off a moped and repeatedly stabbed by Ayoub Majdouline in Bickley Road, Leyton, in January.\n\nJurors heard the defendant's DNA was found on a knife and yellow washing-up gloves, which had been thrown into a drain.\n\nMajdouline, from Wembley, north London, is due to be sentenced on 18 December.\n\nA jury of eight men and four women at the Old Bailey also found the 19-year-old guilty of having an offensive weapon.\n\nJaden was the youngest murder victim in London this year.\n\nMajdouline was one of five men linked to the stabbing who drove around east London in a stolen Mercedes looking for members of a rival gang to attack on the night of 8 January, the court heard.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was found guilty of Jaden's murder by majority of 11 to one\n\nThe group, linked to drug gang the Mali Boys, had covered their faces and two of them, including Majdouline, wore yellow rubber gloves to avoid being identified, the jury was told.\n\nOnce they spotted Jaden, the Mercedes rammed into the teenager and knocked him off the moped before some of the gang members got out of the car and stabbed him while he lay on the ground.\n\nJaden, who was dealing drugs for rival gang the Beaumont Crew, suffered nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road as the attackers ran back to the car and sped off, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said: \"Fourteen seconds was all it took - Jaden did not stand a chance.\"\n\nHe told jurors the \"cowardly\" attack was part of a \"shocking wave of gang crime\" across London that attracted ever younger people.\n\nJurors heard the day before the murder, Majdouline was caught on CCTV at a Travelodge hotel in Walthamstow with the same distinctive Nike Air Max trainers he had been wearing during the knife attack on Jaden.\n\nBurnt clothes, including the trainers, were later found in a churchyard not far from the murder scene.\n\nMajdouline admitted dealing drugs for the Mali Boys but denied being present during the fatal attack.\n\nMajdouline captured on CCTV with a purple JD Sports bag found amongst the burnt piles of clothing\n\nAfter a troubled up-bringing, the defendant turned to county lines dealing \"to survive\", the court was told.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time behind bars, went straight back to dealing.\n\nThe jury heard he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation by older youths.\n\nJaden had also been in trouble with police since he was 13.\n\nHe was handed a youth conditional caution in March last year after police seized an air-powered pistol, Rambo knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nAccording to agreed facts read to the court, his mother moved her family to east London due to \"ongoing issues\" with youths.\n\nJaden's attackers burnt the clothes they wore during the stabbing in a churchyard not far from the murder scene\n\nJaden's family said \"yes\" and appeared emotional in court as Majdouline was convicted.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Ch Insp Dave Hillier, of the Met Police, described it as a \"cold-blooded\" murder.\n\nHe said Majdouline and the other attackers went out with \"the clear intention of causing, at the very least, serious harm to someone as they prowled the streets of Leyton looking for their target\".\n\nJaden's attackers \"tried to destroy any evidence, but they failed, and officers were soon able to link Majdouline to Jaden's murder\", he said.\n\nHe added: \"However, our work is not over yet. We know that there were five people in that black Mercedes and we will continue to work until all those responsible for Jaden's murder are brought to justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Party leaders and politicians are drawing their election campaigns to a close before polling day on Thursday.\n\nHere are a few of some of the most striking campaign images from around the UK.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited Wales shortly after he was called \"a Marmite figure\" by Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford. Mr Corbyn's response? \"A lot of people like Marmite, it's good for them.\"\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby joined Boris Johnson for a selfie following his interview on ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson looked less than impressed with this puppet of Boris Johnson during a rally in Edinburgh.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon took questions from a journalist dressed as an elf during a visit to Crieff in Perth and Kinross.\n\nBritish boxer Dereck Chisora posed with Brexit party leader Nigel Farage. Jo Swinson and Boris Johnson also donned boxing gloves during the campaign.\n\nBoris Johnson opted for goalie gloves during a warm up before a football match in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester.\n\nJeremy Corbyn took part in an arts and crafts session at Sandylands Community Primary School in Morecambe.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Ronnie (right) and party general election campaign chairman Alex Cole-Hamilton bounced down a street in Edinburgh in the first week of campaigning.\n\nNicola Sturgeon did her best Wild Rose impression as she picked up a guitar while campaigning in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.\n\nNigel Farage was pictured looking out from a window on a crabbing boat in Grimsby.\n\nJo Swinson spoke to Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees after they glued themselves to the party's battle bus during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London.\n\nIt was on this farm shop's balcony in Topsham, Devon, that Conservative leader Boris Johnson was asked several times whether he would take part in a BBC interview with presenter Andrew Neil.\n\nJeremy Corbyn visited a canal boat cafe serving bacon butties - a sandwich his predecessor Ed Miliband was famously pictured eating in 2014.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was not shy when it came to joining in at playtime during a number of visits to nurseries around Scotland during the campaign.\n\nThe main parties focused on the key messages in the final days of campaigning as their tours around the country intensified.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson hit the courts at Shinfield Tennis Club in Reading.\n\nJeremy Corbyn campaigned next to a statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham.", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.\n\nShe called on the court not to aggravate the army's ongoing conflict with rebels in Rakhine province.", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed.\n\nThe Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love, from the film Pretty Woman.\n\nA statement said the singer had died on Monday, 9 December \"following a 17-year long battle with cancer\".\n\n\"You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years,\" her bandmate Per Gessle said. \"Things will never be the same.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen following a workout.\n\nThe tumour cost her the vision in her right eye - but after three years of treatment, she returned to public life and toured successfully again with Roxette from 2008 to 2016.\n\nHowever, the cancer eventually returned: Fredriksson's family said she had died following a recurrence of \"her previous illness\" earlier this week.\n\n\"Thank you, Marie, thanks for everything,\" said Gessle in a heartfelt statement.\n\n\"You were an outstanding musician, a master of the voice, an amazing performer. Thanks for painting my black and white songs in the most beautiful colours. You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years.\n\n\"I'm proud, honoured and happy to have been able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of humour. All my love goes out to you and your family.\"\n\n\"Her amazing voice - both strong and sensitive - and her magical live performances will be remembered by all of us who were lucky enough to witness them. But we also remember a wonderful person with a huge appetite for life, and woman with a very big heart who cared for everybody she met.\"\n\nHailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette first met in the late 1970s, when Fredriksson was a member of the pop outfit Strul & Ma Mas Barn and Gessle was playing with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups.\n\nThey teamed up in 1986, becoming huge stars in their homeland with the single Neverending Love, followed by a hit album, Pearls of Passion.\n\nDespite their popularity in Scandinavia, Capitol Records declined to release their records in the US.\n\nIt wasn't until an American student studying in Sweden brought a copy of their second album home to Minneapolis, and persuaded a local radio DJ to play The Look, that they achieved international fame.\n\nThat song became the first of four US number ones for the band, while its parent album, Look Sharp!, went platinum.\n\nThey achieved their biggest success when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must Have Been Love, was re-written for inclusion on the Pretty Woman soundtrack in 1990. It topped the charts in more than 10 countries, and gave the band their biggest UK hit, reaching number three.\n\nRoxette continued to tour and release albums throughout the 1990s - eventually selling more than 80m records worldwide.\n\nKnown for breezy pop hits like Dressed For Success and power ballads such as Listen To Your Heart, they cheekily summarised their songwriting philosophy in the title to their 1995 greatest hits album, Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus.\n\nAfter a brief hiatus, during which Gessle reunited with Gyllene Tider, the duo scored further hit albums with 1999's Have a Nice Day, and 2001's Room Service.\n\nThe singer retired from touring in 2015\n\nFredriksson's devastating cancer diagnosis came the following year. She spent three years receiving treatment, and later wrote about the \"fear\" she'd experienced in a solo record, called The Change.\n\n\"Suddenly the change was here,\" she sang, \"Cold as ice and full of fear / There was nothing I could do / I saw slow motion pictures / Of me and you.\"\n\nIn 2005, Fredriksson told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper her treatment had been successful, saying: \"It's been three really hard years [but] I'm healthy.\"\n\nThe singer took up painting during her treatment, but surprised Roxette fans by making a return to the stage with Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.\n\nThe band later mounted a comeback tour that sold out venues across Europe, and released several new albums but, by 2016, Fredriksson's health was failing and doctors advised her to stop touring.\n\nIn her autobiography, the singer wrote about the impact cancer had on her life.\n\n\"At last, it feels like I have reconciled myself to having a radiation injury to live with. That this is how it turned out,\" she said in The Love Of Life.\n\n\"I have lost many years through the disease. And it is also a sadness to age. But every day I think I'm grateful to be sitting here. And that I can still sing.\"\n\nIn her final single, 2018's Sing Me A Song, the star appeared to address her mortality, singing: \"The love I had and gave / Makes it hard to say goodbye\" over an elegant, mournful jazz backing.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Marie Fredriksson - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson is survived by her husband Mikael Bolyos and their two children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An HGV crashed onto a police car on the A1 near Haddington\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds have been battering Scotland, causing disruption on the roads, railways and ferries.\n\nMet Office weather warnings for wind and rain are in place across much of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nTwo sections of the A1 in East Lothian were closed after lorries were blown over, while ferries have been cancelled in other parts of the country.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide which has left debris across the road.\n\nTrain services across the Central Belt and Highlands have been disrupted by rail line and platform closures.\n\nTourist attractions in Edinburgh, including the castle and Christmas market, have been closed due to the severe weather.\n\nThe road and train line were closed at Saltcoats because of waves crashing over the sea wall.\n\nThe disruption to rail services affected many routes across the country.\n\nPlatform one at Haymarket has been closed while possible damage was investigated, and flooding at Blairhill has caused delays and cancellations on many services.\n\nOn the roads, police advised drivers to avoid the A1 in East Lothian\n\nTwo HGVs were blown over, with one landing on a police car, at about 10:30 between the Abbots View roundabout, Haddington and the Thistly Cross Roundabout, Dunbar.\n\nPolice Scotland said that section of the road would be closed until at least 22:00 because it was not safe to recover the vehicles until winds subsided.\n\nTwo HGVs toppled on the A1 between Innerwick and Skateraw in East Lothian\n\nEarlier, two other HGV toppled over on the A1 between Skateraw and Innerwick at about 07:45.\n\nPolice are at the scene and both north and southbound carriageways have been blocked.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said three appliances and a heavy rescue unit attended the incident but all drivers managed to get out of their vehicles.\n\nDiversions are in place via the A68 and A697 through the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe road was also closed to HGVs between the services at the Old Craighall A720 junction and Cockburnspath, with diversions in place taking drivers between Edinburgh City Bypass to Berwick Castle.\n\nOrganisers of Edinburgh's Christmas market said all rides, Santa's grotto and the market would not operate until Wednesday.\n\nEdinburgh Castle was among the attractions closed due to severe weather\n\nStrong winds blew in the window of the Vodaphone shop on Princes Street in Edinburgh\n\nOne of the Queen's trees in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue\n\nEdinburgh Castle and Edinburgh Zoo were closed because of high winds.\n\nOne of the Queen's trees on the edge of Holyrood Park fell in the wind and landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue.\n\nAberdeen's Christmas village stayed open, although organisers said the Blizzard ride on Upperkirkgate was closed for the day.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide. Council staff are working to clear debris from more than 100m (328ft) of road.\n\nThe \"bottom\" road on neighbouring island Raasay was also blocked after a 30m (98ft) section of parapet wall collapsed.\n\nIn Fife, a double decker bus was pictured hanging off a grass verge between Kingseat and Cowdenbeath. Local residents said the vehicle had been blown off the road.\n\nA bus came off the road near Cowdenbeath\n\nDrivers were affected by delays following crashes elsewhere, including one on the M80 near Haggs outside, Falkirk, and another on the M80 near Robroyston, Glasgow.\n\nIn Dumfries, Whitesands has been closed from its junction with Buccleuch Street, Nith Place and Dockhead.\n\nEarlier, police warned drivers to remove their vehicles from Whitesands, Greensands and Dock Park car parks because of flooding from the River Nith. They have now told people to avoid the area.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the storm would not be named because conditions did not have enough certainty or strength to warrant it.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has been issued by the Met Office affecting the north of Scotland between 22:00 on Tuesday and 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAre you in the affected areas? Have your travel plans been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Ms Campbell and her daughter, Rhea, were rescued from their flooded car on Tuesday\n\nA mother has praised two men who \"risked their lives\" to save her and her 23-month-old baby from their car as it filled with flood water.\n\nNikki Birgit Campbell, 36, and her daughter, Rhea, were trapped on the A762 near Glenlee in Dumfries and Galloway on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nShe said they were pulled to safety by two local men.\n\n\"If it wasn't for them then I don't know what would have happened to us,\" she said.\n\nA 73-year-old man was also rescued from a separate car in the incident at Waterside as the region was hit by heavy rain and winds.\n\nMs Campbell has posted an emotional video on Facebook thanking those who came to help her and Rhea, who has cerebral palsy.\n\nThey were almost home after an appointment at an epilepsy clinic at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, where Rhea had been surprised by a visit from Father Christmas.\n\nRhea was visited by Father Christmas at hospital in Glasgow before getting caught up in the flood\n\nShe said: \"We drove a road that I have driven so many times, that was flooded. And it had never been a problem.\n\n\"Before I knew it my car was filled with water.\n\n\"I was just trying to keep Rhea safe.\"\n\nShe described the men who rescued them as \"heroes\". When they pulled her from the car, the water was chest height.\n\n\"I feel like such a bad mum for putting my baby in that danger. She was so scared.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who has shown concern and offered to help because we appreciate it so much.\"\n\nNikki Birgit Campbell and Rhea were taken to Dumfries and Galloway Hospital\n\nMs Campbell told BBC Scotland that the car had been written off, and she lost Rhea's wheelchair and iPad in the flood.\n\n\"I'm still very, very scared and upset over what happened,\" she added.\n\nThe rescuers - including two police officers - were also praised by Police Scotland's Chief Insp Bryan Lee, who said their actions were \"nothing short of heroic\".\n\nOne of the members of the public who helped Ms Campbell was a retired police officer.\n\nTwo other passers-by, believed to be staff from the nearby hydro power plant, helped the 73-year-old safely from his car.\n\nCh Insp Lee said: \"I cannot praise the two officers and the members of the public involved in these rescues enough.\n\n\"Their actions, which were nothing short of heroic, saved the lives of three people. Without their bravery this incident could have had a very different outcome.\"\n\nHe said he has personally thanked the officers but he also wanted to publicly thank the men who stopped to help.\n\n\"Thankfully incidents like this are rare, however, it is extremely encouraging to know that members of our community came together, and were prepared to put themselves at risk to save those in need,\" he added.\n\nTwo fire appliances and two water rescue units were sent to the scene by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nOnce rescued, Ms Campbell and her daughter, were treated by Scottish Ambulance Service staff and taken to Dumfries and Galloway Hospital.\n\nPolice said they were discharged after being treated for minor injuries.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Climate protesters on the streets of Madrid during COP25\n\nDelegates from developing countries have reacted angrily to what they see as attempts to block progress at the COP25 meeting in Madrid.\n\nOne negotiator told the BBC that the talks had failed to find agreement on a range of issues because of the blocking actions of some large emitters.\n\nCarlos Fuller from Belize said that Brazil, Saudi Arabia, India and China were \"part of the problem\".\n\nOther observers said there was a serious risk of failure at the talks.\n\nMinisters from all over the world have arrived in Madrid for the high-end negotiations that will determine the final outcome of this conference.\n\nDespite a huge climate demonstration on the streets of the Spanish capital last Friday, hopes of an ambitious declaration at COP25 have smacked straight into the realities of politics and entrenched positions.\n\nThe central aim of the meeting is to \"raise ambition\" and set out a plan by which countries will put new climate pledges on the table before the end of next year.\n\nBut already there are signs that some major emitters are trying to limit the scale of what can be achieved in Madrid.\n\n\"There's an effort right now to block the words 'climate urgency' in text from Brazil and Saudi Arabia, saying we haven't used these words before in the UN, so we can't use them now,\" said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.\n\n\"This gap between what's happening on the outside and what's happening in the science, and this 'UN speak' that won't react and drive something is very frustrating.\"\n\nNegotiators have told the BBC that the obstinacy of some countries was limiting agreement on non-contentious questions.\n\n\"I am very disturbed and angry,\" said Carlos Fuller, the chief negotiator for the small island developing states group of countries.\n\nCarbon market negotiators have been accused of trampling on human rights in pursuit of profit\n\n\"At 2.30 this morning we couldn't agree to continue working on a transparency framework, that tells the world what each country is doing, we couldn't agree to keep working on it. That is ridiculous\"\n\nOne issue that has caused a good deal of anger are the attempts by Brazil, China, India and Saudi Arabia to have the actions that were due to be completed before 2020 by richer nations, re-examined as part of the overall deal here in Madrid.\n\nCarlos Fuller says that this sort of backward focus by these major emitting countries doesn't help anyone to make progress.\n\n\"They are part of the problem, they are looking too much backward to say that the developed countries have not done what they should have done and hence we are not going to do the same thing,\"\n\n\"I disagree with that totally. We are all on this one planet together. We need to recognise the mistakes of the past and not replicate them.\"\n\nMr Fuller said this \"game of chicken\" approach to the negotiations was a threat to the overall success of the talks.\n\nThe mood among many campaigners is low as there seems to be little hope of progress on the two major outstanding issues that need to resolved here. These are the question of carbon markets and the issue of loss and damage.\n\nOne of the key questions on carbon markets is the question of carrying over old credits. Some believe that if efforts by Brazil and others to carry forward billions of credits created under older, discredited schemes are successful, they could \"bankrupt\" the entire Paris pact.\n\nThere were some positive signs in the conference with US presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg telling the meeting that his first action if he gets elected would be to re-join the Paris agreement.\n\nWhile there are still several days to go, there is hope that the presence of political figures such as Mr Bloomberg and new announcements by the European Union and others will help foster an ambitious agreement.\n\nBut there is also deep concern that this might not happen.\n\n\"I hope that they support a coalition of countries that beat back the darker forces here in Madrid that want to hold the world back,\" said Jennifer Morgan from Greenpeace.\n\n\"If not, it will be a moral failure,\" she said.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Some of the chickens were found to have a strain of avian flu\n\nAll 27,000 chickens at a farm in Suffolk will be slaughtered after cases of bird flu were confirmed.\n\nA number of the birds were found to have the H5 strain of avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nIt set up a 1km (0.6 mile) exclusion zone around the farm, near Eye, to limit risk of the disease spreading.\n\nDr Gavin Dabrera, from Public Health England, said the risk to public health was very low.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no food safety risk as long as poultry products, including eggs, are thoroughly cooked.\n\nThe strain at the commercial farm at Athelington has been identified as \"low pathogenic avian flu\" (LPAI).\n\nDr Dabrera, a public health consultant at Public Health England, said: \"Avian flu (often called bird flu) is primarily a disease of birds and the risk to the general public's health is very low.\n\n\"As a precaution, we are offering public health advice and anti-virals to those who had contact with the affected birds, as is standard practice.\"\n\nA detailed investigation is under way to determine the most likely source of the outbreak.\n\nThe outbreak was discovered at a farm in Athelington, near Eye in Suffolk\n\nThe British Poultry Council said there was no link to the Christmas turkey market, which was \"unaffected\" by the case.\n\nSuffolk poultry farmer Alaistaire Brice, who farms near to the exclusion zone, said the outbreak was a concern for bird farmers but not the wider public.\n\nHe said: \"It is a difficult one to take, especially at this time of year. We know it is always in the background but last year was quite an easy year for us with regards to the risks of managing birds.\"\n\nChief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss said: \"Bird keepers should remain alert for any signs of disease, report suspected disease immediately and ensure they are maintaining good bio-security on their premises.\n\n\"We are urgently looking for any evidence of disease spread associated with this strain to control and eliminate it.\"\n\nNational Farmers Union chief poultry adviser Gary Ford said: \"This confirmation of avian influenza is devastating news for the farm affected. However, Defra's prompt action has helped limit the risk of the disease spreading, and provided that it's contained to one site will have very little impact on the wider poultry industry.\n\n\"It is imperative that all poultry keepers, including small backyard flocks, remain vigilant at this time and report any sign of disease immediately, as well as maintaining good biosecurity measures.\"\n\nIn 2017, some 23,000 chickens were destroyed at Bridge Farm in Redgrave on the Suffolk/Norfolk border after the H5N8 avian influenza virus was found, and in June the same strain was identified in about 35 chickens and geese at a farm near Diss in Norfolk.\n\nHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is the more serious type of the disease which can prove fatal to birds.\n\nLPAI is usually less serious but can cause mild breathing problems in poultry, Defra said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of homicides has hit the highest number since 2008 when there was 154\n\nThe number of killings in London has topped last year's total and is the highest annual number for more than a decade, police figures show.\n\nThe fatal stabbing of 47-year-old James O'Keefe in Hornsey on Monday took the capital's 2019's homicide rate to 142.\n\nThe figure, which includes murders and manslaughters, is the highest number since 2008, a year when the Met investigated 154 deaths.\n\nThe force said a total of 133 homicides were recorded in 2018.\n\nThis year's figure includes 137 homicide investigations by the Met, two by British Transport Police and the two fatal stabbings at London Bridge last month, investigated by City of London Police.\n\nMore than half of 2019's victims were stabbed to death and 23 were teenagers - the highest number of such victims for more than a decade - figures collated by the BBC shows.\n\n\"Each one of these cases is a tragedy, not just for the victims, their families and friends, but also for our wider communities who are left reeling by these acts of senseless violence,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"Tackling violence is the number one priority for the Metropolitan Police Service. One homicide, one stabbing, one violent incident, is simply one too many.\"\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was the youngest person to be killed in the capital, in 2019\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was the youngest person to be killed in the capital, in 2019.\n\nAyoub Majdouline, 19 and from Wembley, was found guilty of his murder on Wednesday.\n\nJodie was stabbed in the back in an unprovoked attack as she sat in a park in East London on 1 March\n\nJodie Chesney, who was stabbed to death in east London, was another teenager to die this year.\n\nThe 17-year-old was knifed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill, on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Isaacs, 17, of Barking, were both convicted last month of her murder, following an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nThese are undoubtedly worrying figures for Londoners - and for the Met.\n\nIn spite of a huge amount of effort and resource, which has contributed to a decline in stabbings and gun crime over the past 12 months, overall violence, including cases of murder and manslaughter, is still on the rise.\n\nHowever, the number of killings is not at levels seen in the 1990s and early 2000s when there were usually upwards of 160 such deaths each year.\n\nAnd, compared with other cities, London remains relatively safe.\n\nFor example, in New York, which has a slightly lower population than London's nine million, there has been more than double the number of murders - 298 by the beginning of December.\n\nOver recent years, the homicide rate (killings as a proportion of the population) has been higher in other large cities in Europe, such as Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, even though numerically there has been more in London.\n\nThe figures provide some perspective, but of course, they are of no comfort to the loved ones of those who have died in the capital this year.\n\nLib Peck, Director of the Violence Reduction Unit at City Hall, says the number of those aged in their 20s, who are injured by knives, is beginning to drop.\n\n\"We are really determined to route out the causes this terrible phenomenon and the importance is that we are really investing in preventative measures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "Jo Hamilton is celebrating \"one of the best days I've ever had\".\n\nHer life was turned inside out after the sub-postmistress was accused by the Post Office of taking £36,000 from the village shop she ran in Hampshire.\n\nBut now the Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.\n\n\"You dream about victory, but now it's actually here,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\nThe settlement brings an end to a mammoth series of court cases over the Horizon IT system used to manage local post office finances since 1999.\n\nA group of postmasters said faults in Horizon led to them wrongly being accused of fraud. And on Wednesday the Post Office accepted it had \"got things wrong in our dealings with a number of postmasters\" in the past.\n\nMrs Hamilton's fight echoes that of other postmasters seeking justice. She said issues in the Horizon system led to big discrepancies in her accounts, which she reported to her Post Office area manager.\n\nBut that manager could find nothing wrong with the system, and she was put in a situation where \"you had to prove your innocence\".\n\nAfter a distressing two-year process, she eventually pleaded guilty to false accounting at Winchester Crown Court in order to escape a more serious charge of theft.\n\nShe soon gave up her shop and found it difficult to get a new job due to her criminal record. She made ends meet by doing cleaning jobs for people in her village who didn't believe she was guilty.\n\n\"I couldn't get car insurance,\" she said, and had to go to a specialist provider with higher premiums. \"I couldn't be left alone with my grand-daughter in her classroom.\"\n\nHer fight for justice is not completely over, as her conviction is still going through the review process.\n\nBut Mrs Hamilton feels vindicated. \"I just feel like I'm in a daze,\" she said.\n\nSub-postmasters run Post Office franchises across the UK, which typically provide some but not all of the services of a main post office.\n\nThe group of 550 claimants joined a civil action to win compensation last year, but their complaint goes back much further.\n\nThey alleged that the Horizon IT system - which was installed between 1999 and 2000 - contained a large number of defects.\n\nSome said their lives had been ruined when they were pursued for funds which managers claimed were missing. Some even went to jail after being convicted of fraud.\n\nThe claimants were half way through a series of four trials when the Post Office sought mediation. It could take several weeks for individual compensation payments to be worked out.\n\nThe Post Office apologised to the claimants, saying it was grateful to them \"for holding us to account in circumstances where, in the past, we have fallen short.\"\n\nMr Read said: \"I am very pleased we have been able to find a resolution to this longstanding dispute.\n\n\"Our business needs to take on board some important lessons about the way we work with postmasters, and I am determined that it will do so. We are committed to a reset in our relationship with postmasters, placing them alongside our customers at the centre of our business.\"\n\nAlan Bates, former sub-postmaster of the Craig-y-Don branch in Llandudno, and one of the lead claimants, said: \"[We] would like to thank Nick Read, the new chief executive of Post Office, for his leadership, engagement and determination in helping to reach a settlement of this long-running dispute.\n\n\"It would seem that from the positive discussions [we have had] there is a genuine desire to move on from these legacy issues and learn lessons from the past.\"\n\nThe Horizon system, which is provided by Fujitsu, is still being used in all 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.\n\nThis is a major climb down by the Post Office which has made multiple appeals to try to see off the court case.\n\nBut legal costs were stretching into the tens of millions, so the price of losing at the end of this mammoth legal process could have been a great deal higher.\n\nIt's not clear yet how much individual postmasters and mistresses will receive.\n\nLawyers' fees have to be taken off, along with a charge from the litigation backer, Therium.\n\nBut just looking at the £58m suggests payouts could be in the tens of thousands and even higher for the worst affected.\n• None 'I did not steal £16,000 from Post Office'", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations at an international court hearing in The Hague.\n\nThe Nobel Peace Prize laureate has heard allegations Myanmar committed atrocities against Muslim Rohingya.\n\nPeople at a rally in Yangon have been defending the leader. But Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh hope they will soon get justice for the murders they say Aung San Suu Kyi was aware of.", "Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You was the UK's biggest single of the 2010s\n\nEd Sheeran has been named the UK's artist of the decade by the Official Charts Company.\n\nSheeran achieved the milestone after a combined run of 12 number one singles and albums between 2010 and 2019 - more than any other artist.\n\nHe's also had the most weeks (79) at number one in both the album and singles charts in this period.\n\nShape Of You was the biggest hit of the 2010s, spending 14 weeks at number one and selling more than 4.5m copies.\n\nSheeran thanked his followers for his success.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who's supported me over the past 10 years, especially my amazing fans. Here's to the next 10!\"\n\nShape Of You is one of three Sheeran singles in the top five end-of-the-decade list. Thinking Out Loud is at number three while Perfect is at number five.\n\nOverall, Sheeran has spent 38 weeks at number one in the singles chart and sold 53.8m tracks. His songs have also been streamed 4.6 billion times in the UK alone.\n\nIn the albums chart, X is at number three followed by Divide at number four.\n\nMartin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said Sheeran had \"truly dominated\" the decade.\n\n\"At the start of the decade, he was a little known, albeit highly-rated, young 18-year-old lad from Suffolk - but his catalogue of achievements since then are genuinely remarkable. Today, he is firmly established among the highest level of global music superstars,\" Talbot added.\n\nThe star's latest accolade comes a week after Spotify named him the UK's most-streamed artist of the 2010s. Globally, only Drake achieved more plays.\n\nAdele has the top two albums of the decade\n\nThe remainder of the top 10 biggest singles is dominated by male artists. They include Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars at number two for Uptown Funk and Justin Bieber at number nine for Sorry.\n\nFemale singers only appear as featured artists - with Kyla cited for her collaboration with Drake on the track One Dance, and Jess Glynne for singing Clean Bandit's Rather Be.\n\nIn the album charts, however, it's Adele who comes out top, holding both the first and second positions with 21 and 25 respectively.\n\nHer second album 21, released in 2011, has sold 5.17 million copies. It debuted at number one and spent 23 weeks at the top of the albums chart.\n\nHer follow up 25 spent 13 weeks at the top and became the UK's fastest-selling album to date, selling 800,307 copies in its first chart week in November 2015. And Adele's debut album 19 from 2008 is the UK's 13th biggest record of the 2010s.\n\nThe only other woman in the top 10 albums is Emeli Sande who comes in at eight for Our Version Of Events.\n\nWith the chart company's data spanning an entire decade of sales, older releases tend to dominate the countdown.\n\nThe most recent album in the top 100 is the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, which was released in December 2017.\n\nSheeran received a plaque in recognition of his chart domination\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed has said.\n\nLondon-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation.\n\nHis colleague, David Shreeve, described him as a \"larger-than-life character\" who \"inspired a whole generation\".\n\nIn later life Bellamy, who lived in County Durham, attracted criticism for dismissing global warming.\n\nIn 2004 he described it as \"poppycock\" - a stance which he later said cost him his TV career.\n\nBellamy worked in a sweet factory and as a plumber before embarking on his broadcasting career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bellamy on the interview that started his career\n\nHis scientific career began when he got a job in the biology department of a technical college in Surrey, he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme in 1978.\n\nIt was there that he met his future wife, Rosemary.\n\nBut it was on a trip to Scotland where he discovered his love for plants, he told the programme.\n\n\"I got really turned on by plants and I found out that if somebody told me what a plant was, I just couldn't forget it,\" he said.\n\nDavid Bellamy takes a walk with his granddaughter Tilly, then aged four, around the Scottish Seabird Centre after unveiling a new remote wildlife camera in North Berwick in 2007\n\nThe broadcaster stood, unsuccessfully, against the then prime minister John Major for the eurosceptic Referendum Party during the 1997 general election\n\nHe gained public recognition for his work as an environmental consultant over the Torrey Canyon oil spill, when a tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall in 1967.\n\nHe went on to present programmes such as Don't Ask Me, Bellamy On Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.\n\nAnd in 1979 he won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award, for best presenter of factual programmes.\n\nHis distinctive voice also inspired comedian Sir Lenny Henry's catchphrase \"grapple me grapenuts\".\n\nBBC arts correspondent David Sillito described Bellamy as \"the enthusiastic face of botany on television\" for more than 30 years.\n\nIn 2003, Bellamy told BBC News that he was sceptical about mankind being responsible for rising temperatures and suggested that they might be part of the Earth's natural cycles.\n\nHe said: \"We have got to get this thing argued out in public properly and not just take one opinion.\"\n\nTen years later, he told the Independent newspaper: \"It (global warming) is not happening at all, but if you get the idea that people's children will die because of CO2 they fall for it.\"\n\nWell-known figures have paid tribute to Bellamy, including fellow naturalist and broadcaster Bill Oddie who described him as a \"first-class naturalist, with boundless skills to convey his enthusiasm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Oddie Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Bill Oddie Official\n\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan said Bellamy was a \"brilliant naturalist, broadcaster and character\", in a tribute posted on Twitter.\n\nComedy writer and broadcaster Danny Baker described him as a \"truly brilliant and canny broadcaster\".\n\nThe Walking Dead actor David Morrissey tweeted that Bellamy \"cared about nature and our environment deeply.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Morrissey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former England footballer Stan Collymore called him a \"childhood icon\", adding that he \"learnt about botany and shrubs and trees as a kid because of this man's love and infectious enthusiasm.\"", "There are about 40 volcanoes worldwide thought capable of doing what Anak Krakatau (centre island) did\n\nShattered remnants from the volcano that generated a devastating tsunami in Indonesia a year ago have been pictured on the seafloor for the first time.\n\nScientists used sonar equipment to image the giant chunks of rock that slid into the ocean when one side of Anak Krakatau collapsed.\n\nSome of these blocks are 70-90m high.\n\nTheir plunge into the water produced tall waves that tore across the shorelines of Java and Sumatra on 22 December 2018.\n\nOver 400 people around the Sunda Strait died in the nighttime disaster, and thousands more were injured and/or displaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Tappin recalls the event and describes the blocks of rock on the seabed\n\nResearchers have been trying to reconstruct what happened ever since. But all their studies to date have been based on what can be seen above the water.\n\nProf Dave Tappin and colleagues realised they had to investigate the island volcano's missing mass - now under the ocean's surface - or they would never truly get a full description of Anak Krakatau's failure.\n\nA multibeam echosounder was brought in to map the seabed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Updated: This simulation shows how the volcano's flank slipped into the water\n\n\"Early models of the collapse were based on satellite imagery that only looked at the subaerial parts of the volcano,\" the British Geological Survey scientist told BBC News.\n\n\"Our bathymetry is imaging at 200m water depths and we are seeing triangular-shaped blocks, which are basically coherent and they formed, before the collapse, the southwestern flank of Anak Krakatau.\"\n\nThe debris field runs out to 2,000m from the volcano. A seismic survey also conducted by the team shows how this material is layered on top of older deposits.\n\nCrucially, the underwater imaging has allowed Prof Tappin's team to revise its estimate for the volume of rock involved in the flank failure. And it's smaller than previously thought.\n\nCalculations based on above-water measurements of what was left of the once 335m-high volcano had suggested a figure of 0.27 cubic km.\n\nThe new assessment now points to 0.19 cubic km sliding into the ocean, almost 200 million cubic metres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Grilli: New simulations reproduce the damage observed on nearby islands\n\nThis smaller volume might have presented something of a problem for tsunami modellers.\n\nTheir original simulations of how the waves generated in the collapse moved across the Sunda Strait had already proved a good match for what had been observed at tide gauges and from what was known of the extent of damage along nearby coasts.\n\nNow, the models are having to be re-run but with a smaller input.\n\nThe simulations still work, however - and with good reason. Prof Tappin's team has also discovered that the failure plane on the volcano - the angle of slope along which the rock mass slid - was shallower than earlier assumptions.\n\nWhereas it was once thought the failure plane cut down steeply into the basin created when the old volcano on the site blew its top in 1883, it's now obvious the collapse slope entered the water much nearer the surface.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This simulation, based on the new data, shows how the tsunami moved outwards\n\n\"We've already redone the near-field modelling with a finer resolution based on the new bathymetry and the results are about the same, despite having a smaller volume of rock,\" explained tsunami expert Prof Stephan Grilli from the University of Rhode Island.\n\n\"The shallower slide occurs almost like a ski jump, maintaining the collapse material closer to the surface and making it more tsunamigenic than a steeper failure, which would have brought the sediment down deeper, much quicker.\"\n\nProfs Tappin and Grilli were speaking here in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union's annual Fall Meeting. This is the first chance they've had to present their findings to the wider scientific community.\n\nAlso speaking was Prof Hermann Fritz from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\nHe reviewed the damage on nearby shores, describing from on-the-ground studies how high the tsunami waves must have been and how far inland they reached.\n\nOn the islands in the immediate vicinity of Anak Krakatau, trees up to 80m above the normal sea surface were torn from their roots.\n\nUjung Kulon National Park is due southwest of Anak Krakatau, some 50km away\n\nMuch of the wave energy took a path away from the volcano in the same direction of the collapse - to the southwest. This resulted in 10m-high waves laying waste to a corner of Ujung Kulon National Park on Panaitan Island - a distance of 50km from Anak Krakatau.\n\n\"Local residents were very fortunate that the collapse was in the southwest direction, in the direction where few people were living - towards the national park,\" said Prof Fritz.\n\n\"Had the collapse direction been different, the outcome could have been very different as well in terms of tsunami heights on populated areas.\"\n\nLessons learned from Anak Krakatau are being used to assess the hazards at other volcanoes. There are about 40 other locations around the world where flank collapse into surrounding water is considered a danger.\n\nThe map shows the area covered by the bathymetric survey, to the southwest and northeast of Anak Krakatau\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The protests in the centre of Beirut entered the night\n\nClashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, have left dozens of people wounded, witnesses say.\n\nThe violence began as demonstrators, who had been attacked during a sit-in by masked counter-protesters, tried to move into a square near parliament.\n\nPolice fired tear gas and rubber bullets, while protesters threw stones. At least 20 officers were also wounded.\n\nProtests over economic mismanagement by the ruling elite began in October.\n\nSaturday's events are some of the worst violence since the largely peaceful protests started. They triggered the resignation of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri, but talks to form a new government are deadlocked.\n\n\"It was a very peaceful protest. Everyone was singing chants that we're one people, that we're all peaceful and then some of the young guys pushed one of the fences that separated us,\" Mona Fawaz, who was at the protest, told the BBC.\n\n\"We saw an enormous amount of police come out and really disperse us, push us and then they started [firing] tear gas on us. There was really no reason for all this demonstration of force.\"\n\nAt least 54 people were wounded, the Lebanese Civil Defense said\n\nRiot police and security forces had been deployed in large numbers in Beirut, chasing demonstrators, beating and detaining some of them, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nSome protesters tried to push through steel barriers blocking the way to the parliament and government buildings. Clashes continued late into Saturday night.\n\nThe Lebanese Civil Defence said it had treated 54 people for injuries, taking more than half to hospital. It was not clear whether they were all civilians.\n\nThe protests have been the largest seen in Lebanon in more than a decade. They have cut across sectarian lines - a rare phenomenon since the devastating 1975-1990 civil war ended - and involved people from all sectors of society.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen asks why people have been taking to the streets in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq\n\nDemonstrators are angry at their leaders' failure to deal with a stagnant economy, rising prices, high unemployment, dire public services and corruption.\n\nTheir demands include an end to government corruption and the overhaul of the political system and the formation of an independent, non-sectarian cabinet.\n\nTalks between President Michel Aoun and parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister were expected to be held on Monday.", "A man has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in east London.\n\nThe victim, a man in his 40s, was found with life-threatening stab wounds by London Ambulance Service at a property in Marlborough Road, Dagenham, at 22:10 GMT on Saturday, and pronounced dead half an hour later.\n\nA woman in her 50s was also found injured at the property and taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA 59-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice believe the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThe female victim does not have life-threatening injuries, a spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell says it's time for him to step aside as shadow chancellor\n\nLabour faces a \"long haul\" as it attempts to gain power following its fourth election defeat in a row, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.\n\nHe rejected claims that leader Jeremy Corbyn had been responsible for the result, instead blaming \"the overwhelming issue\" of Brexit.\n\nBut some current and ex-MPs have said Mr Corbyn's unpopularity contributed to Labour losing dozens of seats.\n\nBoris Johnson's Conservatives won on Thursday with a Commons majority of 80.\n\nThe outcome, far more positive for the Tories than most opinion polls had predicted, has prompted much soul-searching within Labour, which last won a general election under Tony Blair in 2005.\n\nMr Corbyn has announced he will stand down in the near future and Mr McDonnell, one of his closest allies, said he had been \"the right leader\" for the party.\n\nBut Labour MP Phil Wilson, who lost the seat of Sedgefield which he had held for 12 years, said: \"So many people said to me on the doorstep, Phil, if you had a different leader, I'd vote for you, there wouldn't be a problem\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn lost him his seat, Mr Wilson replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nFor many of his constituents, he said: \"The one thing that was holding them back from voting Labour was the current leadership of the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe added: \"For every one person who raised Brexit with me on the doorstep, there would be five people who raised Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Helen Goodman, who lost her Bishop Auckland seat to the Conservatives on Thursday, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nAnd Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking, east London, said she felt \"anger because this is an election we should have won\".\n\nShe added that, under Mr Corbyn's leadership - during which Labour has faced criticism for its handling of anti-Semitism allegations among its membership - voters had come to see it \"as a nasty party\".\n\nWes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far-left\" manifesto had alienated much of the electorate.\n\nHowever, Labour's ex-Welsh secretary, Lord Hain, insisted the party must not embrace \"wishy-washy centrism\" in the wake of its defeat.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the \"Corbyn project\" had some \"very searching self-examination\" to do, but it was important to offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\".\n\nMr McDonnell disagreed with personal criticism of his leader, saying: \"The overwhelming issue was Brexit and the Labour Party was caught on the horns of a dilemma.\n\n\"We had a party which was largely supportive of Remain, but many of us represented Leave constituencies.\"\n\nIn the election, Labour's number of Commons seats fell to 203, its lowest since 1935.\n\nMr Corbyn, leader since 2015, ran for prime minister on a promise to hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying that during any campaign he would remain neutral - in contrast to Mr Johnson's promise to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If we went one way, to Leave, we would have alienated a lot of our Remain support. If we went for Remain, we'd alienate a lot of our Leave support.\n\n\"We tried to bring the country together. It failed. We have to accept that, take it on the chin. We have to own that and then move on.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, said Labour now needed to have \"a constructive debate\" about its future, discussing \"what went right and what went wrong\" during the election campaign.\n\nHe argued that Mr Corbyn, who has received criticism from some Labour figures for not standing down immediately, was right to stay on \"for a couple of months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nIt was necessary because of the \"expertise\" required to deal with issues such as Brexit and the forthcoming Budget, he said.\n\nDiscussing Mr Johnson's government, Mr McDonnell said: \"My fear is that we're in for a long haul now, possibly five years.\n\n\"The two issues that we face are still there - huge, grotesque levels of inequality and, the issue that never really emerged in the campaign, which was climate change, this existential threat that must be our priority.\n\n\"Brexit, well, we'll see what the government brings back in terms of its negotiations. The people have decided we need to implement that, but we've got to get the best deal to protect jobs and the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"My fear is five years of a fossil fuel-backed government under Boris Johnson means we'll miss this five-years opportunity of saving our planet.\"\n\nAt the 2017 general election, Mr Corbyn's first as Labour leader, the party won 40% of votes and gained 30 MPs, denying Theresa May's Conservatives a majority.\n\nBut on Thursday it received 32% of the vote and lost 59 seats, including several of its traditional strongholds in the north of England.\n\nMr Corbyn said that, during the election campaign, he had done \"everything I could\" and that he had \"pride\" in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Labour leader's sons, Tommy, Seb and Benjamin, tweeted a tribute to their father, calling him an \"honest, humble and good-natured\" figure in the \"poisonous world\" of politics.", "This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said paying tribute\n\nA 15-year-old boy found dead in a village was a \"caring and trusting young boy\", his family has said.\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was discovered in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nHis family has paid tribute to the Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School pupil as police investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.\n\nAn 18-year-old man from Knutsford has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nIn a statement Alex's family said: \"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHead teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11 and from the Knutsford area, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our students is our priority. School will be open as normal on Monday and staff will be on hand to support students in any way affected by this tragic loss,\" he said in a statement posted to the school's website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Blackwell said: \"We are in the very early stages of our investigation into Alex's death, which we are treating as a murder.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the community that this is believed to be an isolated incident and we are doing everything we can to establish exactly what has taken place.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Clarke was unconscious at the wheel when the bin lorry went out of control, killing six people\n\nThe driver of a bin lorry which crashed and killed six people in Glasgow five years ago says he is sorry for the part he played.\n\nDescribing it as \"an accident\", Harry Clarke told the Mail on Sunday not a day went by when he did not think about it.\n\nFifteen people were also injured when the bin truck mounted the kerb at George Square just before Christmas.\n\nThe 62-year-old blacked out while behind the wheel on 22 December 2014.\n\nThe official inquiry into the tragedy blamed him for not revealing his medical history, including an episode where he was believed to faint while working in a previous job as a bus driver.\n\nHowever, prosecutors previously ruled Mr Clarke would not face criminal charges due to insufficient evidence. They said because he had been unconscious at the wheel of the bin lorry, he did not have the required \"criminal intention\".\n\nMr Clarke told the newspaper: \"I am devastated at what happened. There's all these poor people that are not here and those who were injured.\n\nThe lorry mounted the kerb before coming to a stop at the Millennium Hotel\n\n\"It has been made out that I don't care about what happened. There's not a day goes by I don't think about it.\n\n\"I'm sorry for the part I played in 2014. It was an accident. If I thought for a minute it was all my fault I'd jump off a bridge.\"\n\nErin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and Lorraine Sweeney, 69, from Dumbarton; Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow; and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, died in the crash when the Glasgow City Council truck veered out of control.\n\nIt had travelled along the pavement in Queen Street before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel in George Square.\n\n(Clockwise from top left) Jack Sweeney, Lorraine Sweeney, Erin McQuade, Jacqueline Morton, Stephenie Tait and Gillian Ewing were killed in the bin lorry crash\n\nThe inquiry heard evidence over five weeks at Glasgow Sheriff Court in July and August 2015.\n\nEvidence was heard that it took just 19 seconds for the tragedy to unfold.\n\nDuring the course of the incident, numerous members of the public saw Mr Clarke unconscious, slumped forward in the driver's seat.\n\nThe inquiry also heard he had a history of health issues dating back to the 1970s - including a previous blackout in 2010 when at the wheel of a stationary bus - but had not disclosed his medical background to his employers or the DVLA.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nThe all-rounder was man of the match as England won the World Cup for the first time with a dramatic super over victory against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nStokes, 28, also hit an unbeaten 135 in the one-wicket third Ashes Test triumph against Australia at Headingley.\n\nIn a public vote, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton finished second while sprinter Dina Asher-Smith was third.\n\nManchester City and England footballer Raheem Sterling, world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Welsh rugby union legend Alun Wyn Jones were also shortlisted for the main award.\n\nDurham's Stokes was presented with his award by the Princess Royal and former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law.\n\nHe becomes the first cricketer since Andrew Flintoff in 2005 to win the prize.\n\nNew Zealand-born Stokes is missing the first warm-up match of England's Test tour of South Africa, which starts on Tuesday, in order to attend the show in Aberdeen.\n\n\"First of all, I think congratulations to all the nominees. What you've managed to achieve as individuals and do for your sport is simply sensational, so well done to you too.\n\n\"There's so many people you feel you have to thank when you're up here. It's an individual award, but I play a team sport and one of the great things about that is you get to share special moments with those team-mates, coaches and without that effort you put in, I wouldn't be up here receiving this award so thank you so much.\n\n\"Two years ago was a tough time for me in my life and I've had so many people help me through that. My fantastic manager and friend Neil Fairbrother, you're more than an agent, you're an incredible man. I don't know how you've put up with Andrew Flintoff and me, you and [Fairbrother's wife] Audrey, you're incredible people.\n\n\"My parents, they live on the other side of the world, they don't get to share moments like this, the World Cup and be there with me, but the time you dedicated to me growing up, the selflessness to get me to training camps and around the country, this is for you. I love you so much, thank you.\n\n\"To my amazing wife, Clare. Family to me is more important than what I do for a living. It puts perspective on everything, after the good and bad days they are there for me no matter what. My two kids too, they are awesome I love you so much.\n\n\"Back to Clare, you're a rock. You always have been. You always will be. I wish you could come here and share it with me, you deserve it just as much. I love you so much and I'm so proud to call you my wife.\n\n\"I'm guessing I should leave it there.\"\n• None '2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before'\n• None Stokes can inspire the next generation - Agnew\n\nThe very best in British and world sport celebrated a magnificent year at a sold-out P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi and Aberdeenshire-raised Emeli Sande wowed the crowds with emotional performances while there were special moments to treasure as other awards were handed out.", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his partner who was a patient in a hospital was found dead.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from hospital contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, remains in custody.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and her next of kin has been contacted.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Late on Friday, staff from Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns in respect of one of their patients who had passed away.\n\n\"Given the circumstances presented to us, we have arrested the woman's partner, who is a 75-year-old man, on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We are keeping an open mind as to what has happened and expect to know more later.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Carly Clarke was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, she set out to photograph how she changed during what could have been the last days of her life. Seven years on, by cruel coincidence, she is at her brother's side, photographing him going through the same ordeal.\n\n\"I have my own hair on my hands, on my clothes and down in the bath below me. As I wash, then brush, more continues to fall out.\n\n\"In the mirror I can see my appearance change, strand-by-strand.\"\n\nCarly Clarke is reliving her experience as a cancer patient, showing me one of the many self-portraits she took during six painful months of treatment.\n\nEventually, she would ask her dad to shave the last hairs from her head. She was just 26.\n\n\"I used to have a lot of hair. Now I look like a cancer patient,\" she notes.\n\nSix months before these photographs were taken, Carly had been living out a dream in Canada - shooting a final-year university photography project in Vancouver's poverty-stricken downtown eastside.\n\nShe had been sick for months, with a violent cough, appetite loss and pain in her chest and back. Doctors had diagnosed her with illnesses ranging from pneumonia to asthma and warned her she could suffer a collapsed lung on the flight. But she had ignored them.\n\n\"I wasn't going to let this illness - whatever it was - get in the way of living my life,\" she says.\n\n\"In Vancouver, I could empathise with those with illnesses and addiction. My concern for my own life made me compassionate during the shoot.\"\n\nMany of those she spoke to on the near-freezing streets had become hooked after taking strong opiates in hospital, as they were treated for serious conditions, such as cancer.\n\nThree months later, Carly would need morphine herself to alleviate the pain in her chest and back, so she could sleep.\n\nPersuaded by Canadian doctors to go home for specialist attention, she was finally diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - a rare and quite aggressive form of cancer - in March 2012. A tumour the size of a grapefruit had already grown in her right lung and chest wall.\n\n\"I burst into tears at Guy's Hospital in London,\" she says. \"I didn't know if I would survive the chemotherapy treatment, being diagnosed at such a late stage. I was terrified.\"\n\nIt was hard for her family to take.\n\n\"My parents felt like their stomachs fell out. There hadn't been a lot of cancer in the family,\" she says.\n\n\"My boyfriend was also devastated and he flew out from California to England to be with me.\"\n\nBack at home in Eastbourne, Carly scrawled hospital appointments and medication timetables on to a calendar that not long before had been packed with coursework deadlines and photoshoots.\n\n\"My life slowed down to concentrating on getting through each moment, drug to drug, endless examinations, giant needles, biopsies drilling deep into bone, tubes down my throat, and hoping for some day, the pain to end,\" she says.\n\nPain from her chest was now radiating down her arm, fluid on her lungs made breathing difficult, and she could not shake an \"awful, non-stop cough\".\n\n\"A plastic line through my arm fed sickening but healing medicine into my heart, trying to kill the cancer but taking my strength with it,\" she says.\n\n\"My skeleton became more visible by the day, a reminder of each precious pound lost. Out of nowhere my life was on the line.\"\n\nHer view of the world - and herself - was changing. So she decided to photograph it.\n\n\"I thought that having a creative outlet would allow me to step out of some of that reality for a moment or two and think about my current trauma from another perspective,\" Carly says.\n\nReality Trauma was to be a series of self-portraits documenting her changing appearance, her life in and out of hospital, and her resilience.\n\nDuring day visits, or short stays, the hospital gave her the freedom to use a tripod and cable release as often as she could. Doctors and nurses sometimes pushed the shutter for her.\n\n\"I thought about how others might view these images further down the line and whether or not I would even be around to tell my story,\" she says.\n\nCarly wanted her work to inspire others to \"have the courage to stare cancer in the face\" and not let it take over their identity entirely.\n\nImage-by-image, Carly noticed her skin was becoming paler and tighter around her bones, giving her an \"unfamiliar, almost alien\" appearance.\n\nShe lost around 12kg (26lb) in the space of two months and needed regular blood transfusions to make up for circulatory problems that were starving her body of oxygen and turning her blue.\n\n\"People were afraid to look at me. Especially, I think, parents with children also going through cancer - because they saw me and probably feared the worst for their own,\" she says.\n\n\"Seeing myself that way made me feel uneasy and frightened.\"\n\nSoon afterwards, she found herself attending hospital so frequently she was admitted full-time.\n\nAt her lowest, constantly nauseous or asleep, she would reject all food from the hospital trolley. She was unable to study and, some days, too tired to photograph herself or phone her boyfriend.\n\nBy now she was also coughing so hard she would bring up blood. And sometimes she would wake after a night of cold sweats, itching and drenched as if she had showered in her hospital bed.\n\nBut then one day, after about three months of chemotherapy, the coughing stopped. Her other symptoms also began to ease.\n\nThe treatment was working, she thought. Biopsies confirmed it: the cancer was losing.\n\nHer perception of life changed again.\n\n\"Helplessness turned into hopefulness - and then euphoria. When you come so close to death, suddenly you want to live your life to the fullest.\"\n\nThe hospital ward went from being a place of pain to home. Staff became friends, and some patients even closer.\n\nNow Carly would venture outside her room. The fish tank in the communal area of the ward attracted patients of all ages.\n\nAn elderly couple, being treated for different types of terminal leukaemia, would often undergo chemotherapy on the same day as Carly. One day, the husband said his wife had been told she would not make it to Christmas.\n\n\"I remember hugging her and wishing her well - that couple would never leave my mind.\"\n\nAs Carly began to feel better, she also started to connect more with the world outside.\n\nHer boyfriend and friends would take her for lunch, sometimes driving to Beachy Head - where white cliffs meet the sea - and Carly would talk about the future while watching boats move slowly across the horizon.\n\nFrom course mates and tutors, she began to realise that her photographs were affecting other people.\n\nNot only were they capturing the physical and emotional effects of cancer treatment but demonstrating that it didn't always have to be scary - it could be positive, Carly says.\n\n\"Looking back at the images I had taken, it made me feel stronger because in those photos I was faced with an end-of-life situation but a part of me still believed I could get through it.\"\n\nCarly began showing her work to other cancer patients and took portraits of some of them in the ward. It became a way of starting a conversation or putting a smile on their faces.\n\nCarly's photographs captured the mood of those who had undergone successful treatment\n\n\"If it's true that a simple smile, small gesture of help or kind word can change how a person feels and brighten their day, and have a positive effect on every cell in one's body, then a positive photographic story can help change someone's life,\" says Carly.\n\n\"It can be the defining factor in someone's mental strength and affect their willpower enough to keep them going through the suffering in hope that it will soon end and that, in my opinion, is what helps to keep you alive against all odds.\"\n\nAs Carly's treatment came to an end, in September 2012, she could look back through each phase of her journey, in 15 rolls of film and 150 photographs, and say she survived cancer.\n\nHer image titled Last Day of Chemotherapy was shortlisted in the Portrait of Britain Awards 2018\n\nIt was a moment for celebration, but returning to the family home - to \"piece her life back together\" - was not easy. When she took back her boxes of unused medicine, she felt sad she was no longer in hospital.\n\n\"The hospital staff and some of the patients felt like family to me because we had built a very close relationship over many months.\"\n\nA few months later, Carly flew to California and stayed with her boyfriend for most of the following year.\n\nShe returned home several times, and visited the hospital ward for the first of her twice-yearly check-ups. Every time she went back, she looked around for old faces: nurses who had treated her, patients she had shared moments with.\n\nOn one occasion, a few years after finishing treatment, she arrived early for a consultation and sat alongside a woman in the waiting area.\n\n\"We casually glanced at each other and suddenly tears came to my eyes.\"\n\nIt was the woman whose husband had told Carly she would not live to see Christmas back in 2012.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it was her,\" Carly recalls. \"Moments like this are beautiful.\"\n\nCarly quickly rediscovered her hunger to document the lives of people around the world. In 2014, she spent four months in India.\n\nHer work on that trip would garner honourable mentions in the International Photo Awards in 2018. That same year her \"Last Day of Chemotherapy\" photograph from Reality Trauma was shortlisted in the Portrait of Britain Awards.\n\nShe got work assisting photographer Michael Wharley, producing promotional images for Summerland, a forthcoming film starring Gemma Arterton.\n\nAs her inbox filled with awards invitations and her calendar with shoot schedules, she began drawing up a project concept with her local hospice, St Wilfred's, to take portraits of cancer patients in their last stages of life.\n\nShe wanted to document how terminal illnesses affect people's psychological state, and the ways patients spend their remaining moments, trying new hobbies or saying last goodbyes.\n\nBut that plan was halted abruptly in September last year by a phone call from her older brother, Lee.\n\nHe told her their younger brother, Joe, had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - the very same cancer Carly had beaten six years earlier.\n\n\"We both shed tears on the phone,\" says Carly.\n\nJoe was just 16 and starting college. His cancer was less advanced than Carly's had been but - just like his sister - he had also been ill for months before being diagnosed.\n\nDoctors had initially put his severe itching down to \"dry skin\", or imagination.\n\n\"He wasn't prepared for his diagnosis. None us of were,\" says Carly.\n\nThe NHS says Hodgkin lymphoma is an uncommon cancer that develops in a network of vessels and glands called the lymphatic system. It can quickly spread throughout the body but is also one of the most easily treated types of cancer.\n\nJoe tried to live as normally as he could, spending time with his girlfriend, learning to drive and making career plans.\n\nBut as he spent more and more time travelling to hospital and back, his grades took a hit and he began to lose touch with some of his friends.\n\nWanting to spend more time with him, earlier this year Carly asked if she could photograph his cancer journey. He agreed.\n\nSixteen years older than Joe, Carly had left home when he was still young. But, as his only sister, she had always felt a responsibility towards him, teaching him how to draw and paint when he was a toddler.\n\nLater, when Carly moved to London for university, they saw each other only occasionally. With each visit, she noticed him stand a little taller, his voice slightly deepen.\n\nBut now she stood behind the camera in his hospital ward, she captured a rapid change with every photograph.\n\nThe hair he'd dyed blonde and then coloured flamboyantly, knowing it would fall out, came out in chunks until he shaved it off, as Carly had done, to stop it getting all over his clothes and bedroom floor.\n\nHe began covering his head in the photos, and talked about wearing a wig.\n\nThe steroids he took in preparation for the next stage of chemotherapy aged him, and had another dramatic effect.\n\n\"Joe put on weight to the point where he was unrecognisable. The pictures also showed his stretch marks from the severe weight gain,\" Carly says.\n\nMore and more, Joe reached out to Carly for support and advice. As a young boy he'd seen her go through cancer; he knew what the illness had done to his sister, but he also saw her defeat it.\n\n\"Even when he had doubts and misgivings, the fact that I recovered meant I could provide him with the hope and positivity to continue his treatment,\" she says.\n\nBecause Joe's cancer was less advanced, she thought his treatment would be quicker and her photographic series shorter. The collection would represent the journey of a young man overcoming cancer.\n\nBut Joe's first round of chemotherapy was unsuccessful.\n\n\"The news shook everybody up a lot. Our relationship changed, it became a little more unstable,\" Carly says.\n\nHaving suffered a relapse, Joe would have to endure four more months of chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplants. His hair, which had begun to grow back, fell out again.\n\nJoe said he no longer wanted to be photographed - a decision Carly says she understood and respected - but with time came greater determination and fresh positivity. A month or so later, he changed his mind again.\n\n\"The image I liked most was him turning away in a contemplative manner. There, he knew what was to come, and his eyes glared into the distance,\" Carly says.\n\n\"It showed how he had changed and how he had adapted to this role of being a young cancer patient.\"\n\nAgainst his consultant's advice Joe stopped stem-cell treatment. He feared the side-effects - the breathing trouble, skin problems, jaundice and diarrhoea that can occur if donor cells attack the host - would blight his life.\n\nAnd shortly after taking that decision, in May, his scans came back clear. It meant that he was put into remission and able to join his family on holiday in Menorca, and then at Lee's wedding.\n\nHe will have regular appointments over the next few months to monitor his condition, but he has lost the weight he gained and his hair is finally growing back again.\n\nCarly says her images offer stark evidence of how reality changed for the family during a time in which both her and Joe's \"body, mind and soul were tested to the ultimate ends\".\n\n\"These photographs I have captured, of both Joe and I, evoke some painful memories for me; however, they also remind me of the huge capacity of the human body to endure through such hellish times.\n\n\"This collection of images may give only a glimpse into those times but my hope is that an audience can see not just the horrifying aspects, but also the promise that being a survivor of cancer gives and the tremendous hope for others facing a similar condition.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph gives us a sneak peak of A Berry Royal Christmas\n\nOne of Prince Louis' earliest words was \"Mary\" after he recognised TV chef Mary Berry on a cookbook, the Duchess of Cambridge has said.\n\nCatherine told the story to the former Bake Off presenter in a BBC Christmas special, which airs on Monday evening.\n\nShe said 19-month-old Prince Louis, was \"fascinated by faces\" and would say \"that's Mary Berry\" when he saw her on cookbooks in the family's kitchen.\n\n\"One of Louis' first words was Mary, because right at his height are all my cooking books in the kitchen bookshelf,\" Catherine tells the cook on A Berry Royal Christmas.\n\n\"And children are really fascinated by faces, and your faces are all over your cooking books and he would say 'That's Mary Berry'... so he would definitely recognise you if he saw you today.\"\n\nPrince Louis is the couple's third child\n\nThe Duchess was speaking to Mary Berry during a Christmas TV special\n\nThe duchess also shared snippets of family life, including how the family uses Berry's recipes when making pizza, which the children \"loved\".\n\nAsked by Berry if she cooked with the children, she replied: \"Yes, I really enjoy it. Again, for them to be creative, for them to try and be as independent as possible with it.\"\n\nPrince William was also interviewed by Berry on the programme and spoke about how his relationship with his mother, the late Princess Diana, had influenced his style of parenting.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess made Christmas meringue roulades with Nadiya Hussain and Mary Berry\n\nMary Berry described the royal couple's charity work as \"remarkable\"\n\nSpeaking at homelessness charity The Passage, in London, Prince William said the centre was one of the first places to which he made an official visit and it had had a \"profound impact\" on him.\n\n\"My mother knew what she was doing with it,\" he said.\n\n\"She realised that it was very important when you grow up - especially in the life that we grew up - that you realise that life happens beyond palace walls, and that you see real people struggling with real issues.\"\n\nHe added that his mother \"liked to challenge the social norms about charities and about disadvantages and vulnerable people\".\n\nAsked whether he speaks to his children about such issues, he told how Prince George, six, and Charlotte, four, would quiz him about the world on the way to school in south-west London.\n\nHe said: \"Absolutely, and on the school run - I know it sounds a little bit contrite - but on the school run already, bear in mind six and four (George and Charlotte's age), whenever we see someone who is sleeping rough on the street I talk about it and I point it out and I explain.\"\n\nDuring the programme, Berry helps the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare food for a royal event held to thank all those working and volunteering over the festive period.\n\nIn one scene, Kate serves non-alcoholic cocktails to people at a dry bar in Liverpool which has been set up by the charity Action on Addiction.\n\n\"It reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Berry whether she was any good, the duchess replied: \"No - I was terrible.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess took part in a Bake Off competition during the programme\n\nThe programme, which culminates in a Christmas party hosted by the royal couple, also features some of Berry's favourite Christmas recipes.\n\nThere is also a special guest appearance from Nadiya Hussain, who won Bake Off in 2015 when Berry was a judge on the show, which is now broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nBerry described the charity work carried out by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as \"remarkable\".\n\n\"They don't just arrive and shake a few hands make a few smiles and a speech, they want to get involved, and they want to see what they can do,\" she said.\n\n\"And it isn't just one visit, they come back again and ask for the results and they remember who they spoke to last time. I think that's remarkable.\"\n\nA Berry Royal Christmas airs on Monday 16 December at 20:30 GMT on BBC One", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are not the masters, we are the servants now\"\n\nBoris Johnson has thanked voters in the north of England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" to back the Conservatives.\n\nSpeaking in Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield, the PM said he knew \"how difficult\" that decision can be.\n\nMr Johnson won a Commons majority of 80, his party's biggest election win for 30 years, by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nIn contrast, Labour suffered its worst election result since the 1930s.\n\nActivists chanted \"Boris\" as Mr Johnson arrived in the County Durham constituency, which returned a Conservative MP on Thursday for the first time in 84 years.\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted to thank voters in the \"incredible\" constituencies in north-east England for placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\nThey had \"changed the political landscape\" and \"changed the Conservative Party for the better\", he said.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"We are the servants now and our job is to serve the people of this country and deliver on our priorities. And our priorities and their priorities are the same.\"\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn said he had done \"everything I could\" to get Labour into power but expected to stand down \"early next year\", after a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nHe said the general election had been \"taken over by Brexit\", the issue on which Mr Johnson campaigned most vociferously - but other figures in the party have disagreed over the reason.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell promised to \"learn lessons and we'll listen to people\" during the debate over the future of the party and its next leader.\n\n\"My fear is that we're in for the long haul now, possibly five years,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Helen Goodman, who lost the seat of Bishop Auckland to the Conservatives, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor\" in Labour's defeat \"was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nHowever, the Labour MP for York Central, Rachel Maskell, said: \"We've all got to take responsibility... I don't think apportioning blame to a complex situation in a simplistic way is really the way to approach this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to announce a minor government re-shuffle as early as Monday.\n\nAsked whether his promise to be a one nation government meant bringing back Tory politicians like Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt - who left cabinet in July after Mr Johnson took over - the PM said he was \"not going to speculate about personalities\".\n\nMPs will then return to Westminster on Tuesday and begin the process of swearing in, before the Queen formally opens Parliament on Thursday with \"reduced ceremonial elements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nThe prime minister has also vowed to reintroduce his Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament before Christmas, which could happen by the end of next week.\n\nIt would see MPs begin the process of considering legislation that would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nFormer Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, who opposes Brexit and backed the Liberal Democrats in the election, told Today: \"We've lost. Brexit is going to happen and we have to live with it.\"\n\nAsked whether he would support any future campaign to rejoin the EU, he said it would be \"20 years or something before the issue is once again raised\".\n\nProtests took place at Westminster on Friday following Mr Johnson's election victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Tompsett: \"I've never been on a protest before\"\n\nDemonstrators in Westminster carried signs that read \"Defy Tory Rule\" and \"No to Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two people had been arrested in relation to the protests - one person on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and another for suspected affray.\n\nFollowing the Conservatives' election win, Mr Johnson spoke to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon on Friday evening and reiterated his opposition to a second independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nThe conversation came after the first minister said the PM had \"no right\" to stand in the way of a second vote following her party's \"overwhelming\" election performance. The SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday, cabinet minister Thérèse Coffey insisted there would be no referendum on Scottish independence during the Conservatives' five-year term.\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Sturgeon, the PM also took phone calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to discuss the next steps on Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives won a total of 365 seats in the election, while Labour finished on 203, the SNP on 48, Liberal Democrats on 11 and the DUP on eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader after Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party now that Ms Swinson is no longer an MP.", "Residents had to queue up to 45 minutes for bottled water being handed out at a local supermarket\n\nResidents have been queuing for bottled water after thousands of homes were left without supplies on Friday evening due to a faulty valve.\n\nAt its peak about 12,000 properties in Leighton Buzzard, Toddington, Hockliffe and surrounding areas were affected.\n\nUp to 2,000 homes in Bedfordshire are still without water and residents have been queuing for up to 45 minutes at a nearby supermarket for bottles.\n\nAnglian Water handed out the bottles and was working to restore supplies.\n\nLocal resident Maria Power said: \"The situation is disgraceful it should have been resolved by now.\"\n\n\"I'm angry at the water company that they are going to leave people without water for nearly 48 hours,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nThe valve was fixed on Saturday evening but properties in Leighton Linslade are still without water because of air in the system, Anglian Water said.\n\nThe firm apologised and warned that water was unlikely to return to the areas until Monday afternoon.\n\nOne resident said shops in the area had run out of bottled water.\n\nAnglian Water said 12,000 properties in Bedfordshire were without water at one point\n\nAnglian Water said customers who were in its \"priority list\", such as elderly people or families with young children, had been delivered bottled water.\n\nIt said engineers were installing an overland pipe to bypass the airlocked water main.\n\nRegan Harris, from the company, said: \"Most of our customers will be coming back to water soon.\n\n\"There is an area on the northern part of Leighton Buzzard where people may be without water for a little while longer due to an air pocket.\"\n\nConservative MP for Leighton Buzzard Andrew Selous said queues have \"dropped down and everyone got their allocation\".\n\nMr Selous tweeted that \"many customers supportive given what a complex issue Anglian Water dealing with.\"\n\nA map shows areas where water supply has been affected\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hug that means Jacob's new arm is a success\n\nWhen Jacob was born eight weeks early most of his left arm was missing.\n\nHis parents Gemma Turner and Chris Scrimshaw, from Calderdale in West Yorkshire, crowdfunded to get a £16,000 functioning limb made for him.\n\nThe NHS and most companies take the view that a functioning prosthetic is not an option when the limb ends above the elbow.\n\nThat is where Ben Ryan, from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, came in, designing an arm for Jacob, who is now five.\n\nJacob and his brother hugged after his new arm was fitted\n\nMr Ryan developed a hydraulic design after his son Sol had an emergency amputation when he was 10 days old.\n\nIt led him to quit his job as a psychology lecturer and set up his own company, named Ambionics, two and a half years ago.\n\nHis firm merged with Polish prosthetic maker Glaze this year.\n\nOne of their first clients was Jacob.\n\nJacob with his mother Gemma at the fitting\n\nMr Ryan has been working with a prosthetics expert and Jacob's family to perfect a hydraulic arm for him.\n\nThe family wanted an elbow that could be set in different positions, a gripping mechanism and a modular hand that can be swapped out for other tools.\n\nHe explained that the prosthetics are not 3D printed in the normal way, as they are forged together in a bath of nylon powder using lasers.\n\nJacob is now able to grip things with his functioning prosthetic\n\nMr Ryan said the elbow can be set using a sliding lock, and the hand closes when Jacob squeezes a water filled rubber chamber that is mounted to the upper arm.\n\nHe designed a mechanism to make it work while the arm was cast by his colleagues in Poland.\n\nPerhaps, more importantly - for Jacob anyway - it is large, green and superhero themed.\n\n\"It was what Jacob wanted, including have a larger hand, so the theme is perfect,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\nOn Thursday he delivered the arm to Jacob at a meeting in Ringwood, Hampshire, and said the fitting was a \"success\" and that Jacob \"exceeded everybody's expectations\".\n\n\"He can give his brother a hug and hold his hand,\" he said.\n\nJacob was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing\n\nSpeaking after the final fitting, Gemma, a police officer, said watching her son wear the arm was \"lovely\", adding that he \"really likes it, he's got it on right now\".\n\nShe explained that Jacob did not want a non-functioning prosthetic and said: \"He's not bothered about looking like everybody else.\"\n\nThe addition has also helped with balancing his posture, she added.\n\nWhile raising funds to get Jacob a functioning prosthetic, one anonymous donor gave them £5,000 - saying she was terminally ill and unable to complete her bucket list.\n\nGemma said asking for money was \"kind of a bit strange for us but you've got to do what you've got to do\".\n\n\"The family have had so much bad luck getting help for Jacob,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\n\"Nobody has been able to deliver something that could work for him.\n\n\"It's always been the same status-quo - that it won't work when the prosthetic is for the upper arm.\"", "Anna Karina, an icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at the age of 79.\n\nThe Danish-French actress died in a hospital in Paris after living with cancer, her agent told AFP news agency.\n\nFrench culture minister Franck Riester tweeted in tribute: \"Today, French cinema has been orphaned. It has lost one of its legends.\"\n\nKarina rose to prominence as the muse of her director ex-husband Jean-Luc Godard in the 1960s.\n\nShe got her big break as a teenager, soon after moving to Paris from her native Denmark, when she was spotted by Godard.\n\nHe wanted to cast her in his first and most famous film Breathless, Karina recalled years later, but she turned him down because the role required nudity.\n\nAnna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard got married in March 1961\n\nAfter a few months he offered her another role, cementing their fruitful working relationship and her place in cinematic history.\n\nIn 1961, she and Godard got married - and just months later, Karina won best actress at the Berlin Film Festival for Godard's A Woman is a Woman.\n\nAlthough they divorced just four years later, their relationship became almost as iconic as the films they made together.\n\nKarina on the set of Godard's film Pierrot le Fou in July 1965\n\n\"It was really a great love story, but very tiring in a way for a young girl because he would go away a lot,\" Karina told Vogue in 2016.\n\n\"He would say he was going to buy some cigarettes and he would come back three weeks later.\"\n\nAfter their divorce, she continued to have a long and prosperous career, working with filmmakers Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti and Tony Richardson.\n\nIn the early 1970s she worked behind the camera too, directing Vivre Ensemble, a film about a turbulent romance between a history teacher and a free-spirited young woman that ends in domestic violence and drug abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2015, Raymond Cauchetier discussed his work photographing the glamour of French New Wave", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy found dead in a village.\n\nAlex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nMatthew Mason, 18, of Ollerton, near Knutsford, will appear at Crewe Magistrates' Court on Monday, charged with murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place.\n\nAlex's family described him as a \"caring and trusting young boy\".\n\nMr Mason was arrested in Forton, near Newport, Shropshire, about four hours after the body was found, Cheshire Police said.\n\nAlex's family, from the Knutsford area, have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers, the force added.\n\n\"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy,\" a family statement on Saturday said.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nAlex Rodda was found dead in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHolmes Chapel Comprehensive School head teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\nHe said the school would be open as normal on Monday and staff would be on hand to support students.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Talks in Madrid have gone into extra time as delegates try to agree on measures\n\nThe Chilean official leading UN climate talks in Madrid has called on delegates to show flexibility, as they struggle to reach agreement on crucial measures needed to tackle climate change.\n\nThe negotiations, which were scheduled to end on Friday, continued throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning.\n\nCarolina Schmidt said a deal was almost there but the outcome needed to be ambitious.\n\nThe goal is a commitment to new carbon emissions cuts by the end of 2020.\n\nThe European Union and small island states vulnerable to climate change are pushing for stronger commitments to cut those emissions. Some of the biggest polluters, including the United States, Brazil and India, say they see no need to change their current plans.\n\nMs Schmidt, Chile's environment minister who is the conference's president, said early on Sunday: \"I request all the flexibility, all your strength to find this agreement to have an ambitious result.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's hard, it's difficult but it's worth it. I specially need you. But people in our countries need us.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a new draft text from the meeting was released, designed to chart a way forward for the parties to the Paris agreement, which came into being in 2015.\n\nThe pact's intention is to keep the global average temperature rise to well below 2C. This was regarded at the time as the threshold for dangerous global warming, though scientists subsequently shifted the definition of the \"safe\" limit to a rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nThe situation was unprecedented since talks began in 1991, said Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.\n\nHe commented: \"The latest version of the Paris Agreement decision text put forward by the Chilean presidency is totally unacceptable. It has no call for countries to enhance the ambition of their emissions reduction commitments.\n\n\"If world leaders fail to increase ambition in the lead up to next year's climate summit in Glasgow, they will make the task of meeting the Paris agreement's 'well below 2C' temperature limitation goal - much less the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal - almost impossible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis view was echoed by David Waskow, international climate director for the World Resources Institute (WRI). \"If this text is accepted, the low ambition coalition will have won the day,\" he said.\n\nThe conference in the Spanish capital has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from climate strikers, the countries running this 26th conference of the parties (COP) meeting are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut earlier in the meeting, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nProtests led by young delegates have seen up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAt a \"stock-taking\" session on Saturday morning, Tina Stege, a negotiator with the Marshall Islands delegation, said: \"I need to go home and look my kids in the eye and tell them we came out with an outcome that will ensure their future.\"\n\nShe added: \"The text must address the need for new and more ambitious NDCs and long-term goals. We can't leave with anything else.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, has been taking a hard line on promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThe deal saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\nBut India now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\nFor many delegates, the deadlock is intensely frustrating in light of the urgent need to tackle emissions.\n\n\"I've been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991. But never have I seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at COP25 in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action,\" said Alden Meyer.\n\n\"The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we wait to act. Ministers here in Madrid must strengthen the final decision text, to respond to the mounting impacts of climate change that are devastating both communities and ecosystems all over the world.\"\n\nJake Schmidt, from the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council, said: \"In Madrid, the key polluting countries responsible for 80% of the world's climate-wrecking emissions stood mute, while smaller countries announced they'll work to drive down harmful emissions in the coming year.\n\n\"The mute majority must step up, and ramp up, their commitments to tackle the growing climate crisis well ahead of the COP26 gathering.\"\n\nAlso on Saturday, activists staged a protest outside the summit venue to express their frustration at what they see as the failure of world leaders in taking meaningful action on climate change.", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nChina's state broadcaster CCTV has removed Sunday's Arsenal-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil, state media has reported.\n\nOzil posted on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.\n\nArsenal distanced the club from the German's views, saying it was \"always apolitical as an organisation\".\n\nThe Global Times described Ozil's comments as \"false\" and claimed he had \"disappointed\" football authorities.\n\nIn addition, the Chinese Football Association said Ozil's comments were \"unacceptable\" and had \"hurt the feelings\" of Chinese fans.\n\nCCTV will now show Sunday's game between Tottenham and Wolves, instead of a live broadcast of Arsenal's home match with the reigning Premier League champions.\n\nIn his social media post Ozil, who is a Muslim, called Uighurs \"warriors who resist persecution\" and criticised both China and the silence of Muslims in response.\n\nChina has consistently denied mistreating Uighur Muslims in the country.\n\nRights groups say about a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial in high-security prison camps.\n\nChina says they are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" to combat violent religious extremism.\n\nIn October, the US National Basketball Association suffered financial losses after an online comment from a team executive prompted a crisis in its relations with China.\n\nHouston Rockets' manager Daryl Morey had tweeted support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nA few weeks ago I asked someone who is an expert on China-UK relations if the Premier League could face an 'NBA moment' if or when a player criticised China in public.\n\nEnglish football's top flight is such a global phenomenon, so diverse in its range of players, so vast in its audience spread.\n\nThe answer to my question was clearly yes.\n\nThe NBA's crisis in China showed how serious and how immediate the impact on commercial interests could be.\n\nSo important is football to the UK and its soft power that very senior British diplomats have pondered the impact on UK China relations of something like this.\n\nThe reaction to Ozil's comments appears more muted compared to Daryl Morey's Hong Kong support.\n\nChina's state machinery went after the NBA, not just the man and club. On this occasion it's targeting Ozil and to a limited extent Arsenal.\n\nAny lasting damage here is likely to be sustained by him personally. Although there will also be some praise and support. You just won't hear about that in China's state-run media.", "The man was shot by armed officers on Hessle Road\n\nA man is in a critical condition after being shot in the street by police.\n\nOfficers were called to reports of a man \"believed to be in possession of a firearm\" in Hessle Road in Hull in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe man was shot by officers and taken from the scene for treatment at an unnamed hospital.\n\nHumberside Police Assistant Chief Constable Paul Anderson said he did not believe the incident had any connections to terrorism.\n\nThe force said no-one else was injured and a cordon remained in place.\n\nA 100-metre section of Hessle Road - one of the busiest routes in Hull - was cordoned off, with a large number of police vehicles and officers in the area.\n\nForensics officers are examining a grey BMW four wheel drive vehicle that remains parked inside the cordon.\n\nForensic officers are working at the scene of the shooting\n\nDep Ch Con Chris Rowley said: \"In incidents like this our officers have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the local community that incidents like this are very rare.\n\n\"We do have officers in the area and if anyone in the area is concerned I would encourage them to speak to one of those officers.\"\n\nHe said the man who had been shot was in a \"critical but stable \" condition in hospital.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man and also with those officers who were involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said: \"We were notified by Humberside Police about a police shooting in Hull in the early hours of this morning.\n\n\"We understand a man was shot by police and is in hospital being treated for serious injuries.\n\n\"We have attended the scene at Hessle Road and the police post-incident procedure.\n\n\"We are carrying out an assessment to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in any investigation.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress Samantha Morton says the care system is \"still not fit for purpose\" despite a major inquiry into historical abuse at homes in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old has said she was the victim of abuse while growing up in care during the 1980s.\n\nMorton said despite apologies from several public bodies, she did not feel justice had been done.\n\nThe city and county council have both apologised and produced action plans.\n\nIn July, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found hundreds of children were abused by predatory foster carers and residential home staff in the city and county over the past five decades.\n\nThe actress, who has starred in a number of films and TV shows such as The Walking Dead and Minority Report, previously spoke out about the abuse she was subjected to.\n\nShe said the abuse she and her friends suffered was \"equivalent to hell\".\n\n\"I've lost friends - friends have died through drug overdoses, suicide, mental health issues,\" she said.\n\n\"The system still isn't fit for purpose. If we continue to privatise children's homes or any aspect of care of other people and we monetise it, it becomes a very dangerous game.\"\n\nSamantha Morton said she was abused in care homes in Nottingham during the 1980s\n\nMorton's acting career began in the early 1990s with appearances in Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice and Cracker.\n\nHer adult roles have included playing Myra Hindley in Longford, Ian Curtis's widow in biopic Contol and the wife of serial killer John Christie in Rillington Place.\n\nShe is currently starring as the villainous Alpha in US zombie series The Walking Dead.\n\nThis week she was given an honorary degree by the University of Nottingham - where her mother and grandmother worked as dinner ladies.\n\nThe actress, born in the city, told the BBC: \"If they were alive today they'd just be over the moon I'm here actually getting a degree, someone from my background actually achieving that is extraordinary.\"\n\nThe actress received an honorary degree from the university where her mother and grandmother worked as dinner ladies\n\nNottinghamshire County Council said it had made a \"full and frank submission\" to IICSA and accepted the findings.\n\nNottingham City Council said that although Ms Morton had been in the care of the county council, it had also taken \"a number of actions to ensure survivors of non-recent abuse received the right support\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nottinghamshire Police said it had learned \"many lessons over the years and during the course of the inquiry\", improving how it responded to reports of abuse and supported those affected.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The government is to consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said.\n\nRishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.\n\nProsecution for non-payment of the fee can currently end in a court appearance and potential fine of up to £1,000.\n\nBut the BBC warned decriminalisation could cost it £200m a year.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported the consultation had been ordered by the PM after the Conservatives won a majority of 80 at last week's election.\n\nAsked whether non-payment of the fee should be decriminalised, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"That is something the prime minister has said we will look at, and has instructed people to look at that\".\n\n\"I think it's fair to say people find the criminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee to be something that has provoked questions in the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak did not elaborate on an alternative method that could be used to enforce payment of the TV licence.\n\nHowever a previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.\n\nThe review also examined whether unpaid TV licence fees should be considered a civil debt in the same way as unpaid utility bills or council tax.\n\nHowever, it recommended against changing the criminal sanctions regime, saying decriminalisation could bring with it an increased risk of evasion.\n\nIt added that penalties brought under civil law could still be enforced using the criminal law as a last resort.\n\nIncome from the licence fee was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in the last financial year, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he thought replacing the licence fee entirely needs \"looking at\".\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"speculate\" on the long-term future of the licence fee itself, adding that it had been \"secured\" through to 2027, when the current Royal Charter governing the corporation ends.\n\nBut he added: \"How people consume media is changing, and it is of course right we continue to look at those things over time.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said the previous government review recommended the existing criminal sanctions regime should be maintained.\n\n\"The government has already commissioned a QC to take an in-depth look at this matter and he found that 'the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained' and that it is fair and value for money to licence fee payers,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The review also found that non-payment cases accounted for 'a minute fraction' - only 0.3% - of court time.\"", "Guymon in Oklahoma was on its way to becoming a ghost town.\n\nSince then, they've been responsible for an economic boom.\n\nThis video is part of ¿Hablas español?, a recent BBC road trip around the US to show the power of the Spanish language and Latinos in the age of Trump. You can see what they discovered in Spanish at BBCMundo.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner be announced\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher, who was only drafted into Strictly Come Dancing as a last-minute replacement, has been voted this year's winner.\n\nKelvin and professional partner Oti Mabuse lifted this year's glitterball trophy on BBC One on Saturday.\n\nThey triumphed over Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden; and Emma Barton and Anton Du Beke, after topping a public vote.\n\nKelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nThe couples performed three dances in Saturday's final - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Oti came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe final saw all the contestants of the series reunite for one last dance\n\nSome fans complained they were unable to vote online, with many saying they were being told they had reached their \"maximum number of votes allowed\" despite not having yet cast a vote.\n\nThe BBC reminded people having difficulties that they could vote by phone.\n\nKelvin was only called up after Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing injured his foot while recording the launch show - and the fellow TV star tweeted his congratulations:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Laing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKelvin, who broke down in tears after his victory, said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he said he was \"humbled, elated, honoured\", adding: \"Team #Floti did it!\"\n\nKelvin and Oti began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\" and Oti's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nThe Strictly win will give a huge boost to Kelvin, three years after he left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades.\n\nIt is also the first time Oti has lifted the trophy. Speaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit - and were the only pair to get a perfect score for their first dance.\n\nTheir showdance to A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman landed them 39 points and they scored a second perfect 40 for their jive to You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray.\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie, which they first performed on musicals' week.\n\nTonioli told Emma, who is best-known for playing Honey Mitchell in BBC show EastEnders, that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\".\n\nBut the pair missed out on a perfect score by one point after judge Craig Revel Horwood pulled them up on a \"sync issue\".\n\nTheir showdance to Let Yourself Go by Irving Berlin won them 38 points and their final dance - the Viennese waltz to the musical song Send In The Clowns - netted them 39.\n\nAfter their final performance, Emma praised her dance partner, saying: \"Anton, the king of ballroom, thank you for allowing me to be your Queen for the last three months.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore said lots of fans thought \"this was Anton's moment\" to lift the glitterball \"but it wasn't to be\".\n\nCommenting on newspaper reports that he might quit the show, she said: \"He's going to have to call it at some point - there's no getting round it, he is much older than the other dancers. But I wouldn't be surprised if he carries on for a bit.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner was announced\n\nThe final of this year's Strictly Come Dancing, which saw former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lift the glitterball trophy, was watched by an average of 11.3 million people.\n\nKelvin and partner Oti Mabuse topped a public vote to win the BBC One show.\n\nOvernight ratings show the Saturday night programme had a peak audience of 12.5 million viewers, and was the most-watched show across all channels.\n\nKelvin only joined the programme after another contestant suffered an injury.\n\nDrafted in as a last-minute replacement, he replaced Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing who injured his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nAfter scooping the prize, Kelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, he said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nKelvin left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades, three years ago.\n\nSaturday night's show saw him triumph over Karim Zeroual, the CBBC presenter, and his dance partner Amy Dowden; and EastEnders actress Emma Barton, who was paired with Anton Du Beke.\n\nThe couples all performed three dances - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Mabuse came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe couple began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\".\n\nMabuse's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nIt is also the first time Mabuse has lifted the trophy.\n\nSpeaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nSaturday's viewing figures made Strictly one of the most watched TV programmes of the year. But they were a slight fall on last year's Strictly final, which attracted an average audience of 11.7 million and a peak of 12.7 million when Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton won.\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit and topped the judges' leaderboard\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie - Tonioli told Emma that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Sports Personality\n\nMarathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been voted BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.\n\nKipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in October.\n\nThe Kenyan, 35, completed 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.\n\nSix months before his feat, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a fourth time.\n\nKipchoge, who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, broke his own London Marathon record - set in 2016 - by 28 seconds.\n\nTopping an online public vote, the legendary marathon runner beat off competition from American gymnast Simone Biles, South Africa's Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi, Australian cricketer Steve Smith, American golfer Tiger Woods and USA footballer Megan Rapinoe, who co-led her team to World Cup victory again this summer.\n\nLast year's winner was Italian golfer Francesco Molinari, who won the 2018 Open Championship and all five of his Ryder Cup matches at the event in Paris.\n• None How to cast your Sports Personality vote online", "The same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month - because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nThere may be years of arguments about the nature of the long-term relationship but we will no longer be part of the bloc we've been entwined in for four decades. But Brexit, at least part one - to use his slogan - will be done.\n\nBeyond that, the final tally, the scale of the Tories' majority may shape Mr Johnson's ability to reform.\n\nHe'll face different opponents - that much is clear.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's departure is certain, only the timing to be decided, but Labour's future direction is already the subject of bitter dispute. The loss a mixture - a lack of leadership, and the party's torture over Brexit.\n\nBut accounting for the defeat and making a plan for change is likely to involve months of recrimination.\n\nThe Lib Dems have suffered disappointment too - losing their own leader, along with the DUP's Nigel Dodds being ousted. This election has also seen a massive change in the political cast.\n\nBut there's nothing straightforward about what faces Mr Johnson, even with the kind of majority this country hasn't seen for years.\n\nThere are wide differences between town and city, Scotland and England, the political generations too.\n\nThe public has just granted Mr Johnson an immense amount of political power.\n\nGiven what's ahead it's a currency he will need to spend, and spend well.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he takes responsibility for Labour's \"catastrophic\" election defeat.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has now also apologised for the result in two newspapers articles.\n\nInterviewed on Saturday, Mr McDonnell was challenged over whether he really did, in his own words, \"own this disaster\" by the BBC's Andrew Marr.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "It's the first time in history that black women hold the titles for Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America, Miss Universe and Miss World.\n\nThe 23-year-old student was born in St Thomas, Jamaica, and plans to study medicine and become a doctor.\n\nShe tweeted on Saturday: \"Please know that you are worthy and capable of achieving your dreams... you have a PURPOSE.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Toni-Ann Singh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nToni-Ann impressed judges at the event in ExCel London after singing Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing, and answering a variety of questions.\n\nShe said: \"This feels like a dream, I'm so grateful.\"\n\n\"Whatever it is you see in me, thank you. I'm ready to get to work.\"\n\nShe beat 111 other contestants representing different countries, to be the fourth Jamaican winner of the title since the competition began.\n\nWhen asked by judge Piers Morgan if she would consider a singing career, she said: \"If the door is open I'll walk through it.\"\n\nToni-Ann was crowned by the Previous Miss World, Vanessa Ponce de Leon\n\nThe runners up included Ophély Mézino from France and Suman Rao from India.\n\nOne moment that caught people's attention online was Miss Nigeria's reaction to Toni-Ann's win.\n\nNyekachi Douglas, who placed fifth, jumped and screamed with Joy when the winner was announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ricardo A. This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Parliament tends to be dominated by its grandest figures, the party leaders, and their cabinet or shadow cabinet teams.\n\nBut others can cut a dash in the Commons by weight of expertise, through passion for an issue, by sheer street-smarts, or simply by being in the right place at the right time.\n\nSo here are a few MPs who - while not aspiring to the top table - could exert serious leverage in the newly elected House of Commons.\n\nAfter a strong performance in the race to succeed John Bercow as Speaker - and in a House of Commons with many more Conservatives - she must surely be the front runner to become Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior deputy speaker.\n\nShe would then have the key responsibilities of chairing budget debates and selecting amendments for consideration by committees of the whole house - a key task when the government begins to push through its Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nHe pulled off a considerable coup in 2017, when, as a junior backbencher, he wrested the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee from ex-minister Crispin Blunt.\n\nAn ex-army officer - he served in Iraq and Afghanistan - Tugendhat writes notes to himself on an office whiteboard in Arabic to preserve privacy. He's a reasonable bet for a ministerial job, perhaps in the Foreign Office.\n\nHawkish on Russia - he said the Salisbury poisoning was \"if not an act of war… certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation\" - expect him to be an influential voice on foreign policy if he remains on the backbenches.\n\nChairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - where she performed impressively - she is being tipped as the person around whom the remains of the Blairite-Brownite group of Labour MPs might coalesce.\n\nThat may not translate into an attempt on the leadership, but she may now become an important factional leader.\n\nFew MPs come into Parliament with a clearly defined policy mission, but the ex-army officer who won Plymouth Moor View against the expectations of his own party, announced himself with a blistering maiden speech on the need for better care for military veterans.\n\nHe was an early backer of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign and was frequently seen shepherding the would-be leader around Westminster. His support was rewarded with the job he always wanted - defence minister responsible for veterans. Mercer will expect the political support and funding to reform the system.\n\nBriefly Leader of the House in the dog days of Theresa May's premiership, the former Treasury minister found himself surplus to requirements when Boris Johnson took over. But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.\n\nHe didn't have much time to make an impact in this key committee corridor job before the election was called, but if he is re-elected as Parliament's scrutiniser-in-chief of economic policy (and others may cast covetous eyes on the post) he will get to pronounce on levels of spending and public debt at a ticklish moment for the UK economy.\n\nDouble-hatted as Metro Mayor of South Yorkshire and MP for Barnsley Central. In a Parliament where one of the big themes looks certain to be devolution - and demands for greater powers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - the mayor of a fair chunk of left-behind territory could find himself \"speaking for England\".\n\nOnce talked up as a possible Labour leadership contender, he defied pressure to give up his Commons seat and maintains a perch in Westminster. He is a Parachute Regiment veteran with service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nSeen as a bit of a star of the 2017 intake, Afolami is on the Commons end of the Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group which wants to rebalance a constitution destabilised by an uneven devolution settlement.\n\nThis is the group behind the Act of Union Bill, a private member's bill proposed by the former clerk of the Commons, Lord Lisvane. It may all sound high-powered and rather nerdy, but the tug of war between the nations and regions of the UK is set to be a big theme of the new Parliament, and Afolami looks set to be a player.\n\nSmart, personable, and articulate in two languages he seized and held a seat which has see-sawed between Plaid and the Lib Dems since the 1990s. In his maiden speech, he complained of the steady, silent haemorrhage of young people leaving their communities to seek opportunities elsewhere. A future leader?\n\nNewly elected, he is nonetheless an experienced figure, having served in the European Parliament since 2004. He looks ready-made to become the SNP's new Brexit spokesman in Westminster.\n\nThe Lib Dems' Wendy Chamberlain has taken the North East Fife seat from the SNP's Stephen Gethins\n\nShe contested the most marginal seat in the country (the SNP won with a majority of just two votes in 2017) in North East Fife.\n\nAn ex-police officer who is already attracting rave reviews. Part of an infusion of new blood into a rather bruised and diminished Lib Dem parliamentary contingent.\n\nThose leaving Parliament include Dr Sarah Wollaston, a GP who was originally elected as a Conservative in 2010 but ended up in the Lib Dems, by way of the short-lived Independent Group of MPs. Labour's Frank Field, a maverick Labour MP, almost permanently at odds with his constituency party, and the SNP's Stephen Gethins, who might have been a candidate to lead their Westminster group had he enjoyed a more comfortable majority, also both lost their seats.\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh led a series of high-profile inquiries into the environmental issues around the fashion industry and toxic chemicals in everyday life. And Dennis Skinner - the Labour stalwart would have been the father of the House, the longest serving MP, had he survived the election - also departs. He was first elected in 1970, and fell just short of half a century in the Commons.", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "Several buildings collapsed in the coastal city of Durres\n\nNine people have been arrested in Albania on suspicion of murder and abuse of power over the collapse of buildings in last month's earthquake.\n\nTwo of those arrested on murder charges owned hotels that collapsed in the city of Durres, one of the areas worst hit.\n\nBoth hotels had been built illegally and one of them had also been irregularly legalised, police said. Illegal construction has been rife in Albania since the fall of communism in 1990.\n\nThe tremor, the strongest to hit the country in decades, struck in the early hours of the morning on 26 November as most people were asleep. More than 14,000 people were left homeless.\n\nIn total, prosecutors issued 17 arrest warrants for builders, engineers and officials suspected of breaching safety standards. Eight of the suspects are still being sought and police said some had fled the country after the earthquake.\n\nThe earthquake was the strongest to hit Albania in decades\n\nMore than 14,000 buildings were damaged and engineers were still determining which ones are structurally safe, AP news agency reports.\n\nAfter the fall of communism in the early 1990s, many residents moved to cities, where construction was made with little government supervision. Many of the buildings have been legalised since then.\n\nThe quake struck 34km (21 miles) north-west of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Most of the deaths occurred in Durres and Thumane, close to the epicentre.\n\nThe Balkans is in an area prone to seismic activity, lying close to a fault line between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. Albania sits on a smaller, Adriatic tectonic plate.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Commission - the EU executive - said member states had agreed to hold a donors' conference in Tirana in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The moment a bushfire spread across a tree canopy – in a phenomenon known as \"crowning\" – has been filmed by Australian firefighters.\n\nRead more: Australia could see hottest day on record", "Wera Hobhouse was reelected in Bath, which she has represented since 2017 Image caption: Wera Hobhouse was reelected in Bath, which she has represented since 2017\n\nBath's Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse has questioned whether the British people are ready to have a first-generation immigrant lead a major political party.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Sunday Politics West this morning, she said she was regularly referred to as \"German-born\" Wera Hobhouse, implying that she could not represent the British people.\n\nEven so, she has refused to rule herself out of the contest to succeed Jo Swinson as her party's leader, saying it was a \"discussion\" she is ready to have.\n\nWera Hobhouse was born in Hanover, Germany, and moved to the UK in 1990.\n\nShe said: \"I'm a first generation immigrant and we have just voted for a party that has stoked up anti-immigrant feeling.\n\n\"I need to have that discussion of whether being a first-generation immigrant is standing in the way of the Liberal Democrats fighting prejudice and anti-foreigner sentiment.\n\n\"Or is it the first thing that will always colour what is going to be said by the Liberal Democrats? That is, 'She is not British, she is German-born.'\n\n\"The right-wing press always talks about me as 'German-born Wera Hobhouse.' It's a big issue. I've had it in the Daily Mail and over the years. The underlying thing is that she doesn't speak for the British people.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City pushed Arsenal deeper into crisis as they won with embarrassing ease at Emirates Stadium.\n\nKevin de Bruyne produced a first-half masterclass as Pep Guardiola's side cruised into a three-goal lead by the interval with two superb strikes, either side of a perfect pass that laid on City's second for Raheem Sterling's simple finish.\n\nIt was a harrowing experience for Arsenal caretaker manager Freddie Ljungberg, who was a powerless low-key presence, his minimal impact since succeeding the sacked Unai Emery reflected in a record of one win from his five matches in interim charge.\n\nArsenal's lack of inspiration in an Emirates Stadium devoid of life and atmosphere will surely only increase the urgent need to appoint a full-time manager - although at this stage it is still unclear which direction the Gunners hierarchy intends to go.\n\nCity, meanwhile, remain 14 points behind leaders Liverpool after this win, which was a classic reminder of the quality the reigning Premier League champions possess.\n\nThis was as grim as it gets for Arsenal and Ljungberg, a caretaker manager who has not been able to coax an ounce extra out of the squad he inherited after Emery was shown the door.\n\nFirst things first - this is not all the Swede's fault, as this was a rot that set in long before Emery's dismissal, although Ljungberg had a close-up view as a member of his backroom staff.\n\nWhat has been disturbing, however, is Ljungberg's lack of impact on Arsenal, exemplified by the manner in which they were treated almost with contempt by Manchester City.\n\nThis result leaves the Gunners stuck between the top four and the relegation zone, seven points away from both, and the thousands of empty seats and a game concluded in resigned silence from the home support spoke volumes.\n\nArsenal had no spark, no creation and no fight - City actually went easy on them in the second half.\n\nAnd while relegation talk is a stretch, that spark is something they must find soon, whether it is under Ljungberg or a new full-time manager.\n\nManchester City's quest to claim a third successive Premier League title is surely beyond them as they languish so far behind Liverpool - but this team is still a superb sight in full cry.\n\nAnd at the hub of it all was the brilliant Belgian De Bruyne, who ripped through Arsenal at will in that first half, scoring twice and making another.\n\nDe Bruyne's first goal was a masterpiece of technique, a flashing side-footed finish into the top corner, while his third was precisely placed into the bottom corner.\n\nHe created Sterling's goal with a left-flank run that left the England attacker with the simplest of finishes, and would have scored a supreme hat-trick had Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno not shown great athleticism to fingertip his rising shot onto the woodwork.\n\nThis was a very easy day at the office for City as they overran timid opponents. The title may be gone, but they still have the class and firepower to beat any team when they get it right.\n\nCity's hold over Arsenal rolls on - the stats\n• None Arsenal have lost their last five Premier League meetings with Manchester City - their longest losing streak against a top-flight opponent since losing five times to Manchester United between September 1983 and August 1985.\n• None This was the sixth time Manchester City have beaten Arsenal in the Premier League under Pep Guardiola (P7 W6 D1 L0), as many wins as City managed against them in the competition before Guardiola's arrival (P38 W6 D9 L23).\n• None Arsenal have gone six games without a win at Emirates Stadium across all competitions (D3 L3); their longest run without a home win since between December 1994 and February 1995 under George Graham at Highbury (eight games).\n• None Manchester City have scored 25 away Premier League goals this season; the joint most by a team in their first nine away games of a single campaign, matching City's 25 goals in 2011-12).\n• None Arsenal conceded three first-half goals in a home Premier League game for only the second time, with the other also coming against City in March 2018.\n• None Arsenal managed only one shot on target - their joint fewest in a Premier League game at Emirates Stadium (also one v Everton in 2010, Chelsea in 2015 and 2016).\n• None Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in 19 Premier League goals in 2019 (seven goals, 12 assists); the most of any midfielder in this period.\n• None City's Raheem Sterling netted his seventh away league goal this season; already his joint-highest return away from home in a single campaign (also seven in 2017-18).\n• None De Bruyne's opening goal (one minute 29 seconds) was the second quickest that Arsenal have conceded at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League, after David Healy for Fulham in August 2007 (51 seconds).\n\n'We were better in loss to United' - manager reaction\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We made an incredible result but the way we played against Manchester United [a 2-1 defeat last weekend] was better in many, many things.\n\n\"I know we are judged on the result but I have a duty to judge the performance, not just the result.\"\n\nArsenal interim manager Freddie Ljungberg: \"We tried to keep the ball and be the Arsenal we want to be.\n\n\"The problem was the transitions, they scored on the counter. De Bruyne is a fantastic player but when they start like that it's very difficult to get going again and I felt we got low and they got confident.\n\n\"I said to the players at half-time it was about pride, you need to show some heart out there and show that you're proud.\"\n\nThe Gunners face Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday, 21 December (12:30 GMT). Before that, City play Oxford United on Wednesday, 18 December (19:45) in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, but return to league action when they host second-placed Leicester City on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering his partner who was a patient in a hospital has been released, police have said.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from the hospital had contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nLancashire Police said a post-mortem examination had found the woman died of natural causes.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, had subsequently been released from custody, the force said.\n\nThe full circumstances were still being investigated and a file would be passed to the coroner, it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Mar Show that Scotland 'cannot be imprisoned' in UK\n\nScotland \"cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will\" by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister says the SNP's success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be \"respected\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, \"it can only be by consent\".\n\nShe told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be \"completely wrong\" to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: \"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will.\"\n\nHowever Mr Gove told the Sophy Ridge programme on Sky that \"we were told in 2014 that that would be a choice for a generation - we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland\".\n\nThe SNP won a landslide of Scottish seats in the snap general election, making gains from the Conservatives and Labour and unseating Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nHowever UK-wide the Conservatives won a comfortable majority, returning Boris Johnson to Downing Street and setting up a constitutional stand-off over Scotland's future.\n\nThe Scottish government wants a referendum deal with UK ministers similar to that which underpinned the 2014 vote, to ensure that the outcome is legal and legitimate - but are facing opposition from the UK government.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"fundamentally not democratic\" for Mr Johnson to rule out a referendum when his party had been \"defeated comprehensively\" in Scotland - losing seven of its 13 seats while standing on a platform of opposition to independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nThe SNP leader said: \"I said this to him on Friday night on the telephone - if he thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he's going to find himself completely and utterly wrong.\n\n\"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will. You can't lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope everything goes away.\n\n\"If the UK is to continue it can only be by consent. If Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.\n\n\"Scotland cannot be imprisoned within the United Kingdom against its will. These are just basic statements of democracy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The risk for the Conservatives here is the more they try to block the will of the Scottish people, the more utter contempt they show for Scottish democracy, the more they will increase support for Scottish independence - which in a sense is them doing my job for me.\n\n\"The momentum and the mandate is on the side of those of us who think Scotland should be independent, but also on the side of those who want Scotland to be able to chose its own future.\"\n\nMr Johnson returned to Downing Street on Friday after the Conservatives won a big majority in the election\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Ms Sturgeon on the phone after being returned to government, and told her that he \"remains opposed\" to a second independence vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minster was \"standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty\".\n\nThis was echoed on Sunday morning by Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who said the result of the previous referendum in 2014 should hold for \"a generation\".\n\nHe said: \"In this general election we have just seen what happens when politicians try to overturn a referendum result, and in the same way we should respect the referendum result in 2014 in Scotland.\n\n\"Scotland is stronger in the United Kingdom. You can be proudly Scottish and proudly British together.\n\n\"The best of this country are British institutions like the NHS and the BBC, and therefore we should be proud of what we have achieved together and confident that the UK is a strong partnership that works in the interests of all.\"\n\nMeanwhile some senior figures in the Scottish Labour party are backing Nicola Sturgeon's calls for Holyrood to decide the timing of another independence vote.\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said she insists she would still oppose separation from the UK but accepts the SNP now have a mandate for a referendum in 2020.\n\nHer views were supported by former Labour MP Ged Killen, who lost his seat on Thursday.\n\n\"I campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2, but I lost,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum and, as democrats, we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nAnother former MP Paul Sweeney said it was important for Labour to \"reflect\" on the constitutional position.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "There was a Blank Space on this year's Glastonbury's line-up… and that's where Taylor Swift has written her name.\n\nShe will make her Glastonbury debut in June - the festival's 50th anniversary - headlining the Pyramid Stage.\n\nSwift announced on Twitter that she was \"ecstatic\", while holding up a photo of the festival's in-house newspaper with the headline: \"Sunday Night Taylor Made For Glastonbury.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSwift, who performed on this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing final, joins previously-announced Saturday night headliner Paul McCartney; and Motown star Diana Ross, who will play the Sunday afternoon \"legends slot\".\n\nShe is the first female artist to top the bill since Adele in 2016.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis said he was excited to welcome the singer to Worthy Farm next year.\n\n\"She's one of the biggest stars in the world and her songs are absolutely amazing,\" he said. \"We're so delighted.\"\n\nTaylor Swift will join Paul McCartney and Diana Ross in headlining Glastonbury festival on its 50th anniversary\n\nFriday's headliner is still to be revealed but festival organiser Emily Eavis recently said it would be a male artist, playing the festival \"for their first time\".\n\nMany Glastonbury-watchers expect the slot to be taken by US rapper Kendrick Lamar.\n\nThe festival sold out in just 34 minutes when tickets went on sale in October. A resale for unwanted and unpaid tickets will take place on April 16, 2020 for coach tickets and April 19 for general tickets.\n\nSwift topped the charts everywhere from the UK to China with her seventh album, Lover, earlier this year. It has since become the only album of 2019 to sell more than one million \"pure\" copies - ie CD, vinyl and downloads, not including streams - in the US.\n\nThe star, who celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday with a Christmas-themed party, recently announced a new approach to touring for 2020.\n\nAfter 2018's ambitious, 53-date Reputation stadium tour, which played to 2.8m fans and took $345.7m (£259.3m) at the box office, she's taking her show to festivals around the world, in an effort to meet new and unfamiliar audiences.\n\n\"The Lover album is open fields, sunsets, and summer,\" she wrote on social media. \"I want to perform it in a way that feels authentic. I want to go to some places I haven't been and play festivals.\"\n\nThe star will play one further date in the UK next summer: At London's BST festival in Hyde Park.\n\nHowever, general admission tickets for the show sold out within hours of going on sale earlier this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Loyalty and a ruthless ability to adapt were the twin weapons that once guaranteed the Tories a place as Britain's natural party of government.\n\nIn recent years, however, rebellion against successive leaders from both sides on the Europe divide has been the party's default position.\n\nInternal squabbling came first, banishing memories of the collective Tory survival instinct that once served the party so well.\n\nThe emphatic nature of Boris Johnson's win in the country means he is the unequivocal victor in the Conservatives' 30-year civil war over Europe.\n\n\"In the end the Leavers will win because they care more,\" one cabinet minister once told me.\n\nThe prime minister achieved those victories and will hope to sustain his new electoral coalition in the country by harnessing the power of those old and formidable Tory weapons - loyalty and a knack for evolving in new times.\n\nLoyalty, for now, is guaranteed after all 635 Conservative candidates signed a pledge to support his Brexit deal. And the prime minister's pitch in Labour's \"Red Wall\" - an end to austerity and support for public services - marked a return to ruthlessly adapting to changed political circumstances.\n\nWhile Boris Johnson has re-enlisted those two old Tory weapons, there is one historic element of the party's mission that has a less certain future: the Union.\n\nThe SNP - led by Nicola Sturgeon - won 48 seats in Scotland\n\nOn two fronts the United Kingdom is possibly entering its most perilous phase in modern times.\n\nThe SNP's landslide in Scotland sets up a constitutional clash between Holyrood and Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon will use the SNP's success to demand a section 30 order from Westminster - the ability to hold a legally binding referendum on independence.\n\nBoris Johnson is highly likely to refuse such a request, on the grounds that the last section 30 order was granted by David Cameron on the understanding by all sides that the first independence referendum would settle the issue.\n\nThe SNP will say circumstances have changed. They will hope that if Westminster is seen to thwart what they claim is the current will of the people, that may increase support for independence.\n\nAcross the water, the prime minister is planning to take the UK out of the EU on the basis of a deal that is rejected by all the main parties in Northern Ireland. The loss of confidence is so great that during the election the DUP leader Arlene Foster said that in future she would have to check whether what Boris Johnson says is \"factually correct\".\n\nThe prime minister insists that under his Brexit deal there will be no checks on good travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The DUP says that HMRC have told them there will be checks.\n\nIn the last 45 years, there have been two salutary reminders of the perils of introducing substantial governance changes in Northern Ireland without the support of the majority Unionist community.\n\nIn 1974, loyalists brought down the Sunningdale Agreement - an early version of the Good Friday Agreement - in protest at its provisions for power sharing in Northern Ireland and a proposed cross-border body. The loyalists closed the Ballylumford power station, the largest in Northern Ireland, which stands next to the port of Larne where some of the Great Britain - Northern Ireland checks may have to take place.\n\nA decade later Margaret Thatcher failed to consult Unionists when she gave Dublin a formal consultative role in Northern Ireland in the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. Unionist protests, under the banner of Ulster Says No, brought parts of Northern Ireland to a standstill.\n\nBut Thursday's fall in the vote share for the two main parties - Sinn Fein and the DUP - may change the dynamics in Northern Ireland. It could strengthen the hand of those pressing for a return of the assembly and the executive.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson's deal gives the Stormont institutions a say in Northern Ireland's future relationship with the EU.\n\nFor so long written off by some in his own party as a lightweight showman, Boris Johnson has secured an historic win that redefines the electoral map in England and Wales. He will be hoping that it does not break the wider UK map.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Laura Jones says including her stillborn son's name brings comfort to her other children\n\nA mother who lost her baby has backed a charity's plea to friends of grieving parents not to forget their children in Christmas cards.\n\nLaura Jones, 36, from Llanelli, gave birth to her \"treasured\" stillborn son Hudson in November at 19 weeks.\n\nSeeing his name in cards helped her other children and \"acknowledges the little life that was\", she said.\n\nEssex charity Aching Arms said the gesture could be \"heartwarming\" at a difficult time of year.\n\nThe organisation, based in Brentwood, sends thousands of teddy bears to grieving families across the UK, both as comforters and to signpost help.\n\n\"Not many of my family and friends mention James at Christmas,\" said founder Leanne Turner, who lost her son at 23 weeks in 2009.\n\n\"Including their names is an acknowledgement that these babies aren't a secret that shouldn't be spoken about.\"\n\nAching Arms founder Leanne Turner says acknowledgement is key to helping parents grieve\n\nSome parents said they preferred a symbol or an extra kiss as a reminder of their baby, instead of their name.\n\nMs Turner said while many families loved to hear their babies mentioned, the charity realised some parents would want their loss to remain very private.\n\n\"We each have to find our own way to cope, and that is exactly as it should be,\" she said.\n\nJade Merifield says she always signs her son's name on cards and gifts\n\nJade Merifield, 28, of Hillingdon, west London, was heading to hospital to be induced in September 2018 when complications cut off oxygen to her baby.\n\nHer son Arlo was stillborn 15 hours later.\n\n\"Personally I feel that Arlo was alive for nine months, so he should be included as he would be if he was here,\" she said.\n\n\"I get quite insulted when he isn't.\"\n\nKirsty Schwegmann says seeing her stillborn daughter's name on a card would fill her with joy\n\nIn January, Kirsty Schwegmann, who was 22 weeks pregnant with her fourth child, went for a routine scan.\n\nInstead, the 42-year-old from Farnborough in Hampshire found out her daughter Naya had died.\n\n\"She will always be in our Christmas cards and everything we do,\" said Mrs Schwegmann, now a volunteer for Aching Arms.\n\n\"It's helped my children. They find it really comforting knowing she's part of everything.\"\n\nKirsty Schwegmann said receiving a card with her daughter's name on it made her \"happy\"\n\nShe said seeing a card with her daughter's name on it could change her day.\n\n\"People think that when you mention their name you're going to get upset but it's the opposite.\n\nA stocking for Naya will be alongside those for her three other children\n\nMiss Jones, who is preparing for her first Christmas since losing her sixth child, said she would be donating to charity instead of sending cards.\n\n\"It's still raw. I don't ever want to stop talking about him,\" she said.\n\n\"Even though he never got to grow up, he existed. He's as much a part of my family as my other children.\"\n\nLaura Jones shortly after giving birth to her stillborn son Hudson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Omar al-Bashir sat in a cage as he was sentenced for corruption\n\nSudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a social reform facility for corruption.\n\nThe judge told the court that, under Sudanese law, people over the age of 70 cannot serve jail terms. Bashir is 75.\n\nBashir also faces charges related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power, genocide, and the killing of protesters before his ousting in April.\n\nDuring the sentencing, his supporters started chanting that the trial was \"political\" and were ordered to leave.\n\nThey continued their protest outside the court, chanting: \"There is no god but God.\"\n\nAfterwards one of the ousted leader's lawyers, Ahmed Ibrahim, said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nMohamed al-Hassan, another lawyer for Bashir, previously said that the defence did not consider the trial a legal one but a \"political\" one.\n\nIt is unclear whether Bashir will be tried over widespread human rights abuses during his time in power, including allegations of war crimes in Darfur.\n\nSupporters of Bashir chanted in protest outside the courtroom\n\nThe corruption case was linked to a $25 million (£19 million) cash payment he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nBashir claimed the payments were made as part of Sudan's strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and were \"not used for private interests but as donations\".\n\nNone of the active cases against Bashir in Sudan is linked to the charges he faces at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, over the conflict in Darfur that broke out in 2003.\n\nThe UN says that around 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million were displaced in the war.\n\nAfter Bashir was ousted in April, ICC prosecutors in The Hague requested that he stand trial over the Darfur killings.\n\nThe Sudanese army generals who seized power immediately after his fall initially refused to comply, but Sudan's umbrella protest movement - which now has significant representation in the country's sovereign council - recently said it would not object to his extradition.\n\nProsecutors in Sudan have also charged him with the killing of protesters during the demonstrations that led to him being ousted.", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "A few months ago a Chinese official asked me if I thought foreign powers were fomenting Hong Kong's social unrest.\n\n\"To get so many people to come to the streets,\" he mused, \"must take organisation, a big sum of money and political resources.\"\n\nSince then, the protests sparked at the beginning of Hong Kong's hot summer have raged on through autumn and into winter.\n\nThe massive marches have continued, interspersed with increasingly violent pitched battles between smaller groups of more militant protesters and the police.\n\nThe toll is measured in a stark ledger of police figures that, even a short while ago, would have seemed impossible for one of the world's leading financial capitals and a bastion of social stability.\n\nAs the sense of political crisis has deepened and divisions have hardened, China has continued to see the sinister hand of foreign meddling behind every twist and turn.\n\nHe told the assembled senior officials to be on their guard for \"black swans\" - the unpredictable, unseen events that can plunge a system into crisis. But he also warned them about what he called \"grey rhinoceroses\" - the known risks that are ignored until it's too late.\n\nXi Jinping toasts 70 years of Communist Party rule, while protests rage in Hong Kong\n\nWhile state media reports show the discussions ranging over issues from housing bubbles to food safety, there's no mention at all of Hong Kong.\n\nAnd yet the seeds were already being sown for what has become the biggest challenge to Communist Party rule in a generation.\n\nA few weeks after the meeting, the Hong Kong government, with the strong backing of Beijing, introduced a bill that would allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China.\n\nOpposition to the bill was immediate, deep-seated and widespread, driven by the fear that it would allow China's legal system to reach deep inside Hong Kong.\n\nDespite assurances that \"political crimes\" would not be covered, many saw it as a fundamental breach of the \"one country, two systems\" principle under which the territory is supposed to be governed.\n\nIt wasn't just human rights groups and legal experts expressing alarm, but the business community, multinational corporations and foreign governments too, worried that overseas nationals might also find themselves targeted by such a law.\n\nAnd so, the first claims of \"foreign meddling\" began to be heard.\n\nProtests have ranged from peaceful family events to large-scale, armed street violence\n\nOn 9 June, a massive and overwhelmingly peaceful rally against the bill was held, with organisers putting the attendance at more than a million.\n\nThe accusations made in person by officials, like the one mentioned earlier, were echoes of a narrative being taken up in earnest by China's Communist Party-controlled media.\n\nThe morning after the march, an English language editorial in the China Daily raised the spectre of \"interference\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, some Hong Kong residents have been hoodwinked by the opposition camp and their foreign allies into supporting the anti-extradition campaign,\" it said.\n\nFrom the protesters' point of view, the dismissal of their grievances as externally driven explains, to a large extent, what happened next.\n\nThe city's political elite, backed by Beijing and insulated from ordinary Hong Kongers by a political system rigged in its favour, demonstrated a spectacular failure to accurately read the public mood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree days after the march, with Hong Kong's leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, insisting she would not back down, thousands of people surrounded the Legislative Council building where the bill was being debated.\n\nIt was on the same spot just outside the chamber, less than five years earlier, that a phalanx of trucks with mechanical grabbers had begun scooping up rows of abandoned tents.\n\nTo the sound of the snapping of poles and the crunching of bamboo barricades - the detritus of weeks of protest and occupation - 2014's pro-democracy demonstrations finally ran out of steam.\n\nNow the proposed law, one that may once have been seen as relatively inconsequential, was about to reignite the movement.\n\nThe protesters threw bricks and bottles, the police fired tear gas and by the evening of 12 June, Hong Kong had witnessed one of its worst outbreaks of violence in decades.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have been arrested through the months of increasingly violent unrest\n\nNo-one could be in any doubt that the Umbrella Movement, with its demands for wider democratic reform, was back with a vengeance.\n\nThe few concessions - first the suspension and finally the withdrawal of the bill - came too late to stop the cycle of escalating violence from both the protesters and the police.\n\nBeijing is right to point out that there are plenty of Hong Kongers who deplore the mask-clad militants building barricades, vandalising public property and setting fires.\n\nSome of them are ardent supporters of Chinese rule, others are simply being pragmatic, believing that violence will only provoke the central government into intervening more strongly in Hong Kong's affairs.\n\nFirst-time voters and candidates ousted seasoned veterans in some constituencies\n\nBut the authorities were stunned last month by a test of the true strength of those viewpoints, when - on a record turnout in local elections - the pro-democracy camp swept the board.\n\nThe poll gave its candidates almost 60% of the total share of the votes.\n\nAt first there was an astonished silence from mainland China, which had genuinely thought the pro-Beijing side would win.\n\nThe initial news reports mentioned only the conclusion of the voting, not the results, but then came a familiar refrain.\n\n\"The politicians behind them who are anti-China and want to mess up Hong Kong reaped substantial political benefits,\" it said.\n\nAs proof of interference, China cites cases of foreign politicians voicing support for democracy or raising concerns about its erosion under Chinese rule.\n\nIt has also blamed Washington for passing a law mandating an annual assessment of Hong Kong's political freedoms as a pre-condition for continuing the territory's special trading status.\n\nHong Kong's protesters have adopted the word \"Chinazi\" to display their views towards Beijing\n\nXinhua has denounced it as \"a malicious political manipulation that seriously interferes with Hong Kong affairs\".\n\nBut no evidence has been produced of any outside forces co-ordinating or directing the protests on the ground.\n\nIn reality, the young, radical protesters, with the ubiquitous use of the portmanteau \"Chinazi\" in their street graffiti, appear as much motivated by statements from Beijing as they are from Washington.\n\nThe very institutions - independent courts and a free press - that are supposed to be protected by the \"one country, two systems\" formula, are derided by the ruling Communist Party as dangerous, foreign constructs.\n\nWhere once Hong Kongers might have hoped that China's economic rise would bring political freedoms to the mainland and a closer alignment with their values, many now fear the opposite.\n\nMass detention camps in Xinjiang, a wider crackdown on civil society, and the abduction of Hong Kong citizens for perceived political crimes have all underlined the concern that their city is now ruled by political masters inherently hostile to the very things that make it special.\n\nAnd any appeal to universal values as underwriting Hong Kong's side of the \"two systems\", is anathema to Beijing, one that it rejects by conflating it with outside foreign meddling.\n\nDespite earlier fears, the central government seems unlikely to send in the army - a move certain to provoke even more of an international outcry.\n\nMainland Chinese soldiers deployed in Hong Kong have remained in their barracks throughout the protests\n\nBut nor can it offer a political solution.\n\nGiving the pro-democracy movement any more of what the Communist Party strains every fibre of its organisational structure to deny to the mass of Chinese people is impossible.\n\nIts values are stability and control, not freedom and democracy, and it struggles to understand how anyone would choose the latter over the former.\n\nSo Beijing finds itself bound by a sense of historical destiny to a territory with which it is - in large part - in deep ideological opposition.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is a tension that has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the region, in particular, in Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers a breakaway province.\n\nHong Kong's experience of one country, two systems, the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has suggested, has shown that authoritarianism and democracy cannot coexist.\n\nReferring to the prospect of a similar formula being foisted on Taiwan she tweeted, in Chinese characters, the phrase bu ke neng - \"Not a chance\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history behind Hong Kong's identity crisis and protests - first broadcast November 2019", "\"Yellow Vest\" protesters and police clashed in the French capital Paris on Saturday night.\n\nThe protesters hurled objects at police and chased after them when they tried to get away.\n\nMore than 100 people at the marches were arrested on Saturday, police said.\n\nIt came after demonstrations throughout France for a sixth consecutive Saturday.\n\nOnly 66,000 protesters were thought to have come out this week however, compared with 282,000 at the start of the protests on 17 November.", "Josh Rathour has been celebrated for his entrepreneurship.\n\nThe chief executive of popular student discount site UNiDAYS has strongly denied claims made against him in an anonymous online petition.\n\nMore than 750 people have signed a letter accusing Josh Rathour, who set up the company in 2011, of sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nThe allegations were made on Organise, a campaign website that hosted a petition against the boss of Ted Baker.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Rathour said he \"would welcome any investigation\".\n\nA statement from UNiDAYS said the company would be conducting an investigation in the new year \"to establish the facts\".\n\nThe firm, which offers money off clothes, gadgets, music, transport and food has grown into a global brand.\n\nThe site, and accompanying app, both marketed at \"Generation Z,\" boasts 10 million members.\n\nIts many partners include Adidas, Asos, Microsoft, Nike and Topshop.\n\nUNiDAYS was founded, and is based, in Nottingham\n\nThe petition, which was published on Saturday, claims inappropriate behaviour at UNiDAYS was \"rife and wholly unchecked\".\n\nIt also alleges that some staff were made to sign so-called \"gagging orders\" - effectively banning them from disclosing their grievances.\n\nUNiDAYS' human resources team, it adds, \"wilfully ignored reports of harassment\".\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Rathour said he was \"confident any investigation will not find any truth in the allegations about his behaviour at work\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the culture at UNiDAYS was inclusive and respectful and that half the line managers were female.\n\nA source close to the firm claimed none of the allegations detailed in the petition had officially been put to the company.\n\nMr Rathour, 36, has been celebrated for his entrepreneurship.\n\nHis firm, which is headquartered in Nottingham, has offices in London, New York and Sydney, and employs more than 250 people worldwide.\n\nIn 2015, UNiDAYS was crowned Digital Business of the Year.\n\nOrganise founder Nat Whalley says former UNiDAYS employees were inspired by a Ted Baker petition\n\nAllegations of harassment at the company had appeared on the workplace review site Glassdoor, but have since been removed.\n\nNat Whalley, the founder of Organise which is hosting the current petition, said it was started by a group of former UNiDAYS employees.\n\nShe says they were inspired by a similar petition against Ray Kelvin, the founder of Ted Baker, calling for an end to \"forced hugging\" and a culture of harassment.\n\nMr Kelvin has now taken a leave of absence while the company conducts an independent external investigation into the claims.", "Video shows the aftermath of a tsunami which hit the coast on Indonesia's Sunda Strait without warning.\n\nMultiple deaths have been reported and the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nThe country's disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged.\n\nIt says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after the Krakatau volcano erupted.", "Emperor Akihito delivers his last birthday address alongside his wife Empress Michiko\n\nMore than 80,000 people have paid their respects to Japan's Emperor Akihito as he gave his final birthday address before his abdication in April.\n\nThe emperor, 85, said he took \"deep comfort\" that his reign had passed without Japan again engaging in war.\n\nHe became emotional as he thanked the people of Japan and his wife Empress Michiko for their support.\n\nAkihito is the first living monarch to relinquish the Chrysanthemum throne in nearly 200 years.\n\nThe emperor, who has had heart surgery and treatment for prostate cancer, will be succeeded in April by his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito.\n\nHis three-decade reign is known as the \"Heisei\" era, which means \"achieving peace\" in Japanese.\n\nDuring his brief address, Emperor Akihito also offered condolences and sympathy to Japanese who had lost family members or suffered damage - a reference to the earthquakes, severe storms and heatwaves that have hit the country over the past year.\n\nAlthough his position is ceremonial and he has no political power, Akihito has spent much of his reign spreading awareness of Japan's actions during World War Two under the rule of his father, Emperor Hirohito.\n\nHe has expressed regret over Japan's military actions in both China and the Korean peninsula, and has also visited several Pacific battlefields to honour the dead, actions that have brought him into conflict with right-wing groups at home.\n\nAhead of his birthday he told reporters: \"It is important not to forget that countless lives were lost in World War Two... and to pass on this history accurately to those born after the war.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 the BBC asked people in Tokyo sum up Emperor Akihito in one word\n\nIn October the head priest at Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine - which honours Japan's 2.5 million war dead but also enshrines convicted criminals of World War Two - agreed to resign after criticising Emperor Akihito, saying he was trying to destroy the shrine by not visiting it.\n\nSome top politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have visited the shrine, sparking an angry response from critics including China.\n\nIn his address, Emperor Akihito also said he hoped Japan would be able to welcome immigrants to the country under new legislation to let in more foreign, blue-collar workers to ease a labour shortage owing to an ageing population.\n\nJapan has hitherto had restrictive immigration laws and accepts few workers from other countries.", "The German reporter Claas Relotius, accused by top news magazine Der Spiegel of faking stories, could now face embezzlement charges.\n\nDer Spiegel says it is filing a criminal complaint alleging he solicited donations for Syrian orphans from readers with any proceeds going to his personal account.\n\nDer Spiegel said last week that Relotius admitted faking some stories.\n\nThe reporter, 33, has yet to comment on the embezzlement allegations.\n\nIn the latest development, Der Spiegel reports (in German) that it received messages from readers saying Relotius had used a private email account to ask for donations to help Syrian orphans in Turkey.\n\nThe money should be sent to his personal bank account, the magazine quotes readers as saying.\n\nThe publication says it is not yet clear what sort of response he received - how much money was collected or where it ended up.\n\nDer Spiegel is gathering evidence to pass on to prosecutors.\n\nRelotius' appeal for donations was linked to an article he wrote about two Syrian street-children, a brother and sister, in Turkey - parts of which Der Spiegel says were faked.\n\nA Turkish photographer who accompanied Relotius on the story said the reporter had made up some aspects of the boy's life and heavily fictionalised others.\n\nThe photographer suspects that the sister may not have existed at all.\n\nThe American ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has also intervened, writing to Der Spiegel's editor to demand an independent investigation and accusing the publication of institutional bias against the US.\n\nLike many publications, Der Spiegel has carried stories critical of President Donald Trump.\n\nOne of the Relotius stories at issue centred on the US-Mexican border. Der Spiegel said its investigation revealed that he had fabricated information about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: \"Mexicans Keep Out.\"\n\nFalse information appeared in other stories including one about inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and another about the US NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\nRelotius, who has been sacked, told the magazine he regretted his actions and was deeply ashamed. According to Der Spiegel, he admitted deceiving readers in some 14 stories.\n\nBut he says many of the 60 articles he has written for the magazine are accurate.\n\nThe Hamburg-based publication described the revelations as \"a low point in Der Spiegel's 70-year history\".", "The eight teenagers left Northamptonshire County Council care in June, July and September 2017\n\nEight out of the 13 Vietnamese teenagers who disappeared from a county council's care more than a year ago are still at large, police have confirmed.\n\nThe group absconded after they were discovered in the back of a lorry in Corby, Northamptonshire, in June 2017, having entered the UK illegally.\n\nA year after police issued an appeal, only five of the young people, aged between 15 and 18, have been located.\n\nNorthamptonshire County Council said it was \"very concerned\" for their welfare.\n\nA spokesman for the authority said: \"There are particular concerns about these young people due to the circumstances of their arrival, given the fact that we had very little time to assess their needs when they came into our care before they went missing.\"\n\nThe three girls and 10 males were looked after by Northamptonshire social services after they were found in the lorry on a Corby industrial estate on 17 June, 2017.\n\nThey then disappeared \"one after the other\" from accommodation in Northampton and Corby where they had been safeguarded, police added.\n\nEight boys remain at large after leaving properties separately in June, July and September 2017.\n\nPolice have not commented on whether the youngsters were trafficked or entered the UK of their own free will.\n\nThe teenagers, who are all missing from addresses in Northampton, are:\n• None Why are so many of the UK's missing teenagers Vietnamese?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Grande Tema docked at Tilbury just before 04:30 GMT on Saturday\n\nFour men who were found hidden on board a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary have been charged with affray.\n\nThe Grande Tema was seen sailing in circles on Friday.\n\nSamuel Jolumi, 26, Ishola Sunday, 27, Toheeb Popoola, 26, and Joberto McGee, 20, all of no fixed address, were detained following what Essex Police described as a \"complex operation\".\n\nThey are due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA map showing the Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary at 17:00 GMT on Friday\n\nThe 71,000-tonne ship had set off from Lagos, Nigeria, on 10 December.\n\nIt docked at Tilbury, Essex, just before 04.30 GMT on Saturday, following the police operation.\n\nGrimaldi Group, which owns the vessel, said four men were discovered on board four days before it docked.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Europe's Sentinel-1 satellite shows the western side of the volcano changed shape\n\nNobody had any clue. There was certainly no warning. It's part of the picture that now suggests a sudden failure in the west-southwest flank of the Anak Krakatau volcano was a significant cause of Saturday's devastating tsunami in the Sunda Strait.\n\nOf course everyone in the region will have been aware of Anak Krakatau, the volcano that emerged in the sea channel just less than 100 years ago. But its rumblings and eruptions have been described by local experts as relatively low-scale and semi-continuous.\n\nIn other words, it's been part of the background.\n\nAnd yet it is well known that volcanoes have the capacity to generate big waves. The mechanism as ever is the displacement of a large volume of water.\n\nThe first satellite imagery returned after the event on Saturday points strongly to a collapse in a 64 hectare segment of the west-southwest flank of the volcano during an eruption. This would have sent millions of tonnes of rocky debris into the sea, pushing out waves in all directions.\n\nAnak Krakatau has been rumbling for years\n\nProf Andy Hooper from Leeds University, UK, is a specialist in the study of volcanoes from orbit. He had little doubt in the interpretation when examining the pictures from Europe's Sentinel-1 radar spacecraft.\n\n\"As well as an increase in the size of the crater, there are new dark features on the west side indicating steep-sided scarps in shadow, presumably due to collapse; as well as changes in the coastline.\"\n\nThe comparison between Saturday's imagery and Sentinel pictures acquired before the tsunami are telling.\n\nBut the precise anatomy of this event - what happened above the sea surface and below - will not be known until teams can get into the area of the volcano to do a proper survey, and at the moment that is too dangerous. Further collapse could kick off more tsunamis.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScientists have had concerns for some time about Anak Krakatau, the edifice that has grown in place of the infamous Krakatau mountain that blew itself apart on the same spot in 1883.\n\nOne group even modelled what would happen in a collapse of the southwest flank - the side of today's volcano considered to be the most unstable.\n\nWaves that were tens of metres high would hit the nearby islands of Sertung, Panjang and Rakata in less than a minute, the team found.\n\nAs these waves spread out across the Sunda Strait, they would dissipate, though, coming ashore at one to three metres in height.\n\nThe projected scenario is uncanny, particularly in the timing of the inundation. Tide gauges in the Sunda Strait recorded high water around half an hour after the onset of Anak Krakatau's latest eruptive activity, at roughly 21:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday evening.\n\nRaphaël Paris, one of the authors of the study, issued a statement through the European Geosciences Union. He said: \"The volume of collapse simulated is larger than what occurred Saturday (fortunately) and our scenario can thus be considered as a worst-case scenario.\n\n\"However, there is a big uncertainty on the stability of the volcanic cone now and the probability for future collapses and tsunamis is perhaps non negligible.\"\n\nThe tsunami wiped out buildings in Carita\n\nThe area will inevitably become the subject of intense scrutiny in the weeks ahead.\n\nLandslide- or rockfall-driven tsunamis can be very big indeed. In the geological record, they have been responsible for gargantuan events.\n\nJust recently in Greenland in 2017, a 100m (330ft) wave was produced by a rockslide entering a fjord in the west of the country; and there is still some suspicion that September's damaging tsunami that affected Sulawesi Island in Indonesia was, in part at least, strengthened by the mass movement of sediment, either entering the water from shore or slipping down underwater slopes in Palu Bay.\n\nOne of the most distressing things on occasions like this is to see video of people going about their lives completely unaware of what is about to hit them.\n\nIf there had been a major earthquake tremor associated with the eruption on Anak Krakatau, this might have been enough to prompt many locals to take evasive action.\n\nBut although there was seismicity reported by sensitive instruments, it was not large enough to register with people and change their behaviour. And people really have to rely on themselves for evacuation in cases like this because the distance from the source of the tsunami is so short.\n\n\"Tsunami warning buoys are positioned to warn of tsunamis originated by earthquakes at underwater tectonic plate boundaries. Even if there had been such a buoy right next to Anak Krakatau, this is so close to the affected shorelines that warning times would have been minimal given the high speeds at which tsunami waves travel,\" observed Prof Dave Rothery from the UK's Open University.\n\nWhat an event like this one (and the one at Palu City which also caught the population unawares) teaches us is that there needs to be far more investigation into the hazards that exist away from the more expected dangers in the region.\n\nRelatives are desperate to find their loved ones alive\n\nEnormous research effort has gone into understanding what are called subduction earthquakes and tsunamis, such as the 2004 disaster which originated on the Sunda Trench, where one tectonic plate dives under another. The science now needs to encompass more of the wider threats in the region.\n\nThis recognition was voiced strongly at this month's American Geophysical Union Meeting - the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.\n\n\"Focus is always where the light is,\" Prof Hermann Fritz, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, told the AGU conference.\n\n\"The focus has been on Sumatra and Java - on the big subduction trenches. The warning centres have also been focussing on that - because we've had big events such as Japan [2011], Chile in 2010 and Sumatra in 2004. These are all classic subduction zone events, so everything has been geared towards that - the science from the scientists and also the warnings from warning centres.\"\n\nThis page was initially published on Saturday and has been updated to reflect new information, in particular from Europe's Sentinel satellite system.", "Police are searching a house in Crawley in connection with the drone sightings\n\nA 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman from Crawley are being questioned over multiple drone sightings that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.\n\nFlights were grounded for more than 36 hours when drones were first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.\n\nThe airport has since reopened and flights were operating on schedule, but there were still long queues and some knock-on delays, a spokesman said.\n\nPolice are searching a house in Crawley and the pair remain in custody.\n\nThey were arrested on Friday evening and were being questioned on suspicion of disrupting civil aviation \"to endanger or likely to endanger safety of operations or persons\", Sussex Police said.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe force said it was deploying \"a range of tactics\" to prevent further incursions from drones following the arrests.\n\nStrategies were in place in case any further unmanned aircraft were seen inside the airport perimeter, it added.\n\nSupt James Collis said: \"We continue to urge the public, passengers and the wider community around Gatwick to be vigilant and support us by contacting us immediately if they believe they have any information that can help us in bringing those responsible to justice.\"\n\nThe airport said it aimed to run \"a full schedule\" of 757 flights on Saturday, carrying 124,484 passengers.\n\nA Gatwick spokesman said: \"Many people will be due to fly today and there will be longer delays perhaps.\n\n\"But broadly things are going in the right direction. By the end of the weekend, things should be back to normal.\"\n\nThe Shorrock family, from Oxford, arrived at the airport to fly to Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps for a skiing trip.\n\nVivienne Shorrock said she was \"relieved\" to have avoided the disruption.\n\n\"Some people have suffered real losses by not getting where they want to go to be with family,\" she said.\n\nHer husband David joked the drama was a \"nice distraction from Brexit\".\n\nPassengers have been warned about some knock-on delays\n\nPassengers have been warned to expect some delays and cancellations and were advised to check with their airline before travelling to the airport.\n\nAbout 1,000 aircraft were either cancelled or diverted and about 140,000 passengers were disrupted during three days of disruption.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday.\n\nThe drones were first spotted at about 21:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nEvery time the airport sought to reopen the runway on Thursday, the drones returned.\n\nPassengers queue for flights as the airport and airlines work to clear the backlog\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield after the Army deployed unidentified military technology to guard the area, reassuring the airport that it was safe enough to fly from about 06:00 on Friday.\n\nThe Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can detect drones using radar, is believed to have been used. It can jam communications between the drone and its operator, enabling authorities to take control of and land the device.\n\nBut John Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, told the BBC the problem with this system was \"you can find the drone but not the person operating it\".\n\n\"You can take the drone out of the sky but you won't capture the person and that's what you want to do.\n\n\"You can get a second-hand drone for between £200 and £300 so if you take it down, they can just go out and buy another one,\" he said.\n\nNo group has claimed responsibility for the disruption.\n\nThe drones caused misery for travellers, with many sleeping on the airport floor as they searched for alternative routes to holidays and Christmas family gatherings.\n\nThousands of passengers returning to the UK were either stranded abroad or diverted to other UK airports.\n\nA handful of flights due to arrive into Gatwick on Saturday were cancelled, according to the airport's website, including an easyJet service from Milan-Linate and a TUI flight from Bridgetown, Barbados.\n\nA Gatwick spokesman said: \"Safety is Gatwick's top priority and we are grateful for passengers' continued patience as we work to get them to their final destination in time for Christmas.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Darren Criss says he will no longer accept LGBT scripts because he doesn't want to deprive gay actors of roles.\n\nThe actor, who is straight, is well-known for playing the gay character of Andrew Cunanan in American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace.\n\n\"I want to make sure I won't be another straight boy taking a gay man's role,\" he told Bustle magazine.\n\nHe said it's been \"a joy\" acting in gay roles but no longer feels comfortable doing so, which is \"unfortunate\".\n\nPrevious to American Crime Story, he was mostly known for his portrayal of gay pupil Blaine Anderson in Glee.\n\nDarren Criss won a Primetime Emmy award for his portrayal of serial killer Andrew Cunanan\n\n\"There are certain roles that I'll see that are just wonderful,\" he explained.\n\n\"But I want to make sure I won't be another straight boy taking a gay man's role.\"\n\nThe debate over who has a right to play certain characters was reignited earlier this year when Scarlett Johansson dropped out of playing a transgender character following a backlash.\n\nSir Ian McKellen is among those critical of Hollywood's attitude to gay actors.\n\nNo openly gay man has ever won the Academy Award for best actor, while straight actors have taken home the prize for playing LGBT roles.\n\nTom Hanks won it for Philadelphia in 1993, while Sean Penn scooped it for Milk in 2009.\n\nIn total, 52 straight people have been Oscar-nominated for playing gay characters.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Josh Warrington retained his IBF featherweight world title as a blistering start set up a unanimous points win over Carl Frampton in a fight-of-the-year contender in Manchester.\n\nCaptivating from start to finish, the Englishman's staggering work-rate laid the platform for a hugely impressive win - his 28th in succession.\n\nHaving narrowly avoided being dropped in the opening round, Frampton fought gallantly with wonderful shot selection to tighten up the contest in the middle rounds.\n\nHowever, the Northern Irishman could not reverse the damage sufficiently as he slid to defeat in a world title fight for the second time.\n\nWarrington now looks set for a unification bout against one of the division's other belt holders, with WBO champion Oscar Valdez his most likely opponent.\n\nTwo judges scored the fight 116-112, with the other scoring 116-113.\n\n\"My hands are sore and I've got bruises on my head but I've done it. I've shown what I'm about,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"If you had said last year that I would've beaten Lee Selby and Carl Frampton back to back, people would've laughed in your face.\n\n\"I think I earned his respect as soon as I hit him, but it was always about controlling the pace. I've always had self-belief and I've had it for a long time.\n\n\"I don't feel pressure now once I get into a building because I get this massive energy from somewhere. Once I'm in there, I feel I can't be beaten.\"\n• None 'I'd like an away trip' - victorious Warrington wants to unify titles in US\n• None 5 live Boxing with Costello & Bunce: 'That was something very, very special'\n\nThe styles of the fighters pointed to this being a classic featherweight contest, and so it proved, with both men backed by raucous support to create a memorable night.\n\nWarrington seized the belt with a wonderful display of front-foot boxing against Lee Selby in May, but still few could have anticipated the incredible onslaught he produced in the opening two rounds, twice rocking Frampton with a terrific flurry of shots.\n\nFrampton, having sustained a cut under the left eye, worked his way back into the fight and landed several neat hooks but it was the champion who continued to produce the more eye-catching combinations.\n\nLittle separated the pair from the third round onwards, with Warrington remarkably catching a second wind in the eighth to stop Frampton seizing the momentum in the crucial final rounds.\n\nThe Belfast fighter had pointed to Warrington's record of just six knock-outs as evidence of a lack of power, however in the opening exchanges no such limitation seemed to hamper him.\n\nFrampton was sent rocking across the ring and seemed certain to hit the canvas for the first time in seven fights but remained on his feet and managed to close out the second round.\n\nIn the build-up to the fight the pair were at pains to point out that the apparent absence personal animosity would not dilute the end product and so it proved, with Warrington describing himself as a \"Frampton fan\" in the immediate aftermath while the defeated fighter stated that he had no complaints with the result.\n\nA standing ovation from the entire crowd seemed a fitting conclusion to the bout, which promoter Frank Warren described as \"the best fight I have ever seen\".\n\nWhat next for Warrington and Frampton?\n\nGiven the absorbing nature of the contest, one could be forgiven for pleading the case for a rematch. However, Warrington will rightfully have the opportunity to unify as he once again showed he is more than worthy of his world champion status in one of boxing's most competitive divisions.\n\nShould Valdez come through his title defence next month, the undefeated Mexican is his most likely opponent and had already signalled he wanted to face the winner of this fight.\n\nFor Frampton, the loss is a severe blow to his desire to meet WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz for a third time, with the 31-year-old hinting he will consider his future in professional boxing.\n\nHaving lost the belt to Santa Cruz in January 2017, the Belfast man has spent the past two years plotting a path back to the top of the division and eventually landed his world title shot in his fourth fight with new trainer Jamie Moore.\n\nOne of the best fights I've covered - analysis\n\nIt's very high among the best fights I've covered at ringside. Very rarely have we seen something like we have seen here tonight.\n\nThis has the making of a fight of the year nominee because the two men showed such determination, such resilience and such skill, that we ended up with something very memorable.\n\nCarl Frampton competed at an elite level tonight but the question is how much has that taken out of him? He's lost a world title before and knows how tough it is to climb back. He has to ask himself that question because the desire to fight is like elastic in your socks. Once you've lost it, you can't get it back.\n\nThe plan was definitely to apply controlled pressure because he felt he had the greater strength in those exchanges. But the way Warrington closed the gap between him and Frampton in those exchanges was key in the fight.\n\nIt was a phenomenal performance from Warrington for a first defence of his title.", "The Angus area alone received a £21m cash injection from Carnoustie hosting the event\n\nThe Open golf championship at Carnoustie in July boosted the Scottish economy by £69m this year, according to an independent study.\n\nResearchers at Sheffield Hallam University found the Angus area alone received a £21m cash injection from hosting the event.\n\nThe 147th Open attracted a record 172,000 fans to the tournament, which was won by Italian Francesco Molinari.\n\nNearly half of the spectators (49.8%) travelled from outside Scotland.\n\nThe majority of Scottish fans (84.8%) came from outside Angus.\n\nThe study, which was commissioned by golf's governing body the R&A, VisitScotland and Angus Council, also suggested the global TV marketing value to Scotland was £51m.\n\nFranceso Molinari became the first Italian to win The Open\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said The Open had \"once again showcased Scotland internationally as the perfect stage for major events\".\n\nShe said: \"The figures released today also demonstrate the economic benefits of hosting major events and I'm pleased the 147th Open generated significant income for both the local Angus area and for the wider Scottish economy.\"\n\nDavid Fairweather, the leader of Angus Council, said the event had attracted global interest and attention, \"as well as immediate and long-lasting economic benefits to local and regional communities and business\".\n\nHe added: \"Twenty-one million pounds of new money into the local economy is great news for Angus, its people, hotels, B&Bs, shops and restaurants.\"\n\nThe R&A's chief executive Martin Slumbers said: \"The Open has a proven track record of generating substantial economic benefit for the host country in which it is staged thanks to the tens of thousands of spectators who attend each year.\"", "Chanin \"Titan\" Vibulrungruang, one of the 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave - but where are they on our list?\n\nAs everyone knows, Christmas is a time for lists, so we decided to pull together one of our own.\n\nWe took a look through our statistics since 1 January and found the eight articles and live pages that got the most page views this year.\n\nAnd no, your eyes aren't deceiving you - not one of our best-read stories this year is about Donald Trump...", "When a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, hundreds of children were separated from their parents. More than 2,000 people died, with large areas being declared mass graves. But in recent weeks there have also been some extraordinary reunions.\n\n\"What happened that day, my little one?\"\n\nMartha Salilama had left the stove on.\n\nWhen the earth shook with incredible power, she grabbed seven year old Fikri, her great nephew, and rushed out of the house.\n\nThey had been cooking together, packets of yellow rice with fried chicken to sell at a beach festival to mark Palu city's anniversary.\n\n\"With things crumbling and falling around them, they ran out into the open. They were terrified that they would get trapped inside,\" says her sister Selfi Salilama, Fikri's grandmother.\n\nWhen the earth stopped shaking, Marta left Fikri with some neighbours who had gathered around a horse statue that sits on the Palu bay.\n\nShe then went home to turn off the stove.\n\n\"When she came back Fikri was gone,\" says Selfi.\n\nWhat she found was a scene of horror, a trail of destruction left by gigantic waves that had pounded the bay.\n\nThe earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city of Palu\n\nWhen the quake hit five year old Jumadil was on the beach building sandcastles.\n\nHis grandmother, Ajarni, who was looking after him that day, was selling food to festival goers on the street above the beach.\n\nHe had been clingy that day, she remembers.\n\n\"He wanted to be carried all the time, so I carried him around on my hip. He finally got bored and asked to be put down and went off and played in the sand,\" she says.\n\nWhen the first quake struck she tried frantically to reach him but failed.\n\nIt was chaotic, she says, with people running in all directions as the earth threw them around.\n\n\"When I got closer to the shore I saw a wall of black water heading towards me.\"\n\n\"I ran as fast as I could, I had no idea where I was running\"\n\nWith the monstrous waves about to pound the bay, she could look no more and ran.\n\n\"I ran as fast as I could, I had no idea where I was running. When the water swept me away I clung on to a motorbike.\"\n\nThe waves finally dumped her in the parking lot of a hotel.\n\nShe had survived. But Jumadil was gone.\n\nThat's where her husband, Daeng, the boy's grandfather, found her.\n\n\"I didn't recognise her at first, because she was covered in mud and blood and was crying. I turned to someone I knew and said I am looking for my wife and they said - that's her!\"\n\n\"Her hair was caked with mud and blood, it was like instant noodles. I picked her up and cried out for help.\"\n\nA passing motorbike rider took them to the nearest hospital.\n\n\"I was worried she would lose too much blood. There were lots of aftershocks, it was terrifying,\" he remembers.\n\nSusi Rahmatia thought her son had drowned in the huge waves\n\n\"My uncle rushed in and said 'there are children's corpses everywhere near the shore'. I collapsed and cried, I thought for sure my son had been killed by the waves.\"\n\n\"That night my husband went searching for him. When he came across a body of a child he broke down and cried.\"\n\nIn the morning the grandfather, Asmudin, joined the search.\n\n\"The air around the beach was filled with the smell of corpses. I searched and searched for hours barefoot. I looked under the rubble and in places I thought he might have been washed up,\" he says.\n\nChildren's toys were scattered in the rubble of houses\n\nSeven year old Fikri's family were also desperately searching for him.\n\nHis grandmother, Selfi Salilama, says they feared he, too, was dead.\n\n\"At the hospital we opened body bag after body bag that had a child in it,\" she says.\n\n\"Each time a wave of fear washed over us. And we would say 'Allah make us strong enough to do this' - each time hoping it wasn't Fikri.\"\n\n\"We were almost certain that we had lost him. We knew his 10-year-old brother had died. But in my heart I had a little hope that perhaps Fikri had run away in time.\"\n\nSelfi Salilam feared both her grandsons were dead\n\nFikri's parents live and work 600km away in Gorontalo.\n\nWith telecommunications down Selfi says she couldn't contact them. She was also a little scared to tell them.\n\n\"I didn't want everyone to panic and worry. We wanted to search first and give them news with some certainty,\" she says.\n\nBut given the scale of the disaster keeping it a secret was impossible.\n\n\"We saw it all on television. I was just speechless. My husband Iqbal left straight away for Palu. I stayed here to look after my younger children,\" Susila says.\n\nWhen Iqbal As Sywie arrived to hear both his sons were missing, he was devastated.\n\n\"He was angry and very upset and was saying to us 'why didn't you take better care of my sons?' I had to calm him down telling him this was out of our hands. That if Allah wanted to take them we had to accept that.\"\n\nPhotographs of missing people were displayed on the walls in days after the disaster\n\nThey reported Fikri missing at child protection posts set up across the city.\n\nThey also did interviews with local television stations giving them details about the boy who was missing.\n\nJumadil's uncle posted a notice on a Facebook page for survivors in the city, hoping the picture of his nephew would jog someone's memory.\n\nSartini's daughter saw the picture and thought it bore a striking resemblance to the child her mother was looking after.\n\nThe social media post that help find Jumadil\n\nThe wife of a local imam, Sartini, had met the boy at a police station in the aftermath of the quake.\n\nShe remembers that he was wailing uncontrollably, just repeating cries of \"mummy\" and \"daddy\".\n\n\"I only persuaded him by saying 'your mother is still buying milk for you',\" she told AFP at the time. She befriended him and took care of him.\n\n\"What they saw on Facebook were old photos of Jumadil - so at first they weren't sure if it was really him,\" says his mother Susi.\n\n\"But when they read the details in the post about what he was wearing that day - a red striped shirt and that his pants were held up with a string because they were too big, that's when they knew it was the same boy.\"\n\nA matching birthmark on the neck confirmed it was indeed Jumadil, setting the stage for a reunion.\n\n\"I couldn't sleep, I thought about him all night, wondering who saved my little boy,\" says Susi.\n\nJumadil leaps off a motorbike into his mother's arms. Their emotional reunion after five long days is captured on film.\n\nHe clings to her while she smothers him in kisses, tears stream down both their faces. Jumadil crying so hard he is gasping for breath.\n\n\"He hugged me so tight like he never wanted to let go, his legs wrapped around me like a monkey,\" remembers Susi.\n\n\"We didn't speak. He was very scared. There were lots of people crowding around us. I just tried to show him that now everything was going to be alright.\"\n\nHundreds of children were separated from their parents in Palu\n\nShe waited days before finally asking him what happened.\n\nI asked him gently 'What happened that day, my little one? And he said 'I was playing in the sand and didn't understand why the whole world was shaking.\"\n\n\"So who picked you up, I asked? He said a police officer. We did try and find out who that was, but haven't been able to.\"\n\nThey believe he dodged the tsunami by a matter of minutes.\n\nMore days passed by and Fikri's family were close to giving up hope - when a social worker arrived at their door.\n\n\"They had a photo and they said - Mrs, is this your grandson? And it was him! We started telling everyone, 'they have Fikri. They have found Fikri!' We all gathered around and just cried and cried.\"\n\n\"They told us that he was alive and living in North Morowali - we had no idea how he had gone there.\"\n\nHe had ended up 500km away.\n\nFikri, shown here hugging his dad, had been washed up on the side of a road\n\nIt was not until they had Fikri in their arms, three weeks after he went missing, that the family understood how he had ended up there.\n\nTwenty-year-old university student Kadek Ayu Dwi Mariati says she found Fikri on the side of the road.\n\nHe was injured, she remembers, and was crying out for his mother and father. He was only a wearing a t-shirt.\n\n\"To tell you the truth my first concern was saving my own life, I was in such a panic and was very scared,\" she said.\n\n\"But then I thought if I don't save this boy who will? I stopped and asked him where are your parents? He said they were gone and his house was destroyed, so I told him to come with me to higher ground.\"\n\nWhen her parents reached Palu, a few days later, Fikri didn't want to leave her side.\n\n\"He didn't want to stay, he wanted to be with me. So he came home with us to our village,\" she says.\n\n\"I reported this to the police and social workers and told them if someone is looking for this child then he is with me. They told me, 'don't give him away to anyone' because there were fears of child trafficking at the time.\"\n\nAs the weeks passed with no news her family built up a close bond with Fikri.\n\n\"He was a really good kid. Wasn't any trouble at all. I do really miss him now and was a little sad to see him go but at the same time I am so grateful, that it turns out, he had a family still alive to go home to,\" she says.\n\nTheir reunion was also captured on film. His family was told by social workers to wait in a tent - no one speaks and they look at their hands nervously.\n\nThen he was brought in. \"Praise God,\" they cried as they hugged Fikri and held him tenderly.\n\n\"We cried and hugged and hugged him,\" Selfi recalled.\n\n\"I was so happy but also sad. I was filled with joy that Allah had given us more time with him but also sad that it was someone else that saved him. We could only cry and give thanks to Allah.\"\n\nFikri now lives with his parents\n\nFikri's parents have taken him back to live with them in Gorontalo. Schools are not back to normal in Palu and they want him close.\n\n\"He doesn't want to be left alone, even for a second, he said to us 'if you leave me and the earth shakes again where am I meant to go?,\" his mum Susila says over the phone.\n\n\"We have to wait for him outside the classroom. We don't talk about what happened. He just cries if it comes up. His older brother never came back.\"\n\nHis grandmother video calls with him often. \"Show me your smile,\" she cries down the phone at him.\n\n\"Ah there you are! There is the most handsome boy in Gorontolo,\" she teases him.\n\nFikri's grandmother stays in touch with her grandson through video chats\n\nJumadil too is still traumatised but each afternoon he has to go back to the same beach, to help his mother sell peanuts.\n\n\"He still has flashbacks, if the lights go off he jumps up and runs into my arms asking 'why are the lights off, Mum?' When the earthquake hit all the lights went off and it was black.\"\n\nWhile we are talking at their stall another mother comes up and says her son was missing for four days.\n\nHe was caught up in the waves too, she says. Now it's a nightmare to get him to have a bath. He is terrified of water.\n\nWhile his mum serves the customer, Jumadil's grandfather, Daeng, takes him for a walk through the rubble.\n\nHe still can't quite believe his grandson has come back.\n\n\"It's hard for an everyday guy like me to get my head around it,\" he says.\n\n\"It's an absolute miracle he has come back\"\n\n\"If you think about it logically it's amazing he was saved, given the power of the waves that destroyed everything. Buildings crumbled so humans shouldn't really have stood a chance. Lots of police officers died. I really want to know who saved our boy.\"\n\n\"It's an absolute miracle he has come back.\"", "Volunteers protecting the mural say at least 2,000 people have visited it\n\nBanksy's latest work in south Wales has been covered with a protective plastic screen.\n\nIt appeared on a garage in Port Talbot and depicts a child enjoying snow falling on one side, while the other reveals it is a fire emitting ash.\n\nFilm star Michael Sheen, who grew up in the area, helped pay for the screen. He is also contributing towards security, media and legal costs.\n\nIt was fitted for free by a local businessman earlier.\n\nVolunteers protecting the elusive artist's latest mural - called \"Season's Greetings\" and reflecting the town's industrial heritage - say at least 2,000 visitors have turned up to see it.\n\nIt appeared on Ian Lewis' garage on a lane behind Caradog Street in Taibach on Tuesday.\n\nTraffic wardens have been drafted in by the local council to control traffic.\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen has helped pay for the protective sheet\n\nSheen, who is from nearby Baglan and best known for roles in Frost/Nixon and The Damned United, wants to ensure the financial burden of safeguarding the art does not fall on Mr Lewis, his office has said.\n\nBanksy confirmed the image was his when he posted a video on his Instagram account on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An Argentine radio host accused of misogynist diatribes has been ordered to host a feminist guest every week for five months as part of a deal with prosecutors, reports say.\n\nAngel Etchecopar must not interrupt his guests for 10 minutes, nor can he criticise them after they finish.\n\nIt comes after prosecutors accused him of gender discrimination.\n\nHe had used his programme on Radio 10 to attack feminists as \"feminazis\" and \"disgusting people\", Le Monde reported.\n\nProsecutor Federico Vilalba Diaz told La Nación newspaper that Etchecopar had been charged with \"disrespectful, insulting, denigrating and discriminatory\" outbursts against women.\n\n\"But Etchecopar came to the inquiry with a repentant attitude and showed himself to be very different from the personality I had seen in the media,\" Mr Diaz said.\n\nEtchecopar - nicknamed \"Baby\" - convinced the authorities of his desire to change his ways and a female judge agreed to drop the case against him in favour of a probation-based solution, La Nación said.\n\nUnder the terms of the agreement, prosecutors will provide a list of gender specialists and Argentina's special gender violence prosecutor Veronica Guagnino will come up with the topics for discussion.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by angeletchecopar This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEtchecopar also has to avoid making further discriminatory remarks for a year and has made a small donation to a Catholic charity. If he breaks the terms the case against him will be resurrected.\n\nEarlier this month Argentina's parliament approved a new law requiring all officials to undertake gender equality training.\n\nThe law was named after Micaela Garcia, a 21-year-old woman who was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 2017 in a case that shocked the country and prompted demonstrations.\n\nMs Garcia had been a supporter of Argentina's \"ni una menos\" (not one less) movement that seeks to protect women from male violence, BBC Mundo reported (in Spanish).\n\nIn August, however, the Argentine parliament rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. It followed a heated debate lasting more than 16 hours.\n• None The two sides in Argentina's abortion debate", "Tributes have been paid to the former Liberal Democrats' leader Paddy Ashdown, who died on Saturday after a short illness aged 77.\n\nA party spokesman said the Lib Dem peer and former MP for Yeovil \"made an immeasurable contribution to furthering the cause of liberalism\".\n\nCurrent party leader, Sir Vince Cable, said Lord Ashdown had \"made a real mark\" and it was \"a hugely sad day\".\n\nLord Ashdown was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October.\n\nWhile his real name was Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, he was nicknamed Paddy when he moved to England, after spending his childhood years in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe longest serving leader of the Lib Dems in its history, Lord Ashdown led the party between 1988 and 1999, when it became a growing force in UK politics.\n\nAfter standing down as an MP in 2001, he served as the United Nations' high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, helping steer the country through its post-war reconstruction.\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader and ex-deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg said Lord Ashdown was \"the most heartfelt person I have known\".\n\n\"Paddy was the reason I entered politics,\" he said.\n\n\"He was the reason I became a liberal. And he became a lifelong mentor, friend and guide.\"\n\nPeople from outside of politics also paid tribute to the politician.\n\nMonty Python actor John Cleese tweeted that it was \"really terrible\" news, while scientist and TV presenter Prof Brian Cox said Lord Ashdown had lived \"a remarkable life\".\n\nComedian Matt Forde also tweeted: \"Really sad to hear about the passing of Paddy Ashdown. He was one of the great politicians of my lifetime, a proper heavyweight.\n\n\"His pragmatism never got in the way of his principles. He was also a great laugh. We need more politicians like Paddy, not less. RIP.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown: \"If this exit poll is right, Andrew, I will publically eat my hat\"\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said: \"Paddy Ashdown was a hero to me, he saved and revived the Liberal Democrats at our lowest ebb, and then led us to our best result for 70 years.\n\n\"As a movement, we owe him our very existence.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tim Farron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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Sir Vince Cable says he \"owes a lot\" to the \"extremely energetic\" Paddy Ashdown who has died aged 77\n\n\"He was full of life, full of ideas,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Only three months ago he was absolutely buzzing with energy and ideas at our party conference\".\n\nFormer Lib Dem leader Lord Steel said Lord Ashdown had transformed the party from one with just a handful of seats to being \"a really influential party in Parliament\".\n\nLord Steel added: \"The last time I spoke to him was just two or three weeks back, it was about the books he was writing.\n\n\"He was starting to carve out a new career as a really, very interesting author on books really to do with the Second World War, located in France, where, of course, he had a holiday house.\"\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned with then-leader Nick Clegg ahead of the 2015 general election\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe party's leader in the House of Lords, Dick Newby, said Lord Ashdown was \"a natural leader\" who \"kept the Liberal Democrats alive in our early years\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said Lord Ashdown \"served his country with distinction\" in both his military and political careers.\n\n\"He dedicated his life to public service and he will be sorely missed,\" she said.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said he admired the former Lib Dem leader \"as a man and as a political visionary and leader\".\n\nHe said: \"He had courage, personal and political, unafraid to speak his mind yet always open to the views of others. He was one of the least tribal politicians I have ever known.\"\n\nFormer Tory PM John Major and ex-Labour PM Tony Blair have paid tribute to Lord Ashdown\n\nEx-Conservative prime minister Sir John Major hailed his former opponent as \"a man of duty, passion, and devotion to the country he loved - right up to the very end\".\n\nHe added: \"In government, Paddy Ashdown was my opponent. In life, he was a much-valued friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Lord Ashdown would be \"greatly missed\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that he had \"seldom known a public servant with so much energy and dynamism.\"\n\n\"The UK, liberal democracy & rational, moderate, cross-party debate have lost a great advocate,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned alongside then-prime minister David Cameron for Remain in the 2016 referendum\n\nLord Ashdown was an influential figure within the party and a strong supporter of Nick Clegg's controversial decision to take the party into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.\n\nHe went on to play a role in the Remain campaign during the 2016 referendum.\n\nPrior to entering Parliament in 1983, he served as a Royal Marine and in the intelligence services.\n\nDuring his time as the UN's administrator in Bosnia he forced through major political, economic and security reforms and helped build up Bosnia's state institutions.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Lord Ashdown \"served the people of the Balkans with passion and inspiration\" and was \"an agent of reconciliation\".", "Many parents rely on childcare to be able to work\n\nThe Universal Credit system leaves too many UK claimants with children facing a stark choice between turning down jobs or getting into debt, MPs warn.\n\nThe Work and Pensions Select Committee says the way parents have to pay for childcare up front, then claim it back afterwards is a \"barrier to work\".\n\nCommittee chairman Frank Field said it was \"irresponsible\" to put this burden on \"struggling, striving parents\".\n\nThe government said childcare support is more generous under the new system.\n\nBut the committee's report on the childcare aspect of Universal Credit is further criticism of the already much-criticised benefit.\n\nThe welfare payment, which collapsed six benefits into one monthly payment, is being phased in across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe report said: \"Parents and carers' decisions about whether and how much to work are closely tied to being able to access affordable, good quality childcare.\n\n\"The Department for Work and Pensions aspires for 200,000 more people to work under Universal Credit than under the system it replaces, and for people already in work to contribute over 100 million additional hours every year.\n\n\"Its success or failure in achieving these aims depends largely on working parents. That means that making childcare payments work is critical to the success of Universal Credit.\"\n\nBut it claims the design of Universal Credit childcare support directly conflicts with the aim of making it easier for claimants to work, or to work more hours.\n\n\"Universal Credit claimants must pay for childcare up front and claim reimbursement from the department after the childcare has been provided,\" the report says.\n\n\"This can leave households waiting weeks or even months to be paid back.\n\n\"Many of those households will be in precarious financial positions which Universal Credit could exacerbate: if, for example, they have fallen into debt or rent arrears while awaiting Universal Credit payments.\n\n\"Too many will face a stark choice: turn down a job offer, or get themselves into debt in order to pay for childcare.\"\n\nThe system of reimbursement was adopted to cut down on fraud and error, and the government says switching to a system of direct payments to childcare providers would require changes to the benefits payment system.\n\nThe committee wants direct payments to be adopted, but in the meantime more should be done to help claimants with up-front costs, it says.\n\nMr Field said: \"If the government had set out to design a system to make it harder for parents to get into work, it could hardly have done better than this one.\n\n\"It's not just driving parents into despair and debt and creating problems for childcare providers - it's also actively working to prevent the government achieving its own aim of getting more people into work.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"Working parents can claim back up to 85% of eligible costs, compared to 70% on the old system.\n\n\"Universal Credit is a force for good for many, and people are getting into work faster and staying in work longer.\n\n\"Recent Budget changes also mean an extra £2bn will be directed to the poorest families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Owen messaged Banksy in August to paint a mural in Port Talbot\n\nBanksy's latest artwork was attacked as a \"drunk halfwit\" tried to damage the mural on a garage wall in south Wales.\n\nA security guard chased the culprit away on Saturday as he tried to pull down the newly-fitted plastic screen that protects the Port Talbot graffiti.\n\nPolice were called and the local community fears the artwork may become a target for \"some idiot who wants to make a name for themselves.\"\n\nExtra security guards have been drafted in to protect 'Season's Greetings'.\n\n\"Some drunk halfwit has tried to pull the fencing down and the protection glazing at the Banksy artwork,\" Gary Owen posted on the local Facebook page he runs.\n\n\"This art is for Port Talbot, Neath and surrounding areas. We do not want it wrecked.\"\n\nThe Facebook post saying the Banksy artwork was attacked has been shared hundreds of times\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen has helped pay for the protective sheet\n\nScreen star Michael Sheen is from the area and wants to help protect Port Talbot's Banksy\n\nThe mural was not damaged and police ultimately did not attend the incident at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday - just hours after half of the artwork in Taibach was covered by a protective plastic screen.\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen contributed towards the cost of the screen and the local movie star is also helping pay for the security.\n\n\"It's amazing and such an honour that Banksy chose to come and paint his latest piece in Port Talbot.\" added Mr Owen, the man who messaged Banksy in August to ask if he would paint a piece in Port Talbot.\n\n\"We should be treasuring this privilege and it's very sad that some people want to spoil it for everyone and give Port Talbot a bad name.\n\n\"I do fear it'll become a target for some idiot who wants to make a name for themselves - and that's sad.\"\n\nVolunteers protecting the mural say at least 2,000 people have visited it\n\nThe image appears on two sides of a garage in Taibach and depicts a child enjoying snow falling - the other side reveals it is a fire emitting ash.\n\nA local businessman covered one side of the work with a temporary protective plastic sheet on Saturday afternoon - and on Sunday the other side will be covered.\n\nA more permanent solution is expected to be installed in the new year.\n\nVolunteers working to protect the elusive artist's latest mural said at least 2,000 visitors have turned up to see it over the first two days.\n\nIt appeared on Ian Lewis' breeze block garage on a lane behind Caradog Street in Taibach on Tuesday.\n\nTraffic wardens have been drafted in by the local council to control traffic.\n\nBanksy confirmed the image was his when he posted a video on his Instagram account on Wednesday.", "Paddy Ashdown was the action man of British politics.\n\nA former Royal Marine officer, he was the first elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, a party then badly in need of some military-style discipline.\n\nHe led his party to its best election result for half a century but his combative style of leadership did not always sit easily with some activists.\n\nHis mixture of military and diplomatic experience meant he was well-suited for the role he later undertook in the former Yugoslavia.\n\nJeremy John Durham Ashdown was born in Delhi, India, on 27 February 1941, into an Irish family with a long record of service in the administration of the sub-continent. He boasted Irish nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell among his ancestors.\n\nHis father was an officer in the Indian Army who later faced a court martial for refusing to abandon his troops during the retreat to Dunkirk. The charges were eventually thrown out.\n\nOne of his earliest memories was seeing dead bodies in the streets, the result of conflict between Hindus and Muslims.\n\nHe saw active service with the Royal Marines in the Far East and Persian Gulf\n\nThe young Ashdown spent his childhood years on a farm his father had purchased in County Down, Northern Ireland, before attending Bedford School, in England, where his Irish brogue led to the nickname Paddy.\n\nHe did not always find school easy, with one report describing him as vain and a poor team-player. There was a sexual relationship with a female maths teacher which he described in his memoir, A Fortunate Life, as \"a rite of passage\".\n\nHe quit before taking his A-levels and joined the Royal Marines in 1959.\n\nAshdown saw active service in Borneo and the Persian Gulf before joining the elite Special Boat Service, the seagoing equivalent of the SAS.\n\nIn 1967, he went to Hong Kong where he learned Mandarin and qualified as an interpreter, before returning to Northern Ireland where he commanded a commando company in Belfast at a time when the Troubles were raging.\n\nAshdown quit the Royal Marines in 1972 and joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) where he worked with diplomatic cover in Geneva liaising with a number of United Nations departments.\n\nAlthough he was a Labour supporter he had shown little interest in politics so there was surprise when he decided to quit his comfortable life in Switzerland and become an active member of the Liberal party.\n\n\"Most of my friends thought I was utterly bonkers,\" he later recalled, claiming he made the decision after being horrified at the state of the UK following the period of industrial unrest and fuel shortages in the mid-70s.\n\nIn 1976, he was selected as the Liberal candidate in his wife's home constituency of Yeovil which had been held by right-wing Tory MP John Peyton for more than two decades.\n\nWith what became a trademark energetic campaigning style, he set out to squeeze the Labour vote and, in the 1979 general election, took his party to second place, although still more than 10,000 votes behind Peyton.\n\nHaving given up a lucrative post with the foreign office, Ashdown took a job with a subsidiary of the Westland Helicopter company, based in Yeovil.\n\nHe then moved on to work with Tescan, a processor of sheepskins, but found himself out of work when the firm closed in 1981.\n\nAs the personnel manager, he had to make his team redundant, something he described as \"the worst day of my life\". He was on the dole for six months before obtaining a job as a youth worker with Dorset County Council.\n\nHis continuing campaigning in Yeovil paid off in the 1983 election when John Peyton decided to stand down; he won the seat with just over 50% of the popular vote.\n\nHe joined Neil Kinnock on a picket line at GCHQ\n\nIt was the era of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and Ashdown quickly found himself appointed as the Liberal spokesman on trade and industry.\n\nHe was a prominent campaigner against the stationing of American cruise missiles on British soil, describing them as \"the weapon we have to stop\".\n\nAshdown also spoke out against Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow the US to use bases in Britain to bomb Libya and was one of the harshest critics of the government's decision to ban workers at GCHQ from being members of a trade union.\n\nHe had become a popular figure in Yeovil, where he increased his majority over the Conservatives in 1987. He had gained a reputation as someone not afraid to speak his mind, but who did not suffer fools gladly.\n\nIn 1988, the SDP and Liberal Party formally merged as the Social and Liberal Democrats, later shortened to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nWhen former Liberal leader David Steel declined to stand for the leadership of the new party, Ashdown comfortably saw off Alan Beith, the only other candidate.\n\nHe inherited a party licking its wounds after the arguments that had accompanied its formation and leading figures from both the Liberal and SDP camps walking away in protest at the merger.\n\nHe comfortably won the ballot to become leader of the Liberal Democrats\n\nAshdown threw himself into getting his party into shape for the 1992 election and it was to his credit that, despite all the problems, the new party suffered a net loss of just two seats.\n\nHis career, and his marriage, also survived press revelations of an affair with his secretary, five years previously, leading to one Sun headline dubbing him Paddy Pantsdown.\n\nA year later, Ashdown began negotiations with Labour leader John Smith over closer co-operation between the two parties. After Smith's death, he continued the talks with Tony Blair. It was the end of his party's historic stance of \"equidistance\" between Conservatives and Labour.\n\nHe developed a close rapport with Blair. One colleague said the two of them would \"sit at the cabinet table and fix their gaze on each other - they worked exceptionally closely together\".\n\nThe relationship was remarkably candid with Ashdown once telling Blair that \"some folk think you are a smarmy git\".\n\nDespite early signs that Labour were on course to win the 1997 election, Ashdown still hoped that he could offer the support of the Liberal Democrats in return for Labour agreeing to voting reform.\n\nAlthough Blair was sympathetic, the Labour landslide of 1997 removed any need for Lib Dem support and the majority of Blair's new cabinet, sitting on a secure majority, were not in favour of moving to some form of PR.\n\nAshdown was also disappointed that Blair refused to share the Lib Dem leader's enthusiasm for joining the euro.\n\nIn the election, the Liberal Democrats increased their number of MPs from 18 to 46, as the Conservative vote crumbled. But it remained the third party in UK politics.\n\nAshdown stood down as Lib Dem leader in 1999 and was replaced by Charles Kennedy. Two years later, he quit the Commons and entered the Lords as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub Hamdon.\n\nRetirement was far from his mind and, in 2002, his military and diplomatic experience saw him appointed as High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nHe had been a continuing advocate of intervention in the strife that followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and he made a number of positive contributions to creating a stable framework of government.\n\n\"Bosnia is under my skin,\" he said. \"It's the place you cannot leave behind.\"\n\nHe appeared as a prosecution witness in the trial of the former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, although his claim that he had watched Serbian shells falling on villages in Kosovo was disputed by the defence.\n\nHe was considered for the post of UN representative to Afghanistan in 2008 after he had called for a high-level co-ordinator to lead the foreign mission to the country, but ruled himself out of contention.\n\nLord Ashdown campaigned with then-leader Nick Clegg ahead of the 2015 general election\n\nHe remained active in the Liberal Democrats. He often appeared as a pundit on radio and television and chaired the party's election campaign in 2015.\n\nAppearing on the BBC election results programme, he took issue with the Exit Poll which suggested the Lib Dems would end the night with 10 seats. Ashdown promised to \"eat his hat\" if the Exit Poll proved right. In the event, the party won just eight.\n\nAshdown campaigned vigorously against Brexit and waved away sympathy after the diagnosis of bladder cancer. \"I've fought a lot of battles in my life,\" he said.\n\nHe was a politician of great drive and energy, although some complained that he was not the most subtle or diplomatic of figures.\n\n\"It's not my job to be popular,\" he said. \"I'm goal-driven, my job is to get results.\"\n\nHe relished the cut and thrust of political life and its potential for throwing up the unexpected.\n\n\"If you make a mistake you usually pay the price very quickly,\" he said. \"It is what makes it more exciting and more terrifying than active service.\"", "Remain supporters have criticised Jeremy Corbyn for saying he would continue to pursue Brexit if his party won a snap general election in 2019.\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, the Labour leader said he would go to Brussels to negotiate a better deal than the one Theresa May has offered to Parliament.\n\nAsked what stance Labour would take if another referendum took place, he said it would be for the party to decide.\n\nLabour's Chuka Umunna said the interview was \"deeply depressing\".\n\nMr Corbyn also admitted he was \"extremely angry\" during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, but has denied calling Theresa May a \"stupid woman\".\n\nThe Labour leader has repeatedly called for a general election to solve the deadlock in the Commons over the prime minister's Brexit deal, which many MPs on all sides of the House have vowed to vote down.\n\nHe told the paper the earliest an election could take place is February - as a month needs to pass after a government has resigned before a vote can take place.\n\nBut if Labour won, he said he would still want to pursue Brexit, and try to get a deal agreed before 29 March 2019 - the day the UK is set to leave the EU.\n\n\"You'd have to go back, and negotiate, and see what the timetable would be,\" he said.\n\nA number of Mr Corbyn's own MPs back a \"People's Vote\" to ask the public their opinion of the deal.\n\nBut asked if he could see such a referendum taking place, he offered no support, saying: \"I think we should vote down this deal; we should then go back to the EU with a discussion about a customs union.\"\n\nWhen questioned over the stance Labour would take were a referendum to take place, he said: \"It would be a matter for the party to decide what the policy would be.\n\n\"But my proposal at this moment is that we go forward, trying to get a customs union with the EU, in which we would be able to be proper trading partners.\"\n\nMPs from all sides of the House, including Conservative Anna Soubry (pictured), have called for a \"People's Vote\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, former minister Mr Umunna - a leading member of the cross-party People's Vote for a second EU referendum - said his leader's comments were \"disappointing\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Brexit is essentially a project of the hard right of British politics who want to turn Britain into a lightly regulated, offshore tax haven for the super rich, devoid of proper protections for workers, and one which seeks to dump the blame for the UK's problems on immigrants.\n\n\"Labour should stop pretending there is a 'good' Brexit deal and we should certainly not be sponsoring this project because Brexit is the problem - it solves nothing.\"\n\nFellow Labour MP Wes Streeting also criticised Mr Corbyn's remarks, saying: \"Why peddle this myth that Labour would be able to renegotiate a Brexit deal at this 11th hour? How would Labour's Brexit be any better than remaining in the EU?\n\n\"Our members and voters are overwhelmingly pro-European. This lets them, and our country, down.\"\n\nAnd Luciana Berger said her party would never be forgiven if it facilitated Brexit.\n\nRival parties, who want to remain in the EU, also attacked Mr Corbyn's comments, with the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford calling the Labour leader \"the midwife to the delivery of the Tory's Brexit plans\".\n\nLib Dem leader Vince Cable said Mr Corbyn \"refuses once again to take the blinkers off\", adding: \"On Brexit, you simply cannot put a cigarette paper between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nAnd Caroline Lucas of the Green Party said it made the case for a People's Vote even stronger if this was the direction Labour would take.", "The baby was taken to hospital in Malta after being born three days earlier on a beach in Libya\n\nMalta has airlifted a newborn and his mother from a Spanish migrant rescue ship and rejected accusations that it had refused food to more than 300 other migrants on board.\n\nThe baby was born three days earlier on a beach in Libya and his life was in danger, the Proactiva charity said.\n\nProactiva's boat was refused entry to Malta and Italy, while France, Tunisia and Libya did not respond to requests.\n\nMalta said crew had told officials they had enough provisions for two days.\n\nA Maltese spokesman said the airlift had gone beyond Malta's legal obligations, as the migrants were rescued on Friday in waters supervised by Libya.\n\nEarlier the charity posted on Instagram that the 311 migrants - including pregnant women, children and babies - had been rescued from \"certain death at sea\" and said Malta had refused to provide food, adding \"this isn't Christmas\".\n\nThe baby and his mother were airlifted off the rescue boat\n\nMeanwhile Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, from the far-right Lega party, tweeted that \"Italian ports are closed\" and the migrants would not be allowed to land.\n\nHe also tweeted a picture of his lunch and said he had eaten well, prompting an angry response from Proactiva's founder Oscar Camps, who said future generations would be \"ashamed\" of him.\n\nProactiva says its vessel is now heading towards the port of Algeciras in southern Spain, where the migrants can disembark.\n\nA Spanish government statement said the vessel had been allowed to head to Spain \"due to the refusal or lack of response from the nearest ports\".\n\nThe journey will take five or six days but another Proactiva vessel is on its way with more supplies.\n\nMeanwhile, a German NGO, Sea-Watch, said it had rescued 33 migrants at sea and was appealing for a port where they could disembark.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 1,300 migrants have died trying to reach Italy or Malta since the beginning of the year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.\n\nOn Thursday the UN said migrants travelling through Libya to Europe were subject to \"unimaginable horrors\" in the lawless country.\n\nMost women and older teenage girls say they were raped by smugglers or traffickers, the report said.\n\n\"Across Libya, unidentified bodies of migrants and refugees bearing gunshot wounds, torture marks and burns are frequently uncovered in rubbish bins, dry river beds, farms and the desert,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of migrants are still losing their lives trying to reach Europe by boat", "Even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer couldn't quite believe it.\n\nAs Marcus Rashford's third-minute free-kick whistled past goalkeeper Neil Etheridge and into the corner of the Cardiff net, Solskjaer's initial reaction was 'wow'.\n\nAfter that, reality took hold. Manchester United's newly installed interim manager clenched his fists and turned to hug Mike Phelan - a man, like Solskjaer, who is a blast from Sir Alex Ferguson's past, restored to the assistant manager's role he vacated when David Moyes arrived in 2013 and cleaned out his illustrious predecessor's entire backroom team.\n\nIt was the prelude to a quite amazing evening for the 45-year-old Norwegian at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nIn one game, he has achieved something Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho couldn't do between them in almost five and a half seasons - he managed a United team that scored five times in a Premier League game.\n\nAnd it was the first time a Solskjaer team had scored five in this stadium, even though he spent nine months here as Cardiff's manager in 2014.\n\nThe reception Solskjaer received from the home fans was odd.\n\nSpeaking one-to-one, they were largely indifferent to the man who took them down to the Championship five seasons ago. Opinion ranged from the Norwegian being hopeless to the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. All felt Solskjaer was a decent bloke and the hope - if it existed - was it went well for him at Old Trafford once his first assignment had been completed.\n\nYet, when he bounced off the visitors' team coach 90 minutes before kick-off, he was greeted by a chorus of loud boos. To his credit, Solskjaer did not flinch, responding only with a polite smile as he marched through the visitors' entrance.\n\nFor the travelling United supporters, it was another matter entirely.\n\nBeforehand, those I spoke to felt there was a chance to reconnect the club to its glorious past.\n\nAs the teams came out, the 3,000 gathered in the visitors' section went through a lengthy play-list of songs dedicated to the Norwegian, one of the most popular figures to play for the club during the Ferguson era.\n\nAt the final whistle, as they celebrated in a manner they have rarely had chance to in recent years, Solskjaer went to them and applauded.\n\nIf Mourinho had responded to a victory in this way, he would probably have been accused of milking it. It is fair to assume Solskjaer will not.\n\n\"It makes you proud,\" he said of the reception. \"It's emotional and I am happy for them because it's a long ride back to Manchester. I am pleased they can talk about the boys.\"\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Sunday\n\nLittle about Mourinho's time as United manager generated debate quite like his treatment of Paul Pogba.\n\nDuring 2018 alone, the club's £89m record signing was dropped, recalled, made captain, stripped of it, criticised and finally dropped again. For the defeat at Liverpool, the Frenchman sat on the bench in the rain throughout what turned out to be Mourinho's final game in charge.\n\nWith a new man in charge, there was little likelihood of that exile lasting.\n\nGetting more, much more, from the enigmatic Frenchman is one of the major tasks facing Solskjaer over the coming months. He thinks the World Cup winner can be \"a six, an eight or a 10\".\n\nOn this occasion, he was part eight, part 10. He won the free-kick for Rashford's opener with a nimble dart through midfield, though a combination of his team-mate's deceptive shot and Etheridge's failure to read it were the crucial elements.\n\nHe teed up Ander Herrera for the second and played a delicate pass to Jesse Lingard for the visitors' fifth.\n\nIn doing so, Pogba made as many assists in one game as in the previous 17 top-flight matches this season combined.\n\nSolskjaer said: \"Paul has got the quality to play in so many positions. He was excellent.\"\n\nTactically, the changes were subtle.\n\nThe formation remained 4-3-3, but with Pogba slightly more advanced, Herrera and Nemanja Matic were a touch deeper in midfield. Full-backs Ashley Young and Luke Shaw were encouraged to get wide and up the pitch. The front three played with a fluidity rarely seen this season.\n\nTwice during the first half, Solskjaer urged Pogba to get the ball wider. It was not quite a return to the days of marauding wingers - United simply do not have the personnel for that. It was an attempt to make the pitch bigger. On a bigger pitch, better players have more chance to impose themselves, which is exactly how it turned out.\n\nSolskjaer was also clear-headed enough to call Phil Jones over for some instructions as Rashford lined up that first, fateful, free-kick. It stands to reason after only three days and two training sessions that the Norwegian has only scratched the surface when it comes to getting his philosophy across.\n\nOf just as much significance was the collective effort within the technical area.\n\nAfter Rui Faria stood down as his assistant at the end of last season, Mourinho tended to be a lone voice on the touchline.\n\nIt was therefore noticeable that, in addition to Solskjaer, Phelan and coach Michael Carrick offered instruction from time to time. Another member of the backroom team, Kieran McKenna, was also on the periphery, if not talking to the players, offering advice to his fellow coaches.\n\nBetween them they decided on the substitutes. But though the personnel changed, the formation did not, so Lingard was at the apex of United's attack when he scored their fifth.\n\nNot that Solskjaer was entirely satisfied: \"In some periods we were too congested, with four or five players on top of each.\n\n\"When we get to work a little bit with each other and understand we can trust each other to do a job, then we can have a little bit more distance and we might even improve.\"\n\n'We have caught teams before'\n\nSolskjaer spoke afterwards about taking it one game at a time.\n\nHe knows - as Cardiff manager Neil Warnock pointed out by accusing his side of 'Sunday League defending' - there are much sterner tests to come.\n\nThis might not be on Wednesday, when Huddersfield visit Old Trafford, but in January - when United visit Newcastle and Tottenham, February - when they play Liverpool and Paris St-Germain, and March - when three successive opponents are PSG, Arsenal and Manchester City.\n\nOnly after that can a proper judgement be made on his impact - and whether he really has a shot at landing the job on a full-time basis.\n\nBut Solskjaer, after cutting the gap to fourth place to eight points, can reflect on a very satisfying start and a quite unexpected experience to the one he imagined a week ago, when he was back home in Norway, looking forward to a quiet Christmas with his wife and three children.\n\n\"We have caught teams up before at this club,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't want to look too far ahead but Manchester United teams always play well in the second half of the season.\"", "Residents of China's north-eastern Heilongjiang province gathered to mark the winter solstice by spraying hot water into the freezing air to create swathes of ice fog.\n\nThousands of people braved sub-zero temperatures to take part in the eye-catching celebration of the shortest day of the year - though it's not a trick to try at home.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer got off to a perfect start as Manchester United's interim manager with a 5-1 thrashing of his former club Cardiff.\n\nThe former United striker succeeded Jose Mourinho, who was sacked in midweek, and got his first win courtesy of a performance that will encourage United fans as some of their more marginalised talent came to the fore in a performance full of attacking intent.\n\nMarcus Rashford's stunning free-kick, a deflected effort from Ander Herrera and a fabulous team goal by Anthony Martial effectively won the contest before half-time for a United side inspired by the recalled Paul Pogba, who had a hand in all three first-half goals.\n\nVictor Camarasa's penalty briefly gave Cardiff hope as they reduced the arrears to 2-1, but Jesse Lingard won and scored a contentious second-half penalty and then rounded Neil Etheridge to tap into an empty net at the death to make the result safe.\n\nIt is the first time United have scored five goals in a Premier League game since legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson's last game in charge - a 5-5 draw with West Brom in May 2013.\n\nA more attacking United than under Mourinho?\n\nAll eyes were on Solskjaer's first selection as United boss, and Pogba was included in the starting line-up.\n\nThe World Cup winner and club record signing had been a forlorn-looking substitute for the past three Premier League matches, but returned to a more attack-minded United XI.\n\nPogba was joined by French forward Martial, who made his 100th Premier League appearance, with Romelu Lukaku away on compassionate leave.\n\nLuke Shaw and Phil Jones returned to a defence that had conceded 29 goals already this term - their worst record since 1962 - as Solskjaer made four changes.\n\nPogba was involved in the thick of the action inside three minutes, winning a free-kick from Aron Gunnarsson that would give the Norwegian the perfect start to life in the United dugout, Rashford brilliantly finding the bottom corner.\n\nSolskjaer was punching the air in delight with less than four minutes on the clock.\n\nThe contest proved an ideal opportunity for Pogba to send a message on the pitch rather than on social media and he certainly appeared less inhibited as the visitors passed with a good tempo and closed down effectively.\n\nUnited were superior throughout the first period and it was no surprise when they doubled their advantage just before the half-hour mark when Pogba picked out Herrera, whose speculative effort nicked off Greg Cunningham and gave Neil Etheridge no chance.\n\nHowever, United's defensive fragility reappeared before the interval, with Rashford handballing carelessly when he moved his upper arm towards the ball under little pressure and Camarasa slammed home the penalty.\n\nBut in the end, United made light work of a Cardiff side, who had won their past four home games, with attacking flair throughout.\n\nThere was a keen sense of intrigue among both sets of supporters about the presence of Solskjaer in the United dugout.\n\nHis appointment as Mourinho's temporary successor caused raised eyebrows in South Wales after his disappointing spell managing the Bluebirds in 2014, which included a relegation from the Premier League.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, is contracted to return to his role as manager at Norwegian club Molde next summer, but Cardiff supporters remember him for a disastrous nine-month spell in charge in the Welsh capital.\n\nSolskjaer scored 126 goals in 366 appearances during his 11 years at Old Trafford and is best remembered for scoring the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999, along with collecting six Premier League titles.\n\nThe sense of goodwill from United's travelling supporters towards the man they called the 'Baby-Faced Assassin' was obvious - they chanted about their temporary boss from well before kick-off and gave him a rapturous reception when the sides emerged at Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nBefore the game, Cardiff boss Neil Warnock had said Solskjaer \"could not lose\" in his new position. The former striker was keen to get his messages across, moving to the edge of his technical area several times to deliver advice and encourage his team to find more width.\n\nHe would have felt slightly unsettled when Cardiff reduced the arrears to 2-1, but a fine team move a minute later saw Martial exchange passes with Pogba and Lingard and fire past Etheridge to give United deserved daylight at the interval.\n\nCardiff's fine run at home comes to an end\n\nThe Bluebirds had won four of their past five Premier League home games, yet the omens were not good for a side chasing a first victory over United in 58 years.\n\nWarnock has failed to beat United in any of his previous seven encounters and, with a two-goal deficit at half-time, that never looked like changing.\n\nUnited dominated at the start of the second half and Lingard's penalty killed the contest, with United close to adding further goals through Rashford, Phil Jones and Pogba, before Lingard did add the fifth after keeping his composure when clean through to round Etheridge and slot home.\n\n'Football is easy with good players' - What they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"Football is easy if you've got good players! They are a great bunch of players and their quality is unbelievable.\n\n\"I arrived on Wednesday night and only had Thursday and Friday with the players. Wayne Rooney texted me and gave me some advice - so it must be down to him! He told me to make them play football, enjoy themselves and be Manchester United.\n\n\"The foundation was in the defending. I thought the two centre-backs and two full-backs were brilliant.\"\n\nCardiff manager Neil Warnock: \"If you'd told me at the start of this season that we'd be out of the bottom three at Christmas I'd have snapped your hand off.\n\n\"We've got two big games coming up [at Crystal Palace and Leicester]. We know we need to improve our away form. I wasn't disappointed in the effort, it was just misdirected at times.\n\n\"At half-time I still thought we had a chance. I thought if we get the next goal we might get something. It's very disappointing.\"\n\nScoring big on the first day - the best of the stats\n• None Since Ferguson left the club, four of the five different managers to take charge of United have seen their side score three or more goals in their first Premier League game (Moyes 4, Mourinho 3, Giggs 4 and Solskjaer 5).\n• None Warnock suffered his 50th Premier League defeat, in what was his 92nd game in the competition - only Mick McCarthy (79), Danny Wilson (87) and Gary Megson (91) have reached 50 defeats in fewer games managed.\n• None Cardiff have lost each of their past 14 Premier League games against 'big six' opponents, conceding 45 goals in this run.\n• None Martial has been directly involved in 70 goals for United in all competitions (45 goals, 25 assists); the most of any player for the club since his debut in September 2015.\n• None Rashford has had a hand in more Premier League goals this season than any other United player (9 - four goals and five assists).\n• None United's third goal against Cardiff - scored by Anthony Martial - was the 500th netted in the Premier League this season.\n• None Martial made his 100th appearance for United in the Premier League, becoming just the fourth Frenchman to reach this tally for the club after Eric Cantona, Mikael Silvestre and Patrice Evra.\n\nCardiff travel to Crystal Palace on Wednesday, December 26 (15:00 GMT), while Manchester United take on Huddersfield at Old Trafford (15:00).\n• None Goal! Cardiff City 1, Manchester United 5. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Cardiff City. Greg Cunningham tries a through ball, but Josh Murphy is caught offside.\n• None Greg Cunningham (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Murphy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Greg Cunningham. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A decade ago, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean.\n\nAbout 228,000 people were killed as a result of the 9.1 magnitude quake and the giant waves that slammed into coastlines on 26 December 2004.\n\nThe violent upward thrust of the ocean floor at 07:58 local time (00:58 GMT) displaced billions of tonnes of seawater, which then raced towards shorelines at terrifying speeds.\n\nThe waves stripped vegetation from mountain sides hundreds of metres inland, capsized freighters and threw boats into trees. The estimated cost of the damage was just under $10bn (£6.4bn).\n\nTen years on, many coastal towns and villages have rebuilt their communities and lives. The shores of Indonesia and Thailand, left ravaged by the tsunami, appear transformed.\n\nAfter the quake struck, the resulting tsunami radiated across the Indian Ocean, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and beyond.\n\nThe quake ruptured the greatest fault length of any recorded, spanning a distance of an estimated 1,500km (900 miles) - longer than the US state of California.\n\nThe rupture started beneath the quake's epicentre and progressed northward along the fault at about 2km/sec (1.2 miles/second) - lasting about 10 minutes - according to the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThe length of the rupture meant that the waves reached a wider geographical area - as far afield as Mexico, Chile, and the Arctic.\n\nThe waves travelled at speeds of up to 800km/h (500mph).\n\nComputer modelling after the tsunami, estimated that waves had reached a height of almost 20m (65ft) in some areas.\n\nHowever, scientists investigating damage in Aceh, Indonesia found subsequent evidence that waves had reached 20-30m (65-100ft) in places.\n\nDespite there being several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami, nearly all the victims were taken completely by surprise. With no adequate warning systems in place, there was no alert issued to people to seek safety.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disaster, the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System was formed to detect seismological changes and provide warnings of approaching waves.\n\nHowever, on the 10th anniversary of the disaster, risk experts and UN officials have warned weaknesses remain in the system, particularly regarding the communication of warnings at local level.", "Nobody had any clue. There was certainly no warning. It’s part of the picture that now points to a large underwater landslide being the cause of Saturday’s devastating tsunami in the Sunda Strait.\n\nOf course everyone in the region will have been aware of Anak Krakatau, the volcano that emerged in the sea channel just less than 100 years ago.\n\nBut its rumblings and eruptions have been described by local experts as relatively low-scale and semi-continuous. In other words, it’s been part of the background.\n\nAnd yet it's well known that volcanoes have the capacity to generate large waves. The mechanism as ever is the displacement of a large volume of water.\n\nExcept, unlike in a classic earthquake-driven tsunami in which the seafloor will thrust up or down, it seems an eruption event set in motion some kind of slide. It isn't clear at this stage whether part of the flank of the volcano has collapsed with material entering the sea and pushing water ahead of it, or if movement on the flank has triggered a rapid slump in sediment under the water surface.\n\nThe latter at this stage appears to be the emerging consensus, but the effect is the same - the water column is disturbed and waves propagate outwards.", "The migrants were heading towards the English Channel\n\nA boat containing 16 migrants, including two children, has been intercepted by the French authorities as it travelled towards the UK.\n\nThe fishing vessel was stopped about six miles off the coast of Boulogne, at about 05:25 local time.\n\nIts lights were turned off and it did not respond to radio messages.\n\nThe migrants were brought ashore by a tug, and are being processed by the Border Police in Boulogne. They are all said to be in good health.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a drone was first spotted\n\nA man and woman arrested in connection with drone sightings that grounded flights at Gatwick Airport have been released without charge.\n\nThe 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman, from Crawley, West Sussex, had been arrested on Friday night.\n\nSussex Police said there had been 67 reports of drone sightings - having earlier cast doubt on \"genuine drone activity\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Jason Tingley said no footage of a drone had been obtained.\n\nAnd he said there was \"always a possibility\" the reported sightings of drones were mistaken.\n\nHowever, he later confirmed the reported sightings made by the public, police and airport staff from December 19 to 21 were being \"actively investigated\".\n\n\"We are interviewing those who have reported these sightings, are carrying out extensive house-to-house inquiries, and carrying out a forensic examination of a damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Tingley said it was \"a working assumption\" the device could be connected to their investigation, but officers were keeping \"an open mind\".\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nFlights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a device was first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.\n\nDet Ch Supt Tingley said the arrested man and woman had \"fully co-operated\" with inquiries after information was received from a member of the public.\n\nTalking about the disclosure of their personal details in the press, he said he was satisfied their arrest was lawful, and stressed that officers would never reveal such information.\n\nHe added: \"We would not have chosen in any event to provide that information to anyone... and one might say that's probably hindered us in terms of how quickly we've been able to get to a resolution, in terms of them being released from custody.\"\n\nGatwick Airport Limited has now offered a £50,000 reward through Crimestoppers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for disrupting flights.\n\nAbout 1,000 aircraft were either cancelled or diverted, affecting about 140,000 passengers, during three days of disruption.\n\nOn Sunday the airport said it was operating as normal but there had been \"some knock-on effect\". Passengers have been urged to check with their airline for the latest information.\n\nPassengers have been able to board their flights as scheduled\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nIt is believed that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was used.\n\nHowever, experts have said it does not enable the person responsible to be tracked down and captured.\n\nJohn Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, said it could only \"take the drone out of the sky\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The so-called \"Super Saturday\" before Christmas saw an incremental boost in shoppers, according to latest data from retail experts Springboard.\n\nHigh Street footfall rose by 1% on last year, and was up 6.9% on the previous Saturday, figures show.\n\nHowever, overall footfall still declined by 0.7% on last year.\n\n\"It was a bit of a last-minute burst, but it's not good,\" Springboard's insight director Diane Wehrle told the BBC.\n\nThe reason for the incremental rise is that Christmas shoppers have been holding out until the last minute for bargains, but aggressive discounting has not drawn the crowds of consumers it might once have done.\n\n\"The discounting is a real issue. People are buying less and what they're buying is at a lower price, so this is bad for retailers as they're left with more stock and they're selling it at a lower profit,\" said Ms Wehrle.\n\nSpringboard noted that footfall has fallen on the last Saturday before Christmas every year consecutively for the last decade.\n\nThis phenomenon has also been observed with Boxing Day sales.\n\nMs Wehrle thinks one reason for the drop in footfall is that people avoid shops when they do not have the money to spend, and this year consumers are definitely spending less on Christmas.\n\n\"In the past year, wages didn't increase with price rises,\" she said.\n\n\"Now that has changed a bit, wage inflation is above price inflation, but the problem is consumers have had to spend a year funding that through savings, wages, loans or credit cards, so now they're conscious they don't want to spend too much as they have to pay back some of those loans.\"", "Passengers have been advised to check flight departures and arrivals after the problem was reported earlier\n\nFlights have resumed at Birmingham Airport after an air traffic control fault temporarily halted services.\n\nThe technical glitch happened at 18:00 GMT and led to flights being suspended or diverted from the airport. \"High\" delays were reported.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said operations had resumed and thanked passengers for their patience.\n\nAir traffic management firm Eurocontrol said the fault was due to a failure of the electronic flight plan system.\n\nThe airport spokesman added: \"Birmingham Airport has now resolved the issue and operations have now resumed. We thank passengers for their patience and apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.\"\n\nIn a statement, Eurocontrol previously said arrivals were \"unavailable\" and there were \"few flights with high delays\".\n\nPeople due to board flights reported having to wait for hours and complained of long delays.\n\nPassengers have been advised to check with their airline regarding departures and arrivals.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ËMŽ🐘🦄🐝 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after days of travel misery for passengers at Gatwick Airport, which saw roughly 140,000 passengers affected when a drone was apparently spotted around the runway, forcing bosses to ground flights.\n\nLast month, Birmingham airport bosses announced a major expansion plan to grow passengers numbers by 40% over the next 15 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Welsh Government has already declared a \"climate emergency\"\n\nA five-year blueprint to tackle climate change in Wales has been launched by the Welsh Government.\n\nProsperity for All: A Climate Conscious Wales sets out plans to improve flood defences, secure water supplies, and other environmental improvements.\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths said the plan is \"challenging\".\n\nBut Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies said \"questions must be answered\" over if the plans are \"workable\" and \"economically viable\".\n\nThe plans build on the climate emergency declaration made earlier this year and Wales' first climate change conference, the Welsh Government said.\n\nMs Griffiths added: \"But we must all adapt and we must all commit to protect our nation for current and future generations.\n\n\"Success will mean Wales is a climate conscious nation, aware of the risks facing us, whilst being prepared and ready to adapt to the impacts before they occur.\"\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths said \"we must all adapt\"\n\nEnvironment spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives in the assembly, Mr Davies said: \"The devil, as ever, is not only in the detail, but also in the practical application of any plan.\n\n\"Questions that must be answered include is it workable? Is it economically viable?\"\n\nHe said the Welsh Labour government's record on the environment \"has been appalling\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said the blueprint was \"more of the all-talk, no-action approach\" from Labour.\n\n\"Emissions have risen in Wales and tree planting targets cut, we don't need more plans, we need delivery,\" said Plaid's assembly environment spokesman, Llyr Gruffydd.\n\nThe Brexit Party's Mark Reckless said he welcomed the \"continued cross-party approach and support\" for his party's proposals to \"increase tree planting outside the EU's anti-environmental agricultural policy\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lisa Smith was interviewed by the BBC in July\n\nAn Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride has been arrested after arriving back in Dublin.\n\nLisa Smith and her daughter travelled from Turkey after being deported, arriving in Ireland on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested on arrival and it is expected she will now be interviewed by police about suspected terrorist offences.\n\nPlans have also been made for the care of her two-year-old daughter, who was born in Syria but is an Irish citizen.\n\nMiss Smith is a former member of the Irish Defence Forces.\n\nIn a statement, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said: \"This is a sensitive case and I want to reassure people that all relevant state agencies are closely involved.\"\n\nIrish state broadcaster RTÉ has posted footage on social media of her being escorted by gardaí (Irish police) on the runway in Dublin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RTÉ News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC interviewed her in Syria earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Smith had denied training girls after becoming an IS bride\n\nShe said was not involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters.\n\nShe also claimed she had been visited more than once by the FBI for questioning, and agents had taken her fingerprints and DNA.\n\nLisa Smith was brought to a south Dublin police station after her arrest, covering herself with a pink blanket\n\nMs Smith had been living with her daughter in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar had previously said she would \"certainly\" be investigated if she returned to Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and forensics teams inspect the scene in Canal Street\n\nPolice in New Orleans say there have been 11 victims of a shooting incident near the French Quarter tourist hub.\n\nTwo people are in critical condition, with shots to the chest and torso respectively. No fatalities have been reported.\n\nThe incident took place on Canal St between Bourbon and Chartres streets at about 03:20 local time (09:20 GMT).\n\nPolice said on their Twitter feed that \"one suspect had been apprehended near the scene\".\n\nThey later said the person's possible involvement was still under investigation and that no arrests had yet been made. No other details have been given.\n\nThe victims have all been taken to hospital.\n\nVideo footage from the scene showed numerous police vehicles cordoning off the area as forensic teams made checks.\n\nCanal St file image. The street is on the edge of the famous French Quarter tourist hub\n\nLocal media quoted Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson as saying officers on the 700 block of Canal Street at the time believed that they were being fired upon.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, there were so many people out here we were unable to determine who was actually firing shots at the time. We do not know how it started.\"\n\nThe French Quarter has been hosting holidaymakers marking the weekend after Thanksgiving.\n\nThousands of fans and alumni have also been drawn to the city for the Bayou Classic football game traditionally played on Thanksgiving weekend between Southern University and Grambling State University.\n\nOn the same weekend in 2016, a man was killed and nine other people wounded in a shooting on Bourbon St.\n\nIn June 2014, another shooting incident on Bourbon St left one person dead and nine injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bullets and bills: The cost of getting shot in America", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nOne of the people stabbed to death in Friday's attack at London Bridge has been named as 25-year-old University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt.\n\nHe was one of two people killed when 28-year-old Usman Khan launched the attack at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nKhan, who had been jailed over a terror plot, was shot dead by police after members of the public restrained him.\n\nMr Merritt was described by his father on Twitter as a \"beautiful spirit\".\n\nA woman who died in the attack - declared by officers as a terrorist incident - has not yet been named. Three others were injured.\n\nMr Merritt, from Cambridge, was a course coordinator for Learning Together, a prisoners' rehabilitation programme which was hosting the conference at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge.\n\nKhan had taken part in the scheme while in prison and was one of dozens of people - including students and offenders - at the event.\n\nDavid Merritt said on Twitter that his son Jack was a \"a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog\".\n\n\"Jack spoke so highly of all the people he worked with & he loved his job,\" he added.\n\nMr Merritt graduated from the University of Manchester with a bachelor's degree in law in 2016.\n\nHe went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he worked in the criminology department running Learning Together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the attack is believed to have started inside Fishmongers' Hall at 13:58 GMT on Friday, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012.\n\nHe was released from prison half way through his 16-year sentence in December 2018 - subject to an \"extensive list of licence conditions\", Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nMr Basu said, on Saturday, that \"to the best of my knowledge, he was complying with those conditions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKhan took part in Learning Together while at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nHe appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative. Identified only as \"Usman\", Khan was said to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner after being released from prison.\n\nUsman Khan appeared as case study in a report by Learning Together\n\nHe was also given a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions, to allow him to continue the writing and studying he began while in jail.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure, in which he expressed gratitude for the laptop, adding: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nMr Basu said officers had been working \"flat out\" to try to establish the \"full circumstances\" of the stabbing.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible acts of bravery\" by members of the emergency services and the public who intervened - even after they realised Khan was wearing a \"very convincing\" fake explosive vest.\n\nMr Basu added officers had found no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the attack.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said three victims remained in hospital following the attack - two in a stable condition and one with less serious injuries.\n\nPolice carried out searches at two addresses in Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent as part of the investigation.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nMembers of the public were widely praised for intervening to tackle Khan to the ground before police arrived on the scene.\n\nOne man pictured in many newspapers, as he removed a knife from the scene, was a British Transport Police officer in plain clothes.\n\nChief Constable Paul Crowther, of British Transport Police, said his officer \"bravely ran towards danger\".\n\n\"He, as well as other members of the public, should be extremely proud of what they did to stop this man on London Bridge,\" he added.\n\nWitnesses were widely praised for intervening in the attack\n\nVideos posted on social media show the knifeman being held down by members of the public.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nSome of those who helped were believed to be former prisoners attending the conference.\n\nOn a visit to the attack site, the prime minister said the practice of cutting jail sentences in half and letting violent offenders out early \"simply isn't working\".\n\nMr Johnson vowed to \"toughen up sentences\", while Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said there were questions to be answered.\n\nBut Mr Merritt's father said, in a now deleted post, on Twitter: \"My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings were flown at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThe latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "Last updated on .From the section Watford\n\nWatford have sacked manager Quique Sanchez Flores after Saturday's 2-1 loss to Southampton, saying \"ultimately results have dictated our decision\".\n\nChris Hughton is a possible successor and the Hornets said a replacement will be appointed \"imminently\".\n\nSanchez Flores, who was in charge for the 2015-16 season, was reappointed on 7 September, replacing Javi Gracia.\n\nBut he won just one of his 10 league games in charge with Watford bottom of the Premier League.\n\nIn an open letter to Watford fans published on the club website, the 54-year-old Spaniard said the club \"will always be in my heart\".\n\nWatford have eight points after 14 games and are six points from safety - their worst return at this stage of a Premier League campaign.\n\n\"Quique is a man of great integrity and it was clear how much he wanted to have a positive impact, but ultimately results have dictated our decision,\" said chairman Scott Duxbury.\n\n\"The appointment of a new head coach is imminent, and with nearly two-thirds of the season remaining, we will provide all the support necessary to make the coming months successful.\"\n\nDuring Sanchez Flores' latest spell in charge, they have only beaten Norwich in the league, while losing to Wolves, Chelsea, Burnley and Manchester City, where they were hammered 8-0. They were also knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Everton in the fourth round.\n\nSince Gianfranco Zola's exit in December 2013, Watford have had nine managers, including Sanchez Flores twice.\n\nFellow Spaniard Gracia had been in charge for 21 months - making him the first Hornets boss to last more than one full season since Zola.\n\nSanchez Flores becomes the the third Premier League boss to be sacked in the past two weeks, following Unai Emery at Arsenal on Friday and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham on 19 November.\n\nWatford are in their fifth season back in the Premier League since promotion in May 2015.\n\nGracia had led the club to the FA Cup final last season where they lost 6-0 to Manchester City, as well as 11th place in the Premier League.\n\nThey also reached the FA Cup semi-final in 2016 during Sanchez Flores' first spell as manager.\n\nAnalysis - 'Watford can't get next appointment wrong'\n\nWatford gambled by bringing back Sanchez Flores as manager in September - but have reacted with typical speed after realising the decision has failed.\n\nFor all the perceived managerial instability, Watford have a stable set-up behind the scenes overseen by the Pozzo family and chief executive Scott Duxbury. They realise that Premier League status is everything to a club that has worked so hard to achieve it.\n\nThis is why Gracia was sacked after losing three of his first four games this season and why Sanchez Flores has followed him after less than 90 days.\n\nWatford are rarely caught without a plan when it comes to managerial succession. Sanchez Flores' appointment was announced 30 minutes after the departure of Gracia.\n\nThis will be arguably the most important decision the club's hierarchy will make.\n\nWatford will appoint their third manager this season before the turn of the year and they know, with the Hornets bottom of the table with only eight points from 14 games, that if they get it wrong they may well be sealing their return to the Championship.\n• None Where did it go wrong for Sanchez Flores at Watford?", "Facebook has deleted a Conservative election ad that used BBC News footage because it infringed the corporation's intellectual property (IP) rights.\n\nThe BBC said the material had been used out of context in a way that \"could damage perceptions of our impartiality\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Tories rejected a request from the BBC's lawyers to remove the 15-second video.\n\nThe BBC also complained to Facebook, which has now deleted the ad.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"We have removed this content following a valid intellectual property claim from the rights holder, the BBC.\n\n\"Whenever we receive valid IP claims against content on the platform, in advertising or elsewhere, we act in accordance with our policies and take action as required.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We welcome the decision.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"All political parties make use of BBC content. We will be asking the BBC if in the interests of fairness they intend to complain about other political parties who use their content.\"\n\nThe unprecedented and unpredictable campaign tactics being used during this election are putting Facebook's policies under increasing amounts of scrutiny and strain.\n\nThe decision to remove the Conservative advert is significant; not because of the action the platform took, but the grounds on which it acted.\n\nThe row between the BBC and the Conservative Party was about the ethics of the party's advert. The BBC believes that the ad misled viewers into thinking that its news reporters were supporting the Conservatives. The Conservatives disagreed.\n\nFacebook were aware of the row on the night the ad began running but didn't get involved until a copyright claim was lodged days later.\n\nThe decision to take it down then was effectively a black and white one - and easy enough for the social media giant to act on without getting into the icky business of judging what counts as disinformation.\n\nIt's another example of the platform taking action on simple technical grounds and helps us to build a clearer picture of the fuzzy policies that the platform and its sister site Instagram adheres to.\n\nFacebook will take action on political adverts but only when it has an excuse to stay out of the politics.\n\nThe move also brings into sharp focus the need for regulation of what elements of news coverage are or aren't allowed during an election campaign.\n\nClips of BBC presenters - political editor Laura Kuenssberg and News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards - speaking in recent broadcasts about Brexit delays were used in the ad.\n\nThe clips were edited into a montage of protest footage and video of debate in the House of Commons, all set to dramatic music.\n\nThe advert, which was used to target three separate groups of Facebook users, was seen by at least 350,000 people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt began running on Thursday afternoon and, according to the Facebook Ad Library, was mainly aimed at 35-54 year olds and cost the party around £7,000.\n\nThe advert, along with two others, was removed so it is no longer visible online and a message reads: \"This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook's intellectual property policies.\"\n\nIn Facebook's policy guidelines it states that \"ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights\".\n\nWhen it rejected the BBC's initial request to stop running the ads, the Conservative Party said it was \"clear the footage was not edited in a manner that misleads or changes the reporting\".", "Second Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day three of five):\n\nJoe Root returned to form as he and Rory Burns hit centuries for England, but the second Test against New Zealand remains in the balance after day three.\n\nRoot made 114 not out off 278 balls - his first Test century in 15 innings - as England closed on 269-5, 106 behind.\n\nCaptain Root put on 177 with opener Burns, who reached his second Test ton before being run out for 101.\n\nNew Zealand fought back with two wickets after tea before rain ended play 45 minutes early in Hamilton.\n\nBen Stokes made an attractive 26, while 21-year-old debutant Zak Crawley fell for one.\n\nEngland will still hope to bat beyond the Black Caps' first-innings 375, before attempting to bowl their hosts out cheaply.\n\nHowever, further rain is forecast on the final day, with England needing to win to draw the two-Test series.\n\nRoot made two and 11 in the first-Test defeat at Mount Maunganui and was averaging 27.40 from 10 matches in 2019, form which had seen him drop out of the top 10 of the Test batting rankings for the first time since 2014.\n\nHe began the day on six and batted very patiently, not playing in his trademark busy fashion until a flurry of boundaries when he reached the nineties.\n\nHe did not play many memorable shots but did not offer a chance either, the only scare coming when he was given out caught down the leg side on 47. The decision was overturned when replays showed the ball flicked his pad.\n\nThat said, Root reached his slowest Test hundred in fortuitous fashion, bottom-edging a cut past his stumps then over wicketkeeper BJ Watling for four.\n\nThe century, his 17th in Tests, has come on a very flat pitch but it will also quieten questions around his batting since taking the captaincy - for a while at least.\n\nThis is his sixth hundred as captain and his longest innings in terms of balls faced since he succeeded Alastair Cook as skipper.\n\nAs England faltered late in the day against a disciplined New Zealand attack, Root held firm and will likely need to push on on day four to set up a chance of victory.\n\nAfter the innings-and-65-run defeat in the first Test, Root stressed the importance of England batsmen converting starts into hundreds and it will please him that both he and Burns were able to do so.\n\nIt is the first time England have had two centurions in the same innings of a Test since Alastair Cook's final match in September 2018.\n\nBurns, who was dropped twice on day two, was more fluent than Root, although not as solid. He capitalised when New Zealand bowled too short and played a number of pleasing pulls, reaching his century from 208 balls.\n\nHe was run out two balls later, ambling the first run and falling a couple of inches short when he opted not to dive for his ground.\n\nStill, Burns' stand with Root was the first time England have had a partnership over 150 since Cook's retirement, and further enhances his reputation at the top of the order.\n\nAfter Burns' departure it looked like the in-form Stokes would continue to build England's score, but he was well taken by Ross Taylor at slip off a fine delivery from Southee which seamed away.\n\nKent opener Crawley, batting at number six, was almost run out as he scampered his first run in Test cricket before Neil Wagner found the outside edge with one angled across him.\n\n'The style of Root's innings has become alien' - what they said\n\nEngland opener Rory Burns on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's pleasing to get the hundred. I'd like to still be out there. It was a disappointing end to it, but I'm pretty happy with how I played.\n\n\"I knew I had to get some things right from last night. I tried to do that overnight in terms of my mindset and how I was going about it. I got my tempo and rhythm back to how I wanted to bat.\"\n\nFormer England batsman and batting coach Mark Ramprakash: \"I really liked the way Root played today. The risk was very low. He kept the ball on the ground, he waited for the long half-volley and his pull shots were well executed.\n\n\"The style of Root's innings has almost become alien. A lot of players these days play cricket in fast-forward mode.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Tim Southee: \"It was a docile pitch throughout. Burns and Root played nicely but the run-out opened up a little bit of an end for us.\n\n\"We got a couple of rewards late in the day and if we pick up a couple tomorrow, who knows?\"", "Boris Johnson has praised members of the public and the emergency services after the London Bridge attack.\n\nTwo people were killed and three more injured before Usman Khan, who had previously been jailed for terrorism offences, was shot dead by police.\n\nThe prime minister said that the system that had allowed him out on early release \"does not make sense\".", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nA sonic boom has woken people and shaken houses across parts of London and the northern Home Counties.\n\nPeople tweeted that a loud \"explosion\" had woken them at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens straight after.\n\nThe noise was generated by two Royal Air Force Typhoons, which launched from Coningsby in Lincolnshire and intercepted an unresponsive aircraft.\n\nThe sonic boom was heard across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace,\" an RAF spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nShe added the Typhoons had since returned to their base.\n\nMil Radar, which monitors RAF activity, tweeted when the jets were scrambled:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mil Radar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nShe went outside with a torch to check her roof and then checked the nearby road to see if there had been a crash, but saw \"nothing and no sign of anyone else investigating\", she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km/h), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeading figures from the UK's political parties have clashed on Brexit, the NHS and terror legislation in the latest televised general election debate.\n\nLabour's Richard Burgon declined to say during the ITV programme which way he would vote in the EU referendum his party is promising, if it wins power.\n\nTory Rishi Sunak was pushed to rule out a no-deal Brexit if the Conservatives won, but did not give a direct answer.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on 12 December.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon defended Jeremy Corbyn's decision to remain neutral in the event of a second referendum, saying the Labour leader was \"determined to bring the country together and heal divisions, not try to exploit them for votes\".\n\nPressed by presenter Julie Etchingham on whether he would vote to stay in the EU or leave in another referendum, he said: \"I want to speak to my local Labour Party members after a Labour government comes back with that deal and then we'll decide how we approach that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Richard Burgon on Brexit: 'It would be for the people to decide'\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson said being neutral showed Mr Corbyn was a \"bystander not a leader\", but Mr Burgon said her party's policy of cancelling Brexit was \"not very liberal, not very democratic\".\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who also wants another referendum, added it was \"dreadful\" that the Conservatives want \"Brexit at any cost\" and Labour \"can't even decide what side they're on\".\n\nShe pushed Conservative minister Mr Sunak to rule out a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year if the Conservatives failed to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury insisted \"we already have a deal\", prompting Ms Sturgeon to say that that was a withdrawal deal, not a trade deal.\n\nMr Sunak said a trade deal was \"in the future\", adding that \"we can only get to that future\" by respecting the result of the EU referendum and leaving.\n\nThe UK would continue to abide by EU rules under the terms of Boris Johnson's EU deal until 31 December 2020, by which time he says a permanent trading relationship will be agreed with Brussels.\n\nBut his opponents say that raises the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year, if an agreement is not reached by then.\n\nGreen party co-leader Sian Berry said the best way to finish off the Brexit process was \"more democracy\" by having a \"people's vote\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Ms Swinson said Brexit should be cancelled altogether.\n\nMr Price said the economic effect of leaving the EU would divide the rich from the poor and \"will not be the answer to our problems\".\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said a second referendum would cause \"even more division and acrimony\".\n\nHis party has pledged to leave the EU and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules if a free trade agreement cannot be struck by the end of next year.\n\nIn a particularly spiky exchange, Ms Swinson attempted to use Mr Farage's defence of US President Donald Trump against him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader acknowledged that some of Mr Trump's comments about grabbing women were \"wrong\" .\n\n\"It was crass and it was crude and it was wrong - men say dreadful things sometimes,\" he said.\n\n\"If all of us were called out for what we did on a night out after a drink...\", he said, before being interrupted by the Lib Dem leader.\n\n\"Is that what you do on a night out after a drink?\" she asked.\n\nMr Farage replied: \"He is president of the USA and that relationship matters. You are so anti-American you are prepared to put your hatred of Trump above our national interest. That is a great mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage on Trump: 'Men say dreadful things sometimes'\n\nScotland's first minister Ms Sturgeon accused Mr Johnson of modelling himself on Mr Trump.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the UK's relationship with the US was \"incredibly important for keeping us safe\" and was \"not something to turn your nose up at\".\n\nThere were also heated exchanges over the the release from prison of Usman Khan, who went on commit the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nMr Sunak said the Conservatives wanted \"tougher sentences\" and he defended Mr Johnson against claims he had politicised the attack, saying it was \"incumbent\" on the prime minister in an election \"to explain to people how they will keep them safe\".\n\nMr Burgon said he was \"very uncomfortable with the way the discussion from the Conservatives moves straight from a tragedy to reheating pre-packaged political lines smearing the Labour Party\".\n\n\"I think our democracy, regardless of our parties, should be better than that\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"I think these people should never ever be let out prison unless we are absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus. But political correctness stops us from doing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak accused Labour of making \"baseless allegations\" that the Conservatives would sell the NHS, as part of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nHe told Mr Burgon: \"The real risk to the NHS are your reckless plans for the economy, Richard, which will mean there isn't money to invest, and silly plans like the four-day week.\"\n\nBut the Labour shadow minister replied: \"It is not Labour's policy to have a four-day week in the National Health Service.\"\n\nChallenging the comment, Mr Sunak said: \"John McDonnell stood there and said very clearly that it would apply to everyone. Are you now saying that he was wrong?\"\n\nMr Burgon replied: \"No, I'm reiterating what he said before which is the idea of people working a four-day week at some point in the future - in maybe 10 years - is something which could be considered.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Mr McDonnell said last month that Labour's plans for a 32-hour working week will apply to all employees, including those in the NHS, and will be implemented over a decade.\n• None Who should I vote for? Election 2019 manifesto guide", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Boris Johnson was asked how many other convicted terrorists have been released early from prison in similar circumstances to London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.\n\nThe 28-year-old convicted terrorist was shot dead by police on London Bridge on Friday after stabbing two people to death. He had been released from jail in 2018.\n\nAn urgent review of the licence conditions of people jailed for terror offences has been launched by the Ministry of Justice following the attack.\n\nOn Saturday Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said that Khan was subject to an \"extensive list of licence conditions\".\n\nYou can watch the full interview on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nRead more: Why was Usman Khan out of prison?", "The Lib Dems would not support Labour's plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party's leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics the policy was a \"distraction\" and not \"the way forward\".\n\nThe Lib Dems and Labour have both ruled out a coalition deal if there is no clear general election winner.\n\nAsked if she would try to block Labour from forming a minority government, she said it was a \"fantasy situation\".\n\n\"Nobody is expecting, on the current scenario, that Jeremy Corbyn is getting anywhere near Downing Street and the Liberal Democrats are going to put him there.\n\n\"So the Labour manifesto, it's a wish list, they cannot deliver it.\"\n\nMs Swinson, who was a business minister in the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government, began the general election campaign by saying she was aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government but has since conceded that would be a \"big step\" given the opinion polls.\n\nIf her party ends up holding the balance of power after 12 December's election, she has said her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokesman Chuka Umunna refused to speculate about what his party would do in this situation, in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"We don't know who the Queen is going to approach to be prime minister.\"\n\nJo Swinson has not ruled out allowing a Conservative or Labour leader to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nLabour is committed to holding another EU referendum, on a renegotiated deal with the EU.\n\nBut the party's first Queen's Speech would be likely to include plans to take the Royal Mail, rail companies, energy supply networks, water and sewerage companies back into public ownership.\n\nAsked whether she would support Labour's plans, Ms Swinson told Pienaar's Politics: \"No, I think renationalisation is a distraction.\n\n\"I don't think it's a way to deliver better public services and I think it's taking us away from, actually, how do you make things better for people?\"\n\nPushed for further clarity on whether the Lib Dems would block the renationalisation of water, Ms Swinson said: \"We don't think that renationalisation is the way forward.\"\n\nAs well as criticising Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans, Ms Swinson condemned Boris Johnson's actions in the aftermath of Friday's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to make Friday's terror attack an election issue.\n\n\"This was an opportunity for Boris Johnson to be a statesman, and yet again he has failed in that and has just shown why he is not fit for the job of Prime Minister,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got a community which is coming together in a brilliant way and straight out of the door the prime minister's trying to make it an election issue - I just think it's pretty distasteful.\n\n\"I think we ought to be able to behave with respect, even when these things happen in the middle of a general election campaign.\"", "London Bridge attacker Usman Khan came to the attention of counter-terrorism investigators because he was involved in a highly active cell around Stoke-on-Trent, part of a wider network of radicals then headed by the preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nMI5 and the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit had intelligence that a group of nine men from London, Cardiff and Stoke, including Khan, wanted to bomb the London Stock Exchange. The plot was supremely incompetent and amateur.\n\nKhan also wanted to set up a terrorism training \"madrassah\", or school, in Kashmir to train a new generation of British militants to either fight out there or bring their skills home.\n\nKhan and the others were convicted and jailed in 2012 - and the ultimate dilemma for the authorities was whether the men were simply fantasists who, hopefully, would grow up.\n\nThe West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit and MI5 team who worked on the investigation had no doubt the men were dangerous - even if they did not have capability.\n\nAnd while Mr Justice Wilkie, the judge presiding over the case, received a letter from Khan saying he had recanted, he had his own doubts - not least because of the nature of the conversations that had been caught during surveillance.\n\nThe judge gave Khan a special prison term known as Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).\n\nThat meant he would serve at least eight years and could not be released unless he had convinced the Parole Board he was no longer a threat.\n\nSome of the other members of the cell received a sentence which dealt with their dangerousness differently.\n\nThey would serve the second half of it in the community on a licence to monitor their behaviour. And following that, additional years of monitoring.\n\nWhen Khan appealed against his sentence, senior judges agreed he should have been treated the same way as his co-defendants.\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nHis IPP was replaced by the same extended sentence (reflecting dangerousness) given to some of the others, meaning he would definitely still spend eight years in jail before release and monitoring.\n\nIf he broke the licence he could be immediately sent back to prison.\n\nKhan had also been asking to join a deradicalisation programme - including sending a letter in October 2012 asking for the Home Office to provide someone to work with him.\n\nHis solicitor, Vajahat Sharif, has told the BBC that Khan repeatedly asked him for help in finding someone.\n\nMr Sharif said he wanted a very specific jihadist ideology expert to work with his client because he feared Khan's hate was so deeply-rooted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Bridge attacker \"wanted to deradicalise\" at time of conviction - lawyer\n\nSo while he may have received some help, his lawyer, for one, thinks it was not enough.\n\nWhen Khan was released on licence, he was subject to a variety of forms of management in the community, as is largely standard for terrorism offenders:\n\nDDP is now a key part of the counter-terrorism strategy and involves tailored counselling and psychological intervention in the lives of terrorism convicts leaving jail.\n\nMore than 100 individuals went through the course between the beginning of its trial in October 2016 and September 2018. There is now funding in place to accommodate up to 230 individuals a year.\n\nThe scheme aims to address many of the triggers that lead someone to turn against society - from a personal identity crisis and chronic self-esteem problems, through to personal grievances and immersion in extremist ideology.\n\nOne of Khan's associates, jailed alongside him in 2012, was Mohibur Rahman.\n\nHe attended a deradicalisation course while in jail - but he also met other extremists inside.\n\nHe was subsequently released and then jailed for life for his part in an embryonic plan to carry out a vehicle and knife attack in Birmingham.\n\nThe end of that plot was a major win for the police and MI5 - but it also involved two other former terrorism prisoners who had not changed their ways.\n\nEach regional counter-terrorism unit is also supposed to take an interest in the activity of released individuals on their patch.\n\nKhan would have required police permission to travel to London before his attack so as to not trigger an alert. On Saturday, Scotland Yard said Khan was, to the best of their knowledge, complying with all his release conditions.\n\nMI5 may have been monitoring Khan too, as it has a role in looking at prisoners leaving jail - although they are typically considered a low risk because it takes time for them to re-engage.\n\nAnd so the biggest problem is knowing for sure that someone has reformed - even if they have been on a deradicalisation programme.", "Labour has highlighted NHS figures which it claims show a decline of GP services under the Conservatives.\n\nThe figures show that in October there were six million GP appointments - out of 31 million - for which patients had a wait of more than two weeks.\n\nLabour said it was \"yet more damning evidence of the crisis our NHS is in after a decade of Tory cuts\".\n\nThe Tories responded by highlighting their plans to deliver 50 million more GP appointments by 2024-25 if elected.\n\nThe figures, from NHS Digital, do not distinguish between those patients who were content to wait for a more routine meeting at their local surgery and those who wanted a more immediate appointment and could not get one.\n\nThe latest data from NHS Digital show that 2.45 million patients waited between 15 and 21 days in October to see a GP or other practice clinician, which was 8.3% of the total number of appointments, compared with 8% in October 2018.\n\nAnother 1.69 million waited between 22 and 28 days for a GP appointment while 1.66 million waited more than 28 days.\n\nIn both cases there was an increase in the percentage of patients affected compared to October last year.\n\nThe overall number of appointments increased to 30.8 million in October 2019 from 29.7 million in the same month the year before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You can't get an appointment\" - patients and staff at one GPs' practice\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"More families are struggling to get a GP appointment after the Tories have allowed the numbers of family's doctors in our communities to fall.\"\n\nHe said Labour had a £40bn rescue plan to invest in general practice which would see more doctors recruited and provide millions more GP appointments.\n\nLabour also quoted new figures on the GP workforce in England which show that the number of fully qualified doctors in general practice had fallen by more than 1,600 since September 2015 to just under 27,000 in September this year.\n\nThe Conservative government had promised in 2015 to add 5,000 GPs by 2020.\n\nHowever, the Tories refer to a different measure which includes qualified doctors training to be GPs - this group has increased by about 400 since September 2015.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"It's great news that we've seen an increase in the number of GPs, and that more people are getting a GP appointment the same or next day.\n\nHe said: \"A Conservative majority government will create 6,000 more GPs and deliver 50 million more GP appointments - to make sure everyone can get the care and treatment they need faster.\"\n\nLabour has pledged, if elected, to increase the number of GP training places in England from 3,500 to 5,000 a year.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would raise training places to 4,000 and recruit more GPs from abroad along with measures to boost retention.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats say they first identified on Thursday - from the NHS' own figures - that the number of GP practices has fallen to a record low.\n\nThe party accused the Conservatives of failing to keep their promises on GP numbers.\n\nIt wants to end the GP shortfall within five years, with more training and what they say will be easier foreign recruitment if the UK stays in the EU.", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nEngland have been drawn against Croatia and the Czech Republic at UEFA EURO 2020, with Wales alongside Italy, Switzerland and Turkey in Group A.\n\nGermany will face world champions France and reigning European champions Portugal in Group F.\n\nThe winners of Scotland's play-off path, which includes Norway, Serbia and Israel, will join England in Group D.\n\nGareth Southgate's World Cup semi-finalists will begin their campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 14 June.\n\nThe tournament's opening game will see Italy host Turkey in Rome on 12 June.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all feature in the play-offs next March, where 16 teams will compete to fill the final four places.\n\nThe tournament, which will take place in 12 cities across Europe, will be hosted across the continent for the first time to mark the 60th anniversary of the competition.\n• None Everything you need to know about Euro 2020\n• None 'Favourable draw but black cloud on horizon for England'\n• None Giggs says Wales 'are a match for anyone'\n\nWhere and when do England play?\n\nEngland, joint bookmakers' favourites along with France to win the tournament, will benefit from hosting all three of their group games at Wembley.\n\nSouthgate's side already knew they would be placed in Group D, with the qualified countries of the 12 host cities purposefully placed in specific groups to ensure at least two home games.\n\nEngland's tournament begins against Croatia in a repeat of the 2018 World Cup semi-final, which was won by Zlatko Dalic's side.\n\nIf England win their group, their last-16 tie would be in Dublin against the runner-ups in a hugely competitive looking Group F - which already includes Germany, France and Portugal - with a potential quarter-final in Rome.\n\nShould they finish second, it would be a trip to Copenhagen against the runner-ups from Group E, which features Spain, before a quarter-final in St Petersburg. There are other possibilities if they are one of the best third-place finishers.\n\nReacting to the draw, England manager Southgate said: \"I'm never sure whether it's a good draw. We have played two of the teams before and for us to play at Wembley is something special. We are looking forward to the tournament.\n\n\"We have to accept that expectations have changed from where we were. We are very critical of ourselves. We would rather be a team that are fancied than a team with no chance.\"\n\nWhere and when will Wales play?\n\nWales, semi-finalists in 2016, land in Group A alongside 1968 winners Italy, who won all 10 of their qualification matches and conceded just four goals.\n\nThey are joined by Switzerland, winners of their qualification group, and a Turkey side that earned a win and a draw against world champions France.\n\nItaly will play their three group games at Rome's Stadio Olimpico, with the other venue in the group Baku's Olympic Stadium.\n\nGuaranteed to face at least one trip to Azerbaijan or Russia prior to the draw, Wales boss Ryan Giggs will be pleased with his side's travel plans which sees them play twice in Baku before a final group match in the Italian capital.\n\nOn his side's draw, Giggs said: \"Logistically looking at it, it's Baku, Baku, Rome, rather than having Rome in the middle - so for the fans it's much better. Switzerland are a good team, talented. Turkey were in a group with France and Iceland so have done well to come through that. And Italy have won every game so that will be tough.\n\n\"I'll get around and watch the players as much as I can. You hope that come June you have a group of healthy players to choose from and if we have that, we're a match for anyone. We want to take our chance, just like in 2016.\"\n• None Pick your starting line-ups for Wales and England\n• None The 'Group of F' and familiar foes - the draw on social media\n\nWhat do Scotland and Northern Ireland need to do?\n\nTriumph in the Euro 2020 play-offs in March, and Steve Clarke's Scotland would end a 22-year wait for major tournament football.\n\nThat wait would come to an end against the Czech Republic in Glasgow on 15 June, with a trip to face England at Wembley following on 19 June and a final group game at Hampden Park against Croatia four days later.\n\nBut first, Clarke's side must find a way past Israel at home on 26 March.\n\nSucceed, and they will then face an away tie against the winner of Norway's play-off semi-final with Serbia five days later to battle for qualification.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland are away to Bosnia-Herzegovina in their play-off semi-final, with the winner at home to the Republic of Ireland or Slovakia in the Path B final.\n\nSaturday's draw means Spain, Sweden and Poland would await Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland in Group E should they qualify.\n\nHowever, with the play-off winners not being decided until 31 March, there remains a bit of a wait yet for the final groups to be confirmed.\n\nThe most difficult group ever?\n\nWorld champions France, European champions Portugal and the previous World Cup winners Germany are all together with one play-off team in Group F.\n\nThis is only the second major tournament where the world champions and the European champions will have met in the group stage - after Euro 1992, when the Netherlands beat Germany.\n\nGermany, who won the 2014 World Cup, will host their three group games in Munich, with the other matches in Budapest. If Hungary win their play-offs, they will be in the group, hosting two games.\n\nOne big boost for the trio is that four of the tournament's six third-placed teams go into the last 16.\n\n\"This is a group of death,\" said Germany boss Joachim Low.\n\n\"The games in Munich will be football festivals. The expectations will be quite high. For our young team, this will be a huge challenge but also a big motivation. This is the reward for winning the qualifier group.\"\n\nWould England be better finishing second?\n\nIn a similar vein to the 2018 World Cup, England may well be better off finishing second in their group.\n\nThe winners of England's Group D will face the runners-up in Group F - probably Germany, France or Portugal - in Dublin.\n\nBut if England finish as runners-up, they would face the team who finish second in the group containing Spain, Poland, Sweden and possibly Northern Ireland or the Republic in Copenhagen.\n\nHowever, the quarter-finalists either way are likely to be difficult - possibly Spain in St Petersburg if they win their group, or the winners of Group F in Russia if they finish second.\n\n\"If you can win and be top seeds then you have to take control of your destiny,\" England boss Gareth Southgate told BBC Sport. \"Let's hope we have the decision to make. We will take on whoever comes. Everyone will be thinking the same about playing us.\"", "The mammal was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge\n\nA dead whale has washed up in the River Thames for the second time in two months.\n\nThe mammal, believed to be a minke whale which can grow up to 33ft (10m) long, was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge late on Friday.\n\nThe Port of London Authority (PLA) said it will \"endeavour to get the whale recovered safely\" over the weekend.\n\nA humpback whale was found dead in Greenhithe in October.\n\nClio Georgiadis said her 11-year-old son spotted the whale on Friday evening\n\nClio Georgiadis said she was left \"very emotional \" after finding the whale while walking her dog at about 21.30 GMT.\n\n\"We tried to see if there was any life in it but there was no breath coming out of it,\" Ms Georgiadis said.\n\n\"It was very sad to see.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held on the whale to establish a cause of death\n\nThe PLA believe the mammal is a minke whale, which can weigh up to 10 tonnes.\n\nThey are occasionally spotted in British waters, preferring cooler regions to tropical areas, and can also be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans.\n\nThe PLA confirmed that it had received reports of a large mammal in the River Thames on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"The first clear indication we knew it was a whale was sadly when it washed up dead,\" PLA spokesman Martin Garside said.\n\nTwo marine experts from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue were dispatched to assist the PLA removing the whale from the water.\n\nThe whale will be sent to the ZSL London Zoo for a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Witnesses described armed police arriving at the scene and shooting a man\n\n\"A police officer came up to me and said 'turn off your engine, get out and run'.\"\n\nMustafa Salih was behind the wheel of a bus heading towards London Bridge when he was ordered to join the crowds fleeing a sudden violent attack at one of the city's most well-known locations.\n\nThat was the moment he realised the bridge had been targeted for the second time in three years.\n\nMr Salih joined scores running from the scene where two people had been stabbed to death and the suspected attacker shot dead by police.\n\nJust before 14:00 GMT bars and restaurants on the south side of the bridge had been filling up with tourists and office workers.\n\nIn an instant that all changed - and London Bridge was in lockdown yet again.\n\nMr Salih, 62, was travelling from Borough High Street when he saw a stream of people, including some in tears, running towards him.\n\n\"A police officer came up to me and said 'turn off your engine, get out and run',\" he said.\n\n\"I looked up and I could see a crowd of people coming towards me. One woman was crying. It was all very scary as we did not know what was happening.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the moment before a man was apparently shot by police on London Bridge\n\nNurse Jackie Bensfield, 32, described how she asked to be let off a bus on the bridge after she heard gunshots.\n\nMs Bensfield, who was on her way home from work, said she got off the bus and \"ran like hell\" to escape the shots.\n\nAnother witness, Connor Allen, who was in his van on the bridge at the time, said: \"Everyone just started running, you heard these pops and that was it.\n\n\"We just got out [of] the van and started running.\"\n\nShop worker Juan Rios, 35, realised something was wrong when he \"heard people running and screaming\" and a noise that sounded \"like popcorn\".\n\n\"Then I heard this distant sound coming from the market direction,\" he said.\n\n\"There was one American couple who were separated from their daughter, they were obviously really scared. Afterwards the police came and told us to evacuate.\"\n\nJuan Rios described hearing a sound like \"popcorn\" coming from the direction of Borough Market\n\nThe bridge remains cordoned off, while nearby Borough Market has also been blocked off by officers and no-one is being allowed through towards the crime scene.\n\nBusinesses have been evacuated of shoppers but there is a constant flow of police officers heading into - and out of - the cordon.\n\nLondon Bridge station was closed and restaurants and bars which had been filling up earlier - and would normally be a hive of activity on a Friday night - were empty.\n\nWorkers are being allowed to leave down Borough High Street, but no-one is being allowed through towards the scene of the incident.\n\nResidents have been told to find elsewhere to stay as the police cordon remains in place around the London Bridge area.\n\nMeanwhile, the November night sky is lit up by blue flashing lights, and a helicopter continues to hover overhead.\n\nShop worker David Lockwood was among those caught up in the incident.\n\n\"Most people were very calm, we have practised this after the last attack here two Junes ago,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a shame we have to practise this kind of stuff, but I'm glad we do when things like this happen.\"", "In his interview on the Andrew Marr Show, the Conservative leader Boris Johnson was questioned about his refusal to commit to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.\n\nHe is the only main party leader not to so far have agreed to an interview with the presenter.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC iPlayer.", "Video footage has shown the moment members of the public stepped in to confront the London Bridge attacker.\n\nA fire extinguisher and a tusk were used to contain Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police at the scene.\n\nTwo people were killed and three more injured in the attack.", "The 52-year-old entertainer said he was having an MRI scan on his neck\n\nJohn Barrowman has been forced to cancel shows at the start of a UK tour after suffering \"a severe neck injury\".\n\nThe star of Doctor Who and Torchwood was due to begin his eight-date \"Fabulous Christmas Tour\" at the Bristol Hippodrome on Saturday.\n\nBut in a tweet he said he had been rushed to hospital with a neck injury that made it \"impossible to sing and move\".\n\nPerformances are still scheduled for next week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 52-year-old entertainer later tweeted that he was having an MRI scan on his neck.\n\nHe said it was a \"very difficult decision\" to \"cancel my performances\", adding: \"I am so disappointed and upset as I was looking forward to seeing you all.\n\n\"I feel I am letting everyone down, but it's simply not possible for me to do the show in my current condition.\"\n\nTicket holders for the Bristol performance have been told they can receive a refund or transfer to the performance in Oxford on December 14.\n\nA performance at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow on December 1 has been postponed to December 3.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bristol Hippodrome This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"At times I felt my death was imminent\"\n\nAn Australian academic freed by the Taliban in a prisoner swap has spoken of his \"long and tortuous ordeal\" as a hostage in Afghanistan.\n\nTimothy Weeks said he believed US special forces had tried six times to rescue him and an American captive, Kevin King, who was also released.\n\nMr Weeks said he did not hate the Taliban, saying some of his guards were \"lovely people\" he hugged as he left.\n\n\"I never, ever gave up hope... I knew I would leave eventually,\" he said.\n\nMr Weeks and Mr King, also an academic, were freed this month in exchange for three senior militants held by the Afghan authorities, in a deal aimed at kick-starting peace talks.\n\nThe pair had been held for three years after being abducted outside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, where they worked as professors.\n\nMr Weeks, a 50-year-old from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, was speaking at a press conference after returning to Australia on Thursday night.\n\nHe said he believed numerous attempts were made to rescue him and that he was held in several locations, often small windowless cells in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n\n\"I believe, and I hope this is correct, that they (special forces) came in six times to try to get us, and that a number of times they missed us only by hours,\" Mr Weeks said.\n\nTimothy Weeks with his sisters Alyssa Carter (L) and Joanne Carter (R)\n\nHe recalled one such mission in April, when his guards told him they were under attack by militants of the rival Islamic State (IS) group.\n\n\"I believe now that it was the Navy SEALs coming in to get us,\" Mr Weeks said.\n\n\"I believe they were right outside our door. The moment that we got into the tunnels, we were one or two metres underground and there was a huge bang at the front door.\n\n\"And our guards went up and there was a lot of machine-gun fire. They pushed me over the top into the tunnels and I fell backwards and rolled and knocked myself unconscious.\"\n\nMr Weeks (L) and fellow hostage Kevin King during their capture\n\nHe said he had accepted that his guards were soldiers acting under orders and that they \"don't get a choice\".\n\n\"I don't hate them at all,\" he said. \"And some of them I have great respect for, and great love for, almost. Some of them were so compassionate and such lovely, lovely people. And it really led me to think about... how did they end up like this?\"\n\nMr Weeks also recalled his release, saying his ordeal \"ended as abruptly as it had begun\" as two US Black Hawk helicopters descended from the skies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible?\n\n\"Out of a big dust cloud came six special forces and they walked towards us and one of them stepped towards me and he just put his arm around me and he held me and he said, 'Are you OK?' And then he walked me back to the Black Hawk.\"\n\nMr Weeks said that his time as a hostage had had a \"profound and unimaginable effect\".\n\nBut he never gave up hope because \"if you give up hope, there is very little left for you\".\n\nHe said: \"At times, I felt as if my death was imminent, and that I would never return to see those that I loved again. But, by the will of God, I am here, I am alive and I am safe - and I am free.\"", "Angelene Perry's children donned blankets and woolly hats as the family struggled to stay warm\n\nThousands of homes could be without heating for \"several days\" after a gas main failure in central Scotland.\n\nGas infrastructure company SGN said about 8,000 properties in the Falkirk area had been left without supplies,\n\nSGN engineers were working to fix equipment that regulates gas pressure but warned each property would have to be visited.\n\nElectric heaters and cookers were being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children.\n\nTemperatures in the Falkirk area were barely above freezing for much of Sunday and were forecast to fall to minus 2C overnight.\n\nFalkirk Council said schools may have to close on Monday and it would be working with SGN to care for vulnerable people affected.\n\nSGN said it had a large team of engineers working to fix the problem\n\nSGN said homes in Bainsford, Carron, Carronshore, Larbert, Langlees, New Carron Village, Skinflats and Stenhousemuir were affected by a faulty \"gas governor\" which regulates pressure in the network.\n\nIn its latest update it said it would need to visit every property to turn off the gas supply at the meter.\n\n\"With so many homes affected, it's likely you could be without your gas supply for several days,\" it added.\n\n\"We're sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We're doing all we can to restore gas supplies to the area as soon as possible. \"\n\nA customer information centre at the Camelon Community Centre in Falkirk will be stocked with portable cooking and heating appliances for elderly, disabled and chronically sick customers, as well as those with young children or other special needs.\n\nCustomers can request the appliances by calling 0800 9121717.\n\nOne customer, Angelene Perry, who has four young children including a baby, said the family woke on Sunday morning to find the boiler off and displaying an error message.\n\nGas customers woke to find error messages on their boilers\n\nShe said: \"It's really cold in the house and we're all huddled in the living room where we've got a small heater. I've dressed the baby in plenty of clothes and a hat.\n\n\"I spoke to the gas company and was told a valve had been broken by the cold but they didn't know how long it would take to fix it.\n\n\"I think we're going to have to leave here and go to my sister's as we don't have any hot water or anything.\"\n\nFalkirk Council said it had alerted housing and social work services to be on standby to support SGN and was contacting head teachers to let parents know if schools would be affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a list of vulnerable people in the area so we know were people who may have the most difficulty are.\"\n\nHe said schools could potentially close if the buildings are very cold, though all care homes in affected areas are currently fine.\n\n\"We are ready to support SGN in any way we can,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has so far refused to commit to an interview with Andrew Neil, who interviewed him during the Tory leadership election\n\nBoris Johnson will be interviewed on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show as it is \"in the public interest\" following the London Bridge attack, the BBC says.\n\nIt had been reported that the BBC would not allow the PM to appear on Sunday's programme unless he also agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nMr Johnson has so far refused to commit to a one-to-one with Mr Neil - who has already grilled other party leaders.\n\nLabour called the BBC's move to allow the PM on the Marr show \"shameful\".\n\nThe BBC said in a statement that as the national public service broadcaster its first priority \"must be its audience\".\n\n\"In the wake of a major terrorist incident, we believe it is now in the public interest that the prime minister should be interviewed on our flagship Sunday political programme.\n\n\"All parties' election policy proposals must - and will - face detailed scrutiny from us and we continue to urge Boris Johnson to take part in the prime-time Andrew Neil interview as other leaders have done.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon took part in 30-minute interviews with Mr Neil earlier this week.\n\nThe BBC's interview with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is set to air on 4 December. Another, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, will be shown on 5 December.\n\nLabour candidate and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw tweeted that it was a \"shameful and abject surrender\" by BBC management to allow the PM to be interviewed by Mr Marr.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Bradshaw This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIlford North Labour candidate Wes Streeting posted that he loved the BBC but its decision was \"wrong\", adding: \"The BBC have been played by the Tory leader and shouldn't dance to his tune.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who also turned down Channel 4's request to appear on a leaders' debate about climate change on Thursday, has been accused of avoiding media scrutiny by Labour.\n\nOn Friday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Johnson was \"running scared\" from being grilled by Mr Neil, adding that it was a \"matter of honour\" that he subjected himself to the fullest possible questioning.\n\nThe PM - who was interviewed by Mr Neil during the Conservative leadership election in July - told LBC the public was more interested in his vision and plans for the country rather than which programmes he appeared on.", "University vice-chancellor: 'Not the time' for policy discussion\n\nThe vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge says \"now is not the best time to be trying to formulate public policy\" on the early release of prisoners. He was speaking amid a row between the Tories and Labour over the timing of the introduction of the laws that allowed attacker Usman Khan to be released from prison last year. Asked about the debate, Prof Stephen J Toope says: \"Frankly I'm not a politician.\" He says he is thinking about the grieving families and the injured recovering in hospital. \"This is an attack on our community and it was intended as such,\" the vice-chancellor says. \"It was meant to produce a form of terror and sadness and it's clearly done that... it's made people very very sad,\"", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nTwo Royal Air Force Typhoons caused sonic booms as they went to intercept an aircraft which had lost its radio contact over south-east England.\n\nThe fighters from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were cleared to go supersonic because of the emergency.\n\nThe booms were heard in the early hours across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe aircraft first developed problems as it flew across Germany on its way to the US, said one of its pilots.\n\nThe pilot praised the speed of the RAF response, but said he was shocked when he first saw the fighters.\n\nSteven Giordano told the BBC: \"It took us about 10 minutes to realize that the radio wasn't working and then about 10 minutes to resolve that problem.\n\n\"Amazing how fast the RAF reacted. I applaud them for that.\"\n\nHe said the crew was busy checking frequencies when the radio came back online and had not noticed the RAF fighters.\n\n\"I looked left and about had a heart attack when I saw one - so close - strobes on and with blueish 'glow strips' along the side of his fuselage.\n\n\"We flashed our landing lights to acknowledge and established radio contact on 'guard'... with the fighters.\n\n\"We were already talking to London control at that point.\n\n\"They remained with us for about five minutes.\"\n\nHe said the empty aircraft eventually landed safely in the US.\n\nThe sonic booms woke people at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens sounding immediately after.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn RAF spokeswoman said: \"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Earlier this year, the BBC got exclusive access to the Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon team at RAF Coningsby\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km per hour), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel visited the scene at London Bridge\n\nA row has erupted between the home secretary and a former government minister over the early release of the London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan.\n\nKhan, who was released from prison on licence in December 2018, was shot dead by police during Friday's attack.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper said the government were \"warned about the risks\" of ending Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).\n\nBut Priti Patel blamed legislation brought in by Labour in 2008.\n\nThe IPP regime, which was brought in by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett to protect the public from dangerous prisoners, was scrapped by the coalition government in 2012.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Ms Cooper, shadow home secretary from 2011-2015, said the government was \"warned\" about the risks of ending IPPs citing a \"lack of resources for probation, monitoring and rehabilitation\".\n\nThe home secretary responded to Ms Cooper on Twitter, saying the law was changed \"to end Labour's automatic release policy\".\n\nMs Patel added that Khan was convicted before the Labour legislation was changed by the Tories in 2012.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe row comes after Ms Patel joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson at London Bridge where two people were killed by Khan on Friday.\n\nKhan, 28, was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012. He was released from prison in December last year, after agreeing to wear an electronic tag.\n\nVisiting the site of Friday's stabbings, the PM vowed to \"toughen up sentences\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I've said for a long time now, that I think the practice of automatic, early release where we cut a sentence in half and let really serious and violent offenders out early, simply isn't working.\n\n\"And I think you've had some very good evidence of how that isn't working, I'm afraid, with this case,\" he added.\n\nTwo people were killed in the attack and another three were taken to hospital for stab injuries\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said there were questions to be answered.\n\n\"I think there is also a question about what the Probation Office were doing - were they involved at all?\n\n\"Whether the Parole Board should have been involved in deciding whether or not he should have been allowed to be released from prison in the first place, and also what happened in prison?\"\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying Khan \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nMs Patel backed up the Parole Board's comments, with a tweet claiming they \"could not be involved\" in the decision to release Khan because of Labour's change to the law in 2008.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2012, Khan was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after being convicted for his part in a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThis sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term.\n\nBut in 2013, the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which Khan should serve half in prison. He was released on licence in December 2018.\n\nKhan was living in Stafford and wearing a GPS police tag when he launched his attack on Friday, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nA house in Stafford linked to Usman Khan has been searched by officers\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nFriday's attack started inside Fishmongers' Hall where the 28-year-old was attending a rehabilitation event for convicted prisoners run by the University of Cambridge.\n\nFormer chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal said he repeatedly warned Mr Johnson of the risk posed by convicted terrorists being released from prison while still radicalised.\n\nMr Afzal said: \"He asked me what keeps me awake at night and I told him it was this issue.\n\n\"When he wanted to know what to do about it, I told him it was more resources for one-to-one de-radicalisation.\n\n\"Back then, he hadn't found the 'money tree' so he frustratingly said there was no money.\"\n\nThe Prime Minister said: \"A great deal of working is being done to make sure the public is protected.\"", "The first victim of yesterday's London Bridge attack has been named as Jack Merritt, a Cambridge University law ad criminology graduate.\n\nEarlier this year, Jack Merritt spoke on a BBC Radio 4 Law in Action podcast about his work helping inmates at Warren Hill prison in Suffolk to study law.", "Lewis Hamilton dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to end the season in which he won a sixth world drivers' title on a high.\n\nThe Mercedes driver led away from pole position and cruised off into the distance, untroubled by anyone behind.\n\nIn a soporific race, Red Bull's Max Verstappen took a comfortable second after Ferrari slipped backwards.\n\nCharles Leclerc ran second in the early laps, ahead of Verstappen, but slipped back to third.\n\nLeclerc held off an attack from Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas in the closing stages, the Finn right on his gearbox on the final lap, after an excellent race from the back of the grid.\n\nLeclerc was at risk of losing third place because governing body the FIA discovered before the race that the amount of fuel Ferrari said was in his car was different from the amount that was when it was checked.\n\nBut after a post-race investigation, Ferrari were fined €50,000 for what had been a 4.88kg discrepancy and the result stood.\n\nHamilton's victory was his 11th of the 21 races that have been held this season, and equals his previous best performance - in 2014 and 2018.\n\nIt also moves his career total to 84 wins, just seven behind the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.\n\nThat sets the 34-year-old Briton up to potentially exceed Schumacher's win tally and match his all-time record of seven world championships in 2020.\n\nHe was in a race of his own from the start, quickly opening a sizeable gap over Leclerc and never looking under any threat thereafter.\n\nHamilton, who tied up the title last month at the US Grand Prix, said: \"I'm proud but just super-grateful for this incredible team and all at Mercedes who have continued to push this year.\n\n\"Even though we had the championship won we wanted to keep our head down and see if we could extract more from this beautiful car.\"\n\nLeclerc initially appeared to have an advantage over Verstappen but his race began to fall apart when Ferrari decided to call him in for a pit stop on lap 12, early for his starting tyre choice of the medium compound.\n\nVerstappen ran 13 laps longer before his first stop and quickly caught and passed Leclerc from four seconds back when he rejoined, despite a problem with his engine's throttle response.\n\nLeclerc switched on to a two-stop strategy and finished third, measuring his pace to hold off Bottas.\n\nThe Finn's task was made harder by the fact the DRS overtaking aid was not operating for the first 18 laps of the race because of a technical problem.\n\nBut he made good progress anyway and by the second part of the race was pressuring Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Alexander Albon behind the top three.\n\nVettel pitted out of Bottas' way, then Bottas passed Albon on track.\n\nMercedes had hopes that Leclerc's new soft tyres, fitted at his second pit stop, might fade in the closing laps, but Leclerc did enough to just hang on, despite his car's high tyre usage.\n\nVettel, who dropped to sixth when he made a second stop on the same lap as Leclerc, homed in on Albon in the closing stages and passed him for fifth with two laps to go.\n\nBehind the top six cars, the main interest was how the minor points places would settle the battle for sixth in the championship, with Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly and McLaren's Carlos Sainz tied on points before the race but the Frenchman ahead on results countback.\n\nGasly's hopes looked done on the first lap, when he was hit by Racing Point's Lance Stroll and punted into the Canadian's team-mate Sergio Perez at the first corner, damaging his front wing.\n\nGasly needed to stop for a new wing and his race never recovered.\n\nBut his hopes increased as Sainz's race looked like it might be undone by his need to start on the unfavourable soft tyre because he qualified in the top 10, which gave the advantage to the quicker runners just outside the top 10 on the grid, such as Perez and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat.\n\nMcLaren gambled on a late pit stop for fresh tyres, which dropped Sainz out of the points place he needed, but gave him the speed he required in the closing laps.\n\nHe climbed back up from 14th place and passed Renault's Nico Hulkenberg for 10th on the last lap, giving him the point he needed to seal sixth - a well-deserved achievement after an excellent first season with McLaren.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nA well-earned break from travelling for everyone in F1 after a long, hard season. There is some testing in Abu Dhabi this coming week, to settle the detail of the tyres to be used in 2020, and then it will be all hands on deck at the teams' headquarters as they prepare their new cars and the drivers take a short break over Christmas, before preparations begin for the start of next season in Australia on 13-15 March.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"I'm so grateful to Team LH. I travel around the world to different countries and I get to see people who inspire me and send me messages that lift me up. Thank you for watching, thank you for supporting. I feel so happy.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"To be P3 in the championship was a nice ending. We are all working hard, but good to take some time off and be with family and friends and come back stronger next year.\"\n\nLeclerc: \"I've learned a huge amount thanks to Seb, it's been a great year a realisation of the dream since I was child to be with Ferrari and in Formula 1 and it's up to me to get better and give them the success they deserve.\"\n\nAnd your moment of the 2019 season is...", "Jack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones was a volunteer on the programme\n\nThe woman killed in Friday's London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones.\n\nThe 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt.\n\nThe boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said \"the building turned into a nightmare\".\n\nToby Williamson, of Fishmongers' Hall, said staff who fought attacker Usman Khan believed he was wearing a bomb.\n\nTwo men took chairs, fire extinguishers and narwhal tusks, which were hanging on the wall, to fend off Khan, driving him out of the building.\n\nKhan, 28, a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018, was later shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe families of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones have both paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary,\" the statement read.\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nMs Jones' family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family statement read.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"This is an extremely painful time for the family. Saskia will leave a huge void in our lives and we would request that our privacy is fully respected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nProfessor Stephen J Toope said the victims were taking part in an event \"to mark five years of the university's Learning Together programme\" - which focuses on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nHe added: \"What should have been a joyous opportunity to celebrate the achievements of this unique and socially transformative programme, hosted by our Institute of Criminology, was instead disrupted by an unspeakable criminal act.\n\n\"Among the three people injured, whose identities have not been publicly released, is a member of university staff.\n\n\"Our university condemns this abhorrent and senseless act of terror.\"\n\nVice-chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope said he only met Jack Merritt once but was \"impressed by his charm\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Prof Toope said the fact Mr Merritt was killed by someone he was trying to help \"is the greatest tragedy of all\".\n\n\"I have profound sadness for the family,\" he added.\n\n\"This is an attack on our community and it was intended, in such, to produce a form of terror and sadness - and it has clearly done that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSpeaking about the chain of events inside Fishmongers' Hall on Friday, where Khan launched his fatal attack, chief executive Mr Williamson praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\n\"There was a scream, there was blood. People thought it was an exercise at first,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\nHe recounted how two men, named as Lukasz and Andy, \"used fire extinguishers, chairs and narwhal tusks ripped off the wall\" to take the fight back to Khan\n\n\"They took a decision, one that enough was enough. They were determined it wasn't going to go on.\"\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people... but in the heat of the moment, people do extraordinary things.\n\n\"I am very proud to know them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid on the south side of London Bridge\n\nEarlier in the day, hundreds attended a service at Southwark Cathedral for the victims of Friday's attack on London Bridge.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said many people were struggling with what happened.\n\nOn Friday, the cathedral was put into lockdown as people ran away from London Bridge.\n\nAs crowds ran towards the cathedral, Mr Nunn recalled having \"that sense of déjà vu\", adding that it brought back memories of the nearby attack in Borough Market two years ago, which left eight dead and 48 injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral said Friday's attack brought back memories of the London Bridge terror attack in 2017\n\nPrayers were held for the victims of the London Bridge attack\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's service, Mr Nunn said \"memories have been stirred and wounds have been re-opened\".\n\nHe added: \"What seemed to have been put to the back of people's minds has now been brought to the fore.\n\n\"We have to stand with them. We have to help bear their pain but also speak to that pain with words of hope.\"\n\nMr Nunn, too, praised the bravery of the people who confronted Khan as he carried out his attack.\n\n\"Every event of this nature produces stories of such selfless acts of bravery.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was cordoned for most of the weekend while forensic officers searched the scene\n\nDr Vin Diwaker, medical director for the NHS in London, gave an update on the conditions of the three people who were injured in the attack.\n\nHe said: \"One of the people injured in the London Bridge incident has now been able to return home.\n\n\"Two people remain in a stable condition and continue to receive expert care in hospital.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Gray spoke to BBC 5 Live about how he helped to stop the London Bridge attacker\n\nOver the weekend counter-terrorism officers searched a house in Stafford linked to Khan and another property in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nOn Sunday night, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with a \"review of existing licence conditions of convicted terrorism offenders\".\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, but Staffordshire Police added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nVehicles abandoned as the attack unfolded on Friday have since been removed, the Met Police has said.\n\nFriday's attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassers-by who tackled a man wielding a knife on London Bridge have been praised as \"amazing heroes\".\n\nThe man had stabbed two people to death and wounded three others in a terror-related attack.\n\nFootage on social media shows the knifeman being held down by members of the public before firearms officers intervene and shoot him dead.\n\nOne man who helped restrain the attacker said they had been trying to dislodge a knife from this hand.\n\nThe suspect, Usman Khan, 28, was a convicted terrorist who had been released on licence.\n\nThe Queen praised the emergency services and \"the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nMembers of the public also expressed their admiration for those involved.\n\nGeorge Robarts tweeted about the \"bravery\" of one man, filmed walking away from the attacker holding a knife.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said the man seen holding the knife was a plain-clothes officer.\n\nBTP Chief Constable Paul Crowther, said: \"The courageous actions he took when faced with the horrors of this attack are remarkable.\n\n\"He, as well as other members of the public, should be extremely proud of what they did to stop this man on London Bridge.\"\n\nAmy Coop, who was inside Fishmongers' Hall where the attack began, tweeted her praise of a man who went to confront the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amy Coop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA chef, known as Lukasz, was joined by another man who used a fire extinguisher and let it off in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nFishermans' chief executive Toby Williamson said both men thought a bomb might be involved.\n\nHe confirmed Lukasz was among the injured, but said he was \"doing all right\".\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people you would know. They would have used their fists if they had to,\" he said.\n\nHe praised all his staff adding they were \"determined to level the odds against a madman\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive officer of Fishermans' company, was \"proud\" of his team\n\nTour guide Stevie Hurst was one of those who helped restrain Khan on the bridge.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live he saw the suspect being held down.\n\nPeople were screaming that the attacker had \"stabbed a couple of women\", he said.\n\nStevie Hurst said he \"doesn't know\" why he was compelled to restrain the attacker\n\n\"Everyone was just on top of him, trying to bundle him to the ground.\n\n\"We saw that the knife was still in his hand... I just put a foot in to try and kick him in the head.\n\n\"We were trying to do as much as we could to try and dislodge the knife from his hand so he wouldn't harm anyone else.\"\n\nMr Hurst's colleague, Thomas Gray, 24, said he stamped on the terrorist's wrist to try to make him release one of two large knives he was carrying.\n\nThe tour manager said: \"I was brought up on rugby and the rule is 'one in, all in'. I did what any Londoner would do and tried to put a stop to it.\n\n\"He had two knives on him, one in each hand, and it looked like they were taped to his hands.\n\n\"I stamped on his left wrist while someone else smacked his hand on the ground and kicked one of the knives away.\"\n\nIt has also emerged that one of the people who helped tackle Khan was James Ford, who in 2004 was jailed in Kent for the murder of 21-year-old Amanda Champion.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she wanted to thank the members of the public who helped, \"showing extraordinary courage by stepping in to tackle this attacker\".\n\nBrendan Cox, whose wife MP Jo Cox was murdered, said: \"I hope the front pages tomorrow are full of the stories of the everyday heroes who helped stop the attack, not fixated on the low-life attention seekers who carried it out.\"\n\nSimilarly, Kera Stewart said, rather than see the face of the attacker, she wanted to see the faces of the \"brave, heroic pedestrians who took him down, disarmed him and saved people's lives.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Harvey Bateman added: \"It takes a lot of courage to do something like that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan called members of the public who intervened in the incident \"the best of us\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Boris Johnson both offered their thanks to the general public for intervening.\n\nMr Johnson also praised emergency services while Mr Khan said, \"They are the best of us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our country will never be divided or intimidated... our values will prevail\"", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge\n\nTributes have been paid to two friends stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, had been at a conference celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Learning Together prison programme when knifeman, 28-year-old Usman Khan, attacked them and three others.\n\nHe was shot dead by police minutes after he fatally wounded the University of Cambridge graduates.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family of Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people,\" they added.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"Saskia had a great passion for providing invaluable support to victims of criminal injustice, which led her to the point of recently applying for the police graduate recruitment programme, wishing to specialise in victim support.\"\n\nMs Jones had completed a Masters degree in criminology in 2018.\n\nProf Loraine Gelsthorpe, director of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology, said Ms Jones had a \"determination to make an enduring and positive impact on society in everything she did\".\n\n\"Saskia's warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation,\" she added.\n\nColleen Moore, a former tutor of Ms Jones at Anglia Ruskin University, paid tribute, telling the BBC: \"She was fearless, she was a warrior, she was going to change the world - maybe she will.\"\n\nShe added: \"She stood out above everyone else, partly because she wanted to. She was not afraid to say anything, there was no fooling her… she said things that she knew would be a bit risky but they were always right.\"\n\n\"She was a lovely, lovely woman, she made me laugh. She called me out on things - a lot of people were scared of me, she wasn't.\"\n\nOlivia Smith, a lecturer in criminology who marked Ms Jones' dissertation when she was at Anglia Ruskin, described her as \"one of a kind\" who \"would have been a force for good\".\n\nDr Smith said: \"I'm so sorry that the world won't get to see what she could have achieved.\n\n\"Saskia's dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it.\"\n\nA friend, Sebastian Lefeuvre, described the young woman's death as senseless.\n\n\"She was just the most perfect soul and she's gone,\" he said.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was a \"friend and colleague\" of Ms Jones.\n\n\"Our beautiful, talented boy, died doing what he loved, surrounded by people he loved and who loved him,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He lit up our lives and the lives of his many friends and colleagues, and we will miss him terribly.\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person who was looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne, and making a career helping people in the criminal justice system.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to the relatives and friends of his friend and colleague who died with him in this incident, to the colleagues who were injured, and to his brilliant, supportive colleagues at the University of Cambridge Department of Criminology.\"\n\nMr Merritt had completed the same masters degree Ms Jones had, but a year earlier.\n\nHe had previously gained a degree in law at the University of Manchester.\n\nOne woman who called Mr Merritt her \"best mate\" described him in a tribute posted on Twitter as \"quite simply the best thing, completely golden\".\n\n\"I wanted so much for you. Your life had so much enjoyment in it, and you gave us all so much happiness,\" she wrote.\n\nThe friend, who calls herself Holl on Twitter, said she went to the pub and \"kept expecting you to turn up, swanky coat, Dr Martens on\".\n\n\"I need you to be known for who you were, your beliefs and voice. I'm so angry Jack,\" she said.\n\n\"Your voice won't be lost, you will never be lost and I will never let you be forgotten.\"\n\nShe added Mr Merritt \"could have done anything\" but \"you chose to help others, you championed the underdog\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nProf Gelsthorpe said: \"Jack's passion for social and criminal justice was infectious. He was deeply creative and courageously engaged with the world, advocating for a politics of love. He worked tirelessly in dark places to pull towards the light.\"\n\nLegal commentator Joshua Rozenberg interviewed Mr Merritt for the BBC in February, when he was working with Learning Together at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk.\n\nMr Rozenberg described him as \"a fine young man, dedicated to improving people's lives\".\n\nRapper Dave said Mr Merritt was \"the best guy\" and the news of his death was \"one of the most painful things\".\n\nDave's Mercury Prize-winning album was inspired by rehabilitation therapy his brother Christopher Omoregie has received while serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nThe Streatham-born rapper said Mr Merritt had \"dedicated his life to helping others\" and it was \"genuinely an honour to have met someone like you\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has announced plans to slash rail fares by 33% and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 and build a central online booking portal with no booking fees.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nConservative Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the plan was \"desperate\".\n\nThe Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have also pledged to improve transport.\n\nLabour said privatisation had \"created one of the most expensive ticketing systems in the world\", which discriminated against part-time workers, discouraged rail travel and excluded the young and low-paid.\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Our pledge] is much overdue given that passengers have had to suffer rises amounting to about 40% since 2010.\n\n\"And if we really want to make the shifts that we need to get people from cars into public transport this is a major contribution to it, because obviously that's critical to addressing the climate change crisis.\"\n\nLabour's manifesto contained a pledge to make rail travel cheaper but no details about what that would entail.\n\nThe party said the proposal to slash fares by a third would cost £1.5bn per year and be covered by Vehicle Excise Duty - money the Conservatives have earmarked for roads.\n\nMore generally, Labour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe Conservatives' Mr Shapps said: \"This is another desperate attempt from Labour to distract from their inability and unwillingness to be straight with people on where they stand on Brexit, and the fact they would raise taxes on low and middle-income workers across the country.\n\n\"You simply cannot trust [Jeremy] Corbyn to deliver what he claims. His ideological plans would wreck our economy, cost people their livelihoods and with the help of Nicola Sturgeon, would waste the whole of next year on two more chaotic referendums.\"\n\nIn keeping with their proposals to nationalise the railways, Labour's plans to significantly cut fares would see a reverse in the direction of travel for policies on train fares since privatisation.\n\nSince 1995, successive governments have tried to move the day-to-day cost of running the railways onto fare-payers and away from the taxpayer. At that time, it used to be split 50/50 - now it's more like 75% on the shoulders of the passenger.\n\nThe argument goes that by raising fares in line with the Retail Prices Index inflation figure each year, government spending on the railways can be reserved for investment in infrastructure.\n\nAnnounced just two days after the average train fare rise of 2.7% was published, and coinciding with major industrial action on several lines in the run-up to Christmas, Labour's proposal for a significant cut to fares could prove popular with commuters.\n\nThe future of ticketing and rail fares is just one of the issues being looked at by a major review into the UK's railways due to report after the election.\n\nIt is led by Keith Williams, the former boss of British Airways, who is particularly interested in how innovation in aviation fares and ticketing could be applied to the railways.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have pledged to freeze peak-time and season ticket train fares for the next five years and cancel the 2.7% rise in rail tickets from 2 January 2020. They also plan to complete the HS2 high-speed rail link.\n\nAnd the Conservatives are pledging to improve transport links as part of a £3.6m Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 rail project - a goal it shares with the Green Party.\n\nRegulated fares include season tickets for most commuter journeys, as well as saver returns, standard returns and off-peak fares between major cities. They make up about 45% of all fares.\n\nThe average change in these figures is capped at July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure. They are due to rise 2.8% in January.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland regulated fares raised about £3.3bn for the rail operators, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nLabour says they will pay for this by ring-fencing income from Vehicle Excise Duty, which the Conservatives plan to allocate to a special road-building fund from 2020-21 onwards.\n\nSo, an interesting question will be which road projects will be defunded to pay for this pledge.", "Train ticket sales could be transformed under Labour plans for a central online booking portal.\n\nThe party wants to replace what it sees as a confusing system of sales by private train operators - with around 55 million types of fare available.\n\nInstead, it is proposing a \"one-stop shop\" for fares with no booking fees if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nLabour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe plan to introduce a ticketing service to simplify rail ticket sales could create a competitor to existing third party ticket sellers such as Trainline, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in June.\n\nLabour says passengers can already buy tickets directly from train companies, and that nationalisation would just simplify the process.\n\nIts regional manifestos contain a number of transport pledges to be paid for by a £250bn Green Transformation Fund - a pot of money raised through borrowing - such as:\n\nThe price of rail tickets is set to rise by an average of 2.7% from 2 January, industry body the Rail Delivery Group announced this week.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While apps and websites perform a useful function, they are limited by only being able to offer the same confusing and sometimes contradictory range of fares as today, because these were baked in to the system in the mid-1990s.\n\n\"That's why train companies have put forward proposals to reform underlying regulations and make ticket buying simpler and easier for passengers.\"\n\nIndependent watchdog Transport Focus said a majority of rail users did not feel they were getting value for money.\n\nThe Conservatives are promising to improve transport links as part of a £3.6bn Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also made pledges on transport, promising to freeze peak time and season ticket train fares, and to complete the HS2 rail project. The SNP want more powers devolved to Scotland, including on transport.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 high-speed rail link - a goal it shares with the Green Party.", "The London Bridge attacker was 'complying' with conditions set out by Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nUsman Khan, a convicted terrorist released from prison in December 2018, killed two people before being shot dead by police on Friday.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu said a series of raids had been carried out, but that it was believed Khan was acting alone.", "The maximum punishment for revenge porn is two years in prison\n\nA woman was shocked to discover her personal details on a website listing names of women who men were discussing attacking and raping.\n\nBecky, which is not her real name, found her details and location on a so-called \"revenge porn\" forum, alongside those of thousands of others.\n\nThe 22-year-old from Middlesbrough found words had been uploaded in a coded way to avoid search engines.\n\nThe site, which the BBC is not naming, said it removed illegal content.\n\nBecky found her name and those of three of her friends had been posted on the site, alongside those of other women and girls from Teesside and around the world.\n\nShe wrote about her shock in a Twitter post that went viral and thousands of other women who were alerted to the site found videos of rapes, posts rating women's bodies, and images of child abuse.\n\nMen could also request details about women in their area.\n\nThe site promised VIP members \"over one terabyte of porn that is growing daily\"\n\nBecky told BBC Tees: \"I've been put up with three other people, two of them are my best friends, another is a girl I went to school with, and we all lived within five minutes of each other.\n\n\"So it's obviously someone we know who was asking for our details and for pictures of us.\n\n\"It's like 'Do we see this person every day? Do we speak to this person?' And now I've posted it on to Twitter, their comments [on the site] have been deleted.\n\n\"It's as if they've seen it and they don't want to be caught. It's scary.\n\n\"It's been going on for nearly 10 years, it goes back to 2010. I phoned the police and they said they can't do anything about it because they don't know who owns the website.\"\n\nThe website boasted about the number of images it hosted\n\nThe site promised VIP members \"over one terabyte of porn that is growing daily\". The BBC understands it is based in Finland.\n\nThousands of women have now signed a petition calling for it to be closed after Becky brought it to their attention.\n\n\"It's absolutely massive and the police are doing nothing about it,\" she said. \"The police are meant to be there to protect you. I can't believe people are actually that twisted.\n\n\"I've spoken to a number of girls, one was 13 at the time her photos were put up, that's the youngest I've spoken to, I know there's girls my age, it's all between the ages of 13 and 25.\"\n\nThe BBC emailed the website's operators, and they replied: \"All posts to our services are posted by our anonymous users around the world not by [website name].\n\n\"We carry out daily active moderation and have clear rules on what is allowed to be posted, we also offer removal forms in the rare cases for content that is deemed illegal or breaks copyright rules.\n\n\"As we have a global audience that totals 28 million users a year across our networks, we strive to ensure that any posts that do break the rules get removed in a timely manner.\"\n\nDet Insp Jim Forster from Cleveland Police said: \"The offence [of revenge porn] relates to the person that does the sharing of the images, we can arrest that person, they can be dealt with and they can get up to two years in prison.\"\n\nHe said if a case involved a big company such as Facebook or Snapchat they would generally comply with requests to take material down, but lesser-known websites, or ones run by criminals, could tend to ignore the police.\n\n\"It's unlikely we'd be able who trace who owns the website if it's foreign based,\" he said. \"The reality is getting those images removed is nigh-on impossible.\"", "Boris Johnson has toured Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in north-east England, with three days to go before polling day.\n\nIn a speech in Sunderland - 61% of which voted to Leave - the PM told voters: \"The Labour Party has let you down.\"\n\nHe attacked Parliament, saying it had \"delayed\" and \"denied\" Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson will also travel to south-west England, where he will warn against voting for the pro-EU Lib Dems.\n\nAt the event in Sunderland, Mr Johnson took questions from the public and the press.\n\nMr Johnson spoke of his \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal with the EU, saying the alternative to voting for the Conservatives was \"yet more delay\" and \"division and deadlock\".\n\nHe criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, arguing he did not have a credible Brexit plan, adding that every Conservative election candidate had pledged to support his own withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nMr Johnson also challenged Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell's plans, which he said \"will put up taxes\" and be a \"recipe for disaster\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr McDonnell promised to deliver a budget to \"end austerity\" within its first 100 days if the party wins Thursday's election.\n\nIn a speech in London setting out his priorities, he also pledged to get \"money moving out of Whitehall and the City\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says the prime minister is intending to \"visit every region in England and Wales\" in the final three days of the election campaign, with a message that a vote for his party is a vote to \"get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential\".\n\nMr Johnson started the day at a fish market in Grimsby, one of a number of longstanding Labour areas that voted heavily to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum that both the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are targeting.\n\nOn his visit to Sunderland, Mr Johnson said it had been 1,264 days since the city voted to leave the EU. \"People voted to get out of the European Union - our democratic duty to do so.\n\n\"Our economy is suffering right now because of the uncertainty\" created by the Brexit delay, he said.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly warned that the only alternative to a Conservative majority is a hung Parliament, with Mr Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon forming a coalition and resulting in further referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is confident an agreement on a second independence vote could be done if Labour needed SNP support to form a government if there is a hung parliament.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has ruled out supporting a Scottish independence referendum until after the next Holyrood election in 2021.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are, meanwhile, pledging to table legislation to stop Brexit immediately after the election by introducing two draft bills they say would pave the way for another EU referendum.\n\nThe first would enable the Electoral Commission to start the necessary consultation around a referendum question and lead campaign designation - and the second would provide a referendum on the government's Brexit deal versus remaining in the EU.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told Radio 4's Today programme the \"most likely way\" to stop Brexit was through another vote as the possibility of her party winning power on its own and revoking Article 50 looked increasingly remote.\n\nBetween now and the election on 12 December, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our Outside The Box here (UK users only).", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney, famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on children's TV show Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85.\n\nHe passed away at his home in Connecticut after living with dystonia for some time, a Sesame Workshop statement said.\n\nHe had retired last year at the age of 84.\n\nSpinney had portrayed the characters - including providing their voices - since the show's start in 1969.\n\n\"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending,\" the statement said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of the show's importance to his life.\n\n\"Before I came to Sesame Street, I didn't feel like what I was doing was important,\" he said. \"Big Bird helped me find my purpose.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpinney developed a love for puppetry at the age of five after watching a performance of Three Little Kittens.\n\nHe explored puppeteering throughout his childhood and teenage years and used his performances to raise money for college tuition.\n\nAfter serving in the US Air Force, Spinney performed as a professional puppeteer in Las Vegas and Boston in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually meeting Muppets creator Jim Henson, who also starred in Sesame Street.\n\nSpinney later joined the cast for the show's inaugural series in 1969.\n\nSpinney's work on the children's programme has earned him two Grammy honours and six Emmy awards, plus a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award which he received in 2006.\n\nThe puppeteer also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the Library of Congress' Living Legends award in 2000.\n\nHis life and career have been documented in the widely acclaimed 2014 film, I Am Big Bird.\n\nAnd perhaps one of his greatest achievements was meeting his wife of 40 years, Debra, on the Sesame Street set in 1973.\n\n\"His genius and his talent made Big Bird the most beloved yellow feathered friend across the globe,\" said Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the Sesame Workshop.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Shante Turay-Thomas fell ill at her family home in Wood Green last year\n\nA call handler with the NHS non-emergency 111 service has admitted he made mistakes when dealing with a student who was suffering a fatal suspected allergic reaction.\n\nShante Turay-Thomas, 18, died after falling unwell at her family home in Wood Green, north London, last year.\n\nAdemola Dada told an inquest he should have asked \"more questions\" about her condition while speaking to her mother.\n\nBut he added he had just been \"wanting to get that ambulance out\".\n\nMs Turay-Thomas died in hospital hours after she fell ill on 14 September last year.\n\nThe inquest at St Pancras Coroner's Court has previously heard how her mother told Mr Dada that her daughter had a rash and tingling at the back of her throat, and explained that she might have eaten nuts.\n\nAsked by coroner Mary Hassell if he should have considered whether the Ms Turay-Thomas could have been having an allergic reaction, the call handler replied there were \"a number of things I didn't do correctly\".\n\nChanges he would have made included speaking with the 18-year-old to gauge how significant her breathing issues were and speaking to a clinician sooner, the inquest heard.\n\nHowever, Mr Dada added that the call happened during a \"busy\" period and had previously been told to keep details about patients \"short and sweet\" by clinicians.\n\nThe call handler also said he should have checked the caller's address was correct.\n\nThe inquest previously heard one ambulance was initially dispatched to the victim's grandmother's house six miles (9.7 km) away, despite Ms Turay giving her Wood Green address several times.\n\nThe inquest is due to last until at least Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Weeks of discussion, debates, doorknocking and deliberation are nearly at an end and it's almost time to vote. But have you been paying attention?\n\nIf you can't see the quiz above tap this link", "Another weather warning has been issued for Tuesday\n\nWales faces another day of high winds after gales took out power and hit roads and rail lines.\n\nMore than 1,300 homes were left without electricity, as gusts reached almost 80mph (129km/h) on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd.\n\nBy Monday evening, engineers said supplies had been restored to most areas and it was \"business as usual\".\n\nHowever, forecasters have issued another yellow warning for wind on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts could hit 70mph (113km/h) in coastal areas between 05:00 GMT and 17:00.\n\nAll north Wales counties, and northern parts of Powys and Ceredigion are covered by the alert.\n\nOfficials said disruption to road, rail and ferry services is possible.\n\nIt follows Monday's Storm Atiyah, which swept across the Irish Sea into Wales overnight, leading to power cuts in Caerphilly, Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea.\n\nWind speeds hit 77mph (120km/h) at Aberdaron in Gwynedd, and 74mph (113km/h) at Aberporth in Ceredigion.\n\nA number of roads were also closed by falling trees, leading to a safety warning for motorists in Carmarthenshire by Dyfed-Powys Police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said it had restored power to 30,000 properties overall across Wales and south-west England.\n\n\"We are heading towards 'business as usual' as the conditions ease but please be assured we will continue to closely monitor the weather forecasts and work towards timely restoration of any customers still experiencing a power cut,\" said an official.\n\nSP Energy Networks - which covers north Wales - has also restored power to several coastal parts, including the Llŷn Peninsula.\n\nHowever, power is still off in parts of Pwllheli.\n\nEarlier restrictions on the M48 Severn Bridge due to high winds have been lifted.\n\nHowever, delays remain on some ferry services between Wales and Ireland.\n\nStena Line said its 14:00 service from Holyhead was delayed by an hour, and its 14:50 crossing from Dublin to Holyhead was also subject to delays.\n\nIrish Ferries' 14:10 crossing to Dublin has been delayed by three hours.\n• None Winds of up to 70mph set to hit Wales coast\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A segregation board separates women and families from men at a McDonalds restaurant in Riyadh\n\nSaudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, the government says.\n\nPreviously, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own.\n\nThe restrictions had already been quietly eased in practice, with many restaurants, cafes and other meeting places no longer enforcing segregation.\n\nA series of sweeping social reforms in Saudi Arabia has been accompanied by an intensified crackdown on dissent.\n\nEarlier this year, a royal decree allowed Saudi women to travel abroad without a male guardian's permission, and in 2018 the Gulf kingdom ended a decades-long ban on female drivers.\n\nBut activists complain that many laws discriminatory against women remain in place. And several prominent women's rights advocates have been arrested even as the government has made reforms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi woman receives driving licence as the kingdom prepares to end its ban\n\nOn Sunday, the Saudi ministry of municipalities said that restaurants would no longer need to maintain sex-segregated entrances. Instead it would be left up to businesses to decide.\n\nUntil now, inside restaurants, families and women were usually cut off and separated from men on their own by screens.\n\nSince Mohammed bin Salman was elevated to crown prince in 2017, he has made moves to open up Saudi Arabia's extremely conservative society.\n\nHis reforms have won praise in the international community but have been accompanied by a wave of repression.\n\nThe murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul drew intense international condemnation but key world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, have continued to stand by Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi officials have said Khashoggi, a high-profile critic of the government in Riyadh, was killed in a \"rogue operation\" by a team of agents. But many critics believe otherwise and a UN expert concluded that the death was an \"extrajudicial execution\".", "New Zealand officials say a number of people are \"unaccounted for\" after the White Island volcano, also known as Whakaari, erupted.\n\nThe island is a popular attraction, and tour groups were said to have been on the volcano when the eruption took place.\n\nOne witness on the mainland took this video of the incident.", "The skin of an adult tiger was found along with the foetuses\n\nFive people in Indonesia have been arrested for poaching after authorities found the skin of a protected Sumatran tiger and four foetuses in a jar.\n\nSumatran tigers are critically endangered, with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.\n\nIt's not clear if the foetuses were taken from the adult tiger whose skin was taken.\n\nTiger cubs are born blind and are totally dependent on their mother for the first few months of their lives.\n\nAn official from the Environment and Forestry Ministry said the suspects, from Riau province, were arrested after police received a tip-off.\n\nTwo suspects are believed to have been acting as sellers. They face a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of 100 million rupiah ($7100; £5403).\n\nThe Sunda subspecies of tiger was once found on the Indonesian islands of Java, Bali, and Sumatra. They are now found only on Sumatra.\n\nAccording to the WWF: \"Accelerating deforestation and rampant poaching mean this noble creature could end up extinct like its Javan and Balinese counterparts.\n\n\"In Indonesia, anyone caught hunting tigers could face jail time and steep fines.\n\n\"But despite increased efforts in tiger conservation - including strengthening law enforcement and anti-poaching capacity - a substantial market remains in Sumatra and other parts of Asia for tiger parts and products.\"\n\nAccording to wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic, poaching for trade is responsible for almost 80% of Sumatran tiger deaths - amounting to 40 deaths a year.\n\nSome parts of the tiger, like the bones, are believed to have medicinal values in parts of Asia.\n\nSome parts of the tiger, like the bones, are believed to have medicinal value", "Rosslyn (far left) pictured with Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel in 1987\n\nThe daughter of former Australian PM Bob Hawke has alleged she was raped in the 1980s but he asked her to stay silent to avoid harming his career.\n\nRosslyn Dillon's allegations are made in court documents seen by Australian site the New Daily.\n\nShe says she was raped by Bill Landeryou, an MP in Hawke's Labor Party. Both men are now dead.\n\nMs Dillon, 59, is currently pursuing an A$4m (£2m; $2.7m) claim on her father's estate.\n\nIn an affidavit, Ms Dillon alleges she was raped by Landeryou while working for his office. At the time Hawke was attempting to become Labor leader.\n\nAccording to the papers, Ms Dillon says she was sexually assaulted three times, in 1983.\n\nAfter the third time she told her father she had been raped and wanted to go to the police, but he responded by saying: \"You can't. I can't have any controversies right now. I am sorry but I am challenging for the leadership of the Labor Party,\" the documents show.\n\nMs Dillon's sister, Sue Pieters-Hawke, told The New Daily the family was aware of the allegation.\n\n\"She did tell people at the time. I believe there was a supportive response but it didn't involve using the legal system,\" she told the site. Other family members have not commented to Australian media.\n\nA former union official, Landeryou served as an MP from 1976-1992. He and Hawke are said to have been on good terms throughout Hawke's premiership.\n\nHawke was the dominant figure in 1980s Australian politics, winning four general elections.\n\nHe introduced sweeping economic and social change to his country, while cultivating a public persona of a down-to-earth, beer swigging rogue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An island volcano erupted while tourists were visiting on Monday in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.\n\nBy Tuesday, six people were confirmed dead. Eight others were feared to have died and about 30 have serious burns.\n\nTourist Michael Schade tweeted pictures of the eruption (seen above and below), saying: \"My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001.\n\n\"My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it.\"\n\nTour guides could be seen evacuating people minutes after the eruption.\n\nA photo taken by the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, below, shows the volcano from the air.\n\nA video released by New Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), screenshot seen below, shows the volcano spewing steam and ash.\n\nA combination photo from GNS, below, shows the volcano shortly before and after the eruption.\n\nCoastguard rescue boats are seen, below, next to a marina near Whakatane, about 40km (25 miles) south of White Island.\n\nRescue workers treated survivors in Whakatane, on the North Island's mainland.\n\nOn Tuesday, steam continued to rise from the White Island volcano.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern (below, centre) gave a press conference with Police Supt Bruce Bird (left) and Whakatane mayor Judy Turner.\n\nMs Ardern said she shared the \"unfathomable grief\" of those who had lost family and friends.\n\nThe prime minister also met first responders at the Whakatane fire station.\n\nA flag in Whakatane could be seen flying at half mast.\n\nIn Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media with Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Twenty-four of the people affected were from Australia.\n\nPeople leave tributes at the port of Tauranga, next to the cruise ship which had carried passengers to White Island when it erupted.\n\nWhite Island, also called Whakaari, is the country's most active volcano, seen below in 1999.\n\nTourist Ron Neil visited the island in January 2017 and took the photos below.\n\n\"We were obliged to wear helmets and gas masks as a condition of climbing the volcano,\" Mr Neil said.\n\n\"We were only allowed on the island because the risk of eruption that day was measured as 1, on a scale of 1-5.\n\n\"Still the sulphur fumes were choking.\"\n\nMr Neil is seen above, wearing a gas mask.", "UN negotiators meeting in Madrid have been accused of \"playing politics\" while the climate crisis grows.\n\nThe talks - now in their final week - are bogged down in technical details as key countries seek to delay efforts to increase their pledges, observers say.\n\nMinisters are due to arrive in the Spanish capital this week to try to secure an ambitious outcome.\n\nUS presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is due to attend, while Greta Thunberg will also address the meeting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nUp to half a million people took part in a march in Madrid in support of rapid climate action, but according to observers, negotiators haven't got the message.\n\n\"The problem is while hundreds of thousands of people are marching outside in Madrid, and school children are striking, countries are playing politics with the negotiations,\" said Mohammed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a climate and energy think tank based in Nairobi, who's an observer at these talks.\n\n\"We need ministers to arrive this week and make some real progress.\"\n\nNegotiators huddle to try and find common ground\n\nInside the convention centre, the central question of increasing country pledges to cut their carbon has been pushed aside as negotiators resort to protecting national interests.\n\nBack in 2015, everyone signed up to the Paris agreement and put new plans on the table that are due to run from 2020.\n\nHowever the richer countries were supposed to undertake specific carbon cutting actions in the years between 2015 and 2020, which many haven't yet achieved.\n\nHere in Madrid a group of countries including China, India and Saudi Arabia are pushing for these pre-2020 commitments be adhered to - even if it means achieving them post-2020.\n\nObservers believe this is partly a negotiating tactic designed to put pressure on richer nations in any discussions about improving pledges in the period after 2020.\n\nMichael Bloomberg is expected to arrive at the talks this week\n\nThere is frustration that countries are focussing on trying to get advantages in the talks, instead of working together to increase ambition.\n\n\"The Paris agreement is clear: all countries agreed to deliver new climate targets by 2020, and as the recent UNEP emissions gap report made clear, the onus is on the top 10 polluters to deliver,\" said Laurence Tubiana, one of the key architects of the Paris agreement, now with the European Climate Foundation.\n\n\"I know leaders in Brussels, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo and Ottawa care about global action, but we need them to deliver this week. We need their leadership to deliver on their Paris commitments.\"\n\nAs well as the pre-2020 question, the talks are stuck on two tricky, technical issues - one about the question of loss and damage, the other about carbon markets.\n\nArticle 6 of the Paris climate agreement deals with the trading of emissions reductions credits that might arise from a country beating its own pledges or from a public or private initiative that cut emissions, such as a renewable energy plant or the restoration of a forest.\n\nHere in Madrid, as last year in Katowice, countries are struggling to agree the rules of how these markets would work.\n\nA number of countries including Brazil want to carry over credits that were created under previous versions of this scheme.\n\nThe worry is that many of these historical credits are not real reductions.\n\nIf they are used by countries to meet part or all of their pledges they simply dilute real efforts to cut carbon.\n\nThe question of loss and damage sees developing countries looking for a new facility in the UN talks that would deal with the impacts of events like sea level rise or major storms that have a climate component.\n\nThey argue that the poorest are the ones feeling the impacts of a climate they didn't create.\n\nRich countries have long resisted the idea feeling they will be on the hook for billions of dollars for centuries to come.\n\nUp to now these discussions have been led by civil servants, but the arrival of ministers will likely clarify if both can be resolved by political horse trading.\n\nIt's possible that a compromise could be arrived at that would see both issues resolved here. Or not!\n\nDelegates from Easter Island arrive at the talks\n\nWhile the interventions of Michael Bloomberg and Greta Thunberg will likely gain headlines, there is still uncertainty over whether a final decision can be taken here that will be ambitious and set out a clear timeline for countries to get their pledges on the table ahead of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2020.\n\nThere is hope that a large number of countries will sign up to long term net-zero emissions targets, and if that happens it will be significant progress.\n\nBut many eyes here will be closely watching Brussels this week where the new EU commission is due to present a European Green Deal.\n\n\"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 60 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nSixty firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a block of flats in Glasgow.\n\nThe alarm was raised at Lancefield Quay, on the north bank of the Clyde, at 18:43.\n\nThe fire service sent 12 appliances to the \"well-developed\" fire in the second floor of the three-storey building. There were no reports of injuries.\n\nCrews appeared to be containing the fire, which at one point saw flames shooting from the roof, but smoke was still billowing from the flats.\n\nBBC reporter Graham Fraser said: \"There were lots of flames earlier. Now I can see a hole, about 15m long in the roof of the building with smoke pouring out still.\"\n\nThe fire destroyed part of the building's roof\n\nOne resident told the BBC she was sure the building would have to be demolished.\n\nSheena Anderson, who has lived in the block for 17 years, said her home had been destroyed.\n\n\"It will be demolished,\" she said. \"They've got all the water that's coming down from the house above me.\n\n\"If a wee trickle comes, it pours down the walls, so my house will be demolished. Nothing surer. I can't believe it.\n\n\"I've got what I'm standing up in.\n\n\"OK, it could be worse, but that's a terrible fire. What caused it, they don't know.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Operations control mobilised 12 appliances to the city's Lancefield Quay where firefighters were met with a fire on the second floor of a three-storey building.\"\n\nGlasgow City Council said Lancefield Quay, the main road that runs alongside the Clyde in Glasgow, had been closed between Elliot Street and Hydepark Street.\n\nResidents of the building have been asked to go a local hotel, where support is being offered.", "United midfielder Fred said he was hit by an object during Saturday's derby\n\nA man has been arrested after objects and racist abuse appeared to be targeted at Manchester United players during Saturday's derby.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a fan making alleged racist gestures in the game against Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were working with police \"regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play\".\n\nA 41-year-old man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order and remains in custody.\n\nOn Saturday, a man was filmed apparently making monkey gestures and sounds towards Manchester United players during the derby at City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nIt happened as United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half and appeared to be hit by an object hurled from the crowd.\n\nAfter the match, the 26-year-old Brazilian said: \"On the field, I didn't see anything. I saw it only in the locker room afterwards. The guys showed me. [A man] even threw a lighter and it hit me.\"\n\nUnited boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"Fred and Jesse [Lingard] were in the corner, taking a corner, and I've seen the video, heard from the boys.\"\n\nHe said the apparent behaviour of the supporter caught on camera was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester City said they were working with police to identify offenders, adding: \"The club are also working with GMP regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play.\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life.\"\n\nFred later joined United players as they celebrated their 2-1 victory at City's Etihad Stadium\n\nAfter social media speculation that the person allegedly making the monkey gestures worked for the infrastructure firm Kier Group, the company tweeted an employee had been suspended \"pending an investigation\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're aware of a video circulating on social media. We take allegations and instances of racism very seriously and are currently investigating potential links between the individual involved and Kier.\n\nThe FA said it would investigate the incident, while the Premier League said it \"will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"If people are found to have racially abused Premier League players they deserve to be punished and we will support any action taken by the authorities and the clubs,\" a Premier League spokesperson said.\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nRacism hit the headlines again when Raheem Sterling and other black players faced abuse in the past year\n\nFred said the alleged incidents on Saturday showed \"we are still in a backward society\".\n\nUnited won the match 2-1 after goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nChina's Ding Junhui won his third UK Championship by dispatching Scotland's Stephen Maguire 10-6 in an absorbing final featuring seven century breaks.\n\nDing, 32, had not won a ranking event since 2017 and last lifted the UK trophy a decade ago - four years after his first triumph as a teenager.\n\nBack-to-back centuries secured a 5-3 first-session lead and he sealed victory with successive tons.\n\nMaguire made three tons in four frames, but his poor start proved costly.\n\nDing, who won the first four frames in a confident start, becomes only the fifth player to win the UK title on three or more occasions.\n\nHe joins snooker greats Ronnie O'Sullivan (7), Steve Davis (6), Stephen Hendry (5) and John Higgins (3) on an elite list and collected a tournament record £200,000 in prize money.\n• None 'You have to keep believing' - Ding after ending trophy drought\n\n\"This is very special,\" Ding told BBC Sport. \"It has been two years and I have done nothing but I have played very well this week.\n\n\"I worried about not doing well and asked myself 'can I win again?'\n\n\"But this week I played so well and when I beat Ronnie on the way to the final I started to believe I could lift the trophy again.\n\n\"My family give me full support and take the pressure off. I want to do my best for my daughter so that when she grows up she has the best daddy.\"\n\nDing back to his best\n\nDing has consistently been his country's best player since winning his first ranking title aged 18 at his home China Open event in 2005, before ascending to become the number one player in the world in 2014.\n\nChina has since seen numerous players break through into the top 32 but none has come close to matching Ding's achievements - Yan Bingtao, 19, is the latest rising star but he was easily beaten by Ding in the semi-finals.\n\nThe Sheffield-based player has admitted feeling the burden of pressure from the huge audiences in his homeland and has struggled with confidence and commitment issues over the last couple of years - becoming a father for the first time in August 2018 may well have played a part in his turnaround.\n\nHis last silverware came at the 2017 World Open and he remains one of the sport's best players never to have won the world title.\n\nDing's fragile mental strength has often been called into question, his record in majors not matching his undoubted talent as this was just his fourth success at a Triple Crown event, and first since winning the 2011 Masters.\n\nHe has suffered three first-round defeats this season but was back to his devastating best with impeccable cueball control, notching 10 centuries during the tournament, including four in the final.\n\nHis place in the top 16 was under threat at the start of the tournament, but the run to the title allowed him to leap seven places to ninth in the world and drew him alongside world number one Judd Trump on 14 ranking events.\n• None Trump to face Murphy in Masters first round\n\nGlasgow's Maguire, 38, won the title 15 years ago and has arguably underachieved in his career, winning just five ranking titles in his career, the last of them at the 2013 Welsh Open.\n\nHe has, though, been in decent form this season, winning the World Cup team event in June alongside Higgins and beating his countryman in the Six-red World Championship in September.\n\nHis fiery temperament has often let him down but it has been kept well in check this year, and he produced a sensational 6-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland's Mark Allen in the last four in York, saying afterwards he \"can't remember ever playing like that\".\n\nAt times in the tournament he was visibly struggling with the fractured foot he suffered in China in October and, against Ding, his high-scoring run came too late as Ding proved too good.\n\n\"Every time you let him in he scores 100,\" said Maguire. \"I told him a couple of frames ago 'it's not darts we're playing, it's snooker'.\n\n\"I thought if I get in I could maybe do it but it's tough when his safety is good as well. I've had a great week. The Barbican has been great, York's been great, the crowd were unreal and I've competed with the best.\"\n\nDing, who beat defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last 16, snatched a 30-minute opening frame and fired in further breaks of 56, 105 and 128 for a 4-0 lead.\n\nMaguire hit back after the mid-session interval by taking another frame that lasted over half an hour and counter-attacked with an important 67 break after Ding broke down on 49.\n\nThe Glaswegian took the next as well to trail by a single frame and had the chance to square the contest at 4-4 but missed a blue to the middle, allowing Ding to make 66 to lead by two frames.\n\nThe standard of snooker rose in the evening session. Ding opened with 83 and Maguire missed a red on 53 allowing his opponent to pinch the next for a 7-3 lead, but Maguire hit back by fluking a red and stroking in 103.\n\nDing made 67 to close in on victory, but Maguire compiled another 103 and then an even better 124 to stay in the contest.\n\nHowever, Ding's nerveless 131 clearance in the 15th frame and 103 to win the match - the fifth century in the last six frames - secured victory to a standing ovation.\n\nSeven-time world champion Stephen Hendry told BBC Sport: \"This is almost like a second part of Ding's career. I didn't know if we'd see him winning major titles again. He didn't look happy at the table and didn't seem to be enjoying the pressure but his performance today was incredible.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"A lot of people had written Ding off for the World Championship but that has been blown right open now.\n\n\"I think Ding on his best form is a match for anybody in the world. He's a headache for the other top players.\"\n\nApril 2005 - Beats Stephen Hendry 9-5 to win his first ranking title at the China Open - two days after his 18th birthday Dec 2005 - Wins UK Championship for first time with 10-5 win over Steve Davis Jan 2007 - Breaks down in tears after 10-3 defeat by Ronnie O'Sullivan in Masters final Dec 2009 - Secures second UK Championship title with 10-8 victory over John Higgins Jan 2011 - Lifts third Triple Crown title by beating Marco Fu 10-4 in the final of the Masters Feb 2014 - Claims fifth ranking title of the season when he beats Judd Trump 9-5 in German Masters final Dec 2014 - Becomes first Asian player to become world number one May 2016 - Reaches first World Championship final but loses 18-14 to Mark Selby Sept 2017 - Clinches World Open with 10-3 win over Kyren Wilson - his last ranking title before a barren spell Dec 2019 - Wins third UK Championship and 14th ranking title with 10-6 triumph over Stephen Maguire\n\nThe seven centuries the players shared in the final ensured a new UK Championship record with 139 scored in total throughout this year's tournament.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.", "A Christmas tree that was chopped down outside the BBC's Broadcasting House this weekend \"will be replaced soon\", the corporation has said.\n\nThe 7m (20ft) tree was put up outside the building in central London on 30 November.\n\nHowever, staff pictured the tree being destroyed by maintenance workers on Saturday.\n\nA BBC spokesman said the tree had been removed \"due to activity on the piazza\" in the week of the general election.\n\nThe exit poll and the election result will be projected on to Broadcasting House after polls close on Thursday.\n\nLive music performances for the weekday programme, The One Show, are also filmed in the piazza.\n\nAlice Bortolotto, 31, who manages nearby coffee house Caffè Nero said it was \"sad\" the tree had gone.\n\n\"We love to see the tree every year when they put it up,\" she said.\n\n\"On Saturday, when I came in and didn't see it, I felt a bit like, 'Where's Christmas gone?'\"\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross posted a picture of the tree being chopped up, suggesting the tree \"has had a traumatic day at the barbers\".", "Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was considered to be a rising star of rap music\n\nJuice Wrld, a US rapper who shot to fame on music streaming platforms, has died at the age of 21.\n\nCelebrity news website TMZ said he died after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport on Sunday morning.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause was unknown.\n\nJuice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was best-known for his viral 2018 hit Lucid Dreams. Mental health, mortality and drug use were common themes in his music.\n\nHis record label, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, said Juice Wrld was an \"exceptional human being\" who \"made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time\".\n\nChicago police told the BBC a 21-year-old man suffered a medical emergency at around 02:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun Times there were \"no signs of foul play\" and it was unclear whether drugs played a role in his death.\n\nBorn in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, Juice Wrld was raised by his single mother, described as a religious and conservative woman who forbade him from listening to hip hop.\n\nHe started rapping in high school, using online music streaming platform SoundCloud to upload and promote his music.\n\nJuice Wrld went on to release his debut full-length EP, 999, on the platform in 2017, garnering him attention from fellow Chicago-based artists such as G Herbo and Lil Bibby.\n\nJuice Wrld shot to fame in 2018, when hit single Lucid Dreams reached number two in the charts\n\nThe rapper rose to fame in 2018, when hit singles All Girls Are the Same and Lucid Dreams, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, drew the attention of music fans and record labels.\n\nMore plaudits followed the release of his first studio album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, in 2018, cementing him as one of the rising stars of US rap.\n\nIn early 2018, he was signed by Interscope Records, landing a record deal reported to be worth more than $3m (£2.2m). He topped the Billboard chart this year with his second album Death Race for Love.\n\nIn one of his songs, Juice Wrld rapped about the short lives of artists, saying \"all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nThe song, titled Legends, was dedicated to two late rappers, 20-year-old XXXTentacion and 21-year-old Lil Peep, who died in 2018 and 2017, respectively.\n\nIn the song Juice Wrld rapped: \"What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21. I been going through paranoia.\"\n\nJuice Wrld had celebrated his 21st birthday last week. In a tweet, he said it was \"one of his best\" birthdays yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grime artist Ransom FA spoke to the BBC about the challenges of breaking into the music industry\n\nHis music has been described as emo rap, a genre that draws influences from hip hop and alternative rock.\n\nIn a four-star review of his second album, music publication NME said the rapper \"makes songs that stick, his vocal dissonance capturing what it feels like to be young and in pain, and feeling a sense of indifference towards authority figures\".\n\nIn a 2018 interview with the New York Times, Juice Wrld opened up about his use of cannabis and Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.\n\n\"I smoke weed, and every now and then I slip up and do something that's poor judgment,\" he told the paper.\n\nIn other interviews, he has been candid about his use of lean, a liquid concoction containing prescription-strength cough syrup and soft drinks. In another of his songs, titled Empty, he references lean, saying it solves problems.\n\nIn a statement, Juice Wrld's record label said he was \"a gentle soul whose creativity knew no bounds\", adding: \"To lose someone so kind and so close to our hearts is devastating.\"\n\nIn a tweet, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, who collaborated with Juice Wrld on her 2019 single Hate Me, described the rapper as \"such a sweet soul\" who had \"so much further to go\".\n\nChicago-based artist Chance the Rapper paid a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, writing: \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it.\"\n\n\"Wow, I cannot believe this. Rip my brother juice world,\" tweeted fellow rapper Lil Yachty.\n\nUS rapper Lil Nas X, also writing on Twitter, said it is \"so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nHe was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMr Justice Edis said McCann, who must serve a minimum of 30 years, was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".\n\nThe judge described him as a \"classic psychopath\" and called for an \"independent and systematic\" investigation into why \"the system failed to protect\" McCann's victims.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nThe 34-year-old's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over a two-week period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSentencing McCann at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Edis described him as \"a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile\".\n\nHe said his victims would probably \"never properly recover\", adding: \"This was a campaign of rape, violence and abduction of a kind which I have never seen or heard of before.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, a 25-year-old woman who was subjected to a 14-hour ordeal spoke about how she deeply traumatised she is.\n\nShe said she was paying for her own therapy because there was an eight-month to one-year wait for NHS treatment and criticised the \"under-resourcing\" of services for survivors.\n\nThe attacks began on 21 April, when McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford and took her to a house where he raped her.\n\nFour days later, the 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight. She was repeatedly raped in a number of locations over many hours.\n\nLater the same day, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, telling them: \"You are going to Europe tomorrow - you are mine.\"\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a sex slave, managed to escape by jumping naked from a window, and she alerted police.\n\nMcCann then abducted and raped a 71-year-old woman and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he had taken from the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nAfter crashing his car when a patrol vehicle gave chase, a police helicopter finally located him up a tree. He was coaxed down and arrested early on 6 May.\n\nThree days after delivering their guilty verdicts, the 12 jurors returned to the Old Bailey for sentencing.\n\nThey didn't have to be in court but they clearly wanted to see the conclusion of a most traumatic case.\n\nTwo of McCann's victims, a teenage girl and her mother, were also present, having travelled to London from the north-west of England.\n\nThe teenager, who in May had jumped naked from a first-floor window to bring her ordeal to an end and save her mother and younger brother, was praised by the judge for her courage, as he added some personal observations after the formal sentencing process had ended.\n\nMr Justice Edis said he'd read statements from all the victims about the impact of McCann's campaign of sexual violence and wished them all well.\n\n\"I hope that things turn out for them as well as we all hope they will, rather than as we fear they might,\" the judge said, surely echoing the thoughts and feelings of everyone at today's hearing.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonald's while one of his victims was in the car\n\nThe court heard that McCann had 10 meetings with probation officers following his release in February, and his last meeting with an officer in Watford took place three days before the sex attacks began.\n\nMcCann was served with a warning letter because he had failed to inform authorities of a new relationship, in breach of his licence conditions.\n\nThe officer wrote that McCann was \"not happy\" about this and thought he was being treated unfairly, the court heard.\n\nRegarding his two-week engagement, McCann explained that \"if you get with someone in the travelling community then you marry them\".\n\nThe officer revealed that when the woman's parents found out about the licence condition, they broke off the relationship because they thought he was a sex offender.\n\nMcCann, who had addresses in Aylesbury and Harrow, refused to attend his Old Bailey trial and hid under a prison blanket rather than give evidence.\n\nHe also failed to attend his sentencing, citing a \"bad back\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack waited for four hours in a room without a bed, despite being admitted under blue light to Leeds General Infirmary\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at a picture of a sick four-year-old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a Leeds hospital.\n\nThe picture in the Daily Mirror of Jack, who had suspected pneumonia, spurred complaints about NHS cuts.\n\nAn ITV reporter tried to show Mr Johnson the picture on his phone, but he refused to look, before taking the device and putting it in his pocket.\n\nHe later looked and returned the phone.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"He just doesn't care\", while Independent Group for Change leader Anna Soubry called his actions \"appalling\".\n\nMr Johnson was asked by other reporters why he had not looked at the photo, but he did not answer the question directly, instead repeating Conservative pledges for the NHS and promising to rebuild \"the whole of Leeds General Infirmary from top to bottom\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later visited the hospital to speak to management about the case.\n\nHe said he was \"horrified\" by the incident involving Jack, adding: \"It's not good enough and I have apologised.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock would not comment on the PM's reaction, saying: \"What people care about is what are we doing to improve care at Leeds General and across the NHS.\"\n\nAs he left, the health secretary was met by a group of protesters shouting at him.\n\nThe boy's mother has said she does not want her son's treatment being used as a \"political football\".\n\nIn a formal complaint to press regulator IPSO, she said she had initially given permission to two newspapers to use her son Jack's image but - after the story was widely reported across other news outlets - she now wanted to prevent any further publication of the picture or his details.\n\nIn her letter, she said the actions of the media were \"causing significant distress\" to Jack and his family.\n\nJack was taken into Leeds General Infirmary last week after being ill for six days, his mother told the Mirror.\n\nHis mother said he had been seen as soon as he arrived and given a bed and oxygen, but a few hours later the bed had to be given to another patient and Jack was left without one for more than four hours.\n\nHis mother said she then made a makeshift bed for her son with coats and took the picture.\n\nShe told the newspaper the doctors and nurses were \"lovely people\", but she was \"angry at the lack of funding and the lack of beds\", accusing the government of \"failing our children\".\n\nBoris Johnson was on the campaign trail when he was shown the picture of Jack\n\nDr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.\"\n\nITV reporter Joe Pike tweeted about his interview with Mr Johnson, which took place in Grimsby on the campaign trail.\n\nHe asked the PM to look at the photo of Jack on his phone several times.\n\nMr Johnson said he had not seen the picture yet but refused to look at it while Mr Pike questioned him.\n\nEventually, he took Mr Pike's phone and put it in his pocket, saying: \"If you don't mind, I'll give you an interview now.\"\n\nMr Pike said: \"You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket, prime minister.\n\n\"His mother says the NHS is in crisis. What's your response to that?\"\n\nMr Johnson then removed the phone from his pocket and looked at the screen.\n\n\"It's a terrible, terrible photo, and I apologise, obviously, to the family, and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is supporting the NHS, and on the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had.\n\n\"That's why we're making huge investments into the NHS, and we can only do it if we get Parliament going, if we unblock the current deadlock, and we move forward.\"\n\nThe PM then apologised to Mr Pike for taking his phone and returned it.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth called refusing to look at the picture \"a new low\" for the PM, adding: \"It's clear he could not care less.\n\n\"Don't give this disgrace of a man five more years of driving our NHS into the ground. Sick toddlers like Jack deserve so much better.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also said Mr Johnson would not look at the photo because \"he simply does not care\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"He doesn't care about Jack. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson \"a man with no empathy and no moral compass\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"The picture of the young boy in Leeds is horrific. His unwillingness to even show remorse proves just how unfit he is to serve as prime minister.\"", "HM Coastguard and police are involved in the search off Gourock\n\nRescuers have halted their search for a man missing in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nTwo men were recovered from a vessel near Cardwell Bay, Gourock, on Saturday night.\n\nBut one man, who was in a separate boat, has not been found during the search which has involved an RNLI lifeboat and coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it had \"terminated\" the operation pending further information.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 23:35 on Saturday when Greenock Coastguard were called to two small drifting vessels.\n\nTwo men aged 33 and 36 were helped from one of the boats by Helensburgh RNLI lifeboat.\n\nThey were passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the lifeboat returned to search for the third man on the second boat.\n\nA coastguard search and rescue helicopter, Police Scotland, Ministry of Defence police and coastguard teams from Kilgreggan and Greenock also joined the search.\n\nA RNLI spokesman said weather conditions at the time were poor with heavy rain, force five to seven winds and poor visibility.\n\nThe search was stood down at 04:00 due to darkness and weather conditions, according to Greenock Coastguard.\n\nIt resumed on Sunday though stormy weather conditions meant the helicopter could not take part.\n\nAn MCA spokeswoman said they had carried out an extensive search of both shorelines in the area up towards the Erskine Bridge.\n\nHowever, the missing man had not been found.\n\n\"The decision has been taken to terminate the search, pending any further information,\" she added. \"Our thoughts are with the family at this time.\"", "The impact on survival rates was even greater if the grandmothers were post-menopause\n\nGrandmother killer whales boost the survival rates of their grandchildren, a new study has said.\n\nThe survival rates were even higher if the grandmother had already gone through the menopause.\n\nThe findings shed valuable light on the mystery of the menopause, or why females of some species live long after they lose the ability to reproduce.\n\nOnly five known animals experience it: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, narwhals and humans.\n\nWith humans, there is some evidence that human grandmothers aid in the survival of their children and grandchildren, a hypothesis called the \"grandmother effect\".\n\nThese findings suggest the same effect occurs in orcas.\n\n\"If a grandmother dies, in the years following her death, her grand-offspring are much more likely to die,\" said lead author Dan Franks from the University of York.\n\nHe said the effect was even greater when a post-reproductive grandmother died.\n\n\"It can explain the benefits of females living a long time after reproduction,\" he said. \"From an evolutionary standpoint, they can still pass on their genes and genetic legacy by helping their grand-offspring.\"\n\nIn other words, by not continuing to reproduce, the grandmother whales might actually be doing more to ensure their genes get passed on than if they were reproducing.\n\nGrandmother killer whales usually lead the group when foraging for food\n\nThe researchers analysed 36 years of photographic census data on two populations of killer whales off the North Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. Each population was made up of multiple pods with various family groups.\n\nThe study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.\n\nWhen explaining why grandmothers might have such an impact on calf survival rates, Mr Franks said past research has shown the important leadership role that grandmother killer whales play.\n\nThey tend to be at the front of the group when searching for food, relying on their vast ecological knowledge. He said by being unable to reproduce, \"they may be in a better position to lead the group\".\n\nHe noted the impact of grandmothers on their grand-offspring was especially strong in times of need, such as a shortage of salmon.\n\nOlder female orcas have even been observed directly feeding fish to their children and grandchildren.\n\nResearchers will use drone footage to further understand whale interactions and behaviour\n\nThe researchers also suspect grandmothers are filling a role that's familiar to humans - babysitting.\n\n\"When a mother dives to catch fish, the grandmother can stay with grand-offspring,\" Mr Franks said.\n\nHe said moving forward researchers will capture drone footage to observe orca behaviour and better understand interactions between different family members.\n\nAnother reason the menopause might make grandmothers more helpful to their family's survival is decreasing competition.\n\nIf grandmothers and their daughters were having children at the same time, those children would be competing for resources, including their grandmother's attention.\n\nMr Franks said this could explain why the grandmothers don't continue to reproduce throughout their lives and also help look after their grand-offspring.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Battle of Britain pilot recalls being shot down\n\nOne of the last surviving pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died aged 101.\n\nFlight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsdon was one of only four remaining members of The Few - a group of 3,000 airmen who defended the skies above southern England from the Nazis in 1940.\n\nThe head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, said Mr Mounsdon's bravery should never be forgotten.\n\nThe Battle of Britain led to the deaths of 544 RAF pilots and aircrew.\n\nTheir bravery and sacrifice in withstanding the greater numbers of German pilots of the Luftwaffe and a possible invasion was recognised by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\n\"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,\" he told MPs.\n\nChurchill's \"Few\", as RAF crew, who included Polish, Canadian and New Zealand pilots among others, became known, have been celebrated ever since.\n\nMr Mounsdon was described by his nephew, Adrian Mounsdon, as a \"great man\" who would be missed by his family, the Daily Mirror reported.\n\nACM Wigston said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Mounsdon's death, saying the veteran had \"fought for and won our freedom\".\n\n\"His was a remarkable story, which will continue to inspire this and future generations of the Royal Air Force, his bravery and sacrifice should never be forgotten,\" he added.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Mounsdon told the BBC he was serving with 56 Squadron out of North Weald when he was sent out to intercept some bombers on 31 August 1940.\n\nHe managed to shoot at one of them, but then a German cannon shell hit the fuel tank of his Hawker Hurricane.\n\n\"I was on fire. There was only one thing to do and that was to get out as fast as possible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I was badly burned, but I rolled the aircraft over and came down by parachute from 14,000ft.\"\n\nMr Mounsdon suffered terrible burns to his hands and legs\n\nHe said it was the first time he had used a parachute and he was \"jolly lucky\".\n\nMr Mounsdon, who had terrible burns to his legs and hands, landed in a field in the village of High Easter, Essex, where he was found by local people.\n\nHe spent a number of years in various hospitals, where he had skin grafts.\n\nWhile in hospital, he married his childhood sweetheart Mary.\n\nThe couple moved to the Spanish island Menorca in the late 1970s and lived there until she died in 1993.\n\nFor Mr Mousdon's 100th birthday in September last year the Red Arrows paid tribute to him with a flyover off the coast of Menorca.\n\nThe three surviving members of the Few are Flt Lt William Clark, 100, Wing Commander Paul Farnes, 101, and Flying Officer John Hemingway, 100.\n• None The pilot who parachuted in flames", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea'\n\nA woman who died after a group of swimmers got into difficulty in the sea off a County Antrim beach was midwife Deirdre McShane.\n\nThe Northern Health Trust described the mother of two as \"kind, dedicated and passionate about providing excellent maternity care to mothers and babies\".\n\nAnother woman is in a stable condition in hospital after the incident at Ballycastle on Monday morning.\n\nPasser-by Aine Paterson described how she pulled both women out of the sea.\n\nShe told BBC News NI the first swimmer managed to indicate someone else was missing before losing consciousness.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said it received a call about the incident shortly before 08:30 GMT.\n\nFriends and family of Ms McShane gathered on the beach later on Monday\n\nParamedics attended the scene along with the police, the air ambulance and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nMs Paterson was walking a dog along the beach when she spotted the swimmers in trouble.\n\nShe described how she saw \"what I thought was a big driftwood being washed into the shore and as I got closer I thought it was maybe a seal\".\n\n\"And then I realised it was a person as I got closer and she was trying to get out of the water,\" she said.\n\nMs Paterson ran into the water to help and described how waves came over their heads as she helped the first woman to safety.\n\n\"I just dragged her out of the water and... her legs failed and she kept passing out.\"\n\nBallycastle beach is located on the northern coast of Northern Ireland\n\nThe exhausted woman eventually managed to say her friend's name, at which point Ms Paterson realised there was a second person in the sea.\n\n\"When I realised her friend was still in the water I went into the water and there was just… she was gone at that point, I knew.\n\n\"I knew I just wanted to get her body out of the sea.\"\n\nMs Paterson pulled Ms McShane to shore and called the emergency services.\n\nAt that point, a man who was also at the beach stepped in to give first aid before paramedics arrived a short time later.\n\nBallycastle beach is a popular spot on the north Antrim coast\n\nHer rescued friend was taken to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry.\n\nMs Paterson said she was still in shock but her thoughts were with the swimmers' families.\n\nShe said she did not consider her actions to be brave.\n\n\"I don't think that brave comes into it, you just see somebody that needs help and you get them out,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a cold day, it's a stormy day - those waves are so dangerous. I'm just glad that, you know, we were able to try our best.\"\n\nThe Northern Health Trust said Ms McShane had a \"caring and compassionate manner which made a great difference to all the women and families she cared for\".\n\nThe trust said her colleagues in Ballycastle and Ballymoney would miss her \"incredibly\".\n\nIt added: \"We extend our most sincere and heartfelt sympathies to her partner, her two beloved children and the wider family circle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ciaran Kinney from the Coastguard says the conditions at Ballycastle beach were treacherous\n\nCiaran Kinney from the Coastguard told BBC News NI he believed cold water shock was to blame for the woman's death.\n\nHe said it could affect anyone, regardless of swimming ability.\n\nMr Kinney said: \"You could be an Olympic swimmer into that sea today and it would have no bearing.\"\n\nHe praised the actions of the other members of her club and those who helped get her out of the water.\n\nFormer councillor Christopher McCaughan said there had been a huge rescue effort.\n\n\"There are a group of ladies who swim in here every day,\" he added.\n\n\"It takes the heart out of you - it's extremely sad.\n\n\"The waves at this time of year can sneak up on you.\n\n\"There are rip tides in the bay, there is a full moon and very strong tides.\"\n• None 'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea' Video, 00:01:42'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea'", "Storm Atiyah has already had an impact in County Kildare, with felled trees disrupting traffic in Newbridge\n\nStorm Atiyah has made landfall, with winds hitting speeds of up to 80mph (130km/h).\n\nEarlier on Sunday a \"status red\" wind warning was issued by Met Éireann for County Kerry.\n\nExtreme caution is advised, especially in coastal areas and on high ground.\n\nESB Networks has said its crews have dealt with several thousand power outages across the Republic of Ireland. Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that the south-west area is the worst affected.\n\nThe \"status red\" warning for Kerry was in place from 16:00 to 19:00 local time on Sunday. It is now under a \"status orange\" wind warning.\n\nKerry County Council has reported a number of incidents following the \"status red\" wind warning.\n\nIt said a tree fell on a car near Mountcoal Cross on the N69.\n\nMet Éireann said there was a possibility of coastal flooding due to a combination of high seas and a storm surge.\n\nThe UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm\n\nA number of flights from Cork Airport were cancelled while there was also disruption at Shannon Airport.\n\nTrains in Cork and Kerry were forced to travel at reduced speeds, resulting in delays.\n\nStorm Atiyah was tracking between Iceland and Ireland on Sunday.\n\nAlthough the UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm, the Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for Wales, with gales of up to 70mph set to hit coastal areas.\n\nThe warning is in force until 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOrange wind warnings have also been issued for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Limerick, which came into effect from 13:00.\n\nThe warnings will remain in place until 06:00 on Monday, with a yellow wind warning in place for the rest of the Republic of Ireland until 13:00 on Monday.\n\nKerry County Council advised people to stay indoors during the status red warning.\n\nAn emergency helpline has been set up by the council to report fallen trees, flooding or debris on roads. Anyone wishing to use it should call 066 718 3588.\n\nA status red marine warning has also been put in place, with winds reaching gale force eight to storm force 10 in all Irish coastal waters.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service said Killarney National Park and Gardens and Muckross Park and Gardens are closed.\n\nSeven other parks in the west of the country are also closed while the weather warnings remain in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Barra Best explains how weather warnings are set, and why they may differ.\n\nThe UK Met Office works in partnership with both Met Éireann and KNMI (The Dutch national weather forecasting service) to name storms.\n\nThe criteria used for naming storms are based on both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring.\n\nA storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning.\n\nWhen the criteria for naming a storm are met, any of the three partners - the Met Office, Met Éireann or KNMI - can do so.\n\nThat does mean that sometimes, like today, Met Éireann have named Storm Atiyah and issued a Red Warning in County Kerry.\n\nNo warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland by the Met Office, however gusts close to 60mph (100km/h) can be expected in western areas on Sunday evening.\n\nThis is the first named storm of the season, last year there were eight storms - the last was Storm Hannah in April.\n\nMet Éireann issue weather warnings based on a criteria, for example, if winds are set to reach a certain speed, whereas the Met Office issues warning based on the impact the weather is expected to have.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Politicians have \"ducked\" the big issues in health and social care during the election, a leading NHS boss says.\n\nAt the start of the campaign, NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson urged parties not to make \"empty promises\" or create \"unrealistic expectations\".\n\nThere have since been manifesto pledges of millions more in NHS funding and extra staff from both main parties.\n\nBut Mr Hopson says they have not offered \"credible answers\" to the NHS's biggest challenges.\n\nThe NHS has been a major issue during the campaign, with some polls suggesting voters place it of higher importance to them than Brexit.\n\nAll three parties are promising above-inflation increases to the budget for frontline care. The pledges only apply to England as health and care issues are devolved.\n\nThere have also been promises to increase staffing. Labour has pledged to boost nurse numbers by 24,000, while the Conservatives have promised 50,000 nurses, factoring in the retention of current staff.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have promised to put a penny on income tax to help fund health and social care.\n\nBut despite the numerous announcements, Mr Hopson said the election debate had \"fallen short\".\n\nWriting in The Times, he said the extra funding commitments were helpful, but added: \"In reality, they go no further than restoring NHS funding growth to what they've been in past.\n\n\"But it's not just about money. Whilst we are pleased that parties are committing to increase staff numbers, it's still not clear how that will actually happen.\"\n\nMr Hopson said there had also been a \"genuine opportunity\" for parties to tackle social care.\n\n\"The offers from the main parties have varied in scope and ambition, but none has developed a compelling worked-through and credibly funded long-term solution.\"\n\nHe added: \"Once again we see politicians responding to popular support for the NHS, presenting themselves as its advocates and champions, but not really addressing what's needed to sustain the NHS long-term.\n\n\"Health service staff and leaders will continue to do all they can to provide outstanding care, but they need more support, more realism and more forward-thinking from a political class which has once again talked a good game, but ducked too many of the big tackles.\"\n\nProfessor Carrie MacEwen, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said there had been \"all sorts of claims\" about the NHS during the election campaign.\n\n\"In all the noise, what's been most noticeable is the fact that there's been precious little debate on tackling the really big issue - the lack of decent social care. Only when this is dealt with will the NHS be able to function as it was intended,\" she said.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said she was \"deeply concerned\" about emergency departments which she says are \"struggling to cope and increasingly difficult places for staff to deliver the standard of care they want to\".\n\nShe added: \"Emergency departments are the NHS safety net and the safety net is buckling.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The Banksy artwork shows Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer\n\nElusive artist Banksy has created new artwork in Birmingham, a festive-themed piece highlighting homelessness.\n\nThe artwork features in a film on Instagram that shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nIt has been viewed over 1m times since it was posted earlier.\n\nHours later though, the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.\n\nBarriers had been installed, but the person managed to jump them, BBC Midlands Today reporter Ben Sidwell tweeted.\n\nA vandal sprayed the artwork with red noses on Monday evening\n\nUnveiling the work, Banksy praised the generosity of people who gave Ryan food and drink while they filmed.\n\nThe post said: \"God bless Birmingham. In the 20 minutes we filmed Ryan on this bench passers-by gave him a hot drink, two chocolate bars and a lighter - without him ever asking for anything.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by banksy This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPete Smith's jewellery studio and workshop Vault 88 is located on Vyse Street, opposite the artwork.\n\nHe saw it when he arrived for work on Friday and said it had been attracting a lot of attention since the Instagram post.\n\n\"The world and his mother is outside,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been people taking pictures of themselves on the bench. It's brilliant. It's very, very clever.\"\n\nVisitors have been recreating the artwork at the scene\n\nHe added the artist's praise was \"good for Brummies\", and showed \"they care\".\n\nLuke Crane from the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District said it was now a priority to protect the artwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'God bless Birmingham', says Banksy as artwork appears in city\n\n\"We are very keen to make sure it is a part of our community and not something that is taken away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it comes at a great time of year - we obviously didn't know it was coming, but what a great time.\n\n\"And it's obviously about giving at a time of need for the homelessness that we have in these areas, and it's something that we've been working in partnership with the council and other organisations to try and tackle, so it's great to see it in our area.\"", "Conservative chairman James Cleverly has apologised for cases of Islamophobia in his party.\n\nMr Cleverly said he was \"sorry\" when Tory members and candidates \"do or say things that are wrong\".\n\nBut he added that he was \"confident\" there was now \"a robust mechanism\" in place to deal with the issue.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Tory party of having a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and of not doing enough to tackle it.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Cleverly said an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.\n\nHe said: \"We said it will be initiated this calendar year.\n\n\"We have been doing, in parallel to the general election campaign, preparatory work ahead of that and we'll be making a more formal announcement as soon as the election is done.\n\n\"It will specifically look into Islamophobia in my party. It will, by definition, also have to look at other stuff as well, because you can't always unpick this.\n\n\"But we are and absolutely have always been clear on this. We recognise that in mass membership organisations that there will always be people that say and do things which are completely inappropriate.\"\n\nTory leader Boris Johnson has also come in for criticism for a newspaper column last year in which he said Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nTory election candidate Parvez Akhtar said the effect of the column has been \"to reinforce the widely held view that the Conservative Party has a blind spot when it comes to Muslims\".\n\nMr Cleverly told John Pienaar the prime minister had already apologised for his comments.\n\nPushed again after being informed that Mr Johnson only apologised for any offence caused by the comments, not the comments themselves, he added: \"If you read the piece, the points that he was making in that piece was that unlike other European countries who have put a blanket ban on the wearing of the burka or hijab, the UK does not do that.\n\n\"The point he was making was that actually in a healthy liberal democracy like we have here in the UK, just because someone has, you know, a personal discomfort with that does not mean that it should be banned.\n\n\"That is a defence of our liberal democracy.\"\n\nEarlier in the election campaign, Mr Johnson himself apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" caused by Islamophobia within the Conservative Party ranks.\n\nMr Cleverly claimed there was a \"massive gulf\" between the scale of Labour's problems with anti-Semitism and the issue of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nAsked if he would apologise for cases of Islamophobia in his party, Mr Cleverly said: \"Well, of course, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry when, you know, people do or say things that are wrong.\n\n\"I am confident that my party has a robust mechanism for dealing with it.\n\n\"We investigate this. It's done independently. We have independent people looking at this and they come to adjudications and where people have had to be either sanctioned or expelled from the party. That has happened.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party suspended a number of members last month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suspended a Glasgow election candidate, Flora Scarabello, after she was accused of using \"anti-Muslim language\".\n\nAnd the party's candidate in Aberdeen North, Ryan Houghton, was suspended over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments he made seven years ago.\n\nMr Houghton has apologised for any hurt caused but insisted the comments were taken out of context.", "Everyone's had a quick break while the adverts have been on, but now we're back with host Cathy Newman who is asking the audience what they want to hear.\n\nThe next question is on the subject of crime. Should convicted terrorists serve the whole of their sentence without the chance of early release?\n\nPlaid Cymru's Adam Price answers first, saying \"public protection needs to be at the heart of the policy\".\n\nBut he adds that, in the most recent case at London Bridge, the lessons will only be known once there has been an investigation into what happened.\n\n\"So I think it's important not to rush to judgement in terms of that specific case.\"\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner says \"the most important thing is that the public are kept safe\".\n\nShe says prisons are \"overstuffed\" and \"lots of people re-offend on petty crime doing time for that\".\n\nShe gets a brief clap after saying that if convicted terrorists need to spend 10 or 20 years in prison \"they should do that\" - but adds that rehabilitation must be part of the justice system.\n\nMs Rayner says that when people are allowed out, then \"they have to be watched and monitored\".\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson says there must be a proper assessment \"before anyone is released\".\n\n\"One of those grieving parents, David Merritt, he has called on politicians not to politicise his son's death,\" says Ms Swinson.\n\nMs Rayner interjects: \"That's why I didn't mention that.\"\n\nMs Swinson says she is angry at Boris Johnson for ignoring Mr Merritt's request.", "Utilities burning fossil fuels could lose value, a study has said\n\nCarbon-intensive firms are likely to lose 43% of their value thanks to policies designed to combat climate change, a report says.\n\nMeanwhile the most progressive companies will see an uplift of 33% in their value.\n\nThe forecast was commissioned by the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).\n\nRepresentatives of fossil fuel companies told the BBC they were already adapting their businesses to take climate change into account.\n\nBut the PRI study suggests major winners and losers will emerge between, and within, big sectors.\n\nCar-makers with the swiftest transition to electric vehicles (EVs), for instance, are projected to increase in value by 108%, according to the study by Vivid Economics.\n\nManufacturers slow to move to EVs will see their value fall, as governments realise that petrol and diesel models must be phased out faster for climate targets to be met.\n\nMeanwhile, the study predicts that the world’s largest listed coal companies could fall in value by 44%. And the 10 biggest firms in oil and gas could lose 31% of current value.\n\nElectric utilities with the strongest strategy for renewables could see values increase by 104%, while laggards could see them fall by two-thirds.\n\nMiners producing minerals critical for the transition may see a 54% upside, while those with the smallest share of “green minerals” will witness valuations almost halving.\n\nCar firms should switch to making electric vehicles quickly, said the study\n\nAgricultural firms with high exposure to “sustainable” biofuels and non-beef protein sources could gain at least 10% of current value.\n\nThose exposed to under-pressure sectors such as cattle may lose between 15% and 43% - depending on their links with deforestation.\n\nThe figures are inevitably speculative, and rely on an assumption that politicians will be forced to respond strongly to the growing climate crisis – which, given current political progress, remains debatable.\n\nBut they do echo the warnings issued by the Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who said firms ignoring the climate challenge would go bankrupt.\n\nAlready some insurance firms are refusing to offer cover to new coal-fired power stations because the risk of policy change is so great.\n\nThe giant AXA, for instance, says it will stop insuring any new coal construction projects, and totally phase out existing insurance and investments in coal in the EU, by 2030.\n\nFiona Reynolds, CEO of the PRI, said: “This analysis underscores the extent to which markets are under-pricing climate transition risk.\n\n“One in five of the world’s most valuable companies are impacted by at least 10% in either direction.\n\n“While the market-level effects of an abrupt policy response to climate change may appear manageable, this masks a much more complex and significant story, with some huge winners and losers emerging between sectors and within them.\n\n“We are calling on investors to get real on climate policy risk, and this robust modelling exercise and analysis will enable them to do that.”\n\nMike Tholen, from industry body Oil and Gas UK said: “The (oil and gas) majors targeted in this report are actively reducing their carbon footprints, pursuing technologies including Carbon Capture and Storage and diversifying their businesses into a broader mix of renewable energy.\n\n“Oil and gas remain an important part of the energy mix for decades to come, and will be used in an increasingly low carbon manner to meet global energy needs.”\n\nThis confident response will alarm scientists who were warning at the UN climate conference last week that emissions from oil and gas were growing strongly, as coal growth slows.\n\nAnd a spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: “Vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are investing vast sums in ultra-low and zero emission vehicles to help meet the same environmental goals.\n\n“[Now] we need the right conditions to encourage investment, innovation and a competitive market.\n\n“This must include giga-scale battery production and electrified supply chains, massive skills and infrastructure investment and long-term incentives to help companies and consumers make the shift sustainably.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nell Gifford said performing at the circus she founded helped her cope with advanced cancer\n\nThe co-founder of one of the UK's best-known traditional travelling circuses has died at the age of 46.\n\nNell Gifford, who had breast cancer, died on Sunday surrounded by family, Stroud-based Giffords Circus said in a statement.\n\n\"We know many tears will be falling as Nell touched so many hearts,\" it said.\n\nMs Gifford, a mother of two, told the BBC when she was undergoing chemotherapy last month that the circus gave her \"a reason to live\".\n\nShe had fought breast cancer on three separate occasions before the disease advanced to her bones and lymph nodes.\n\nMembers of the public have posted tributes on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDaniella Askew wrote: \"Her legacy lasts in family traditions with Giffords Circus around the Cotswolds and beyond. Our love to her family, including the circus. A queen of magic and dreams.\"\n\nPeter Wilson said: \"This is so sad. Nell created an extraordinary phenomenon that helped my own family through times of grief. Love to all who knew her.\"\n\nNell Gifford co-founded Giffords Circus with her then husband Toti in 2000\n\nMs Gifford, who studied English at Oxford, was 18 when she took a gap year and ran away to New York, where she joined the circus.\n\nShe fell in love with the lifestyle and met the man who would become her husband, Toti. They co-founded their own circus in 2000. The couple later divorced.\n\nMs Gifford said the circus was a \"land of pure magic\" that rejuvenated her after chemotherapy.\n\nGiffords Circus said she wanted to \"bring happiness, imagination and enliven people's souls\".\n\n\"Nell was a creative genius, a daughter, stepdaughter, sister, friend, leader and mother. She leaves behind the next generation - her twins Cecil and Red, who are both part of the Giffords Circus DNA.\"\n\nGiffords Circus chairman Irene Molodstov added: \"She took us all on a journey. The circus was her first child, and the show will go on.\"\n\nBased on a farm in the Cotswolds, Giffords Circus tours around England each summer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The star recorded his new single with his wife, Roxanne, at Abbey Road studios\n\nYouTube star LadBaby, who scored last year's Christmas number one with an ode to sausage rolls, is mounting a second assault on the charts.\n\nThe \"dad blogger\" has rewritten Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll for this year's attempt; once again extolling the virtues of pork-stuffed pastry.\n\nI Love Sausage Rolls was recorded at Abbey Road, but LadBaby maintains he's \"no more professional\" than before.\n\n\"Brace yourself, my singing voice is back,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe single was announced on LadBaby's YouTube channel on Sunday, but won't be revealed in full until Friday, 13 December. But, rest assured, it's crammed full of meaty puns, leading to the inevitable chorus: \"I love sausage rolls / So put another one in the oven, baby\".\n\nThe comedian, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, said the parody was written in \"about five hours\" after he and his wife Roxanne chose it from a playlist of the UK's favourite karaoke songs.\n\n\"We basically went down the Top 50 karaoke songs in the UK - because we wanted a song, like last year, where everyone knows the words and you can sing along to it and the kids can join in and have fun.\"\n\nProceeds from the single will support food banks, which see a surge in demand over Christmas\n\nLast year, the YouTube star captured the public's imagination with the comedy hit We Built This City On Sausage Rolls. The song went straight to number one, beating the likes of Ava Max and Ariana Grande, as well as seasonal favourites by Mariah Carey and The Pogues.\n\nAll of the proceeds went to The Trussell Trust, a foodbank charity, funding about 70,000 emergency food packages over the festive period.\n\nHoyle said he had intended to end the story there, until he saw the charity's work first-hand.\n\n\"We basically spent a few days meeting the volunteers and understanding how the food banks work,\" he said, \"and while we were there, the doorbell rang once every two or three minutes with more people coming in.\n\n\"Once we saw how far the money goes, we thought, 'Do you know what? If we can get anywhere near raising that sort of money again, then why not?'\"\n\nAccording to The Trussell Trust's own research, more than 823,000 parcels were provided by food banks in the UK between April and September this year - an increase of 23% increase from the same period as last year.\n\n\"They said the Christmas period is the worst - that's when they have the most people in,\" Hoyle added. \"So for us, it was a no-brainer to try to help those guys again.\"\n\nThe single's artwork parodies The Beatles' classic Abbey Road album sleeve, starring Mark, Roxanne and their two sons\n\nI Love Rock and Roll was originally written and released by British-American band the Arrows in 1975, but didn't become popular until Joan Jett covered it in 1982.\n\nIf LadBaby's parody tops the chart, he'll be only the third act in UK chart history to have consecutive Christmas number ones.\n\n\"There's a chance we can be in there with the Beatles and the Spice Girls,\" says Hoyle. \"There's never been a novelty act with back-to-back Christmas number ones, so we could make some history.\"\n\nHowever, the record faces stiff competition this year, with the likes of Lewis Capaldi and Taylor Swift taking a swing at the festive chart.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by TaylorSwiftVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAustralian artist Tones & I could also cling on to the top spot - she's currently enjoying a 10th week at number one with the quirky pop single Dance Monkey; while fans of Wham! are trying to propel Last Christmas to number one (for the first time) in honour of the song's 35th anniversary.\n\nLadBaby isn't even the only charity single in the running: Broadchurch actor Shaun Dooley has teamed up with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band to cover Taylor Swift's Never Grow Up in aid of Children In Need; while six-year-old Lyra Cole has recorded a version of When A Child is Born for Brain Tumour Research, which helped her through emergency surgery as a baby.\n\n\"It feels like there's more competition this year,\" agrees Hoyle, \"so the chances of doing it again seem very slim.\"\n\nBut if they reach their goal, he promises to go one better next year.\n\n\"We were joking the other day, 'How do you get bigger than Abbey Road?'\" he says. \"And I think we'd have to fly to LA and do an album with Dr Dre.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Putting Boris Johnson's plan for Brexit into action will be a \"major\" challenge for government due to new customs arrangements for Northern Ireland, according to a leaked document.\n\nThe PM has said the UK will fully exit the EU by December 2020 if he wins the election and MPs approve his plan.\n\nBut the document says government will struggle to deliver the infrastructure and staffing needed by that deadline.\n\nThe PM did not directly comment on the report when asked.\n\nBut Mr Johnson instead said his plan was a \"great deal\" for both Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and would \"give the country real momentum\".\n\nThe SNP said the leak was \"just the latest evidence that Boris Johnson can't be trusted\".\n\nIt comes as the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, said Mr Johnson \"broke [his] word\" after promising there would be no checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland after Brexit - a red line for her and her candidates.\n\nThroughout the election campaign, the PM has denied there will be checks in the Irish Sea, despite telling the BBC in the days after his deal was agreed that some checks would be needed.\n\nMr Johnson's deal with the EU does mean there will be checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland but there has been confusion on whether there will be checks on goods going in the other direction.\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to finalise leaving the EU by 31 January, and said a trade deal will be done with the bloc by the following December.\n\nHowever, he has also said if no deal is done by that deadline, the UK will still leave - meaning all transition agreements will come to an end by the close of 2020.\n\nFirst reported by the Financial Times, the document from the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has cast doubt on whether the government will be ready to meet this proposal when it comes to new arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has also seen the document - which was circulated to senior officials in Whitehall last week - that warns of \"high levels of checks and controls\" as a result of the deal, and says there may be \"legal and political\" impacts.\n\nIt reads: \"Delivery of the required infrastructure, associated systems, and staffing to implement the requirements of the protocol by December 2020 represents a major strategic, political and operational challenge.\"\n\nDExEU said it would not comment on leaks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak - who sits on the \"exit operations committee\" for Brexit planning - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been \"incredibly impressed by all the preparations that have gone on\".\n\nHe said such planning meant the UK was in \"very good shape, not just to deal with new trading relationships, but all the other things\".\n\nCommenting on the leak, the SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"Even his own civil servants know the UK government aren't in a position to deliver Brexit on his promised timescale.\n\n\"If we leave the EU, the UK faces years of difficult and contentious trade talks. If you've not liked Brexit so far, you ain't seen nothing yet.\"\n\nThe pro-Leave DUP has previously backed the Conservative Party, giving Theresa May a working majority in Parliament, but it has been critical of both her withdrawal agreement with the EU and Mr Johnson's.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In full: Laura Kuenssberg grills Johnson in October on Brexit deal\n\nSpeaking to Today, Ms Foster said the DUP had spoken to HMRC officials after Mr Johnson's deal was done, and they had made it \"very clear\" to her that there would need to be checks on goods travelling between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"This is very concerning for us as it goes to the heart of the act of union,\" she said.\n\n\"Boris wants to, in his words, 'get Brexit done', and I completely understand that. But you can't leave part of the UK in a worse-off position.\"\n\nAsked repeatedly whether she could now trust anything the prime minister said, Ms Foster added: \"It is very important for us in Northern Ireland not just to have the words but the detail. It says more about the person who broke their word.\"", "European clinical guidelines on how to treat a major form of heart disease are under review following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nEurope's professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for the guidelines, saying it was \"a matter of serious concern\" that some patients may have had the wrong advice.\n\nGuidelines recommended both stents and heart surgery for low-risk patients.\n\nBut trial data leaked to Newsnight raises doubts about this conclusion.\n\nThousands of people in the UK and hundreds of thousands worldwide will be treated for left main coronary artery disease each year. This is a narrowing of one of the main arteries in the heart.\n\nThe guidelines on how to treat it were largely based on a three-year trial to compare whether heart surgery or stents - a tiny tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel to keep it open - was more effective.\n\nThe trial called Excel started in 2010 and was sponsored by big US stent maker, Abbott.\n\nIt was led by eminent US doctor Gregg Stone and aimed to recruit 2,000 patients. Half were given stents and the other half open heart surgery.\n\nSuccess of the treatments was measured by adding together the number of patients that had heart attacks, strokes, or had died.\n\nThe research team used an unusual definition of a heart attack, but had said that they would also publish data for the more common \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack alongside it. There is debate around which is a better measure and the investigators stand by their choice.\n\nIn 2016, the results of the trial for patients three years after their treatments were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article concluded stents and heart surgery were equally effective for people with left main coronary artery disease.\n\nBut researchers had failed to publish data for the common, \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack.\n\nNewsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows that under the universal definition, patients in the trial that had received stents had 80% more heart attacks than those who had open heart surgery.\n\nThe lead researchers on the trial have told Newsnight that this is \"fake information\". But Newsnight has spoken to experts who say they believe the data is credible.\n\nStents are a less invasive option for patients too ill to have surgery\n\nProf Rod Stables, clinical lead for research at the British Heart Foundation, said this information should have been published and knowing it would have made a \"substantial contribution to our ability to appreciate the nuances of the results\".\n\nShortly after Excel was published, the professional bodies for heart surgeons and cardiologists got together to write a new set of guidelines.\n\nBut they had not seen the unpublished Universal definition data.\n\nCurrently, European guidelines recommend either a stent or open heart surgery for people who have less severe forms of this disease.\n\nThe European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EACTS), which helped draw up the guidelines, told Newsnight if the information on the trial is proven to be correct, \"the recommendation is unsafe\".\n\n\"It is a matter of serious concern to us that some results in the Excel trial appear to have been concealed and that some patients may therefore have received the wrong clinical advice,\" Prof Domenico Pagano, EACTS secretary general, said.\n\nNewsnight has also learned that as the guidelines were being drawn up, the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board - an independent body that looks after the interests of patients - was raising concerns.\n\nNewsnight has seen emails where they raised concerns about the higher mortality rate amongst those patients who were receiving stents.\n\nThe board thought this information should be made public, as they were aware new guidelines were being drawn up that would recommend stents or surgery.\n\nHowever, the main investigators chose not to do so at the time. They point out that the board allowed the trial to continue unchanged.\n\nProf Nick Freemantle worked on the guidelines. He told Newsnight he would \"never\" have agreed the treatments were interchangeable if he had seen the leaked data.\n\nHe said that the result of making the \"wrong recommendation\" is that \"patients who have received stents [for left main coronary artery disease] will have died who otherwise would have lived for longer, survived for longer, if they'd had open heart surgery\".\n\nThe European Society of Cardiology, the other professional body involved in writing the guidelines, rejected the claim that the guidelines may have caused harm to patients. They stand by the guidelines, which they say were based on more than the Excel trial.\n\nThis year the trial published a further set of its results, showing what had happened to the patients five years after their treatment.\n\nThis found for every 100 who died after having open heart surgery, 135 people with stents died. Overall, 10% of people who had surgery died in the trial compared with 13% who had stents.\n\nProf David Taggart, a surgeon at Oxford University, resigned from the trial. He says he \"had no choice\" as he believed the academic paper describing the five-year results did not give enough prominence to the mortality data in the trial.\n\nThe NEJM had recommended that the researchers should give it greater prominence too.\n\nProf Taggart said he believed the paper's final paragraph, which concluded that there was \"no significant difference\" between stents and open heart surgery was \"dangerous for patients\".\n\nWhen challenged by Newsnight, the trial's principal investigator, Dr Gregg Stone, said he believed that it had been given sufficient prominence and had been considered to meet NEJM's standards.\n\nSponsors of trials like this are also responsible for making sure all results are published.\n\nWhen Newsnight contacted Abbott, the sponsors of the trial, they directed the BBC towards the trial's main researchers.\n\nThe EACTS has now urged their members to \"disregard the guidelines relating to left main disease for the time being\".\n\n\"We recommend that patients seek the advice of the multidisciplinary heart team at their hospital before deciding which treatment option is most appropriate for them,\" said Prof Domenico Pagano.\n\nIn the course of the investigation, Newsnight found a larger debate within the medical community about the way that conflicts of interest are handled.\n\nThere is one school of thought that says they raise questions and need to be carefully managed because of potential bias - conscious or unconscious.\n\nOthers say that interactions between research and business are vital and there is a real public good to be gained by them.\n\nIn the Excel trial, the four main investigators all declared conflicts of interest.\n\nLead investigator Prof Gregg Stone declared he had received personal fees or held equity in 20 private medical companies, several of which made tools that helped with putting in stents.\n\nHe's also the course director for TCT, an annual medical conference where the results were presented.\n\nTCT makes money from exhibitors including some of the biggest stent makers - Abbott, who sponsored the trial, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.\n\nProf Pieter Kappetein, who worked on the trial and on the body that worked on the guidelines, declared that he had left the guidelines body to go and work for Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer that makes stents.\n\nNewsnight found that he'd become chief medical officer of Medtronic Structural Heart.\n\nBy Newsnight's count, around half of the investigators on the trial had declared personal fees from companies that made stents, and around a third of those on the taskforce writing the guidelines.\n\nThese relationships are all within the rules.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has hinted she may return to politics when the Tories are in opposition at Westminster, even suggesting she could lead the party.\n\nShe said: \"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson stood down as leader in August, citing Brexit and changing priorities after the birth of her son.\n\nShe does not plan to stand for re-election in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nIn an interview for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine, she hinted she could make a bid to lead the UK party - perhaps re-entering politics when the Conservatives are in opposition at Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"It may well be that my time in politics doesn't come again until we're in opposition.\n\n\"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson continued: \"If someone tapped on my door and asked me to help, I'd be there in a heartbeat.\n\n\"But at the moment, I've got four or five years when my son isn't at school and that is not a time that I'm contemplating moving 450 miles away for the majority of the week. It's just some things are more important than politics.\"\n\nMs Davidson tweeted a picture of herself with Finn and her partner Jen Wilson\n\nMs Davidson stood down as Scottish Conservative leader in August. She said her personal priorities had changed after she and her partner, Jen Wilson, had a son, Finn, last October.\n\nOver the eight years she led her party, she was widely credited with turning around the fortunes of the Tories in Scotland\n\nShe has previously ruled out wanting to be prime minister because she valued her \"mental health too much\".\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview for Stella, she also spoke about coming out her family as gay and about the abuse she receives as a politician.\n\nShe said: \"I've never really spoken about it because the relationship I have with my family [now] is not the same as the [one] I had with them at the time I came out.\n\n\"It's to protect them. I put myself in this position. I'm not naive. But there are people in my life who didn't choose that.\"\n\n\"I was in my mid-20s [when I came out] - quite late. I didn't know for ages, which is surprising, looking back,\" she added.\n\n\"I came out to one member of my very close family, it didn't go well, so I didn't come out to the rest for two years.\"\n\nMs Davidson said she had to learn to be \"a bit of a street fighter\" in Scottish politics, saying she could get up to 1,000 abusive tweets a day.\n\nShe said: \"It wears you down. I've had a lot of 'string her up by a lamppost' type stuff; 'unionists, turncoats, traitors'... And I had an incident where someone got my phone number and made threats.\n\n\"It turned out not to be that sinister, but I didn't know that when I was being told they wanted to burn all gays.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Davidson was at the centre of controversy after she accepted a \"contentious\" job with a lobbying firm.\n\nSome opposition politicians said it was a conflict of interest and in October she said she would not take the job.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.\n• None Ruth Davidson on motherhood, coming out and quitting politics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is asked whether he would scrap the TV licence fee\n\nBoris Johnson has said the possible abolition of the BBC licence fee needs \"looking at\".\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Sunderland, the prime minister questioned how much longer funding a broadcaster out of \"a general tax\" could be \"justified\".\n\nMinisters have agreed the licence fee will stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nThe fee for a colour TV licence is currently £154.50 a year. It will rise in line with inflation until 2022.\n\nLicence fee income was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in 2018-9, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues and funding TV, radio and online content. Last year, 25.8 million households had TV licences.\n\nThe government and the BBC are currently involved in a dispute over the funding of free TV licences for the over-75s.\n\nMr Johnson was asked by a member of the public whether he would consider axing all TV licences.\n\nThe prime minister said that, while he would not make up policy with three days to go before the election, it was an issue that was worth \"looking at\" in the future.\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels.\"\n\nVarious alternatives to the licence fee have been floated over the years, including subscription services or a compulsory broadcasting levy.\n\nIt is customary for election campaigns to strain relations between the BBC and whoever happens to be in government.\n\nBut the advent of social media - where criticism of the BBC frequently goes viral - and the rise of streaming giants which operate a different model, has increased pressure on the BBC recently.\n\nSo too has the prime minister's refusal to be interviewed by Andrew Neil for the BBC. Last week, Mr Neil, who interviewed all the other party leaders, issued a challenge to Mr Johnson, and showed an empty chair.\n\nThat clip has been viewed several million times on social media. No 10 didn't appreciate that much, and doubled down on its position.\n\nLured by the internet, many younger viewers now spend much more time on Netflix or YouTube than watching BBC services. That does pose a significant, perhaps existential, challenge to the BBC in the long term.\n\nThe BBC has always argued, however, that the licence fee is vital to its public service model and that if it moved to a subscription model it would necessarily be driven only by those who could afford a subscription, and not the whole country.\n\nSooner or later, a decision needs to be made about how best the BBC can compete, and satisfy the British public, in today's global media. It's probably best that discussion takes place when there isn't an election on.\n\nAt the time of the last Charter Renewal in 2016, the government said the licence fee was likely to become \"less sustainable in the long run\".\n\nWhile ministers said there were no plans to replace it with a subscription model, they said the BBC should be given an opportunity to explore whether to make any of its content available on a subscription-only basis.\n\nIn its manifesto, Labour says it will ensure a \"healthy future\" for all public service broadcasters, while the Liberal Democrats are promising to \"protect the independence of the BBC and set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission\".\n\nThe Brexit Party is pledging to \"phase out\" the licence fee.", "The late owner of the collection kept his prized bottles in his \"pub\" at his home in Colorado\n\nAuctioneers have unveiled what is believed to be the largest private collection of whisky ever to go on public sale.\n\nMore than 3,900 bottles of primarily single malt Scotch will be sold by online whisky auction specialists Whisky Auctioneer next year.\n\nThe \"perfect collection\" includes very rare bottles from The Macallan, Bowmore and Springbank distilleries.\n\nIts collective value has been estimated at a hammer price of £7m to £8m.\n\nPerth-based Whisky Auctioneer described it as \"the most extensive private collection we have seen in terms of the completeness of representation of 20th Century Scottish distilleries\".\n\nThe collection has been put up for sale by the family of an American businessman who died in 2014.\n\nColorado-based Richard Gooding, who once owned one of the largest soft-drink distributors in the US, spent more than 20 years amassing his collection.\n\nWhisky Auctioneer founder Iain McClune said the collection was \"truly one of a kind\"\n\nThe eclectic mix of whiskies includes bottlings from some of Scotland's lost distilleries, such as Stromness and Dallas Dhu.\n\nIt also features some of the most sought-after bottles in the world, including The Macallan 1926 60-year-old Valerio Adami label and The Macallan 1926 60-year-old Fine and Rare.\n\nIn October a bottle of The Macallan 1926 sold for nearly £1.5m, including buyer's premium.\n\nOther stars of the auction include a Springbank 1919 50-year-old (estimated hammer price: £180,000-£220,000) and The Macallan 50-year-old Lalique Six Pillars Collection (£90,000-£100,000)\n\nUntil recently, the collection was housed in what Mr Gooding called his \"pub\" - a dedicated room in his Colorado family home that was specially designed to showcase his whiskies.\n\nMr Gooding's grandfather, James A Gooding, started the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Denver in 1936.\n\nWhen he retired, Richard's Gooding's father took over the business before Richard became owner and chief executive in 1979.\n\nHe sold the company to PepsiCo in 1988.\n\nColorado-based Mr Gooding died at the age of 67 in June 2014 after being diagnosed with skin cancer.\n\nAccording to his family, Mr Gooding sought to create \"the perfect collection\" of whisky, travelling regularly to Scotland in his private jet in search of special bottles at auctions and distilleries.\n\nHis wife Nancy said: \"It was clear to us as a family that collecting Scotch was one of Richard's greatest passions - an endeavour that spanned over two decades.\n\n\"He loved every aspect of it; from researching the many single malt distilleries to visiting them and tasting their whiskies.\n\nThe collection includes an extensive range of The Macallan\n\n\"He was always so pleased to acquire the bottles that he was searching for over the years.\n\n\"His mission was to collect a bottle that represented every single distillery, but his favourite was always Bowmore, with his preferred whisky being Black Bowmore.\"\n\nWhisky Auctioneer founder Iain McClune said Mr Gooding's collection was \"truly one of a kind\".\n\nHe added: \"Its sheer scale and rarity makes it one of the most exciting discoveries in the whisky world, and we're thrilled to unveil it to the public ahead of it going live on our online auction site next year.\"\n\nThe Gooding auction will go live on Whisky Auctioneer from 7-17 February and from 10-20 April 2020.", "Former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa has won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! after spending three weeks in the Australian jungle.\n\nThe actress was named queen of the jungle, following in the footsteps of previous winners like Harry Redknapp, Stacey Solomon and Kerry Katona.\n\nCo-presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly revealed the winner at the end of the final of the ITV reality show.\n\nActor Andy Whyment was the runner-up, with radio DJ Roman Kemp in third.\n\nJossa played Lauren Branning in BBC soap EastEnders between 2010 and 2018.\n\nAfter she was named queen of the jungle, she said: \"I have no words.\"\n\nThis year's series - the 19th - was the first not to have live insects eaten as part of the show's \"bushtucker trials\".\n\nCoronation Street actor Andy Whyment took part in a \"bushtucker bonanza\" before he came second\n\nAny insects consumed on the show were already dead - though live creepy-crawlies were still dumped on its celebrity contestants.\n\nBut the show was not without controversy, with former sports stars James Haskell and Ian Wright being accused of bullying their fellow campmates.\n\nViewers also contacted media watchdog Ofcom to complain that some of the show's challenges were too hard and thus unfair.\n\nThere was contention before the series even aired, with former Commons Speaker John Bercow demanding a newspaper apologise for claiming he had asked for £1m to appear.\n\nDJ Tony Blackburn was the first celebrity to be crowned King of the Jungle when the show first aired in 2002.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's that time of night when we can share a few of tomorrow's front pages with you. One story in particular is dominating the newspapers...\n\nThe Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson Image caption: The Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson\n\nThe Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist Image caption: The Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist\n\nThe Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning Image caption: The Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning\n\nThe Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated Image caption: The Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated", "It could have been a double blow for Corryn Banham and boyfriend Jordon Parkinson. He planned a surprise proposal to Corryn, 24, during a holiday to Crete, but this had to be abandoned after Thomas Cook collapsed in September.\n\nLuckily Corryn's mum and dad, who were in on the plan, stepped in to pay for a holiday to Majorca and Jordon, 27, was able to pop the question. \"It could have ruined everything,\" said Corryn, a sales assistant who lives in Strood, Kent.\n\nNow they want to repay the hundreds of pounds back to Corryn's parents, but face more months of delay until the refund is processed. \"We couldn't afford another holiday, but my parents said we could pay them back when our refund arrives,\" she said.\n\nLike thousands of other disappointed Thomas Cook customers, she registered for a refund on 7 October, the first day the process opened. Travel regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - which has vowed to refund all Atol-protected payments - had told those customers to expect their money within 60 days.\n\nBut last week the CAA warned thousands of customers that payment would be delayed while further details are collected - and Corryn and Jordon are among them.\n\nShe said: \"I was contacted on the 59th day after submitting my claim, advising that because our package flights were with EasyJet, I have to declare either: 1) I have no plans to fly on my future flights (even though our holiday was 2 October), or 2) I did not fly on my past flight.\n\n\"They've sent us two identical forms. I emailed the claims company asking for the correct form and they've got back to say it takes 60 working days for a response to an email.\n\n\"So by the time I get a response, fill the correct form out, and send it back. We're looking at nine months total time for my refund to be correctly processed.\n\n\"This is disgusting. I am stressed, having panic attacks, and now my parents have been left short before Christmas when we should have received our refund.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA said about 40,000 customers owed money had been paid within the 60-day period, but that some 27,000 faced delay.\n\nLast week CAA boss Richard Moriarty thanked consumers for their patience, saying the regulator was working through \"the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme\".\n\nHe added that the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year,\" Mr Moriarty said.\n\nWhile the CAA said it had paid all first-day claims not requiring extra verification, some told the BBC they had still not received their money on Monday.\n\nBilly Latham said: \"I contacted the CAA on Saturday and was told my money was paid on Friday and if it did not hit my bank account on Monday to call back.\n\n\"Well Monday is here and no payments whatsoever, no one at the CAA is picking up the phones and even putting an answer message on stating they are too busy to speak with me due to high call volumes.\n\n\"The only question on my lips and the thousands of others with valid claims is 'when will we get our money back?'\"\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.\n\nThe CAA says about 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for. Customers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.", "On a street in the Nottinghamshire town of Arnold, there is a Liberal club, a Labour club and a Conservative club, all within a five-minute walk of one another. But how much do the people who patronise these establishments actually care about politics?\n\nThere's an intense silence among the members of Arnold's Balfour Conservative Club as the president calls out numbers. That's because Wednesday night is bingo night - and bingo night is taken seriously. Certainly more seriously than politics.\n\nIn the lull between the rounds, 82-year-old Shirley Wilmot, who has always voted Labour, says she's never really thought about the club's Conservative connections.\n\n\"I'm a member of the Liberal club and the Labour club as well,\" she says. \"But this is my favourite because it's so friendly.\n\n\"I go to the Liberal on a Saturday because they have two artists on, here on the Wednesday for the bingo and the Labour club on Sunday for the dinner. They're not political places.\"\n\nThe Labour club is seen by its regulars as a handy place to go for a cheap pint served by friendly staff\n\nJust down the road at the Arnold Labour Club, president John Wood, 60, would agree with that sentiment.\n\nHe says its link to the party ended about 10 years ago and that the association had become \"damaging\". He is even looking to change the club's name.\n\nOf the nine people asked at the Labour club, not one could say they would definitely vote for the Labour Party, and a few know they certainly will not.\n\nAmong them is Ann Rogers, 50, a member of a motorbike group which meets there weekly.\n\n\"I come for the friendly people and the amazing bar staff,\" she says. \"I've been here for four years and never heard anyone talk about politics. It's just a name over the door. It doesn't matter if you support Labour or Conservative, you're welcome here.\n\n\"I used to be an avid Labour supporter and always voted for them. I voted for them last election. But not this time. It's hard for me but I feel they've let us down, and I don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Wood says the club and local party used to support one another financially and political meetings were once held here. But he understands they went their separate ways well before he took over two years ago.\n\nHe says some of his regulars refuse to become full club members because of the name and he has even been denied loans from banks and grants for renovation work because of the perceived political ties.\n\n\"I couldn't be tied to any party,\" Mr Wood says. \"The only one I've ever supported is UKIP. But I don't get involved and we never talk politics.\"\n\nInstead, they host events ranging from coffee mornings for the elderly and a Parkinson's support group, to weddings and weekly discos.\n\nInside are four rooms, each with its own bar. One room is dominated by a snooker table, and another has a skittles alley where members sometimes play against members of the Conservative club and the Liberal club - although the rivalry isn't fuelled by differing political allegiances.\n\nAlex Hunt says he has no idea who he will vote for on 12 December\n\nOne of the team members is 27-year-old handyman Alex Hunt. Snooker cue in hand, he says: \"I love the company, all my friends are here, it's lively and you can drink.\n\n\"I used to be a member of the Liberal and Conservative club but they don't have the same atmosphere.\"\n\n\"I've not got a clue who I'm voting for this election,\" he says. \"I don't know anything about politics. It just doesn't matter to me.\"\n\nThe club's bar manager, Paula Martin, says she gets a call about twice a month from people asking to speak to the local Labour candidate. A man came in a couple of weeks ago asking why there were no pictures at the club of the candidate, she says.\n\n\"I told him it's just not like that any more.\"\n\nAt both the Labour and Conservative clubs, located either side of an Asda supermarket, members pay £10 to join in their first year and £5 every year after\n\nIn the Conservative club, there's also an absence of political chat and certainly no division along party lines.\n\nIndeed, a number of the Labour club's members and some of its bar staff are here to play \"sticky 13s\", a form of card bingo popular in Nottingham pubs.\n\nUnlike its Labour counterpart, the Balfour Conservative Club is still affiliated to the political party and pays an annual subscription to the Association of Conservative Clubs. Its rules state that every member should also be a member or supporter of the Conservative Party, but the secretary admits this is not something that is enforced these days.\n\nThe same rulebook's stated aim is to \"promote the principles of Conservatism and the implementation of the Conservative Party's policies\", although this does not seem to go much further than hosting a few party meetings and a Christmas meal.\n\nThe blue interior and a portrait of the early 20th Century prime minister Arthur Balfour suggest a Tory heritage - but one club member sitting below a picture of the Queen admits he now supports the Brexit Party.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley, 66, says the strength of its association with the Conservatives has weakened in the five decades he has been coming here.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley in front of a portrait of Arthur Balfour\n\nAs he prepares to set up the bingo, he says: \"I don't talk politics at the club. The days when you were a member of just one of the political clubs are done. If we said you had to be a Conservative Party member to join, we'd have no-one in.\"\n\nFor the members, the subsidised pints, the friendly atmosphere, the snooker and pool tables seem to be the main draw.\n\nThat's certainly the case for Labour supporter Andy Gallagher, who has come here for a game. \"This is the most convenient pool table - I don't care what the place is called,\" he says. \"I know I'm not the only Labour voter but we never discuss politics.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson walked in here I wouldn't talk to him but I'd not tell him to get out either.\"\n\nTony Barnsley: \"I do have a political opinion - I don't think politics works\"\n\nBack at the Labour club, 37-year-old industrial truck driver Tony Barnsley says he's been a member for the past four years, because the staff \"treat him well\" and \"pull a great pint of Stella\".\n\nBut he has only voted once in his life, almost 20 years ago. \"If anyone tries to talk politics they walk out because no-one is bothered; they won't even listen to it,\" he says.\n\n\"If Jeremy Corbyn walked in here I'd say 'get me a drink'.\"", "The \"immense\" rise in sales of high-emission sports utility vehicles means they now outsell electric cars in the UK by 37 to one, research has found.\n\nAs a result, overall exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing, not declining, for the past three years, says the UK Energy Research Centre.\n\nSUV sales are jeopardising the UK transport sector's ability to meet EU emissions targets, it said.\n\nProf Jillian Anable of the UKERC said this made \"a mockery\" of UK policy.\n\n\"Effectively, we have been sleepwalking into the issue,\" she said.\n\n\"The decarbonisation of the passenger car market can no longer rely on a distant target to stop the sales of conventional engines. We must start to phase out the most polluting vehicles immediately.\n\n\"It is time to enact a strong set of regulations to transform the entire car market towards ultra-low carbon, rather than focusing solely on the uptake of electric vehicles.\"\n\nUKERC was founded in 2004 and is funded by UK Research and Innovation, the UK government's research and innovation funding agency.\n\nIt carries out research into sustainable future energy systems.\n\nOver the past four years, there have been 1.8 million SUV sales, compared to a total of 47,000 for battery electric vehicles (BEV).\n\nIn 2018, SUVs accounted for 21.2% of new car sales, up from 13.5% three years earlier.\n\nHowever, BEV sales are coming from a low base, as the technology is still relatively new.\n\n\"SUVs are larger and heavier than a standard car, emitting about a quarter more CO2 than a medium-size car and nearly four times more than a medium-sized battery electric vehicle,\" said the UKERC.\n\n\"Assuming the majority of these SUVs will be on UK roads for at least a decade, it is estimated the extra cumulative emissions to total around 8.2 million tons of CO2.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UKERC said the \"extraordinary leap\" in SUV sales over the past four years seemed to be due to \"attractive car financing packages which divert attention from running costs\".\n\nAlthough vehicle excise duty is higher for gas-guzzlers, more than 90% of new cars in the UK are now sold by way of deals that wrap the excise duty into the monthly cost, \"rendering the only clear policy signal to discourage high-carbon vehicles somewhat useless,\" it said.\n\nAll-electric vehicles still represent only a fraction of total car sales. The UKERC said they remained at less than 1% of new car sales in 2019.\n\nThere are also challenges to uptake, including a lack of charging points on roads and too few low-cost models.\n\nThe UKERC warned against abandoning the EU's emissions targets after Brexit, although no political party is currently advocating this.\n\nIt said EU regulations had been structured to allow makers of larger, heavier cars to have higher levels of emissions per km.\n\n\"Yet, despite its flaws, there are dangers of Britain choosing not to align with the EU vehicle regulations post-Brexit,\" it added.\n\nRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"It's important to remember that the SUV trend has been developing for around two decades, arguably really taking off in the mid-2000s, whereas the electric vehicle (EV) market is only just beginning to accelerate as battery technology improves, along with the availability of public charge points.\n\n\"As a result, there are some very strong EV sports utility vehicles on sale now.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: \"Manufacturers respond to consumer demand and dual-purpose cars are an increasingly popular choice, available in a range of sizes, and valued for their style, practicality, higher ride and commanding view of the road.\n\n\"Thanks to ongoing investment, like all vehicles, they're also ever more efficient, with average CO2 emissions from new dual-purpose cars having fallen more than 43% on 2000 levels.\"\n\nThey're tall, spacious, and styled to look as though they belong halfway up a mountain, even though most will never ever venture more than a few metres off-road.\n\nSUVs are undoubtedly popular with drivers. But they're also big and heavy - and that means they emit more CO2 than smaller cars.\n\nBut it would be wrong to see these figures as a sign that the market doesn't want more environmentally friendly vehicles.\n\nTo put it simply, most people still drive petrol or diesel cars, and if they want a bigger car, right now they'll probably choose a petrol or diesel SUV, because they're familiar and widely available.\n\nBut just take a look at the tiny, yet rapidly growing market for electric cars. Among the models now on the market are the Kia e-Niro, Hyundai's Kona Electric, the Jaguar I-Pace, the Audi E-tron and the Mercedes EQ.\n\nAll of them are SUVs. The manufacturers think they can surf the wave of enthusiasm for big cars - and use it to sell more electric vehicles.\n\nThe two are certainly not mutually exclusive.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was 37 weeks pregnant when a woman approached her in Cardiff.\n\n\"This woman stopped me and said: 'How did you get pregnant?'\" Grey-Thompson recalled.\n\n\"I remember screaming at her in the street: 'I had sex. How do you think I got pregnant?'\n\n\"She was like: 'Oh, that's disgusting.' And I said: 'I think he's quite good looking, actually.'\"\n\nGrey-Thompson was a nine-time Paralympic gold medallist when she became pregnant with her daughter Carys in 2001, but later won two more gold medals.\n\nPeople struggled to understand how her body would adapt - and they were not afraid to tell her so.\n\n\"I lost count of the number of people who asked me how I got pregnant,\" the 50-year-old told the Stumps, Wheels and Wobblies podcast.\n\n\"The first thing I was offered at my first scan was a termination because people were like: 'You should not have children.'\"\n• None How to talk about disability without being awkward\n\n'Fear that we might breed'\n\nGrey-Thompson has spina bifida , a condition caused when a baby's spine and spinal cord does not develop properly in the womb.\n\n\"We had a discussion [with the medical staff] about if I was trying for babies and that individual had some quite complicated views on disability - [an attitude of] we might breed,\" Grey-Thompson said.\n\n\"I had to answer lots of questions about what you do if it's disabled.\n\n\"I said I would make sure they have a really cool chair, not like the horrible chair I had until I was 15!\"\n\nOne in every 1,000 pregnancies is affected by a spine or brain defect.\n\nDoctors at King's College Hospital carried out groundbreaking keyhole surgery to repair a baby's spine in the womb earlier this year.\n\nGrey-Thompson has previously spoken about terminating a disabled baby, adding that her parents would \"probably have ended the pregnancy\" had they known about her disability.\n\n'Not every disabled person is inspirational'\n\nThe term 'inspiration porn' was coined in 2012 to describe the portrayal of people with disabilities as inspirational solely, or in part, on the basis of their disability.\n\nParalympian and BBC podcaster Hannah Dines has said that labelling athletes as \"inspirational\" can be insulting, and Grey-Thompson agrees.\n\n\"It is almost like you have to have had something dramatic or traumatic happen to you to justify your position as a disabled athlete,\" she added.\n\n\"There are lots of athletes on the programme who have been through war and lost limbs in really horrible ways.\n\n\"I really struggle if that back story is part of the sports coverage because that does send out a message that you have to be inspirational and not every disabled person is inspirational.\n\n\"I don't wake up every day and say: 'Today I'm going to be inspirational.'\"", "British stars are well represented in this year's Golden Globe nominations, with Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge up for awards.\n\nWaller-Bridge is up for a lead actress prize for Fleabag, while her Irish co-star Andrew Scott is also nominated.\n\nMarriage Story, a Netflix production, is the most nominated film, having received six citations in all.\n\nThe Irishman, another Netflix film, and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, have five nominations each.\n\nThe Crown, Chernobyl and US crime thriller Unbelievable lead the way on the TV side of things, having received four nominations apiece.\n\nMarriage Story and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman are both up for best film drama, as are Joker, The Two Popes and Sam Mendes' World War I epic 1917.\n\nTarantino's film is up for best musical or comedy, alongside Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit, murder mystery Knives Out, Elton John biopic Rocketman and comic biopic Dolemite Is My Name.\n\nScorsese, Mendes and Tarantino are up for the best film director award, with Joker's Todd Phillips and Parasite's Bong Jong Ho completing the all-male line-up.\n\nThe South Korean film-maker is also up for best screenplay for Parasite - a dark comedy about his homeland's social divides that is also up for best foreign language film.\n\nNetflix has been throwing huge amounts of cash at both making and marketing its awards hopefuls this year. With that kind of spending, the streamer will be hoping for not just a good, but a great return on its investment. At this stage of awards season, it potentially looks like it might pay off.\n\nThe film with the most nominations is Netflix's Marriage Story, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, which has six. Just behind with five, another Netflix production - Martin Scorsese's epic The Irishman starring Oscar winners Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.\n\nIt's still early days though. Last year, the Dick Cheney biopic Vice led the way with six Globe nominations and went on to win a grand total of one Academy Award (for make-up and hairstyling). Still, for the last few years, the eventual best picture winner at the Oscars has come from one of the films with either the most or almost the most nominations at the Globes.\n\nThe Globes' real power comes less from those who decides on the winners but rather from its position in awards season. While it may from time to time make some unusual choices, it gives some films the chance to build momentum at the crucial time when Oscar voters are deciding not only which films to vote for, but just as importantly, which films they'll actually make time to see.\n\nAnd in what can be a tight race, just having a film labelled as a Golden Globe nominee or winner can make a difference.\n\nChristian Bale is in the running for the best actor in a film drama award for Ford v Ferrari - released as Le Mans '66 in the UK.\n\nBale's competition includes fellow Brit Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes, as well as Antonio Banderas, Adam Driver and Joaquin Phoenix for Pain and Glory, Marriage Story and Joker respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With 27 nominations, it's a strong year for British talent\n\nDaniel Craig is up for best actor in a film comedy or musical for Knives Out, as is Egerton for Rocketman and Jojo Rabbit's young British lead Roman Griffin Davis.\n\nLeonardo DiCaprio and Eddie Murphy are also nominated in this category, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Dolemite Is My Name respectively.\n\nThe best actress in a film drama shortlist includes Britain's Cynthia Erivo for Harriet, a biopic of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman.\n\nErivo's competition includes Scarlett Johansson for Marriage Story, Saoirse Ronan for Little Women and Judy's Renee Zellweger - widely considered to be the favourite for both this award and 2020's best actress Oscar.\n\nThe best actress in a film comedy or musical shortlist includes Dame Emma Thompson for Late Night and The Farewell's Awkwafina.\n\nI'm Gonna Love Me Again, a new track written for Rocketman by Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, is up for the best original film song award.\n\nSo is Beautiful Ghosts, written by Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the upcoming film version of Cats.\n\nIt is the only nomination for Cats, which has been left out of the major categories despite reports it was screened for voters at the last minute.\n\nSwift expressed delight on Twitter that \"one of the most fun, fulfilling creative experiences\" in her life had been recognised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInto the Unknown from Frozen 2 and Beyonce's song Spirit from Disney's The Lion King also make the cut.\n\nBoth films are up for best animated film - an award The Lion King will not be eligible for at the Oscars or Baftas, as it was not submitted for consideration.\n\nThe remake of Disney's 1994 animation uses computer animation to create photorealistic facsimiles of real-life animals.\n\nOlivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies are all up for awards for their royal roles in the latest series of The Crown.\n\nColman is up for best actress in a TV drama, where her competition includes Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and the stars of Apple TV series The Morning Show - Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.\n\nDame Helen Mirren, Kit Harington, Emily Watson and Sacha Baron Cohen are among other British actors who are up for TV prizes.\n\nHarington's consideration for best actor in a TV drama is the only nomination for the final series of fantasy saga Game of Thrones.\n\nMenzies, Colman and Bonham Carter play Prince Philip, The Queen and Princess Margaret in The Crown\n\nOverall there are 27 Britons in contention for the awards, which recognise both film and television.\n\nNetflix - the streaming giant behind Marriage Story, The Irishman, The Two Popes and The Crown - has 34 nominations in all - 17 each for film and TV.\n\nHBO have 15 TV nominations, four of them coming for their mini-series about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.\n\nRicky Gervais will return to host the awards on 5 January, having previously hosted them in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016.\n\nTom Hanks will receive a lifetime achievement award at the event, following in the footsteps of such recent honourees as Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHanks is also nominated for a best supporting actor prize for his role as children's TV star Mr Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman died at the scene in Wellingborough Road, Rushden\n\nA 13-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed in the street.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked at 20:30 GMT on Saturday in Wellingborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.\n\nParamedics were called but she died at the scene, near St George's Way.\n\nPolice said the arrested man has serious injuries, and another 27-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of his attempted murder.\n\nDet Insp Pete Long, said: \"This was an extremely tragic incident in which a young woman has lost her life and I want to reassure people that we are doing all we can to bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"A large team of detectives have been working on this case around the clock and a number of lines of inquiry are being pursued as part of this fast-paced investigation.\n\n\"This incident has really shocked the Rushden community, many of whom were on the scene last night, and I would ask anyone who was there and saw what happened to please come forward with your information.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Lewis said Chris Davies became \"substantially more critical and negative\" towards her\n\nA former Conservative MP's constituency office manager was subjected to \"constant bullying\", an ex-treasurer of the local party has told a tribunal.\n\nMark Rhydderch-Roberts spoke in support of Sarah Lewis, who is suing Chris Davies for constructive dismissal.\n\nShe said there was a \"climate of fear\" as Mr Davies turned against her after she uncovered £700 of false invoices.\n\nMr Davies later admitted making false expense claims and lost his seat as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire.\n\nMs Lewis told the employment tribunal in Cardiff she noticed discrepancies with invoices for photography work in 2016.\n\n\"I made the decision not to submit the invoice to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) as I knew it was a false invoice,\" she said.\n\nAfter that Ms Lewis said Mr Davies's attitude towards her became \"substantially more critical and negative\" and he \"distanced\" himself from her.\n\nThe tribunal also heard about an earlier incident where errors in submitting expenses meant Mr Davies had to pay back £4,000 to IPSA.\n\nMs Lewis described how he banged on the filing cabinet in her office and said: \"I thought the whole point of becoming an MP was to get rich\".\n\nShe said she did not know if this was a joke or not.\n\nWhen challenged about this incident by Mr Davies's solicitor Irvine McCabe, Ms Lewis said: \"I've sworn to tell the truth - and I'm telling the truth.\"\n\nSarah Lewis said Mr Davies had been \"belittling the work I do\"\n\nMr McCabe then referred to a meeting the then-MP called in November 2017 to discuss the way Ms Lewis was doing her job, saying he had \"perfectly legitimate\" reasons to speak to her.\n\n\"He knew you'd received money to which you were not entitled... and he had evidence that you weren't in the office when you should have been,\" the solicitor said.\n\nMs Lewis explained she had been overpaid after her working hours were cut because Mr Davies had not submitted her amended hours by the monthly deadline.\n\nShe also claimed that messages and emails had gone unanswered as she had taken a two-week holiday and no-one had been brought in to cover for her.\n\n\"He was belittling the work I do,\" she said.\n\nMr Rhydderch-Roberts, who was constituency treasurer at the time, told the tribunal he was aware of constant bullying and intimidatory tactics against Ms Lewis.\n\nAfter hearing about the November meeting, he said he emailed Mr Davies to say: \"I have just had a distraught Sarah Lewis on the phone following what appears to be a very ill-natured and unnecessary conversation.\n\n\"Just to be clear, Sarah has been a tremendous asset to the association and behaves with impeccable integrity in everything she does.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard there were already tensions between local officers and their MP, with the treasurer saying in an email to Ms Lewis in August 2017 that it would be \"a blessed relief to be free of any further interaction with Chris and his motley kitchen cabinet\", referring to them as \"cheats\" and \"liars\".\n\nMs Lewis went on sick leave in January 2018 and quit her job at the constituency office in Brecon a few months later.\n\nFollowing an investigation, Mr Davies was charged in connection with false expenses claims in February this year, and was fined in April after pleading guilty.\n\nHe was unseated as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire following a recall petition by constituents and lost to the Liberal Democrats after seeking to win the seat back at a subsequent by-election.\n\nThe tribunal will resume on Wednesday.", "Fifty years ago, the way people voted in the UK was largely determined by social class, but different influences are at play in the 21st Century.\n\nBack in the 1960s, political scientist Peter Pulzer famously stated that \"class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail\". People in middle-class jobs were more likely to vote Conservative, and the working class were more inclined to vote Labour. Any other differences were relatively unimportant.\n\nThe picture is now very different. The kind of job that someone does is expected to make very little difference to how they will vote at this election. On the other hand, whether they are young or old may matter a great deal.\n\nPolling companies divide voters into ABC1s (those employed in middle-class \"white collar\" jobs) and C2DEs (those in a working-class \"blue collar\" occupation). These two groups differ little in how they propose to vote at this election.\n\nAt 42%, support for the Conservatives is the same in both, while at 33%, support for Labour - a party originally founded to advance the interests of the working class - is only five points higher among the working class than the middle class.\n\n(The polls are GB-wide. Because of this, they cannot tell you anything meaningful about the demographic variation on the votes for SNP and Plaid Cymru).\n\nThis trend has been in evidence for some time. At each of the last three elections, the Conservatives have advanced more strongly than Labour among working-class voters. In the last election, the difference between the two groups had become quite small. This election looks set to repeat that pattern.\n\nConversely, the Liberal Democrats used to pride themselves on attracting support from both sides of the class divide. That claim is now more difficult to sustain. At 19%, the party's support among middle-class voters is markedly higher than among working-class supporters (10%).\n\nAlso striking, however, is the strength of support for the Lib Dems among graduates. On average, support is some 14 points higher among those with a degree than among those without. This reflects the fact that nearly all Lib Dem supporters voted Remain in the EU referendum, and that, in turn, university graduates are especially likely to back staying in the EU.\n\nSupport for the Conservatives is higher among those without a degree than among graduates - as might be expected, given that most of the party's support comes from those who voted Leave. This, in turn, helps explain why the party is no longer more popular among middle-class voters than those in working-class occupations.\n\nHowever, if voting no longer differs much between working-class and middle-class voters, it does differ between other groups.\n\nAt present the Conservatives are 15 points ahead of Labour among men, but by 11 points among women. According to Ipsos Mori, such a pattern - with Labour performing a little more strongly among women than men - has been in evidence since the 2005 election.\n\nA much bigger difference is to be observed between those from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\nIn contrast to the position in the polls in general, Labour are well ahead among those from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic (BAME) background. According to ICM, 56% of BAME voters intend to vote for Labour, while only 23% are likely to support the Conservatives. BMG puts the figures at 40% and 27% respectively.\n\nThe most striking difference of all is between younger and older voters.\n\nAbout three-fifths of those aged 65 or older are currently proposing to vote Conservative, compared with less than a quarter of those aged under 35. Conversely, nearly half of those aged less than 35 are backing Labour - but only 17% of those aged 65 or over.\n\nThere has always been a tendency for the Conservatives to be favoured in greater numbers by older rather than younger voters, with the opposite being true for Labour. Nevertheless, the gap widened noticeably in the 2015 election and even more so in 2017. It looks as though the generational gap could be just as big this time.\n\nYounger and older voters also disagree about Brexit. Younger voters are more likely to have voted Remain and older ones for Leave. This helps explain why younger voters are less willing to vote Conservative.\n\nHowever, the generational gap was widening before the EU referendum was held, so it must be about more than Brexit.\n\nSome other generational differences in the UK may be playing a role, such as attitudes towards immigration, ease of getting on the housing ladder, and the cost of university tuition.\n\nEither way, it is clear that age, not social class, is the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nThis piece uses Opinium polling on the leaders of the parties competing in the general election across the UK. Comparable results for parties with candidates in individual nations, including the SNP, are not available.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nRussia has been handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).\n\nIt means the Russia flag and anthem will not be allowed at events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics and football's 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBut athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.\n\nRussian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was part of \"chronic anti-Russian hysteria\".\n\n\"It is obvious that significant doping problems still exist in Russia, I mean our sporting community,\" he said. \"This is impossible to deny.\n\n\"But on the other hand the fact that all these decisions are repeated, often affecting athletes who have already been punished in one way or another, not to mention some other points - of course this makes one think that this is part of anti-Russian hysteria which has become chronic.\"\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin said the country had grounds to appeal against the decision.\n• None Can Russia still play at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2020?\n• None Promoters 'confident' race will go ahead despite sporting ban\n\nWada's executive committee made the unanimous decision to impose the ban on Russia in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday.\n\nIt comes after Russia's Anti Doping Agency (Rusada) was declared non-compliant for manipulating laboratory data handed over to investigators in January 2019.\n\nIt had to hand over data to Wada as a condition of its controversial reinstatement in 2018 after a three-year suspension for its vast state-sponsored doping scandal.\n\nWada says Rusada has 21 days to appeal against the ban. If it does so, the appeal will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\nWada president Sir Craig Reedie said the decision showed its \"determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis\".\n\nHe added: \"For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport. The blatant breach by the Russian authorities of Rusada's reinstatement conditions demanded a robust response.\n\n\"That is exactly what has been delivered.\n\n\"Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and rejoin the global anti-doping community for the good of its athletes and of the integrity of sport, but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial.\"\n\nBut Wada vice-president Linda Helleland said the ban was \"not enough\".\n\n\"I wanted sanctions that can not be watered down,\" she said. \"We owe it to the clean athletes to implement the sanctions as strongly as possible.\"\n\nA total of 168 Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after the country was banned following the 2014 Games, which it hosted in Sochi. Russian athletes won 33 medals in Sochi, 13 of which were gold.\n\nRussia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.\n\nDespite the ban, Russia will be able to compete at Euro 2020 - in which St Petersburg will be a host city - as European football's governing body Uefa is not defined as a 'major event organisation' with regards to rulings on anti-doping breaches.\n\nFifa said it had \"taken note\" of Wada's decision, adding: \"Fifa is in contact with Wada to clarify the extent of the decision in regards to football.\"\n\nThe promoters of the Russian Grand Prix also said they were \"confident\" the race would go ahead because their contract was signed before the Wada investigation and runs until 2025.\n\nAn F1 spokesman reiterated the comments of the promoters, adding: \"We will monitor the situation to see if there is an appeal and what would be its outcome.\"\n\nIn a statement, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said: \"Those responsible for the manipulation of data from the Moscow laboratory before it was transferred to Wada appear to have done everything possible to undermine the principles of fair and clean sport, principles that the rest of the sporting world support and adhere to.\n\n\"This sincere lack of respect towards the rest of the global sporting movement is not welcome and has zero place in the world of sport. It is only right that those responsible for this data manipulation are punished.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it \"supported\" Wada's decision.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nRusada was initially declared non-compliant in November 2015 after a Wada-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged widespread corruption that amounted to state-sponsored doping in Russian track and field athletics.\n\nA further report, published in July 2016, declared Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the \"vast majority\" of summer and winter Olympic sports.\n\nIn 2018, Wada reinstated Rusada as compliant after the national agency agreed to release data from its Moscow laboratory from the period between January 2012 and August 2015.\n\nHowever, positive findings contained in a version courtesy of a whistleblower in 2017 were missing from the January 2019 data, which prompted a new inquiry.\n\nWada's compliance review committee (CRC) recommended a raft of measures based \"in particular\" on a forensic review of inconsistencies found in some of that data.\n\nAs part of the ban, Russia may not host, or bid for or be granted the right to host any major events for four years, including the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.\n\nWhat was the reaction?\n\nWhistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the former Russian anti-doping official who fled to the United States after his allegations about a state-sponsored doping programme, says there remains \"more to do\".\n\n\"Finally, fraud, lies and falsifications of unspeakable proportions have been punished in full swing,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Those involved in the corruption of certain sports such as track and field, weightlifting, skiing, biathlon and bobsled, should be punished retroactively. The results of the London and Sochi Olympic Games should be reanalysed and reconsidered with the new knowledge available today.\n\n\"We only have a few months to reanalyse the samples from the 2012 London Games because, according to Wada rules, we only have eight years to review.\n\n\"There is a whole generation of clean athletes who have painfully abandoned their dreams and lost awards because of Russian cheaters. We need to take the strongest action to bring justice back to sport.\"\n\nUK Anti-Doping (Ukad) chief executive Nicole Sapstead said Wada's decision to impose a ban on Russia was the \"only possible outcome\" to \"reassure athletes and the public and continue the task of seeking justice for those cheated by Russian athletes\".\n\nHowever, Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said not imposing a blanket ban on all participation by Russian athletes - even under a neutral flag - is a \"devastating blow\" to clean athletes.\n\n\"The reaction by all those who value sport should be nothing short of a revolt against this broken system to force reform,\" he said, adding that it was \"another horrendous Groundhog Day of Russian corruption and domination\".\n\n\"Wada promised the world back in 2018 that if Russia failed yet again to live up to its agreements, it would use the toughest sanction under the rules. Yet, here we go again; Wada says one thing and does something entirely different.\"\n\nBritish powerlifter and Paralympic medallist Ali Jawad, who is a member of UK Anti-Doping's athlete commission, said Wada had been \"soft\".\n\n\"To protect the next generation of Russian athletes, we need to make sure Russia and the system is punished to the fullest extent,\" Jawad told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"The only way we can change that is meaningful change and what kind of message does this send out to the future generation? That, actually, state-sponsored doping, we are going to treat it softly.\"\n\nBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson told Radio Wales that Wada has now \"stepped up\" and moved forward after \"not taking it as seriously\".\n\n\"There are a couple of things; there will be clean Russian athletes, it is a shame for them, but there are lots of clean athletes that have been affected by anyone who has doped,\" she said.\n\n\"For the athletes who are clean, the British athletes that have lost out, Goldie Sayers, the British bobsleigh team who get their medals years later, it is no recompense.\"\n\nTriple Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton, who was retrospectively awarded her 2008 heptathlon bronze after Russia's Tatyana Chernova failed to have a doping ban overturned, says she understands why tougher sanctions were not imposed.\n\n\"I think they are thinking of the majority of athletes who are doing the right thing, not the wrong thing,\" she said.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal came from behind to end their nine-match winless streak as Freddie Ljungberg enjoyed his first victory as interim manager at the expense of his former club West Ham.\n\nEighteen-year-old Gabriel Martinelli marked his full Premier League debut by side-footing an equaliser which cancelled out Angelo Ogbonna's deflected first-half opener at London Stadium.\n\nWithin nine minutes, Nicolas Pepe had curled a magnificent second into the top corner and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired in a third.\n\nThe salvo turned the game on its head and piled the pressure on West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini, whose side have taken four points from their past nine league games and conceded three times in three successive home games.\n\nThe Hammers remain a point above the relegation zone in 16th and face a trip to third-bottom Southampton on Saturday. Arsenal move up two places to ninth.\n• None Pellegrini 'not worried' about relegation after loss to Arsenal\n• None West Ham v Arsenal as it happened, reaction and analysis\n• None Football Daily: Ljungberg's Arsenal pull three points out of the bag\n\nArsenal's victory was all the more remarkable because until Martinelli added to the seven goals he has scored in cup competitions this season, the visitors had been utterly woeful.\n\nClub officials had spoken before kick-off about the improved atmosphere triggered by Ljungberg's appointment as Unai Emery's replacement but it appeared this game would end in frustration, just as the previous two had done under the Swede.\n\nThe visitors were bereft of confidence and mild boos from the travelling support accompanied the end of a first half in which their side failed to have a shot on target and went behind when Ogbonna's header bounced in off Ainsley Maitland-Niles.\n\nTrue, they did not have much luck. Hector Bellerin was injured in the warm-up and when Kieran Tierney was helped off in obvious pain with a shoulder injury sustained in a seemingly innocuous tangle with Michail Antonio, Ljungberg had lost both his first-choice full-backs in the space of half an hour.\n\nNevertheless, it was pitiful stuff and when Aubameyang surged down the right wing and sent over a cross that flew over everyone and straight out for a throw-in on the other side of the pitch, it was symptomatic of a club apparently heading nowhere fast.\n\nIt was 1977 when Arsenal last went 10 matches without a win. With an away Europa League game against Standard Liege followed by a home encounter with Manchester City to come, at the interval it was not beyond the realms of possibility that the 12-game barren sequence from 1974 was going to be threatened.\n\nWith Alexandre Lacazette and David Luiz on the bench, it was two of Arsenal's most inexperienced players who sparked the change in fortune.\n\nLjungberg had obviously seen enough of Martinelli in two substitute appearances to trust the Brazilian with his first league start. The reward was a nerveless finish when his side needed it most. Sead Kolasinac provided the cross but there was still a lot to do for the Brazilian, who steered a first-time effort into the corner.\n\nEmery paid a club record £72m for Pepe in August. With one league goal all season, the Frenchman has not really lived up to his billing but his goal here, a curling shot into the right-hand corner of David Martin's net, was perfect in its execution.\n\nAubameyang made certain of a win few would have anticipated 10 minutes earlier when his clinical finish took his tally for the season to 13. It disguised the fact he had been a virtual spectator for the first hour.\n\nAt the final whistle, Ljungberg ran to applaud the visiting fans, knowing he had given his own chances of replacing Emery a significant boost.\n\nWhat now for the unhappy Hammers?\n\nWhen they beat Chelsea 1-0 nine days ago to end their own winless sequence, it appeared West Ham were on an upward curve.\n\nThe combination of boos and thousands of empty seats that accompanied the final whistle on Monday underlined the truth of the matter.\n\nWest Ham are perilously close to dropping into the relegation zone, something the club cannot countenance after moving to the 60,000-capacity London Stadium.\n\nEven if Pellegrini survives this defeat, if West Ham lose again at Southampton on Saturday the calls for his dismissal will become piercingly loud.\n\nThis was the third home game running in which they had conceded three goals.\n\nThe Hammers were not particularly convincing when they were in front. Once they lost the advantage, the lack of confidence so clear in Arsenal's play transferred to theirs.\n\nRecord signing Sebastien Haller was left on the bench and even when he was introduced 20 minutes from time, he made no noticeable impact.\n\n'Like a Duracell battery' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg told BBC Sport: \"The players have belief and tried to move the ball with more tempo. West Ham got tired.\n\n\"The players ran their socks off and fought. I believe in them. When I could see them put their shift in, I could see the quality. I thought 'it is here for the taking'.\n\n\"Martinelli did amazingly. He is like a Duracell battery, he keeps going. Laca [Alexandre Lacazette] is a tremendous player but I had to make a tough decision.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini told BBC Sport: \"For 60 minutes there was just one team on the pitch. But football can be like this.\n\n\"We made mistakes in moments of defending. The problem was a lack of patience and quality to decide the game with a second goal and we made important mistakes in defence.\n\n\"The pressure for me is exactly the same if we win or lose. When you don't have results things are more difficult. If I had not seen the team play the way they did in the first 65 minutes, I might have doubts [about his ability to turn things around].\n\n\"After Southampton at the weekend we have a break. We must try to recover as quickly as we can and we must try to win those three points.\"\n\nRare Arsenal recovery away from home - the stats\n• None West Ham have lost three in a row at home in the Premier League for the first time since August 2015.\n• None Arsenal came from a half-time losing position to win a Premier League away game for the first time since October 2011 (5-3 v Chelsea).\n• None Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's fourth-youngest scorer in the Premier League (18 years 174 days), after Cesc Fabregas, Serge Gnabry and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been involved in 12 goals in his past 11 Premier League London derbies (nine goals, three assists).\n• None Since his Premier League debut in February 2018, Aubameyang has scored 43 goals in the competition, a joint-high along with Jamie Vardy.\n\nArsenal conclude their Europa League group phase campaign at Standard Liege on Thursday (17:55 GMT), still needing a draw to be sure of qualification before entertaining Manchester City at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30). West Ham visit Southampton on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi replaces Granit Xhaka because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nathan Holland (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior politicians faced questions on housing, climate change and trust from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nThe election debate also saw exchanges over Brexit and the possibility of another referendum.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner clashed with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage over what she said was a racist referendum poster, in one of the fieriest clashes.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls in a general election on Thursday.\n\nSitting on the panel were:\n\nThis special edition of Question Time certainly didn't lack passion or drama. At times it was lively and bad tempered, with the politicians talking over one another as they tried to win over younger voters.\n\nWe heard the now familiar arguments about Brexit which have been at the heart of this election campaign, but the politicians were also challenged over other issues such as changing the voting system which haven't made the headlines.\n\nThis wasn't a debate that saw seven party leaders go head-to-head, although four did take part, and as such was unlikely to deliver a knockout blow or even produce a clear winner.\n\nAnd it probably won't have converted anyone who was already determined to vote for a particular party.\n\nThe young voters in the audience will deliver their verdict, along with the rest of the country on Thursday.\n\nBut the gap between the current generation of political leaders and the under 30s was most vividly illustrated by the question about home ownership and underlined the challenge facing whoever is in power on Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: Politicians on when they bought their first house\n\nOn the subject of housing, the panel were asked what age they were when they bought their own home.\n\nMr Farage was the youngest, buying a property at 22, and Mr Price was the oldest at 30.\n\nMr Farage linked housing problems to population growth which prompted Mr Yousaf to accuse the Brexit Party leader of blaming \"everything on immigrants\".\n\nHe argued that \"One of the best things that we [the Scottish government] did was abolish the right to buy when it came to council houses.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said it was his \"personal mission to help more young people on to the housing ladder\" adding that his party would \"offer discounts and help with deposits\".\n\nWhile Ms Rayner said she would \"make no apologies\" for Labour wanting to build 100,000 council homes or introduce rent controls.\n\nAudience member Aiden Booth asked the panel how governments could say they are serious about climate change without dealing with one of the biggest contributors, meat consumption.\n\nMr Jenrick said the Conservatives would not \"ban people from eating meat\", but would instead encourage people to live environmentally by investing in public transport and energy efficient measure.\n\nBut Ms Swinson attacked the government's record saying it had abolished the climate change department and blocked subsidies for wind farms.\n\nShe said tackling climate change \"cannot wait\" drawing attention to the case of Ella Kissi-Debrah who died aged nine in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nMr Bartley said: \"We can solve the climate emergency and reverse austerity if we're willing to make the right choices.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the climate were a bank, we would have bailed it out by now.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Ms Rayner said in another referendum she would vote to leave the EU if \"we get a deal that protects jobs and the economy\". Labour has said that, if elected, it would renegotiate a new Brexit deal which would then be put back to the country in a referendum along with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Price, whose party wants another referendum, argued that \"the people are entitled to change their mind\". He said \"the opinion polls show a shift\" in opinion but added that \"only the people can end the impasse\".\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for the instability in politics in the years since the referendum, Mr Jenrick said he wished \"we had managed to get Brexit done a long time ago\", claiming that Parliament had blocked the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Yousaf said Scotland was the only nation \"to get shafted\" in the wake of Brexit. He argued that England and Wales voted to Leave, while Northern Ireland who voted to Remain would get a \"differentiated deal\".\n\nMr Farage accused the other five parties of having \"broken their promise\" to respect the result of the referendum.\n\nThe debate became particularly heated over a poster on immigration Mr Farage unveiled during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nMs Rayner told the Brexit Party leader to \"stop peddling hate in our country\". Mr Farage hit back accusing the Labour politician of \"bile and prejudice\".\n\nThe panellists were also asked about how they would improve trust in politics.\n\nMr Price said he would introduce a bill to \"make lying by politicians a criminal offence\" while Mr Farage promised to tackle postal vote fraud and abolish the House of Lords.\n\n\"I won't lie and I'll call out the people who do,\" replied Ms Rayner.\n\nMr Jenrick vowed to \"deliver the outcome of the referendum\" while Ms Swinson said she would \"stick to my principles\" on Brexit \"whether it is popular or not\".\n\nMr Yousaf said his party would \"fulfil the promise of the manifesto we stood on\".\n\nAnd Mr Bartley proposed lifting \"the ceiling on the fines\" that can be implemented by the Electoral Commission.\n\nYoung people make up a big share of non-voters in the UK - the British Election Study estimates that between 40-50% of those aged 18 to their mid-20s voted in 2015 and 2017 compared with about 80% of voters aged in their 70s.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice says age is \"the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December\".", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "New Zealand is a wealthy Pacific nation dominated by two cultural groups - New Zealanders of European descent, and the Maori, who are descendants of Polynesian settlers.\n\nIt is made up of two main islands and numerous smaller ones. Around three-quarters of the population lives on the North Island, which is also home to the capital, Wellington.\n\nAgriculture is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important. Visitors are drawn to the glacier-carved mountains, lakes, beaches and thermal springs. Because of the islands' geographical isolation, much of the flora and fauna is unique to the country.\n\nNew Zealand plays an active role in Pacific affairs, and has special constitutional ties with the Pacific territories of Niue, the Cook Islands and Tokelau.\n\nChris Hipkins became prime minister in January 2023 following the unexpected resignation of his Labour Party predecessor Jacinda Ardern, who had won second term in October 2020 - Ardern had said she no longer had \"enough in the tank\" to lead the country.\n\nJacinda Arden had won praise at home and abroad for her handling of two major crises - the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting, and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Hipkins now faces the uphill task of retaining power in the upcoming general elections in October. Opinion polls have suggested that his party is trailing its conservative opposition, the National Party, in popularity.\n\nThe country was among the first to close borders, this won plaudits for keeping New Zealand virus-free early in the pandemic, but frustration set in later when people tired of the zero-tolerance strategy, which saw nationwide lockdowns over a single infection.\n\nBroadcasters enjoy one of the world's most liberal media arenas.\n\nThe broadcasting sector was deregulated in 1988, when the government allowed competition to the state-owned Television New Zealand (TVNZ). Privately-owned TV3 is TVNZ's main competitor.\n\nSatellite platform SKY TV is the leading pay TV provider. Freeview carries free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite TV.\n\nThe New Zealand Herald newspaper has the biggest circulation.\n\nSome key dates in New Zealand's history:\n\nc.1200-1300AD - Ancestors of the Maori arrive by canoe from other parts of Polynesia. Their name for the country is Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud).\n\n1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the south island and charts some of the country's west coast. It subsequently appears on Dutch maps as Nieuw Zeeland, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.\n\n1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.\n\n1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British law in New Zealand.\n\n1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.\n\n1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.\n\n1907 - New Zealand becomes dominion within British Empire.\n\n1914-18 - New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort during World War One. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.\n\n1939-45 - Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War Two.\n\n1951 - Anzus Pacific security treaty signed between New Zealand, Australia and USA.\n\n1985 - New Zealand refuses to allow US nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships to enter its ports. French secret service agents blow up Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. One person killed.\n\n2011 - Scores of people are killed in a major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, on South Island.\n\n2017 - A New Zealand-US firm, Rocket Lab, launches its first rocket into space, ushering New Zealand into the select group of countries which have carried out a space launch.\n\n2019 - Fifty people are killed when a far-right gunman attacks worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch. Government tightens gun laws.\n\n2020 - Jacinda Ardern wins landslide victory for Labour in parliamentary elections, in part over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew Zealand's parliament building, The Beehive, was officially opened in 1981", "Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles designed to transport cars, at high speed, around the city.\n\nThe goal is a network of tunnels to alleviate chronic traffic congestion.", "Hackers successfully targeted the European Union's diplomatic communications over a period of several years, The New York Times reports.\n\nThousands of messages were intercepted in which diplomats referenced a range of subjects from US President Donald Trump to global trade.\n\nThe breach was reportedly discovered by the cyber-security company Area 1.\n\nEuropean officials say that information marked as confidential and secret was not affected by the three-year hack.\n\n\"After over a decade of experience countering Chinese cyber-operations... there is no doubt this campaign is connected to the Chinese government,\" he said.\n\nThe intercepted messages, known as diplomatic cables, reveal one exchange in which diplomats describe July's meeting between Mr Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as \"successful (at least for Putin)\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping and US leader Donald Trump are both reportedly discussed in the hacked communications\n\nAnother message gives details of a private meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and European officials that took place earlier this year.\n\nIt quotes Mr Xi as saying China \"would not submit to bullying\" from Washington \"even if a trade war hurt everybody\".\n\nThese comments echo a speech he gave on Tuesday in which he said \"no-one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people what should or should not be done\".\n\nA number of other institutions, including the United Nations, were also reportedly affected by the breach and have since been alerted.", "The prime minister teased the Labour leader about his bid for a confidence vote, with a series of panto references.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn did not look impressed, and although microphones did not pick up what he muttered in response, many commentators and MPs believe he mouthed: \"Stupid woman\".\n\nCorbyn: I did not use the words 'stupid woman'", "A Colgate toothpaste TV advert which promised to \"instantly\" repair teeth has been banned for being \"misleading\".\n\nSix complaints about the advert for Colgate Sensitive Repair and Prevent toothpaste were upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.\n\nParent company Colgate-Palmolive (UK) said the product provided a \"reparative layer on the enamel surface\" when used.\n\nIt is the ninth Colgate-Palmolive ad to be banned in seven years, five of which were for dental products.\n\nThe ad, which appeared on UK screens in August this year, claimed to instantly heal sensitive teeth if applied twice a day \"directly with [a] finger for one minute\".\n\nColgate-Palmolive claimed clinical studies showed the product repaired microscopic gaps in tooth enamel and it believed that the advert was clear that the claim referred to the product providing a protective barrier on the teeth in order to relieve pain caused by sensitivity.\n\nHowever, the ASA said that this was not the same as repairing the tooth and concluded the claim that it \"repairs teeth instantly\" was not substantiated.\n\nThe watchdog ruled the advert must not appear again in its current form and that the company must not make similar claims \"unless they held evidence\" to back them up.\n\nIt is the latest Colgate-Palmolive advert to be banned by the ASA.\n\nIn 2014 the company had a commercial banned for suggesting one of its toothbrushes used \"sonic waves\" to clean teeth, which the ASA said was misleading.\n\nOther Colgate-Palmolive ads to be banned include one that the ASA ruled exaggerated how much whiter a toothpaste would make the user's teeth and another that featured an endorsement from a woman who said she was a nurse but was actually an actress.\n\nThe BBC has asked Colgate-Palmolive why it has fallen foul of the advertising regulator but has yet to receive a response.", "With the Commons finished for the day, that's it from us until after Christmas.\n\nToday began with questions to trade and equalities ministers, before shadow housing minister Melanie Onn asked an urgent question on new statistics about deaths among homeless people.\n\nCommons Leader Andrea Leadsom then gave the business statement, repeatedly stressing that MPs will get to vote on the government's Brexit deal in the week beginning January 14.\n\nFollowing that, MPs debated the UN report on the Rohingya refugee crisis, as chosen by the backbench business committee.\n\nParliament returns on Monday 7th of January, do join us then...and have a happy Christmas.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United have named former player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as caretaker manager until the end of the season, a day after sacking Jose Mourinho.\n\nSolskjaer spent 11 seasons at Old Trafford, scoring the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final.\n\nThe 45-year-old takes over with United sixth in the Premier League.\n\n\"Manchester United is in my heart and it's brilliant to be coming back in this role,\" said the Norwegian.\n\n\"This is an opportunity I had to take.\n\n\"I'm really looking forward to working with the very talented squad we have, the staff and everyone at the club.\"\n• None What can Man Utd expect from Solskjaer?\n• None Mourinho will not comment on Man Utd out of 'deepest respect'\n• None Why Man Utd need a director of football - and is Mitchell the ideal candidate?\n• None Title winners to 'rotten to the core' - where did it all go wrong for Man Utd?\n\nSolskjaer, who earlier this month signed a new deal as manager of Norwegian club Molde, will be joined by Mike Phelan, who returns as first-team coach having previously worked alongside Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\nMichael Carrick and Kieran McKenna, both part of Mourinho's coaching staff, will continue to work under Solskjaer.\n\nSolskjaer's first match in charge will be against Cardiff - where he endured an ill-fated spell as manager - on Saturday.\n\nHe was relegated from the Premier League with the Bluebirds during an eight-month spell as manager in 2014, then sacked after a poor start to the Championship campaign.\n\nUnited will look to appoint a permanent boss at the end of the season.\n\n\"Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles,\" said Ed Woodward, United's executive vice-chairman.\n\n\"His history at Manchester United means he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and Mike Phelan back.\n\n\"We are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season.\"\n\nUnited confirmed the return of Solskjaer, who started his coaching career as the reserve team manager at Old Trafford, on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe club appeared to inadvertently announce his arrival 12 hours earlier, when a video featuring Solskjaer scoring the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999 was briefly on their official website.\n\nIt led to Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg welcomed Solskjaer's appointment on social media, writing: \"Great day for Norwegian football. Good luck keeping control of the Red Devils.\" She later deleted the tweet.\n\nMolde's 2018 season has finished for the winter and does not restart until March.\n\nUnited's statement announcing Solskjaer's arrival as caretaker manager made no mention of whether or not he will return to Molde when the Premier League season ends.\n\nBut the Norwegian club stressed they were only \"lending\" Solskjaer to United, indicating they expect him to return to his previous role.\n\n\"This is a big opportunity for Molde FK, we think it will be developing and helping to put Molde further on the football card,\" Oystein Neerland, the club's chief executive officer, said.\n\nSolskjaer is in his second spell as Molde manager after returning to the club, little over a year after he was sacked by Cardiff, in October 2015.\n\nIn his first spell, Solskjaer led the club to their first Norwegian title in 2011, going on to retain the trophy in the following season.\n\n'Is this where United are really at?' - former players react\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher described his old team-mate Solskjaer as a \"smiling assassin\", who is a \"lovely fella\" but can deliver some \"cutting words\" in the dressing room.\n\n\"He'd let people know when they weren't doing things that were expected of them and he's been at the club with a lot of big characters,\" said the Stoke midfielder, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live before the appointment was confirmed.\n\n\"But United shouldn't really be appointing an interim manager. There is a real concern that you could have two seasons of rebuilding again, which is a real worry, and Manchester United should never be in this position. It's mismanagement from the top level.\"\n\nFormer Leicester City and Wales midfielder Robbie Savage, who was a youth player at United, said it was a \"shambles\" that the club would take Solskjaer from Molde.\n\nHe said: \"Is this where United are really at? Solskjaer is a legend and the fans still sing his name, but, really, the biggest club in the world appointing an interim boss who manages Molde?\"\n\n'The smiling assassin sums him up'\n\nAt times, Solskjaer's scattergun approach in the transfer market gave the impression he was indulging in a real-life version of Football Manager, the computer game he said he had enjoyed playing before making the actual move to the dugout.\n\nGiven that track record, if Solskjaer is to take the reins at United, it will be interesting to see how much influence chief executive Ed Woodward will allow the Norwegian when the transfer window reopens in January.\n• None Read more on Dafydd's assessment on Solskjaer's time at Cardiff", "Santander UK has been fined £32.8m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for \"serious failings\" in dealing with the accounts of deceased customers.\n\nSantander did not transfer funds totalling over £183m to beneficiaries when it should have done, affecting a total of 40,428 customers directly.\n\nAnd, after it became aware of the issues, the bank failed to disclose the problems to the FCA.\n\nSantander said accepted the findings and was \"very sorry\".\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA said that the failings \"took too long to be identified and then far too long to be fixed\".\n\n\"To the firm's credit, once these problems were notified to the board and senior management, they were fixed properly and promptly, but recognition of the problem took too long,\" he said.\n\nThere were weaknesses in how Santander organised and controlled its probate and bereavement processes, the FCA added.\n\nThis meant that the bank:\n\nAs a result, despite Santander being informed that a customer had died, funds would not be transferred to those who were entitled to them.\n\nBut Cary Sumpter, a surveyor from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, says that Santander is still holding onto money from his late aunt's estate.\n\nWhen his aunt died in 2010, his mother and the appointed solicitors spent months telephoning and writing to Santander to release funds from the deceased's bank accounts.\n\n\"There was certainly several hundred pounds in one account, and we thought there were other accounts, but we could never find out,\" said Mr Sumpter.\n\n\"Santander wouldn't return calls or emails... To this day, that money is still sitting somewhere in the coffers of Santander.\"\n\nAfter the BBC highlighted the case, Santander said it would look into the matter.\n\nKarl Lenobel was a Holocaust survivor who died in 2004 aged 84, leaving no surviving relatives.\n\nHis older sister Katherine, a Kindertransport refugee who died in 2001, had worked for Abbey National and had had several bank accounts with the building society, which was later acquired by Santander.\n\nBefore Karl died, he appointed Geoffrey Greenhouse his solicitor. Karl and his sister wanted to leave their collective savings to children's charities.\n\nMr Greenhouse chased Santander for the accounts details, but says he hit a dead end.\n\nThen, 13 years later in 2017, after Santander was already under investigation by the FCA, the bank contacted him to say it was holding £120,000.\n\nThe money was eventually paid, and under pressure from Mr Greenhouse Santander agreed £100,000 in compensation for the long delay. The money was finally given to three children's charities, as well as the children of a fellow Holocaust survivor.\n\n\"I don't think it was a mistake - the banks did it deliberately,\" Mr Greenhouse said.\n\nHe said that many people who grew up during and just after the Second World War had opened accounts with building societies that might now be lying dormant.\n\n\"I do hope all these relatives of people who have dormant accounts are contacted and they get their money back,\" Mr Greenhouse added.\n\nAnd in instances where deceased customers had several different bank accounts and investments, the bank failed to identify these funds, which meant that those who were entitled to them remained unaware of the existence of those funds.\n\nMelinda Giles, partner at Giles Wilson Solicitors, and a representative for private client solicitors on the Law Society Council, told the BBC that similar incidents have occurred at other British banks, because there was \"too much of a relaxed approach\" from many banks to the legal process.\n\n\"I have come across errors of judgement by a variety of banks in that they do not insist on a grant of probate to be sure that they are paying the money that belongs to a deceased person to the correct person entitled,\" she said.\n\nSantander UK's chief executive Nathan Bostock said: \"We accept the FCA's findings and have fully cooperated with their investigation.\n\n\"We have now transferred the majority of customer funds and made significant improvements to our whole probate and bereavement process, ensuring we provide both a sensitive and efficient service to our bereaved customer representatives and those who are managing the estates of people who have passed away.\"", "The case centres around former Uber drivers James Farrar (left) and Yaseen Aslam\n\nUber has lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nIn 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage.\n\nThat ruling has now been upheld by the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut Uber pointed out that one of the three judges backed its case and said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Farrar, who is chairman of the United Private Hire Drivers branch of the IWGB union, said: \"I am delighted today's ruling brings us closer to the ending Uber's abuse of precarious workers made possible by tactics of contract trickery, psychological manipulation and old-fashioned bullying.\"\n\nHe added that he was dismayed that implementation of worker status for drivers was being further delayed while Uber seeks yet another appeal.\n\n\"This is nothing more than a cynical ploy to delay inevitable changes to its business model while it pursues a record breaking $120bn stock market flotation,\" Mr Farrar said.\n\n\"It's time for Uber to come clean with all its stakeholders and abide by the decision of the courts.\"\n\nThe GMB union said that Uber should \"just accept the verdict\", after losing three times in a row.\n\nPrior to this, the Employment Tribunal ruled in November 2017 that it was upholding its original decision.\n\nUber drivers on strike in London in October demanding employment rights, an end to unfair dismissals, a rise in fares and a reduction of commission\n\n\"This is the perfect early Christmas present for GMB's Uber members, but this case is about the wider 'gig economy' too,\" said the GMB's general secretary Tim Roache.\n\n\"Employers are on notice that they can't just run rough shod over working people to put more on the bottom line for shareholders.\"\n\nUber has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe firm said it was encouraged that one of the appeal judges said that Uber's argument was \"neither unrealistic nor artificial\", but in accordance with a well-recognised business model in the private hire car industry.\n\n\"Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades, long before our app existed,\" an Uber spokesperson said.\n\n\"Drivers who use the Uber app make more than the London Living Wage and want to keep the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive.\n\n\"If drivers were classified as workers they would inevitably lose some of the freedom and flexibility that comes with being their own boss.\"\n\nHowever, law firm Gowling WLG expects the Supreme Court to uphold the decision.\n\n\"Yet another court confirms that the more a brand seeks to control the activities of the people that deliver that brand's services to the public, the less likely those people are to be self-employed,\" said Jonathan Chamberlain, partner at Gowling.\n\n\"The law will probably always remain uncertain in this area, despite the governments promise of reform, but the direction of travel is clear. I expect the Supreme Court to uphold this judgement, but we shall see.\"", "Coats were left on lamppost on two Saturdays this month\n\nWinter jackets have been left buttoned and zipped round lampposts in Inverness along with a note inviting any finders in need of a coat to take it.\n\nThe coat-clad posts in the city centre mystified some passers-by.\n\nThe items were clothing were left for homeless people by Serenity, a peer support mental health drop-in centre.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We wanted to share the message that never take life for granted and one random act of kindness can change someone's day.\"\n\nThe charity had made an earlier public appeal for donations of jackets.\n\nA hand-written note with one of the jackets\n\nInverness-based Serenity said the response to its appeal was \"fantastic\".\n\nThe jackets were placed on lampposts in the city on 8 and 15 December.\n\nHats and coats were also handed to homeless people.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"The response was fantastic from the public while we carried out this. We would like to thank everyone who donated and supported this cause.\n\n\"We also donated ladies and children jackets to Women's Aid in Inverness.\"\n\nJackets were donated by the public for the homelessness initiative in Inverness", "The \"cruel and senseless\" killing of six baby seals took place at Scenery Nook\n\nThe bodies of six fur seal pups have been found decapitated in a popular bay on New Zealand's South Island.\n\nThe 11-month-old seals were discovered on Monday by a tourism operator in Scenery Nook in Christchurch, said the Department of Conservation (DOC).\n\nThe seals' heads could not be found and the DOC believe the seals were killed elsewhere before being dumped from a boat.\n\nIt has called the incident \"cruel and senseless\".\n\n\"Due to the disturbing, brutal and violent nature of this crime against defenceless seal pups, it has been reported to the police,\" said DOC Mahaanui Operations Manager Andy Thompson in a statement.\n\nHe said the DOC had ruled out a shark attack, saying it was \"incredibly unlikely sharks would have bitten the heads off seals but left the bodies untouched.\"\n\nThree seals have been buried by DOC rangers and the other three bodies will be taken to Massey University for examination. The DOC has appealed for any witnesses to come forward.\n\nIt is a crime to harass, disturb or harm fur seals under New Zealand's Marine Mammals Protection Act.\n\nMr Thompson said there have been cases before of people injuring or killing seals after becoming frustrated over low fish numbers.", "Mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci displays a section plan of the new bridge.\n\nRenowned Italian architect Renzo Piano has agreed to oversee the construction of a new Genoa bridge to replace one that collapsed and killed 43 people.\n\nA section of the 51-year-old Morandi bridge fell down on 14 August, crushing vehicles and buildings underneath.\n\nThe new project will cost over €200m ($230m; £180m) and is expected to be completed in 12 months, officials said.\n\nMr Piano is best known for designing buildings such as London's Shard and the New York Times headquarters.\n\nThe 81-year-old had earlier volunteered to help design a replacement bridge, which he said would \"last for 1,000 years\".\n\nThe Morandi bridge in Genoa was said to have been damaged by sea air\n\nOn Tuesday, Italian companies Salini Impregilo and Fincantieri, who were awarded the contract to rebuild the structure, said Mr Piano would be in charge of the project, which is said to be based on a design he had submitted for free.\n\nThe cross section of the new bridge would have the shape of a boat\n\nAmong Renzo Piano's designs is the Whitney Museum in New York\n\nMr Piano, who designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris with Richard Rogers and the Whitney Museum in New York, also designed the Ushibuka bridge which links three Japanese islands.\n\nHe was in Genoa on the day the Morandi bridge collapsed. It later emerged that the steel rods suspending the 1.2km motorway bridge had been slowly decaying over decades and were badly damaged by the sea air.\n\nIn an interview with Italy's La Repubblica newspaper shortly after the tragedy, the architect said that what was needed was a beautiful and safe bridge that would provide a \"rebirth and redemption\" for the affected area.\n\nAccording to Italian reports, Mr Piano provided sketches to Genoa officials, showing the road sitting on pillars that each resembled the prow of a ship.\n\nAlso featured were 43 very tall posts illuminating the bridge at night in the shape of sails - one for each victim of the disaster, the Corriere website reported.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nTottenham midfielder Dele Alli was struck on the head by a plastic bottle thrown from the crowd during the Carabao Cup quarter-final at Arsenal.\n\nThe 22-year-old was hit near the touchline as Arsenal prepared to take a throw-in in the 73rd minute at Emirates Stadium.\n\nHe reacted with a 2-0 gesture to fans - referencing the scoreline at the time.\n\n\"In a different country, maybe they close the stadium for a few games,\" said Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino.\n\n\"It's lucky it wasn't a big problem but I think people need to be careful, and we need to try and avoid this type of action. Some people behave very bad.\"\n\nArsenal have told BBC Sport they are examining CCTV to find the person who threw the bottle.\n\nAlli had earlier scored the second goal and Spurs went on to reach the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory.\n\nWednesday's incident follows a banana skin being thrown towards Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Premier League match between the sides at the same venue on 2 December.\n\nThe Spurs fan responsible was fined and banned from football for four years on Tuesday.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live pundit Dion Dublin, who was co-commentating on the game, said: \"It's sad to see. It's mindless. Why would you do that?\n\n\"It must have had water or something in it to reach Dele Alli. Why would you risk being idiots?\n\n\"Just support your club, don't do ridiculous things like that.\"\n\nWhen asked about the incident after the game, Alli told Sky Sports: \"It is what it is. It made the goal a bit sweeter and the win.\"\n\nAn EFL spokesperson told BBC Sport the matter would be up to the Football Association to investigate, but they would \"assist\" if required.", "A group of children from a school in Stevenage were among those to be sent to the Fairbridge school in Molong, Australia\n\nThe UK government has agreed to pay compensation to thousands of Britons who were sent abroad as children under a resettlement scheme.\n\nBetween 1945-70, around 4,000 children were sent to institutions in the Commonwealth.\n\nSome were beaten, raped and forced to do manual labour - sometimes resulting in lifelong emotional problems.\n\nThe Department for Health said it accepted the scheme was \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nIn March, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said the government should compensate all 2,000 former migrants still alive within 12 months.\n\nAround two dozen victims have since died but their relatives will be able to claim compensation on their behalf.\n\nIn 2010, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised on behalf of the government for sending British children abroad, describing it as a \"shameful episode\" in Britain's history.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would set up the compensation scheme as quickly as possible. The government was previously criticised for its lack of speed in setting up a service to offer financial compensation for victims.\n\nThe IICSA found children suffered sexual and emotional abuse, as well as forced labour. Some were also wrongly told they were orphans, depriving them of the opportunity of meeting their birth parents. Victims suffered lifelong emotional and psychological problems as a result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I lost everything I ever had\" - Rex Wade was one of the last children to be sent away\n\nThe resettlement scheme saw children from deprived backgrounds who were often already in social care - some as young as three years old - sent away with the promise of a better life.\n\nAfter World War Two, 3,000 children were sent to Australia, 559 to New Zealand, 329 to Canada and 276 to then-Southern Rhodesia. Many ended up in austere and at-times brutal religious institutions.\n\nOverseen by government, and managed by charities and the church, it was part of a longstanding policy aimed at easing the strain on UK orphanages and strengthening the British population abroad.", "EnviroBuild, the company which successfully bid to name the creature, added the president's distinctive hair to an image of it\n\nUS presidents tend to receive their fair share of honours, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one.\n\nA newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after him, apparently in response to his comments about climate change.\n\nThe Dermophis donaldtrumpi, which was discovered in Panama, was named by the head of a company that had bid $25,000 (£19,800) at auction for the privilege.\n\nThe company said it wanted to raise awareness about climate change.\n\n\"[Dermophis donaldtrumpi] is particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change and is therefore in danger of becoming extinct as a direct result of its namesake's climate policies,\" said EnviroBuild co-founder Aidan Bell in a statement.\n\nThe money raised from auctioning the naming rights went to the Rainforest Trust charity\n\nThe small, blind, creature is a type of caecilian that primarily lives underground, and Mr Bell drew an unflattering comparison between its behaviour and Mr Trump's.\n\n\"Burrowing [his] head underground helps Donald Trump when avoiding scientific consensus on anthropomorphic climate change,\" he wrote.\n\nNeopalpa donaldtrumpi was named after the president last year\n\nThe amphibian is not the first beast to be named after Donald Trump.\n\nLast year, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, was discovered by biologist Vazrick Nazari in a collection of moths from the Museum of Entomology, at the University of California. The scientist said the moth's unique head colouring reminded him of the president.\n\nBarack Obama boasts the title of being the most commemorated of all US presidents in scientific names, with 14 different species named after him.\n\nThese include a trapdoor spider from California (Aptostichus barackobamai) and a small coral fish from his native state of Hawaii (Tosanoides obama). The fish has a small dot on the dorsal fin which reminded researchers of Mr Obama's presidential campaign logo.\n\nGeorge W Bush and his vice-president Dick Cheney have also been honoured as slime mould beetles (Agathidium bushi and Agathidium cheneyi respectively). Researchers Kelly Miller and Quentin Wheeler were quick to express, though, that the animals they were named after had nothing to do with their views of the pair.\n\nThe world's leading scientists agree that climate change is primarily human-induced.\n\nBut Mr Trump, whose administration has pursued a pro-fossil fuels agenda, has accused those scientists of having a \"political agenda\" and cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the Earth's rising temperatures.\n\n\"I don't know that it's manmade,\" he said in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes in October. \"I'm not denying climate change but [temperatures] could very well go back,\" he added, without offering evidence.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump questioned a report by his own government that found climate change would cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars annually and damage health.\n\n\"I don't believe it,\" he told reporters at the time.\n\nAfter taking office he announced that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement, which commits countries to keeping a limit on rising global temperatures.\n\nHe justified this decision by asserting that he had been elected to serve the citizens of Pittsburgh and not Paris and the deal disadvantaged US businesses and workers.", "Theresa May met the Scottish and Welsh first ministers at Downing Street\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has urged the first ministers of Scotland and Wales to back her Brexit deal.\n\nAt a Downing Street summit, the leaders of the devolved administrations discussed the UK's impending exit from the European Union.\n\nMrs May said her plan \"delivers for the whole of the UK\", urging others to \"pull together\" behind it.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said MPs should study other plans, such as a new Brexit referendum.\n\nMembers in both the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly have overwhelmingly voted against Mrs May's deal.\n\nMPs are set to hold their \"meaningful\" vote on the withdrawal agreement, hammered out with European negotiators, in January 2019.\n\nMinisters from around the UK gathered for the meeting in London on Wednesday afternoon, with Brexit high on the agenda. Mrs May and a team of her ministers were joined by Ms Sturgeon and the newly appointed Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nThere was also discussion of immigration after the government published a White Paper of its plans for rules after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nNicola Sturgeon believes Mrs May should look at other options, including a second EU referendum\n\nMrs May has been facing a battle to win support for her Brexit plans, with critics on her own back benches as well as across the opposition.\n\nThe prime minister said she was \"confident that what we have agreed delivers for the whole of the UK\".\n\nShe said: \"This deal honours the result of the referendum - taking back control of our money, laws and borders, protecting jobs and livelihoods, and freeing the UK to strike new trade deals with countries around the world.\n\n\"That's why it is more important than ever that the devolved administrations get behind this deal and listen to businesses and industry bodies across all four nations who have been clear that it provides the certainty they need.\"\n\nFollowing the meeting, Ms Sturgeon said SNP MPs would not be voting for Mrs May's deal, and called on the prime minister to extend the current Brexit deadline of 29 March.\n\nShe said: \"We have argued that Article 50 should be extended, so that no-deal is absolutely taken off the table and that time is then given for parliament to look at the alternatives to the deal.\n\n\"Our preference of course is for another EU referendum, to give people across the UK the opportunity, knowing what they now know after the last two and a half years, to change their minds.\"\n\nThe UK government has set out new proposals for how immigration will be handled post-Brexit\n\nMs Sturgeon also said she had made her views about immigration \"very clear to the prime minister\" at the meeting.\n\nShe said: \"This paper says that the proposals would reduce EU migration into Scotland by 85%. So it would be devastating for jobs, the economy, for living standards, the income of the country, and it would also deprive us of people who make a big and positive contribution to life in Scotland.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has argued that the new system would be based on the skills, rather than origin, of migrants and show the UK was \"open for business\".\n\nMr Javid said the plans did not include a \"specific target\" for reducing numbers coming into the UK but would bring net migration down to \"sustainable levels\".\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens tabled a vote of no confidence in the UK government following a meeting on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe parties want the government to debate the motion before parliament rises for the Christmas recess, but it is thought the government is only obliged to give time to motions tabled in the name of the Leader of the Opposition - Labour's Jeremy Corbyn - who has so far failed to do so.\n\nAnd Chancellor Phillip Hammond has confirmed the Scottish government will be allocated £55m for Brexit preparations in 2019/20, as part of its £2bn spend.\n\nThe Welsh Government will receive £31m while the Northern Ireland Executive will be granted £20m.\n• None May 'to hold series of Brexit votes'", "Sgt Anthony Pasco hadn't seen his teenage twin daughters for six months, as he's based away from home with the US Air Force. So he planned an early Christmas surprise with the help of their school mascot.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of low-skilled migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under proposed new post-Brexit immigration rules.\n\nThe measure, which would last until 2025, is intended to protect parts of the economy reliant on overseas labour.\n\nThe idea was described as \"shocking\" by campaign group Migration Watch.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said the new system would be based on UK needs rather than where migrants were from and show the UK \"open for business\".\n\nUnveiling what he said would be the biggest shake-up of immigration policy for 40 years, Mr Javid said that while there was no \"specific target\" for reducing numbers coming into the UK, net migration would come down to \"sustainable levels\".\n\nThe much-delayed White Paper - a document setting out proposed new laws before they are formalised in a government bill - also includes:\n\nMr Javid said the proposals would enable the UK to exercise control over its borders and \"deliver on the clear instruction\" of the British people when they voted to leave the EU.\n\nThe ending of free movement from Europe is a key part of Mrs May's Brexit deal, although any replacement system is set to be part of post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nThe government says lower-skilled and unskilled migrants will not routinely be able to come to the UK and settle permanently.\n\nHowever, as a \"transitional measure\", people from \"low-risk countries\" in Europe and further afield will be able to come to the UK, without a job offer, and seek work for up to a year.\n\nThe scheme is designed to fill vacancies in sectors such as construction and social care which are heavily dependent on EU labour and which ministers fear could struggle to adapt when free movement ends.\n\nThere will be a \"cooling off period\" after a year, meaning people will be expected to leave at that point and not to apply again for a further 12 months.\n\nMinisters say applicants, who will have to pay a fee and not get access to public funds, will not be able to switch to any other migration scheme.\n\nIt is understood that the numbers being admitted this way would be \"similar\" to the 170,000 workers from outside the European Economic Area currently in low or unskilled roles.\n\nThe government said it reserved the right to tighten the criteria or impose numerical caps prior to a review in 2025 but campaigners for lower migration said the plans were \"astonishing\".\n\nMigration Watch said there was no way of making sure people left after a year and the immigration figures, which do not include people in the UK for less than a year, could be distorted as a result.\n\n\"It is shocking that the government should have caved in so completely to the demands of industry while ignoring the strong public desire to get immigration down,\" said its chair Lord Green.\n\n\"The chief winners will be business, as they exploit the bonanza of a huge new pool of labour from around the world while continuing to avoid their responsibility to the public to recruit and train up local talent.\"\n\nThe White Paper was trailed as creating an immigration system based on \"skills\". The delay in publication was partly down to a dispute between ministers over a possible £30,000 salary threshold for skilled workers.\n\nBut it's the plan to create a route into Britain for unskilled or low-skilled workers which is likely to prove particularly controversial.\n\nThe document says the reason for the route is that some sectors have built up a \"reliance\" on such staff from the EU and require a \"period of time\" to adjust to the end of freedom of movement.\n\nBut the new scheme will be in place until at least 2025; it'll be open to those in other \"low-risk\" countries, not just the EU; and there is currently no numerical cap.\n\nIt raises the prospect that the immigration system the government is designing is as much about ensuring there's a flow of unskilled labour, as it is about skilled workers.\n\nThe White Paper introduces a new visa route for skilled migrants, from Europe and beyond.\n\nIt accepts a recommendation from the independent Migration Advisory Committee to scrap the current limit of 20,700 on workers classed as high-skilled coming to the UK using \"Tier 2\" visas.\n\nTier 2 is the name for general work visas for people from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland who have been offered a skilled job in the UK. Eligible professions include nurses and doctors.\n\nThere will be a consultation about the salary threshold of £30,000 for skilled worker visas, amid opposition to such a cap from business and some cabinet members.\n\nThe £30,000 minimum earnings rule already applies to non-EU workers in most Tier 2 visa cases but could also apply to migrants from the EU.\n\nExtending it to skilled migrants could affect the NHS's ability to recruit the staff it needs, the body representing NHS trusts has warned.\n\nNHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery told Today: \"We are deeply concerned about what is going to happen. High skills does not equal high pay.\n\n\"You have got starting salaries for nurses at £23,000 - also for paramedics, midwives. Junior doctors starting salaries at £27,000, healthcare assistants at £17,000, all coming in way below that £30,000 cap.\n\n\"It is not just health workers, it is social care as well. We have to remember where the skills lay. They lay in those staff under £30,000.\"\n\nThe document also suggests the changes could have a negative economic impact, reducing annual output, or GDP, by between 0.4% and 0.9% by 2025.\n\nDuring a BBC interview, Mr Javid repeatedly declined to say whether the government's target of reducing net migration - the difference between the numbers of people leaving the UK for at least a year and those moving to the UK for at least a year - to less than 100,000 would still apply after Brexit.\n\nBut, at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May confirmed the government was sticking to the \"tens of thousands\" ambition.\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government had \"disgracefully labelled workers on less than £30,000 as low-skilled\" when \"our economy and public services are kept ticking by this majority of workers\".\n\n\"The government is not, as it wrongly claims, using a skills-based criteria to meet the needs of our economy and our society.\n\n\"It is using an income-based system which allows derivatives traders free movement but which excludes nurses, social care workers and other professions in which we have severe skills or labour shortages.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government's plans would be \"devastating for the Scottish economy\" because \"our demographics make it essential that we attract people to live and work here\".\n\nBusiness groups said the salary threshold would need to be lower than £30,000 and warned the proposals could \"tie the hands\" of employers\n\nAdam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"Employers are hugely concerned that the complexity and cost associated with new immigration rules will impact their ability to invest and grow at a time when many areas are facing near-full employment.\"\n\nCurrently, someone is eligible to apply for a \"Tier 2\" general work visa - which can last for up to five years - if they are from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland.\n\nThey must also have been offered a high-skilled job in the UK - which is any profession ranked at level six and above on a list called the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) - and which has not been filled by a UK worker.\n\nThe high-skilled category includes a range of professions such as doctors, nurses, musicians, aircraft pilots, brokers, paramedics, librarians, journalists, food inspectors, probation officers, social workers, surveyors, architects, lawyers, and some teachers.\n\nIn most cases, the migrant will need to be earning at least £30,000 per year (or £20,800 for new entrants), or the \"appropriate rate\" for their job if that figure is higher. Some professions, like nurses, are exempt.\n\nPeople who do jobs which the UK needs - on the shortage occupation list - are also eligible to apply for the Tier 2 visa, even if the job is less highly-skilled and ranked at RQF level four.", "You might have seen their strategically self-regarding emails or watched their self-inflating egos in work meetings.\n\nBut business school researchers have identified a type of employee who manages to look busy and successful, without actually doing anything useful.\n\nThe productivity study examined 28 UK workplaces and found staff who appeared to be \"highly engaged\".\n\nBut on closer inspection they were found to be \"self-promoters\" whose lack of effort pushed down overall output.\n\nThe research, from the Ashridge at Hult International Business School, examined the engagement levels of teams of workers, across seven different employment sectors, such as health, government, transport and not-for-profits.\n\nIt found some very motivated workers - and some who were plainly disgruntled and disaffected.\n\nBut about one in five teams was a conundrum - where staff appeared to be very engaged, but where teamwork and productivity were poor.\n\nThe study found when \"lifting the lid\" on these groups of workers, that they were undermined by staff who were successfully \"gaming the system\" but not really getting anything done.\n\nIt is all about me - it might undermine teamwork but the self-promoters get rewarded\n\nThey might constantly appear in a circuit of meetings, or get involved in conversations that were to their own advantage - but apart from playing the corporate culture, it was difficult to see what they actually achieved.\n\nIn shift work, it could mean stretching out work to fit across the hours with the least effort.\n\nThese have been labelled the \"pseudo-engaged\" by employment researchers, as opposed to the \"engaged\" and \"disengaged\".\n\nSenior researcher Amy Armstrong said such \"selfish\" staff undermined teamwork and damaged productivity - and in a business sense had a negative impact.\n\nBut she said the pseudo-engaged could often be encouraged by the managerial system.\n\n\"They're rewarded for that dysfunctional behaviour,\" said Dr Armstrong.\n\nThey were more likely to get promotions, better pay and bonuses and to devote even more of their efforts to their own careers - to the detriment of collective productivity.\n\n\"It's quite a depressing picture,\" she said.\n\nThis was often because such staff were \"managing upwards\" by making themselves look good in front of senior managers.\n\nStaff who spent their time promoting themselves in meetings were likely to benefit more than colleagues who were doing the work.\n\nSuch workplaces could outwardly appear to have lots of commitment and support for company goals.\n\nBut below the surface the researchers found \"low levels of trust and cohesion\" with \"little evidence of collegiality or support for one another\".\n\nIt can leave other staff feeling stretched and without any sense of \"togetherness\".\n\nDr Armstrong said in such workplaces there can appear to be \"no point to teamwork\" because of the individuals who seem to benefit from their self-promotion.", "The government spending watchdog has criticised the Bank of England over its spending and excessive desk numbers.\n\nThe National Audit Office found that Bank staff spent £5m without following proper procedures and had 800 empty desks at Threadneedle Street.\n\nThe NAO said there were 200 purchases above £25,000 that were made without checking with the appropriate office.\n\nThe Bank acknowledged that some systems and processes needed to be modernised.\n\nHowever, it defended the number of empty desks.\n\nThe NAO said said the Bank would need to \"transform\" the way it operates its central services division, which handles budgets for buildings, human resources and technology support if it was to meet its self-imposed cap of £476m in annual running costs.\n\nThe spending watchdog said savings of up to £200,000 could have been made on £2m these purchases.\n\nIt said that most of the unchecked purchases made without consulting the central procurement team were related to IT costs.\n\nThe NAO did acknowledge that the Bank had since overhauled its procurement operation and was taking follow-up action with employees in cases of poor compliance.\n\nAmyas Morse, the head of the NAO, said: \"The Bank of England has rightly recognised that its central services need reform and has started to take action.\n\n\"However, the Bank should not underestimate the scale of change required. Improvements will only be possible if staff across the Bank are encouraged to embrace a more cost-conscious culture.\"\n\nThe Bank defended itself in a statement.\n\nWith the sort of precision one might expect from the UK's central bank, it said it had 1.04 desks per staff member and 400 of the desks empty on a daily basis - about 10% of the total - could be accounted for by staff leave.\n\nThe Bank said it had managed to keep its controllable costs with the targeted budget this year, at £474m, despite extra costs relating to Brexit.\n\nJoanna Place, the Bank's chief operating officer, said: \"As a result of a great deal of hard work and commitment from colleagues, we have held our budget flat for the current financial year and aim to do so in the medium-term.\n\n\"This is despite the additional demands placed on us as a result of the UK preparing to leave the European Union.\"", "Bethan Roper has been described as a \"much-loved\" family member\n\nA woman who died after leaning out of the window of a moving train was hit by a tree or branch, an inquest has heard.\n\nBethan Roper, 28, was on her way home from a Christmas shopping trip with friends in Bath when she died on 1 December.\n\nThe charity worker, from Penarth in south Wales, suffered serious head injuries while travelling between Bath and Keynsham.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at Bristol Temple Meads station.\n\nAn inquest into her death was opened and adjourned at Avon Coroners' Court in Flax Bourton.\n\nMiss Roper worked for the Welsh Refugee Council, having graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2013.\n\nThe charity, a sister organisation to the UK-wide Refugee Council, works to help asylum seekers and refugees in Wales.\n\nShe was also a campaigner and was chairman of Young Socialists Cardiff.\n\nLast week her father Adrian said: \"She was beautiful in every way. Our pain couldn't be sharper or more justified, but I know that her goodness and fullness of spirit will live on in our hearts and actions.\"\n\nThe inquest will resume on 20 March and investigations into the circumstances of her death continue.\n\nThe incident was reported to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).\n\nBritish Transport Police and the Office of Rail and Road are also investigating.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Powell says gradual rate increases are the best way to balance risks\n\nThe Federal Reserve has raised interest rates again, in spite of warnings from Donald Trump against the move.\n\nOfficials at the US central bank voted to lift the Fed's key interest rate by 0.25%, to a target range of 2.25%-2.5%.\n\nBut they also said future increases could come at a slower pace amid concerns about global growth.\n\nIt comes after the US president on Tuesday warned the Fed against making \"yet another mistake\" in raising rates, urging it instead to \"feel the market\".\n\nHe also urged the bank not to wind down a multi-billion dollar stimulus programme brought in after the financial crisis.\n\nMr Trump - who appointed the Fed's chairman, Jerome Powell - has repeatedly blamed the central bank for unsettled markets and dismissed analysts who cite other factors, such as rising trade tariffs.\n\nBut his remarks have put pressure on the Fed, as presidents generally avoid criticising the bank publicly, for fear of politicising the institution.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Powell defended the Fed's independence, saying that political pressure played \"no role whatsoever\" in its discussions or decisions.\n\nHe added that the Fed had no plans to change its ongoing reduction of its portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.\n\nThe bank has been gradually raising the benchmark rate since 2015, moving the US away from the ultra-low rates put in place during the financial crisis to spur economic activity.\n\nWednesday's decision, which was widely expected, marked the ninth increase since 2015 and the fourth this year.\n\nHowever, the moves have made borrowing more expensive, contributing to slowdowns in some sectors, such as housing.\n\nAnd with economic growth expected to slow, some worry that further increases risk stifling economic activity.\n\nOn Wednesday, officials did cut their forecasts for economic growth in 2019 to 2.3%, down from the 2.5% they anticipated in September.\n\nAnd estimates released by the bank showed most Fed members expect two rate increases in 2019 - not three, as previously forecast.\n\nIt follows a downturn in US financial markets and concerns about slowing growth in the US and abroad.\n\nHowever, Mr Powell said the strength of the US economy - which is expected to grow about 3% this year - justified another rate rise, despite recent \"cross currents\" that have weakened the outlook.\n\n\"We think this move was appropriate for what is a very healthy economy,\" he said. \"Policy at this point does not need to be accommodative.\"\n\nIn its official statement, the Fed also said increases to its benchmark rate would help the US economy sustain its expansion, keeping the unemployment rate low and inflation near 2%.\n\nShares sank after the announcement, reversing earlier gains. The Dow and S&P 500 closed about 1.5% lower, while the Nasdaq fell than 2%.\n\nIn Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 was down 2.5% in early afternoon trade on Thursday, following Wall Street's lead.\n\nHong Kong's Hang Seng index and South Korea's KOSPI index were both down more than 1%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.85% in very late afternoon trade there.\n\nAnalysts said investors might have been hoping for stronger signs from the Fed that it would raise rates more slowly in the future.\n\n\"Given the stock market declines and negative international economic news - recognised in the statement - this still points to quite a bit of confidence at the Fed in the ability of the US economy to withstand a few more rate hikes,\" said Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings.", "Allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million people has thrust the issue of data privacy into the spotlight.\n\nA huge amount of consumer data is available and - if obtained - is a valuable asset for companies.\n\nAnd customer loyalty cards, while rewarding shoppers with discounts and deals, are one easy way for companies to collect data on a large scale.\n\nAfter the launch of Tesco Clubcard in 1995, many stores have followed suit.\n\nSainsbury's, Waitrose, Co-op, Morrisons, Iceland, Boots and Marks and Spencer are among the retailers which currently offer reward schemes to shoppers.\n\nThe average UK shopper owns three loyalty cards, according to research by retail analysts TCC Global.\n\nBut how exactly do retailers use the data provided by the cards in your wallet and should you be concerned?\n\nIt is well-known that companies use loyalty card data to understand shoppers' habits.\n\nThis is not new, and many customers understand this is a core part of the reward card relationship.\n\nLoyalty card data helps retailers understand people's behaviour and then shape it by targeting advertising and organising products to encourage more sales.\n\nIn order to get a loyalty card, customers have to register their name, address and date of birth - and sometimes other information.\n\nScanning the reward card at a shop checkout or entering the card number while shopping online allows companies to track purchases and make a link between people shopping in store and on the web.\n\nIt means retailers can create an accurate picture of when, where and how people do their shopping.\n\nRetailers can enrich the data they have collected from reward cards by buying customer data from third-party companies, known as data brokers.\n\nThese third-party companies amass information from a variety of sources to create \"profiles\" of people with information about habits, patterns and personality.\n\nRetailers can then match their loyalty card data to these profiles, producing a clearer picture of shoppers.\n\nAll organisations processing personal data must comply with data protection law and each company has a data privacy policy.\n\n\"This will include details of what data they can collect, how it can be used, and whether (as well as to whom) the data can be sold on,\" Dr Garfield Benjamin from the University of Birmingham's centre for Cyber Security and Privacy explained.\n\n\"There is an increasing need for greater transparency in this process - we all click 'agree' to lengthy and often confusing terms and conditions without necessarily being able to understand them.\"\n\nAlthough stores will often not pass loyalty scheme data to other parties, they may share customers' information with companies within the same group, which can be global.\n\nSome companies may also share the information with their retail partners, who can use it to target their advertising.\n\nNectar, for example, can share data with at least 49 companies including Argos and Easyjet, according to consumer group Which?\n\nData protection law is changing from May, when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force - changing the way organisations have to look after our personal data.\n\nCampaign group Privacy International said it is concerned about the \"hidden data infrastructure\".\n\n\"Loyalty cards are not a new thing, but the volume of data available to advertisers and companies... combined with the bloated nature of companies vying for access to data is resulting in essentially the mass exploitation of people's data,\" the privacy organisation said.\n\nIt said retailers and third-party companies \"hoover up information from a variety of sources\" to create profiles, wanting to \"know you better than you know yourself\".\n\n\"This picture of who you are, what your motivations are, who you want to become, can all be used to nudge you to purchase something or even behave in a certain way.\"\n\nBut Prof Paul Longley, who is one of a group of academics working at the Consumer Data Research Centre, said the so-called \"big data\" can \"definitely be used for the social good\".\n\n\"We hear a lot about invasion of individual privacy and people being manipulated by such sources. But new big data sources can be used for the benefit of all,\" he said.\n\n\"So, for example, we may use smart meter energy data to enable analysis of fuel poverty, or loyalty card data or smart card data to look at how mobile people are around the country.\"", "Charles Michel had hoped to continue as leader in a minority government\n\nBelgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has offered his resignation just days after one of his main coalition partners quit in a row over migration.\n\nMr Michel lost the backing of the nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) over his support for a UN migration deal signed in Marrakesh last week.\n\nHe announced his intention to resign after opposition parties refused to support his minority government.\n\nMr Michel told King Philippe of his decision late on Tuesday.\n\nThe king has yet to announce whether he will accept the resignation.\n\nBelgians were due to go to the polls in May and the king will meet party leaders on Wednesday to decide whether there is any support for early elections.\n\nMr Michel, 42, took office in October 2014 after forming a right-wing coalition, becoming at 38 the country's youngest prime minister since 1841.\n\nHe may stay on as caretaker prime minister until parliament is dissolved in April. He rejected the idea of early elections in a speech to parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Michel had previously defended the Marrakesh migration pact, saying it presented an \"opportunity for better European and international co-operation\".\n\nBelgium's UN ambassador made it clear that the signing of the accord would go ahead in New York on Wednesday, despite Mr Michel's decision to tender his resignation.\n\nThe deal, which is not legally binding, seeks an international approach to migration that \"reaffirms the sovereign rights of states to determine their national migration policy\" and asserts the \"fundamental\" importance of legal migration.\n\nBut critics in Europe believe it will lead to increased immigration to the continent.\n\nIn July, UN members agreed the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.\n\nIt was signed by 164 countries, with the US and a number of European states - including Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovakia - refusing to formally adopt the agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of far-right parties took part in the protests\n\nOver the weekend, thousands of demonstrators marched in Brussels against the pact. Police deployed tear gas and water cannon as clashes broke out.\n\nA counter-protest organised by left-wing groups and charities in the city centre drew about 1,000 people.", "The legend slot traditionally draws one of the weekend's biggest crowds\n\nKylie Minogue will play Glastonbury's legend slot next summer - 14 years after breast cancer forced her to pull out of headlining the festival.\n\nThe pop star will play the coveted tea-time slot on 30 June, following the likes of Dolly Parton and Barry Gibb.\n\n\"It will be 14 years since I was originally meant to appear there and so much has happened up to now,\" said the singer on Instagram.\n\n\"I can't wait to see you all there to share this special show.\"\n\n\"We are delighted to announce that Kylie is finally bringing her show to Glastonbury,\" said organiser Emily Eavis. \"We cannot wait.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Shouldn't we remember absent friends?\"\n\nKylie returned to Worthy Farm in 2010 to cameo with Scissor Sisters, but has never played a full set.\n\nSpeaking to the Associated Press earlier this year, the 50-year-old said she'd love to lay the ghosts of 2004 to rest.\n\n\"When I was supposed to do it, I think I would have been the first solo female to headline in however many years it was, so I was really proud of that at that time.\n\n\"Obviously it didn't happen. So yes, it would be amazing and very emotional to be standing there and doing what I didn't get to do all those years ago, for sure.\"\n\nHer return comes a year after she headlined Radio 2's Hyde Park festival, and brought Jason Donovan on stage to recreate their 1988 duet Especially For You.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhile a repeat at Glastonbury is unlikely, the star knows how to put together a crowd-pleasing set; and with 51 hit singles and seven number ones - including Can't Get You Out Of My Head and I Should Be So Lucky - she's bound to draw a huge audience.\n\nKylie will be joined on the line-up by grime star Stormzy, who's been announced as the Friday night headliner.\n\nNone of the other acts have been revealed at the moment, but rumoured headliners include Paul McCartney, Arctic Monkeys, Madonna and Fleetwood Mac.\n\nGlastonbury 2019 takes place on Worthy Farm from 26-30 June, after taking a fallow year in 2018.\n\nTickets have already sold out but there'll be full coverage on BBC TV, radio and online.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Treasury says that since 2016 it has provided £4.2bn for Brexit preparations.\n\nNot all of that money will be spent on getting ready for no deal.\n\nEven if a withdrawal agreement is finalised and the UK enters a 21-month transition period after Brexit, plenty of things will need to be done to prepare the country for life outside the EU.\n\nBut no deal would mean the UK needing to spend the largest amount of money in the shortest possible time. And it has been struggling to spend money quickly.\n\nAccording to the Treasury, £1.5bn is due to be spent on Brexit during the course of this financial year. But while the government says it is stepping up the pace of planning, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has predicted that £0.4bn, nearly a third of the money available this year, will not be spent before the end of March 2019.\n\nAt the moment, it looks like more money will be spent in the financial year after Brexit is due to happen (from April 2019-April 2020) than in the current financial year.\n\nAnd that's not much use for no-deal preparations that will have to take place before the UK leaves.\n\nExtra staff will be needed at UK borders\n\nSo what's the money being spent on and why the delays in spending it?\n\nPlenty of extra staff have been recruited across government departments to deal with the challenges of Brexit.\n\n\"We have hired about 10,000 people so far,\" John Manzoni, the chief executive of the civil service told the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee last week. \"There are about another 5,000 in the pipeline and there are probably another 5,000 to come, in the event of a disorderly exit.\"\n\nHer Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), for example, already had more than 3,000 people in EU exit roles at the end of November this year.\n\nBut it takes time to recruit, vet and train staff, and then it takes more time to get money out of the door into the projects that need to be implemented.\n\nIt has also been very difficult for government departments to know how to spend their money amid the extreme political uncertainty surrounding the Brexit negotiations.\n\nA report by the National Audit Office, published in September, emphasises this point.\n\n\"The constantly changing environment that Defra is working in,\" it said, \"in particular the fluctuations in the likelihood of reaching a (Brexit) deal, has made it difficult for Defra to make, and stick to, a robust plan.\"\n\nPerhaps the biggest questions, in the event of no deal, relate to what would happen at UK borders after Brexit.\n\nThis may be where the most intensive planning is taking place, and a significant tranche of government money will have to be spent to meet the challenge.\n\nA statement issued by the Cabinet Office earlier this month said cross-government planning assumptions have been revised after the European Commission made it clear that, in the event of no deal, it would treat the UK like any other third country, and impose the full range of controls on people and goods entering the EU from the United Kingdom.\n\nThe Cabinet Office statement said the impact would be felt most severely at the ports of Dover and Folkestone, where both exports and imports would be affected because of the frequency of crossings of the English Channel, and the knock-on effects of any delays.\n\nRevised government planning assumptions are that - in a worst-case scenario - there will be \"significantly reduced access\" across the Channel \"for up to six months\".\n\nAmong the contingency plans being proposed, the government is investigating chartering ships to use on less congested sea routes to other ports such as Felixstowe and Tilbury.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A family was left shocked to find their late elderly neighbour had left Christmas presents to give to their daughter for the next 14 years.\n\nKen, who was in his late 80s, lived near to Owen and Caroline Williams in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, for the last two years.\n\nThe couple said Ken \"doted\" on their two-year-old daughter Cadi.\n\nHe died recently and on Monday evening, his daughter knocked on the Williams' home to deliver the presents.\n\nTwo-year-old Cadi has presents to open for the next 14 years\n\n\"She was clutching this big bag plastic sack and I thought it was rubbish she was going to ask me to throw out,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"But she said it was everything her dad had put away for Cadi. It was all of the Christmas presents he had bought for her.\n\n\"I brought it back in and my wife was on FaceTime to her mum in Ireland. My wife started to tear up and I started to tear up, and her mum started to tear up.\n\n\"It's difficult describing it because it was so unexpected. I don't know how long he put them away whether it was over the last two years or whether he bought them towards the end of his life.\"\n\nMr Williams said they have opened one of the presents which was a book but were not sure what to do about the rest.\n\n\"We can tell there's some books, there's three or four soft toys, maybe some Duplo,\" he added.\n\nMr Williams said his neighbour - a retired commercial deep sea diver - was a \"real, real character\".", "People who use emollient creams to treat dry and itchy skin conditions are being warned they can build up in fabrics and cause them to catch fire more easily.\n\nThe medicines regulator says clear warnings on product packaging is needed to alert consumers.\n\nThe MHRA says it has heard of more than 50 such deaths reported by UK fire and rescue services.\n\nPeople should not stop using the creams but be aware of the risk.\n\nWashing clothing and bedding can reduce product build-up but not totally remove it.\n\nIt was previously thought the risk occurred with emollients that contained more than 50% paraffins. But evidence now points to a risk with all emollients, including paraffin-free ones.\n\nFabric that has been in repeated contact with these products burns more easily, meaning users should not smoke or go near naked flames.\n\nSparks from Philip Hoe's cigarette reacted with a cream he was covered in\n\nPhilip Hoe died after accidentally setting himself on fire at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in 2006, when sparks from a cigarette reacted with the emollient cream he was covered in.\n\nWithin seconds, Mr Hoe, who was receiving treatment for psoriasis, was engulfed in flames and he died shortly after being transferred to another hospital, in Sheffield.\n\nJune Raine, from the MHRA, said: \"We don't want to unduly worry people into not using these products, which offer relief for what can be chronic skin conditions, but it is equally important people are aware of the risks and take steps to mitigate them.\n\n\"If you use emollients and have any questions or concerns, we'd recommend speaking to a healthcare professional, such as your pharmacist or GP.\"\n\nThe MHRA has been working with the Commission on Human Medicines, which has come up with recommendations for manufacturers:\n\nJohn Smith, from the Proprietary Association of Great Britain, said: \"Emollient products are an important and effective treatment for chronic and often severe dry skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis.\n\n\"People should continue to use these products but it is vital they understand the fire risk associated with a build-up of residue on fabric and take steps to mitigate that risk.\n\n\"We have been working with MHRA during its review of the evidence to ensure the warning is implemented consistently across industry and to support efforts to raise awareness of this issue.\"", "Regulars and staff at a pub have performed a \"sign-a-long\" of a five-year-old boy's favourite song.\n\nThey used Makaton sign language for a rendition of Labi Siffre's (Something Inside) So Strong for Oliver Callis, who has Down's syndrome.\n\nIt combines signs, symbols and speech to help him communicate.\n\nThe Oaklands pub in Littleover, Derby, is one of only three in the UK which has \"Makaton friendly\" accreditation.", "Washington DC's top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nDistrict of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post.\n\nIt accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping of personal data on tens of millions of users.\n\nThe action adds to a number of regulatory investigations, following a year of privacy and security missteps.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson told the BBC: \"We're reviewing the complaint and look forward to continuing our discussions with attorneys general in DC and elsewhere.\"\n\nAs well as this lawsuit, Facebook is being probed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.\n\nIn the UK, the company was fined £500,000 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the maximum fine the British data regulator could impose.\n\nBigger trouble may arise from the Irish data protection regulator, which is investigating Facebook for multiple admissions of security flaws, in what is being seen as the first major test of Europe’s new privacy rules as dictated by the General Data Protection Regulation.\n\nAccording to the Post, the DC attorney general’s action could be amended to include more recent data security admissions, including more revelations published on Wednesday by the New York Times.", "There were heated scenes in the House of Commons as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was accused of calling the prime minister \"stupid woman\" under his breath during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nSome MPs called for an apology, others aimed criticism at the Speaker, and Mr Corbyn said he had in fact said \"stupid people\".", "Banning sweets, chocolate and crisps at supermarket checkouts appears to stop unhealthy impulse buying by shoppers, a large UK study suggests.\n\nResearchers used data from 30,000 households to look at the year before and after bans were introduced by six out of nine major supermarkets.\n\nPurchases fell immediately after the bans and the reduction continued while the policies were in place.\n\nMinisters will soon consult on making it a mandatory ban in England.\n\nThe nine supermarkets included in the study, which is published in PLOS Medicine, were Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.\n\nShoppers at the ones that removed sweets and crisps from checkouts bought almost a fifth less of the unhealthy products.\n\nData from another 7,500 shoppers who recorded any food they had purchased at supermarkets to eat \"on-the-go\" rather than take home, showed an even bigger decrease.\n\nLead researcher Dr Jean Adams, from the University of Cambridge, says that although the study cannot prove a causal link, it suggests changing where products are displayed does alter consumer habits.\n\nShe said: \"It's really heartening that small changes in supermarket layout could make such a difference and have an impact on people's diets.\"\n\nMany snacks picked up at the checkout may be unplanned, impulse buys.\n\nSupermarkets have been accused of using \"pester power\" to sell food high in fat, salt or sugar by putting crisps, sweets and chocolates at the checkout for young children to see and then want.\n\nDr Adams said these purchases were not necessarily parents giving in to their children. \"Sometimes parents buy them as a reward for their child having behaved well in the supermarket.\"\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: \"You would have to be superhuman to resist some promotions. They appear to offer great value but they're actually designed to make us spend more on foods we simply don't need.\n\n\"Restricting promotions would help to tackle excess calories and reduce obesity, while saving us money over time.\"\n\nThe government's ambition to end the promotion of unhealthy foods and drinks at checkouts is part of its strategy to halve childhood obesity in England in the next 12 years.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"This research supports what parents have been saying all along - check-out deals for sugary and fatty foods mean they end up buying products they don't need or want. That is why we will soon be consulting on restricting these types of offers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK risks \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society with millions of people disadvantaged as a result, a study has concluded.\n\nBanknotes and coins are a necessity for eight million people, according to the Access to Cash study.\n\nThe report, authored by ex-financial ombudsman Natalie Ceeney, said a cash-free society would create problems for those in debt or living in rural areas.\n\nLast year, debit cards overtook cash as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nCash use has halved in the past 10 years, with notes and coins now handed over in three in every 10 transactions. Cash use is forecast to halve again in the next decade.\n\n\"As cash use continues to fall, we need to safeguard the use of cash for those who need it, and at the same time work hard to ensure that everyone can participate in this digital economy,\" Ms Ceeney said.\n\nHer report was paid for by cash machine network operator Link, but was independent from it.\n\nArber Rozhaja believes going cashless has not harmed his business at all\n\nAfter yet another break-in at south London pub the Crown and Anchor, Arber Rozhaja decided enough was enough.\n\nBurglars were after cash lying around after lock-up, but what if there was never any cash on site at all?\n\nMr Rozhaja, operations director at the pub's parent firm, London Village Inns, calculated the volume of cash transactions and was bowled over.\n\n\"Somewhere in the region of 10-13% of the total revenue would be cash and the rest was card,\" he says.\n\nSo in October, the Crown and Anchor went fully cashless.\n\nIn some sectors, cash is still used frequently. Some 74% of people use cash to give to charity and window cleaners are paid with notes and coins in 85% of cases.\n\nMore generally, there are various risks highlighted in the report from a cashless society. They include:\n\nRon Delnevo, executive director for the European ATM Industry Association, said: \"The UK public remain heavily committed to cash use and this must be respected by all payment market participants, however disappointing that might be for their narrow commercial interests.\"\n\nUK Finance, which represents banks, said that a mix of different ways to pay was vital for consumers.\n\n\"Our own research shows that while cash usage is declining, it will still be the second most common payment method in 10 years' time,\" said Eric Leenders, from UK Finance.\n\n\"Maintaining access to cash is vital to ensure no customer is left behind. From over-the-counter withdrawals through 11,500 Post Offices and cashback from retailers, to investment in ATMs and mobile bank branches to reach more rural communities, the finance industry is using a range of solutions.\"", "Lewis Hamilton seemed to refer to Stevenage as \"the slums\" on stage on Sunday night\n\nLewis Hamilton has sought to explain a remark at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (Spoty) awards in which he appeared to insult his hometown.\n\nThe F1 ace, who hails from Stevenage, said it had been his dream to \"get out of the slums\".\n\nHis comment sparked outrage on social media from fans and residents of the Hertfordshire town.\n\nSpeaking earlier on Instagram, Hamilton said he was \"super proud\" of Stevenage, and that he \"chose the wrong words\".\n\nThe leader of Stevenage Borough Council praised him for the video, which was later removed from his account.\n\nIn a Twitter post, Sharon Taylor said: \"Thank you to Lewis Hamilton for a gracious apology to Stevenage issued on Instagram tonight, in which he also says how proud he is of our home town.\n\n\"We have a five times F1 World champion that comes from Stevenage, that is quite something!\"\n\nA video of Lewis Hamilton explaining his remarks was later removed from his Instagram page\n\nDuring the awards, Hamilton said: \"It really was a dream for us all as a family to do something different. For us to get out of the slums.\n\n\"Well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something. We all set our goals very, very high but we did it as a team.\"\n\nThe remark sparked a backlash and prompted the leader of Stevenage Borough Council to say it was \"disappointing\" and that people felt \"very offended\".\n\nFive-time F1 world champion Hamilton took to Instagram to \"send a message to the people back in the UK but also to the people of Stevenage\".\n\n\"I'm super-proud of where I've come from and I hope that you know that I represent in the best way that I can always and nobody's perfect,\" he said.\n\n\"I definitely make mistakes quite often and particularly when you're up in front of a crowd trying to find the right words to express the long journey that you've had in life. I chose the wrong words.\n\n\"But I didn't mean anything by it and those of you who know me know that I always mean love so God bless you. Have a great day.\"\n\nStevenage was designated the UK's first New Town in 1946\n\nStevenage was designated the UK's first New Town in 1946.\n\nDevised as a radical solution to London's post-war housing crisis, it now has a population of about 88,000.\n\nOther sporting and celebrity stars that hail from the town include the footballer Ashley Young, golfer Ian Poulter and actor Leslie Phillips.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Claudia Patatas and Adam Thomas were members of National Action after it was banned under terrorism laws in December 2016\n\nA neo-Nazi couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler and were convicted of being members of a banned terrorist group have been jailed.\n\nAdam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, from Banbury, were part of National Action and had \"a long history of violent racist beliefs\", a judge said.\n\nBirmingham Crown Court heard the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf in \"admiration\" of Hitler.\n\nThomas was jailed for six years and six months, and Patatas for five years.\n\nIn total six people were sentenced for being part of what Judge Melbourne Inman QC described as a group with \"horrific aims\".\n\nDaniel Bogunovic, 27, from Leicester, was convicted of being a member of the banned group after standing trial alongside the couple.\n\nDescribed by prosecutors as a \"committed National Action leader, propagandist and strategist\", he was jailed for six years and four months.\n\nDarren Fletcher, 28, from Wolverhampton, Nathan Pryke, 27, from March, Cambridgeshire, and Joel Wilmore, 24, from Stockport, had previously pleaded guilty to being in the group.\n\nFletcher, described by the judge as an \"extreme member\", was sentenced to five years.\n\nPryke, the group's \"security enforcer\" was given five years and five months and Wilmore, the \"banker\" and \"cyber security\" specialist, was imprisoned for five years and 10 months.\n\nDaniel Bogunovic, (left), Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas were convicted in November\n\nJoel Wilmore (left), Nathan Pryke (centre) and Darren Fletcher admitted being in National Action before the trial began\n\nThe judge said of National Action: \"Its aims and objectives are the overthrow of democracy in this country by serious violence and murder and the imposition of a Nazi-style state that would eradicate whole sections of society.\"\n\nIn sentencing Patatas, he added: \"You were equally as extreme as Thomas both in your views and actions.\n\n\"You acted together in all you thought, said and did, in the naming of your son and the disturbing photographs of your child, surrounded by symbols of Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan.\"\n\nThomas, a former Amazon security guard, and Patatas, a wedding photographer originally from Portugal, held hands and wept as they were sentenced.\n\nLast week, the court heard Fletcher had trained his toddler daughter to perform a Nazi salute and sent a message to Patatas saying \"finally got her to do it\".\n\nJurors saw images of Thomas wearing Ku Klux Klan robes while cradling his baby, which he claimed were \"just play\" but he admitted being a racist.\n\nAdam Thomas said he first discovered a \"fascination\" with Ku Klux Klan aged 11\n\nThomas was also found guilty of having bomb making instructions for which he was given a two-year-and-six-month sentence which he will serve concurrently.\n\nA police search of the home he shared with Patatas uncovered machetes, knives and crossbows - one kept just a few feet from the baby's crib.\n\nExtremist-themed paraphernalia including pendants, flags and clothing emblazoned with symbols of the Nazi-era SS and National Action was also recovered.\n\nAmong the items were a swastika-shaped pastry cutter and swastika scatter cushions.\n\nA swastika-shaped pastry cutter was found in the home of Patatas and Thomas\n\nFletcher was close friends with Thomas and Patatas\n\nBarnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, said the defendants had taken part in National Action's chat groups, posting comments that showed \"virulent racism, particularly from Thomas, Patatas and Fletcher\".\n\nHe added: \"Leaders Pryke, Wilmore and Bogunovic were more circumspect in their views but on occasion the true depth of their racial hatred leeched out.\"\n\nHe said a deleted Skype log recovered from Thomas's laptop stated that the \"Midlands branch\" of the neo-Nazi group would \"continue the fight alone\" after National Action disbanded after it was outlawed under anti-terror legislation in 2016.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, Det Ch Supt Matt Ward, of West Midlands Police, said: \"These sentences are the culmination of two years of painstaking work in the West Midlands and across the country to recognise and understand the threat of National Action.\n\n\"These individuals were not simply racist fantasists; we now know they were a dangerous, well-structured organisation.\n\n\"Their aim was to spread neo-Nazi ideology by provoking a race war in the UK and they had spent years acquiring the skills to carry this out.\n\n\"They had researched how to make explosives, they had gathered weapons and they had a clear structure to radicalise others. Unchecked they would have inspired violence and spread hatred and fear across the West Midlands.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yorkshire Tea's new biodegradable bags have left customers in a stew, with some complaining the plant-based bags were ruining their cuppas.\n\nTea lovers contacted the company, despairing that the biodegradable bags were splitting mid-brew.\n\nFootball pundit Darren Fletcher tweeted to say the performance of the new bags was \"shambolic\".\n\nYorkshire Tea responded that some of teabags, which were introduced in October, had been \"misbehaving\".\n\nFletcher told his Twitter followers of \"shocking developments\" with the bags, at his house during breakfast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darren Fletcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne Twitter user joked that the problem was causing \"much moodiness in the morning\", while another said: \"I've been drinking your tea the last month or so (having been a Tetley drinker all my life) and I really enjoy the taste...what I don't enjoy is the number of split teabags that I'm getting.\n\n\"Every third or fourth bag splits.. what's that about?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Anthony Sumner #FBPE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the claims, Yorkshire Tea said the problem has only affected a small proportion of bags, but added: \"People are used to our tea bags being reliable, so it's a big deal when they go wrong.\"\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some of our tea bags have been misbehaving. If it's happened to you, we're really, really sorry.\"\n\nEarlier this year, the tea-maker announced that it was beginning to introduce renewable and biodegradable tea bags using a plant-based material for sealing.\n\nThe aim was that all tea bags would be biodegradable by the end of 2019, it said.\n\n\"It doesn't have any effect on the tea's flavour or its shelf life and won't cost you any more to buy,\" the firm promised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was made in 1946 but It's A Wonderful Life has been voted Britain's most popular Christmas film.\n\nIt beat Christmas comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell to the top spot in a survey of more than 7,000 people by RadioTimes.com.\n\nOther favourites in the top five include Love Actually, The Muppet Christmas Carol and Home Alone.\n\nIt's A Wonderful Life is a classic festive feel-good film about a man who has devoted his life to helping others.\n\nBut when he tries to take his own life a guardian angel stops him and shows him the value of his life.\n\nThe film was directed by Frank Capra and was nominated for five Oscars, including best picture.\n\nLove Actually came in 4th on the list\n\nThere's always a fierce debate about whether Die Hard is really a Christmas film.\n\nBruce Willis plays an off-duty cop who walks barefoot through broken glass to stop a group of German terrorists - not exactly a traditional Christmas vibe.\n\nBut it is set on Christmas Eve, and who doesn't enjoy watching an action classic with the family and a box of chocs?\n\nIt's fair to say the debate will probably continue for years to come.\n\nMost of the Harry Potter films show Christmas in some way as they're all set over the course of a school year, but they're not strictly Christmas movies.\n\nBut the first film in the series, the Philosopher's Stone, does make it into the top 20 of this list.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by aliplumb This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRadio 1 and 1Xtra's film critic Ali Plumb lists The Muppet Christmas Carol as his favourite festive film.\n\nAli also has a list of \"non-Christmas films that make you feel Christmassy\", which is (mostly) suggested by his followers on social media.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by aliplumb This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe top 20 from the RadioTimes survey:\n\n16. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Nadiya Hussain has married her husband Abdal again - years after they wed in an arranged marriage.\n\nWriting on Instagram, the Great British Bake Off winner said: \"Nothing fancy just love. No frills. Just us. We did it again. I do. I always will. I would do it all over again.\"\n\nShe also posted pictures of the ceremony, a wedding cake and her ring.\n\nThe TV presenter married her husband in a union arranged by her parents when she was 19 after meeting him just once.\n\nIn a tweet to his wife Abdal Hussain wrote: \"You can't run away from me now. I love you to infinity and beyond Xxx.\"\n\nSpeaking to Good Housekeeping magazine last year Hussain, who is from Luton, admitted it was \"tough\" marrying \"a complete stranger\".\n\n\"I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults.\n\n\"We had to live through the good and the bad, and have come out the other side. Love is strange... it creeps up on you and then smacks you in the face.\n\n\"I didn't know my husband, and then we had two children, and then I fell in love with him.\"\n\nThe couple have two sons - Musa and Dawud - and a daughter Maryam.\n\nHussain has said that she does not think her children \"need\" her to find them a husband or wife in the future.\n\nAfter winning the Great British Bake Off, she has hosted TV programmes including Nadiya's British Food Adventure.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pods can build trust with rough sleepers, the man who came up with the concept says\n\nEmergency pods could be a useful tool to help people sleeping rough, a homeless charity has said.\n\nThe pods in Newport provide individual, portable, insulated shelter with a key coded door.\n\nCharity The Wallich said it would welcome more like them, but the project has been turned down for a Welsh Government grant.\n\nThe government said it was investing more than £30m in tackling homelessness over two years.\n\nWayne Evelyn, 39, became homeless 10 years ago when his relationship broke down.\n\n\"There's no end to the places I've slept,\" he said.\n\n\"I was staying awake walking the streets, I was scared to go into hostels sometimes because things get stolen, and what little you have got you don't want to lose - when you're homeless what little you have got, means double to you.\"\n\nMr Evelyn said he still managed to make it to his shifts at a bakery, but the stress of not having a home led to a confrontation with someone he was staying with and he was jailed after admitting grievous bodily harm.\n\n\"I'm very sorry for what happened,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish I could apologise for what I've done every day. I'm glad that I've done all these [anger management] courses and I've learned how to be a part of society now.\n\nWayne Evelyn struggled to manage some living situations due to anxiety\n\n\"The only reason it happened is because I was homeless - if I wasn't homeless I'd never have ended up in jail.\"\n\nMr Evelyn also found it difficult to manage some living situations due to anxiety, which he now has medication for.\n\n\"The majority of the time if they offer you a place, you must accept it,\" he said.\n\n\"But sometimes you see things that happen, you get scared and you don't trust anyone. When you suffer with anxiety it's difficult to be around people you don't know.\"\n\nBut Mr Evelyn added if the pods had existed, he would have used them.\n\n\"If you're in a place where you can open the door and you can shut the door, you feel safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Amazing Grace Spaces project is seeking alternative funding, and Stuart Johnson said the idea came after years of working in night shelters and asking those sleeping rough what they wanted.\n\n\"Our vision is for people to stay overnight - to reach people who find it hard to engage because they've been on the streets so long,\" he said.\n\nThe pods are made from timber and fibreglass, with a chemical toilet, a bed and a phone charger powered by a solar panel\n\n\"With this, because they need a code to access it, they come back to you - you build up a trust, they can trust you, you can trust them and then help them and see how they want to move forward.\"\n\nLindsay Cordery-Bruce, chief executive of The Wallich, said: \"They're definitely a useful tool, we'd welcome more of them - but the support has to be in place so that it doesn't just become somewhere else where somebody feels excluded.\n\n\"I think there's a misconception about homelessness out there we're talking about buildings, when we're actually talking about exclusion.\n\n\"The evidence and the science on this is really clear, it's about how we engage the person, rather than what sort of pod space or bed space we offer them.\n\n\"How we meet people in their own environment where they're comfortable, how we take services to them is the key to solving homelessness, rather than expecting people to navigate complex systems.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will continue to work with Newport City Council and other partners to prioritise the most effective appropriate projects to support people to move off the street and into longer term housing solutions.\"\n\nIt was announced on Wednesday that an extra £1.34m over winter - including £25,000 for every local authority and specific funding for Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Wrexham as they are the four areas with the most complex rough sleeping issues.", "The insurance industry has pledged to crack down on \"excessive\" differences in premiums for new customers and existing policyholders.\n\nThe plan aims to iron out some of the controversial big differences between premiums for new and existing clients.\n\nThe move follows new rules that force firms to display the previous year's premium on renewal notices.\n\nThe new guidelines apply to home, motor and travel insurance, but not pet or health cover.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) say their Guiding Principles and Action Points should mean \"an improvement in the outcomes for long-standing customers\".\n\nThe new commitments by ABI and BIBA members include:\n\nABI chairman Andy Briggs said insurers did a \"great job\" for their customers, \"but the renewal market simply doesn't work where loyal customers get charged much more than new customers\".\n\n\"Given many consumers expect to get cheaper insurance when they shop around, there is no easy solution,\" he added.\n\n\"These new guiding principles and action points are a positive initiative by the ABI and BIBA members to demonstrate that the whole industry recognise this is an important issue that needs to be addressed.\"\n\nGareth Shaw of Which? said: \"A review of the unfair practice that sees existing customers charged excessively steeper premiums than new customers is long overdue.\n\nWe regularly hear from consumers who are paying hundreds of pounds more a year than new customers because they've automatically renewed their cover.\n\n\"Insurers must now act with urgency and implement much-needed changes to ensure their customers aren't excessively penalised simply for their loyalty.\"\n\nInsurers are finally owning up to what customers have been complaining about for years: the more loyal they are, the more they seem to pay.\n\nThe extra cost can amount to hundreds of pounds a year on a policy.\n\nPeople selling insurance have become addicted to the ruse of offering big discounts to new buyers to keep business moving.\n\nIf you don't bother to shop around, you end up footing the bill.\n\nThe problem with today's plan is that it will be left up to individual insurers to decide which prices are excessive and how to narrow the gap.\n\nCustomers will still need to check what they are paying to make sure they aren't being taken for a ride.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said its research had found that long-standing home insurance customers could pay an average of £110 more a year than new customers.\n\nThe new plan showed the industry \"recognises the scale of this problem and is willing to act responsibly to stop consumers being penalised for their loyalty\", she added.\n\n\"The devil, however, will be in the detail - whether this is successful will depend on prices actually coming down for loyal customers,\" she added.\n\n\"The industry should also work with the Financial Conduct Authority to collect better data on the scale of this loyalty penalty. Then we can assess whether this unfair practice is being tackled effectively.\"", "The cabinet has decided to \"ramp up\" preparations for a no-deal Brexit amid uncertainty over the fate of Theresa May's proposed EU exit deal.\n\nIt allocated to ministries £2bn set aside in case the UK leaves on 29 March without MPs having accepted any deal.\n\nLetters will be sent to 140,000 firms updating them on what they should do while 3,500 troops will be put on standby to help government departments.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said it amounted to \"psychological warfare\".\n\nWith 101 days left until Brexit and many MPs still opposed to the government's withdrawal agreement, which MPs will vote on in mid-January, ministers met for a longer-than-normal two and a half hour meeting.\n\nThey agreed that businesses should activate their own no deal contingency plans, as they think appropriate.\n\nUpdated Revenue and Customs information packs will be sent to firms later this week, setting out what changes could be needed at the border.\n\nConsumers are being advised to familiarise themselves with advice published this summer, in areas ranging from booking flights to using credit cards, with more details promised in the coming weeks.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nThe Treasury said £480m of the £2bn of preparation funding would go to the Home Office, helping it to employ more Border Force officers and boost national security.\n\nDefra would receive £410m, allowing it to focus on ensuring the trade in fish, food products and chemicals remains uninterrupted.\n\nHMRC, which is being allocated £375m, plans to hire more than 3,000 new staff to handle increases in customs activities, as well as investing in new technology at borders.\n\nThe next largest allocations will be £190m for the Department for Business and £128m for the Department for International Trade.\n\nSeparately, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has told MPs that 3,500 military personnel, including logisticians and engineers as well as infantry units, were ready to be deployed if needed.\n\nAbout 10% of the force would be reservists who will receive their call up papers in the middle of January so that if needed they would be ready in March.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the cabinet had agreed that \"preparing for a no deal will be an operational priority within government but our overall priority is to secure a deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Brokenshire tells Today the government has been preparing for a no deal \"for some time\"\n\nHe said no-deal planning \"needs to be much more of a priority for businesses\" and there would be a \"significant increase\" in the guidance issued to them over the next 14 weeks, as Brexit day approaches.\n\nE-mails will be sent out to 80,000 of those businesses most like to be affected over the next few days.\n\nIn the autumn of 2017, The Treasury earmarked £3bn for no-deal planning between 2018 and 2020.\n\nIn March, Chancellor Philip Hammond said half of that had been allocated to 20 government departments, with the Home Office, transport, the environment and business among the largest recipients.\n\nAt Tuesday's cabinet meeting ministers approved the second tranche - plus an under-spend from the current year - to go to departments for the 2019/20 year, with the priority areas being borders, security and international trade.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has already ordered full \"no deal\" planning across the National Health Service, he told the BBC's Newsnight on Monday.\n\nBut Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit negotiator, criticised UK ministers, who he said were \"glorifying\" the prospect of leaving without a comprehensive deal in the hope individual agreements could be reached in areas like transport and livestock movements.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Labour said a no-deal exit was \"not viable\" and it would work with other parties to stop it.\n\n\"It is testament to the prime minister's failure in these negotiations that the government is now spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money to prepare for a no-deal Brexit that is rejected by Parliament and many of those sat around the Cabinet table,\" said shadow Brexit minister Jenny Chapman.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems, who are campaigning for another referendum, said the government was \"attempting to scare\" MPs, businesses and the public with the threat of a no-deal.\n\n\"Theresa May is irresponsibly trying to run down the clock so that the only option is to support her discredited deal,\" Sir Vince Cable said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn wants MPs to get a Brexit deal vote before Christmas\n\nMPs will vote on the prime minister's Brexit deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU and includes a declaration on the outline of the future relations, in the middle of January.\n\nThe deal will only come into force if both the UK and European parliaments approve it.\n\nThe BBC understands Mrs May is planning to use the Commons vote as a \"moment of reckoning\" for the Brexit process.\n\nSources have told the BBC that Downing Street will not stand in the way of MPs who seek to amend the government's motion on the Brexit deal to put forward potential alternatives.\n\nThe prime minister was previously thought to be against this idea.\n\nMeanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn is under pressure to push for a further vote of no-confidence in the government as a whole.\n\nOn Monday night, the Labour leader tabled a motion calling on MPs to declare they have no confidence in the prime minister because she failed to have a vote on her Brexit deal straight away.\n\nNo 10 has refused to make time for the motion and Commons Speaker John Bercow confirmed on Tuesday that there were under no obligation to do so.\n\nOther parties - the SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the Greens - have called on Mr Corbyn to push for a no-confidence vote against the government as a whole.\n\nUnlike a vote aimed at the prime minister, the government would have to allow a vote on this motion and, if successful, it could force a general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could there be a second Brexit vote?\n\nNorthern Ireland's DUP, whose votes the Conservative government has relied on in big votes since the June 2017 election, said they would not support Labour.\n\nMrs May also appeared to have the support of pro-Brexit backbench critics who last week failed in a bid to oust her as Tory leader.\n\nOne of them, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said he would never vote against Mrs May or a Conservative government. He said on Tuesday evening that he had a \"civilised and courteous\" meeting with the PM, and that the government was \"prudent\" to engage in no-deal planning.", "Three people were taken to hospital with stab injuries\n\nThree people have been taken to hospital after stabbings at two health centres in east London.\n\nTwo men, aged 24 and 33, were stabbed in Tredegar Practice on St Stephen's Road in Tower Hamlets and a 77-year-old woman was stabbed at St Stephen's Health Centre at about 11:00 GMT.\n\nTheir injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, but they were taken to a trauma centre where they remain.\n\nA 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing GBH.\n\nHe was taken to hospital suffering from a minor injury but was later discharged. He is currently in custody an east London police station.\n\nA 40-year-old man was arrested inside the second location on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm\n\nA video posted to social media showed a man with long hair, dressed only in his underwear, being led in handcuffs to the back of a police van.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tower Hamlets Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said several crews were sent to the scene.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We sent an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic, two ambulance crews and two single responders in cars to the scene. We also dispatched a response car from London's Air Ambulance.\n\n\"We treated four people at the scene. We took three of the four to a major trauma centre as a priority and one to hospital.\"\n\nThe Met said the attacks were not being treated as terror-related.\n\nSt Stephen's practice manager, Balvinder Kullar, said all staff were safe and described the emergency service response as \"brilliant\".", "British business groups have criticised politicians for focusing on in-fighting rather than preparing for Brexit, warning that there is not enough time to prepare for a no-deal scenario.\n\nWith 100 days to go before the UK leaves the EU, the groups say firms have been \"watching in horror\" at the ongoing rows within Westminster.\n\nThe cabinet met on Tuesday to ramp up preparations for a no-deal departure.\n\nBut the groups say the idea that \"no-deal\" can be managed is not credible.\n\nIn a joint statement, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, manufacturers' organisation the EEF, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors said: \"Businesses have been watching in horror as politicians have focused on factional disputes rather than practical steps that business needs to move forward.\n\n\"The lack of progress in Westminster means that the risk of a no-deal Brexit is rising.\"\n\nThe government said on Tuesday that it had sent letters to 140,000 businesses, urging them to trigger their no-deal contingency plans as appropriate.\n\nIt will also distribute 100-page information packs on Friday.\n\nCBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn has joined her fellow business groups in warning against a disorderly no-deal Brexit on 29 March\n\nThe five business groups, which represent hundreds of thousands of UK firms, said that because of a lack of progress, the government \"is understandably now in a place where it must step up no-deal planning\".\n\nBut they say: \"It is clear there is simply not enough time to prevent severe dislocation and disruption in just 100 days.\n\n\"This is not where we should be.\"\n\nThe business groups said that instead of investing money and boosting productivity, companies were now having to divert capital for no-deal contingency planning.\n\nThey also warned: \"There are also hundreds of thousands who have yet to start - and cannot be expected to be ready in such a short space of time.\"\n\nSome companies told BBC News that they had already taken steps to invest in EU countries because of the uncertainty.\n\nIan McCartney, director of strategy at Wilson Tool, which has opened a branch in Germany, said: \"It's hard to believe in business how messy it is in politics. There's absolutely zero certainty in Westminster.\"\n\nMarch is too late for a deal, says sports clothing exporter Shaun Loughlin\n\nSports clothing exporter FreestyleXtreme has opened an office in Romania and is planning to open a warehouse in Germany.\n\nManaging director Shaun Loughlin said businesses needed to know there would be a deal \"tomorrow\", not in March.\n\n\"This is the last chance, there is not going to be another chance. Once we move, we've moved, we won't be coming back,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said that with just over three months until the UK leaves the European Union, \"we have now reached the point where we need to ramp up these preparations\".\n\nBusinesses should also be prepared, \"enacting their own no-deal plans as they judge necessary\".\n\nThe European Commission is publishing the legislation needed to ensure continuity in eight sectors on a temporary basis.\n\nThose areas cover data protection, plant and animal health, customs, climate policy, some narrow financial products and the rights of British people living in the European Union.\n\nIf there is no Brexit deal, these will apply from 29 March until the end of 2019 at the latest.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March after a referendum in 2016.\n\nIt and the EU have agreed a withdrawal agreement - or \"divorce deal\" - and a political declaration outlining ambition for future talks - but it needs to be agreed by Parliament for it to come into force.\n\nA vote by MPs on the deal had been scheduled for 11 December, but Mrs May postponed it until January after it was clear her deal would be rejected, leading to widespread anger in the Commons.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United are expected to appoint Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim manager on Wednesday.\n\nThe Premier League club appeared to make the announcement by mistake on their website on Tuesday evening, but the page was later deleted.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, scored 126 goals for United in 11 seasons at Old Trafford.\n\nThe former Norway international will succeed Jose Mourinho, who was sacked on Tuesday, and will have ex-United coach Mike Phelan as his assistant.\n\nSolskjaer manages Norwegian side Molde but their 2018 season has finished for the winter and does not restart until March.\n\nUnited briefly posted a video on their official website on Tuesday which featured Solskjaer scoring the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999. It was captioned: \"Solskjaer becomes our interim manager, 20 seasons after clinching the Treble with THAT goal at Camp Nou...\"\n\nNorway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg welcomed Solskjaer's appointment on social media, writing: \"Great day for Norwegian football. Good luck keeping control of the Red Devils.\" She later deleted the tweet.\n• None Man Utd 'risk writing off two seasons' by appointing interim boss\n• None Analysis: Yesterday's man? Is Mourinho finished at the top level?\n• None 'Caption this', 'Do one' and other reactions to Mourinho's sacking\n• None Football Daily podcast: What next for Man Utd?\n\nSolskjaer's first game in charge of United could be against Cardiff City on Saturday - he was relegated from the Premier League with the Bluebirds during an eight-month spell as manager in 2014.\n\nHe is in his second spell as Molde manager and signed a new contract earlier this month.\n\nUnited, who are sixth in the Premier League, will look to appoint a permanent boss at the end of the season.", "If you are on a first date, listen very closely to the sound of your partner's voice because it might reveal if they fancy you, according to researchers.\n\nIt's not about what your date is saying, but the pitch of their voice.\n\nIf they lower their pitch, it could be a subtle, subconscious sign they find you attractive, the study, in The Royal Society Proceedings B journal, suggests.\n\nExperts say it is probably an evolutionary tool to attract a mate.\n\nThe researchers listened in on 30 speed-daters meeting at a cafe.\n\nEach date lasted six minutes, with the men rotating around the tables until they had dated all of the women in the room.\n\nBetween each interaction, the men and women indicated their preference for the person the had just met - whether they liked them and would want to meet again - marking a \"Yes\" or \"No\" next to the date's name.\n\nWhen the researchers listened back to the conversations, they found that men and women tended to adopt a slightly lower voice during the dates with a partner they fancied.\n\nMen also spoke at a lower pitch with women who had received lots of \"Yes\" responses from the other men in the dating room, even if they rated her with a \"No\" themselves.\n\nWomen, by contrast, lowered their voices only for men they both found attractive themselves and who had been rated highly by the other women in the room too.\n\nIt's not the only study to find this phenomenon but it is the first in a real-life setting, says lead researcher Katarzyna Pisanski from the University of Sussex School of Psychology.\n\nAnd although it didn't include a large number of people, the hundreds of dates observed between the participants provided enough data to give a significant result.\n\n\"I was a little bit surprised that women also lowered their pitch if they liked a man,\" she said.\n\n\"Quite a few studies have shown men tend to favour a higher pitch in women because it is feminine and youthful, while women tend to like men to have deeper voices that are seen as more masculine and linked to testosterone.\"\n\nResearch suggests women today speak at a deeper pitch than their mothers or grandmothers.\n\nFor that work, Cecilia Pemberton, at the University of South Australia, compared archival recordings of women talking in 1945 with recordings taken in the early 1990s.\n\nDr Pisanski said: \"Perhaps things are changing and women are trying to portray other values when they use a lower pitch.\n\n\"It might communicate competence, maturity or even dominance.\"\n\nLower, quieter speech might also be more intimate.\n\nDr George Fieldman, an evolutionary psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, said it was possible the competitive situation of speed-dating might have made the women adopt a more dominant pitch of voice to attract a mate.\n\n\"If they were on their own with a man, then perhaps they would use a higher pitch,\" he said.\n\n\"But when they are in a group situation competing against other women, they might want to keep their pitch lower. It is more discreet. That's my hunch.\"\n• None BBC - Future - Why you don’t really have a ‘type’\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Thomas's wife Gemma died from acute myeloid leukaemia just before last year's Christmas.\n\nThis year, to help cope with his grief over the holiday period, the former Blue Peter presenter met with Joe who also lost his wife to blood cancer.\n\nSimon shared with BBC Breakfast what it's been like for his family and the hope his son gives him.", "The accountant of X Factor winner James Arthur pleaded guilty to fraud\n\nAn accountant has admitted taking almost £600,000 from X Factor winner James Arthur.\n\nMark Livermore, 39, who worked for Arthur's company, Raff Music Ltd, moved funds to other accounts without the musician's knowledge or permission.\n\nAt Westminster Magistrates' Court, Livermore, 39, of Billericay, Essex, admitted one count of fraud.\n\nChairwoman of the bench Diane Lennan said it was \"an abuse of position over a substantial period of time.\"\n\nLivermore, of Second Avenue, took £599,000 from the company before he was caught out in April.\n\nProsecutor Misba Majid said the offence involved \"a significant degree of planning\" and was \"carried out over a long period of time\".\n\nHe was granted unconditional bail until his sentencing at Southwark Crown Court. A date is yet to be set.\n\nArthur, from Middlesbrough, won The X Factor in 2012 and has had hits including Impossible and Say You Won't Let Go.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe law governing the sale of nitrous oxide, widely known as laughing gas, is simply not working, a former senior prosecutor has said.\n\nLegislation introduced in 2016 made it illegal to sell the gas, also known as \"noz\", for psychoactive purposes.\n\nBut undercover BBC journalists easily bought nitrous oxide by phone, online and in person at two Manchester shops.\n\nFormer North West of England Chief Crown Prosecutor Nazir Afzal said the law was clearly failing to stop supply.\n\nNitrous oxide use was linked to five deaths last year, according to official statistics, and is the second most popular recreational drug after cannabis in England and Wales.\n\nNitrous oxide, which can lawfully be sold for whipping cream, is typically sold in small silver canisters\n\nIts supply is difficult to control because it has legal uses - to produce whipped cream in the catering industry, and in medicine as an anaesthetic.\n\nA joint investigation by BBC North West Tonight and BBC Radio Manchester found it was relatively simple to flout the law.\n\nA reporter called Bolton-based 24/7 delivery company Speedy Whipped Creams and asked if she could get some \"noz\" delivered to an address in Manchester.\n\nWithin two hours, a taxi driver handed over a bag containing two boxes of 24 canisters.\n\nIn a statement, Speedy Whipped Creams said: \"We do not sell laughing gas - we sell cream chargers.\n\n\"If we'd known the customer intended to use the product as a drug, we would not have delivered it.\"\n\nAn undercover reporter also visited 10 corner shops in Manchester, asking each time for \"laughing gas\" or \"noz\".\n\nShe was able to obtain nitrous oxide from two of them.\n\nMr Afzal, who described nitrous oxide canisters as \"death in a box\", told the BBC he was worried when shown undercover footage.\n\nNoz canisters are often found discarded in parks and at music festivals\n\n\"We've got many instances of people who have... suffered serious harm and death because they've used, misused and abused what it is you've purchased,\" he said.\n\nHe called for the sale of nitrous oxide to be licensed to make \"it much more rigorous, rather than what it currently is - a complete free-for-all\".\n\nThe BBC investigation also uncovered how people can quickly order nitrous oxide for home delivery on Amazon.\n\nIn one case, laughing gas canisters were handed over to a 16-year-old without any questions asked.\n\nNazir Afzal is a former crown chief prosecutor for north-west England\n\nAmazon told the BBC: \"Product pages for age-constrained items highlight that they are for over 18s only, and we state clearly on our website that users of amazon.co.uk must be 18 or older or accompanied by a parent or guardian.\"\n\nProf Harry Sumnall, of Liverpool John Moores University's Public Health Institute, said surveys suggested about 9% of 16 to 24-year-olds had used nitrous oxide, a figure that had remained static despite the change in the law.\n\n\"Over the last 15 to 20 years, there's been around 30 deaths associated with nitrous oxide,\" he said.\n\n\"So in relation to the number of users, deaths are relatively rare, thankfully, but obviously the risk is there.\"\n\nIn the past financial year, there were 16 seizures of nitrous oxide across north-west England.\n\nDet Ch Insp Gwyn Dodd of Greater Manchester Police, said: \"We carry out regular patrols in the areas most affected, including university campuses and accommodation, to tackle those who are selling these substances and advise those who are using psychoactive substances just how dangerous it can be.\"\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Drugs like nitrous oxide have already cost far too many lives, which is why this government changed the law to make it illegal to supply for its psychoactive effect.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Another Brexit referendum will become a \"plausible\" way forward if there is deadlock in Parliament, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said.\n\nShe told ITV's Peston show while she did not personally support another vote, the case for one would grow if MPs could not agree another solution.\n\nShe said she hoped MPs would back Theresa May's deal with the EU next month but it would be \"very difficult\".\n\nThe PM says the UK must be ready to leave without a deal if it is rejected.\n\nMrs May has repeatedly ruled out holding another referendum, saying it was the government's duty to implement the result of the 2016 Brexit vote.\n\nA Downing Street source said the government was \"very clear we are 100% opposed\" to another referendum.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but an agreement on the terms of its withdrawal and a declaration on future relations will only come into force if the UK and EU Parliaments approve it.\n\nThe Commons vote was due to be held earlier this month but the PM postponed it once it became clear it would be defeated by a large margin.\n\nShe has since sought to gain further assurances from EU leaders to allay MPs' concerns.\n\nMs Rudd told Robert Peston she could not be sure MPs would back the deal. She suggested arguments for another referendum would come into play if they did not and if they rejected other options.\n\n\"I have said I don't want a People's Vote or referendum in general but if parliament absolutely failed to reach a consensus I could see there would be a plausible argument for it,\" she said.\n\n\"Parliament has to reach a majority on how it is going to leave the EU. If it fails to do so, I can see the argument for taking it back to the people again as much as it would distress many of my colleagues.\"\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is rejected, the default position is for the UK to leave in March unless the government seeks to extend the Article 50 negotiating process or Parliament intervenes to stop it happening.\n\nMs Rudd, who has likened the idea of a no-deal exit to a car crash, said it was imperative that MPs \"find a way of getting a deal through Parliament\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nTo that end, she said she backed the idea of testing the will of Parliament through a series of \"indicative\" votes on \"Plan B\" options should MPs reject the PM's agreement.\n\n\"It would flush out where... the majority is,\" she said. \"So people who hold onto the idea of one option or another would see there is no majority and so they will need to move to their next preference.\n\n\"We will hopefully be able to find where the compromise and the consensus is.\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said talk of another referendum was \"hypothetical\" at this stage and would represent a \"failure\" by Parliament.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to scare MPs into backing her deal by delaying the vote on it to the latest possible date.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the European Commission announced a series of temporary measures designed to reduce the economic impact if the UK was to leave without a comprehensive legally-binding agreement.\n\nBut it made clear that it could not counter all the problems it expects.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has given more details of its own no-deal contingency planning, saying the risk of the UK leaving without an agreement was \"very real\".\n\nIt warns of potentially \"severe macroeconomic, trade and sectoral impacts\" for Ireland as well as \"significant gaps\" in policing and judicial co-operation.\n\nIn such a scenario, it said its priorities would be to uphold the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, ensure there is no return of physical checks on the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland and ensure the \"best possible outcome\" in terms of trade.\n\nThe UK has allocated a further £2bn in funding to government departments to prepare for the possibility and has urged businesses to put their own no-deal plans in motion.", "Fiona Onasanya was issued a speeding ticket a week after she was elected as MP\n\nAn MP has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by lying to police about who was behind the wheel of a speeding car.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya denied she was driving her car when it was caught doing 41mph in a 30mph zone in Thorney, Cambridgeshire, in July 2017.\n\nThe 35-year-old Labour MP was convicted in an Old Bailey retrial.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said she had been \"administratively suspended\" and has called for her to resign.\n\nHe added: \"The Labour Party is deeply disappointed in Fiona Onasanya's behaviour. It falls well below what is expected of politicians. She should now resign.\"\n\nThe MP's brother Festus Onasanya, 33, previously pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced on a date yet to be set.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nAfter the verdict, the judge Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said: \"This is not going to be easy, not to give any indication one way or the other [about sentencing].\"\n\nDuring her retrial, after a previous jury failed to reach a verdict, the court was told the MP's Nissan Micra car was caught near Peterborough just after 22:00 BST on 24 July last year.\n\nShe received a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) that required her to state whether she was driving the car at the time or to identify who was.\n\nThe authorities were told the family's former lodger Aleks Antipow had been behind the wheel, but inquiries revealed he had been in Russia visiting his family at the time.\n\nA fake address and telephone number were also provided, which the prosecution said would make Mr Antipow \"untraceable to the police\" and the \"true driver\" would escape prosecution.\n\nFestus Onasanya pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice\n\nThe MP's former communications manager Dr Christian DeFeo came forward during the first trial to give evidence against her, after his wife forwarded him a local newspaper article about the case.\n\nHe said she visited their house, a short distance from the speed camera in Thorney, on the evening of 24 July and that she arrived and left alone.\n\nThe court heard Onasanya's mobile phone was being used in the vicinity of the speed camera at the time of the offence.\n\nShe claimed to the jury that her brother \"would have had to be driving me\" and added: \"I don't use my phone when driving\".\n\nThis will be a blow to the Labour Party - Fiona was one of their rising stars.\n\nShe was quickly promoted to the whip's office and said she had ambitions to be the first black Prime Minister, but it would seem her career with the Labour Party is now over.\n\nThe verdict does not necessarily mean there will be a by-election, but if she is sentenced to more than a year imprisonment, even if it is suspended, it will automatically trigger a by-election.\n\nIf it is less than a year that would trigger a recall petition which means if 10% of all her constituents sign a petition there would have to be a by-election.\n\nIf that did not happen, in theory she could continue sitting as an independent MP, but that seems unlikely.\n\nOnasanya had been elected as an MP six weeks before the speeding offence took place, but stood down as a Labour whip in November.\n\nShe told the court she had been working from a Westminster corridor during her early weeks as an MP and was deluged by thousands of emails.\n\nWhen she received the NIP over the speeding offence she said she had left it at her mother's home in Cambridge for whoever borrowed her car because she assumed she had been in London.\n\nShe had also been admitted to hospital for a relapse of multiple sclerosis while being pursued for the NIP and said she was \"probably not in the best head space\" at the time.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Der Spiegel said it was working to establish the full extent of the scandal\n\nGerman news magazine Der Spiegel has sacked an award-winning staff writer after accusing him of inventing details and quotes in numerous stories.\n\nClaas Relotius \"falsified articles on a grand scale and even invented characters\", Der Spiegel said.\n\nAmong the articles in question are major features that had been nominated for or won awards, the magazine added.\n\nRelotius, 33, admitted deceiving readers in some 14 stories published in Der Spiegel, the magazine said.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the German publication said it was working to establish the full extent of Relotius' \"fabrications\" after a colleague who worked with him on a story raised suspicions about his reporting.\n\nAfter initially denying the allegations, Relotius confessed last week to inventing entire passages of text in several instances, Der Spiegel says.\n\nIn some articles, he is said to have included individuals he had never met or spoken to, \"telling their stories or quoting them\".\n\n\"By his own admission, there are at least 14 articles,\" the magazine said, adding: \"Could that figure actually be considerably higher?\"\n\nDer Spiegel said the reporter's actions were committed \"intentionally\" and \"methodically\".\n\nAn investigation into a story by Relotius about immigration and the US-Mexican border revealed that he had fabricated information about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: \"Mexicans Keep Out.\"\n\nFraudulent information appeared in other stories including one about inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and another about the US NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\nRelotius, who joined the publication as a freelancer in 2011, told the magazine he regretted his actions and was deeply ashamed.\n\nHe has written some 60 articles for the magazine, many of which he has said are accurate.\n\nThe Hamburg-based publication, which has apologised to its readers, said it was \"shocked\" by the revelations, describing them as \"a low point in Spiegel's 70-year history\".", "The number of EU citizens moving to the UK has continued to drop, but more people coming from elsewhere means the overall migration rate is unchanged.\n\nFigures show net migration - the difference between how many people came to the UK for at least 12 months and how many left - was 273,000 last year.\n\nEU net migration was 74,000 in the year to the end of June 2018, while non-EU net migration was 248,000.\n\nThe ONS said more Asian citizens had been moving to the UK for work.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says 219,000 EU citizens arrived in the UK, as 145,000 left, making net EU migration the lowest it had been since 2012.\n\nThe data also showed non-EU net migration was the highest since 2004.\n\nJay Lindop, director of the ONS's centre for international migration, said overall net migration had peaked in 2016 and remained fairly stable since then.\n\nOverall net migration takes into account the migration of British citizens, of which 49,000 more left the country than returned in the year to the end of June 2018.\n\nIn the year to the end of June 2017, EU net migration was 107,000 and non-EU net migration was 173,000. Overall net migration was 273,000 in the same period.\n\nThe government's policy is to reduce overall migration to below 100,000 a year.\n\nSeparately, the Home Office has released statistics on the number of British citizenship applications, which show the number of EU nationals applying has increased by almost a third over the past year.\n\nThere were 43,545 requests in the 12 months to the end of September - a rise of 32% on last year.", "The UK inflation rate fell slightly to 2.3% in November, from 2.4% the previous month, driven mainly by a big fall in petrol prices.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) figure for the month was the lowest since March 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nVideo games prices also fell, but those declines were partly offset by a rise in tobacco prices.\n\nThe inflation figure was in line with analysts' expectations.\n\nONS head of inflation Mike Hardie said: \"Inflation was little changed as falling petrol prices, thanks to a substantial drop in the cost of crude oil, were offset by rises in tobacco prices following the duty changes announced in the Budget.\"\n\nApart from petrol, the biggest downward contribution to the inflation rate came from a variety of recreational and cultural goods and services, principally games, toys and hobbies, and cultural services.\n\nIn addition to tobacco products, upward pressure was seen in categories including accommodation services and passenger sea transport.\n\nThe latest inflation figures mean that pay growth is still outstripping inflation, with the most recent figures showing wages rising by 3.3%, excluding bonuses.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said inflation was set to fall sharply in the coming months, led by lower energy prices.\n\n\"Accordingly, CPI inflation still looks set to be below the [Bank of England's] 2% target right from the start of 2019 and to average just 1.8% over the course of the year,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that he still expected the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise interest rates further in 2019, \"as the Committee believes that interest rates still are well below neutral levels and that no spare capacity exists.\n\n\"As such, we continue to expect the MPC to increase Bank Rate to 1.25% by the end of next year, from 0.75% currently.\"\n\nSeparate ONS figures showed the average price of a house in the UK rising at its slowest rate since July 2013, up 2.7% on the year.\n\nMr Hardie said: \"House price growth continued to slow with the smallest annual rise seen in over five years, led by price falls across London.\"", "The leader of the Labour Party said he was opposed to \"sexist or misogynistic language in absolutely any form at all\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn addressed MPs hours after a PMQs session where he was accused of calling the PM a \"stupid woman\", but he said he used the phrase \"stupid people\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LFB chief Dany Cotton said in October: \"We are truly sorry we couldn't save everyone's life that night\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner is to step down four months early in the wake of criticism over the service's response to the Grenfell fire.\n\nDany Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) in April 2020.\n\nShe was facing calls to resign after a critical public inquiry report into the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nGrenfell United said the change in leadership would \"keep Londoners safe\".\n\nThe statement on behalf of survivors and bereaved families of the fire, added: \"Sir Martin Moore-Bick raised serious concerns that the London Fire Brigade was an institution at risk of not learning the lessons of Grenfell.\n\n\"The phase one report has important recommendations for the LFB. The incoming commissioner must ensure that they move swiftly to ensure those recommendations are implemented.\n\n\"The LFB leadership must be determined in their efforts to ensure the lessons of Grenfell are learnt.\"\n\nMs Cotton, who will leave her role at the end of December, said Grenfell Tower was \"without doubt the worst fire\" that LFB had ever faced.\n\nDany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nAn inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which examined what happened on the night of 14 June 2017, concluded that \"many more lives\" could have been saved if the advice to residents to \"stay put\" had been abandoned earlier than 02:35 BST.\n\nIt said LFB's preparations for such a fire were \"gravely inadequate\".\n\nSurvivors called for senior fire brigade staff to be sacked and prosecuted, saying that the brigade is \"in the hands of people that are incapable of their jobs\".\n\nNabil Choucair, who lost six family members in the Grenfell Tower fire, said it was a \"disgrace\" it had taken this long for Ms Cotton to step down.\n\n\"It's a shame that it's taken pressure from the families,\" he added.\n\n\"If she cared and understood, she would have done it a long time ago. It should not have taken this long, it's a disgrace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell families: 'There was a serious lack of common sense'\n\nMs Cotton said she had worked on \"some of the most painful incidents to have occurred in LFB's history\" during her 32 years with the service.\n\nThree months into the job, she attended the Clapham Junction rail disaster where 33 people died.\n\nShe also led crews when tackling the fire which ravaged the Cutty Sark in 2007.\n\nThe inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire opened in September 2017\n\nThere was a sense of inevitability about the decision of Dany Cotton to stand down early.\n\nIn his report, retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick recalled her evidence to the inquiry - in which she said she wouldn't have done anything different on the night of the Grenfell fire - branding her remarks \"remarkably insensitive\".\n\nHer words had infuriated the Grenfell families who called for Ms Cotton to go and now she has, after a month of \"discussions\" with the mayor.\n\nHe clearly believes she is no longer the person to see the brigade through the changes it needs to make, despite appointing her as London's first female fire commissioner at the start of 2017.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised Ms Cotton for more than three decades with the fire brigade but added that her decision to go was \"the right one\".\n\nHe said he would be appointing a new fire commissioner shortly and added that they will \"quickly take on the responsibility\" of delivering the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report recommendations.\n\nDany Cotton speaking to Theresa May the day after the fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour is promising to base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe party says the advisers would form part of a wider agency to help firms access advice and bid for government contracts.\n\nThe party says it would also help small firms by replacing business rates with a tax based on land value.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Labour would bring higher taxes and uncertainty.\n\nThe Tories have pledged to reduce business rates for smaller firms, and give them a bigger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said smaller companies are \"being stretched to breaking point by global corporations which evade their taxes and fail to pay their suppliers on time\".\n\n\"Labour wants business support and finance to be available for entrepreneurs from the moment the seed of an idea is planted,\" she said. \"Labour's Business Development Agency will create thriving businesses within our communities, bringing life back to local economies.\"\n\nThe party also plans to set up a website offering support to smaller firms, and free full-fibre broadband for every business and home by 2030.\n\nIt also says it will establish a £250bn national investment bank providing loans for businesses.\n\nIn addition, it says it would requiring government contractors to pay their suppliers on time or else face a ban from bidding for public cash.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats said Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to renegotiate the PM's Brexit deal and put it to a referendum undermined Labour's plans to support business.\n\nLabour has pledged to offer voters a choice between its deal or remaining in the EU - it has not said which option it would back and Mr Corbyn has said he would stay \"neutral\" during the campaign.\n\nLib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah said smaller firms have \"made it abundantly clear that any form of Brexit - be it red or blue - will harm their ability to hire staff, make it more difficult to export to our closest partners and ratchet up the cost of doing business\".\n\n\"It is only the Liberal Democrats who will stop Brexit and bring forward a bold vision to support small businesses in the UK,\" he added.\n\nHis party also wants to replace business rates with a levy on commercial properties based on land values, and create a new \"start-up allowance\" to help those setting up businesses with their living costs.\n\nParties are competing to offer more help to high streets ahead of the general election\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said it welcomed Labour's plan for an agency to support small firms, as well as the party's commitment to clamp down on suppliers that make late payments.\n\nHowever its chairman Mike Cherry said the party needed to provide \"urgent clarity\" on its tax changes to dividend payouts.\n\n\"The party promised that no business owner making less than £80,000 would be targeted if it wins power,\" he said\n\n\"But, as things stand, it's hard to see how that will be the case.\"\n\nThe Conservatives also criticised Labour plans to raise the corporation tax rate paid by smaller companies from the current 19% to 21% by 2023/24.\n\nThe party also said Labour plans to introduce a 32-hour working week within ten years would \"hit businesses hard\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"Despite what they claim, Labour are not on the side of small businesses\".\n\nShe added that smaller companies \"don't need a new quango, they need certainty\".\n\n\"All Corbyn's Labour will bring is higher taxes and uncertainty with no plan for Brexit\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' business spokesman Sam Gyimah said: \"Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has dropped any pretence of being friendly to industry, returning to plans from the 1970s to take over company shares and nationalise swathes of the economy.\"\n\nHe also accused both Labour and the Conservatives of being united by Brexit, \"the most anti-business policy of all\".", "Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins has been mugged in London after intervening in a street robbery.\n\nThe 39-year-old was on her way to a rehearsal for a charity carol concert in Chelsea at around 15:10 GMT on Wednesday when she witnessed an older woman being attacked, her agent said.\n\nThe Neath-born mezzo-soprano was then mugged herself after trying to help.\n\nBut she went on to perform at the Henry van Straubenzee concert at St Luke's Church in Chelsea.\n\n\"She didn't want to let the charity down,\" her agent added.\n\nTwo 15-year-old girls were arrested on suspicion of robbery following the incident, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThey were released under investigation, but one was re-arrested on Thursday in connection with the same incident after further information was received.\n\n\"A female member of the public had attempted to intervene,\" the Met spokeswoman added.\n\nIn a statement, Jenkins' agent said: \"Katherine was in London to sing at the Henry van Straubenzee memorial charity carol concert at St Luke's Church.\n\n\"On her way to rehearsal she witnessed an older lady being mugged and intervened to help.\n\n\"As a result of her stepping in, Katherine was then mugged herself.\n\nThe agent added that Jenkins was able to help police identify the suspected mugger.\n\nA police officer was allegedly assaulted during the incident but did not require hospital treatment.", "Officials have issued fresh warnings for blazes around Sydney\n\nAbout 100 bushfires are raging in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), with the most severe forming into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney.\n\nMore than 2,000 firefighters are battling bushfires, which escalated in intensity late on Thursday.\n\nFootage of one blaze on the southern fringe of the city showed firefighters fleeing as flames surged forward.\n\nAustralia's largest city has been blanketed by thick smoke all week, causing a rise in medical problems.\n\nSince October, bushfires have killed six people and destroyed more than 700 homes across Australia.\n\nThe severity of the blazes so early in the fire season has caused alarm, and prompted calls for greater action to tackle climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters flee intense flames in Sydney, in a video shared by them to show the dangers of bushfires\n\nMore than 1.6 million hectares of land in NSW have been burnt already. Fires have also raged across Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\nFires spanned the entire NSW coastline on Friday, with some sparking emergency warnings amid hot and windy conditions.\n\nAuthorities confirmed three fires had merged into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney on Friday, covering more than 300,000 hectares. That blaze is about the size of greater Sydney, officials said.\n\n\"We have also seen the fires coming in very close proximity to major population centres,\" said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany fires have raged for weeks, feeding off tinder-dry conditions from a severe drought which has affected much of the nation.\n\n\"We are in for another tough day,\" said NSW Rural Fire Service assistant commissioner Rob Rogers, adding that several properties had been destroyed in the past 24 hours.\n\nFire crews from the US and Canada arrived in NSW this week to help tackle the blazes.\n\nIn Queensland, authorities said at least two homes had been destroyed in the past day.\n\nSydney's air quality deteriorated beyond \"hazardous\" levels this week as smoke from the fires again blanketed the city. The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Friday read: \"Sydney chokes as state burns\".\n\nThe smoke haze over the city on Thursday\n\nHospital admissions have risen 25% in the past week said officials, with people reporting asthma and breathing problems. About five million people live in greater Sydney.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay indoors, but the smoke in some areas has also seeped into buildings.\n\nEarly on Friday, the NSW capital ranked number 19 on the Air Visual global rankings of cities with the worst air pollution - putting it ahead of Shanghai and Mumbai.\n\nThe smoke has also affected towns closer to the fires for weeks. The state government said on Thursday that the air pollution event was \"the longest and most widespread in our records\".\n\nBushfires are common in Australia, but this year's fire season is more intense and has begun earlier than usual - something meteorologists say is exacerbated by climate change.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology says that climate change has led to an increase in extreme heat events and raised the severity of other natural disasters, such as drought.\n\nLast week, the bureau noted that NSW had endured its driest spring season on record. It also warned that Australia's coming summer was predicted to bring similar conditions to last year's - the nation's hottest summer on record.\n\nOfficial figures have shown 2018 and 2017 were Australia's third and fourth-hottest years on record respectively.\n\nAs the fires rage on, the Australian government has been criticised over its efforts to address climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed accusations linking the crisis to his government's policies.\n\nHundreds of bushfire survivors and farmers converged on the nation's capital, Canberra, this week in protest. One woman displayed the charred remains of her home outside Parliament - on which she had written: \"Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home.\"\n\nMelinda Plesman called for the government to take action on climate change\n\nLast week the UN reiterated that Australia is among seven G20 nations needing to do more to meet their climate promises. The list also includes Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and the US.\n\nThe UN has previously noted that Australia is falling short of its Paris agreement commitments to cut CO2 emissions.\n\nAustralia has pledged to a 26-28% cut on its 2005 levels by 2030. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 to keep temperature rise under 1.5C.", "Dany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nGrenfell Tower residents and firefighters were let down by London Fire Brigade's leaders, a lawyer for the victims has said.\n\nSam Stein QC told the public inquiry into the fire that commissioner Dany Cotton and her leadership team were \"not fit to run\" the emergency service.\n\nThe brigade said it would be unfair for it to be judged before all the evidence was heard.\n\nA total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017.\n\nMr Stein told the inquiry in London that Ms Cotton should have been well aware of the \"dreadful failings\" within the fire brigade that had been identified in the hearings, by the time she came to give her evidence.\n\nBut he added: \"This condemnation of the leadership of the fire brigade of London should not be taken to be an insult to those on the front line.\"\n\n\"No-one can or should forget the sheer bravery and determination of the individual firefighters who risked their lives in the Grenfell Tower.\"\n\nAnother victims' lawyer, Danny Friedman QC, said there was \"overwhelming evidence\" the brigade had failed to plan for such a scenario.\n\nMr Friedman said the fire service knew there was a risk of a high-rise fire which could require evacuation.\n\nBut he said that knowledge did not filter down to firefighters in a \"terrible gulf between paper and practice\".\n\nDany Cotton speaking to Theresa May the day after the fire\n\nHe also said that the brigade had been brought into disrepute by Ms Cotton's evidence to the inquiry from September, in which she said she would not change any part of the brigade's response to the fire.\n\n\"Not only were these comments insulting to the bereaved, survivors and residents, but they were irresponsible,\" Mr Friedman said.\n\n\"They sent a wholly negative message about the LFB's capacity as an organisation to acknowledge its shortcomings and to make any real change in the future.\"\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry has been examining what happened when the fire broke out on 14 June 2017.\n\nPhase two of the inquiry, due to begin early next year, will look at the refurbishment of the tower block, including the cladding and insulation.\n\nIt will also look at the concerns and warnings residents expressed about the fire safety of the building.\n\nStephen Walsh QC, representing the London Fire Brigade, said the fire was the \"biggest challenge to any fire service in the UK in living memory\".\n\n\"Its policies, procedures and training were strained to their limits and in some respects well beyond, that is accepted,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dany Cotton says she wanted firefighters to know she was there for them as they went into the tower\n\nMs Cotton previously told the inquiry that she provided \"direct leadership\" on the night of the fire.\n\nShe said she hoped by going into the tower herself she was showing the firefighters they were all in it together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M&D's Tsunami rollercoaster had passed its annual safety check just weeks before\n\nTen victims of the M&D's rollercoaster crash in 2016 have secured £1.2m in damages.\n\nSeven children were among the people injured in the crash at the theme park in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nIt happened after five gondolas on the Tsunami inverted rollercoaster detached from their rails at a bend and fell to the ground.\n\nThe 10 victims have now successfully sued theme park bosses over physical or psychiatric injuries.\n\nM&D's owners have already been fined £65,000 over health and safety breaches.\n\nThe company pleaded guilty to charges relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act at Hamilton Sheriff Court in March this year.\n\nLawyers for the victims said the lives of some of them had been \"permanently and irreversibly affected\".\n\nTwo boys, aged 11 and 12, suffered serious injuries in the crash\n\nDavid Nellaney, of Digby Brown Solicitors in Glasgow, said it had been proved that the accident would not have happened if the rollercoaster had been properly inspected and maintained by M&D's bosses.\n\nHe added: \"The failure to do so has had a dramatic and lasting impact on the victims and their families.\n\n\"These victims had their lives changed through no fault of their own and while no amount of compensation can undo their pain, it may at least contribute to improving their future.\"\n\nTwo boys, aged 11 and 12, suffered serious injuries - including chest and limb damage - in the incident.\n\nFour other boys, a 14-year-old girl and a man and a woman, both aged 19, were also treated in hospital.\n\nCraig Chalmers' son Ben was the youngest victim and suffered two punctured lungs, a triple pelvic fracture, bruised spleen, bruised kidney and broken femur.\n\nThe schoolboy also had to be resuscitated twice and spent six days in an induced coma at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nMr Chalmers told BBC Scotland the settlement offered some closure but said he still had concerns about the park.\n\nHe said: \"They said they have made changes to improve health and safety.\n\n\"Why did they not make it pre-accident? They had numerous near misses, shall we say.\n\n\"If they had acted on them could they have prevented the accident? I think 100%.\"\n\nA police cordon was put in place following the crash\n\nThe Tsunami, which travelled at up to 40mph through corkscrew turns and loops, never reopened and it was finally dismantled in February 2017.\n\nAn inspector an inspector who passed the ride as safe 16 days before the accident was subsequently banned.\n\nThe theme park was shut for investigations but a partial reopening was sanctioned four days after the accident.\n\nIt was fully reopened to the public just over three weeks later.\n\nM&D Leisure later pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that the rollercoaster was maintained, in efficient working order and in good repair.\n\nA health and safety investigation revealed weld repairs on axles of the passenger cars were inadequate, leading to the failure of the axle suspension on the five-car train.", "Jeremy Corbyn said he taken has a neutral stance on Brexit because \"the country has to come together\".\n\nIn the BBC election debate, the Labour leader said he would implement whatever the public decide in another referendum on the EU.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said it's a \"failure of leadership\" not to have a position.", "Footage of a high-speed chase between police officers and violent rapist Joseph McCann has been released by the Met.\n\nMcCann, 34, has been convicted of 37 offenses including rape, abduction and kidnap at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe manhunt, during April and May, involved hundreds of officers from five forces.", "Joseph McCann had a history of violent offending and should have been recalled to prison\n\nThe crimes of serial rapist Joseph McCann shocked the country and sparked a nationwide manhunt. But he was a violent offender out on licence from prison. How did justice system failures leave him free to start his spree?\n\nJoseph McCann struck terror and fear into his victims.\n\nOne teenage girl, who'd been held at knifepoint and raped in front of her young brother, said he had eyes of \"pure evil\".\n\nAlthough the 34-year-old never appeared in front of the jury during his trial, his threatening and menacing presence was clear from the testimony of those he attacked - and it seems to have been a theme throughout his life.\n\nBorn in February 1985, McCann had problems controlling his anger as a child and was in trouble with police from the age of 11, before going on to commit a series of offences including theft, criminal damage and handling stolen goods.\n\nWhile in his teens, there were warning signs of his tendency to carry weapons when he was convicted of possession of a bladed article.\n\nThen, in 2008, aged 23, he was jailed for a violent burglary at the home of an 85-year-old man. He broke in through a side door and threatened the pensioner with a knife.\n\nMcCann was said by his barrister to be \"thoroughly ashamed\" of what he'd done. According to a newspaper report of the court case, his \"goal\" was to live a crime-free life and provide for his family legitimately. He'd missed the birth of his partner's first child because he was in prison and would be locked up when she gave birth again.\n\nBut because the judge considered him to be dangerous, McCann was ordered to serve a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), which meant that after a minimum term of two-and-a-half years he'd be freed only when the Parole Board decided it was safe to do so.\n\nThese sentences, designed to protect the public from dangerous prisoners, were scrapped in 2012. They formed part of the recent row between political parties over the release of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.\n\nIt's an indication of how entrenched McCann's offending behaviour was that the board rejected his applications for parole three times, in 2010, 2012 and 2014.\n\nMcCann's crimes sparked a nationwide manhunt as he kidnapped and attacked women and children\n\nHowever, while in prison, in an effort to convince the authorities he could be safely let out, McCann completed a wide range of rehabilitation programmes, among them courses on thinking skills, victim awareness and building healthy relationships.\n\nHe was moved to a unit at Wymott Prison, Lancashire, for inmates with complex offending needs, including those with a personality disorder. He was also sent to Warren Hill jail, in Suffolk, which specialises in helping prisoners show they are suitable for release through a programme of \"risk reduction\".\n\nBy the time of his fourth parole hearing probation and prison officials said McCann's behaviour had improved, and he was freed in March 2017 on condition that he stay initially at an approved premises, also known as a bail or probation hostel, abide by a curfew, undergo drug testing and inform the authorities of any new relationship he entered into.\n\nBut within months McCann was back in trouble. He was arrested and charged with burglary and, in August, remanded in custody.\n\nCrucially, however, the authorities had not followed the correct procedures.\n\nBecause McCann had been on licence from prison when he was arrested, he should have been recalled to jail - a process that would have ensured the Parole Board was informed by the Probation Service about his case. But that didn't happen.\n\nThe failure to do so was hugely significant - it meant the board had no control over decisions about his future release.\n\n\"There were shocking consequences, life-changing consequences,\" said Prof Nick Hardwick, who was chair of the Parole Board at the time.\n\n\"If the case had been referred back to the Parole Board, as it should have been, he wouldn't have been re-released and those awful events wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nNick Hardwick, former chair of the Parole Board, says wider failures in the system must be looked at\n\nIn January 2018, after being found guilty of burglary, McCann was sentenced.\n\nLuton Crown Court heard that he'd broken into a house, stolen car keys and, along with an accomplice, driven off in two BMWs.\n\nJudge Richard Foster said McCann had told the jury a \"pack of lies\" and described his record as \"appalling\".\n\nHe noted the offences had been committed while on licence, telling him: \"You're pulling the wool over the eyes of your supervising officers.\"\n\nJudge Foster acknowledged that McCann's case should have been referred to the Parole Board. \"You certainly should have been recalled,\" he said, suggesting it was not too late to do so.\n\n\"You will serve three years in custody... to run concurrently with your current sentence if you are recalled,\" he said, adding that his jail term should not be reduced because of \"time served\" in prison while on remand.\n\nBut in spite of being given such a heavy hint by the judge, the recall process was not applied, the Parole Board was not informed about the case and time served on remand was counted as part of his sentence.\n\nAs a result McCann was dealt with as any offender given a fixed-term, or determinate, sentence would be. He was released at the halfway point, after 18 months, in February 2019.\n\nTwo months later, he began his devastating spree of offending.\n\nMcCann left one of his victims in the car as he paid for petrol at the start of his offending spree in April 2019\n\nHad McCann been referred to the Parole Board, it would not have considered his release until the summer. A panel would have assessed his case in great detail and the expectation is that he would not have been let out at that stage.\n\nQuestions about the failure to notify the board centre on the National Probation Service - and in particular, its office at Watford, Hertfordshire, where McCann's case was being handled.\n\nIan Lawrence, general secretary of the probation union NAPO, said there was a variety of problems there, including a number of senior staff changes.\n\n\"It was pretty much chaos in the office in terms of the supervisory system,\" he told BBC News. \"It was not a happy place.\"\n\nMcCann, wrapped in a blue sheet, was finally arrested by police after hiding up a tree for several hours\n\nIn September 2019, an inspection report found that performance in the wider region was undermined by workloads that were \"too high\", with officers having to manage an average of 42 cases each.\n\nThe report said there were \"significant staff shortages\", with gaps filled by agency workers, and identified problems assessing the threat posed by offenders.\n\n\"Staff did not sufficiently analyse the risk of serious harm or consider victims and potential victims,\" it added.\n\nAs a result of the failings, four probation officers from the Watford office faced disciplinary proceedings, one of whom was found guilty of gross misconduct and has since been demoted.\n\nTwo other workers were investigated for poor performance, including their handling of the McCann case. One employee was sacked and the contract of the other individual, who was from an agency, was terminated.\n\nBut Nick Hardwick believes individual members of staff should not be made scapegoats for more fundamental weaknesses within a system that has had to contend with budget cuts and a controversial re-structuring in 2014.\n\n\"What we don't know is whether the context of the pressures and resource shortages the probation service are under were contributory factors,\" he said.\n\n\"So, it's no good just looking at the person on the front line who made the decision - we need to look at the wider system failures here to see where the buck should stop.\"\n\nDr Jo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, offered sympathy to McCann's victims for his \"appalling crimes\".\n\n\"We recognise that there were failings and we apologise unreservedly for our part in this,\" she said.\n\n\"We are committed to doing everything we possibly can to learn from this terrible case.\"\n\nIn addition to action against those who managed McCann's case, she said the organisation was taking \"significant steps to improve intelligence-sharing between agencies\".\n\nNew mandatory training on recall is being developed for all probation officers, and guidance on when prisoners should be recalled has been updated, added Dr Farrar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uber said it received almost 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the United States in 2017 and 2018.\n\nWhile the number of cases rose in 2018, the rate of incidents dropped by 16%, as the number of journeys was higher.\n\nPassengers - as opposed to drivers - accounted for nearly half of those accused of sexual assault.\n\nThe data was published in a report which Uber said showed its commitment to \"improving safety for Uber and the entire industry\".\n\nUber is facing growing scrutiny around the world, and recently lost its licence to operate in London.\n\nThe report showed 5,981 sexual assault incidents were reported out of the 2.3bn US trips over the two-year period.\n\nUber claimed 99.9% of the total journeys were concluded without safety issues.\n\nUber said the report was the first comprehensive safety review of its ride-hailing business.\n\n\"Voluntarily publishing a report that discusses these difficult safety issues is not easy,\" said Tony West, chief legal officer at Uber.\n\n\"Most companies don't talk about issues like sexual violence because doing so risks inviting negative headlines and public criticism. But we feel it's time for a new approach.\"\n\nThe company told the BBC there were currently no concrete plans to release safety reports for any non-US markets.\n\nThis is a hugely significant document that for the first time details the extent to which the gig economy puts people in harm's way.\n\nUber described it as a complex project that was two years in the making, with much of that time spent auditing the data to ensure accuracy.\n\nIt should be noted that, knowing it would provoke grim headlines, the firm opted to release this data voluntarily.\n\nThe firm has committed to releasing the report every two years.\n\nNow that Uber has proven it can produce this data in a digestible form, it must keep doing so at regular intervals and, eventually, for all its markets around the world.\n\nThat's not an easy undertaking, but the company can afford it.\n\nContinual publication of the report would bring focus and urgency: is Uber's record on safety getting better or worse? Why might that be? Are certain regions safer than others? What can we learn from that?\n\nAttention must also turn to the other gig economy firms out there. Lyft - which is facing a lawsuit over sexual assault filed just this week - has no excuses now that its bigger rival has acted.\n\nUber said 3,045 sexual assault reports were made in 2018 compared with 2,936 in 2017.\n\nLast year, 1.3 billion trips were completed in the US, up from one billion in 2017.\n\nThe head of the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Karen Baker, welcomed the report, saying it \"provides an opportunity to shed light on how this information-sharing emboldens our work for a safer future\".\n\nPassenger safety, in particular sexual violence, have been major challenges for Uber and its US rival Lyft, as well as China's Didi.\n\nIn November, London's transport regulator announced that Uber would not be granted a new licence to operate after repeated safety issues.\n\nThe firm has appealed against the ruling and continues to operate during the process.", "Labour plans to make England's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election.\n\nThis would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said.\n\nBut Conservatives claim the plans are part of \"Labour's war on the motorist\".\n\nMore than 3,000 bus routes have been cut or reduced over the past decade, campaigners said in October.\n\nLabour said its plans would boost British manufacturing and help \"revitalise our high streets and rebuild local communities\".\n\nThere are 35,000 buses in England but only 700 are electric, and mostly in London, Labour said.\n\nLabour says the cost of this policy will be under £4bn over a 10-year period and will come from Labour's Green Transformation Fund.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Westminster bubble doesn't care about buses but cuts to bus routes leave so many people isolated, stuck at home and unable to make vital trips out.\n\n\"Away from London, many people have approached me in this election to talk about their local bus route closing down.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, shadow transport secretary, added: \"The Tories' manifesto didn't pledge a penny to reverse a decade of cuts to local bus services.\"\n\nLabour would give local authorities the power to create council-owned bus companies, replace cuts to bus funding and invest more (at a cost of £1.3bn a year), and provide free bus travel to under-25s in areas that bring bus services under local ownership (at a cost of £1.4bn a year by the end of the parliament), it said.\n\nThe funding will be drawn from Vehicle Excise Duty - formerly known as road tax - with Department for Transport money directed away from road building.\n\nThe pricing is based on the cost of buying new electric buses, and reimbursing bus owners for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles before the normal end of road life.\n\nWhile bus services are devolved, Labour said it would make money available across the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Labour's war on the motorist continues apace.\n\n\"Labour won't be able to deliver a modern bus network because they would raid the roads budget and scrap vital new roads and upgrades to fund their fantasy giveaways.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to \"help local authorities to partner with bus companies to create new superbus networks\" and make £50m available \"to develop the first all-electric bus town or city\".\n\nRoad campaigners said in October that bus service funding has been slashed over a decade.\n\nLocal authority funding for bus services fell by more than 40% over that time, while central government funding fell by 19%, the Campaign for Better Transport said in October.\n\nHowever, the Department for Transport said at the time it supported local bus services with a £250m annual grant to keep fares lower.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said on Friday: \"The steady degradation of bus services by the Conservatives across the UK is a disgrace.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats would spend £4.8bn on restoring bus routes over the next five years.\n\n\"We would also spend £970m on funding electric buses and coaches, reducing emissions and ensuring our transport system plays its part in tackling the climate emergency.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Aramco traces its history back to the 1930s\n\nState-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has raised a record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) in its initial public offering in Riyadh.\n\nThe share sale was the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba which raised $25bn in 2014 in New York.\n\nAramco relied on domestic and regional investors to sell a 1.5% stake after lukewarm interest from abroad.\n\nThe IPO will value it at $1.7tn when trading begins - short of its $2tn target, but making it the most valuable listed company in the world.\n\nThe share sale is at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the Saudi economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.\n\nThe country urgently needs tens of billions of dollars to fund megaprojects and develop new industries.\n\nAramco has found the journey to its public offering testing.\n\nIt initially sought to raise $100bn on two exchanges - with a first listing on the kingdom's Tadawul bourse, and then another on an overseas exchange such as the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut it scaled back its plans after foreign investors raised concerns about climate change, political risk and a lack of corporate transparency.\n\nInternational institutions also baulked at the firm's $1.7tn valuation, prompting Aramco to pull marketing roadshows in New York and London.\n\nInstead, it focused its marketing efforts on Saudi investors and wealthy Gulf Arab allies. Saudi banks also offered citizens cheap credit to bid for the shares following a nationwide advertising campaign.\n\nShares were priced at 32 Saudi riyals ($8.53) on Thursday and were heavily oversubscribed, according to reports.\n\nBut it remains to be seen whether the share price rises or falls when trading begins, most likely later this month.\n\nThe IPO's pricing came as Saudi Arabia met with Russia and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in Vienna to discuss oil production.\n\nThe allies - who together pump 40% of the world's oil - agreed to deepen output cuts as part of ongoing efforts to prop up global prices.\n\nOil prices collapsed in mid 2014 and have yet to fully recover, leaving oil-dependent economies under pressure.\n\nThe market is struggling with slower global growth and a flood of new production from countries such as the US.\n\nThree years after it was first announced Saudi Arabia is finally taking the world's most profitable company public. The market valuation is less than the $2tn target that Crown Prince Bin-Salman - had initially hoped to achieve.\n\nThe company has committed to a large annual dividend until 2024 to ensure investors don't sell shares in the near future leading to a drop in market valuation.\n\nBut analysts believe the biggest challenge for the company will be if it decides to list on an international stock exchange in the future to expand its investor pool. The core business of Saudi Aramco - oil - is considered by many experts its biggest risk.\n\nDemand for crude has been falling, which could make it difficult for the company to grow in the long term. The climate crisis and geopolitical risks are also key factors that could deter potential investors.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "Fiona Mackenzie set up the campaign group We Can't Consent To This\n\nWomen in Scotland are frequently \"appalled\" at the violence they experience during sex with men they are on a date with, activists say.\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This said it knew of victims - many aged in their 40s or 50s - who had been strangled, slapped and spat on.\n\nThe group said brutality that features in pornography was often to blame.\n\nThey are calling for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened.\n\nIt follows a number of recent murder trials in which a \"rough sex\" defence has been used by the accused.\n\nThis argument is sometimes used in court when a man has been accused of killing or attacking a woman while having consensual sex.\n\nAn accused's legal team may bring up the victim's sexual preferences or argue she \"asked\" for the act of violence that led to her death or injury.\n\nIn the recent case of Grace Millane, a 21-year-old British backpacker who was murdered while on a date in New Zealand, the defence unsuccessfully argued she died after being consensually choked during sex.\n\nUniversity of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nWhile her killer was convicted of murder, campaigners say they have now seen a surge in this sort of defence being used during trials in the UK - often resulting in a lesser conviction such as manslaughter.\n\nWe Can't Consent To This is pushing for clarification that individuals cannot consent to violent acts during consensual sex in Scots law.\n\nFounder Fiona Mackenzie said women often do not see this sort of violence as assault, rather as something they've \"put themselves into\".\n\n\"There's one thing that's extremely concerning which is the widespread normalisation of violence against women in sex,\" she said.\n\n\"We hear from women who have been choked, punched, slapped and spat on. I think that's really concerning and I think that's meaning that these defences are much more likely to work.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC published research that suggests that more than a third of women, aged between 18 and 39, had experienced unwanted slapping, choking, gagging or spitting during consensual sex.\n\nHowever, Ms Mackenzie said that since launching her campaign, a large proportion of the women she has heard from are aged in their 40s and 50s while some have even been in their 60s.\n\nShe said: \"We hear particularly from women who return to dating after maybe a long relationship who are appalled by the level of violence they are being subjected to.\n\n\"I don't think it is just the younger age groups.\"\n\nMs Mackenzie opened up about her own experience of violence during sex after being choked by a partner.\n\nShe continued: \"I'd like to say it was a long time ago but I think even at the time I blamed myself, I thought it was something that I was responsible for.\n\n\"Many of these women live with quite extreme trauma, they can't wear clothing that's close to their neck or jewellery.\n\n\"Many of them say they just don't date men anymore because it's too scary and they've been assaulted too many times. Being subjected to that kind of assault is absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nIn 2009, the law in Scotland changed to clamp down on the possession of violent pornography.\n\nThe law was clarified to ban \"realistic depictions\" of rape attacks as well as life-threatening and violent sexual acts, bestiality and necrophilia.\n\nA 2016 study indicated a majority of children are exposed to online pornography by their early teens, which researchers called \"worrying\".\n\nMs Mackenzie said that while the effort to clamp down on violent pornography in Scotland was important, it is \"almost never enforced.\"\n\nShe continued: \"If you go onto any of the main porn sites you see again and again, women being strangled to unconsciousness.\n\n\"I would hope that porn companies would take action to crack down on that - I don't think they have any incentive to at the moment.\n\n\"We hear that pornography is normalising the choking of women in sex - we hear from men who use pornography that that's where it's coming from.\"\n\nAt present the campaign has no concrete changes to present to Holyrood but has urged the Scottish Law Commission to clarify that a person cannot consent to violence leading to injury.\n\nMs Mackenzie, whose campaign has backing from charities such as Zero Tolerance, said that societal changes were crucial.\n\nShe has called for more public bodies to collect data on the issue as well as better sex education in schools and a review of how police handle complaints from potential victims.\n\nPrior to the suspension of the Westminster parliament, changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill were proposed in England and Wales to reinforce the fact that consent can be no defence for death. There have been calls for the bill to be reintroduced after the general election.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was aware of cases in Scotland where the accused has argued the victim consented to the acts resulting in their death, but these resulted in conviction for murder or culpable homicide.\n\nIt said it had strengthened the criminal law on sexual offences, that the law was being kept under review and it will carefully consider any proposals to reform it.", "Sir John Major has urged people to re-elect three MPs who were expelled from the Conservatives for voting against Boris Johnson over Brexit.\n\nThe ex-Tory PM is backing independent candidates David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, all running against his party in the general election.\n\nSir John said \"tribal loyalties\" had been loosened by Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described the comments as \"very sad\" and \"wrong\", calling his predecessor's views \"outdated\".\n\nThe Conservatives say they will take the UK out of the EU in January if they win a parliamentary majority.\n\nThey say this honours the result of the 2016 referendum, in which 52% of people backed Leave.\n\nIn September, 21 MPs were expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they had voted against the possibility of the prime minister pursuing a no-deal exit from the EU. Later, 10 of the MPs were allowed back.\n\nOf the remainder, Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve and Ms Milton are all running as independents in the seats they held at the 2017 general election.\n\nIn a video message, Sir John, a prominent Remain campaigner, described Brexit as \"the worst foreign policy decision in my lifetime\".\n\nHe added: \"None of them has left the Conservative Party; the Conservative Party has left them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Without such talent on its benches, Parliament will be the poorer, which is why - if I were resident in any one of their constituencies - they would have my vote.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said he disagreed with his \"illustrious predecessor\".\n\nHe added: \"I think it's very sad and I think that he is wrong, and I think that he represents a view that is outdated, alas, greatly that I respect him and his record\n\n\"And I think that what we need to do now is honour the will of the people and get Brexit done.\"\n\nAnother former prime minister, Labour's Tony Blair, warned that Brexit \"won't be over\" in January.\n\nHe added that it was \"undemocratic\" to be \"mixing up Brexit with a general election\" .\n\nMr Blair also said: \"Brexit is the substitute of a comforting delusion for the discomforting challenge of a changing world.\"\n\nMr Johnson says a Conservative government would be able to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020.\n\nMr Gauke was among those who disputed whether this was possible within the timeline suggested by the prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nMr Gauke said he was \"delighted\" to have backing from Sir John, who \"represents the best traditions of the Conservative Party\".\n\nAnd Mr Grieve said he had been an \"outstanding PM and Conservative whose moderation and common sense put Mr Johnson to shame\".\n\nSpeaking on a visit in Hampshire, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the ex-PM's intervention showed Mr Johnson had taken the Conservative Party \"off to the extreme\".\n\n\"This is a party that bears no resemblance to the One Nation Conservatives that many moderate people in this country have appreciated and that's one of the reasons so many of those people are now going to be voting Liberal Democrat,\" she said.\n\nSir John, who was prime minister between 1990 and 1997, is a long-standing critic of the government's Brexit plans.\n\nIn September, he joined a lawsuit against the suspension of Parliament by Mr Johnson, arguing it was designed to stop MPs being able to prevent a no-deal Brexit on the then deadline of 31 October.", "Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump during happier times in 2018\n\nNorth Korea has renewed its verbal attacks on President Trump, after he threatened military action.\n\nThe foreign ministry said if Mr Trump was confrontational, it \"must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard\".\n\nThe North first called Mr Trump a dotard, meaning old and weak, in 2017.\n\nIt is the first time in over a year that Pyongyang has been openly critical of Donald Trump, the BBC's Korea correspondent Laura Bicker said.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary defines a dotard as \"a person whose mental faculties are impaired, specifically, a person whose intellect or understanding is impaired in old age\".\n\nDotage, meanwhile, is defined as \"having impaired intellect or understanding in old age\", or in general use as \"old age\".\n\nThe two men held face-to-face talks in Singapore in June 2018, and in Vietnam in February this year, aimed at denuclearisation.\n\nBut talks have stalled since then, and despite another impromptu meeting at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea in June, the North has restarted testing of short-range ballistic missiles.\n\nNorth Korea has repeatedly fired off missiles throughout 2019\n\nIn recent months the hostile language has also come back.\n\nPyongyang has set Washington an end-of-year deadline to offer it new concessions and has said it will adopt a \"new way\" if that does not happen.\n\nAt the Nato summit in the UK on Tuesday, Mr Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as \"rocket man\".\n\nHe also said that the US reserved the right to use military force against Pyongyang.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The war that never officially ended\n\nIn a statement carried by North Korea's state news agency, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui warned that the \"war of words\" from two years ago may be resuming.\n\n\"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard.\"\n\nIn 2017, the two leaders engaged in tit-for-tat arguments, with Mr Trump dubbing Mr Kim \"little rocket man\" and \"a madman\", while Mr Kim called the US president a \"mentally deranged dotard\".", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nA teenager said he threw a boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London because he wanted to be on the TV news.\n\nThe six-year-old boy was visiting London from France with his family when Jonty Bravery, 18, threw him from a viewing platform on 4 August.\n\nThe boy suffered a bleed to the brain in the five-storey fall. His injuries have been described as life-changing.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in February.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned in advance to hurt someone at the South Bank gallery, to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had approached a member of Tate Modern staff, saying: \"I think I've murdered someone, I've just thrown someone off the balcony.\"\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn his police interview, Bravery said he had to prove a point \"to every idiot\" who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.\n\n\"I wanted to be on the news, who I am and why I did it, so when it is official no-one can say anything else.\"\n\nThe court heard Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, had been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October.\n\nIn social media posts, now deleted, the defendant's father, Piers Bravery attempted to raise awareness of autism and its treatment.\n\nBravery was 17 when he was charged but could not be named until his 18th birthday in October.\n\nThe child's family said their son continued to require intensive rehabilitation as he had not recovered mobility in his limbs or full brain function.\n\n\"He is constantly awoken by pain and he can't communicate that pain or call out to hospital staff.\n\n\"Life stopped for us four months ago. We don't know when, or even if, we will be able to return to work, or return to our home, which is not adapted for a wheelchair.\n\n\"We are exhausted, we don't know where this all leads, but we go on,\" they added, thanking supporters.\n\nA GoFundMe page raised almost €153,000 (£129,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nEmma Jones of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"The boy was singled out by Bravery who threw him from the viewing platform intending to kill him.\n\n\"That he survived the five-storey fall was extraordinary.\"", "Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Madrid as the Spanish city hosts climate negotiations by the UN.\n\nThey are calling for more ambitious climate change policy.\n\nThe rally was joined by speakers including actor Javier Bardem and activist Greta Thunberg. A concert was also held near to Nuevos Ministerios, a government complex in the city centre.\n\nOrganisers say around 500,000 people are taking part in the demonstrations. Officials have not given a figure.\n\nSimultaneous protests are also being held in the Chilean capital of Santiago, which was initially expected to host the UN conference.\n\n\"The change we need is not going to come from people in power,\" Ms Thunberg told the crowds. \"The change is going to come from the people, the masses, demanding change.\"\n\nThe talks - known as the COP25 - were due to be held in Chile but the Chilean government cancelled following weeks of civil unrest.\n\nThey began on Monday with the UN secretary general warning that time to avoid the worst effects of climate change was running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nBy the end of the meeting on 13 December, negotiators hope to resolve disagreements over the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords.\n\nBut countries continue to disagree on targets for cutting carbon emissions, and plans to increase these targets have not been included in the agenda for COP25's final agreement.", "Police were called to the scene\n\nThe deaths of a woman and man in Aberdeenshire are not being treated as suspicious, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to the building - believed to be a holiday home - in the Rickarton area of Stonehaven at about 13:30 on Thursday.\n\nPolice said a woman aged 24 and man aged 28 were found. Next of kin have been informed.\n\nDet Insp Sam Buchan said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man and woman who have sadly died.\"\n\nDet Insp Buchan added: \"Officers remain at the property and I would like to thank members of the community for their patience whilst our inquiries continue.\"\n\nA report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has been accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, has been charged with murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe is due to appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nThe 10 charges of attempted murder relate to a 23-year-old woman, six boys and three girls who were also injured in the collision, said Essex Police.\n\nDebden Park High School opened the day after Harley's death for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManagerless Arsenal's season plummeted to a new low as they were beaten by Brighton in interim manager Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette marked his 100th Gunners appearance by heading his side level after Adam Webster had given the visitors a first-half lead.\n\nWith the score 1-1, there was frustration for Ljungberg and Arsenal when David Luiz thought he had made it 2-1 with a volley but it was correctly ruled out following a VAR check for offside.\n\nNeal Maupay headed Brighton's winner from Aaron Mooy's cross to leave Arsenal on their worst winless run since 1977 - and 10 points off a Champions League spot.\n• None Ljungberg should not get manager's job - Sutton\n• None 'I've had to leave all my WhatsApp groups' - how fans reacted to Gunners' loss\n\nWhere do Arsenal go from here?\n\nArsenal, who are 10th in the table, have now failed to win any of their last nine games in all competitions and fans who stayed for the final whistle booed their team off the pitch after a tepid performance.\n\nTwelve years after his last appearance for Arsenal as a player, Ljungberg was given a chance to show fans inside a far-from-full Emirates he is capable of managing the club where he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups.\n\nIt started well, with the Swede given a decent reception by the crowd, before rapidly going downhill as Brighton, who had lost their previous four away games, took control.\n\nLjungberg dropped Shkodran Mustafi from his 18 after last Sunday's 2-2 draw with struggling Norwich, yet Arsenal were still a shambles at the back.\n\nMaupay had already forced Bernd Leno into a one-handed save when Webster struck from a corner after lashing home following Dan Burn's downward header.\n\nArsenal improved with the introduction of club record signing Nicolas Pepe after half-time and France forward Lacazette lifted the mood by climbing above the Brighton defence to head his side level after Mesut Ozil's first Premier League assist since February.\n\nYet the Gunners were short on confidence and ideas - while Mat Ryan produced a superb save at the end to frustrate the home side further.\n\nThe Brighton keeper flung himself across his line to keep out substitute Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal, who have home games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United on the horizon, failed to win for the 11th time in 15 top-flight attempts.\n\nThe home side's night was summed up towards the end of the first half when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a go at team-mate Joe Willock after a home move had broken down.\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter was making his first return to Arsenal since his Ostersunds team beat the Gunners in the Europa League in February 2018.\n\nAsked before the game whether he would be a Premier League manager if Ostersunds had not had a good run in Europe, Potter said: \"Probably not. We all get to a certain point by doing something and everyone's path is different. Ostersunds was mine.\"\n\nThe Seagulls had given leaders Liverpool a late score on Saturday and, on a night to remember, they carried on from where they left off at Anfield to climb three places up the table to 13th - one point behind Arsenal.\n\nBrighton's first Premier League win since 2 November was built on guts and determination.\n\nWhile Maupay, who now has five goals this season, and 19-year-old Aaron Connolly tormented lacklustre Arsenal, Webster and Dunk were solid at the back for the visitors.\n\nIn addition, Potter's arrival at Brighton has seen them become a menace at set-pieces.\n\nSeven of Brighton's last 10 league goals have been scored via set-piece situations.\n\n'This is not Arsenal' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg: \"We didn't show up in the first half, didn't work hard and want to play.\n\n\"Second half we had a word and were better but we are suspect on the counter and we have no confidence. I need to work on that and get confidence back into the boys.\n\n\"At half-time we said 'This is not Arsenal, we have to give it a crack.'\n\n\"We're in a difficult situation, we've lost a lot of games and the confidence has gone down.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"It's a nice moment for us. It gives us a little bit of belief. It was a good game for us, not perfect but we showed real courage and belief.\n\n\"Credit to our players, they did what I think an away team has to do in terms of frustrating but it still takes courage from the players and that's what I'm pleased with.\n\n\"We dug in, I'm very pleased.\"\n• None Arsenal have faced 52 shots on target in Premier League home games this season - in the entire Invincibles season in 2003-04, they allowed just 48 opposition shots on target at home.\n• None Including caretakers, only one of Arsenal's last five managers has won their first home game in charge - Pat Rice against Sheffield Wednesday in September 1996.\n• None Brighton have beaten 'big six' opposition away from home in the Premier League for the very first time at the 17th attempt; they had lost 15 of the previous 16 such games.\n• None Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette has scored 25 of his 32 Premier League goals at the Emirates Stadium.\n• None Brighton ended a six-match winless run away from home in the Premier League this season.\n\nArsenal do not play again until Monday when they visit West Ham (20:00 GMT) in a London derby while Brighton are in action on Sunday when they host in-form Wolves (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Kieran Tierney tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Andrew Neil wants to ask Boris Johnson\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has issued a challenge to Boris Johnson to take part in a sit-down interview with him before next week's general election.\n\nMr Johnson is the only leader of a main party not to have faced a half-hour, prime-time BBC One grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nThe Conservative leader has denied claims he is avoiding scrutiny.\n\nBut Mr Neil addressed the PM directly at the end of his fourth leader interview at this election, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\n\"It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say,\" he said, in a monologue.\n\n\"The theme running through our questions is trust - and why at so many times in his career, in politics and journalism, critics and sometimes even those close to him have deemed him to be untrustworthy.\n\n\"It is, of course, relevant to what he is promising us all now.\"\n\nMr Johnson has also declined an invitation to be grilled by ITV's Julie Etchingham, as part of her series of leader interviews.\n\nMr Neil said that no broadcaster \"can compel a politician to be interviewed\".\n\nBut he added: \"Leaders' interviews have been a key part of the BBC's prime-time election coverage for decades.\n\n\"We do them, on your behalf, to scrutinise and hold to account those who would govern us. That is democracy.\n\n\"We have always proceeded in good faith that the leaders would participate. And in every election they have. All of them. Until this one.\"\n\nMr Neil then listed the questions he wanted the prime minister to answer.\n\nThese include whether he can be trusted to deliver on his promises for the NHS - and keeping the health service \"off the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nMr Neil said he would also ask the PM about his claim that he has always been an opponent of austerity, another \"question of trust\".\n\nHe ended the monologue by saying: \"The prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China.\n\n\"So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me.\"\n\nAndrew Neil grilled Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism and other issues\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have all faced a grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nIn his interview with Mr Neil, the Labour leader repeatedly declined to apologise to the Jewish community for anti-Semitism in his party, something he has now done in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson apologised for supporting welfare cuts when she was part of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition in her Neil interview.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was pressed about Scottish independence and the EU, and her party's record on the NHS in Scotland, while Nigel Farage was forced to defend his decision not to contest Tory seats.\n\nMr Johnson was quizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, on why he had not yet agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nHe denied avoiding prime-time scrutiny, saying he had done TV debates, interviews and a \"two-hour phone-in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why are you avoiding being interviewed by Andrew Neil?'\n\nSeparately, on Thursday evening, The Labour Party complained about BBC bias, in a letter to Director General Tony Hall.\n\nLabour's co-campaign coordinator Andrew Gwynne highlighted Mr Johnson's failure to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Gwynne claimed the Conservatives were being allowed to \"play\" the corporation, making the BBC effectively \"complicit in giving the Conservative Party an unfair electoral advantage\".\n\nHe said Labour had agreed Mr Corbyn's interview with Mr Neil based on the \"clear understanding\" that Mr Johnson had agreed the same terms.\n\n\"Instead, the BBC allowed the Conservative leader to pick and choose a platform through which he believed he could present himself more favourably and without the same degree of accountability.\"\n\nThe BBC is expected to respond in writing to the Labour complaint.\n\nBut a spokesperson said in a statement: \"The BBC will continue to make its own independent editorial decisions, and is committed to reporting the election campaign fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nIn another development, the prime minister's team have confirmed that Mr Johnson will not find time for an interview with ITV before the general election.\n\nHe is the only leader of a major party to turn down the request from the channel's Tonight programme.\n\nA spokesman for ITV said the programme had bid for Mr Johnson when the general election was called.\n\n\"They have contacted his press team on repeated occasions with times and dates offered to film an interview,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's team have today confirmed he will not be taking part.\n\n\"The programme will instead feature a profile of the prime minister using fresh interviews with other contributors and archive footage.\"\n\nITV Tonight presenter Julie Etchingham has recorded an interview with Jeremy Corbyn, which was broadcast on Thursday evening.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Boris Johnson thinks he's born to rule and doesn't have to face scrutiny.\n\n\"He's running scared because every time he is confronted with the impact of nine years of austerity, the cost of living crisis and his plans to sell out our NHS, the more he is exposed.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson must stop ducking scrutiny. His cowardly behaviour shows why he simply isn't fit to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe said it was \"bad enough\" that her party had been \"excluded\" from the BBC's head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn, and \"even worse that right now Boris Johnson won't be held properly to account for his lies and extreme Brexit plans\".\n\nMr Johnson will face Mr Corbyn in a prime ministerial debate at 2030 GMT, on BBC One, on Friday.", "Reena and Sandeep Mander said they wanted to \"ensure discrimination like this doesn't happen to others\"\n\nA couple who were rejected by their local adoption service because of their Indian heritage have won their legal discrimination battle.\n\nSandeep and Reena Mander sued The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council after they were turned away from Adopt Berkshire three years ago.\n\nJudge Melissa Clarke said the couple were discriminated against on the grounds of race.\n\nThe Sikh couple have now been awarded nearly £120,000 in damages.\n\nThe Manders, from Maidenhead, said they felt \"directly discriminated against\" when they were told by Adopt Berkshire \"not to bother applying\" because of their Indian heritage.\n\nFollowing the ruling, they said: \"This decision ensures that no matter what race, religion or colour you are, you should be treated equally and assessed for adoption in the same way as any other prospective adopter.\n\n\"We felt there needed to be a change. This is what this case has all been about for us, to ensure discrimination like this doesn't happen to others wishing to do this wonderful thing called adoption.\n\n\"And today's landmark ruling will ensure this doesn't happen again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reena and Sandeep Mander say they don't want the same thing to happen to other couples\n\nThey were unable to register with the agency in 2016 and were told their chances would be improved if they looked to adopt in India or Pakistan.\n\nBoth the council and the adoption agency denied making that statement during the hearing, claiming the service was prioritising adopters for older children and sibling groups.\n\nAt Oxford County Court, Judge Clarke said: \"I find that the defendants directly discriminated against Mr and Mrs Mander on the grounds of race.\"\n\nShe added the Manders suffered \"hurt, stress, and anxiety\" because of the agency's actions and described them as \"particularly vulnerable, being a childless couple who had gone through numerous rounds of IVF and a sad early pregnancy loss\" who were \"desperate to adopt\".\n\nThe couple said Adoption Berkshire had told them \"not to bother applying\" because of their heritage\n\nJudge Clarke awarded the couple general damages of £29,454.42 each and special damages totalling £60,013.43 for the cost of adopting a child overseas.\n\nThe couple have since adopted a child from the United States.\n\nThe lawyer representing the couple, Georgina Calvert-Lee, said: \"Today's judgment is a victory for all British children who need loving adoptive homes, and for all the eligible, loving adoptive British families hoping to welcome them into their lives.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"We are very disappointed by the judgement in this case, which we will now take time to consider in full.\n\n\"We have reviewed our policies to ensure they are fit for purpose and are confident that we do not exclude prospective adopters on the grounds of ethnicity.\n\n\"Finally, we always put the best interests of the children at the heart of any adoption decisions and are committed to best practice in our provision of adoption services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, spoke only to confirm his name and age at a hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nHe is also charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US Vice-President Joe Biden angrily challenged a man at a town hall hustings in Iowa.\n\nThe local claimed the 2020 presidential hopeful had sent his son to work in Ukraine.\n\nDuring his response Mr Biden appeared to call the man 'fat', although his team suggested he had used the word 'fact'.", "Celeste follows such recent winners as Rag'n'Bone Man (left) and Sam Fender (right)\n\nSoul singer Celeste has won the Brits' Rising Star award, priming her for success in 2020.\n\nBorn in Los Angeles and raised in Brighton, the musician has turned heads with her beguiling, soulful voice.\n\nAfter winning the Rising Star award, the 25-year-old will get to perform on stage at the Brit Awards in February.\n\nThe British-Jamaican singer said the award was \"a huge honour\" and that she hoped \"to make the most of this incredible opportunity\".\n\n\"Like many others, I grew up watching the Brits and have been continually inspired by its nominees, winners and the performances,\" she went on.\n\nThe prize, formerly called the Critics' Choice award, has previously been awarded to Adele, Sam Fender and Rag'n'Bone Man.\n\nCeleste started singing in her teens, taking inspiration from Elton John's Your Song.\n\nShe picked up support from Radio 1 DJs after uploading her song North Circular to the BBC Music Introducing site.\n\nHer debut EP, The Milk and Honey, was produced by Lily Allen's Bank Holiday Records label shortly after and she was signed to Polydor Records last year.\n\nHer melancholy ballad Strange was recently playlisted by BBC Radio 1 and she is currently touring Europe with R&B star Michael Kiwanuka.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nEarlier this week, Celeste was named BBC Introducing's artist of the year. She also appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour to talk about her musical upbringing.\n\n\"The first music I heard was my granddad playing Aretha Franklin and then later Ella Fitzgerald and Otis Redding,\" she said, citing the likes of Solange and Neneh Cherry as more modern inspirations.\n\n\"Something I love about Neneh Cherry is she seems unbreakable. She's remained very cool, and an icon I think.\"\n\nDescribing herself as \"headstrong\" and an \"independent thinker\", Celeste said \"being yourself [was] one of the most important things\" while pursuing music.\n\nThe Rising Star award is decided by a panel of music editors, critics, radio and music TV station heads, songwriters, producers and live bookers.\n\nCeleste topped a shortlist of three female singer-songwriters that also included musical polymath Joy Crookes and indie heroine Beabadoobee.\n\nAll three got the chance to record a session at London's famous Abbey Road Studios.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by celesteVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfterwards Celeste said she had been awestruck by \"passing through the corridors and seeing all the pictures of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra and Kanye West on the walls\".\n\n\"You can feel the atmosphere when you come to places like this, which I love,\" she continued.\n\nThe 2020 Brit Awards will be broadcast live on ITV on 18 February from the O2 Arena in London.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over Brexit, the NHS, security and the economy in a head-to-head live debate.\n\nIt was the last head-to-head between the Tory and Labour leaders before polling day on 12 December.\n\nRead more:Johnson and Corbyn clash over Brexit in BBC debate", "The collapse caused congestion between junctions 25 and 29\n\nThe M25 was closed for about 12 hours after a crane collapsed on the motorway.\n\nThe crane toppled at Junction 27 for the M11 in Epping, Essex, at about 16:45 GMT on Friday.\n\nIt caused huge tailbacks in both directions, with more than 10 miles of near-stationary traffic.\n\nThe crane was later removed and the road resurfaced. The clockwise carriageway re-opened at 04:00 GMT, and anti-clockwise at 07:00 GMT.\n\nOne lane remained closed in both directions to repair the central reservation, but there were no delays.\n\nEarlier, Essex Police said no-one has been seriously injured.\n\nThe crane overturned over both sides of the carriageway\n\nEssex Fire and Rescue Service said six engines were sent to the scene, where traffic stretched back to Junction 29 (A127) on the anti-clockwise carriageway.\n\nConcrete had been scattered across the motorway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nConcrete was scattered across the carriageway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nWork continued through the night to clear away debris and resurface the road as Highways England warned motorists to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisation said the road was damaged due to a diesel spillage, but specialist contractors had been brought in to get the motorway re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Private investment is bringing down the cost of renewable energy'\n\nNationalising UK energy companies will delay the UK's move towards a zero carbon future, according to the chief executive of Scottish Power, Keith Anderson.\n\nHe said that investment by the private sector had seen the cost of renewable energy plummet over the last decade and that debates about nationalisation would only serve as a distraction from averting a climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to focus on hitting zero carbon by 2050. Anything else is a distraction.\n\n\"Having big arguments about who owns what is the worst thing we could do right now. It would slow everything down when what we need to do is speed up.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Anderson's comments were \"hardly surprising\" as they represented \"vested interests\".\n\n\"Labour has set out our plans to dramatically expand the rollout of renewable generation - so that we can hit net zero by the 2030s - not 2050,\" he said.\n\n\"While generous public subsidies have led to some private sector investment in renewable generation, private ownership of the UK's grid has been a disaster, with shareholder dividends prioritised over investment.\"\n\nMr Anderson told the BBC: \"We estimate we need to install 4,000 electric car charging points a day between now and 31 December 2050, and if we delay that for a year arguing about ownership that is 1.5 million charging points that won't get installed in time.\"\n\nLabour says it would increase charging points at a faster rate than the private sector has managed. But Mr Anderson said that competition and innovation had revolutionised his company and the industry.\n\n\"If you look back 20 years we were predominantly a coal burning generator. Now, we have shut down all our coal mines, got rid of gas and we are now a 100% renewable energy company. That's what we want us and other companies to deliver.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has described Labour's plans as radical\n\nLabour plans to nationalise the big six energy providers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into 14 state-owned regional agencies.\n\nIt's not just energy. A Labour government would also take water, the Royal Mail and BT's broadband business into public ownership.\n\nSo how much would this cost?\n\nThat's a tricky question to answer. Labour say parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners - which of course includes many worker's pension funds - but the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates it would add at least £200bn to government debt.\n\nHowever, the government would collect the associated revenue - apart from broadband which it eventually wants to give away for free.\n\nArguments about who is better at delivering key public services and utilities are not new.\n\nBut the Labour Party manifesto proposes one of the most radical overhauls of how companies are owned and run in decades.\n\nThe private sector will tell you that the prospect of nationalisation is deterring private investment at a crucial time - while Labour would say only the state has the power to borrow and invest at the scale and pace that's needed.\n\nIn Scotland, as in most of Europe, the water industry is already nationalised and the SNP wants to extend public ownership of rail, buses and ferries.\n\nProf Andrew Cumbers of Glasgow University says that many breakthroughs in innovation and technology - particularly in renewable energy - have been achieved thanks to state subsidies.\n\n\"It sounds radical but it's only what happens in many other countries. The government can borrow much more cheaply than companies. If you leave it all to the private sector, research and development inevitably gets cut to divert profits into shareholder dividends.\"\n\nSmaller companies - such as Bulb, Ovo and Octopus in energy, and Virgin Media and Talk Talk in broadband - would not face nationalisation. That would leave them competing with the state.\n\nTough if you are giving services like broadband away for free or others at less than market prices.\n\nEven Labour describe their own policies as radical. On that at least business would agree.", "As the leaders gave their closing speeches, the spin room noise level began to rise - and as soon as it was a wrap, the scurrying began.\n\nThe desks for journalists are laid out like tight little warrens, and every reporter, politician and spinner is navigating their way through, hoping not to trip up and cause a different kind of headline.\n\nWe now have big names from both Labour and the Tories who want to be in front of the camera and sell their guy as the top dog.\n\nThe first (and loudest) row was between Labour's shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over Brexit.\n\nAll the crews gathered around the face-off, as one shouted and another rolled their eyes. It's worth watching our coverage on the BBC News channel for the full glory.\n\nThe next was Tory Nicky Morgan and Labour's Baroness Chakrabati, who, while friendly off camera, laid into each other on air.\n\nIt was quite a moment to watch, as the two women spoke over each other to accuse the other of interrupting...\n\nBut that is the nature of a spin room. You want to be first, fast and furious, fighting for your candidate, and telling voters who won what they just watched.\n\nAnd it isn't over yet. We have spotted some more people heading in.\n\nExcuse us while we go and see what Mr Gardiner has to say to Health Secretary Matt Hancock...", "The rapper's set at Lovebox will be his only London festival performance in 2020\n\nTyler, the Creator will headline both Lovebox and Parklife in 2020.\n\nThe shows will be the rapper's first UK festival appearances since he was banned from the UK in 2015.\n\nHe was blocked from entering by then-Home Secretary Theresa May because of claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nThe American will play at Manchester's Parklife on 13 June before closing Lovebox the following evening in London's Gunnersbury Park.\n\nTyler's been donning a blonde wig and yellow suit at shows for his latest album IGOR\n\nTyler's last UK festival set was supposed to be at Reading and Leeds in 2015 but he was forced to pull out the week of the show because he had trouble getting into the country.\n\nHe made his official UK return back in May, popping up outside Buckingham Palace to announce a surprise performance of his latest album IGOR, which is nominated for best rap album at the Grammys.\n\nThe gig in Putney, south west London, was later cancelled by the police after \"rowdy\" fans attempted to climb the gate outside the venue in anticipation of the show.\n\nFour months later he returned to the capital to play two sold-out gigs in Brixton, which went ahead as planned.\n\nTyler presented Rihanna with an award at the British Fashion Awards earlier this week\n\nNext year's Lovebox festival will for the first time be three nights instead of two and has been moved forward from its usual mid-July slot, to the 12 June.\n\nThe rest of the line-up will be announced in the coming weeks. The 2019 edition was headlined by Solange and Chance the Rapper.\n\nOther names on the bill at Parklife - are due to be announced in the new year.\n\nThis year Cardi B cancelled her headline slot two days before the show.\n\nIt came shortly after the Grammy-winning rapper postponed a string of US shows to recover from cosmetic surgery.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says portraying his party as harbouring candidates with extreme views is \"completely wrong\".\n\nNigel Farage has defended his \"difficult\" decision not to contest Tory-held seats, insisting he was putting \"country before party\".\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil that his party had stopped the \"Lib Dem surge\" and were \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\".\n\nHe said his party was the challenger in Labour-Leave areas in next week's poll.\n\nIt comes as three Brexit Party MEPs quit to support the Tories, saying the party will split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nAnnunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris resigned the whip on Thursday, with Ms Rees-Mogg - Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister - saying it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nMr Farage announced in November that his party would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nSome have been critical of this decision, including MEP John Longworth, who lost the Brexit Party whip in the European Parliament on Wednesday for not support his leader's strategy. He is now backing the Conservatives.\n\nAndy Wigmore, from the Leave.EU group Mr Farage fronted at the 2016 referendum, said the former Brexit Party MEPs had made the \"right decision at the right time\" to back the Conservatives.\n\n\"It's time for Nigel to join them,\" he added in a tweet.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Farage was asked about his election strategy, Islamophobic remarks made by two of his candidates and whether the NHS should be \"on the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader denied being marginalised at the general election.\n\nMr Farage said: \"I don't think if you came with me and visited some of the Labour heartlands in the north you would think that and I also think that what we've done is have a very dramatic effect on this election.\n\n\"I think, number one, the decision, difficult decision, I took in 317 seats to stand down.\n\n\"What that's done is that's poleaxed the Liberal Democrats. They were going to win in south London down through Surrey, right out to the west of England they were going to win a lot of seats if we'd stood. And I knew that wasn't the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMr Farage claimed the Brexit Party had prevented a \"surge\" from the pro-EU Lib Dems and had, therefore, blocked a second EU referendum.\n\n\"What we are actually doing now is tearing chunks out of the Labour vote,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed his failure to form a so-called \"Leave alliance\" between his party and the Conservative Party for the election on the Tories.\n\n\"The Conservative Party didn't want to do it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nOn his call for political reform, including scrapping the House of Lords and changing the voting system, he said: \"At this stage we don't look like fundamentally reforming British politics, but do I think there is an appetite for it? Absolutely.\"\n\nMr Farage said he believed Boris Johnson would win the election and that was his preference in a choice with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he said he was undecided who to vote for in the Conservative-held constituency where he lives.\n\nAndrew Neil also challenged Mr Farage on Islamophobic comments made by two of his candidates in in Edinburgh South West and Birmingham Ladywood.\n\n\"Any attempt that gets made to try and paint the Brexit Party into being a right-wing political party that would harbour anybody with extreme views is completely and utterly wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"We are, in terms of the mix of our candidates, if I look at what we put forward for the European elections, we had more diversity of background, of class, of race, than any other party.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Farage said he wanted to see \"some amendments\" to Mr Johnson's Brexit deal, saying: \"If we don't we are not going to get a clean break from the EU.\"\n\nAnd on whether he thinks NHS drug prices would be \"on the table\" in post-Brexit trade deal talks with the US, Mr Farage said the suggestion was \"ludicrous because no British government will sign up to more expensive drugs\".\n\nHe said he believed that \"wealthier people should be encouraged to take out private insurance to lift the burden off a system that is struggling to cope\".\n\n\"When it comes to opening up the NHS for privatisation, do you want the truth? It's already happened.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Andrew Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n• None What are the Brexit Party's 12 key policies?", "Thomas Griffiths was 17 when he killed Ellie in her family home\n\nA teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death will not have his 12-and-a-half year sentence increased.\n\nThe family of Ellie Gould, 17, had called for a tougher sentence for Thomas Griffiths, who was also 17 when he murdered her at her home in Calne, Wiltshire, in May.\n\nThe Attorney General ruled he could not refer the case to the Court of Appeal as the sentence was not unduly lenient.\n\nMs Gould's family said they were \"bitterly disappointed\".\n\nLast month, Griffiths admitted stabbing Ellie repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\" before trying to make it appear her wounds were self-inflicted.\n\nThe court heard Griffiths spent an hour at the house before he drove home, changed his clothes and dumped a bag of Ellie's items in a wood.\n\nEllie's family said they were \"bitterly disappointed\" the sentence would not be increased\n\nHis case was referred to the Attorney General's office under the unduly lenient sentence scheme which received \"in excess of 101\" referrals asking him to examine the prison term handed down by Bristol Crown Court last month.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"After careful consideration the Attorney General has concluded that he could not refer this case to the Court of Appeal.\"\n\nThey said a referral could only be made if a sentence \"is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances of the offence\".\n\n\"The threshold is a high one, and the test was not met in this case,\" it said.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne\n\nFollowing the decision, the Gould family said they were disappointed that \"once again the British justice system has not only let us but also the nation down\".\n\n\"When the Attorney General quotes in his letter to us that Griffiths' crime not only shocked him, but also the nation, yet doesn't feel it is appropriate to refer it to the Court of Appeal to have the lenient sentence reviewed, there is something very wrong with criminal justice in Britain today.\n\n\"All we can do as a family is fight Griffiths' parole when the time comes, to keep such a dangerous individual off Britain's streets and keep the public safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seismograph recorded the quake at 22:49 GMT\n\nAn earthquake has struck in the west of England, causing homes to shake in several villages, the British Geological Survey has said.\n\nThe 3.2 magnitude quake's epicentre was recorded near the town of Bridgwater in Somerset, the BGS confirmed.\n\nResidents reported the \"whole house rattled\", with another another saying there was a \"big rumble and [the] house [was] given a definite shove\".\n\nThe quake hit at 22:49 GMT at a depth of three miles (5km), the BGS said.\n\nResidents in several towns and villages across Somerset including Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Cheddar said they had felt the earthquake.\n\nReports submitted to the BGS said houses had rattled, one person \"physically felt my bed shake\" and others heard \"low rumbles\" and \"short cracking sounds.\"\n\nThe 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded near the Somerset town of Bridgwater\n\nPeople tweeted to describe how there was a boom which had shaken their houses, with one person saying the quake had felt like their house had been hit by a lorry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe earthquake is the latest to be felt in the UK following a series of tremors in Surrey and Lancashire.\n\nA 2.5 magnitude quake, centred on Newdigate near Gatwick Airport, struck in May, following a 3.0 magnitude earthquake on February 27, a 2.0-magnitude tremor on February 19 and 2.4 and 0.2 quakes on February 14.\n\nEnergy company Cuadrilla, which has been fracking for shale gas at its site at Preston New Road, in Lancashire, was forced to suspend work in August after a series of tremors.", "Work is being carried out after a train hit a tree on the track in the Fishguard area in October\n\nTrain passengers in west Wales say they feel their service is being treated as \"dispensable\" after a 40-mile section of line was closed for five weeks.\n\nA replacement bus service is running between Carmarthen and Milford Haven until 22 December as Network Rail clears vegetation alongside the tracks.\n\nRail campaigners and businesses have said it is causing major disruption.\n\nIn a joint statement, Network Rail and Transport for Wales (TfW) said the work was \"essential\" for passenger safety.\n\nThe bus journey between Carmarthen and Milford Haven can take up to two hours and some businesses say they are losing valuable time and money working around the delays.\n\nThe replacement bus journey between Carmarthen and Milford Haven can take up to two hours\n\n\"We've got a client in Dale who needs 24-hour care,\" said a manager at a Pembroke Dock care agency.\n\n\"We're having to pick the carers up and take them to the replacement bus service and then take the replacement carer back - it means that we're out of the office for three-and-a-half hours at a time.\n\n\"It's frustrating, there's work we should be doing but we're doing this instead.\"\n\nNetwork Rail explained the work includes clearing dying and diseased trees after a train hit a tree on the track in the Fishguard area in October.\n\nNo-one was injured, but the line was closed for more than a week.\n\nErene Grieve says the closure should have been staggered\n\nErene Grieve of the Pembrokeshire Rail Travellers' Association said some passengers had arrived at the station in the morning and \"there was no train\".\n\n\"People have been terribly affected and the thought that it's going on for five weeks - it just trails on.\n\n\"I don't know whether closing the whole line was absolutely necessary. It could have been staggered more. They seem to do that on this line - as though it was dispensable.\"\n\nNetwork Rail and TfW said they were working together to keep disruption to a minimum and were advising passengers to check before travelling.\n\n\"We are pleased to be carrying out this essential work on the Milford Haven line to improve the safety for passengers, the public and our staff,\" said Bill Kelly of Network Rail.\n\n\"We would like to thank passengers and line-side neighbours for bearing with us as we carry out this essential upgrade work.\"\n\nTfW insisted it had publicised the cancellation of services well ahead of the line closure on 18 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In lots of ways this is a complicated election.\n\nDerbyshire is not the same as Dundee, Birmingham is not the same as Bangor.\n\nWestminster sure isn't the same as Widnes - and London, maybe above all else, isn't the same as Linlithgow, Leeds or Ludlow.\n\nThere are a multitude of contenders as well - not just the traditional parties, but the SNP and Plaid Cymru, the Brexit Party, what remains of the Independent Group for Change, moveable tribes of party defectors and a clutch of independents as well.\n\nBut as we enter the last seven days of this election, in our first-past-the-post system, whether you believe it is the best or the worst of all worlds, the choice irrevocably, and inevitably perhaps, moves towards the two big teams - the reds and the blues, and the two big, flawed, characters of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAt the start of this campaign we talked here about how, in a strange way, they are an odd couple who share some traits.\n\nAnd on the trail that has been shown, again and again, to be the case.\n\nBoris Johnson fascinates some people, who are desperate to shake his hand, eager as children when there are free sweets on offer.\n\nBut for others he is simply not someone they can trust, who they may even back, but will fill in their ballots wearing kid gloves.\n\nAs one voter in Cardiff told me last week, she had backed Labour all her life, but then had voted Leave, so will now back Boris Johnson, having flirted with the idea of voting for the Brexit Party.\n\nShe had this parting shot: \"I hope he's not lying.\"\n\nBoris Johnson delivers a speech to factory workers in the Midlands\n\nNone of our campaign journeys have provided scientific evidence of the Conservatives cruising to an enthusiastic majority.\n\nSeeing Jeremy Corbyn on the trail, there is no doubting how much the party members who turn up to Labour's organised election events believe in him.\n\nThey talk of \"the movement\", of big change coming. He is greeted by smaller crowds, perhaps, than in 2017, but by big Labour audiences nonetheless, delighted to see him and sing along to the now-familiar, \"Oh Jeremy Corbyn\" chorus.\n\nBut Labour candidates talk privately, again and again, of how his perceived unpopularity among many traditional voters is the block to a Labour majority.\n\nBut the enthusiasm for Boris Johnson, where it exists, is more jaded than during the referendum of 2016.\n\nLikewise, the delight at Jeremy Corbyn is dimmed compared with the crowds that we saw greet him in 2017.\n\nOne man today told me, with tears gathering in the corner of his eyes, that he was so cross about this election because he believed that it had to happen because politicians have made such a mess of the last few years, and obviously upset that the choices were limited in his view, to a decision between two men, neither of whom he trusts.\n\nAs we enter the final week of this campaign though, we will see from the two main protagonists a repetition of their core messages, rather than a grand invitation to inspire.\n\nFor the Tories that will be - yes, you guessed it - to resolve Brexit, to remove the biggest question mark that's been hanging over British politics for three years now.\n\nNot, of course, what the world will look like after the trade deal that could be done with Brussels (or not) - but whether we actually leave or not.\n\nAnd for Labour, it will be punching at the bruises that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has created.\n\nThere are of course many other issues that might and will raise their heads in the time that's left.\n\nIt's of course extremely hard to read how the national polls and sentiment on the ground will translate into the final numbers.\n\nBut - unless something very strange happens in the next seven days - those pretty stable party positions are likely to result in the Conservatives being the biggest party, but not necessarily clearing the hurdle that will see them returning to government with a majority.\n\nAnd unlike the deeply dramatic election and referendum campaigns we have seen in the past few years, perhaps - just whisper it - in the run-up to this particular polling day, nothing has changed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sally-Ann Hart was appearing at a hustings in Hastings on Thursday\n\nA Tory candidate has been filmed saying some people with learning difficulties \"don't understand about money\".\n\nSally-Ann Hart was defending sharing an article that said disabled people could be paid less than the minimum wage.\n\nShe told the audience at an election hustings for the Hastings and Rye seat on Thursday: \"It's to do with the happiness they have about working.\"\n\nMs Hart later said her comments had been taken out of context but apologised for any offence caused.\n\nShe had posted \"This is so right\" in response to a story in The Spectator in 2017 titled \"Why people with learning difficulties should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage\".\n\nThe Facebook post has now been deleted.\n\nSally-Ann Hart gave her support for the article in 2017 but has since deleted the Facebook post\n\nSpeaking at the event at East Sussex College in Hastings, she defended her support for the article saying: \"It was about people with learning difficulties, about them being given the opportunity to work, because it's to do with the happiness they have about working.\n\n\"Some people with learning difficulties, they don't understand about money.\n\n\"It's about having a therapeutic exemption and the article was in support of employing people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHer explanation was met with jeers from the audience.\n\nSally-Ann Hart later apologised for any offence caused\n\nNick Perry, the Liberal Democrat candidate for the constituency, said: \"It gave the impression of not valuing those with learning disabilities sufficiently and undermining their position in the work place.\n\n\"I think she answered in a way that shows her political ineptitude.\"\n\nLabour candidate Peter Chowney said: \"I was somewhat shocked by her comments as many people in the audience were.\n\nI would like to see the opposite - of getting people with neurodiversity in properly rewarding well paid jobs.\"\n\nIt's a hugely controversial argument, should people with learning disabilities be paid less in order to improve the employment rate of those in paid work, which currently stands at just 6% in England.\n\nAt a Conservative party fringe meeting back in 2014, Lord Freud got into hot water for making comments similar to Sally-Ann Hart's. He suggested people with learning disabilities could be paid \"£2 per hour\" if they wanted to work.\n\nThere was a huge uproar and the then welfare reform minister apologised. But it's not a new argument and one that some parents of those with learning disabilities believe should be up for discussion.\n\nI've met parents who have seen their working-age sons and daughter thrive in employment, but they've also seen how challenging it can be for them to get and stay in work.\n\nMany people with learning disabilities thrive in supported employment, believed by many to be the answer. One of the ways it works is by having someone with you to get you up to speed on those first few months in a new job. That's often all it takes.\n\nBut not everyone has access or even knows about such schemes.\n\nOf all disabilities, the employment rate for people with learning disabilities is the lowest. Ms Hart's remarks have offended many disabled people but for those with learning disabilities who just want to work, this has simply scratched the surface of a much wider issue.\n\nMs Hart, who is also a councillor on Rother District Council, later said: \"I was trying to emphasise that more needs to be done to help those with learning disabilities into the workplace and having properly paid work.\n\n\"I did not say anyone should be paid less.\"\n\nJames Taylor, from disability equality charity Scope, said: \"These opinions are outdated, inexcusable, and should be consigned to history.\n\n\"Disabled people should be paid equally for the work that they do.\"\n\nThe candidates standing for the Hastings and Rye constituency are: Peter Chowney (Labour), Paul Crosland (Independent), Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative) and Nick Perry (Liberal Democrat).\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Crosland for a comment.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Robbie Williams has become the joint most successful solo act in UK album chart history after scoring his 13th number one, level with Elvis Presley.\n\nRobbie's The Christmas Present has moved to the top spot after entering at number two behind Coldplay last week.\n\nThe Beatles hold the overall record with 15 UK number one albums.\n\nMeanwhile, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Tones & I equalled the record for the longest-running number one single by a female artist, on 10 weeks.\n\nThat matched the stints at the singles summit achieved by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in 1992 and Rihanna's Umbrella in 2007.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Tones And I This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tones And I\n\nLewis Capaldi is at number two, but is the bookmakers' current favourite to top the chart when the Christmas number one is announced in two weeks.\n\nRobbie's rise means only two of his solo albums have failed to reach number one. His 2003 live album from Knebworth and 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star both reached number two.\n\nThe star also sang on four number one albums as part of Take That, meaning he has appeared on 17 chart-topping albums as a solo artist or part of a group.\n\nThat's still some way behind Sir Paul McCartney, who has had a total of 22 number one LPs with The Beatles, Wings and across his solo career.\n\nWhile Robbie's festive collection heads the albums chart, a host of Christmas songs have shot up the singles chart as people start streaming festive classics in their droves. The top Christmas songs in this week's chart are:\n\nEllie Goulding's new cover of Joni Mitchell's wintry classic River has also entered the top 40 at number 14.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The man stabbed to death in Knightsbridge died near the luxury department store Harrods\n\nThree men have been stabbed to death in London in little over 12 hours.\n\nExauce Ngimbi, 22, was attacked in Hackney, east London, on Thursday afternoon and four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nOvernight, Muhammed Abdullah Al Araimi was killed near Harrods in Knightsbridge, while another man was killed in Deptford, south-east London.\n\nThe deaths mean 136 murder investigations have been launched in the capital this year.\n\nIt is the same amount as during the whole of 2018.\n\nThe deaths mean 136 murder investigations have been launched in the capital this year\n\nMr Al Araimi, 26, was found unconscious near to Harrods just after midnight after police had been called over reports of a stabbing.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but pronounced dead at the scene at 00:39 GMT.\n\nAnother man was found injured and taken to hospital \"in a serious condition\", police said.\n\nHarrods said the store was open as usual but some entrances into the building had been closed due to the police cordon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmergency services were also called to Bronze Street, Deptford, at 03:00 GMT after another man was fatally stabbed.\n\nCrosslom Davis, 20, has been named by the Met Police as the victim.\n\nNo arrests have been made over either of the overnight killings and the Met have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe first victim died in Clarence Mews, Hackney, on Thursday afternoon\n\nDetectives believe Mr Ngimbi, who was killed in Clarence Mews in Hackney, died following \"an altercation involving a group of people\".\n\nA 14-year-old boy is among the four people to have been arrested and has been taken to a police station, the Met said.\n\nTwo 26-year-old men and a 23-year-old man have also been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demolition 'too emotional' for some former staff\n\nPeople who used to work at Ironbridge Power Station have said there was a great sense of community among the staff and some will miss the cooling towers when they are gone. Trevor Sidaway from Wiltshire (second right) worked there for 20 years, before leaving in 1997 and said: \"If you had a problem you could ask anyone and they would help you. You were never stuck for anything.\" Trevor Childs (far left) from Much Wenlock agreed and said \"power stations tend to be like that, but Ironbridge was particularly so. We looked after each other.\" Some will watch the cooling towers come down and they were invited to be part of the event, but Andy Holden from Shrewsbury (second left) said: \"I've spent nearly 40 years maintaining the place, running the place, looking after it, doing my job as best that I could. Don't want to be part of the demolition.\" He explained: \"The power station has been part of my life, it was nearly 40 years. It's helped me raise my children, it's helped me pay off my mortgage and it's gone now and I do miss the place, I miss the camaraderie and the work.\" Trevor Childs said: \"They looked nice, they blended in, but they were part of a power station, the cooling towers. The problem is, to keep them would have cost an absolute fortune.\" Do you have memories of the power station or its cooling towers? Email us", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Llinos Môn Owen was dependent on the drug for a decade\n\nDeaths from cocaine poisoning in Wales have more than quadrupled in the past five years, official figures show.\n\nThirty-one people died from cocaine poisoning last year - compared to seven in 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nHospital admissions in the same period have almost doubled, from 272 to 560.\n\nLlinos Môn Owen, 32, from Anglesey, started taking cocaine aged 18 and would spend £1,000 a month on the habit rather than pay rent or buy food.\n\nShe soon spiralled into dependency and the drug took over her life to the detriment of her mental health and relationships.\n\nMs Owen says she \"was living on an animal level\" after her addiction spiralled\n\n\"As the years went by and I went on to take stronger cocaine, I just couldn't stop,\" she said.\n\n\"I was living on an animal level. The only thing I was worried about was using cocaine. I had nothing in the fridge but that didn't matter because I was taking as much cocaine as I could.\"\n\nAfter the death of a 34-year-old mother of six last month, north Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones expressed concern at the numbers of deaths in the area connected to the drug.\n\n\"People think that cocaine doesn't have a lasting effect, and it does,\" he said at the time.\n\nThis is reflected in what medical staff see during post-mortem examinations.\n\nAvril Wayte says staff who conduct toxicology reports are seeing an increase in deaths where cocaine was involved\n\n\"We find more and more cocaine these days,\" said Avril Wayte, head of the department at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor that carries out toxicology reports for the coroner.\n\n\"In the 1990s, we wouldn't find anything much. But in the first six months of this year we've found cocaine in 20 post mortems,\" she said.\n\n\"People think that cocaine isn't that bad. They think 'I can take cocaine on Saturday night, no problem, fine, it won't affect me.\n\n\"But someone can have a stroke or heart attack. Cocaine really affects the heart. There are so many things that can happen where the heart stops beating and someone dies.\"\n\nFor the past two years, Ms Owen has been attending recovery sessions at Bangor's Penrhyn House and now wants to raise awareness about the potential harm of the drug.\n\n\"Addiction doesn't just affect one person, it affects families and all those around that person,\" she explained.\n\nMs Owen has turned her life around and now wants to raise awareness about how harmful the drug is\n\n\"I lost my job, I lost my sanity. I almost lost my family.\n\n\"They just didn't know what to do with me anymore.\n\nHelp and advice on drug addiction and recovery is available from the BBC Action Line.", "Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish.\n\nSteve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, from Exeter, took four months to circumnavigate the globe in the first trip of its kind in a Spitfire.\n\nThey stopped off in 100 locations, across 30 countries.\n\nThe project, called Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight, started and finished at Goodwood Aerodrome, the base of Boultbee Flight Academy, the first-ever school for Spitfire pilots, in West Sussex.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said a leaked document obtained by Labour shows Boris Johnson is \"misrepresenting\" his Brexit deal and the \"devastating\" impact it will have on Northern Ireland.\n\nHe called the paper \"hard evidence\" NI would be \"symbolically separated\" from the rest of the UK after Brexit, with customs checks on goods.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said there will be no border in the Irish Sea.\n\nAsked about the document during a campaign visit in Kent, Mr Johnson said he had not seen it but insisted his agreement would offer \"unfettered access\" to the British market for Northern Ireland businesses.\n\nThe Conservatives said the leaked Treasury document was an \"immediate assessment, not a detailed analysis\".\n\nIt had not been written for \"decision-making purposes\" or been seen by the PM, the chancellor or \"any of the senior officials involved in the negotiations\", the party added.\n\nBut the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who oppose the agreement, said it had warned Mr Johnson that it would be bad for Northern Ireland and this was \"further evidence\".\n\nThe row comes as the leaders prepare for the last TV debate of the election on BBC One on Friday at 20:30.\n\nAhead of the encounter, Labour sought to increase the pressure on the prime minister, who has claimed his agreement with the EU on the terms of the UK's withdrawal will \"get Brexit done\" by 31 January.\n\nMr Johnson has said the whole of the UK will leave the EU at the same time and that there will be no checks on any goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.\n\nAt a press conference in London, Mr Corbyn said the 15-page Treasury document - titled Northern Ireland Protocol: Unfettered Access to the UK Internal Market - disproved this and showed Mr Johnson's claims about his own deal were \"fraudulent\".\n\nBy John Campbell, the BBC's Northern Ireland business and economics editor\n\nThe analysis in this leaked document matches that published in a government risk assessment in October.\n\nThe initial study said the PM's deal could mean a reduction in business investment, consumer spending and trade in Northern Ireland. But this time the language is even blunter and confirms the worst fears of unionists.\n\nIt concludes that the deal would see \"Northern Ireland symbolically separated from the Union.\"\n\nAnd it once again suggests the government has not been straight about the extent of new red tape on trade across the Irish Sea. Page one of the document says \"at a minimum exit summary declarations will be required when goods are exported from NI to GB\".\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly said those declarations would not be required.\n\n\"What we have here is a confidential report by Johnson's own government, marked official, sensitive, that exposes the falsehoods that Boris Johnson has been putting forward,\" he said.\n\n\"This is cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact a damaging Brexit deal would have on large parts of our country, 15 pages that paint a damning picture of Johnson's deal on the issue of Northern Ireland in particular.\"\n\nAs well as customs and security checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, he said goods moving the other way would be subject to regulatory and rules of origin checks and potentially tariffs - which would force up prices and be highly \"disruptive\".\n\n\"This drives a coach and horses through Boris Johnson's claim that there will be no border in the Irish Sea.\"\n\nBefore he succeeded Theresa May as prime minister, Mr Johnson told the DUP's annual conference in 2018 that no UK government could agree to any border in the Irish Sea. Mr Corbyn said this showed Mr Johnson's word could not be trusted.\n\nBut the prime minister said his agreement was superior to his predecessor's as it would give the Stormont Assembly the power to decide whether to remain aligned with the EU after four years.\n\nMr Johnson said the only checks would be on British exports to the Republic of Ireland going via Northern Ireland.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said this was not correct, as the agreement actually envisaged checks at Northern Irish ports on British goods not formally bound for the Republic, with items \"at risk\" of being transported on there being liable for duties.\n\nThis Treasury document sets out things that trade experts have been saying pretty clearly, but that the government has refused to accept.\n\nBoris Johnson's EU Withdrawal Agreement says customs declarations and documentary and physical checks on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be \"highly disruptive to the Northern Ireland economy\".\n\nThe document notes that 98% of businesses that export to Great Britain are small and medium businesses that are \"likely to struggle\" to bear the cost.\n\nNone of this is a huge surprise to anyone committed enough to have read the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland carefully, but it is not what the prime minister has been saying about his own deal.\n\nAnother striking line from the leaked document says the withdrawal agreement \"has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK's internal market\".\n\nThat is why, in a nutshell, Mr Johnson lost the support of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, and it was his lack of a working majority in Parliament that led in turn to this.\n\nUnder the PM's agreement, Northern Ireland will continue to follow many EU rules on food and manufactured goods, while the rest of the UK will not. Northern Ireland will also continue to follow EU customs rules but will remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nA government risk assessment published in October said it would lead to new administration and checks on goods from west to east.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has insisted Northern Irish businesses will not be hit with additional paperwork or fees, telling a BBC phone-in during the campaign that \"we will make sure that businesses face no extra costs and no checks for stuff being exported from NI to GB\".\n\nThe DUP said it would use whatever influence it had in the next Parliament to push for changes to the agreement.\n\n\"Despite the prime minister's protestations, the facts are in black and white,\" said spokesman Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. \"We have demonstrated over the last three years that we will stand up and speak up for Northern Ireland to ensure our economy is not decimated by a bad deal.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's promise of another referendum within six months of his winning power would \"end the division\" over Brexit as well as protecting jobs and the peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder Labour's plans, voters would get to choose between a \"credible\" renegotiated Leave deal, including a customs union with the EU and a close single market relationship, and staying in the EU under current terms.\n\nHowever, Mr Corbyn again declined to say which way he would vote - saying he would not \"take sides\" so he could faithfully carry out the result. In contrast, his chief Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer said he would campaign against the new deal Labour negotiated and back remain.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said: \"Once again, Jeremy Corbyn is brandishing leaked documents that don't back up his wild conspiracy theories.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said the document showed Mr Johnson's Brexit deal \"would be in fact a knockout blow to the economy of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSNP foreign affairs spokesman Stephen Gethins said it made it \"clear\" that \"Scotland will take a disproportionate hit from Boris Johnson's disastrous Tory Brexit deal\".\n\nSpeaking in Dublin, EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan said that under Mr Johnson's Brexit deal Northern Ireland would \"remain in the UK customs territory and, at the same time, benefit from access to the single market without tariffs, quotas, checks or controls\".\n\n\"EU state aid and VAT rules will continue to apply in Northern Ireland, under the control of the European Court of Justice,\" he added.", "It was a 38-year wait - but the hard work paid off for Christina Tham at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines this week.\n\nTham first represented Singapore at the SEA Games - a regional Olympic-style event - in 1981, winning silver in swimming at the age of 12.\n\nNow aged 50, she returned to the games and finally went one better.\n\nTham won not one, but two gold medals in underwater hockey - a sport making its debut in the games.\n\n\"I never thought I would be back [at the] SEA Games and winning golds and scoring goals,\" she said.\n\n\"I never thought I could perform at this level again.\"\n\nTham decided to get back into professional competition in 2005\n\nTham got into swimming aged seven, when her father had a near-miss while canoeing on a lake during a family trip to Malaysia.\n\nHer father, who was in his late 40s, could not swim and initially resisted wearing a life jacket - but relented on her mother's insistence.\n\n\"I remember I was in another canoe across the lake when I heard a loud shrill,\" Tham told the BBC. \"I saw my dad floating on the water, held up by the life jacket. That saved his life.\"\n\nAfter her dad was rescued, he quickly signed up the whole family for swimming lessons - and Tham hasn't stopped swimming since.\n\nAt the age of 12, she represented Singapore at the 1981 SEA Games in Manila, claiming her first silver in the 4 x 100m medley relay.\n\nThe SEA Games, which are held every two years, sees athletes from the region compete in a variety of events.\n\n\"I was very young and didn't appreciate the significance [of my] achievement. I come from a typical Singaporean Chinese family where [you're] expected to [accept] achievements with modesty,\" she says.\n\n\"It was only after I became an adult that I realised the enormity of my achievements - I was 12 and had won a medal in the SEA Games and was in the top 10% in the country in the [national examinations that year].\"\n\nTwo years later, she was back at the SEA Games, clinching another silver in the 200m breaststroke.\n\nBut that's where her journey as an athlete stopped - at least for the next three decades or so.\n\nTham (fifth from right) and her team\n\nTham pursued a career in the legal industry, training as a solicitor and eventually heading up her own section of a legal department within a real estate company.\n\nIt wasn't until 2005 that her sporting career resumed - and it started with a story in a newspaper.\n\n\"I saw an article [about underwater hockey]. It sounded so interesting and intriguing, [so I] went to try it out,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought that playing a team sport would really round me up as a person. I found I missed a dimension doing only solitary sports my whole life.\"\n\nThe high-speed game, which involves a heavy underwater puck, was added to the SEA Games this year. And so, 38 years after her debut, Tham found herself back where it all began - the Philippines.\n\nShe scored two goals - one in a 4 v 4 event and one in a 6 v 6 event - as the Singapore team won both golds.\n\nAnd Tham has no plans to stop - with the next SEA Games due in Vietnam in 2021, the gold medallist intends to continue training.\n\n\"I train because I love to compete,\" she said. \"I love the intensity and the process of getting there and doing my best when it really counts.\"\n\nAnd what would she say to her 12-year-old self?\n\n\"I would say believe in yourself. Self-belief is almost everything - mind over matter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Players use a short stick to hit the puck, which lies on the floor of the pool", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Workers at insurance market Lloyd's of London have been told to behave during the Christmas party season.\n\nChief executive John Neal told trade magazine Financial News that staff have been emailed warning them to be \"particularly careful\".\n\nThe move by Lloyd's comes after it vowed in September this year to tackle its male-dominated culture.\n\nA survey it commissioned found 8% of workers said they had seen sexual harassment in the past 12 months.\n\nThe centuries-old specialist insurance market, where brokers and insurers meet to do business, commissioned the research after a highly critical report by Bloomberg Businessweek in March.\n\nLloyd's chief John Neal says staff have been told to be \"careful\"\n\nIt found that female workers had faced inappropriate comments, as well as physical attacks by male colleagues. This followed earlier complaints about excessive alcohol consumption and boorish behaviour during working hours.\n\nOne in five workers said that they did not believe they had equal opportunities at Lloyd's, regardless of gender.\n\nMeanwhile, a quarter said they had observed excessive consumption of alcohol at the marketplace during the past year, while 22% had seen people in the organisation \"turn a blind eye\" to inappropriate behaviour.\n\nAs part of its plan to encourage a better atmosphere, Lloyd's decided to put posters up in the toilets of pubs near its office in the City of London, urging its staff to report instances of sexual harassment they had witnessed.\n\nLloyd's emphasised that it expected professional behaviour all-year round, not just at Christmas.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The message is part of our wider speaking-up campaign in which we have been clear about the standards of behaviour that we expect and our ongoing commitment to cultural change in the market.\"\n\nThe moves by Lloyd's come amid a shift in attitude towards traditionally drink-soaked office parties which can lead to accidents, harassment and lawsuits, as well as excluding teetotallers.\n\nAccounting firm BDO will have sober chaperones at its Christmas gatherings, who will be responsible for dealing with emergencies and ensuring workers get home, the Financial Times reported.\n\nLloyd's is not like a traditional insurance firm. It employs about 1,000 staff directly, while about 45,000 work in the market it organises, brokering everything from shipping insurance to cover for space exploration.\n\nIt is unrelated to Lloyds Banking Group, which owns Halifax and Bank of Scotland.", "A former power station's cooling towers have been demolished in a series of controlled explosions.\n\nHundreds gathered to see the four towers at Ironbridge, in Shropshire, be blown up at 11:00 GMT.\n\nWhen it opened in 1969, the power station was one of the largest of its kind in the UK, producing enough electricity for the equivalent of about 750,000 homes.\n\nIt stopped producing in 2015 and will ultimately make way for about 1,000 homes, a school, shops and other infrastructure.", "Selwyn Francis died after choking on a piece of sausage at Mountain Park Hotel\n\nThe death of a man who choked on a piece of meat five months after his brother died in the same way was accidental, an inquest has concluded.\n\nSelwyn Francis, 63, choked on food at a restaurant in Flint on 2 July and died in hospital two days later.\n\nThe cause was brain injury and cardiac arrest due to choking.\n\nHis death came a day after an inquest heard his brother Gwyn Francis had died after choking on a piece of steak at a pub, the hearing in Ruthin was told.\n\nA statement from their brother Kenneth was read to the inquest.\n\nHe said Selwyn Francis' ability to swallow food had been affected by him suffering a series of strokes last year.\n\nThe pair went to the Mountain Park Hotel for lunch to celebrate their other brother's birthday when Selwyn choked.\n\nThe statement said: \"Selwyn suffered from osteoarthritis in his fingers and wasn't able to cut things up and had a habit of putting over sized food in his mouth and trying to swallow without chewing sufficiently.\"\n\nThe hearing was told he quickly became distressed and began to choke. A similar incident happened about 18 months previously.\n\nHe turned blue, CPR was performed and paramedics initially struggled to see the piece of sausage in his throat.\n\nMr Francis was taken to Countess of Chester hospital and he died two days later.\n\n\"All three of us were fast eaters, none of us chewed food the recommended amount,\" his brother's statement added.", "Most Christmas jumpers expected to be sold in the UK this year are made with plastic, a study has found.\n\nEnvironmental charity Hubbub has warned against buying the seasonal garments after finding that up to 95% of them are made using plastic.\n\nConsumers are urged to buy them second-hand or to swap old ones with friends.\n\nThe charity estimates UK shoppers will buy 12 million festive jumpers this year, despite already owning 65 million from previous years.\n\nA spokeswoman for Hubbub described the Christmas jumper as \"one of the worst examples of fast fashion\" and warned that such consumer habits are a \"major threat\" to the planet.\n\nIn a survey, the charity found that two-fifths of the festive tops are worn just once during the Christmas period.\n\nThe survey of more than 3,000 UK adults also suggested that one in three people under 35 buy a new sweater every year, while only 29% of shoppers know that most Christmas jumpers contain plastic.\n\nHubbub analysed 108 jumpers available to buy this year from 11 High Street and online retailers, and found that 95% were made wholly or partly of plastic materials.\n\nThree-quarters of the garments tested contained acrylic, making it the most commonly used plastic fibre. Some 44% were made entirely from acrylic.\n\nIn 2016, a study by Plymouth University found that acrylic was responsible for releasing nearly 730,000 microfibres per wash - five times more than polyester-cotton blend fabric, and nearly 1.5 times as many as pure polyester.\n\nIn a statement, Hubbub project co-ordinator Sarah Divall said fast fashion is a \"major threat\" to the natural world, adding that \"Christmas jumpers are particularly problematic as so many contain plastic\".\n\n\"We'd urge people to swap, buy second-hand or re-wear - and remember a jumper is for life, not just for Christmas,\" she said.\n\nThe warning comes ahead of Save the Children's annual Christmas Jumper Day, which returns on Friday 13 December.\n\nThe event sees tens of thousands of schools and workplaces across the UK take part by encouraging people to wear a festive jersey.\n\nThe charity urges participants to wear their \"daftest woollies\" and donate £2 each.", "Dany Cotton was one of only 30 female firefighters when she joined London Fire Brigade\n\nLondon's first female fire commissioner has said she will retire next year.\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dany Cotton, 50, said the \"utter devastation\" of the Grenfell Tower fire was something that would never leave her.\n\nMs Cotton joined London Fire Brigade (LFB) at the age of 18 and was one of only 30 female firefighters in the capital at the time.\n\nLondon's mayor called her \"truly exceptional\" but she has faced criticism over her work at Grenfell.\n\nSadiq Khan described the fire commissioner as a \"truly exceptional firefighter\"\n\nSpeaking about Grenfell, in which 72 people died, she said: \"The utter devastation of the Grenfell Tower fire and its impact on so many people will never leave me.\"\n\nMs Cotton revealed she suffered with traumatic memory loss and had received counselling since the fire.\n\nThe commissioner said she would \"remain dedicated to leading LFB through any findings\" from the ongoing inquiry into the blaze.\n\nMs Cotton previously told an inquiry into the fire that she would not have changed anything about the way her crews responded.\n\nHowever, a lawyer for the victims of the fire said Ms Cotton and her leadership team were \"not fit to run\" the emergency service.\n\nShe was also criticised by survivors after telling the inquiry she had not spent much time thinking about the disaster as \"it would be no good for me to fall apart\".\n\nGrenfell United, a group which represents bereaved families and survivors, said they would not allow her to evade responsibility through a \"carefully choreographed retirement\".\n\nMs Cotton attended the rail crash at Clapham Junction in 1988\n\nMs Cotton said she had worked on \"some of the most painful incidents to have occurred in LFB's history\" during her 32 years with the service.\n\nThree months into the job, she attended the Clapham Junction rail disaster where 33 people died.\n\nShe also led crews when tackling the fire which ravaged the Cutty Sark in 2007.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said Ms Cotton was \"a true role model who has broken down barriers for women in London\".\n\nLFB said plans to appoint a new commissioner for when Ms Cotton leaves in April next year had not yet been finalised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK diplomat in charge of Brexit at the British embassy in the US has quit.\n\nIn her resignation letter, seen by US broadcaster CNN, Alexandra Hall Hall said she could no longer \"peddle half-truths\" on behalf of political leaders she did not \"trust\".\n\nShe said she has become \"dismayed\" by the reluctance of politicians to \"honestly\" address the \"challenges and trade-offs\" involved in leaving the EU.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it would not comment on details of her resignation.\n\nHowever, it did confirm Ms Hall Hall had resigned as UK Brexit Counsellor at the British embassy in Washington - a post which involves explaining the UK Brexit policy to US lawmakers and policymakers.\n\nIn her letter, dated 3 December, she wrote: \"I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves.\"\n\nShe also criticised the use of \"misleading or disingenuous arguments\" and \"some behaviour towards our institutions\" by politicians, adding that \"were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly as diplomats have received instructions to register our concern\".\n\nMs Hall Hall added: \"It makes our job to promote democracy and the rule of law that much harder, if we are not seen to be upholding these core values at home.\"\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams described her letter as \"stunningly blunt\".\n\nMs Hall Hall, who is a former ambassador to Georgia and has worked in the diplomatic service for 33 years, did not name any specific politicians in the letter, but took aim at the current Conservative government.\n\nShe wrote: \"I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust.\"\n\nWhen the BBC put Ms Hall Hall's comments to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday evening, he said: \"I'm not going to talk about employment issues in the civil service.\"\n\nDiplomats are supposed to be politically neutral and Ms Hall Hall stressed her decision to resign was not tied to her personal views on leaving the EU.\n\n\"I took this position with a sincere commitment, indeed passion, to do my part, to the very best of my abilities, to help achieve a successful outcome on Brexit,\" she wrote, but added her position had become \"unbearable personally and untenable professionally\".\n\nWith a week to go until the UK heads to the polls, Ms Hall Hall insisted she had stood down before the election to avoid her resignation being portrayed as a reaction to its outcome.\n\nCNN reported that she had also filed a formal complaint about being asked to convey overtly partisan language on Brexit.\n\nMs Hall Hall suggested her role as a diplomat had been diverted to convey messages that were \"neither fully honest nor politically impartial.\"\n\nThe UK has been without an ambassador to the US since Sir Kim Darroch resigned in the summer over a row about leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA man who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England over two weeks has been found guilty of 37 offences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nThe 34-year-old also tricked his way into a woman's home before tying her up and molesting her son and daughter.\n\nMcCann, of Harrow, was found guilty of offences including rape and kidnap.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nMcCann's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before moving to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over two weeks in April and May.\n\nHundreds of officers from five forces were deployed in the manhunt before he was finally caught while hiding in a tree.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, described him as \"one of the most dangerous sex offenders the country has ever seen\".\n\nJo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, \"apologised unreservedly\" for \"failings\" which led to McCann being released early, adding that \"strong and immediate action\" had been taken against those involved.\n\nIt can now be reported that four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting McCann while he was on the run from police following the initial attacks in London.\n\nThey have been released under investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 21 April, McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford.\n\nShe was bundled into a car and taken to a house where she was raped until being released later that morning.\n\nFour days later, a 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight.\n\nShe was driven off in a car then repeatedly raped in a number of locations over 14 hours, including outside a school where McCann told her he \"wanted to make her rape a child\".\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister. She suffered a similar fate to the 25-year-old woman.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, who he told \"you are going to Europe tomorrow, you are mine\".\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a \"sex slave\", managed to escape by jumping naked from a window and alerted police.\n\nAt about 13:30 the same day, he pounced on a 71-year-old woman while she was loading shopping into her car outside a supermarket and abducted and raped her.\n\nThree hours later he also abducted and assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the same car before both managed to get away at Knutsford service station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt about 18:30 on 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nHe was filmed at a garage buying condoms but was spotted by a police patrol who pursued him while the girls were inside the car.\n\nAfter crashing into a Mercedes, he fled on foot, then caught a taxi.\n\nThe car was stopped at a police road block but he fled across a field and was finally caught in the early hours of 6 May.\n\nThe 12 jurors decided the fate of Joseph McCann without ever seeing him in the dock. Only once did he leave his prison cell for the Old Bailey - and that was to answer questions from the judge when the jury wasn't there.\n\nMcCann opted out of court proceedings from the moment he was charged in May, refusing to appear before chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot.\n\nInstead, in an unprecedented move, she travelled to Belmarsh Prison and convened the hearing there.\n\nBefore and during the trial, hours were wasted waiting for updates about McCann, with barristers and the judge in almost daily discussions about whether he would turn up and why he had not.\n\nLetters were sent to his cell and prison officers were called to give evidence by videolink to confirm he had received them.\n\nAt one stage, McCann requested a four-week adjournment because he hadn't had enough sleep.\n\nEven towards the end, with the prosecution case nearly completed, the jury was kept waiting while McCann weighed up whether he was going to go in the witness box.\n\nThere were concerns about his health - he didn't eat for days and threatened suicide - but the court's main preoccupation was ensuring he had a fair trial and understood the process even though he chose to be absent from it.\n\nHowever, in the face of overwhelming evidence, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that McCann was playing the system because that was the only option left open to him.\n\nScotland Yard believe McCann used contacts across the country to evade justice as he moved across five police force areas.\n\nHowever, it has been revealed police forces involved in the hunt for McCann failed to share information, meaning he was not identified earlier.\n\nOn his arrest, McCann even told officers: \"If you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary identified him the day after the first attack in Watford and added his name to the police national computer.\n\nBut the Met did not identify McCann as being involved in the two London attacks until 28 April after a call from a member of the public, despite them liaising with their Hertfordshire counterparts on 25 April.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonalds drive-thru while one of his victims was in the car\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nMcCann, who is facing a life sentence, is due to be sentenced on Monday.\n\nAfter the verdicts were reached, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they wished to acknowledge the bravery of the victims and the hard work of the police forces involved.\n\nThe 34-year-old never appeared in court during the trial but was convicted of:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For two politicians who pride themselves on telling it straight, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were both markedly on their best behaviour tonight.\n\nThey didn't harangue each other, there was no heckling from the audience.\n\nThere was a wide range of subjects certainly, and profound disagreements - naturally.\n\nBut there was no moment that burst into fireworks. No massive gaffe on either side, or political car crash in the most public of forums.\n\nThey both stayed true to the tramlines that were long set out in this election.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, it was again and again making the case that the country can only move on if we leave the EU as soon as humanly possible.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, the task was to pull the debate back as often as possible to the changes that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has made to the fabric of millions of peoples lives.\n\nTo that end, it's likely that tonight they will have confirmed in their respective supporters minds, the reasons why they are the chosen candidate to run the country.\n\nEven though there were no obvious shocks or surprises, tonight may well have mattered for the many voters who would have been watching who are yet to make their decision.\n\nThose floating voters, yet to be convinced, are the ones who will decide the ultimate result.\n\nBut the pattern of this campaign, however, has been long set.\n\nThe Conservatives have been in front, Labour struggling to close the gap.\n\nSo tonight, for Boris Johnson's team, it was another hurdle they have crossed without a huge stumble.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, another missed chance perhaps to make a break that didn't come.\n\nSixty minutes of important clashes with only six days to go didn't shake up the big picture of this election, which was sketched out weeks ago, leaving Labour with less and less time to make a difference.\n\nThat does not mean though for a second the Conservatives leave Maidstone tonight sure of a clean victory.\n\nThe margins are too tight, politics too unpredictable, there is still time to go, and the public too savvy to give their votes without a pause.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joseph McCann was arrested after climbing a tree in Cheshire\n\nSerial rapist Joseph McCann had spent two weeks on the run, kidnapping and sexually assaulting women across the country before finally being cornered in Cheshire. This is how it unfolded.\n\nI'd spent a Sunday afternoon with family visiting our daughter in Liverpool on the day it all happened.\n\nIt was still daylight as we made our way back to our home town of Congleton, Cheshire, when we noticed the police helicopter circling above the town centre.\n\nWe'd seen it dozens of times and paid little more attention. But soon social media was buzzing with reports of a man armed with knife on the loose.\n\nWe decided to drive into the town to investigate and, after a while, came across a car that had crashed on a roundabout close to the fire station.\n\nBefore long it became clear police were closing in on serial rapist Joseph McCann.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne person told us the crash had happened as McCann tried to escape after, unsuccessfully, trying to attack two women in the town centre.\n\nHe was now on foot and heading north.\n\nIt didn't take long to come across dozens of police, paramedics and firefighters in the Hulme Walfield district, to the north of the town centre.\n\nSoon we were witnessing McCann's last stand.\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nHe'd abandoned his car - and two would-be victims - before attempting to evade the net closing around him.\n\nJumping over garden hedges and fences, he had headed across country to a row of trees just off Smithy Lane.\n\nDesperate to escape the huge manhunt, he then took refuge in the branches of a tree, believing he'd be safe. In fact, he'd cornered himself and was discovered helpless and cowering.\n\nThe police helicopter pinpointed his hideout and McCann was finally surrounded and arrested.\n\nHe was driven from the scene, shrouded from view by a blanket in a police vehicle.\n\nTen hours after arriving in Congleton and abducting two terrified victims, Britain's most wanted man was finally in custody.", "The US naval air base in Pensacola, Florida\n\nThe gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, was a Saudi student, officials say.\n\nHe has been named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani - a Saudi military member in training at the site. He was shot dead by officials.\n\nThe local sheriff's office confirmed eight others were injured in the attack including two officers. The shooter used a handgun.\n\nIt is the second shooting to take place at a US military base this week.\n\nA US sailor shot dead two workers at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities were alerted to the shooting at the base on the waterfront southwest of Pensacola at 06:51 (12:51 GMT).\n\n\"Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie,\" said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan.\n\nTwo officers were shot in the limbs but are expected to recover.\n\nAccording to its website the naval airbase, which is still in lockdown, employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.\n\n\"There's obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil,\" said the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.\n\n\"Obviously the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims and I think they're going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florida governor: 'The Saudi government will owe a debt here'\n\nPresident Donald Trump said that King Salman of Saudi Arabia had called to \"express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed\".\n\nMr Trump said the Saudi King told him that \"this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people\".\n\nTimothy Kinsella, the base commanding officer, said he was \"absolutely in awe of the response\" to the attack.\n\n\"There was some real heroism today,\" he said. \"I'm devastated. We are in shock. This is surreal, but I couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform that I wear because of my brothers and sisters in uniform, civilian or otherwise, that did what they did today to save lives.\"\n\nAn investigation was taking place and names of victims would not be released until next of kin had been notified, the US Navy said in a statement.\n• None Two killed in shooting at Pearl Harbor navy base", "Chris Evans paid an emotional tribute to his wife as he broadcast his final BBC Radio 2 show.\n\nThe DJ, who has hosted breakfast for nine years, said: \"I'd like to thank my wife Natasha, my gravity, my compass, my guiding light.\"\n\nEvans will host the Virgin breakfast show from 21 January.\n\nZoe Ball will take over the Radio 2 breakfast show, becoming the first woman to host the coveted slot.", "SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a military navigation satellite for the first time.\n\nThe Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday after four previous launches were cancelled due to bad weather and technical hitches.\n\nIt's a significant achievement for Elon Musk's privately-held company, which has been trying to break into the military space launch market for years.\n\nSpaceX said this rocket was a \"rare, expendable\" version of the Falcon 9; it wouldn't try to re-land the booster after launch as it needed to use all its rocket fuel to move the satellite to its distant orbit.", "The death toll after Saturday's tsunami continues to rise\n\nIt is very likely that a collapse of rocks on Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano caused an undersea rockslide, which in turn generated a tsunami on Saturday that has claimed hundreds of lives.\n\nThe volcano is now entering a new, deadly phase, writes California-based volcanologist Jess Phoenix as she looks at a series of spectacular images to analyse the timeline of eruptions.\n\nIn the illustration above, we see Krakatau volcano (also known as Krakatoa) from before its infamous 1883 eruption.\n\nThe name \"Anak Krakatau\" means \"Child of Krakatau,\" so this look at the modern volcano's predecessor provides perspective for scientists.\n\nKrakatau was a classic cone-shaped stratovolcano (meaning it was made of layers and layers of erupted material) that appeared to be intact and large.\n\nThe presence of the fishing vessel in the illustration indicates that despite what appears to be a small steam plume rising from the top, there were no worries about danger from the volcano.\n\nA steam plume would be normal for a volcano that is not erupting and is caused by water heated inside of the volcano rising to the surface.\n\nThis image, taken in July 2018, is of a small eruption of Anak Krakatau, likely one that would be classified as a 0 or 1 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.\n\nThat scale measures the amount of material erupted from a volcano and increases exponentially, with 0/1 being typical of Hawaiian eruptions, and 8 being cataclysmic, like the eruption of Yellowstone 630,000 years ago.\n\nThese types of eruptions can occur as often as daily over the course of years without resulting in a larger eruption.\n\nHowever, it is possible that if more magma enters the system, the volcano will erupt on a larger scale.\n\nIn this photo, also from July 2018, we see incandescent material being ejected from Anak Krakatau's summit crater.\n\nThe visible glow shows the material is still quite hot, as it will cool to a black colour with time.\n\nThe material is cooling magma, and can form cinder, small fragments of lava known as lapilli, and larger objects called lava bombs.\n\nThese are all dangerous to humans, and lava bombs can travel hundreds of metres from the volcano's summit vent before hitting the ground.\n\nThis aerial image from August 2018 shows Anak Krakatau as a small island mostly covered by ejected volcanic material.\n\nIt sits in the middle of a rough circle of three other islands which make an approximate boundary of where the original Krakatau volcano was.\n\nThe 1883 eruption caused a massive collapse of the major structures of Krakatau, and Anak Krakatau has been building up from the collapsed area since it breached sea level in 1930.\n\nThis image documents a weak eruption plume and relatively fresh materials on the island.\n\nBy contrast, this aerial photo from September 2018 shows a vastly different situation than that of the previous image.\n\nA thick brown eruption column obscures one of the three boundary islands, and it shows evidence of convection, which can be seen this picture in its changing width.\n\nEruption columns pose a threat to air traffic and human health, as they are composed of rock fragments that cause damage if inhaled by engines or humans.\n\nThese rock fragments can also cause the collapse of buildings due to their weight.\n\nThis stunning photo from 23 December 2018 shows a dramatic contrast between the Anak Krakatau of today and the one we saw just a few short months ago.\n\nThe cone itself is obscured by the violent eruption, with the interaction between superheated magma, gas, and water causing explosions that result in the water flashing to steam.\n\nSince Anak Krakatau is surrounded by water, there is even greater interaction of water and hot volcanic materials, which produces more steam and a messy-looking eruption.\n\nVolcanoes can create their own lightning, as this Anak Krakatau image also taken on 23 December 2018 shows.\n\nThe mid-air collision of fragmented rock, volcanic ash, and water can create a static charge.\n\nThe volcano itself is obscured by the eruption column.\n\nThe lightning does not come down from storm clouds, but rather from the eruption column itself discharging the static energy through a process called charge separation.\n\nOf course, volcanoes don't erupt in a vacuum. Their impacts are felt locally, and sometimes regionally or globally.\n\nThe new phase of eruptive activity of Anak Krakatau has come with an unusual tragedy in the form of a tsunami.\n\nWith the data currently available, it appears that the tsunami that hit the western end of the island of Java may have been the result of a collapse of part of Anak Krakatau that triggered an underwater rockslide.\n\nThat displacement of rock likely generated the deadly tsunami, some effects of which are pictured above.\n\nVolcanic hazards are not new to Indonesia, and the effects of the latest eruption of Anak Krakatau should serve as a reminder that we need additional study, education, and preparedness measures to keep people and property safe during volcanic disasters and their aftermath.\n\nJess Phoenix is a US volcanologist, co-founder of environmental research non-profit Blueprint Earth, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.", "Mr Mnuchin tweeted out details of his conversations, saying that the banks had \"ample liquidity\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made calls to the heads of the country's six largest banks, in an unusual move aimed at reassuring investors after big falls in US stocks.\n\nLast week, US stocks suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade, as an interest rate rise and US-China trade tensions rattled markets.\n\nMr Mnuchin said banks confirmed they had \"ample liquidity\" for operations.\n\nIt also comes amid a partial government shutdown over spending plans.\n\n\"The [bank's chief executives] confirmed that they have ample liquidity available for lending to consumer, business markets, and all other market operations,\" the Treasury said in a statement attached to a tweet from Mr Mnuchin.\n\n\"[Mr Mnuchin] also confirmed that they have not experienced any clearance or margin issues, and that the markets continue to function properly,\" the Treasury's statement said.\n\nThe BBC Today programme's business presenter, Dominic O'Connell, said the statement was \"very odd\" and could \"spook markets, not reassure them\".\n\n\"People are wondering whether this is really a role for the US Treasury secretary,\" he said.\n\nAnalysts also warned the unexpected statement could make investors nervous.\n\n\"More than anything else right now, Washington and politics are absolutely driving investor sentiment and market direction and that can turn on a dime,\" said Oliver Pursche, a board member at Bruderman Asset Management.\n\nMr Mnuchin also tried to dismiss reports that President Donald Trump had discussed the possibility of firing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, after the US central bank raised interest rates last week.\n\nThe US Treasury secretary tweeted that he had spoken to the president, who insisted he \"never suggested firing\" Mr Powell and did not believe he had the right to do so.\n\nRick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments, said the fact that Mr Mnuchin had said the White House did not have the power to remove Mr Powell, rather than saying it did not want to remove him, would be more comforting for investors.\n\n\"The administration hasn't been all that stable when it comes to changing their mind. Politically, these are very strange times,\" he said.\n\nAll three US indexes closed lower last week, with the technology-focused Nasdaq down 20% since its peak, placing it in so-called \"bear market\" territory.\n\nUS investors are worried about a range of factors including slowing economic growth at home and internationally.\n\nIn addition, a partial US government shutdown began at midnight on Friday after opposition Democrats resisted President Donald Trump's demand for $5bn (£4bn) for his Mexico border wall.\n\nThe shutdown over budget spending could continue right up to the opening of the next Congress on 3 January.\n\nMr Mnuchin is now set to meet with the President's Working Group on Monday, the Treasury statement said.\n\nThe group includes market regulators and Federal Reserve governors, among others. They will discuss \"coordination efforts to assure normal market operations\", the statement said.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriella during a temporary release from prison\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the release of jailed charity-worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nMr Khan met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard and offered his support in urging the Iranian authorities to release her in time for Christmas.\n\nThe British-Iranian, who turns 40 on Boxing Day, was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nMr Khan described her imprisonment as a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Iran since April 2016\n\nHe said: \"Nazanin has been wrongly detained in an Iranian prison for over two years. She has done nothing wrong, has broken no laws. The charges against her are completely false.\n\n\"We - and indeed the whole country - know what a travesty of justice it is that Nazanin continues to be detained.\n\n\"With Christmas approaching, we are calling on the Iranian authorities to release her at once so she can return home and be reunited with her family.\"\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016 after visiting her family on holiday. She has always maintained the visit was to introduce her daughter Gabriella to her relatives.\n\nThe mother-of-one from Hampstead, north London, was recently reunited with her four-year-old daughter during a three-day temporary release.\n\nBut since returning to prison, after her application for an extended release was denied, she has suffered several panic attacks.\n\nTheresa May met the Iranian president for talks at the United Nations in New York in September where she told Hassan Rouhani she had \"serious concerns\" about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment.", "Josh Rathour has been celebrated for his entrepreneurship.\n\nThe chief executive of popular student discount site UNiDAYS has strongly denied claims made against him in an anonymous online petition.\n\nMore than 750 people have signed a letter accusing Josh Rathour, who set up the company in 2011, of sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nThe allegations were made on Organise, a campaign website that hosted a petition against the boss of Ted Baker.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Rathour said he \"would welcome any investigation\".\n\nA statement from UNiDAYS said the company would be conducting an investigation in the new year \"to establish the facts\".\n\nThe firm, which offers money off clothes, gadgets, music, transport and food has grown into a global brand.\n\nThe site, and accompanying app, both marketed at \"Generation Z,\" boasts 10 million members.\n\nIts many partners include Adidas, Asos, Microsoft, Nike and Topshop.\n\nUNiDAYS was founded, and is based, in Nottingham\n\nThe petition, which was published on Saturday, claims inappropriate behaviour at UNiDAYS was \"rife and wholly unchecked\".\n\nIt also alleges that some staff were made to sign so-called \"gagging orders\" - effectively banning them from disclosing their grievances.\n\nUNiDAYS' human resources team, it adds, \"wilfully ignored reports of harassment\".\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Rathour said he was \"confident any investigation will not find any truth in the allegations about his behaviour at work\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the culture at UNiDAYS was inclusive and respectful and that half the line managers were female.\n\nA source close to the firm claimed none of the allegations detailed in the petition had officially been put to the company.\n\nMr Rathour, 36, has been celebrated for his entrepreneurship.\n\nHis firm, which is headquartered in Nottingham, has offices in London, New York and Sydney, and employs more than 250 people worldwide.\n\nIn 2015, UNiDAYS was crowned Digital Business of the Year.\n\nOrganise founder Nat Whalley says former UNiDAYS employees were inspired by a Ted Baker petition\n\nAllegations of harassment at the company had appeared on the workplace review site Glassdoor, but have since been removed.\n\nNat Whalley, the founder of Organise which is hosting the current petition, said it was started by a group of former UNiDAYS employees.\n\nShe says they were inspired by a similar petition against Ray Kelvin, the founder of Ted Baker, calling for an end to \"forced hugging\" and a culture of harassment.\n\nMr Kelvin has now taken a leave of absence while the company conducts an independent external investigation into the claims.", "Video shows the aftermath of a tsunami which hit the coast on Indonesia's Sunda Strait without warning.\n\nMultiple deaths have been reported and the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nThe country's disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged.\n\nIt says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after the Krakatau volcano erupted.", "Mr Spacey posted a cryptic video in the style of his House of Cards character on Monday\n\nUS actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts.\n\nHe will appear in court on 7 January over the incident, which allegedly occurred in Nantucket in July 2016.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Spacey posted a video in which he appears to deny any wrongdoing while in character as Frank Underwood from House of Cards.\n\n\"I'm certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn't do,\" he says in the clip.\n\n\"You wouldn't believe the worst without evidence, would you?\" he asks. \"You wouldn't rush to judgements without facts.\"\n\nThe alleged victim is the son of former television news presenter Heather Unruh, who spoke publicly about the incident last year.\n\nShe accused Mr Spacey of buying her then 18-year-old son alcohol - the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21 - and then groping him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heather Unruh speaks last year about the allegation\n\nIn the video, Mr Spacey speaks in Frank Underwood's accent and addresses the viewer directly, much like he did throughout his five seasons on House of Cards.\n\n\"Of course some believed everything,\" he says. \"They're just waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all.\"\n\n\"They're going to say I'm being disrespectful, not playing by the rules,\" he adds. \"Like I ever played by anyone's rules before. I never did. And you loved it.\"\n\nFrank Underwood was the power-hungry and conniving protagonist of the Netflix series, and murdered a journalist and a politician before he was killed off ahead of season six.\n\nKevin Spacey played Frank Underwood for five seasons and won numerous awards\n\nThe three-minute clip, which is titled Let Me Be Frank, marks Mr Spacey's first public appearance since the first allegation of sexual assault was made against him last November.\n\nHe was accused by actor Anthony Rapp of making a sexual advance in 1986 and a number of other allegations have since emerged.\n\nMr Spacey said he had no memory of the event but publicly apologised before issuing an \"absolute\" denial of the other allegations.\n\nSeparately, in September, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Mr Spacey would not be prosecuted over an accusation of sexual assault that allegedly took place in 1992.\n\nIt said it fell outside of California's statute of limitations.\n\nUK police are also investigating several allegations that centre around his time serving as artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre.\n\nThe controversy has led to Mr Spacey being axed from a number of roles, including from House of Cards and the 2017 film All the Money in the World, which was re-shot without him.\n\nA film in which he appears, Billionaire Boys Club, also took a record-breaking low of $126 (£98) on its first night in US cinemas in August.", "Flights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a drone was first spotted\n\nThe suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a \"miscommunication by police\", a government source has told the BBC.\n\nDuring a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate.\n\nBut over the weekend, a senior police officer said it was a \"possibility\" there had never been a drone.\n\nAbout 1,000 flights were affected during the airport's 36 hours of chaos.\n\nThe airport has spent £5m since Wednesday on new equipment and technology to prevent copycat attacks.\n\nSussex Police has insisted it was not \"back to square one\" after releasing an arrested man, 47, and woman, 54, without charge on Sunday.\n\nThe hour-long call included David Lidington for the Cabinet Office, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Security Minister Ben Wallace, Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg, a defence minister, the airport and police.\n\nA government source said the force accepted that there had been \"poor communications\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Jason Tingley had cast doubt over possible drone sightings as police had not been able to acquire any footage.\n\nAsked about this, he said: \"We are working with human beings saying they have seen something.\"\n\nHe later clarified the force was \"actively investigating\" 67 reports of sightings and there were some \"persons of interest\" but would not reveal if officers were close to making any further arrests.\n\nDuring the conference call, it is understood the Cabinet Office \"pushed\" the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office to update their rapid deployment protocol.\n\nThey also discussed defence systems across the UK's airports, after discussions were had with all airport CEOs on Friday.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe airport has offered a £50,000 reward, through Crimestoppers, and another £10,000 has been put up by the charity's chairman Lord Ashcroft to catch the culprits responsible for the drama, which affected some 140,000 passengers.\n\nA damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport near Horley, close to the last reported sighting, is also being examined.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are clear that there were multiple confirmed sightings of drone activity at the airport.\n\n\"Therefore we took the necessary actions to ensure the safety of passengers using our airport. Safety will always be our number one priority.\n\n\"We continue to support the police with their investigations into this illegal and deliberate act to disrupt the airport's operations.\"\n\nAuthorities regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nIt is believed that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was used.\n\nHowever, experts have said it does not enable the person responsible to be tracked down and captured.\n\nJohn Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, said it could only \"take the drone out of the sky\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emperor Akihito delivers his last birthday address alongside his wife Empress Michiko\n\nMore than 80,000 people have paid their respects to Japan's Emperor Akihito as he gave his final birthday address before his abdication in April.\n\nThe emperor, 85, said he took \"deep comfort\" that his reign had passed without Japan again engaging in war.\n\nHe became emotional as he thanked the people of Japan and his wife Empress Michiko for their support.\n\nAkihito is the first living monarch to relinquish the Chrysanthemum throne in nearly 200 years.\n\nThe emperor, who has had heart surgery and treatment for prostate cancer, will be succeeded in April by his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito.\n\nHis three-decade reign is known as the \"Heisei\" era, which means \"achieving peace\" in Japanese.\n\nDuring his brief address, Emperor Akihito also offered condolences and sympathy to Japanese who had lost family members or suffered damage - a reference to the earthquakes, severe storms and heatwaves that have hit the country over the past year.\n\nAlthough his position is ceremonial and he has no political power, Akihito has spent much of his reign spreading awareness of Japan's actions during World War Two under the rule of his father, Emperor Hirohito.\n\nHe has expressed regret over Japan's military actions in both China and the Korean peninsula, and has also visited several Pacific battlefields to honour the dead, actions that have brought him into conflict with right-wing groups at home.\n\nAhead of his birthday he told reporters: \"It is important not to forget that countless lives were lost in World War Two... and to pass on this history accurately to those born after the war.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 the BBC asked people in Tokyo sum up Emperor Akihito in one word\n\nIn October the head priest at Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine - which honours Japan's 2.5 million war dead but also enshrines convicted criminals of World War Two - agreed to resign after criticising Emperor Akihito, saying he was trying to destroy the shrine by not visiting it.\n\nSome top politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have visited the shrine, sparking an angry response from critics including China.\n\nIn his address, Emperor Akihito also said he hoped Japan would be able to welcome immigrants to the country under new legislation to let in more foreign, blue-collar workers to ease a labour shortage owing to an ageing population.\n\nJapan has hitherto had restrictive immigration laws and accepts few workers from other countries.", "Royal Bank of Scotland has applied for a German banking licence to help it retain clients in the European Union in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe move applies to all its subsidiaries, but would only affect NatWest, which trades across the bloc.\n\nRBS, which already has a Dutch licence, said it would allow it to continue operating freely across the EU.\n\nThe state-owned bank is the latest financial services company to set up an EU hub in response to Brexit.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is to set up three subsidiaries in Berlin, Frankfurt and Luxembourg, while Barclays is expanding its Dublin office.\n\nUnder the plan, RBS will upgrade its current branch in Frankfurt with a new licensed unit.\n\nIt will be responsible for processing and settling euro-denominated payments and offering loans to large German companies.\n\nIt would also allow RBS to maintain its ties to Germany's central bank and continue benefiting from passporting rights that give financial services firms cross-border access to EU clients.\n\nNo jobs are expected to be moved through the plan, but 12 positions will be created in Frankfurt.\n\nSome 37 UK based financial institutions have applied to the European Central Bank for new licences, or to extend existing ones, ahead of Brexit.\n\nOf these, 30 have chosen Frankfurt as their European base, with about €800bn (£711bn) of assets expected to be moved to the city before Britain quits the bloc on 29 March 2019.\n\nEarlier in December, RBS announced it is to shift £13bn worth of business to the Netherlands in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAbout a third of the customers for its investment banking unit, NatWest Markets, will move to the lender's new Dutch subsidiary by 4 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elaine Kirk and Paul Gait were released without charge\n\nThe couple arrested over the drone chaos at Gatwick Airport have said they feel \"completely violated\".\n\nPaul Gait and Elaine Kirk, who were released without charge, told Sky News their \"privacy and identity\" had been \"completely exposed\" after being named in the media and their home searched.\n\n\"We are deeply distressed, as are our family and friends, and we are currently receiving medical care.\n\n\"The way we were initially perceived was disgusting,\" they said.\n\nThe couple, from Crawley, West Sussex, whose names have not been revealed by the BBC until now, added: \"Those that knew us didn't doubt us for a second.\"\n\nSpeaking outside their home, Mr Gait, 47, and Ms Kirk, 54, said they had been \"totally overwhelmed\" by the support they had received from people around the world.\n\n\"We would ask that the press please respect our privacy and leave us to try and get through Christmas as best we can,\" they said.\n\nPassengers faced three days of disruption last week when about 1,000 flights were affected during 36 hours of chaos when drones were sighted near the runway.\n\nThe airport has spent £5m since Wednesday on new equipment and technology to prevent copycat attacks.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the government was \"able to now deploy detection systems throughout the UK\" to combat the threat.\n\n\"The huge proliferation of such devices, coupled with the challenges of deploying military counter measures into a civilian environment, means there are no easy solutions,\" he said.\n\n\"Those people who chose to use drones either recklessly or for criminal purposes can expect the most severe sentence and jail time when caught,\" he added.\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nThe airport has offered a £50,000 reward, through Crimestoppers, and another £10,000 has been put up by the charity's chairman Lord Ashcroft to catch the culprits responsible for the drama, which affected some 140,000 passengers.\n\nSussex Police said a damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport near Horley on Saturday morning, close to the last reported sighting, was being forensically examined.\n\nThe force acknowledged that its suggestion, made on Sunday, that there may never have been a drone at Gatwick was down to \"poor communications\".\n\nEarlier, Deputy Chief Constable Jo Shiner stated there were numerous illegal drone sightings at the airport over three days from 19 to 21 December, discounting any doubt over possible sightings.\n\nThere were more than 200 sightings since the first drone was spotted, with police taking 67 statements, including from fellow officers and airport staff.\n\n\"The impact of this criminal and reckless behaviour has been enormous and we are determined to locate those responsible to bring them to justice,\" she said.\n\nGatwick said it had taken the necessary actions to ensure the safety of passengers, and it was clear there were \"multiple confirmed sightings of drone activity\".\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Louise, sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in 1871\n\nPrincess Louise died in 1939, aged 91, with an unpaid cigarettes bill at R Lewis Limited, located near Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace.\n\nThe National Archives in Kew released details of Princess Louise's estate earlier this year.\n\nHistorians say it's \"very unusual\" for such personal documents to be released, as they are usually sealed.\n\nThe princess, a renowned artist, was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was known for her unconventional lifestyle.\n\nAccording to the death duties file, Princess Louise left £239,260, 18 shillings and sixpence, worth more than £70m today.\n\nThe debt would have bought 300 Players or Woodbines, the popular cigarette brands of the time - however, the documents don't say which one the princess smoked.\n\nLouise's biographer, Lucinda Hawksley said the princess was an \"inveterate\" smoker. But she had to keep it hidden from her mother, who hated the habit.\n\nIt was only when her brother - Edward VII - became king, in 1901, that she could have a cigarette in the smoking rooms of the royal palaces.\n\nMichael Nash, author of a book about royal wills, says the documents provide an extraordinary snapshot of the life of a royal princess in the 1930s.\n\nHe said he was hoping to find a trace of a the famous Nga Mauk ruby - owned by the rulers of Burma - in the papers.\n\nThe jewel was said to be the size of a duck egg and allegedly worth a \"kingdom\". It was, according to Mr Nash, turned into a bracelet for the princess.\n\nThe documents include a detailed catalogue of her jewellery, which was worth more than £30,000. But there is no sign of a substantial ruby.\n\nMs Hawksley believes Princess Louise had an illegitimate son who was adopted by the son of her mother's gynaecologist.\n\nThere's no evidence in the files, but the names of many beneficiaries have been redacted.\n\nAccording to the will, Princess Louise also left a substantial debt of £525 to an Australian doctor, K Rodas Shaw, of London's Harley Street.\n\nHe had been the Australian military doctor in World War One and during the 1920s became an enthusiast for soya beans.\n\nIn a newspaper interview in the 1920s he said \"the possibilities of this new bean food are boundless\".\n\nHowever, the will does not reveal what medical treatment Dr Shaw gave the princess.\n\nShe was known for \"health fads\" and her love of exercise.\n\nAccording to Mrs Hawksley, Princess Louise was determined to keep her slim figure, to avoid becoming a \"hausfrau\" - a woman regarded as being overly domesticated - like her mother.\n\nShe added: \"Princess Alice, mother of Prince Philip, said she was once at a dinner with Princess Louise, where she ate the grand total of four Brussels sprouts.\"\n\nIn aid of sufferers by Princess Louise\n\nPrincess Louise was also a talented artist. Her sculpture of Queen Victoria still stands at Kensington Palace and she was friendly with many of the leading artists of the time.\n\nThe files show her collection included works by contemporaries, as well as great artists of the past, her own works and those of her mother.\n\nShe occupied a grand apartment in Kensington Palace, now home to Prince William and his family.\n\nIn her private sitting room were the most valuable pieces, among them a \"study of a lady with her back to the spectator\", by the 18th Century French artist Antoine Watteau. It was valued at £400 in 1939.", "The victim died in St Joseph's Road, Edmonton, on Tuesday night\n\nTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead in north London.\n\nThe victim, who has not been named but was described as a man in his 20s, died on St Joseph's Road, Edmonton, at about 22:10 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two men aged 19 and 23 were arrested by detectives on Sunday.\n\nThree men who were arrested at the scene on the night of the shooting have been released without charge.\n\nDet Ch Insp Gary Holmes said: \"Whilst we have made further arrests, I urge anyone who can assist in helping us build a clearer picture of this murder to contact police without delay.\"\n\nThe BBC has calculated the death is the 131st homicide in the capital so far this year.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Europe's Sentinel-1 satellite shows the western side of the volcano changed shape\n\nNobody had any clue. There was certainly no warning. It's part of the picture that now suggests a sudden failure in the west-southwest flank of the Anak Krakatau volcano was a significant cause of Saturday's devastating tsunami in the Sunda Strait.\n\nOf course everyone in the region will have been aware of Anak Krakatau, the volcano that emerged in the sea channel just less than 100 years ago. But its rumblings and eruptions have been described by local experts as relatively low-scale and semi-continuous.\n\nIn other words, it's been part of the background.\n\nAnd yet it is well known that volcanoes have the capacity to generate big waves. The mechanism as ever is the displacement of a large volume of water.\n\nThe first satellite imagery returned after the event on Saturday points strongly to a collapse in a 64 hectare segment of the west-southwest flank of the volcano during an eruption. This would have sent millions of tonnes of rocky debris into the sea, pushing out waves in all directions.\n\nAnak Krakatau has been rumbling for years\n\nProf Andy Hooper from Leeds University, UK, is a specialist in the study of volcanoes from orbit. He had little doubt in the interpretation when examining the pictures from Europe's Sentinel-1 radar spacecraft.\n\n\"As well as an increase in the size of the crater, there are new dark features on the west side indicating steep-sided scarps in shadow, presumably due to collapse; as well as changes in the coastline.\"\n\nThe comparison between Saturday's imagery and Sentinel pictures acquired before the tsunami are telling.\n\nBut the precise anatomy of this event - what happened above the sea surface and below - will not be known until teams can get into the area of the volcano to do a proper survey, and at the moment that is too dangerous. Further collapse could kick off more tsunamis.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScientists have had concerns for some time about Anak Krakatau, the edifice that has grown in place of the infamous Krakatau mountain that blew itself apart on the same spot in 1883.\n\nOne group even modelled what would happen in a collapse of the southwest flank - the side of today's volcano considered to be the most unstable.\n\nWaves that were tens of metres high would hit the nearby islands of Sertung, Panjang and Rakata in less than a minute, the team found.\n\nAs these waves spread out across the Sunda Strait, they would dissipate, though, coming ashore at one to three metres in height.\n\nThe projected scenario is uncanny, particularly in the timing of the inundation. Tide gauges in the Sunda Strait recorded high water around half an hour after the onset of Anak Krakatau's latest eruptive activity, at roughly 21:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday evening.\n\nRaphaël Paris, one of the authors of the study, issued a statement through the European Geosciences Union. He said: \"The volume of collapse simulated is larger than what occurred Saturday (fortunately) and our scenario can thus be considered as a worst-case scenario.\n\n\"However, there is a big uncertainty on the stability of the volcanic cone now and the probability for future collapses and tsunamis is perhaps non negligible.\"\n\nThe tsunami wiped out buildings in Carita\n\nThe area will inevitably become the subject of intense scrutiny in the weeks ahead.\n\nLandslide- or rockfall-driven tsunamis can be very big indeed. In the geological record, they have been responsible for gargantuan events.\n\nJust recently in Greenland in 2017, a 100m (330ft) wave was produced by a rockslide entering a fjord in the west of the country; and there is still some suspicion that September's damaging tsunami that affected Sulawesi Island in Indonesia was, in part at least, strengthened by the mass movement of sediment, either entering the water from shore or slipping down underwater slopes in Palu Bay.\n\nOne of the most distressing things on occasions like this is to see video of people going about their lives completely unaware of what is about to hit them.\n\nIf there had been a major earthquake tremor associated with the eruption on Anak Krakatau, this might have been enough to prompt many locals to take evasive action.\n\nBut although there was seismicity reported by sensitive instruments, it was not large enough to register with people and change their behaviour. And people really have to rely on themselves for evacuation in cases like this because the distance from the source of the tsunami is so short.\n\n\"Tsunami warning buoys are positioned to warn of tsunamis originated by earthquakes at underwater tectonic plate boundaries. Even if there had been such a buoy right next to Anak Krakatau, this is so close to the affected shorelines that warning times would have been minimal given the high speeds at which tsunami waves travel,\" observed Prof Dave Rothery from the UK's Open University.\n\nWhat an event like this one (and the one at Palu City which also caught the population unawares) teaches us is that there needs to be far more investigation into the hazards that exist away from the more expected dangers in the region.\n\nRelatives are desperate to find their loved ones alive\n\nEnormous research effort has gone into understanding what are called subduction earthquakes and tsunamis, such as the 2004 disaster which originated on the Sunda Trench, where one tectonic plate dives under another. The science now needs to encompass more of the wider threats in the region.\n\nThis recognition was voiced strongly at this month's American Geophysical Union Meeting - the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.\n\n\"Focus is always where the light is,\" Prof Hermann Fritz, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, told the AGU conference.\n\n\"The focus has been on Sumatra and Java - on the big subduction trenches. The warning centres have also been focussing on that - because we've had big events such as Japan [2011], Chile in 2010 and Sumatra in 2004. These are all classic subduction zone events, so everything has been geared towards that - the science from the scientists and also the warnings from warning centres.\"\n\nThis page was initially published on Saturday and has been updated to reflect new information, in particular from Europe's Sentinel satellite system.", "Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are both giving Christmas messages\n\nTheresa May has used her Christmas message to praise the work of the Armed Forces, particularly in Syria and after the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.\n\nThe PM said UK forces had \"continued to demonstrate why you are the finest in the world\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute to those who emulate the Good Samaritan in his Christmas message.\n\nHe drew on the Christian parable to applaud those who help others.\n\nIn her message, Mrs May said the UK's Armed Forces had played a \"vital role\" in cleaning up after the Novichok attack, protecting the country's waters and skies from Russian intrusion, and also elsewhere in the fight against the Islamic State group and terrorism.\n\nThey had also helped, alongside US and French allies, to send a message to the Assad regime in Syria \"that we will not stand by while chemical weapons are used, as they were in April on families, including young children\".\n\nMrs May highlighted the military's role in cleaning up Salisbury after the nerve agent attack\n\n\"Time and again, you have stood up to aggression and those who flout the rules-based international order,\" she said.\n\n\"You should be incredibly proud of all that you do, just as the whole country is proud of you.\"\n\nThe military was called in to Salisbury after the nerve agent attack in March, to help remove vehicles and objects that might have been contaminated.\n\nMrs May added: \"Now as we approach the new year, there will be new challenges ahead.\n\n\"But I know you will continue to meet them in the same way that you have always done. With courage, determination, resilience, ingenuity.\n\n\"Qualities that are as vital now as they have ever been.\"\n\nMr Corbyn praised those that give their time to help the homeless, such as at this Crisis centre in London\n\nIn a video to run on social media, Mr Corbyn said that he saw \"the compassion of the Good Samaritan in people across our country every day but especially at Christmas\".\n\n\"Whether it's people helping in homeless shelters, offering comfort and meals for those looking to escape the freezing temperatures and dangers of sleeping rough.\n\n\"Those ensuring food banks are fully stocked for people who can't afford to eat properly this Christmas.\n\n\"Or volunteers raising money for refugees who've been forced to flee war, oppression and devastation.\n\n\"These are people who will not 'walk by on the other side'.\n\n\"They do what's become so necessary in a system that is failing to provide for people's basic needs.\"\n\nHe said these people \"embody what's best and most compassionate in all of us\".\n\n\"They make me certain that we can build a fairer society which works for everyone.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's message comes after charity Crisis said homelessness in the UK was at a record high - with 170,000 families and individuals experiencing destitution.", "As many as 3,000 people have been evacuated after residents of a newly completed tower block in Australia reported hearing \"cracking noises\".\n\nPolice confirmed they had found a crack in the 33-storey Opal Tower, in Sydney Olympic Park, following reports of the noise on the 10th floor.\n\nEngineers said the high-rise tower has moved up to 2mm, local media reported.\n\nA 1km (0.6 mile) evacuation zone, which also affected other buildings, was put in place amid safety fears.\n\nAn email to residents of a nearby apartment block said the evacuation had been ordered because \"there is a potential for the tower to collapse\", according to the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nSpecialists were due to enter the 10th floor to inspect the crack and assess whether the building was safe, Greg White, a spokesman for New South Wales Fire And Rescue, told reporters.\n\nHe said police had been called at about 14:35 local time (03:45 GMT) about a \"loud crack\".\n\nThe tower has been evacuated until it has been checked\n\n\"They attended, identified there was a crack in the building and they called for Fire And Rescue assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"We've attended and police and Fire And Rescue evacuated up to 3,000 people from the building and the surrounding areas.\"\n\nThe Opal Tower, which was completed earlier this year, was described by developer Ecove when the design was first unveiled as \"a curvaceous, triangular-shaped building with green walls of living plants embedded into the façade, and elevated communal courtyards every five levels\".\n\nAn Ecove spokesman said it was aware of the \"concerns\" and had \"notified\" the builder, the Morning Herald said.", "Chanin \"Titan\" Vibulrungruang, one of the 12 boys rescued from a Thai cave - but where are they on our list?\n\nAs everyone knows, Christmas is a time for lists, so we decided to pull together one of our own.\n\nWe took a look through our statistics since 1 January and found the eight articles and live pages that got the most page views this year.\n\nAnd no, your eyes aren't deceiving you - not one of our best-read stories this year is about Donald Trump...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Car ploughs into group of men in Liverpool leaving one seriously hurt\n\nA man has been seriously injured by a car which ploughed into a group of people in Liverpool city centre.\n\nThe victim, 19, was one of four men crossing Slater Street at about 02:45 GMT when they were struck by a white car.\n\nThe driver of the Ford Kuga did not stop at the scene. Merseyside Police is investigating.\n\nA 19-year-old man from Stoneycroft has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nThe injured man was taken to hospital where his condition is described as serious but stable.\n\nA second 19-year-old man was also taken to hospital with minor facial injuries.\n\nSgt Gerard Farley said: \"We would appeal to anyone who was in the Slater Street, Bold Street and Wood Street area to come forward if they have witnessed this incident or have witnessed a white Ford Kuga car in the area at the time travelling at speed.\n\n\"Any information provided could be vital to our investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 1,000 aircraft were either cancelled or diverted during the disruption\n\nLabour has called for an independent inquiry into the disruption caused by the Gatwick Airport drone sightings.\n\nFlights were grounded and around 140,000 passengers affected during three days of chaos after drones were spotted close to the runway on Wednesday.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald claimed the government missed chances to prevent the incident.\n\nThe government said the law already forbids flying drones near airports.\n\nA 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman from Crawley are being questioned by police over the drone sightings.\n\nThe pair were arrested on Friday and police searched a house in the West Sussex town the following day.\n\nMr McDonald said: \"The government was repeatedly warned about the risks posed by drones to aviation but failed to act.\n\n\"The delay in bringing forward legislation is indicative of this government's failure to concentrate on the day-to-day business in front of them. They have taken their eye off the ball.\n\n\"The scale of disruption is unacceptable and it demands that we find out how this was allowed to happen, which is why Labour are calling for an independent inquiry.\"\n\nThousands of people were stranded at the airport as police hunted for those flying the drones\n\nHis comments come after a report in the Times claimed Transport Secretary Chris Grayling had delayed plans for further legislation regulating drone use.\n\nBut a spokesman for the Department for Transport called the claims \"a combination of nonsense and gross misrepresentation\".\n\nHe added: \"The drones at Gatwick have been flown illegally. The government changed the law this year to make it illegal to fly drones within 1,000 meters of an airport or above 400 feet. The law couldn't be any more clear.\"", "PC James Ireland and PC Dan Bellingham took a woman in labour to hospital\n\nA pregnant woman rushed to hospital by two police officers has said thank you - by naming her baby after them.\n\nPCs James Ireland and Dan Bellingham were battling the rush hour traffic near Chelmsford, Essex, when they came across a panicked man whose wife was in the final stages of labour.\n\nThe officers blue-lighted the couple to hospital, where baby James Daniel arrived 10 minutes later.\n\nPC Ireland, who is based in Stanway, said it was \"an amazing job for us\".\n\nJames' father Steve, who flagged the officers down on the A12, said they were \"heroes\".\n\n\"We felt that they definitely executed their duties with distinction,\" he said.\n\nPC Ireland added: \"We were more than happy to help the couple. We wish them all the best with their new addition.\"\n\nBaby James Daniel has been named after the two police officers who took his mother to hospital\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Argentine radio host accused of misogynist diatribes has been ordered to host a feminist guest every week for five months as part of a deal with prosecutors, reports say.\n\nAngel Etchecopar must not interrupt his guests for 10 minutes, nor can he criticise them after they finish.\n\nIt comes after prosecutors accused him of gender discrimination.\n\nHe had used his programme on Radio 10 to attack feminists as \"feminazis\" and \"disgusting people\", Le Monde reported.\n\nProsecutor Federico Vilalba Diaz told La Nación newspaper that Etchecopar had been charged with \"disrespectful, insulting, denigrating and discriminatory\" outbursts against women.\n\n\"But Etchecopar came to the inquiry with a repentant attitude and showed himself to be very different from the personality I had seen in the media,\" Mr Diaz said.\n\nEtchecopar - nicknamed \"Baby\" - convinced the authorities of his desire to change his ways and a female judge agreed to drop the case against him in favour of a probation-based solution, La Nación said.\n\nUnder the terms of the agreement, prosecutors will provide a list of gender specialists and Argentina's special gender violence prosecutor Veronica Guagnino will come up with the topics for discussion.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by angeletchecopar This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEtchecopar also has to avoid making further discriminatory remarks for a year and has made a small donation to a Catholic charity. If he breaks the terms the case against him will be resurrected.\n\nEarlier this month Argentina's parliament approved a new law requiring all officials to undertake gender equality training.\n\nThe law was named after Micaela Garcia, a 21-year-old woman who was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 2017 in a case that shocked the country and prompted demonstrations.\n\nMs Garcia had been a supporter of Argentina's \"ni una menos\" (not one less) movement that seeks to protect women from male violence, BBC Mundo reported (in Spanish).\n\nIn August, however, the Argentine parliament rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. It followed a heated debate lasting more than 16 hours.\n• None The two sides in Argentina's abortion debate", "A dog has been caught on CCTV chasing a car in which it was driven to a street corner and abandoned.\n\nThe RSPCA has released the footage, calling it heartbreaking.\n\nThe charity is trying to trace a man in the car who is seen unclipping the dog's lead before running back to the vehicle and leaving.\n\nIt said the Staffordshire bull terrier and his bed were left at the corner of Timor Grove and Pacific Road in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, last Monday evening.\n\nThe dog, named Snoop by staff at a vets, is being cared for at boarding kennels.", "It would be a \"miracle\" if Newcastle were to avoid relegation from the Premier League, says Rafael Benitez.\n\nThe Magpies failed to win any of their opening 10 games of this campaign, but are currently 15th in the table, five points above the relegation zone.\n\nThey impressed on their return to the top-flight from the Championship last season, finishing in 10th place.\n\n\"We have to be realistic and understand we will be in the bottom half for the season,\" said Magpies boss Benitez.\n\n\"For me, it is almost clear and if we can be better than three teams, it will be another miracle.\n\n\"It was a miracle last year. People were thinking, 'Oh, you finished 10th...', but with a couple fewer wins, we could have been in the bottom five, so it was a miracle.\n\n\"If we do the same this year with teams spending even more money than last year, it will be a miracle.\"\n\nAt the beginning of December, Newcastle owner Mike Ashley said he was \"hopeful\" of selling the club \"before the January transfer window\".\n\nAs well as Tottenham and Watford, Newcastle were only one of three Premier League clubs to receive more transfer fees than they spent in the summer window.\n\nBenitez added: \"I know what is coming now and I know where we are. You can see the team - the team is trying a lot of things, but still it's not enough sometimes to get the points, and it will be like that.\n\n\"I'm trying to tell everyone, realise where we are, realise what we have to do and if we do well, fine, we can finish 10th or whatever.\n\n\"But if we think we have to beat these teams which have spent £100m, every one of them, during the summer, if we think we can beat them easily every game, no chance. We are wrong, 100%.\"\n\nBenitez comes up against his former side and unbeaten Premier League leaders Liverpool on Wednesday, 26 December (kick-off 15:00 GMT).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Owen messaged Banksy in August to paint a mural in Port Talbot\n\nBanksy's latest artwork was attacked as a \"drunk halfwit\" tried to damage the mural on a garage wall in south Wales.\n\nA security guard chased the culprit away on Saturday as he tried to pull down the newly-fitted plastic screen that protects the Port Talbot graffiti.\n\nPolice were called and the local community fears the artwork may become a target for \"some idiot who wants to make a name for themselves.\"\n\nExtra security guards have been drafted in to protect 'Season's Greetings'.\n\n\"Some drunk halfwit has tried to pull the fencing down and the protection glazing at the Banksy artwork,\" Gary Owen posted on the local Facebook page he runs.\n\n\"This art is for Port Talbot, Neath and surrounding areas. We do not want it wrecked.\"\n\nThe Facebook post saying the Banksy artwork was attacked has been shared hundreds of times\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen has helped pay for the protective sheet\n\nScreen star Michael Sheen is from the area and wants to help protect Port Talbot's Banksy\n\nThe mural was not damaged and police ultimately did not attend the incident at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday - just hours after half of the artwork in Taibach was covered by a protective plastic screen.\n\nHollywood actor Michael Sheen contributed towards the cost of the screen and the local movie star is also helping pay for the security.\n\n\"It's amazing and such an honour that Banksy chose to come and paint his latest piece in Port Talbot.\" added Mr Owen, the man who messaged Banksy in August to ask if he would paint a piece in Port Talbot.\n\n\"We should be treasuring this privilege and it's very sad that some people want to spoil it for everyone and give Port Talbot a bad name.\n\n\"I do fear it'll become a target for some idiot who wants to make a name for themselves - and that's sad.\"\n\nVolunteers protecting the mural say at least 2,000 people have visited it\n\nThe image appears on two sides of a garage in Taibach and depicts a child enjoying snow falling - the other side reveals it is a fire emitting ash.\n\nA local businessman covered one side of the work with a temporary protective plastic sheet on Saturday afternoon - and on Sunday the other side will be covered.\n\nA more permanent solution is expected to be installed in the new year.\n\nVolunteers working to protect the elusive artist's latest mural said at least 2,000 visitors have turned up to see it over the first two days.\n\nIt appeared on Ian Lewis' breeze block garage on a lane behind Caradog Street in Taibach on Tuesday.\n\nTraffic wardens have been drafted in by the local council to control traffic.\n\nBanksy confirmed the image was his when he posted a video on his Instagram account on Wednesday.", "Drone hotspots such as Sydney Harbour will also get the monitoring equipment\n\nDrone \"hot spots\" in Australia are getting sensors to automatically identify the aircraft and their pilots.\n\nAustralia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said it would install the equipment at the nation's airports starting next month.\n\nThe monitors have been planned for some time, but come in the wake of 72 hours of drone-related disruption at the UK's Gatwick airport last week.\n\nIn 2019, Australia will also start a scheme to register drone owners.\n\nThe UK is also due to introduce a scheme in November that will require recreational drones weighing 250g (0.55lb) or more to be registered.\n\nAlmost 140,000 air travellers were delayed last week after reports of drone sightings caused huge delays at Gatwick Airport. UK police are still searching for the culprits, although they have also raised the possibility that witness reports of the aircraft were mistaken.\n\nThe incident \"highlights\" the need for a drone-spotting capability, Casa spokesman Peter Gibson told the news agency Agence France-Presse.\n\nThe surveillance system would be able to spot the types of drone being flown, read their serial numbers and work out where the pilot was located, he said.\n\nEfforts to identify pilots would be aided by the introduction of the registration scheme for commercial and casual drone owners, he added.\n\n\"2019 will be a drone safety crackdown,\" said Mr Gibson.\n\nAs well as airports and other sensitive locations, the drone-spotting systems will be installed in other places known to be popular with drone owners such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge.\n\nAuthorities in Australia have expressed worries about the number of drones being flown in restricted areas in recent months.\n\nAnyone breaking rules could face fines of up to 10,000 Australian dollars ($7,058; £5,600) as well as checks on the safety of their craft.\n\n\"In 2019 it could be very expensive doing the wrong thing with your drone,\" said Mr Gibson.\n\nEvents at Gatwick were discussed by ministers in a Christmas Eve phone conference.\n\nIt is understood the Cabinet Office \"pushed\" the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office to update their rapid deployment protocol.\n\nThey also discussed defence systems across the UK's airports.", "(From L-R) Andi, Riefian, Bani and Herman were performing as the tsunami struck\n\nOne of the most shocking and heart-rending stories to emerge from the Indonesian tsunami is that of rock band Seventeen, who were performing in a marquee on the beach when waves came crashing through and swept them away.\n\nIf a lot of the soul-searching and commentary in Indonesia right now is about how there was absolutely no warning for the killer waves, this is the starkest illustration of that.\n\nThe footage of the event is startling for how quickly a scene of about 200 people gathered around tables listening rapt to the band, became one of surging waves as the singing turned into screams.\n\nThree members of the band - the bassist, road manager, guitarist - and a crew member have been killed. The band's drummer remains missing.\n\nThe lead vocalist of the band is the only known survivor from the band so far and has been posting heartfelt updates on his Instagram account.\n\n\"We lost Bani [bassist] and Oki Wijaya [road manager],\" said Riefian Fajarsyah in an Instagram video as he held back tears.\n\n\"Please pray that my wife Dylan and Herman [guitarist], Andi [drummer] and Ujang [crew] will be found soon.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by ifanseventeen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne day later, he posted another picture to Instagram - with an update. Herman and Ujang had been found dead.\n\n\"Rest in peace Herman and Ujang,\" he said in the caption. \"Andi, hurry back. I'm living alone... bro, please...\"\n\n\"Today is your birthday, I want to be able to wish you [face-to-face],\" said Riefian in an Instagram post on Monday. \"Hurry back darling.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by ifanseventeen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers also posted about the ordeal with one crew member, named as Zack, reportedly describing his struggle underwater on Instagram Stories, saying he survived by clinging onto the stage that had been washed out by the wave.\n\nSeventeen were well known on the Indonesian rock scene with several popular songs. Tributes have been pouring for the band who are originally from Yogyakarta, including from other Indonesian music celebrities such as Tantri, vocalist of the band Kotak.\n\nThe band had been performing on Tanjung Lesung beach in West Java on Saturday night. They were hired by state utility firm Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to perform for 200 company employees and their loved ones for an end-of-year party. According to Mr Fajarsyah they were two songs into the set when the waves came.\n\nSome 29 PLN employees and their relatives were killed and 13 remain missing, PLN said in a news conference.\n\n\"The water washed away the stage which was located very close to the sea,\" the band said in a statement to news agency Reuters.\n\nAt least 281 people are dead and 1,106 injured after coastal towns on the islands of Sumatra and Java were hit by the tsunami on Saturday night.\n\nIt is believed that undersea landslides from the Anak Krakatau volcano had triggered the tsunami. Anak Krakatau erupted again on Sunday - and there are fears that it could trigger a new tsunami.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Christian message of \"peace on earth and goodwill to all\" is \"needed as much as ever\", the Queen has said in her Christmas Day broadcast.\n\nShe said the message is \"never out of date\" and can be \"heeded by everyone\".\n\nThe Queen also joked that family events during a \"busy year\", including weddings and births, had kept \"a grandmother well occupied\".\n\nThe monarch, 92, highlighted the importance of people with opposing views treating each other with respect.\n\nIt comes as Parliament remains divided over the PM's Brexit deal, as the UK prepares to leave the EU in March.\n\nHowever, as head of state, the Queen is publicly neutral on political matters.\n\nIn the broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room, the Queen referred to 2018 being a \"year of centenaries\" , recalling how her father served in the Royal Navy during World War One and \"like others, he lost friends in the war\".\n\n\"At Christmas, we become keenly aware of loved ones who have died, whatever the circumstances,\" she added.\n\nThe photograph featured in the Queen's Christmas message\n\nThe message, which was recorded on 12 December, includes highlights of 2018, from the Commonwealth Games and England reaching the World Cup semi-finals to the weddings of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, and the 70th birthday of the Prince of Wales.\n\nAnd she looks ahead to the birth of first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex next spring.\n\nThe Queen added: \"Some cultures believe a long life brings wisdom. I'd like to think so.\n\n\"Perhaps part of that wisdom is to recognise some of life's baffling paradoxes, such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.\"\n\nShe went on to talk about the summit of Commonwealth leaders at Windsor in April, saying the Commonwealth's \"strength lies in the bonds of affection it promotes, and a common desire to live in a better, more peaceful world.\n\n\"Even with the most deeply held differences, treating the other person with respect and as a fellow human being is always a good first step towards greater understanding.\"\n\nShe emphasised her own strong Christian beliefs in the broadcast.\n\nShe said: \"Through the many changes I have seen over the years, faith, family and friendship have been not only a constant for me but a source of personal comfort and reassurance.\"\n\nThe Queen attended the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at Sandringham\n\nWere the Queen's words in her Christmas broadcast an oblique, coded encouragement to the different sides in the Brexit debate to treat each other with greater respect?\n\nIt really isn't clear. When she talked about \"deeply held differences\" she was actually talking about the unifying power of the Commonwealth.\n\nWhen she referred to the need for \"peace and goodwill\" she was referring to the story of the birth of Jesus.\n\nShe never mentioned the word \"Brexit\" at all.\n\nIt wouldn't have been difficult to have fashioned a speech which referred to the intense political debate in the UK and which urged people to keep in mind that there is \"much more that unites us than those things that divide us\".\n\nBut Elizabeth II is an extremely cautious monarch, wary of saying anything which might be deemed politically contentious. It is a principle which has been exercised with some skill and which has served her throughout her long reign.\n\nSome might say that this was one moment when Britain's head of state might have used her immense authority to try to calm the Brexit debate and reassure the country that we can cope, whatever the outcome.\n\nShe and her advisers chose not to be explicit.\n\nBut notwithstanding the lack of clarity in the speech itself, it is clear that the Palace - by highlighting the passages about goodwill and treating each other with respect - is hoping that the wider world will interpret the broadcast as an attempt by the monarch to soothe the whole Brexit debate.\n\nThe Queen wore an Angela Kelly ivory silk cocktail dress, with a gold Scarab brooch, with ruby and diamond embellishments, for the broadcast produced this year by Sky News.\n\nThe brooch was a 1966 gift from the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nShe was sitting beside a framed black and white photograph of herself, Prince Philip and a baby Prince Charles, taken in 1948.", "Residents of China's north-eastern Heilongjiang province gathered to mark the winter solstice by spraying hot water into the freezing air to create swathes of ice fog.\n\nThousands of people braved sub-zero temperatures to take part in the eye-catching celebration of the shortest day of the year - though it's not a trick to try at home.", "The horse was found with remnants of a saddle and a harness with bronze trimmings\n\nThe remains of a horse still in its harness have been discovered at a villa outside the walls of Pompeii, in what archaeologists are hailing as a find of \"rare importance\".\n\nThe horse was saddled up and ready to go, possibly to help rescue Pompeians fleeing the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the town in ashes.\n\nIt was found with the remains of other horses at the Villa of the Mysteries.\n\nThe villa belonged to a Roman general or high-ranking military magistrate.\n\nMount Vesuvius buried Pompeii and other nearby towns under millions of tonnes of volcanic debris.\n\nArchaeologists at the luxurious Villa of Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) overlooking the sea have already found wine presses, ovens and extraordinary frescoes.\n\nThe latest discovery came during an excavation of a stable at the villa to the north of Pompeii, according to Massimo Osanna, the director of Pompeii's archaeological park.\n\nThe apparently well-groomed horse, along with a saddle and a harness with fragments of wooden and bronze trimmings, was found alongside two other horses.\n\nArchaeologists were able to create a cast of the horse\n\nThe horses had all come to a \"fierce and terrible end\", Mr Osanna said, suffocated by ashes or by the boiling vapours from Vesuvius's ash cloud.\n\nThe estate was originally dug up early in the 20th Century but much of it was reburied and has since been targeted by looters.\n\n\"The whole area will be excavated and returned to the public,\" said Mr Osanna.", "The mince pies were found during the renovation of a hotel that once housed soldiers and sailors\n\nA tin of mince pies baked during World War Two has been put on display after being discovered immaculately preserved under the floorboards of a hotel.\n\nThe festive treats, which were a wartime gift from a mother to her sailor son, were uncovered at the Loch Hotel in Douglas on the Isle of Man.\n\nThey were found during the hotel's 1998 renovation but later left forgotten in storage at the Manx Museum.\n\nThe pies have now been placed on display for the first time.\n\nIt is thought that air-tight conditions under the hotel floor may have helped preserve the treats for almost 80 years.\n\nThey were addressed to Able Seaman Phil Davis and accompanied by a letter signed \"best, love from mum\".\n\nA letter accompanying the pies was sent to Able Seaman Davis at HMS Valkyrie from an address in Birmingham\n\nMatthew Richardson, curator of social history for Manx National Heritage, said they were a \"unique\" reflection of the \"human\" stories behind the war.\n\nChristmas was \"the right time for them to shine\", he added.\n\nHotels and boarding houses along Douglas promenade were used to house soldiers and sailors during the war.\n\nMr Richardson said the pies may have been concealed under the floorboards to prevent them from being stolen by other soldiers.\n\n\"If you're in a shared room with five or six other men you don't know, the only way you could be sure of protecting what was yours was to find a place to hide it,\" he said.\n\nAn image of the Loch Hotel taken from a holiday brochure thought to be from the late 1960s\n\nThey emerged when the hotel was developed into apartments. A builder handed the items to the museum, where they were again hidden away in storage.\n\nThe letter found with the tin indicates Able Seaman Davis was attending a naval radar training school on the island.\n\nThe letter has news of happenings at the sailor's home in Birmingham, including details of family and friends playing a card game \"for money\", and making up a spare room for guests.\n\nIt also reads: \"We shall be glad to see you when you do get leave.\"\n\nMr Richardson said: \"This tin of mince pies illustrates the point that wars might be international events, but they impact at a very human level.\n\n\"Here was a young man, possibly away from home for the first time in his life, training to go to a war zone.\n\n\"We can only imagine what his mother was feeling as she posted this tin on to him.\n\n\"We can't say for sure why Able Seaman Davis never ate his mince pies. Perhaps he was posted away at short notice and didn't have time to retrieve them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian Chris Dawson is accused of murdering his wife who vanished in 1982\n\nThe husband of Lynette Dawson, a Sydney woman whose disappearance has been the subject of a popular crime podcast, has been released on bail after his arrest for her alleged murder.\n\nThe 70-year-old denies killing his wife, saying that she abandoned the family for a religious group in 1982.\n\nThe story of her disappearance is told in Australian podcast The Teacher's Pet, which secured a global following.\n\nChris Dawson was greeted by a media throng upon exiting jail on Monday.\n\nHe posted A$1.5m (£850,000; $1.05m) bail and will return to his family home in the state of Queensland, where he will have to surrender his passport and report daily to authorities.\n\nLynette Dawson, a mother of two, was last seen in 1982\n\nPolice arrested the former high school teacher on 5 December, following a three-year re-investigation of the cold case.\n\nNo trace of Mrs Dawson has ever been found since she vanished from the couple's Sydney home 36 years ago.\n\nHer husband had been having an affair with the family's babysitter, one of his students, at the time of her disappearance, an inquest in 2003 found.\n\nThat inquest and another also concluded that she was killed by a \"known person\". However prosecutors at the time said they had insufficient evidence to press charges.\n\nThe podcast, produced by The Australian newspaper, meant the case gained wider attention in Australia and internationally.\n\nMr Dawson's lawyer told the newspaper his client would be \"hugely relieved\" to return home.\n\n\"He's very stoic and looking forward to being reunited with his family over Christmas,\" Greg Walsh said.", "Services are being held around the world as Christians mark the birth of Christ.\n\nHere is our selection of some of the best images so far.\n\nAt a Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican, Pope Francis urged more \"sharing and giving\", denouncing the \"insatiable greed\" of modern consumerism\n\nIn Egypt, this little girl listened attentively during a church service in Cairo\n\nCelebrations were held at this church in Fuyang, China's eastern Anhui province\n\nIndian Christians took part in prayers at the Infant Jesus Church in Bangalore\n\nThis woman prayed during a Christmas service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Pakistani city of Lahore\n\nPeople queued at this church in Bangkok to touch the baby Jesus doll in its Nativity scene\n\nThese altar boys played a key role during celebrations in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo\n\nA young boy, part of a group of thousands of migrants travelling from Central America to the US, celebrated at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico\n\nA Mass on Christmas Eve was held at a stadium in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city\n\nMembers of a Berlin swimming club took their traditional Christmas bath at the city's Orankesee lake\n\nMeanwhile, this couple kissed by a Christmas tree in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nFamilies at Sydney's Bondi Beach celebrated in the middle of the southern hemisphere's summer\n\nIn France, so-called \"yellow vests\" protesters held a service at a roundabout in the northern town of Somain\n\nAll photographs belong to the copyright holders as marked.", "It is the 82-year-old's pontiff's sixth Christmas as head of the Church\n\nPope Francis has called on people in developed countries to live a simpler and less materialistic life.\n\nHe also condemned the huge divide between the world's rich and poor, saying Jesus's birth in poverty in a stable should make everyone reflect on the meaning of life.\n\nHe spoke out while leading a service in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican for the traditional Christmas Eve Mass.\n\nIt is the 82-year-old's sixth Christmas as head of the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nIn his homily, Pope Francis said the birth of Christ pointed to a new way to live \"not by devouring and hoarding, but by sharing and giving\".\n\nHe continued: \"Let us ask ourselves: Do I really need all these material objects and complicated recipes for living? Can I manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity?\n\n\"For many people, life's meaning is found in possessing, in having an excess of material objects. An insatiable greed marks all human history, even today, when, paradoxically, a few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive.\"\n\nOn Christmas Day on Tuesday, the Pope will deliver his \"Urbi et Orbi\" (to the city and the world) message from the balcony of St Peter's.\n\nFrancis, the first Pope from Latin America, has made highlighting the plight of the poor a key theme of his papacy.\n\nDuring Christmas Day Mass in 2016 he warned that the true meaning of Christmas was being drowned out by materialism.", "Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah was allegedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Portland in 2016\n\nA Saudi student accused of killing a teenager in a hit-and-run escaped justice with help from Saudi Arabia, US officials reportedly suspect.\n\nAbdulrahman Sameer Noorah, 21, fled the US last year, and Saudi officials may have helped him obtain an illegal passport, the Oregonian reported.\n\nHe is accused of killing Fallon Smart, 15, in Portland, Oregon, in 2016.\n\nThe Saudi government only recently informed US officials of his return home, according to the Oregonian.\n\nMr Noorah faces first-degree manslaughter - with a minimum sentence of 10 years - as well as hit-and-run, reckless endangerment and reckless driving charges in the US.\n\nOn 10 June 2017, with two weeks until his trial, Mr Noorah removed his tracking device and disappeared, police say.\n\nFederal officials told the Oregonian they believe he was probably taken out of the country on a private plane.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can to get him back,\" Eric Wahlstrom, a supervisory deputy US Marshal in Oregon, said.\n\nAfter Mr Noorah's disappearance, US investigators searched domestic and international flights, but found no clues to his whereabouts.\n\nThis summer, Saudi officials informed the US that Mr Noorah had returned to the kingdom over a year ago, on 17 June, according to the Oregonian.\n\nThey did not provide additional details to US officials.\n\nThe two countries do not have an extradition treaty, so the chances of Mr Noorah facing US justice are low.\n\nFallon Smart was a sophomore in high school when she was killed in the accident\n\nIn August 2016, Mr Noorah was allegedly driving a gold Lexus that fatally struck Ms Smart, the newspaper reported.\n\nHe was speeding through a crossing at up to 60mph (96km/h), police said. The teenager died at the scene.\n\nMr Noorah was arrested by Multnomah County officers after he returned to the scene of the accident.\n\nHe had been living in Portland as a student on a scholarship since 2014, with the Saudi government paying him a $1,800 (£1,400) stipend each month, the Oregonian reported.\n\nThe Saudi consulate also gave Mr Noorah the $100,000 he needed to post bail after his arrest in September 2016, according to records viewed by the paper.\n\nThe Saudi government has previously posted bail - even as high as $2m - for its nationals charged with crimes in the US.\n\nMr Noorah had turned in his passport and worn an ankle monitoring cuff after his release, but he was allowed to continue attending his classes at Portland Community College.\n\nThe day he vanished, he was reportedly picked up from campus by a black car.\n\nThe US Marshals Service and US Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nThe case follows an international uproar over the killing of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nThe US Senate blamed the Saudi crown prince for ordering Mr Khashoggi's killing and criticised President Donald Trump's pro-Riyadh stance.", "LeBron James posted the lyric in an Instagram story\n\nBasketball star LeBron James has apologised after sharing a lyric about \"Jewish money\" on social media - saying he thought it was a compliment.\n\nJames was called out over the lyric - which comes from a song by US rapper 21 Savage - after he shared it with his 45.8m followers on Instagram.\n\nUS journalist Darren Rovell was among those drawing attention to the post, saying it was \"offensive\".\n\nBut James said it was not his intent \"to hurt anyone\" with Saturday's post.\n\n\"Apologies, for sure, if I offended anyone,\" he told sports channel ESPN on Sunday. \"That's not why I chose to share that lyric. I always [post lyrics]. That's what I do. I ride in my car, I listen to great music, and that was the byproduct of it.\n\n\"So I actually thought it was a compliment, and obviously it wasn't through the lens of a lot of people.\"\n\nMany of his fans had come out in support of James, who joined the Los Angeles Lakers in July on a four-year deal worth $154m (£116m).\n\nBut Rovell took to Instagram himself to detail exactly why it was offensive.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by darrenrovell This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, he did praise the star for apologising.\n\n\"One of the reasons he's the off-the-court star he is is because he has an impressive emotional intelligence who, considering his time in social media age, has made so few mistakes,\" Rovell tweeted.\n\nBut this was not the only controversial comment the 33-year-old sportsman has made in recent days.\n\nHe described the owners of American football's NFL as \"a bunch of old white men\" who \"got that slave mentality\" during his HBO show The Shop on Friday.", "The 4G-based Emergency Services Network should be less costly to run than the existing system used by police\n\nBT has confirmed that equipment made by Huawei is being removed from the heart of a communication system being developed for the UK's police forces and other emergency services.\n\nIt follows a statement from BT earlier this month that it was swapping out the Chinese firm's kit from the \"core\" of its 3G and 4G mobile networks.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph was first to report the latest development.\n\nIt said the move could extend work on the late-running £2.3bn project.\n\nBT is covering the cost of the switch. It does not believe the changeover will lead to a further delay.\n\nThe Emergency Services Network (ESN) was originally due to be completed by the end of 2019.\n\nAt that point it was meant to replace an existing Motorola-owned radio system called Airwave, which is used by the police, fire and rescue, and ambulance services.\n\nThe ESN is intended to give its users \"secure\" priority access to EE's 4G network, which is being extended via additional radio frequencies in rural areas and new mast sites. It should be cheaper to run than Airwave while also providing superior voice and data capabilities.\n\nBut the effort is overrunning, and in September the Home Office announced that it would pay for use of Airwave until the end of 2022 with scope for a further extension if required.\n\nEE won the contract to roll out the ESN in 2015, a year before the network provider was acquired by BT.\n\nSince then, it has become subject to a BT policy that Huawei's kit should not be used at the core of its mobile networks to push customers' data about.\n\nIt has been claimed that Beijing could make Huawei disrupt services that use its kit in the event of an international dispute\n\nInstead, BT limits the equipment to periphery parts such as phone mast antennas.\n\n\"We have ongoing plans to swap to a new core network vendor for ESN, in line with BT's network architecture principles established in 2006,\" a spokesman for EE told the BBC.\n\n\"This will be managed with no disruption to the ESN service.\"\n\nHe added that it was still EE's intention to offer \"full capability\" of the system by 2020.\n\nBT has not been explicit about the reasons behind its policy.\n\nBut security concerns have been raised about the use of Huawei's network infrastructure products, with the chief of MI6 Alex Younger recently saying Britain needed to decide how comfortable it was \"with Chinese ownership of these technologies\".\n\nEven so, the Financial Times reported last week that telecoms executives are opposed to an outright ban, warning that such a move would set back deployment of 5G in the UK by up to a year.\n\nHuawei has repeatedly rejected suggestions that it poses a risk and denies having ties to the Chinese government beyond those of being a law-abiding taxpayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Christmas carol Silent Night is celebrating its 200th birthday.\n\nIt was first performed in Austria, in the village of Oberndorf near Salzburg, on Christmas Eve 1818.\n\nBut what's the story behind its composition and why has it remained so popular?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is Chris Evans sure he wants to leave BBC Radio 2?\n\nChris Evans paid an emotional tribute to his wife as he broadcast his final BBC Radio 2 show.\n\nThe DJ, who has hosted breakfast for nine years, said: \"I'd like to thank my wife Natasha, my gravity, my compass, my guiding light.\n\n\"I crave the uncertainty, but you can only do that against a backdrop of certainty and security.\"\n\nHe added it was a \"sad day\", but also \"an exciting day for everyone\" as he prepared to move to Virgin Radio.\n\n\"Thank you to the BBC for supporting me and entrusting me with one of their precious microphones for the last 13 years, for allowing me to grow for every minute of every day I've been on the air,\" he said.\n\nThrough tears, he thanked a number of people, including his agent Michael and his station bosses past and present - Lesley Douglas, Bob Shennan and Lewis Carnie.\n\nZoe Ball will take over from Evans in January, becoming the first woman to host the coveted Radio 2 breakfast slot.\n\nIt's one of several schedule changes on the station, with Sara Cox set to take over Drivetime from Simon Mayo, Jo Whiley moving back to evenings and a new late night show for Trevor Nelson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DJ Chris Evans pays an emotional tribute to his wife Natasha.\n\nAs he opened the show on Monday morning, Evans told his listeners not to \"shed too many tears\" during his final programme.\n\nEvans, who has spent 13 years with Radio 2, said: \"To read a book, you have to keep turning the pages, but to write a book in the first place you have to do exactly the same.\n\n\"The sight of a blank page strikes the fear of god into some, but for others there's nothing more exciting.\n\n\"So with your blessing, that's precisely what I'm going to do.\"\n\nOn Twitter, fellow broadcasters paid tribute to Evans - including Ball, BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker and Reverend Kate Bottley, the former Gogglebox star who presented on the Pause For Thought segment of Evans's show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were several memorable moments on his final breakfast show, with listeners getting in touch to tell the DJ how many life milestones they had achieved throughout his years as host.\n\nThis included George, who - aged seven - voiced the \"How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning?\" jingle that often features on the show.\n\nGeorge, now aged 15, called in live to the show recreate the \"I like mine with a kiss\" line (now with a much deeper voice).\n\nNicole Kidman also phoned in from Australia to say she was \"so sad\" that Chris was leaving Radio 2.\n\nEvans was full of praise for his production staff over the years, and said his team had created a book of their favourite moments from his tenure.\n\nLooking through the book, he highlighted \"Glastonbury in the mud, the time we recorded from my house, the Pudsey cup, the Globe Theatre, the anniversary of the Normandy landings, Prince Harry, then the big anniversary of the Dambusters at Biggin Hill.\"\n\nZoe Ball will take over from Chris Evans in January\n\nEvans's wife - Natasha Shishmanian - also became emotional when he asked her to read out a message he had written from the perspective of their children.\n\nShe said: \"Today's gobsmackers are chosen by Noah and Eli Evans for their mum Tash.\"\n\nShe began to cry, adding: \"Oh, for goodness sake.\n\n\"They say that while everybody is talking about our dad we wanted to pick two songs for mum. One is because she loves nothing more than to dance in the sunshine with a grapefruit G and T, laughing uncontrollably with the people she loves. The other is her mascara moment.\"\n\nEvans then went on to play the two songs dedicated to her - Michael Jackson's Love Never Felt So Good [the mascara moment song] and America by Razorlight.\n\nAs he left Radio 2 after the show, the DJ told the media: \"I feel sad and very happy and very excited. It's really strange.\"\n\nRadio 2's breakfast show is Europe's most popular radio programme, although Evans' ratings fell to a six-year low of 8.9 million this summer.\n\nThe presenter took over from Terry Wogan in 2010 and took listener figures to almost 10 million at their peak.\n\nNicole Kidman, who called in live from Australia, was among the guests on Evans's final show\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's The One Show last week, he said he was \"excited\" about his move, but admitted it was \"a shame\" to be doing his last show at Radio 2.\n\nHe said he started thinking about leaving after somebody pointed out how long he had been at the station.\n\n\"It is a shame, but Zoe is going to be on in January. Zoe's brilliant and I took over from Terry,\" he said.\n\n\"Terry was amazing, nobody could do that show like him so we had to do it a different way and Zoe can continue that.\n\n\"You're a steward of a show like this. The show isn't yours, you're the stewards of it and somebody else will come along, and I think that's a lovely thing.\"\n\nIt's not the end of his relationship with the BBC, though, because he also revealed he has said yes to taking part in Strictly Come Dancing next year.\n\nRick Astley, George Ezra, Richard Ashcroft, Stacey Dooley, Olly Murs and Paloma Faith were among his guests for his last full week.\n\nEvans will host the Virgin breakfast show from 21 January.\n\nHis new programme is being billed as the first commercial radio breakfast show without conventional advert breaks. Instead, it will be sponsored by Sky, and Evans will promote Sky's programmes during his slot.\n\nEvans was paid £1.66m for hosting the Radio 2 breakfast show in 2017-18, and there have been reports that he will pocket £2m a year from Virgin. But he has denied his move was about the money.\n\nIn September, BBC director general Tony Hall said the publication of star salaries was a factor in Evans and former Radio 4 presenter Eddie Mair choosing to leave the corporation.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Traffic building on the M25 in Kent on \"frantic Friday\" - ahead of more busy roads on Christmas Eve\n\nDrivers setting out on Christmas Eve are being warned they could face severe delays, but it's a case of \"so far, so good\" according to the RAC.\n\nSpokesman Pete Williams said the busiest time for traffic had passed, but the roads in and around London, the M4 and the M6 were particularly busy.\n\nHe said traffic levels had been \"pretty steady\" over the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, many rail passengers across the country are facing disruption because of planned engineering work.\n\nNetwork Rail said vital upgrades would be carried out over the festive period.\n\nAccording to the AA's live traffic reports, vehicle accidents and a burst water main caused problems for people trying to leave central London by car.\n\nMr Williams said there had earlier been congestion in the north, around Leeds and Bradford, because of cold weather.\n\nHe advised travellers to check their oil, coolant level, tyre pressure and tread depth, and to buy some good screen wash before setting off.\n\nThe RAC and Inrix, which provides traffic information, had predicted the stretch of the M1 northbound between junction 21 (Coventry/Leicester) and junction 26 (Nottingham/Ripley) would be the worst for delays.\n\nFewer commuters than usual were expected to travel on Christmas Eve - many having booked the day off work.\n\nBut far more leisure journeys than usual were expected - as many as 2.5 million - with the AA predicting half of all motorists would take to the UK's main roads.\n\nThe RAC says the number of leisure journeys over the festive season is likely to peak on Boxing Day with an estimated 6.8 million individual trips.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you avoid holiday traffic jams?\n\nOn the trains, there are 330 sets of rail engineering works scheduled to take place until 1 January.\n\nNetwork Rail said it would do most of the works when no trains are scheduled to run.\n\nNo trains run on Christmas Day and there are only a limited number of services on Boxing Day - but nationwide bus companies National Express and Megabus will operate.\n\nThe Severn Tunnel will shut between Christmas and the new year for electrification work\n\nEngineering works have been scheduled for the festive period because the railway is up to 50% quieter than usual then, said Andy Thomas, Network Rail's managing director of strategic operations.\n\n\"While most of the network is open for business as usual, some routes are heavily affected and so we strongly advise passengers to plan ahead.\"\n\nMeanwhile, flights to and from Gatwick airport are operating as normal after three days of disruption following reports of sightings of a drone near the runway.\n\nAt Birmingham airport, flights were temporarily stopped on Sunday evening after a technical fault at air traffic control but resumed later on.\n\nThe Association of British Travel Agents said more than 4.7 million people will be going abroad between 18 December and 2 January.", "Three boys who threw stones at a charity Santa sleigh ride have made amends by helping the fundraisers they had targeted.\n\nThe route through Weston-super-Mare was cut short after the youngsters persistently hit the sleigh.\n\nThe attack was met with condemnation on the fundraisers' Facebook page.\n\nYouth workers who saw the publicity to catch the culprits came forward with names and arranged for the boys to help fundraisers by way of apology.\n\nThe group's organiser Linda Sims said they chose not to name the boys as it would further ostracise them.\n\nShe wrote: \"The three young men worked well with our scouts and from the enthusiastic offer of more help next year we believe they understood why we do what we do.\"\n\nOthers in the Facebook group backed the move to educate the children.\n\nRoxie Roche said: \"Brilliant. You directed them to do something good with their time instead of perhaps act up out of boredom. Hopefully they won't do anything so ridiculous again.\"\n\n\"This is the most positive and uplifting post I've read all Christmas,\" Kaya May added. \"We can all thrive if we work together, and nothing feels quite so nice as helping people.\"\n\nThe sleigh ride has now raised £2,245 for local charities.", "Flights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a drone was first spotted\n\nA man and woman arrested in connection with drone sightings that grounded flights at Gatwick Airport have been released without charge.\n\nThe 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman, from Crawley, West Sussex, had been arrested on Friday night.\n\nSussex Police said there had been 67 reports of drone sightings - having earlier cast doubt on \"genuine drone activity\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Jason Tingley said no footage of a drone had been obtained.\n\nAnd he said there was \"always a possibility\" the reported sightings of drones were mistaken.\n\nHowever, he later confirmed the reported sightings made by the public, police and airport staff from December 19 to 21 were being \"actively investigated\".\n\n\"We are interviewing those who have reported these sightings, are carrying out extensive house-to-house inquiries, and carrying out a forensic examination of a damaged drone found near the perimeter of the airport.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Tingley said it was \"a working assumption\" the device could be connected to their investigation, but officers were keeping \"an open mind\".\n\nThe airport was forced to shut its runway for spells on Wednesday and Friday and for all of Thursday\n\nFlights were suspended for more than 36 hours when a device was first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.\n\nDet Ch Supt Tingley said the arrested man and woman had \"fully co-operated\" with inquiries after information was received from a member of the public.\n\nTalking about the disclosure of their personal details in the press, he said he was satisfied their arrest was lawful, and stressed that officers would never reveal such information.\n\nHe added: \"We would not have chosen in any event to provide that information to anyone... and one might say that's probably hindered us in terms of how quickly we've been able to get to a resolution, in terms of them being released from custody.\"\n\nGatwick Airport Limited has now offered a £50,000 reward through Crimestoppers for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for disrupting flights.\n\nAbout 1,000 aircraft were either cancelled or diverted, affecting about 140,000 passengers, during three days of disruption.\n\nOn Sunday the airport said it was operating as normal but there had been \"some knock-on effect\". Passengers have been urged to check with their airline for the latest information.\n\nPassengers have been able to board their flights as scheduled\n\nAuthorities finally regained control over the airfield early on Friday after the Army deployed unidentified military technology.\n\nIt is believed that the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can jam communications between the drone and its operator, was used.\n\nHowever, experts have said it does not enable the person responsible to be tracked down and captured.\n\nJohn Murray, professor of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Hull, said it could only \"take the drone out of the sky\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's \"stupid\" to plan human missions to Mars.\n\nBill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was \"almost ridiculous\".\n\nNasa is currently planning new human missions to the Moon.\n\nIt wants to learn the skills and develop the technology to enable a future human landing on Mars.\n\nBill Anders today. He says Nasa shouldn't be aiming to send manned missions to Mars\n\nAnders, 85, said he's a \"big supporter\" of the \"remarkable\" unmanned programmes, \"mainly because they're much cheaper\". But he says the public support simply isn't there to fund vastly more expensive human missions.\n\n\"What's the imperative? What's pushing us to go to Mars?\" he said, adding \"I don't think the public is that interested\".\n\nMeanwhile, robotic probes are still exploring Mars. Last month, the InSight lander, which will sample the planet's interior, successfully touched down at Elysium Planitia.\n\nIn a statement, Nasa said it was \"leading a sustainable return to the Moon, which will help prepare us to send astronauts to Mars\".\n\n\"That also includes commercial and international partners to expand human presence in space and bring back new knowledge and opportunities.\"\n\nAn artist's rendering of the Mars Ice Home concept.\n\nIn December 1968, Anders, along with crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Saturn V, before completing 10 orbits around the Moon.\n\nThe crew of Apollo 8 spent 20 hours in orbit, before returning to Earth.\n\nThey splashed down in the Pacific on 27 December, landing just 5,000 yards (4,500 metres) from their target point. They were picked up by the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.\n\nIt was the furthest humans had ever been from their home planet at that point - and a vital stepping stone on the road to Apollo 11's historic moon landing just seven months later.\n\nBut the former astronaut is scathing about how Nasa has evolved since the heady days of President John F Kennedy's pledge to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.\n\nThe famous Earthrise image taken from Apollo 8\n\n\"Nasa couldn't get to the Moon today. They're so ossified... Nasa has turned into a jobs programme... many of the centres are mainly interested in keeping busy and you don't see the public support other than they get the workers their pay and their congressmen get re-elected.\"\n\nAnders is also critical of the decision to focus on near-Earth orbit exploration after the completion of the Apollo programme in the 1970s. \"I think the space shuttle was a serious error. It hardly did anything except have an exciting launch, but it never lived up to its promise,\" he said.\n\n\"The space station is only there because you had a shuttle, and vice-versa. Nasa really mismanaged the manned programme since the late lunar landings.\"\n\nIt's a view that might seem surprising from a proud patriot and servant of the US military, who still remembers his own mission to space with great fondness. It's also a view that Anders accepts doesn't sit too well with some in the space community.\n\n\"I think Nasa's lucky to have what they've got - which is still hard, in my mind, to justify. I'm not a very popular guy at Nasa for saying that, but that's what I think,\" he explained.\n\nHis former crewmate, Frank Borman, who commanded the Apollo 8 mission and also spent two weeks in Earth orbit during the Gemini programme, is slightly more enthusiastic.\n\n\"I'm not as critical of Nasa as Bill is,\" he told 5 Live. \"I firmly believe that we need robust exploration of our Solar System and I think man is part of that.\"\n\nBut asked about the the plans of Space X founder Elon Musk and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos - who have both talked of launching private missions to Mars, Borman is less complimentary.\n\n\"I do think there's a lot of hype about Mars that is nonsense. Musk and Bezos, they're talking about putting colonies on Mars, that's nonsense.\"\n\nReflecting on their own historic mission to the Moon, Borman described Apollo 8 as a \"great endeavour\" and agreed that it had won the space race.\n\nAnders said he felt that the lasting legacy of the mission would be \"Earthrise\" a photo taken by the crew showing humanity's home planet hanging in the blackness of space above the lunar horizon.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM, their crewmate Jim Lovell also reflected on the Earthrise moment: \"When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me,\" he said.\n\n\"And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us.\"\n\nFrank Borman and Bill Anders were speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live as part of a special documentary on the 50th anniversary of their historic lunar mission. Apollo 8: Christmas On the Far Side of the Moon will be broadcast on 5 Live on 24 December 2018 at 20:00 GMT.\n• None First person on Mars 'should be a woman'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Rotariu was attacked with highly concentrated sulphuric acid as he slept in his bed\n\nA man who was blinded when his former partner poured acid over him while he slept is suing the police force he claims could have prevented the attack.\n\nDaniel Rotariu was attacked by Katie Leong in Leicester in 2016. She is serving a life term after being found guilty of attempted murder.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said Leicestershire Police was warned about her plans.\n\nThe force said it \"cannot comment at this stage\" on the legal proceedings.\n\nMr Rotariu is seeking £12,000 to support his legal bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 33-year-old was in a medically induced coma for six weeks after Leong poured 96% pure sulphuric acid over him.\n\nAs well as leaving him blind, the attack left him with severe scars to his arms, head, legs and torso and needing several operations.\n\nLeong's trial at Leicester Crown Court in March 2017 heard how she had become fixated with carrying out an acid attack.\n\nKatie Leong had \"a fascination with attacking someone using acid\", her trial heard\n\nHer ex-partner Mark Cummings, who was on trial alongside her, said he raised concerns to his probation officer about why she wanted to buy the acid.\n\nLeong was sentenced to serve a minimum of 17 years, while Mr Cummings was cleared of attempted murder by a jury.\n\nAn investigation by the IOPC, found police had received reports months before the attack that Leong \"was acquiring acid to carry out a premeditated attack on an unnamed third party\", and that her former partner Mr Cummings had been in contact with her in breach of a restraining order.\n\nOfficers failed to contact Leong over the allegations, the watchdog said in its report; with two call logs \"closed down inappropriately\".\n\nA police constable and a member of police staff were subject to management action over their \"unsatisfactory\" handling of a claim regarding the breach of Mr Cummings's restraining order.\n\nMr Rotariu said he would \"never recover\" from his injuries and needed financial help from the public to continue his legal action against Leicestershire Police.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The so-called \"Super Saturday\" before Christmas saw an incremental boost in shoppers, according to latest data from retail experts Springboard.\n\nHigh Street footfall rose by 1% on last year, and was up 6.9% on the previous Saturday, figures show.\n\nHowever, overall footfall still declined by 0.7% on last year.\n\n\"It was a bit of a last-minute burst, but it's not good,\" Springboard's insight director Diane Wehrle told the BBC.\n\nThe reason for the incremental rise is that Christmas shoppers have been holding out until the last minute for bargains, but aggressive discounting has not drawn the crowds of consumers it might once have done.\n\n\"The discounting is a real issue. People are buying less and what they're buying is at a lower price, so this is bad for retailers as they're left with more stock and they're selling it at a lower profit,\" said Ms Wehrle.\n\nSpringboard noted that footfall has fallen on the last Saturday before Christmas every year consecutively for the last decade.\n\nThis phenomenon has also been observed with Boxing Day sales.\n\nMs Wehrle thinks one reason for the drop in footfall is that people avoid shops when they do not have the money to spend, and this year consumers are definitely spending less on Christmas.\n\n\"In the past year, wages didn't increase with price rises,\" she said.\n\n\"Now that has changed a bit, wage inflation is above price inflation, but the problem is consumers have had to spend a year funding that through savings, wages, loans or credit cards, so now they're conscious they don't want to spend too much as they have to pay back some of those loans.\"", "Passengers have been advised to check flight departures and arrivals after the problem was reported earlier\n\nFlights have resumed at Birmingham Airport after an air traffic control fault temporarily halted services.\n\nThe technical glitch happened at 18:00 GMT and led to flights being suspended or diverted from the airport. \"High\" delays were reported.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said operations had resumed and thanked passengers for their patience.\n\nAir traffic management firm Eurocontrol said the fault was due to a failure of the electronic flight plan system.\n\nThe airport spokesman added: \"Birmingham Airport has now resolved the issue and operations have now resumed. We thank passengers for their patience and apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.\"\n\nIn a statement, Eurocontrol previously said arrivals were \"unavailable\" and there were \"few flights with high delays\".\n\nPeople due to board flights reported having to wait for hours and complained of long delays.\n\nPassengers have been advised to check with their airline regarding departures and arrivals.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ËMŽ🐘🦄🐝 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after days of travel misery for passengers at Gatwick Airport, which saw roughly 140,000 passengers affected when a drone was apparently spotted around the runway, forcing bosses to ground flights.\n\nLast month, Birmingham airport bosses announced a major expansion plan to grow passengers numbers by 40% over the next 15 years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Roberts orders takeaways five or six nights a week - and he often orders food to the office at lunchtime as well.\n\nThe 25-year-old software salesman reckons that some months he and his girlfriend might spend as much as £1,600 on takeaways.\n\nHe says that, on average, they will spend between £30 and £35 a night on an evening meal, and he'll also fork out around £6 a day for lunch.\n\nThey'll normally order Indian, Chinese or pizza but every so often they will go for the \"healthy\" option, like Nando's, he says.\n\nHe acknowledges that his food bill is extortionate but he blames \"disgusting\" hours and a windowless London kitchen for his reluctance to cook.\n\n\"It's inherent laziness,\" he says.\n\nPeople like Mr Roberts might explain why London tops the rankings for spending on takeaways.\n\nThe typical Londoner forks out £709 a year ordering in, significantly more than the UK average of £451, according to a study by KPMG.\n\nBehind London, the next biggest spenders on takeaway food are in Sheffield, where the average person spends £548 a year ordering in. People in Cardiff spend the least, forking out just over £200 for takeaways.\n\nTypically, people in the UK order 34 takeaways a year, spending between £10 and £15 a time.\n\nPerhaps surprisingly, the most common way to order is on the phone, with just 32% of people saying they turned to apps like Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats.\n\nBut not everyone is like Mr Roberts - 42% of people said a takeaway remains a treat.\n\nNevertheless, that is changing. In fact, the report's author, Will Hawkley, global head of leisure and hospitality at KPMG, said takeaways used to be reserved for a Friday night - but now his two kids pester him to order in more often.\n\n\"It's an overall lifestyle change,\" he says about the heavy spending on takeaways in the UK. \"People are just looking for more and more convenience, they're busier, working harder.\"\n\nThat's borne out by the numbers, with 29% of people saying they order in for convenience.\n\n\"The introduction of the apps and the ordering platforms have made it so much easier,\" Mr Hawkley says. But he also says there is an excitement attached to ordering food in, which is not necessarily matched by cooking at home.\n\nAnd that is helped by the range of options available. The survey showed that one in 20 people turned to take-out because of the variety of options available.\n\nBut it found that more than a fifth of people would order more often if there was a wider range of dishes on offer - and 25% said they wanted healthier dishes.\n\nMr Hawkley said the popularity of takeaway apps was changing the economics of High Street dining because restaurants can make money from their kitchen, even when its tables are empty.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEnvironmentalists and observers have been barred from UN climate talks in Madrid after a protest inside the conference.\n\nAround 200 climate campaigners were ejected after staging a sit in, preventing access to one of the negotiating halls.\n\nProtesters said they were \"pushed, bullied and touched without consent.\"\n\nIn the wake of the disruption all other observers were then barred from the talks.\n\nObservers play an important role in the talks, representing civil society. They are allowed to sit in on negotiations and have access to negotiators on condition that they do not reveal the contents of those discussions.\n\nJust hours after Greta Thunberg had delivered a powerful speech to COP25, young campaigners staged a noisy demonstration in front of the main halls where the UN secretary general was due to update the conference on the progress of the talks.\n\nThey were expressing a rising sense of disappointment with the slow progress of the conference, which is in marked contrast to the urgency of scientists and the clamour for action from school strikers.\n\nGreenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan has attended 25 COPs and this is the first time she has been barred from entry\n\nAs the group banged pots and pans and chanted slogans, UN security staff intervened to move the protestors outside \"abruptly and roughly,\" from the building, protesters said.\n\nJulius Mbatia, 25, a climate youth leader in Africa who works with Christian Aid said: \"It's displeasing that young people here to peacefully make the case for strong action on climate change, are being kettled and kicked out of the summit so that the UN climate process can conclude an outcome that will seemingly be weak and doesn't protect their future.\"\n\nAround 200 had their badges removed, preventing them from returning to the talks.\n\nProtestors were forced outside by UN security staff\n\nThe executive director of Greenpeace International, Jennifer Morgan, was one of those who went outside in solidarity with the protestors. Ms Morgan was also barred from entry when she tried to return, despite playing no part in the protest.\n\nEarlier in the day, Ms Morgan had sat on a panel with Greta Thunberg - part of an effort by the UN to include the voices of young people around the world.\n\n\"I call on the UN secretary general to intervene here to make sure that youth and citizens around the world can engage and have their voices heard in these negotiations - it's absolutely imperative that he get involved,\" Ms Morgan said, speaking outside the venue.\n\nThe protest took place a few hours after Greta Thunberg had spoken to the conference\n\nThe UN described the incident as \"an unfortunate security incident.\" After consultations with observer groups, the UN has agreed to allow those barred after the protest to return for the rest of the conference.\n\nDiscontent with the way the talks have been going has been rising in recent days with the sense that major emitting countries are doing all they can to block progress.\n\nThe UN on Wednesday released more details about the scale of the challenge.\n\nAll countries who signed the Paris agreement are due to put new climate pledges on the table by the end of next year. So far, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by then. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut many in attendance at the meeting believe that this is far short of where the world needs to be to avoid dangerous levels of warming.\n\n\"Frankly, I'm tired of hearing major emitters excuse inaction in cutting their own emissions on the basis they are 'just a fraction' of the world's total,\" said the prime minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama.\n\n\"The truth is, in a family of nearly 200 nations, collective efforts are key. We all must take responsibility for ourselves, and we all must play our part to achieve net zero. As I like to say, we're all in the same canoe. But currently, that canoe is taking on water with nearly 200 holes -- and there are too few of us trying to patch them,\" Mr Bainimarama said.\n\nThere are also worries that the final statement of ambition from this meeting may be watered down, with all the major decisions kicked down the road towards the key meeting in Glasgow at the end of next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nBoris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nWith just a handful of seats left to declare in the general election, the BBC forecasts a Tory majority of 78.\n\nThe prime minister said it would give him a mandate to \"get Brexit done\" and take the UK out of the EU next month.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour had a \"very disappointing night\" and he would not fight a future election.\n\nThe BBC forecast suggests the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and the Brexit Party none.\n\nThat means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election victory.\n\nLabour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.\n\nMr Johnson has addressed cheering party workers at Conservative headquarters, telling them there has been a political earthquake, with the Tories winning a \"stonking\" mandate, from Kensington to Clwyd South.\n\nSpeaking earlier at his count in Uxbridge, west London, where he was elected with a slightly higher majority, Mr Johnson said: \"It does look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nHe added: \"Above all I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson became prime minister in July without a general election, after the Conservative Party elected him as leader to replace Theresa May.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nLabour's vote is down around 8% on the 2017 general election, with the Tories up by just over 1% and the smaller parties having a better night.\n\nThe result so far is remarkable for the Conservatives - better than many of them had hoped for.\n\nThey have won a majority which will allow Boris Johnson to make sure Brexit happens next month.\n\nThere were some astonishing results, with a number of historic Labour heartlands falling to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour, by contrast, could hardly be in a worse position.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has made it clear he will go before the next election - but he wants to stay for a period of reflection. Many in his party want him to go immediately.\n\nIn Scotland, the picture is quite different.\n\nThe SNP have come close to sweeping the board - gaining seats from all their rivals.\n\nA Tory majority at Westminster means one constitutional quarrel - Brexit - might be over, but another - on Scottish independence - will be back with a vengeance.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional night\" for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in an another independence referendum, she added.\n\nLabour looks set for one of its worst election results since World War Two.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nLabour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories, in a rare bright spot for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"I think most people thought the polls were narrowing\"\n\nA row has already broken out at the top of the Labour Party, with some candidates blaming Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity on the doorstep and others blaming the party's policy of holding another Brexit referendum.\n\nLeave-supporting Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who held his seat with a reduced majority, said he was \"desperately disappointed\", adding that voters in Labour's \"heartlands\" were \"aggrieved\" at the party's Brexit stance.\n\nDowning Street said earlier that if Mr Johnson was returned to Downing Street, there would be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill, paving the way for Brexit on 31 January, would have its second Commons reading on Friday, 20 December.\n\nA major reshuffle would take place in February, after the UK has left the EU, No 10 added, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nThis is the UK's third general election in less than five years - and the first one to take place in December in nearly 100 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Stella Creasy was re-elected - and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter in a sling\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message, to \"get Brexit done\", while Labour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services and the National Health Service.\n\nNigel Farage said his Brexit Party had taken votes from Labour in Tory target seats, although he himself had spoiled his ballot paper \"as I could not bring myself to vote Conservative\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the election result?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.\n• None When do we find out who has won the election?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nMason Greenwood scored twice as Manchester United got four in 11 minutes to defeat AZ Alkmaar and secure a seeding for the Europa League knockout phase.\n\nAfter a mundane first half, the game burst into life in the 53rd minute when Ashley Young drove home Juan Mata's cross for his first goal since February.\n\nGreenwood stole the headlines though, firing home from the edge of the box before producing a fine left-footed finish to end the scoring frenzy.\n\nIt was the first time the 18-year-old had scored two in a first-team game and took his overall tally for the season to six. He is now United's leading scorer in Europe this season and only Marcus Rashford has scored more in all competitions.\n\nIn between the striker's double, Mata converted a penalty for the Spain midfielder's first goal of the season.\n\nThe victory was United's biggest in Europe since 2016 when they beat another Dutch side, Feyenoord, by the same score and means they will avoid Benfica, Ajax and Inter Milan in Monday's last-32 draw.\n• None 'A killer in the box' - how good can Greenwood be?\n\nThe victory was United's third in a row in all competitions, coming after impressive triumphs against Tottenham and Manchester City.\n\nIt is only the third time United have done that since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer began his spell as United manager with eight successive wins after he replaced Jose Mourinho on 19 December last year.\n\nThe opening period lacked a competitive edge but Solskjaer will be delighted at the way it turned out, particularly as, from the team that started against Manchester City, only Harry Maguire and Martial kept their places.\n\nThis is crucial as, with a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Colchester in which they are overwhelming favourites, Solskjaer's side were starting what could turn out to be 19 games in 77 days, which will end with the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie.\n\nThe volume of fixtures is one of the reasons why it is still felt United need to make signings when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhen they entertain Everton on Sunday, United will reach an astonishing 4,000 consecutive games where a player they have been responsible for developing has been part of their matchday squad.\n\nIt is a staggering statistic, one that dates back to October 1937 and a game against Fulham at Craven Cottage.\n\nTwo of their modern-day products are Tahith Chong and Greenwood, who shared the memorable experience of being introduced as late substitutes in the memorable Champions League victory at Paris St-Germain in March.\n\nGreenwood has bounded along since then. Against Alkmaar he made his seventh start in 18 overall appearances that have now yielded six goals. He is an automatic member of Solskjaer's matchday squad and in October signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2023.\n\nBy contrast, Chong has stalled. A Netherlands Under-21 player, he came on as a substitute here, his sixth appearance of the season - and only his second since 6 October. The midfielder's contract runs out at the end of the season and an extension offer remains unsigned amid rumours of excessive demands that United officials do not feel justify his performances.\n\nAt 20, Chong is nearly two years older than Greenwood and the suspicion is growing that an impactful United career might prove beyond him. He tried hard enough on Thursday but the quality showed by Greenwood was missing.\n\n'Greenwood is different class as a finisher' - what they said\n\n\"I told them to be more us [at half-time], be more Man United. I know it's difficult for players when you change but in the second half we just found a rhythm, made more passes forward, more runs forward, were pressing and got our goals.\"\n\n\"He's different class as a finisher, if there's anything around the box you expect him to get a shot off and on target, he's good at creating space for himself and right foot, left foot it doesn't matter. I'm very pleased with his performance.\n\n\"He's a different type to Wazza [Wayne Rooney] and the good thing about Mason is he is just going to look forward to Sunday. It's natural for him to score goals, it doesn't matter what level it is.\"\n• None Manchester United have won seven of their nine previous home games against Dutch sides in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in the last three.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals (one goal, two assists) in a single European match for the first time since March 2013, scoring once and assisting twice for Chelsea against Steaua Bucharest.\n• None Ashley Young has scored his first European goal for Manchester United since February 2012 when netting against Ajax.\n• None Only Marcus Rashford (13) has scored more goals than Mason Greenwood (six) in all competitions for Manchester United this season.\n• None Greenwood is the youngest player to score a double in major European competition for Manchester United, aged 18 years and 72 days.\n\nManchester United return to action in the Premier League on Sunday (14:00 GMT) when they welcome Everton to Old Trafford.\n• None Offside, AZ. Jordy Clasie tries a through ball, but Ferdy Druijf is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Teun Koopmeiners (AZ) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ethan Laird (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Calvin Stengs (AZ) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ferdy Druijf with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "This previously unpublished picture shows London Bridge soon after the attacker was shot - with the bus on the right that was hit\n\nA ricochet from a police bullet could have passed through the entire top deck of a bus during the London Bridge terror attack, pictures reveal.\n\nThe police have suggested a ricochet could have hit the bus, stopped near to where attacker Usman Khan was shot.\n\nA picture given to BBC News by an eye witness on the bus behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window.\n\nBut a closer examination of other photos from the bridge reveals a hole in the front window of the bus as well.\n\nThe front window of the bus also appears to have been hit - with a forensic examination taking place\n\nThe eye witness, who does not want to be named, believes the bus he was on was also clipped.\n\nHe was at the front of the upper deck when he saw, heard and felt the impact of the back window of the bus in front shattering, and immediately dived to the floor.\n\n\"We are talking about a split-second of noise,\" he said.\n\nThe picture given to BBC News by a passenger on the bus directly behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window\n\n\"In no more than a half-a-second I was on the floor.\"\n\nIt suggests there was more of a fortunate near miss than had previously been recognised - and might explain how the ricocheting bullet had reached the back window.\n\nArmed officers shot Khan after he had been tackled by members of the public using improvised weapons including fire extinguishers and a narwhal tusk.\n\nKhan had been chased from nearby Fishmongers' Hall, after a knife attack in which he had killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who had been working at a prison rehabilitation event at the hall.\n\nThe damage to the bus seems to have happened after the initial shots that had stopped Khan, raising questions about further shots that might have been fired.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating, said that establishing the cause of damage to the bus was \"a line of enquiry for us\".\n\nDr Rachel Bolton-King, associate professor of forensic science at Staffordshire University says the specifics of what happened will have to be established by the formal investigation.\n\nBut she says it might be possible for a ricocheted bullet to \"pass through one window, through the length of the bus and out the window at the opposite end of the bus\".\n\n\"Ricochet bullets are often unstable once they have hit their first target surface,\" she said.\n\nA close-up shows the hole in the front window of the bus, along with the reflections of nearby buildings\n\nThey could continue \"nose on\" in the normal direction of flight but could also be deflected sideways or into other angles.\n\nAnd investigators would be able to find the direction of travel by examining the front and back surfaces of the window.\n\nPhilip Boyce, of forensic services company Forensic Equity, said the bullet could have entered through the front window and glanced off the ceiling of the bus before going out through the back.\n\nRicochets could carry for hundreds of yards, depending on the surfaces they hit but well within the distance between the bus and the site of Khan's shooting, he said.\n\nAnd their path could be altered by what they hit or passed through, such as laminated or toughened glass.\n\nTransport for London confirmed that a bus was damaged during the incident - with the Metropolitan police suggesting that it could have been a ricochet from a police bullet.", "You’re also going to hear Boris Johnson talking a lot about one nation conservatism in the next few months.\n\nBut what is it?\n\nWell, in some ways that’s down to whoever is defining it. There is no strict definition by which we can judge Boris Johnson over the next few years. It’s an idea which has been around in Tory circles for some time.\n\nBut broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK.\n\nThat means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\n\nThere was a one nation group in the last parliament – which was in part seen as a counterbalance to the pro-Brexit ERG who had been pulling their weight when Theresa May was PM.\n\nThis is how they defined what they were fighting for:\n\nMr Johnson’s focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands – more public spending for example after years of austerity. More focus on infrastructure outside London. A lot more talk about the north of England.\n\nThat has become even more important now that a number of his MPs are from former Labour strongholds – sometimes with very different experiences of the British economy.\n\nIt might not be easy though – especially when it comes to the idea the UK is indeed one nation.\n\nLast night’s result puts Scottish independence firmly back on the agenda – and the electoral maps in England and Scotland look very different indeed.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The haul was made up of some legal tender and some old notes\n\nStaff at a scrap metal dealer who found about £20,000 as they cut up a safe to be recycled will donate the money to charity after no-one claimed it.\n\nThe safe was being opened at Sackers, near Ipswich, when staff noticed one was stuffed with notes and coin bags.\n\nThe money has been in police stores since April waiting for the \"rightful owner\" but they did not come forward.\n\nIt will now be given to the East Anglian Children's Hospice (EACH) and St Elizabeth Hospice.\n\nDavid Dodds, managing director of the Great Blakenham-based dealer, said the two charities to receive the money, which is between £15,000 and £20,000, were \"very close to us\".\n\nThe cash was made up of some legal tender and some old notes and at the time it was found a spokeswoman for the yard said \"it had clearly been in there for many years as it was dusty and wet from being in the rain\".\n\nThe cash-stuffed safe was one of four being cut up for scrap\n\nMr Dodds said: \"The suspicion is it could have been an old factory that was due for demolition and it was in the corner of their offices. When it's demolished then all the scrap goes into the bin, comes into the works and then we treat it.\"\n\nThe money was handed over to police, who Mr Dodds said had told him \"one person came forward but within about 30 nanoseconds they realised they weren't the correct owner of it\".\n\nA magistrates' court has now decided that Sackers is the legal owner. The dealer will take the money to the Bank of England in London to transfer it to legal tender before handing it over to the charities.\n\nLiz Baldwin, corporate account executive for St Elizabeth Hospice, said it was \"an amazing discovery\".\n\n\"We're so pleased that they have decided to split the findings with the hospice and EACH,\" she said.\n\n\"It's such a lovely surprise for us just before Christmas.\"\n\nRachel Dally, EACH Suffolk corporate fundraising assistant, said \"we're very grateful to hear of the company's intention to make another such generous donation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Crilly describes how the attack unfolded, and what he did next\n\nA reformed ex-prisoner who fought the London Bridge knife attacker with a fire extinguisher has said he was prepared to die to protect others.\n\nJohn Crilly, who was jailed for murder after a burglary went wrong, said he tackled Usman Khan while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\n\"I was screaming at him to blow it. I was prepared to lose my life.\"\n\nAs he and others fought Khan on the street, he shouted at police to shoot the attacker.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview since the attack, Crilly, 48, told of the moment armed police confronted the knifeman on London Bridge.\n\nHe said: \"It seemed like ages before they shot him. It wasn't all gung-ho and trigger happy, they proper took their time, to the point where I did scream 'shoot him'.\"\n\nKhan, convicted of terrorist offences in 2012, killed two people - Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones - and wounded three others when he launched a knife attack on 29 November at 13:58 GMT during a prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nJohn Crilly (left) with Jack Merritt, the Cambridge University graduate killed in the London Bridge terror attack\n\nCrilly had been attending the Learning Together conference and remembers hearing a \"very high-pitched girl's scream\" when he knew something was wrong.\n\nHe went downstairs to find Miss Jones, 23, lying wounded, before he saw Khan in the corridor, armed with two knives.\n\nAfter shouting at Khan, asking him what he was doing, Crilly remembers his chilling reply: \"He says something like 'kill everyone' or 'kill you', something about killing people.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought Khan was targeting specific people, he said: \"It seemed like everyone there was fair game.\n\n\"I just assume now that he just saw it as a big target. A room full of establishment people - judges, probation, police, security.\"\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nStaff and participants of the conference attacked Khan with whatever they could find.\n\nCrilly fought him first with a wooden lectern and then a fire extinguisher, all the while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\nHe said he acted on \"instinct\" and \"was screaming at [Khan] to blow it [the belt]... calling his bluff.\"\n\nBut he said Khan told him he was \"waiting for the police\" to arrive before detonating the belt, which police later found to be fake.\n\n\"I was prepared to probably lose my life\", he said.\n\nTwo men used a pole and a whale tusk ripped from the venue's wall to fight off Khan and force him out of the building.\n\nCrilly and others used their makeshift weapons to pursue Khan onto the street on London Bridge.\n\nIn video footage, he is seen using the spray from a fire extinguisher to blind Khan, while another man held him back with the whale tusk.\n\nHe said: \"The spray distracted him if you watch the footage. And the guy with the tusk has been able to give him a prod which has unbalanced him.\"\n\nOther bystanders intervened to pin Khan down before police shot him dead at 14:03.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nCrilly was close friends with Mr Merritt, 25, the co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme who he says changed his life.\n\nHe described Mr Merritt as \"easy to talk to\" and who \"made you feel comfortable, even important\".\n\n\"He actually listened and you could tell he was really genuinely interested.\"\n\nThe people that intervened to try and halt Khan's attack have been widely praised as \"amazing heroes\".\n\nAsked if he considers himself a hero, Crilly said: \"No. Jack gave up his life, he would be my hero.\"\n\nJack Merritt was \"easy to talk to... and made you feel comfortable\"\n\nCrilly was given a life sentence for murder and robbery in 2005 after he and his associate David Flynn broke into the home of 71-year-old man in Manchester.\n\nThe pensioner died after being punched in the face by Flynn.\n\nCrilly was convicted under the joint enterprise law - which can apply to all crimes, but has recently been used to convict defendants in gang-related cases even if they did not strike the fatal blow, but could have foreseen that their associates might inflict serious harm or kill.\n\nIt was known as the \"foresight\" test and some believed it set the prosecutorial bar too low, allowing bit-part players or those on the periphery to be convicted of murder and given life sentences.\n\nHowever, in February 2016, the Supreme Court ruled the law had been interpreted wrongly for more than 30 years.\n\nThe foresight test went and a higher test was introduced.\n\nTo be guilty of murder, the prosecution had to prove that the defendant intended to assist or encourage the crime.\n\nHowever, most of those who wanted to appeal against their convictions were out of time, and the Supreme Court said they had to show they would suffer a \"substantial injustice\" if they were not allowed to appeal out of time.\n\nWhen he heard about the overturning of the joint enterprise law in 2016, he believed it would apply to his case.\n\nAfter a successful appeal against his murder conviction, Crilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter, becoming the first person since 2016 to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed.\n\nHe was released on licence last year after serving 13 years in prison. No-one else has successfully appealed such a conviction since 2016.\n\nCrilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his murder conviction was overturned\n\nSpeaking at the time, the victim's family said the \"incident had a devastating effect on the family who took a number of years to come to terms with their father's death\".\n\nThey said it was \"sickening\" to hear of his early release from prison \"for his part in the murder of our father\".\n\n\"We wish him well but also wish that our father were alive and free to live his life.\"\n\nThe campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (Jengba), which helped bring about the law change, works with people who have been convicted of murder or manslaughter under joint enterprise.\n\nCo-founder Jan Cunliffe said the group is always mindful of the victims of crime. She claims that although the law change is welcome, the introduction of a \"substantial injustice\" test for retrospective cases has made it harder for people to appeal against their convictions.\n\nShe said although Crilly did commit crimes when he was younger, \"everybody should have the opportunity to turn their life around\".\n\n\"If John hadn't been there and been kept in prison for life, he wouldn't have been there to save lives that day.\"\n\nIn the new year, the group will campaign for the abolition of life sentences for children convicted of murder under the joint enterprise law.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nRyan Sessegnon marked his first Tottenham start with a goal but could not prevent Spurs from losing 3-1 to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.\n\nBoth sides had already qualified for the last 16, with Bayern progressing as Group B winners and Tottenham going through as runners-up, and consequently they made numerous changes for Wednesday's encounter at the Allianz Arena.\n\nBayern beat Spurs 7-2 in their first meeting in this season's competition at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and took an early lead through Kingsley Coman.\n\nSpurs hit back soon after when Sessegnon showed great composure to bring a pass under control inside the area and rifle a powerful finish beyond Manuel Neuer.\n\nThomas Muller, on as a first-half substitute after Coman picked up an injury, then struck just before the break when he tapped in after Alphonso Davies had hit the post.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho went close to scoring a spectacular third for the hosts but his fierce drive from distance bounced off the underside of the crossbar before being cleared.\n\nThe former Liverpool forward got on the scoresheet in the second half when he curled into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nSpurs will face one of Barcelona, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Valencia or RB Leipzig in the last 16, with the draw on Monday.\n\nAfter the game, Bayern said France forward Coman would be out for \"some time\" with a capsule tear in the left knee\".\n• None What have we learned in Champions League?\n• None Which teams are into Champions League last 16?\n\nWith qualification to the last 16 and positions in the group already sorted before this game, Spurs boss Jose Mourinho understandably opted to give his fringe and young squad players a chance to shine.\n\nAfter a testing start to his Spurs career, Sessegnon grasped his opportunity with both hands. The 19-year-old signed from Fulham on deadline day but a hamstring injury he picked up in the summer while with England Under-21s had limited him to just three first-team appearances from the bench.\n\nHe took just 20 minutes to make an impression in Munich, thundering an unstoppable strike past Neuer after first taking a touch to control Giovani lo Celso's deflected pass.\n\nAt 19 years and 207 days, Sessegnon became Spurs' youngest Champions League scorer and went on to put on an assured performance.\n\nHe was the standout player for an otherwise flat Spurs who struggled to compete against a Bayern team that barely got out of third gear.\n• None Bayern Munich became just the second club to win all six of their group games in a single Champions League campaign (in the competition's current format, since 2003-04) after Real Madrid, who have done so twice (in 2011-12 and 2014-15).\n• None By collecting maximum points (18) and a goal difference of +19 Bayern became the best group winner in the history of the competition.\n• None Spurs manager Jose Mourinho has lost each of his three away games at Bayern Munich, with all three coming in the Champions League in charge of different teams (3-2 with Chelsea, 2-1 with Real Madrid and 3-1 with Spurs).\n• None Bayern Munich have gone unbeaten at home in the Champions League group stage for the sixth consecutive campaign, winning 17 of their 18 games at the Allianz Arena since the 2014-15 season (D1).\n• None Spurs have conceded at least two goals in five of their six games under Jose Mourinho in all competitions (11 in total), including in all three of their away games.\n• None Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller scored his 28th Champions League goal at the Allianz Arena - only four players have ever scored more at a single venue in the competition (Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp and Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Karim Benzema at the Bernabeu).\n• None Ryan Sessegnon is the third-youngest player to score a Champions League goal under Jose Mourinho, after Carlos Alberto (19y 167d) and Mario Balotelli (18y 84d).\n\n'I learned important information' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho said: \"It would be unfair to speak about conclusions. No conclusions, just information and that is very important for me.\n\n\"Some of the players played their first minutes with me. Some of the players like Foyth was the first time he played.\n\n\"It was important to collect some information, information you normally collect in the season or in pre-season. I just arrived and I need information.\n\n\"I am happy with the decisions I made, I hope our supporters understand what I did. Internally we made this decision and we think it was the best decision for the team.\"\n\nTottenham return to Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Wolves on Sunday (14:00 GMT). Meanwhile, the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is on Monday (11:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Sessegnon with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Huw Edwards announces that the combined BBC, ITV and Sky exit poll suggests that Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.\n\nRead more: Tories on course to win majority - exit poll", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was in buoyant mood as she arrived at the Glasgow count\n\nThe SNP has made big gains across Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon saying the country had sent a \"clear message\" on a second independence referendum.\n\nThe party won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nThe SNP also defeated Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the result had exceeded her expectations.\n\nThe Conservatives have won six seats, the Liberal Democrats four and Labour one.\n\nNeale Hanvey's victory in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is counted as an SNP gain from Labour because he was on the ballot paper as an SNP candidate.\n\nMr Hanvey had been suspended by the party over allegations he made anti-Semitic posts on social media, and will sit as an independent MP.\n\nThe Conservatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have won an overall majority across the UK after taking a string of former Labour strongholds in England and Wales.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"very disappointing night for the Labour Party\" and confirmed he would not lead the party into the next election.\n\nThe other main developments from Scotland's election night include:\n\nMs Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, had already pledged to send a letter to the prime minister before Christmas requesting that Holyrood be given the power to hold indyref2.\n\nSpeaking at the Glasgow count, she said she would not pretend that everyone who voted for her party will necessarily support independence.\n\nBut she said it was a \"clear endorsement Scotland should get to decide our future and not have it decided for us\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Scotland has sent a very clear message - we don't want a Boris Johnson government, we don't want to leave the EU.\n\n\"The results across the rest of the UK are grim but underlines the importance of Scotland having a choice.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU but he must accept that I have a mandate to give Scotland a choice for an alternative future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack, who held Dumfries and Galloway for the Conservatives, said more people cast votes for unionist parties in Scotland than for the SNP.\n\nAnd he was adamant the prime minister should continue to block Ms Sturgeon's calls for power to hold an independence ballot.\n\nThe Conservative vote had fallen by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland, while the Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%. The Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5% despite the loss of the party's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I have a mandate to offer that choice\"\n\nRutherglen and Hamilton West was the first Scottish constituency to declare its result at 01:25, with Margaret Ferrier - who previously held the seat between 2015 and 2017 - polling 23,775 votes, giving her a majority of 5,230 over her Labour rival Ged Killen.\n\nThat early success was quickly followed by the SNP's David Doogan defeating Conservative Kirstene Hair in Angus.\n\nJohn Nicolson won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat after defeating Luke Graham of the Conservatives, while the SNP also won back Midlothian from Labour's Danielle Rowley,\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black comfortably held her Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat with a greatly increased majority, while Kenny MacAskill, the former Scottish justice secretary, won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nSNP MEP Alyn Smith won Stirling from Stephen Kerr of the Conservatives, but Scottish Secretary Alister Jack held Dumfries and Galloway for the Tories.\n\nDouglas Ross also held his Moray seat for the Conservatives, while his colleague David Mundell held Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins lost by 1,316 votes to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats in Fife North East. Mr Gethins had won the seat by just two votes in 2017.\n\nAnd Labour's Ian Murray held on in Edinburgh South, meaning he is the party's only MP in Scotland.\n\nMr Murray, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, warned that his party's ideology must change or else it will \"die\" and said voters he spoke to on the doorsteps during this campaign did not see Mr Corbyn as prime minister and could not see Labour as a credible alternative government.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.\n\nThe SNP are once again the undoubted winners of the night, taking a slew of seats from their opponents including a big scalp in the form of Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nThe party haven't had it all their own way - running up against Tory resistance in a few seats and losing North East Fife to the Lib Dems - but Nicola Sturgeon's team have piled on thousands of votes in every seat and have already secured a landslide.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, have collapsed across Scotland, with their share of the vote down sharply. They even lost the shadow Scottish secretary, Lesley Laird, to a candidate disowned by the SNP and who will sit as an independent.\n\nThe Conservatives have clinched victory UK-wide, but have lost a clutch of Scottish seats to the SNP - and will be wondering what this means for their campaign to \"stop indyref2\".\n\nThe Lib Dem vote share is up in most places, but any progress will be massively overshadowed by the loss of Ms Swinson. The party's leader has just gone from touting herself as a future prime minister to losing her seat for the second time in four years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BedMachine Antarctic: Fly over the new map\n\nThe deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier.\n\nThis ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.\n\nThe discovery is illustrated in a new map of the White Continent that reveals the shape of the bedrock under the ice sheet in unprecedented detail.\n\nIts features will be critical to our understanding of how the polar south might change in the future.\n\nThe new map, called BedMachine Antarctica, shows, for example, previously unrecognised ridges that will impede the retreat of melting glaciers in a warming world; and, alternatively, a number of smooth, sloping terrains that could accelerate withdrawals.\n\n\"This is undoubtedly the most accurate portrait yet of what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet,\" said Dr Mathieu Morlighem, who's worked on the project for six years.\n\nDenman's deep trough (dark blue) is 20km wide and 100km long - all filled with ice\n\nThe University of California, Irvine, researcher is presenting his new compilation here at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. It is also being published simultaneously in the journal Nature Geoscience.\n\nThe map essentially fills all of the gaps in airborne surveys of the continent.\n\nFor decades, radar instruments have crisscrossed Antarctica, sending down microwave pulses to peer through the ice and trace the underlying rock topography. But there are still vast areas for which there is little or no data.\n\nDr Morlighem's solution has been to use some physics - mass conservation - to plug these holes.\n\nFor instance, if it's known how much ice is entering a narrow valley and how fast it's moving - the volume of that ice can be worked out, giving an insight into the depth and roughness of the hidden valley floor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mathieu Morlighem: \"The shape of the underlying bedrock influences how glaciers flow\"\n\nFor the 20km-wide Denman Glacier, which flows towards the ocean in Queen Mary Land, this approach reveals the ice to be descending to over 3,500m below sea level.\n\n\"The trenches in the oceans are deeper, but this is the deepest canyon on land,\" explained Dr Morlighem.\n\n\"There have been many attempts to sound the bed of Denman, but every time they flew over the canyon - they couldn't see it in the radar data.\n\n\"The trough is so entrenched that you get side-echoes from the walls of the valley and they make it impossible to detect the reflection from the actual bed of the glacier,\" he told BBC News.\n\nFor comparison, the deepest ocean point - in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific - goes to just shy of 11km below the sea surface. There are land canyons that can be described as having taller sides, such as Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, but their floors are above sea level.\n\nThe lowest exposed land on Earth, at the Dead Sea shore, is a mere 413m (1,355ft) below sea level.\n\nByrd Glacier is a giant ice stream that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains\n\nMuch of what is in BedMachine Antarctica may not - at first glance - look that different from previous bedmaps. But, on closer inspection, there are some fascinating details that will generate considerable discussion among polar experts.\n\nFor example, along the Transantarctic Mountains there is a series of glaciers that cut through from the continent's eastern plateau and feed into the Ross Sea. The new data shows a high ridge sits under these glaciers that will limit the speed at which they can drain the plateau. This will be important if future warming destabilises the floating shelf of ice that currently sits on top of the Ross Sea. Removal of this platform would ordinarily be expected to speed up the flow of feeding glaciers.\n\n\"If something happened to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf - and right now it's fine, but if something happened - it will most likely not trigger the collapse of East Antarctica through these 'gates'. If East Antarctica is threatened, it's not from the Ross Sea,\" Dr Morlighem said.\n\nAirborne instruments are used to map Antarctica, but there are still huge data gaps\n\nIn contrast to the situation in the Transantarctic Mountains, BedMachine Antarctica finds few impediments to the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier. Roughly the size of the UK, this mighty ice stream terminates in the Amundsen Sea in the west of the continent.\n\nIt worries scientists because it sits on a bed that slopes back towards the land - a geometry that tends to assist thinning and withdrawal. And the new map reveals only two ridges, some 30km and 50km upstream of Thwaites' current grounding line, that could act as potential brakes. Go past these and the melting glacier's pull-back could be unstoppable.\n\nBedMachine Antarctica will be fed into climate models that try to project how the continent might evolve as temperatures on Earth rise in the coming centuries.\n\nGetting realistic simulations out of these models depends on having more precise information on the thickness of the ice sheet and the type of terrain over which it must slide.\n\nCo-worker Dr Emma Smith from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute uses this analogy: \"Imagine if you poured a bunch of treacle on to a flat surface and watched how it flowed outwards. Then pour the same treacle on to a surface with a lot of lumps and bumps, different slopes and ridges - the way the treacle would spread out would be very different. And it's exactly the same with the ice on Antarctica,\" she told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg criticised CEOs and politicians for their lack of action\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.\n\nThe 16-year-old is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.\n\nSpeaking at a UN climate change summit in Madrid before the announcement, she urged world leaders to stop using \"creative PR\" to avoid real action.\n\nThe next decade would define the planet's future, she said.\n\nLast year, the teenager started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.\n\nSince then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. Earlier this year, she was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nAt the UN Climate Conference in New York in September, she blasted politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change. In a now-famous speech, she said: \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We'll be watching you.\"\n\nReacting to the nomination on Twitter, the activist said: \"Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.\"\n\nTime magazine's cover for its Person of the Year edition\n\nThe teenager's message, however, has not been well received by everyone, most notably prominent conservative voices. Before her appearance in Madrid, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro called her a \"brat\" after she expressed concern about the killing of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.\n\n\"Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that,\" he said, using the Portuguese word for brat, \"pirralha\".\n\nThe activist responded by briefly changing her Twitter bio to \"Pirralha\".\n\nShe has previously been at odds with US President Donald Trump, who has questioned climate science and rolled back many US climate laws, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who once called her a \"kind but poorly informed teenager\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nAnnouncing Time's decision on NBC, editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said: \"She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement.\"\n\nThe magazine's tradition, which started as Man of the Year, recognises the person who \"for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year\". Last year, it named murdered and imprisoned journalists, calling them \"The Guardians\".\n\nAt the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid, Greta Thunberg accused world powers of making constant attempts \"to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition\".\n\n\"The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when, in fact, almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR,\" she said, drawing applause.\n\n\"In just three weeks we'll enter a new decade, a decade that will define our future,\" she added. \"Right now, we're desperate for any sign of hope.\"\n\nThis was meant to be a big moment in the talks, the elixir of the \"Greta effect\" bringing new energy to a flagging process. The teenager is almost certainly the most famous person here, attracting far more attention than other celebrities like Al Gore, and the UN badly needs a boost.\n\nHer talk came over as measured, grounded in the latest research, and avoided the flash of hurt and anger she displayed in New York in September. Looking around the hall, it was striking how many of the national delegations had not turned up for this morning session at the conference.\n\nA snub by the big fossil fuel economies? Or maybe they were too busy in the negotiations themselves?\n\nIn any event, the passion among the millions of young people who have taken to the streets to demand action on climate change feels very remote from the diplomatic struggles in these halls.\n\nMeanwhile in Brussels, the European Commission - the EU executive - announced ambitious environmental proposals to cut the bloc's dependency on fossil fuels, hoping to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on 1 December, called the European Green Deal Europe's \"man on the Moon moment\". It includes proposals that affect everything from transport and buildings to food production, and air and water pollution.\n\nThe package will be debated by EU leaders at a summit on Thursday and includes:\n\nReacting to the proposals, Jagoda Munic, director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe, said they were \"too small, too few and too far off\", adding: \"We're on a runaway train to ecological and climate collapse and the EU Commission is gently switching gears instead of slamming on the brakes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does this cattle farmer moves his cows every day?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Never been more happy to be rejected from a film\"\n\nFilm star Karen Gillan says she struggled to win roles in school plays and the local pantomime when she was a young girl in Inverness.\n\nGillan, who is now one of Scotland's biggest movie stars, tells BBC Scotland's The Edit she had to overcome many knockbacks while trying to break into acting.\n\n\"I got rejected from everything growing up,\" the 32-year-old says.\n\nThis might be something of a surprise given she has rarely been far from cinema screens since her breakout role as Doctor Who companion Amy Pond about seven years ago.\n\nShe has appeared in the Marvel blockbusters Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, starred opposite Hollywood stars such as Tom Hanks and provided voices for characters in a Will Smith and a Harrison Ford film.\n\nNext year, she will be the lead character in an all-female assassin movie Gunpowder Milkshake also starring Game of Thrones' Lena Headey and action movie actress Michelle Yeoh.\n\nBefore that, this Christmas sees her reprise her role as Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji: The Next Level, the sequel to 2017's hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.\n\nHer fellow cast members include Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson and comedy actors Kevin Hart and Jack Black.\n\nBut Gillan said she struggled to win roles in her youth.\n\nKaren Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who\n\n\"The local pantomime, I couldn't get in,\" she says.\n\n\"The school plays I couldn't get in, and somehow I knew that it didn't mean I couldn't do this profession.\"\n\nShe adds: \"My drive wasn't 'I'm going to show them', but 'I know I can do this and you just can't see it yet'.\n\n\"A lot of people might have been put off by those rejections, so that is why I think it is so important to have self-belief.\"\n\nHer perseverance paid off with her becoming a member of Inverness' Eden Court Theatre's youth dance company and senior youth theatre. She later studied acting and performance in Edinburgh and London.\n\nShe says her advice to young people wanting to break into acting would be to have self-belief, work hard and not let rejections end their dreams.\n\nJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle represents one of Gillan's biggest films to date. The movie made more than £730m worldwide.\n\nIts popularity was evident on a trip home to Inverness.\n\nGillan and her fellow Jumanji: The Next Level cast members\n\n\"I tried to go to see Jumanji but couldn't get in because the cinema was full. I've never been more happy to be rejected from a film,\" she says.\n\nGillan says among the reasons for the film's success, and what she hopes will also help the sequel, is the chemistry among its cast.\n\nShe says: \"It's so much fun. It's as much fun as you imagine it would be. Filming a scene there are tears in my eyes because I had just been laughing.\"\n\nFor the sequel, Gillan was encouraged to do some of her own stunts which included being thrown from a bridge and fight scenes using nunchucks martial arts weapons.\n\n\"I'm covered in bruises because I had to learn how to use nunchucks. I kept hitting myself with them,\" she says.\n\nFor Gillan, Christmas offers the chance of a break from her career, and injuring herself, as well as an opportunity to indulge in a Scottish delicacy.\n\n\"I'll be eating everything under the sun including eating black pudding in the morning because I miss that,\" she says, before adding: \"And I am going to be working out - a lot - because of all the eating.\"", "Days after a sudden eruption that has killed several visitors, the White Island volcano in New Zealand continues to spew gas and ash.\n\nThe volcanic activity has hindered search and recovery efforts, with bodies thought to still be on the island.\n\nThe BBC's Shaimaa Khalil took a helicopter ride to see the island, also known as Whakaari, and describes the scene.", "Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two birds in Carnaby Street, London\n\nThe rumour parakeets arrived in the UK when rock star Jimi Hendrix released a pair in London's Carnaby Street in the swinging 60s has finally been scotched.\n\nThey also did not escape across the country during the wrap party for the movie The African Queen, in 1951.\n\nIn fact, reported sightings from the 1860s have been uncovered, Goldsmiths, UCL and Queen Mary universities say.\n\nIntentional releases may have also been encouraged in 1929-1931 and 1952 when fatal \"parrot fever\" hit the headlines.\n\nThe bright green non-native ring-necked parakeets now thrive across the UK.\n\nOriginally from Africa, it has become a successful invasive species in 34 countries on five continents, the study's lead author, the late Steven Le Comber, says.\n\nIn 2016 there were more than 8,500 breeding pairs of parakeets, mostly in south-east England\n\nAs well as the rumour from the Bogart and Hepburn classic, in 1951, another suggests that a flock kept at Syon Park escaped when a plane crashed through the aviary roof, in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, the researchers found their spread across the UK is more mundanely down to repeated intentional releases and not to do with publicity stunts.\n\nNumerous sensational accounts of human deaths due to psittacosis infections from birds were published in 1929.\n\nA Daily Herald report in 1952 warns of infections from parakeets\n\nAnd in 1932, the Middlesex County Times reported parakeets had been spotted in Epping Forest, with the paper blaming the \"parrot disease scare\" of 1931 for the observations in the wild.\n\n\"Scary\" health stories often prompt a strong public reaction, said Sarah Elizabeth Cox, postgraduate history student at Goldsmiths.\n\n\"If you were told you were at risk being near one, it would be much easier to let it out the window than to destroy it,\" she said.\n\nThis latest study used geographic profiling, a statistical technique originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime, to analyse spatial patterns of parakeet sightings.\n\nWhen applied to biological data, the model can identify the origin sites of diseases or introduction sites of invasive, non-native species.\n\nRumours said after the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was shot, parakeets used were released from the UK studios\n\nNone of the \"suspect sites\" connected to origin myths showed up prominently in the geoprofile of more than 5,000 unique records dating from 1968 - 2018.\n\nBy 1961, birds were more popular pets than cats and dogs in the UK, with 11 million birds in captivity, of various species, and it seems obvious there would be an increase in escapes, researchers said.\n\nThe bird is considered non-native as it was introduced by human activity\n• None 'Most northerly' parrots cause flap in park\n• None BBC - Earth - These small birds are common in London but nobody knows why\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The Sudd: Microbes in saturated soils will produce methane\n\nScientists think they can now explain at least part of the recent growth in methane (CH4) levels in the atmosphere.\n\nResearchers, led from Edinburgh University, UK, say their studies point to a big jump in emissions coming from just the wetlands of South Sudan.\n\nSatellite data indicates the region received a large surge of water from East African lakes, including Victoria.\n\nThis would have boosted CH4 from the wetlands, accounting for a significant part of the rise in global methane.\n\nPerhaps even up to a third of the growth seen in the period 2010-2016, when considered with East Africa as a whole.\n\n\"There's not much ground-monitoring in this region that can prove or disprove our results, but the data we have fits together beautifully,\" said Prof Paul Palmer.\n\n\"We have independent lines of evidence to show the Sudd wetlands expanded in size, and you can even see it in aerial imagery - they became greener,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane is a potent greenhouse gas, and - just like carbon dioxide - is increasing its concentration in the atmosphere.\n\nIt's not been a steady rise, however. Indeed, during the early 2000s, the amount of the gas even stabilised for a while. But then the concentration jumped in about 2007, with a further uptick recorded in 2014.\n\nCH4 (methane) is now climbing rapidly and today stands at just over 1,860 parts per billion by volume.\n\nThere's currently a debate about the likely sources, with emissions from human activities such as agriculture and fossil-fuel use undoubtedly in the mix. But there is a large natural component as well, and a lot of current research is centred on contributions from the tropics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lunt: \"There is still huge uncertainty about methane sources\"\n\nThe Edinburgh group has been using the Japanese GOSAT spacecraft to try to observe the greenhouse-gas behaviour over peatlands and wetlands in Africa, and found significant rises in methane emissions above South Sudan centred on the years 2011-2014.\n\nBelieving the region called the Sudd could be the culprit (soil microbes in wetlands are known to produce a lot of methane), the team started looking through other satellite data-sets to make the link.\n\nLand surface temperature observations supported the idea that soils in the region had become wetter; gravity measurements across East Africa also detected an increase in the weight of water held in the ground; and satellite altimeters had tracked changes in the height of lakes and rivers to the south.\n\n\"The levels of the East African lakes, which feed down the Nile to the Sudd, increased considerably over the period we were studying. It coincided with the increase in methane that we saw, and would imply that we were getting this increased flow down the river into the wetlands,\" explained Dr Mark Lunt.\n\nMuch of the extra water likely resulted as a consequence of dam releases upstream.\n\nTropomi detects a methane hotspot right over the Sudd (green square)\n\nThe Edinburgh group published its findings on Wednesday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and, as an update to the story, Dr Lunt is presenting new data here at the American Geophysical Union meeting.\n\nHe's been looking at methane observations made by the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. Its Tropomi instrument sees CH4 at a finer resolution than GOSAT, and it's clear from the European mapper that methane emissions are still elevated over South Sudan.\n\nThe level of activity is nothing like the same as in the early 2010s, but the Sudd wetlands remain an important source.\n\n\"It's a huge area so it's not surprising that it's pumping out a lot of methane. To give context - the Sudd is 40,000 sq km: two times the size of Wales. And being that big we expect to see the emissions from space,\" Dr Lunt told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The UK is going to the polls for the country's third general election in less than five years.\n\nThe contest, the first to be held in December in nearly 100 years, follows those in 2015 and 2017.\n\nPolling stations in 650 constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland opened at 07:00 GMT.\n\nAfter the polls close at 22:00 GMT, counting will begin straight away. Most results are due to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nA total of 650 MPs will be chosen under the first-past-the-post system used for general elections, in which the candidate who secures the most votes in each individual constituency is elected.\n\nIn 2017, Newcastle Central was the first constituency to declare, announcing its result about an hour after polls closed.\n\nElections in the UK traditionally take place every four or five years. But, in October, MPs voted for the second snap poll in as many years. It is the first winter election since 1974 and the first to take place in December since 1923.\n\nAnyone aged 18 or over is eligible to vote, as long as they are a British citizen or qualifying citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland and have registered to vote. Registration closed on 26 November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: From the count, to your TV\n\nDetails about where to vote can be found on the Electoral Commission website and are also listed on polling cards sent to households.\n\nPeople do not need a polling card to be able to vote but will need to give their name and address at their local polling station. People can only vote for one candidate or their ballot paper will not be counted.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has cast his vote - he visited a polling station in central London, taking his dog, Dilyn, along with him, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn posed for pictures when he went to vote in north London.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon visited a polling station in Glasgow, while Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson cast her vote at a polling station in East Dunbartonshire, accompanied by her husband Duncan Hames.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price voted in Carmarthenshire and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley did so in south London.\n\nBoris Johnson took his dog to the polling station when he cast his vote\n\nJeremy Corbyn posed for pictures at his local polling station in north London\n\nJo Swinson also voted in East Dunbartonshire, accompanied by her husband Duncan Hames\n\nAhead of the poll, the elections watchdog has reminded voters that taking selfies and other photos inside polling stations is not permitted and may be a breach of the law.\n\nMany people have already put a cross next to the name of their favoured candidate by voting by post - more than seven million people used a postal vote two years ago.\n\nThose who applied for a postal vote but have yet to return it to their Electoral Office must do so by 22:00. Alternatively, they can hand it into their local polling station by the close of polls.\n\nAccording to the BBC's weather forecast, showery spells will continue into the evening in much of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election night timings: What? Where? When?", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio to mock US President Donald Trump's outrage at her winning Time Person of the Year 2019.\n\nHe said she had an \"anger management problem\" and should go to \"a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nShe then adapted her Twitter bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nThe Swedish 16-year-old was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday after leading a global movement against climate change.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time she has changed her Twitter bio to reflect Mr Trump and other leaders' criticism of her.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Thunberg changed her bio to \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed the bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\". This was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz (R) could not agree a power-sharing deal\n\nIsrael will hold an unprecedented third general election in less than a year after politicians again failed to form a majority coalition in parliament.\n\nMembers of the Knesset voted to set the election date for 2 March hours after a midnight (22:00 GMT) deadline passed.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, were unable to secure majorities following September's inconclusive election.\n\nThe two leaders also could not agree on a power-sharing arrangement.\n\nMr Netanyahu's legal problems were a big obstacle to negotiations. He was indicted on corruption charges last month.\n\nIn the end, Mr Gantz demanded that he promise not to seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution as a precondition for further talks.\n\nIn September, Mr Gantz's centrist Blue and White alliance won 33 seats in the 120-member Knesset, while Mr Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party got 32 seats.\n\nWith neither party able to build a coalition that could command a 61-seat majority, President Reuven Rivlin called on them to form a national unity government.\n\nBut the negotiations broke down over who would serve as prime minister first; Mr Netanyahu's insistence that ultra-Orthodox parties allied to him be included; and Mr Gantz's refusal to serve under a prime minister facing criminal charges.\n\nIsrael's attorney general has charged with Mr Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases. He is alleged to have accepted gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensed favours to try to get more positive press coverage.\n\nThe prime minister has denied any wrongdoing and described the charges as an \"attempted coup\", blaming them on a \"tainted\" process.\n\nMr Netanyahu has not yet announced whether he will ask parliament to grant him immunity from prosecution. But most analysts believe he is hoping to improve his chances of obtaining immunity with a third election.\n\nThe Knesset is voting on a bill to dissolve itself and schedule a election for 2 March\n\nAhead of Wednesday's deadline for any member of the Knesset to form a majority coalition, the prime minister released a video accusing Blue and White of \"creating a flood of political spin\".\n\n\"They want to hide the fact that they did everything possible to avoid the establishment of a broad national unity government that would annex the Jordan Valley, apply Israeli sovereignty on the settlements in Judea and Samaria,\" he said, referring to the occupied West Bank.\n\n\"They forced new elections on us. It is unnecessary and in order to avoid it happening again there is one thing to do and that is to win, and win big - and that is what we'll do.\"\n\nIn response, Blue and White suggested on Twitter that Mr Netanyahu \"save a few lies for the campaign\".\n\nYair Lapid, Mr Gantz's deputy, earlier told a debate in the Knesset: \"What used to be a celebration of democracy has become a moment of shame for this building.\"\n\n\"There are only three reasons for this election - bribery, fraud and breach of trust.\"\n\nIt is not clear if another election will break the deadlock. An opinion poll published by Israel's Channel 13 News on Tuesday suggested that Blue and White would win 37 seats and Likud 33 seats.\n\nMr Netanyahu will also face a challenge from within Likud, which said on Wednesday that it was likely to hold a leadership primary on 26 December.\n\nFormer Interior Minister Gideon Saar, who intends to stand, tweeted: \"There is a national need for a breakthrough that will end the ongoing political crisis, enable the formation of a strong government, and to unite the people of Israel.\"", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow the drama online or on social media, the BBC has you covered on election night.\n\nThe BBC News website will have results for every constituency as they are announced, with a postcode search, interactive map and scoreboards. Our politics live page will have minute-by-minute updates in text and video, as well as expert analysis as the night unfolds.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2019 results programme will be led by Huw Edwards on BBC One, the BBC News Channel, and BBC iPlayer. Edwards will be joined by Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil and Tina Daheley, as well as Jeremy Vine, who will also be in the studio with his famous swingometer.\n\nThe programme began at 21:55 GMT on Thursday and runs until 09:00 GMT on Friday, when Emily Maitlis takes the helm from Westminster, with Clive Myrie broadcasting from Downing Street, as the overall election result becomes clear.\n\nThe overnight programme is also being shown on BBC World News and streamed live on the BBC News website internationally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes of the general election 2019\n\nLive coverage on BBC One Scotland started at 21:55 GMT on Thursday.\n\nResults will be displayed on a giant constituency map of the UK\n\nElection night on BBC One Wales began at 21:55 GMT on Thursday. It will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCoverage on BBC One Northern Ireland begins at 21:55 GMT on Thursday and it joins with BBC One from 06:00 GMT on Friday\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis overnight and throughout the day on Friday, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "The wife of a jailed banker is fighting to overturn the UK's first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).\n\nZamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16m in Harrods, faces losing her £15m Knightsbridge home and a Berkshire golf course to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHer husband is in prison in their native Azerbaijan for stealing millions from a state-owned bank he once headed.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva denies all allegations of wrongdoing and the Court of Appeal was told she has been unfairly targeted.\n\nJames Lewis QC, who is representing Mrs Hajiyeva, said the NCA's entire case was based on unsupported claims that she had benefited from political corruption.\n\n\"UWOs are available against 'politically exposed persons' and their families even in the absence of any reasonable grounds to suspect criminal activity on their part,\" said Mr Lewis in legal submissions.\n\n\"They are therefore the most draconian and intrusive powers available to financial investigators in the UK today - and by some margin.\"\n\nMrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was given a 15-year jail sentence for corruption following an unjust trial and was not able to defend the source of the family's wealth in court in London, said Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added a judge's earlier conclusion that Mr Hajiyev was a potentially corrupt foreign official was flawed because he had merely headed a commercial bank with state shareholders, rather than a bank that was carrying out state functions.\n\nThat meant, argued Mr Lewis, Mrs Hajiyeva should no longer have to prove to the NCA where her wealth came from.\n\nDuring proceedings last year, the High Court was told that she spent an average of £4,000 a day in Harrods over 10 years to 2016 - spreading the cost of the jewellery and designer clothes over 54 credit cards, the majority issued by her husband's bank.\n\nIn fresh papers disclosed at the Court of Appeal, the National Crime Agency revealed new details about its concerns over the family's activities in London.\n\nThe documents state that following Mrs Hajiyeva's attempt last year to stop the UWO being imposed, her daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, took 49 items of jewellery worth £400,000 to the Christie's auction house.\n\n\"[Mrs Hajiyeva's] daughter attempted to sell high-value jewellery (some of which had been purchased by Mr Hajiyev), and that ZH is under investigation in Azerbaijan for fraudulently spending significant sums on air tickets, jewellery, tuition fees, beauty products, restaurants and hotels,\" said the NCA.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the agency, said its order simply required Mrs Hajiyeva to respond to reasonable suspicions - including why her home was owned by a company based in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nClaims that her husband had made his money selling fridge-freezers were wholly implausible, he added.\n\nA judgement in the case is expected next year.\n\nThe result will indicate whether this tool has a powerful enough legal punch to help seize billions of pounds worth of British property belonging to suspected corrupt foreign officials and their families.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains, Regis UK, has been bought out of administration, saving 1,000 jobs.\n\nEntrepreneur Lee Bushell has agreed to buy 140 outlets trading under the two brands across the UK.\n\nBut, as first reported by Sky News, the deal will also involve the closure of about 60 sites risking 200 jobs.\n\nRegis fell into administration in October blaming a \"perfect storm\" of pressures.\n\nIt has been struggling with a fall in customer numbers in shopping centres where many of its salons are located. It also said higher wage costs had worsened its \"cash flow issues\".\n\nLast year, it negotiated a cut in the rent it paid through a legal process known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), but landlords challenged the proposals in court.\n\nRegis UK was sold by its US parent company to the private equity firm Regent in 2017. But it has faced a challenging retail environment since then, as people rein in their spending.\n\nLast week, card chain Clintons struck a deal to stop it going bust before Christmas, while baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration last month.\n\nA string of other firms has gone under including electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.\n\nCommenting on the Regis deal, Matt Cowlishaw, of administrators Deloitte, said: \"We are pleased to have concluded the sale and for being able to preserve a significant number of jobs at two well-known brands.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky\"\n\nHundreds of birds found dead on a north Wales road are to be tested to discover how they died.\n\nAbout 225 starlings were discovered with blood on their bodies in a lane on Anglesey, North Wales Police said.\n\nDafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if \"they had dropped down dead from the sky\".\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency has collected them for testing and will examine whether they could have been poisoned.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was investigating the \"very strange\" discovery and has appealed for information.\n\n\"We don't know how it has happened,\" said PC Dewi Evans.\n\nMr Edwards, 41, said his partner Hannah Stevens first saw the birds alive as she went to an appointment on Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"She said she saw hundreds of them flying over and thought it looked amazing but on her way back around an hour later they were all dead in the road.\n\nThe birds have been collected for testing\n\nMs Stevens reported seeing the birds eating something in the road.\n\n\"I counted 150 last night but I gave up as there's just hundreds of them littered everywhere.\n\n\"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky.\"\n\nA spokesman for the RSPB said: \"This is obviously very concerning for us and we will await the test results.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate as to how they have died.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch clips from the BBC Sound Of 2020 nominees\n\nA selection of bedroom musicians, indie bands and retro-futuristic soul singers are being tipped for success on BBC Music's Sound of 2020 list.\n\nThe longlist features 10 rising acts, from punk-pop firebrand Yungblud to soul-baring songwriter Celeste.\n\nOther nominees include DIY musician Beabadoobee, who is signed to the same management company as The 1975; and Dublin rock band Inhaler, fronted by Bono's son Elijah Hewson.\n\nThe winner will be revealed in January.\n\nNow in its 18th year, the Sound of... list showcases the hottest new artists for the coming year. Past winners includes Adele, Sam Smith, Years & Years, 50 Cent, Sigrid and, earlier this year, Octavian.\n\nIt is voted for by 170 music critics, broadcasters and DJs, as well as former nominees such as Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Chvrches.\n\nCeleste has been hotly tipped following the success of her heart-rending single Strange\n\nThe 2020 selection sees a retreat from grime and UK rap, which had established a strong presence on the list over the last five years.\n\nIn their place are a clutch of female artists who represent the rise of British R&B - from the sweet-but-gritty sounds of Joy Crookes to the soulful poetry of Arlo Parks.\n\nBut the one to beat is Celeste, a \"shy singer with a star's voice\", who has already won the Brits' Rising Star award and been named BBC Music Introducing's artist of the year.\n\nHailing from Dublin, Inhaler have built an impressive live following since forming at school over a shared love of bands like Joy Division, The Strokes, The Stone Roses and The Cure.\n\nOnce you know the U2 connection, it's hard not to notice the similarities between Eli Hewson's soaring vocals and those of his father - but the band have worked hard to stand on their own two feet.\n\n\"For me and for us as a band, we've known that there's going to be doors open,\" Hewson told the NME. \"But those doors will shut just as fast as they open if we're not good.\"\n\nThey're not the only act on the longlist with famous connections. Georgia, who scored a major club hit this year with About Work The Dancefloor, is the daughter of Leftfield's Neil Barnes, while Yungblud is the grandson of Rick Harrison, who played with T Rex in the 1970s.\n\nYungblud has built up a huge following with singles like Original Me and 11 Minutes\n\nThe Doncaster-born singer is the most high-profile name on the 2020 longlist, with 11 million monthly listeners on Spotify - more than all the other artists combined.\n\nBorn Dominic Harrison, the 22-year-old has positioned himself as the voice of a generation, singing about topics like sexual assault, corporate greed, anxiety and \"the underrated youth\".\n\n\"I never want to be predictable,\" he told the BBC earlier this year. \"If people know what I'm going to do next, then I'm completely shafted.\"\n\nSensitive singer-songwriter Joesef, meanwhile, has been branded one to watch in Scotland - where he became the second artist to sell out Glasgow's legendary King Tut's Wah Wah Hut before releasing any music online (the first was Lewis Capaldi).\n\nThe longlist is completed by two bands who defy categorisation - Leicester quintet Easy Life, who started out as jazz musicians before exploring the outer reaches of hip-hop, funk and pop; and Brighton's Squid, who describe their music as \"the Coronation Street theme tune played on flutes by angry children\".\n\nThe annual Sound of list celebrates musicians who have not been the lead artist on a UK top 10 single or album by 21 October 2019. Artists who have appeared on TV talent shows within the last three years are also ineligible.\n\nThe top five will be revealed in the New Year on BBC Radio 1 and BBC News, with one artist announced each day from Sunday 5 January until the winner is unveiled on Thursday 9 January.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Election night could be a long one for financial market traders.\n\nThe most sensitive market to political events is almost always the value of the pound. And, given the political stakes could scarcely be higher, it could be very volatile as exit polls and results begin to come in.\n\nMarkets care A LOT about the outcome of the election, but why should we even discuss them - and what do we even mean when we say \"markets\"?\n\nMarkets is shorthand for the collective confidence that investors (individuals, pension funds, hedge funds) have in the financial prospects of a company, a country, a commodity, a currency, etc.\n\nWhen it comes to politics, markets react to the effect they think political events will have on the economic prospects of the UK.\n\nBut markets are not always right.\n\nMarkets - and most economists - think Brexit is overall a bad thing for the UK economy because it makes doing business with our largest and closest trading partner, the EU, more difficult and more expensive. The harder the Brexit, the worse for the economy and the currency.\n\nMarkets also think Labour proposals - to nationalise industries, force big firms to hand over a tenth of the company to workers and government, plus a plan to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds - is bad for business confidence, the economy and the pound.\n\nMarkets do matter because a fall in the pound tends to push up the cost of living, while falls in company share prices affect the value of pensions.\n\nWith these rough principles in mind, let's take a look at the potential market reaction to the most probable outcomes.\n\nA Conservative majority: The pound goes up, but by how much and for how long depends on size of majority.\n\nThis is the outcome the markets are currently predicting. The value of the pound has risen significantly since the summer, rising from $1.19 to over $1.32 as the majority of polls have pointed to a Tory majority and a functioning government. That lead in the polls has also reduced the chance of an outright labour victory, a result markets dislike more than Brexit.\n\nHowever, even if markets get the Tory majority they expect, it doesn't mean that markets will be calm. A great deal depends on the size of that majority.\n\nA very small majority, some argue, would give hard line Brexiters more influence over negotiations with the EU and prevent the PM from extending the transition period, thereby increasing the likelihood of leaving the EU without a deal in December 2020 - an outcome that investors consider bad for the UK economy and consequently the value of the pound.\n\nOthers argue that the Tory party is a lot more stable than it was. Rebel MPs have been crushed and all have signed up to Johnson's deal in blood as the price of standing in the election. Whatever you think, it seems uncontroversial to say that the bigger the majority, the more short-term certainty for the direction of travel.\n\nBased on soundings from foreign exchange traders a solid majority (say 25-plus) see pound rise a bit ($1.33). A big win could see it rise a bit more ($1.35-$1.40) while a slim majority or falling short altogether would potentially see a sharp fall in the pound back towards $1.20-$1.25.\n\nA Labour-led coalition: Short term fall for pound but supported by potential path to reversing Brexit.\n\nThe process of assembling a coalition, choosing a leader, the possibility of a second referendum - with a potentially different result - would create uncertainty in the short term and stall business investment further. The pound would probably fall in value in the short term. However, markets have consistently delivered the message: the closer the UK is to the EU, the better for the economy - and therefore the pound might find some support after an initial dip.\n\nA Labour Party in coalition with other parties would probably have to ditch some of the more radical proposals (mass nationalisations, etc) that the markets don't like. No radical overhaul of capitalism and a potential route to a softer or non-existent Brexit would probably create a bit of a short term shock, but it wouldn't lead to a bloodbath.\n\nHowever, some say the price of the SNP joining a Labour-led coalition would be a promise for a second Scottish referendum. A possible fracture in the UK could add another whole level of uncertainty and political angst, which would offset any hopes for a softer Brexit.\n\nAn outright labour majority: The most radical overhaul of the way business and the economy is run in decades. Pound falls very sharply.\n\nThis would come as a big surprise to markets - and they hate those. It's not just the element of surprise - markets fear Labour's plans to nationalise large swathes of the economy and change the ownership of companies, etc, would spook investors.\n\nTraders expect that would lead to a sharp fall in the pound and the price of shares in the companies they want to nationalise, which would hit savers and workers' pensions.\n\nIn summary, markets know they are not oracles but they don't react well to being wrong and can act with a violent jerk of the knee when that happens. The markets right now are balanced between fears and desires.\n\nA desire for the certainty of a functioning government, while fearing both a hard Brexit on one side and a makeover of capitalism on the other.", "Pharmacists are calling for better regulation of products claiming to contain cannabis derivative CBD.\n\nThere has been a spike in demand within the last twelve months, according to manufacturers.\n\nNon-medicinal CBD is now on sale in High Street shops across the country, including chemists.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the products need clearer information and better checks on content.\n\nCBD - cannabidiol - isn't marketed as medicinal cannabis. It doesn't have a psychoactive element that makes the user high.\n\nSome studies indicate it can help with childhood epilepsy seizures, and other people think it helps them too.\n\nCannabidiol oil is being added to a range of products - from water, to chocolate, to make-up, tea and coffee.\n\nManufacturers claim sales in the UK are as much as £300m at the moment.\n\nIt's illegal to print any health claims on the products, but it's a grey area as to who checks the ingredients, or the amount of CBD oil actually contained in each product, many of which can be very expensive.\n\nJasmine Shah from the National Pharmacy Association, which represents hundreds of independent pharmacies, says an increasing number of pharmacists are stocking CBD products, despite the fact that she says \"at the moment there is very limited research on the safety and efficacy of these products\".\n\nShe says pharmacists would like \"clear authoritative guidance which makes it easy for healthcare professions, consumers and patients to make informed choices\".\n\nCBD is classed as a food supplement, so it's governed by the Food Standards Agency.\n\nBecause it's a brand-new type of food there's a grace period, where it's allowed to be sold in stores, but the FSA has now asked manufacturers to give specific information about the product.\n\nManufacturers will have to include important scientific details like what it contains, purity levels, manufacturing practices, as well as providing detailed information to demonstrate it is safe for people to consume.\n\nThe FSA says that despite ample time and repeated requests to CBD manufacturers they've not heard enough from any company in this multimillion pound industry to give them authorisation yet.\n\nThat leaves those selling the product in a difficult position. Ms Shah doesn't think that selling CBD in pharmacies gives the products extra legitimacy.\n\nShe says \"It's for each pharmacist to decide whether its suitable to stock a CBD product or not, but in terms of the safety and efficacy of it more research is required.\"\n\nThe Association for the Cannabinoid Industry is a new group representing around 20 CBD brands.\n\nIt says members are \"unequivocally committed to achieving Novel Foods status via the Food Standards Agency\".\n\nBut the FSA appears to be losing patience with the industry and said it expects \"companies to comply with the novel foods process, which includes submitting safety information about their products\".\n\n\"The FSA is considering the best way to ensure CBD food-related products currently on the market move towards compliance,\" it added.\n\nIn the meantime, customers buying any CBD product have no guarantees if the product is safe, or indeed if it contains any CBD oil at all.", "The photograph of the Routh family enjoying a day out at Stonehenge in 1875 was sent in by descendants\n\nAn 1875 photograph of a family dressed in finery enjoying a day out at Stonehenge may be the earliest such snap taken at the monument.\n\nEnglish Heritage asked people to send in their pictures to mark 100 years of public ownership of the stones.\n\nAfter sifting through more than 1,000 images historians said they believed the photograph of Isabel, Maud and Robert Routh was the oldest.\n\nIt will be part of a new exhibition of personal photos titled Your Stonehenge.\n\nMembers of the Routh family enjoying a picnic with Champagne at Stonehenge\n\nOne picture shows the group sitting on the stones with a picnic rug and what appears to be a bottle of Champagne.\n\nIn another, some of them are in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\n\"Right up until the 1920s and '30s people did dress up for days out like this, in their Sunday best, suits and hats.\"\n\nThis photo by Nan Noble is of her brother John and Aunt Nell. She said the stones were \"our private playground\" where they played tag and hide-and-seek\n\nWomen in 1932 dressed up for a day out at the monument\n\nThe exhibition shows how photography has changed - illustrated by \"the way that people pose\" and how \"their faces have got closer to the camera until they are taking a picture of themselves more than they are of Stonehenge\", said Ms Greaney.\n\nEnglish Heritage is now asking people to get in touch if they know of an earlier family snap at Stonehenge.\n\nThe earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to date from 1853 - 22 years earlier.\n\nRichard Woodman-Bailey visited Stonehenge during the school holidays in the 1950s when his father was the senior architect responsible for ancient monuments in England and Wales and took personal charge of the work at Stonehenge\n\nThe Olivers from Cornwall on their annual camping holiday in 1962 - Michael, Robert with Teddy, Mum and Carolyn all \"dressed in our finest camping clothes and Clarks sandals\"\n\nSuzie Deaves' family was able to walk around and sit on the stones in 1967\n\nThis picture was taken in 1970 when access to the monument was still open\n\nThe most recent photo in the exhibition was taken by renowned photographer and guest curator of the exhibition, Martin Parr, at the 2019 Autumn Equinox.\n\nIt features an unknown couple kissing while taking a selfie against the backdrop of the stones.\n\nMr Parr chose 10 of the images in the exhibition and said he hoped to track down the couple in his picture.\n\nHe said the photographs people sent in \"really show what the stones mean to people and how our relationship with a site like Stonehenge has changed and yet stayed the same through time\".\n\nPhotographer Martin Parr hopes to track down the couple in this photo he took earlier this year\n\nYour Stonehenge - 150 years of personal photos runs from 12 December to late August 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Jaden Moodie was the youngest murder victim in London this year\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy in a \"violent and frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was knocked off a moped and repeatedly stabbed by Ayoub Majdouline in Bickley Road, Leyton, in January.\n\nJurors heard the defendant's DNA was found on a knife and yellow washing-up gloves, which had been thrown into a drain.\n\nMajdouline, from Wembley, north London, is due to be sentenced on 18 December.\n\nA jury of eight men and four women at the Old Bailey also found the 19-year-old guilty of having an offensive weapon.\n\nJaden was the youngest murder victim in London this year.\n\nMajdouline was one of five men linked to the stabbing who drove around east London in a stolen Mercedes looking for members of a rival gang to attack on the night of 8 January, the court heard.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was found guilty of Jaden's murder by majority of 11 to one\n\nThe group, linked to drug gang the Mali Boys, had covered their faces and two of them, including Majdouline, wore yellow rubber gloves to avoid being identified, the jury was told.\n\nOnce they spotted Jaden, the Mercedes rammed into the teenager and knocked him off the moped before some of the gang members got out of the car and stabbed him while he lay on the ground.\n\nJaden, who was dealing drugs for rival gang the Beaumont Crew, suffered nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road as the attackers ran back to the car and sped off, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said: \"Fourteen seconds was all it took - Jaden did not stand a chance.\"\n\nHe told jurors the \"cowardly\" attack was part of a \"shocking wave of gang crime\" across London that attracted ever younger people.\n\nJurors heard the day before the murder, Majdouline was caught on CCTV at a Travelodge hotel in Walthamstow with the same distinctive Nike Air Max trainers he had been wearing during the knife attack on Jaden.\n\nBurnt clothes, including the trainers, were later found in a churchyard not far from the murder scene.\n\nMajdouline admitted dealing drugs for the Mali Boys but denied being present during the fatal attack.\n\nMajdouline captured on CCTV with a purple JD Sports bag found amongst the burnt piles of clothing\n\nAfter a troubled up-bringing, the defendant turned to county lines dealing \"to survive\", the court was told.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time behind bars, went straight back to dealing.\n\nThe jury heard he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation by older youths.\n\nJaden had also been in trouble with police since he was 13.\n\nHe was handed a youth conditional caution in March last year after police seized an air-powered pistol, Rambo knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nAccording to agreed facts read to the court, his mother moved her family to east London due to \"ongoing issues\" with youths.\n\nJaden's attackers burnt the clothes they wore during the stabbing in a churchyard not far from the murder scene\n\nJaden's family said \"yes\" and appeared emotional in court as Majdouline was convicted.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Ch Insp Dave Hillier, of the Met Police, described it as a \"cold-blooded\" murder.\n\nHe said Majdouline and the other attackers went out with \"the clear intention of causing, at the very least, serious harm to someone as they prowled the streets of Leyton looking for their target\".\n\nJaden's attackers \"tried to destroy any evidence, but they failed, and officers were soon able to link Majdouline to Jaden's murder\", he said.\n\nHe added: \"However, our work is not over yet. We know that there were five people in that black Mercedes and we will continue to work until all those responsible for Jaden's murder are brought to justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online orders account for billions of square metres of cardboard every year. Many objects packed very inefficiently, leading to waste.\n\nHowever, a new machine being trialled in Dijon, France, can customise cardboard boxes for specific objects. Emma Simpson was given an exclusive tour by Alex Manisty of DS Smith.", "I'm Richard Osman. Welcome to my Election Night Quiz.\n\nThe ballot boxes are closed, the votes are in and the counting has begun.\n\nAfter the back-and-forth of the campaign and the big day itself, we have the excitement of the exit poll and then... usually nothing for a while. So I thought we could pass some time with a little election quiz using some of the games we play on Richard Osman's House of Games.\n\nYou can follow the election results all night across the BBC, with live coverage on television, radio and online.", "These students at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC are taking a constitution law class, a few miles from the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.\n\nProfessor Susan Bloch takes them through the key legal questions.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "Terrence has spent Christmas day alone for the last 20 years. He'll now be spending Christmas with a good friend he's met through his work with the charity Age UK.\n\nAfter mentioning he didn't have a Christmas tree of his own during his BBC Breakfast interview, presenter Dan Walker and some people from Oldham College set out to deliver some Christmas cheer to his door by surprising him with a tree.", "We have just all lived through some of the most turbulent times in politics any of us can remember.\n\nIf the exit poll is correct, and Boris Johnson has secured a majority, then he will have the backing of MPs on the green benches behind him to take us out of the European Union next month.\n\nA huge junction in our history - a moment that will redraw our place in the world.\n\nBut not just that - if correct, these numbers could mean five more years of a Conservative government - tipping across a decade.\n\nAfter the fourth defeat for Labour in a row - after several years when they have moved further to the left - this is a serious and historic loss.\n\nThe SNP have increased their dominance in Scotland, clearing out Conservatives there in a way that leaves most of the country yellow, rather than blue.\n\nAnd it is a failure for the Lib Dems to break through after a campaign that started with high hopes.\n\nIf these results are correct, this election has been won by a leader, Boris Johnson, who just a year ago was on the backbenches, with many of his own colleagues having written him off.\n\nBut it appears that his bid to hold Leave voters together and split the Remain vote has seen him safely into Downing Street.\n\nBut it is early. This is only the beginning of the night that will decide who has the power to make decisions that affect all of our lives.", "Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he once recorded a secret Christmas album \"just for the family\" that \"gets brought out each year\" at the McCartney household.\n\n\"Years ago I thought, there's not very good Christmas records,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"So I actually went into my studio over a couple of years and I made one.\"\n\nSir Paul said he would never release the demo of traditional Christmas carol instrumentals, despite it being popular with his children and grandchildren.\n\n\"The kids like it,\" he told Sarah Montague. \"It's something they've heard through the years, you know, and now it's the grandkids getting indoctrinated with my carols record.\"\n\nThe Fab Four member last played at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004\n\nSir Paul has five children and eight grandchildren - six boys and two girls.\n\nEarlier this year he revealed he had written a children's book inspired by the \"Grandude\" nickname one of his grandchildren had given him.\n\nIt was confirmed last month the 77-year-old would be headlining at next year's Glastonbury Festival in Somerset.\n\nThe former Beatle will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on 27 June, a week after he celebrates his 78th birthday.\n\nSir Paul admitted he might get nervous, but would prepare for his appearance by playing 10 concerts beforehand \"to get up to speed\".\n\n\"You don't get an athlete just coming into the Olympics not having done a few races beforehand,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea is by the time I get to Glastonbury it'll just be just like another gig. But of course it won't be, because it's very special.\"\n\nHe also discussed the 10th anniversary of Meat Free Monday, climate change and Christmas presents during the interview, which will be broadcast on Thursday's World at One on BBC Radio 4 from 13:00 GMT.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Asian stock markets rose on Friday as the US and China moved toward striking a trade deal to avert a new round of tariffs.\n\nThe deal could be announced later in the day, after US President Donald Trump reportedly signed off on the terms.\n\nWashington is said to have agreed to remove some tariffs, while Beijing would boost purchases of US farm goods.\n\nHowever, many of the more difficult issues are still to be addressed.\n\nOptimism surrounding a trade deal pushed Asian markets higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index rising 2.3% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng put on 2%. The Shanghai Composite added 1.2%.\n\nEarlier, US markets also gained ground with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closing at fresh record highs.\n\n\"It's a good starting point,\" Chamber of Commerce head of international affairs Myron Brilliant told broadcaster CNBC after meeting with White House officials.\n\nA deal would deliver a victory to Mr Trump, who is under political pressure, with debate on his impeachment underway in the US Congress.\n\nHe tweeted on Thursday that the US and China were \"very\" close to an agreement.\n\n\"They want it and so do we!\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevious truces have collapsed and without a formal announcement or presentation of a written agreement, many remained wary.\n\nThe US reportedly offered to halve tariff rates on about $350bn (£260bn) worth of Chinese goods, some of which had climbed as high as 25%.\n\nHowever, the deal is not expected to address many of the more difficult issues that triggered the fight, like China's subsidies for certain industries.\n\n\"This should NOT be described as a trade agreement,\" Jennifer Hillman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former trade official, wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"It is a purchase and sale agreement that does virtually nothing to address substantive concerns of US (+rest of the world) with China's trade practices.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly declared progress toward a deal that would end the trade war, which has seen tariffs imposed on more than $450bn worth of US-China trade and weighed on the global economy.\n\nIn October, he announced that the two sides had agreed to terms for a \"Phase One\" deal, but negotiations dragged on.\n\nWithout progress, the US had threatened to impose tariffs on more than $150bn worth of Chinese exports on 15 December.\n\nUnlike earlier rounds of tariffs, this one was slated to fall largely on everyday items, including smartphones, children's books, footwear and clothing, heightening the economic stakes, since the US economy is driven by consumer spending.\n\nOptimism about a trade deal may be running high, but it's worth casting your mind back to why Mr Trump started this trade war with China in the first place.\n\nIt was about levelling the playing field, he declared during his campaign, and to stop Beijing's unfair trade practices.\n\nThe US said China unfairly subsidises its firms, and steals intellectual property from American companies which gives China an unfair advantage.\n\nIt's unclear whether these issues will be in the final text of any agreement. Which means that Mr Trump's trade war has yet to achieve what it set out to.\n\nMeanwhile, economic growth forecasts around the world have been cut, companies have had to shift their supply chains out of China, and businesses have struggled to make hiring and expansion decisions in the face of trade war uncertainty.\n\nWashington's advantage over China has always been the threat of more tariffs. Suspending or rolling them back could be giving away the only leverage Mr Trump has, risking a deal with actual substance in favour of a quick and easy win.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "\"This year I have taken two hangover days when I've been out with my friends, and I've taken three from when I've been out on work nights.\"\n\nEllie is 19 and works as a PR manager for a digital marketing agency. Like a growing number of employers, her boss offers flexible working arrangements, including flexible hours and unlimited holiday.\n\nIt also lets employees take \"hangover days\" where they work from the comfort of their own sofa - or even bed.\n\n\"The perk has a lot in it,\" Ellie told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money. \"It is about honesty, it's about people being able to not lie to their managers.\n\n\"But also, the idea behind it is that parents have a lot of perks at our business but there are not necessarily any for people who don't have children.\n\n\"So this is a perk for people who don't have kids.\"\n\nEllie's boss is Claire Crompton, co-founder and director of The Audit Lab. The company is based in Bolton and she says that offering attractive perks is key to attracting talent out of Manchester.\n\n\"We wanted to offer something to younger millennials who typically go out mid-week and do the pub quiz. My team book a hangover day in advance, if they know they are going out.\n\n\"They just work in their PJs, sat at home on the couch,\" she said.\n\nClaire Crompton (purple dress) and some of her team at Audit Lab\n\nClaire added: \"If people used it two or three times a week and missed important client meetings then we'd have to have a think. But everyone has been really respectful of it so far.\n\n\"It's basically a work-from-home day, but we've sexed it up a bit to appeal to the younger generation,\" she said. \"It promotes honesty as well.\"\n\nFor Claire, one of the motivations is the expectation that staff will sometimes go out in the evening for work events and client entertainment.\n\nAbout 84% of official workplace social events involve alcohol, according to research carried out for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and shown exclusively to Wake Up To Money.\n\nWith the Christmas party season in full flow, 40% of businesses that are planning a Christmas event say that alcohol will be freely available and paid for by the company, while 39% say alcohol will be available to buy with no limit.\n\nThe impact can be positive and negative. Four out of 10 HR managers surveyed said that alcohol can cause problems at work. But almost 50% of the managers said having some drinks at social events had a positive effect on morale and team bonding.\n\nDr Jill Miller, diversity and inclusion adviser at the CIPD, thinks the branding could cause concerns.\n\n\"Focusing on flexible working is really positive, especially showing it's not just for working parents,\" she says. \"Looking at why each age group wants flexibility is important.\n\n\"But labelling them as 'hangover days' might not be as helpful if it's encouraging excessive alcohol consumption. Employers have a duty of care and need to consider that when designing policies. Is it promoting drinking? I'd suggest a rethink on the labelling.\"\n\nEllie says it's not a benefit anyone would think to abuse. She said: \"Everyone is pretty much the same, they take them as and when they need them, no one really takes the mick or takes too many. Everyone just used them when they're needed.\n\n\"Most recently, I was on a date night with my partner. We'd just gone out to a restaurant and we'd had a bottle of wine, and then a few of my friends were out and I thought 'well, we'll go to the pub with them'.\n\n\"Before you know it, we'd had a few and we got back a bit late. So the next morning I rang Claire and I just said: 'I am feeling a bit worse for wear.'\n\nClaire Crompton co-founder and director of The Audit Lab\n\n\"I would have been more embarrassed trying to pretend that I was ill. If I'd had to ring her and pretend to be ill I would have felt really bad every time I saw her and would have had to keep up a lie.\n\n\"Because I knew I was just being honest with her I wasn't embarrassed at all,\" she said.\n\nFlexitime is a well-recognised benefit, and unlimited holiday is slowly gathering traction. But most of us will have to make it through December without hangover days as a workplace perk.\n\nHear an interview with Claire Crompton and her employee Ellie by downloading the Wake Up To Money podcast.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League interim chief executive Richard Masters has been given the job on a permanent basis.\n\nIt comes two weeks after media executive David Pemsel resigned before starting the role following newspaper allegations about his private life.\n\nMasters, formerly the organisation's managing director, was the fourth person to be offered the job.\n\nHe has been in temporary charge since the departure of Richard Scudamore in November 2018.\n\nMasters' appointment will bring to an end a protracted 18-month search for a new boss of the organisation.\n\nSusanna Dinnage was originally named as Scudamore's successor but later declined the role to remain at media organisation Discovery.\n\nSenior BBC executive Tim Davie also turned down the chance to take up the post.\n\nMasters has impressed club bosses, who voted through his appointment during a conference call on Thursday.\n• None The 10 challenges facing the new Premier League boss\n\nChelsea chairman Bruce Buck said Masters had \"risen to the occasion\" since being appointed interim chief.\n\n\"The clubs believe that this is the right appointment now in the long-term interests of the Premier League,\" added Buck.\n\nMasters said: \"This is one of the most incredible jobs in the world of sport and I now look forward to leading the league in the many opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.\"\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke said Masters has \"ably guided\" the Premier League during his interim post and is a \"proven leader.\"\n\n\"His knowledge and experience of the Premier League and the English game is invaluable and we look forward to working closely with him in the future,\" added Clarke.\n\nMasters will initially have to overcome being viewed as the Premier League's fourth choice after an embarrassing and shambolic recruitment saga that has lasted 18 months.\n\nBut alongside acting chair Claudia Arney, the Aston Villa fan has impressed the clubs while holding the fort over the past year, and has now been rewarded with one of the most powerful and lucrative administrative roles in world sport.\n\nHe takes up the reins at a fascinating and challenging time for the league, from controversy over VAR, racism and illegal streaming, to the future of European club competitions and the negotiation of the next all-important domestic live TV rights deal after a dip in value last year.", "Jo Hamilton is celebrating \"one of the best days I've ever had\".\n\nHer life was turned inside out after the sub-postmistress was accused by the Post Office of taking £36,000 from the village shop she ran in Hampshire.\n\nBut now the Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.\n\n\"You dream about victory, but now it's actually here,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\nThe settlement brings an end to a mammoth series of court cases over the Horizon IT system used to manage local post office finances since 1999.\n\nA group of postmasters said faults in Horizon led to them wrongly being accused of fraud. And on Wednesday the Post Office accepted it had \"got things wrong in our dealings with a number of postmasters\" in the past.\n\nMrs Hamilton's fight echoes that of other postmasters seeking justice. She said issues in the Horizon system led to big discrepancies in her accounts, which she reported to her Post Office area manager.\n\nBut that manager could find nothing wrong with the system, and she was put in a situation where \"you had to prove your innocence\".\n\nAfter a distressing two-year process, she eventually pleaded guilty to false accounting at Winchester Crown Court in order to escape a more serious charge of theft.\n\nShe soon gave up her shop and found it difficult to get a new job due to her criminal record. She made ends meet by doing cleaning jobs for people in her village who didn't believe she was guilty.\n\n\"I couldn't get car insurance,\" she said, and had to go to a specialist provider with higher premiums. \"I couldn't be left alone with my grand-daughter in her classroom.\"\n\nHer fight for justice is not completely over, as her conviction is still going through the review process.\n\nBut Mrs Hamilton feels vindicated. \"I just feel like I'm in a daze,\" she said.\n\nSub-postmasters run Post Office franchises across the UK, which typically provide some but not all of the services of a main post office.\n\nThe group of 550 claimants joined a civil action to win compensation last year, but their complaint goes back much further.\n\nThey alleged that the Horizon IT system - which was installed between 1999 and 2000 - contained a large number of defects.\n\nSome said their lives had been ruined when they were pursued for funds which managers claimed were missing. Some even went to jail after being convicted of fraud.\n\nThe claimants were half way through a series of four trials when the Post Office sought mediation. It could take several weeks for individual compensation payments to be worked out.\n\nThe Post Office apologised to the claimants, saying it was grateful to them \"for holding us to account in circumstances where, in the past, we have fallen short.\"\n\nMr Read said: \"I am very pleased we have been able to find a resolution to this longstanding dispute.\n\n\"Our business needs to take on board some important lessons about the way we work with postmasters, and I am determined that it will do so. We are committed to a reset in our relationship with postmasters, placing them alongside our customers at the centre of our business.\"\n\nAlan Bates, former sub-postmaster of the Craig-y-Don branch in Llandudno, and one of the lead claimants, said: \"[We] would like to thank Nick Read, the new chief executive of Post Office, for his leadership, engagement and determination in helping to reach a settlement of this long-running dispute.\n\n\"It would seem that from the positive discussions [we have had] there is a genuine desire to move on from these legacy issues and learn lessons from the past.\"\n\nThe Horizon system, which is provided by Fujitsu, is still being used in all 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.\n\nThis is a major climb down by the Post Office which has made multiple appeals to try to see off the court case.\n\nBut legal costs were stretching into the tens of millions, so the price of losing at the end of this mammoth legal process could have been a great deal higher.\n\nIt's not clear yet how much individual postmasters and mistresses will receive.\n\nLawyers' fees have to be taken off, along with a charge from the litigation backer, Therium.\n\nBut just looking at the £58m suggests payouts could be in the tens of thousands and even higher for the worst affected.\n• None 'I did not steal £16,000 from Post Office'", "Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed has said.\n\nLondon-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation.\n\nHis colleague, David Shreeve, described him as a \"larger-than-life character\" who \"inspired a whole generation\".\n\nIn later life Bellamy, who lived in County Durham, attracted criticism for dismissing global warming.\n\nIn 2004 he described it as \"poppycock\" - a stance which he later said cost him his TV career.\n\nBellamy worked in a sweet factory and as a plumber before embarking on his broadcasting career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bellamy on the interview that started his career\n\nHis scientific career began when he got a job in the biology department of a technical college in Surrey, he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme in 1978.\n\nIt was there that he met his future wife, Rosemary.\n\nBut it was on a trip to Scotland where he discovered his love for plants, he told the programme.\n\n\"I got really turned on by plants and I found out that if somebody told me what a plant was, I just couldn't forget it,\" he said.\n\nDavid Bellamy takes a walk with his granddaughter Tilly, then aged four, around the Scottish Seabird Centre after unveiling a new remote wildlife camera in North Berwick in 2007\n\nThe broadcaster stood, unsuccessfully, against the then prime minister John Major for the eurosceptic Referendum Party during the 1997 general election\n\nHe gained public recognition for his work as an environmental consultant over the Torrey Canyon oil spill, when a tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall in 1967.\n\nHe went on to present programmes such as Don't Ask Me, Bellamy On Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.\n\nAnd in 1979 he won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award, for best presenter of factual programmes.\n\nHis distinctive voice also inspired comedian Sir Lenny Henry's catchphrase \"grapple me grapenuts\".\n\nBBC arts correspondent David Sillito described Bellamy as \"the enthusiastic face of botany on television\" for more than 30 years.\n\nIn 2003, Bellamy told BBC News that he was sceptical about mankind being responsible for rising temperatures and suggested that they might be part of the Earth's natural cycles.\n\nHe said: \"We have got to get this thing argued out in public properly and not just take one opinion.\"\n\nTen years later, he told the Independent newspaper: \"It (global warming) is not happening at all, but if you get the idea that people's children will die because of CO2 they fall for it.\"\n\nWell-known figures have paid tribute to Bellamy, including fellow naturalist and broadcaster Bill Oddie who described him as a \"first-class naturalist, with boundless skills to convey his enthusiasm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Oddie Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Bill Oddie Official\n\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan said Bellamy was a \"brilliant naturalist, broadcaster and character\", in a tribute posted on Twitter.\n\nComedy writer and broadcaster Danny Baker described him as a \"truly brilliant and canny broadcaster\".\n\nThe Walking Dead actor David Morrissey tweeted that Bellamy \"cared about nature and our environment deeply.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Morrissey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former England footballer Stan Collymore called him a \"childhood icon\", adding that he \"learnt about botany and shrubs and trees as a kid because of this man's love and infectious enthusiasm.\"", "(1/10) The Conservatives won 365 seats, giving Boris Johnson a majority of 80. Their 44% share of the vote was the highest since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. So how did this happen?\n\n(2/10) Right at the beginning of the night it was clear something unusual had happened. The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way. Labour lost here by 712 votes.\n\n(3/10) This story was repeated again and again, as Labour's \"Red Wall\" in the North crumbled. Labour's vote share reduced by 13% in the North East and 10% in Yorkshire & Humber. Many of these seats voted strongly to leave the EU.\n\n(4/10) Many northern Conservative wins were due more to a reduced Labour vote than a large boost for the Tories. However, in Wakefield, which had been Labour since 1932, the Tories won a majority of over 3,000.\n\n(5/10) By around 02:00 GMT the Conservatives started to win seats in Wales, taking six from Labour in total. Plaid Cymru held on to their four seats, but a Remain pact with the Greens and Liberal Democrats failed to create a breakthrough.\n\n(6/10) The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win back seats in the South West that they lost to the Tories in 2015. Despite increasing their share of the vote by 3%, the Lib Dems failed to win any new seats here.\n\n(7/10) Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, narrowly lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland to the Scottish National Party, who had a good night.\n\n(8/10) The SNP won 14 seats overall, from the Liberal Democrats, Tories and Labour. They now have 48 seats, up 13 from 2017 and only slightly down from their 2015 landslide.\n\n(9/10) In Northern Ireland the DUP, who had backed the Conservatives since 2017, lost two of their seats, including their Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. The SDLP picked up two and the Alliance Party won one.\n\n(10/10) Across the UK Labour suffered 60 losses. Their only gain was Putney in London, but Kensington, which they'd won in 2017, went back to the Conservatives. Despite breaking even in London, a largely Remain voting area, Labour's vote share still declined by 6%.\n\nTo read more about the election go to BBC News", "Northern Ireland has had no devolved government since January 2017\n\nNow is the moment to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, Julian Smith has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after talks aimed at restoring the assembly began on Monday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said the biggest issue in the negotiations should be dealing with the current crisis in the health sector.\n\nHe met the leaders of Northern Ireland's five biggest parties.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Simon Byrne, wrote to the leaders on Monday calling on them to agree on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles and requesting support to hire more officers.\n\nThe British and Irish governments will work \"night and day\" over the next few weeks to restore devolution, said the Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney.\n\nThe Irish deputy PM was speaking after a meeting with the NI Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be \"intensive\" discussions between the parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with the five parties on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not \"want to bounce\" the parties into an agreement - but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n\"This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don't want to move into,\" he added.\n\n\"But we've had a reality check with the nurses' strike, and I think it's a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.\"\n\nRound-table talks are set to happen later in the week which will involve the parties, Mr Smith and Mr Coveney.\n\nSeveral rounds of talks to restore the executive have ended in failure, with the two parties unable to resolve differences over issues such as the Irish language or how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nIn the general election last Thursday both the DUP and Sinn Féin saw their share of the vote fall.\n\nMr Smith said the results had given the five parties \"serious issues\" to reflect on - but maintained he is obliged to call a fresh assembly election if a deal is not reached by 13 January.\n\nThe Sinn Féin team speak to the media after fresh talks at Stormont on Monday\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Smith, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said their discussion was \"constructive and positive\" but she added her party would not go back into an assembly that was \"a stop-start mess\".\n\nMrs Long also said there was a draft document regarding a deal but that it is not complete.\n\nShe said discussions between the parties over the next week would seek to build on it.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the general election result showed people were \"sick of the Stormont standoff\".\n\nAfter meeting Mr Smith, he said the British and Irish governments should, in the next couple of days, publish a document detailing what has been agreed so far.\n\n\"They should force the parties to say yes or no,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said he did not believe a deal was likely before Christmas.\n\nHe called for reforms to be made, and said the \"core issues which undermined devolution previously\" must be addressed.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she hoped there would be an assembly up and running at the beginning of the year.\n\nShe added that all politicians had to take responsibility for the lack of devolution.\n\nArlene Foster was first minister before the assembly collapsed\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said the Stormont talks process was at a \"crucial and pivotal moment\".\n\nShe said the talks needed to be about resolution and delivery, but that Sinn Féin had also asked for a \"big cash injection\" for public services.\n\nShe did not say how much exactly the party had asked for, or what the government's response was.\n\nShe also said her party would not be drawn into publicly discussing negotiating red lines - but would enter into the talks with goodwill.\n\nOne by one the parties emerged optimistic from talks, claiming a deal is possible.\n\nThe general election results have changed the mood, and Julian Smith maintains if power sharing is not restored by 13 January, a fresh assembly election will be called.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are unlikely to relish that prospect, and seem to be softening their respective negotiating stances.\n\nAlliance and the SDLP say they do not fear another election while the Ulster Unionists wants direct rule, if a deal isn't reached soon.\n\nThe five parties will hold a roundtable meeting with the British and Irish governments on Wednesday, but so far it seems unlikely that a pre-Christmas compromise is on the cards.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call his top priority was the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.", "The British and Irish governments will work “night and day” over the next few weeks to restore devolution, Tanaiste Simon Coveney has said.\n\nThe Irish deputy prime minister was speaking after a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nFresh efforts are being made to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, with the five main parties engaged in new talks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be “intensive” discussions between the five parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with them on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable discussion scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not “want to bounce” the parties into an agreement – but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n“This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don’t want to move into,” he added.\n\n“But we’ve had a reality check with the nurses’ strike, and I think it’s a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.”\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have been striking for their pay to be bought into line with that of their colleagues in the rest of the UK.", "There are about 40 volcanoes worldwide thought capable of doing what Anak Krakatau (centre island) did\n\nShattered remnants from the volcano that generated a devastating tsunami in Indonesia a year ago have been pictured on the seafloor for the first time.\n\nScientists used sonar equipment to image the giant chunks of rock that slid into the ocean when one side of Anak Krakatau collapsed.\n\nSome of these blocks are 70-90m high.\n\nTheir plunge into the water produced tall waves that tore across the shorelines of Java and Sumatra on 22 December 2018.\n\nOver 400 people around the Sunda Strait died in the nighttime disaster, and thousands more were injured and/or displaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Tappin recalls the event and describes the blocks of rock on the seabed\n\nResearchers have been trying to reconstruct what happened ever since. But all their studies to date have been based on what can be seen above the water.\n\nProf Dave Tappin and colleagues realised they had to investigate the island volcano's missing mass - now under the ocean's surface - or they would never truly get a full description of Anak Krakatau's failure.\n\nA multibeam echosounder was brought in to map the seabed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Updated: This simulation shows how the volcano's flank slipped into the water\n\n\"Early models of the collapse were based on satellite imagery that only looked at the subaerial parts of the volcano,\" the British Geological Survey scientist told BBC News.\n\n\"Our bathymetry is imaging at 200m water depths and we are seeing triangular-shaped blocks, which are basically coherent and they formed, before the collapse, the southwestern flank of Anak Krakatau.\"\n\nThe debris field runs out to 2,000m from the volcano. A seismic survey also conducted by the team shows how this material is layered on top of older deposits.\n\nCrucially, the underwater imaging has allowed Prof Tappin's team to revise its estimate for the volume of rock involved in the flank failure. And it's smaller than previously thought.\n\nCalculations based on above-water measurements of what was left of the once 335m-high volcano had suggested a figure of 0.27 cubic km.\n\nThe new assessment now points to 0.19 cubic km sliding into the ocean, almost 200 million cubic metres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Grilli: New simulations reproduce the damage observed on nearby islands\n\nThis smaller volume might have presented something of a problem for tsunami modellers.\n\nTheir original simulations of how the waves generated in the collapse moved across the Sunda Strait had already proved a good match for what had been observed at tide gauges and from what was known of the extent of damage along nearby coasts.\n\nNow, the models are having to be re-run but with a smaller input.\n\nThe simulations still work, however - and with good reason. Prof Tappin's team has also discovered that the failure plane on the volcano - the angle of slope along which the rock mass slid - was shallower than earlier assumptions.\n\nWhereas it was once thought the failure plane cut down steeply into the basin created when the old volcano on the site blew its top in 1883, it's now obvious the collapse slope entered the water much nearer the surface.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This simulation, based on the new data, shows how the tsunami moved outwards\n\n\"We've already redone the near-field modelling with a finer resolution based on the new bathymetry and the results are about the same, despite having a smaller volume of rock,\" explained tsunami expert Prof Stephan Grilli from the University of Rhode Island.\n\n\"The shallower slide occurs almost like a ski jump, maintaining the collapse material closer to the surface and making it more tsunamigenic than a steeper failure, which would have brought the sediment down deeper, much quicker.\"\n\nProfs Tappin and Grilli were speaking here in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union's annual Fall Meeting. This is the first chance they've had to present their findings to the wider scientific community.\n\nAlso speaking was Prof Hermann Fritz from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\nHe reviewed the damage on nearby shores, describing from on-the-ground studies how high the tsunami waves must have been and how far inland they reached.\n\nOn the islands in the immediate vicinity of Anak Krakatau, trees up to 80m above the normal sea surface were torn from their roots.\n\nUjung Kulon National Park is due southwest of Anak Krakatau, some 50km away\n\nMuch of the wave energy took a path away from the volcano in the same direction of the collapse - to the southwest. This resulted in 10m-high waves laying waste to a corner of Ujung Kulon National Park on Panaitan Island - a distance of 50km from Anak Krakatau.\n\n\"Local residents were very fortunate that the collapse was in the southwest direction, in the direction where few people were living - towards the national park,\" said Prof Fritz.\n\n\"Had the collapse direction been different, the outcome could have been very different as well in terms of tsunami heights on populated areas.\"\n\nLessons learned from Anak Krakatau are being used to assess the hazards at other volcanoes. There are about 40 other locations around the world where flank collapse into surrounding water is considered a danger.\n\nThe map shows the area covered by the bathymetric survey, to the southwest and northeast of Anak Krakatau\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he is concerned about the direction the UK is travelling in, citing an increase in homelessness and a decline in tolerance toward minority groups.\n\nJustin Welby was speaking to the Big Issue magazine for its Christmas edition, which is published on Monday.\n\nHe said that in the last decade rough sleeping, use of food banks and debt counselling services had worsened.\n\nHe also said people's tolerance for minority groups had decreased.\n\nResponding to a range of questions, including whether atheists were welcome in Church and the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit, Archbishop Welby said the situation for vulnerable people in the country had become worse over the last 10 years.\n\n\"I'm not saying we are in a crisis\", he said. \"I'm just saying the direction of travel is not what we want.\"\n\nArchbishop Welby was also asked about the controversy involving the Duke of York's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHe refused to comment on any particular member of the Royal Family, but said it was wrong to expect them to be \"superhuman saints\".\n\nThe interview - which was conducted before last Thursday's general election - concluded with the Archbishop quoting from the First Letter of John in the New Testament, which says that \"perfect love casts out fear\".\n\nHe said that people should reject fear and, instead, accept that love of God which - he said - \"changes the world dramatically\".", "The pup was surrounded by people and had to be abandoned by its mother\n\nBeachgoers have been blamed for the deaths of three seal pups in three days at a colony on a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe Friends of Horsey Seals said one of the animals drowned on Sunday after being chased into the water, while another was abandoned by its mother after being surrounded by people.\n\nA third died after being attacked by a dog two days earlier.\n\nThe charity said deaths due to \"human intervention\" were \"not acceptable\" and urged visitors to keep their distance.\n\nA spokesman said in one case on Sunday \"two young children were allowed by their mother to chase the young unweaned, non-waterproof pup into the water where it drowned\".\n\nAnother seal pup died on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, after its mother was unable to reach it after it was surrounded by visitors, he said.\n\nProf Ben Garrod, from the University of East Anglia, said: \"The action of visitors to Horsey and Winterton are killing seals. Actually killing them.\n\n\"The vast majority of people are amazing it's just a handful of absolute idiots. It is a criminal offence to cause death to any protected species.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living\n\nApple, Google, Tesla and Microsoft are among firms named in a lawsuit seeking damages over deaths and injuries of child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe case has been filed by the International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 Congolese families.\n\nThey accuse the companies of knowing that cobalt used in their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nDR Congo produces 60% of the world's supply of cobalt.\n\nThe mineral is used to produce lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars, laptops and smartphones.\n\nHowever, the extraction process has been beset with concerns of illegal mining, human rights abuses and corruption.\n\nThe lawsuit filed in the US argues that the tech companies had \"specific knowledge\" that the cobalt sourced for their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nThey say the companies failed to regulate their supply chains and instead profited from exploitation.\n\nDR Congo produces more than 60% of the world's cobalt\n\nOther companies listed in the lawsuit are computer manufacturer Dell and two mining companies, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Glencore, who own the minefields where the Congolese families allege their children worked.\n\nGlencore said in a statement to the UK's Telegraph newspaper that it \"does not purchase, process or trade any artisanally mined ore\" adding that it also \"does not tolerate any form of child, forced, or compulsory labour.\"\n\nThe BBC has sought comment from Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are people in mineral-rich DR Congo among the world's poorest?\n\nThe court papers, seen by the UK's Guardian newspaper, give several examples of child miners buried alive or suffering from injuries after tunnel collapse.\n\nThe 14 Congolese families want the companies to compensate them for forced labour, emotional distress and negligent supervision.\n\nIn a response to the Telegraph, Microsoft said it was committed to responsible sourcing of minerals and that it investigates any violations by its suppliers and takes action.\n\nA spokesperson for Google told the BBC that the company was \"committed to sourcing all materials ethically and eliminating child mining in global supply chains\".\n\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company was \"deeply committed to the responsible sourcing of materials\" and \"if a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. We've removed six cobalt refiners in 2019\".\n\nThe BBC has also sought comment from Tesla.\n\nUpdate 18 December: This article has been amended to include the comments from Google and Apple.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Cancellations and delays have led to overcrowding on trains and at stations such as Manchester Victoria\n\nRail commuters in the north of England have been hit by cancellations and delays as new winter timetables were launched.\n\nNorthern had cancelled 19 trains by 10:00 GMT and 31 were delayed, which it said was down to \"operational issues\" rather than the timetable change.\n\nThe issues largely affected commuters in Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nTranspennine Express services hit included those linking Manchester Airport with Edinburgh and Newcastle, and trains from Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough.\n\nThe firm's managing director Leo Goodwin said he was \"really sorry\" for the disruption to customers at such a busy time of year.\n\nHe said: \"Due to a number of issues with crew training caused by the late delivery of some of our new trains, along with a maintenance backlog and some infrastructure issues we have had to implement a temporary timetable, cancelling some journeys along one of our routes.\"\n\nNorthern services which were affected were between Blackpool North and Manchester Airport, from Leeds to York and Sheffield, and Darlington to Saltburn.\n\nA spokesperson for the rail firm said: \"Very few of our services have seen any changes as a result of the timetable coming in.\n\n\"The small number of delays and cancellations are due to operational issues including driver sickness, signalling failure and train faults.\"\n\nMany services were cancelled and delayed around the north of England\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said rail issues had \"gone on far too long\" and called for Northern to be stripped of its franchise.\n\n\"If the government is serious about supporting the north, then it needs to show it by acting this week to sort out our failing rail services,\" he said.\n\n\"As a first step, it should strip Northern of its franchise. That would send a clear signal to all rail operators - notably Transpennine Express - that we will not accept a second-class rail service for people in the North.\n\n\"If Transpennine Express fail to respond to that message, they should be next.\"\n\nThe National Rail timetable is changed in May and December each year.\n\nIn the west of England, passengers using Great Western Railway (GWR) services were also hit with cancellations and delays between Reading and London Paddington, due to a fault with the signalling system at Maidenhead.\n\nA new, super-fast GWR service from Bristol to London, due to leave at 08:53 GMT, was among the cancellations.\n\nTranspennine Express also cancelled 29 of its services on Monday morning\n\nNorthern had said the new timetable would see 50 new trains being introduced across its services.\n\nIn October, fewer than half of Northern rail services ran on time, the firm's figures showed.\n\nCancellations were also at their highest level since July and August.\n\nThe operator had said the changes in its new winter timetable would focus on \"reliability and stability\" and add to the services each week.\n\nCommuters shared train travel issues on social media on Monday, as the hashtag #northernfail was trending.\n\nKeri Lewis Brown shared an image of a departures board which read a service to Blackpool North had been cancelled \"due to a train stopping in the wrong position\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBen Simmonds wrote on Facebook: \"So Northern have gone ahead and cancelled the 7:53 from Sowerby Bridge to York in the new timetable (despite promising not to) which means the 7:58 to Leeds will now have triple the normal passenger count. Why in God's name would you cancel a peak commuter train?!?!\"\n\nTranspennine is running a pre-planned temporary reduced timetable on some routes as a maintenance backlog and infrastructure problems have delayed staff training on new trains.\n\nIts managing director Mr Goodwin said as new trains were introduced improvements to services would be made.\n\nSophie Lichfield tweeted that commuting between Liverpool and Manchester was \"near impossible\" due to the cancellations and delays.\n\nWhile another, Pippa Jackson, tweeted: \"8.17 to Dewsbury cancelled. Having to wait nearly an hour for the next one. No lunch for me today then. Or I don't get home till 7pm. And I see my kids for an hour before they go to bed. Truly shambolic service @TPExpressTrains.\"\n\nOne passenger, posting on Twitter with the username leylandski, wrote: \"Every day you get worse. Now you've cancelled both my train to and from work until Jan? Why? They were during peak time, this is totally unacceptable.\"\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"Passengers don't care what causes the disruption - they just want things running again as soon as possible, and plenty of visible staff on hand to help them in the meantime.\n\n\"Train operators should ensure every eligible passenger knows how to claim compensation so that they get the money they are entitled to.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Hart only became a junior minister under Boris Johnson in July\n\nSimon Hart has been named the new Welsh secretary after Boris Johnson's election victory for the Conservatives.\n\nHe succeeds Alun Cairns, who resigned at the start of the campaign amid a row over what he knew about an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.\n\nThe Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP was previously a junior minister in the Cabinet Office.\n\nMonmouth MP David TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office and will be deputy to Mr Hart.\n\nMr Davies, the former chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee, will also serve as an assistant government whip, No 10 confirmed on Monday evening.\n\nHe is the sixth person to hold the ministerial role in the past two years.\n\nMr Hart said: \"It's great to have this opportunity. I've got my orders and I'm going to try and do it as best I can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson led the Tories to their biggest election win in more than 30 years with a majority of 80, after pledging to \"get Brexit done\" by the end of January.\n\nThe Welsh secretary oversees relations between the Welsh Government and Whitehall departments.\n\nThe appointment was welcomed by Welsh Assembly Conservatives - Senedd party leader Paul Davies gave him his \"huge congratulations\".\n\nSouth Wales Central Assembly Member David Melding said it was an astute appointment \"which promises much for Wales as we begin a new political chapter\".\n\nDavid TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford, from Welsh Labour, said he was \"pleased to see a new Secretary of State for Wales appointed so quickly\".\n\n\"I hope to meet soon to discuss Welsh Government priorities and ensure they are heard at the UK Government's cabinet table,\" he added.\n\nMr Hart came to Parliament in 2010 with a background in rural affairs as chief executive of the Countryside Alliance and a former master of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.\n\nA chartered surveyor by profession, he served on the backbenches until July when Boris Johnson took power and appointed him as a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.\n\nHe backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, but later emerged as leader of the Brexit Delivery Group, made up of MPs from both sides of the argument who sought a pragmatic approach to Brexit.\n\nHe has also been prominent in calls for greater protection for candidates and activists, claiming abuse was driving people out of politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David Melding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRoads remain closed after a major blaze \"devastated\" shops and restaurants in Glasgow's southside.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters and 12 appliances tackled the fire in Seaward Street, in the Kinning Park area, after the alarm was raised just after 03:30.\n\nAt the height of the fire a huge plume of smoke could be seen from across the River Clyde.\n\nSeaward Street was closed to traffic between Paisley Road West and the M8 eastbound off-slip to Scotland Street.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said there were no reported casualties.\n\nThe traffic disruption hit drivers both during the morning and evening rush hours.\n\nGarry Mackay, area commander at the fire service, said the \"challenging\" fire had been contained by crews.\n\nBBC journalist Linda Sinclair said the roof of the large building had collapsed. There are fears the front of the building might also give way.\n\nThe affected properties on Seaward Street include a furniture and flooring showroom, a locksmith, a function suite and a Middle Eastern restaurant.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Modish Furnishing said: \"A fire tore through the buildings on our street in Kinning Park in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately our showroom has been devastated.\"\n\nThe Dojo, a martial arts centre on Seaward Lane, is one of the buildings closed by the fire.\n\nInstructor Mike McCusker tweeted: \"Although the Hokushin Honbu Dojo is untouched by this incident the road remains closed and we will not have access today. We should be back to normal tomorrow.\"\n\nMr MacKay said: \"This was a complex and challenging incident with significant fire spread and crews worked hard to prevent further spread to neighbouring properties.\n\n\"We are now confident we have contained the blaze and are scaling back our response.\"\n\nHe said the fire service was working with police to manage traffic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katie Hunter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPower was cut from the area for several hours, affecting traffic lights and leaving dozens of businesses and homes without electricity.\n\nScottish Power Energy Networks said the emergency shutdown, which affected properties in Admiral Street and the surrounding area, was requested at 08:28 by the emergency services and ended shortly before 18:00.\n\nThe fire is the third serious blaze near the centre of Glasgow within a week. Last Monday dozens of flats in the Lancefield Quay area were evacuated and about 40 firefighters tackled a blaze in Pitt Street in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nInvestigations into all three are ongoing. They are not being linked.", "PewDiePie was at one point the world's highest earning YouTuber\n\nYouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is \"feeling very tired\".\n\nThe 30-year-old Swedish star, real name Felix Kjellberg, found fame with video game commentaries and was at one point the world's highest earning YouTuber.\n\nBut he was more recently involved in controversies around accusations of racism and anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Early next year I'll be away for a little while. I'll explain that later,\" PewDiePie said in a video post.\n\nEarlier this year, PewDiePie, who currently has 102 million subscribers, was overtaken as the biggest YouTube channel in the world by Bollywood record label T-Series, which now has more than 121 million subscribers.\n\n\"I'm taking a break from YouTube next year. I wanted to say it in advance because I made up my mind. I'm tired. I'm feeling very tired. I don't know if you can tell,\" PewDiePie said, laughing.\n\nDisney cut ties with him in 2017 after some videos he released were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery. He accepted the material was offensive, but said he did not support \"any kind of hateful attitudes\".\n\nPewDiePie had been linked to Disney through Maker Studios, a company with a network of YouTube stars.\n\nLater that year, he apologised for using the N-word during a live stream. And last year, he apologised again for reposting a meme which appeared to mock Demi Lovato's hospital treatment for a suspected drug overdose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PewDiePie Hackers: Could hacking printers ruin your life?", "A third of the poorest countries in the world are dealing with high levels of obesity as well as under-nourishment, which leaves people too thin, according to a report in The Lancet.\n\nIt says the problem is caused by global access to ultra-processed foods, and people exercising less.\n\nThe authors are calling for changes to the \"modern food system\" which they believe to be driving it.\n\nCountries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are most affected.\n\nThe report estimates that nearly 2.3 billion children and adults on the planet are overweight, and more than 150 million children have stunted growth.\n\nAnd many low and middle-income countries are facing these two issues at once - known as the 'double burden of malnutrition'.\n\nThis means that 20% of people are overweight, 30% of children under four are not growing properly, and 20% of women are classified as thin.\n\nCommunities and families can be affected by both forms of malnutrition, as well as individual people at different points in their lives, the report says.\n\nAccording to the report, 45 out of 123 countries were affected by the burden in the 1990s, and 48 out of 126 countries in the 2010s.\n\nBy the 2010s, 14 countries with some of the lowest incomes in the world had developed this 'double problem' since the 1990s.\n\nThe report authors say action should be taken by governments, the United Nations and academics to address the problem, and it points the finger at changing diets.\n\nThe way people eat, drink and move is changing. Increasing numbers of supermarkets, easy availability of less nutritious food, as well as a decrease in physical activity, are leading to more people becoming overweight.\n\nAnd these changes are affecting low and middle-income countries, as well as high-income ones.\n\nAlthough stunted growth of children in many countries is becoming less frequent, eating ultra-processed foods early in life is linked to poor growth.\n\n\"We are facing a new nutrition reality,\" says lead author Dr Francesco Branca, director of the department of nutrition for health and development at the World Health Organization.\n\n\"We can no longer characterise countries as low-income and undernourished, or high-income and only concerned with obesity.\n\n\"All forms of malnutrition have a common denominator - food systems that fail to provide all people with healthy, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets.\"\n\nDr Branca said changing this needed changes in food systems - from production and processing, through trade and distribution, pricing, marketing, and labelling, to consumption and waste.\n\n\"All relevant policies and investments must be radically re-examined,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the report, it contains:\n\nHigh-quality diets reduce the risk of malnutrition by encouraging healthy growth, development, and the body's protection against diseases throughout life.", "Firefighters smashed through this wall to rescue the boy\n\nA teenage boy is \"unbelievably lucky\" to be alive after he fell 30ft from a shopping centre roof and got trapped in a cavity between two buildings.\n\nFirefighters smashed through the wall of a shop at the Thames Centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to free the 13-year-old at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nHe had become trapped in the 1.6ft-wide cavity three hours earlier.\n\nThe boy, who sustained a broken ankle, has been taken to Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital.\n\nIncident commander Rob Cherrie, of County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said the boy had been on the phone to his mother at the time of the fall.\n\nHe added: \"We used cutters, grinders and hammers. Essentially you had the cladding then the plasterboard through to the breezeblocks and external bricks.\n\n\"We managed to get some oxygen down to him and reassure him. By the time we got to him he was very cold and very tired.\"\n\nPolice and fire services were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nThe all-rounder was man of the match as England won the World Cup for the first time with a dramatic super over victory against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nStokes, 28, also hit an unbeaten 135 in the one-wicket third Ashes Test triumph against Australia at Headingley.\n\nIn a public vote, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton finished second while sprinter Dina Asher-Smith was third.\n\nManchester City and England footballer Raheem Sterling, world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Welsh rugby union legend Alun Wyn Jones were also shortlisted for the main award.\n\nDurham's Stokes was presented with his award by the Princess Royal and former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law.\n\nHe becomes the first cricketer since Andrew Flintoff in 2005 to win the prize.\n\nNew Zealand-born Stokes is missing the first warm-up match of England's Test tour of South Africa, which starts on Tuesday, in order to attend the show in Aberdeen.\n\n\"First of all, I think congratulations to all the nominees. What you've managed to achieve as individuals and do for your sport is simply sensational, so well done to you too.\n\n\"There's so many people you feel you have to thank when you're up here. It's an individual award, but I play a team sport and one of the great things about that is you get to share special moments with those team-mates, coaches and without that effort you put in, I wouldn't be up here receiving this award so thank you so much.\n\n\"Two years ago was a tough time for me in my life and I've had so many people help me through that. My fantastic manager and friend Neil Fairbrother, you're more than an agent, you're an incredible man. I don't know how you've put up with Andrew Flintoff and me, you and [Fairbrother's wife] Audrey, you're incredible people.\n\n\"My parents, they live on the other side of the world, they don't get to share moments like this, the World Cup and be there with me, but the time you dedicated to me growing up, the selflessness to get me to training camps and around the country, this is for you. I love you so much, thank you.\n\n\"To my amazing wife, Clare. Family to me is more important than what I do for a living. It puts perspective on everything, after the good and bad days they are there for me no matter what. My two kids too, they are awesome I love you so much.\n\n\"Back to Clare, you're a rock. You always have been. You always will be. I wish you could come here and share it with me, you deserve it just as much. I love you so much and I'm so proud to call you my wife.\n\n\"I'm guessing I should leave it there.\"\n• None '2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before'\n• None Stokes can inspire the next generation - Agnew\n\nThe very best in British and world sport celebrated a magnificent year at a sold-out P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi and Aberdeenshire-raised Emeli Sande wowed the crowds with emotional performances while there were special moments to treasure as other awards were handed out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports Direct's financial director Chris Wootton says reforming business rates is \"critical\".\n\nMore House of Fraser department stores will be closing in 2020, Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has warned.\n\nMr Ashley - whose business bought the department stores a year ago - said that while some stores were not paying rent they were still \"unsustainable\".\n\n\"We are doing as much as we can to realistically save as many jobs and stores as possible,\" said Mr Ashley.\n\nShares in Sports Direct ended the day 30% higher after it reported a rise pre-tax half year profits to £193.4m.\n\nSports Direct shareholders met on Monday and voted to change the retailer's corporate name to Frasers Group, as part of plans to move upmarket and away from sports.\n\nAnimal rights activists gathered outside the meeting, campaigning for House of Fraser to renew its ban on animal fur products.\n\nApart from the sportswear retailer and House of Fraser, the group also owns designer fashion brand Flannels, video game shop chain Game Digital, clothing retailer Jack Wills, cycle retailer Evans Cycles and online furniture shop Sofa.com.\n\nThe move comes after House of Fraser customers discovered that the retailer was back to selling fur products in November, after pledging not to use it in 2017.\n\nIn its latest results, the retailer also reiterated that a €674m (£605m) bill from Belgium's tax authority would not lead to \"material liabilities\" and said it would find a resolution soon.\n\nMr Ashley used the results statement for the six months to 27 September to set out a number of reasons for the problems at House of Fraser, including \"serious under-investment\" in stores and appropriate support services.\n\nMr Ashley said: \"We are continuing to review the longer-term portfolio and would expect the number of retained stores to continue to reduce in the next 12 months\".\n\nWhen House of Fraser went into administration, it had 59 stores, two warehouses and employed almost 16,000 staff. It has been reported that seven of those stores have been closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seema Misra is fighting to overturn her conviction.\n\nHundreds of post office workers have won a key victory against the Post Office and the controversial accounting software they were forced to use\n\nIt is the first step towards overturning the convictions of postmasters accused of fraud or theft after using the Horizon IT system.\n\nTheir lawyer said they could \"now walk with their heads held high\" after the ruling which ends years of campaigning.\n\nIt comes after the Post Office had said it would pay £58m to settle claims.\n\nLast week the Post Office had acknowledged problems with the IT system but Monday's judgment has been made as part of a court case launched before that settlement was reached.\n\nIn the case, brought by six lead claimants, the judge looked at allegation that the system contained a large number of software defects, which caused shortfalls with sub-postmasters and postmistresses' accounts.\n\nIn Monday's High Court judgment, Mr Justice Fraser said the Horizon IT system was not \"remotely robust\" and even when improved it had a significant number of bugs.\n\nHe said there was a \"material risk\" that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by the system.\n\nThe Post Office workers blame the system for creating big shortfalls in their accounts, discrepancies which led to some being made bankrupt and others prosecuted and sent to prison.\n\nHomes, businesses and reputations have been lost, as well as years spent in prison.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high,\" said James Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm\n\nAmong those involved in the case is Seema Misra, who was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010.\n\nShe was accused of theft after using the Post Office Horizon IT system, which is provided by Fujitsu.\n\nSeema became a sub-postmistress in West Byfleet in Surrey in June 2005 and was suspended in January 2008 after an audit found a discrepancy of £74,000 in her accounts.\n\nShe had been feeding at least £100 per day from her shop into the Post Office tills, because of discrepancies in balancing the accounts. One day there was a £10,000 hole.\n\nRubbina Shaheen hopes her conviction will be overturned\n\nThis went on for two years, she said, with very little support from the Post Office.\n\n\"If I hadn't had been pregnant, I definitely would have killed myself,\" she said. \"It was the worst thing. It was so shameful.\"\n\nShe is now focused on trying to get her conviction overturned.\n\nAnother worker, Rubbina Shaheen is also among those fighting to clear her name. She ran the Greenfields post office in Shrewsbury and was convicted and jailed in 2010 and while she is not one of the 557 Post Office claimants, but is now hoping her conviction will be overturned.\n\nThe 400-page judgment comes after the Post Office had agreed a payout with 557 claimants after a long-running dispute over the system.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriages for justice, is looking into more than 30 criminal convictions of former sub-postmasters.\n\nJames Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm which represented the claimants, said: \"This judgment is vindication for the claimant group of postmasters - they have finally been proved to have been right all along when they have said that the Horizon system was a possible cause of shortfalls in their branch accounts.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high after all these years.\n\n\"This judgment, together with the settlement reached last week, are important stepping stones to achieving much-needed closure for these postmasters.\n\n\"They can now start to move on with their lives.\"\n\nMr Justice Fraser said he would refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions after evidence given by employees of Fujitsu, which developed and maintained the Horizon system, in previous court cases.\n\nHe said: \"Based on the knowledge that I have gained, I have very grave concerns regarding veracity of evidence given by Fujitsu employees to other courts in previous proceedings about the known existence of bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon system.\"\n\nPost Office Chairman, Tim Parker, said the judgment acknowledged that the current Horizon system was robust and related to previous version of the systems.\n\n\"In reaching last week's settlement with the claimants, we accepted our past shortcomings and I, both personally and on behalf of the Post Office, sincerely apologised to those affected when we got things wrong.\n\nWe have given a commitment to learning lessons from these events, and today's judgment underlines the need to do so.\"\n\n\"Importantly, our new chief executive [Nick Read] has made clear the need to reset our relationship with postmasters and started the process to build a much better relationship with them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph gives us a sneak peak of A Berry Royal Christmas\n\nOne of Prince Louis' earliest words was \"Mary\" after he recognised TV chef Mary Berry on a cookbook, the Duchess of Cambridge has said.\n\nCatherine told the story to the former Bake Off presenter in a BBC Christmas special, which airs on Monday evening.\n\nShe said 19-month-old Prince Louis, was \"fascinated by faces\" and would say \"that's Mary Berry\" when he saw her on cookbooks in the family's kitchen.\n\n\"One of Louis' first words was Mary, because right at his height are all my cooking books in the kitchen bookshelf,\" Catherine tells the cook on A Berry Royal Christmas.\n\n\"And children are really fascinated by faces, and your faces are all over your cooking books and he would say 'That's Mary Berry'... so he would definitely recognise you if he saw you today.\"\n\nPrince Louis is the couple's third child\n\nThe Duchess was speaking to Mary Berry during a Christmas TV special\n\nThe duchess also shared snippets of family life, including how the family uses Berry's recipes when making pizza, which the children \"loved\".\n\nAsked by Berry if she cooked with the children, she replied: \"Yes, I really enjoy it. Again, for them to be creative, for them to try and be as independent as possible with it.\"\n\nPrince William was also interviewed by Berry on the programme and spoke about how his relationship with his mother, the late Princess Diana, had influenced his style of parenting.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess made Christmas meringue roulades with Nadiya Hussain and Mary Berry\n\nMary Berry described the royal couple's charity work as \"remarkable\"\n\nSpeaking at homelessness charity The Passage, in London, Prince William said the centre was one of the first places to which he made an official visit and it had had a \"profound impact\" on him.\n\n\"My mother knew what she was doing with it,\" he said.\n\n\"She realised that it was very important when you grow up - especially in the life that we grew up - that you realise that life happens beyond palace walls, and that you see real people struggling with real issues.\"\n\nHe added that his mother \"liked to challenge the social norms about charities and about disadvantages and vulnerable people\".\n\nAsked whether he speaks to his children about such issues, he told how Prince George, six, and Charlotte, four, would quiz him about the world on the way to school in south-west London.\n\nHe said: \"Absolutely, and on the school run - I know it sounds a little bit contrite - but on the school run already, bear in mind six and four (George and Charlotte's age), whenever we see someone who is sleeping rough on the street I talk about it and I point it out and I explain.\"\n\nDuring the programme, Berry helps the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare food for a royal event held to thank all those working and volunteering over the festive period.\n\nIn one scene, Kate serves non-alcoholic cocktails to people at a dry bar in Liverpool which has been set up by the charity Action on Addiction.\n\n\"It reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Berry whether she was any good, the duchess replied: \"No - I was terrible.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess took part in a Bake Off competition during the programme\n\nThe programme, which culminates in a Christmas party hosted by the royal couple, also features some of Berry's favourite Christmas recipes.\n\nThere is also a special guest appearance from Nadiya Hussain, who won Bake Off in 2015 when Berry was a judge on the show, which is now broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nBerry described the charity work carried out by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as \"remarkable\".\n\n\"They don't just arrive and shake a few hands make a few smiles and a speech, they want to get involved, and they want to see what they can do,\" she said.\n\n\"And it isn't just one visit, they come back again and ask for the results and they remember who they spoke to last time. I think that's remarkable.\"\n\nA Berry Royal Christmas airs on Monday 16 December at 20:30 GMT on BBC One", "Residents had to queue up to 45 minutes for bottled water being handed out at a local supermarket\n\nResidents have been queuing for bottled water after thousands of homes were left without supplies on Friday evening due to a faulty valve.\n\nAt its peak about 12,000 properties in Leighton Buzzard, Toddington, Hockliffe and surrounding areas were affected.\n\nUp to 2,000 homes in Bedfordshire are still without water and residents have been queuing for up to 45 minutes at a nearby supermarket for bottles.\n\nAnglian Water handed out the bottles and was working to restore supplies.\n\nLocal resident Maria Power said: \"The situation is disgraceful it should have been resolved by now.\"\n\n\"I'm angry at the water company that they are going to leave people without water for nearly 48 hours,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nThe valve was fixed on Saturday evening but properties in Leighton Linslade are still without water because of air in the system, Anglian Water said.\n\nThe firm apologised and warned that water was unlikely to return to the areas until Monday afternoon.\n\nOne resident said shops in the area had run out of bottled water.\n\nAnglian Water said 12,000 properties in Bedfordshire were without water at one point\n\nAnglian Water said customers who were in its \"priority list\", such as elderly people or families with young children, had been delivered bottled water.\n\nIt said engineers were installing an overland pipe to bypass the airlocked water main.\n\nRegan Harris, from the company, said: \"Most of our customers will be coming back to water soon.\n\n\"There is an area on the northern part of Leighton Buzzard where people may be without water for a little while longer due to an air pocket.\"\n\nConservative MP for Leighton Buzzard Andrew Selous said queues have \"dropped down and everyone got their allocation\".\n\nMr Selous tweeted that \"many customers supportive given what a complex issue Anglian Water dealing with.\"\n\nA map shows areas where water supply has been affected\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Brexit activist who was \"obsessed\" with former MP Anna Soubry has been jailed for 28 days for harassing her.\n\nAmy Dalla Mura, 56, was found guilty after a trial of repeatedly targeting the ex-Independent Group for Change MP earlier this year.\n\nDalla Mura then also stood as an English Democrat candidate in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, against Ms Soubry.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said Dalla Mura \"showed an obsession and fixation\" with the politician.\n\nDalla Mura, of Eton Villas, Hove, was found guilty of harassment last month.\n\nShe was banned from campaigning in Broxtowe after the verdict, as well as contacting or mentioning Ms Soubry on social media.\n\nThe court heard Dalla Mura targeted the MP between January and March this year, turning up at events and calling her a \"traitor\" on live television.\n\nShe disrupted an event where Ms Soubry was speaking, repeatedly interrupting her and live streaming the event on Facebook, and had to be escorted from the premises before the event continued.\n\nA second incident saw Dalla Mura shouting \"traitor\" as Ms Soubry was interviewed live on BBC's Newsnight in Parliament's Central Lobby, while once again filming her on her phone.\n\nMs Soubry was elected as Conservative MP for Broxtowe in 2010 but resigned from the party this year\n\nMs Soubry said she was left \"frightened\" following the incidents, but Dalla Mura did not accept this and claimed her behaviour was politically motivated.\n\nShe shouted \"democracy is dead\" and \"shame on you\" as she was sentenced on Monday.\n\n\"Ever since the murder of Jo Cox, MPs no longer feel able to put up with sustained intimidation,\" said magistrate Ms Artbuthnot.\n\n\"This damages our democracy. Because who wants to put up with this sort of harassment?\"\n\nShe said the bullying and intimidation that Dalla Mura used could \"stop ordinary, decent people\" becoming MPs.\n\nCdr Adrian Usher, from the Met Police, said the outcome showed the force's \"commitment to dealing robustly with incidents of harassment and abuse against MPs\".\n\n\"Strong political opinions are absolutely no excuse for intimidating elected representatives and police will always treat such allegations seriously and seek to bring offenders to justice,\" he added.\n\nMs Soubry, who became a target for Brexiteers after quitting the Tory party earlier this year, lost her seat to Conservative candidate Darren Henry.\n\nShe received 4,668 votes as a candidate for the Independent Group for Change, while Dalla Mura received 432 votes.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Instagram is to warn users when their captions on a photo or video could be considered offensive.\n\nThe Facebook-owned company says it has trained an AI system to detect offensive captions.\n\nThe idea is to give users \"a chance to pause and reconsider their words\".\n\nInstagram announced the feature in a blog on Monday, saying it would be rolled out immediately to some countries.\n\nThe tool is designed to help combat online bullying, which has become a major problem for platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.\n\nInstagram was ranked as the worst online platform in a cyber-bullying study in July 2017.\n\nIf a user with access to the tool types an offensive caption on Instagram, they will receive a prompt informing them it is similar to others reported for bullying.\n\nUsers will then be given the option to edit their caption before it is published.\n\n\"In addition to limiting the reach of bullying, this warning helps educate people on what we don't allow on Instagram and when an account may be at risk of breaking our rules,\" Instagram wrote in the post.\n\nEarlier this year, Instagram launched a similar feature that notified people when their comments on other people's Instagram posts could be considered offensive.\n\n\"Results have been promising and we've found that these types of nudges can encourage people to reconsider their words when given a chance,\" Instagram wrote.\n\nChris Stokel-Walker, internet culture writer and author of the book YouTubers, told the BBC News the feature was part of a broader move by Instagram to be more aware of the wellbeing of its users.\n\n\"From cracking down on promoting images of self-harm, to hiding 'likes' so people outwardly are less likely to equate their self-worth with how many people press 'like' on their photos, the app has been making moves to try and roll back some of the more damaging changes it's had on society,\" he said.\n• None Instagram now asks bullies: 'Are you sure?'", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons\n\nActor Nicky Henson, who appeared in TV shows including Fawlty Towers, EastEnders and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 74.\n\nHenson starred in Fawlty Towers as Mr Johnson, a guest who got into trouble with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty after trying to sneak a woman into his room.\n\nA statement from the actor's family said: \"Nicky Henson has died after a long disagreement with cancer.\"\n\nHe was first diagnosed with the disease almost 20 years ago.\n\nNicky Henson played the father of Honey in EastEnders\n\nHe told the PA news agency last year: \"For the last 18 years, I've regarded myself as 'being in extra time', which I never expected to have, so I'm very thankful for it.\"\n\nHe played Honey Edwards' father Jack in EastEnders, and was entertainer Charles Grigg in Downton Abbey. His film credits included Vera Drake and Syriana, which starred George Clooney.\n\nHe also enjoyed a host of stage roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, and was a founder member of the Young Vic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Mangan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gyles Brandreth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, he recorded a pop single in 1961 and had a three-year contract writing songs for The Shadows and Cliff Richard.\n\nFellow actor Ian Ogilvy posted news of Henson's death on Facebook, describing him as \"my oldest and dearest friend\".\n\nHenson was married twice, firstly to fellow actor Una Stubbs. They had two sons but the marriage ended in divorce.\n\nHenson later wed ballerina Marguerite Porter, with whom he had another son. They were married for more than 30 years.\n\nSybil (Prunella Scales) was very taken with Nicky Henson's Mr Johnson\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Weinstein used a walker at a court appearance last week\n\nA group of women, including actors Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd, have hit back at Harvey Weinstein after he described himself as \"the forgotten man\".\n\nThe movie mogul told the New York Post he'd been a \"pioneering\" force for females in cinema.\n\nBut he said no-one would remember it now due to multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, which he denies.\n\nA statement from 23 female accusers said: \"Harvey Weinstein is trying to gaslight society again.\"\n\nIt continued: \"He says in a new interview he doesn't want to be forgotten. Well, he won't be.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TIME'S UP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by TIME'S UP\n\nIn the interview at the weekend, the 67-year-old producer, whose alleged behaviour sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017, told the US publication: \"I made more movies directed by women and about women than any film-maker, and I'm talking about 30 years ago.\n\n\"I'm not talking about now when it's vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it!\n\n\"It all got eviscerated because of what happened,\" he went on. \"My work has been forgotten.\"\n\nRose McGowan and Rosanna Arquette, pictured in 2012, have both accused Weinstein\n\nIn response, the group of women, known as the \"silence breakers\", added: \"He will be remembered as a sexual predator and an unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing.\n\n\"He will be remembered by the collective will of countless women who stood up and said enough. We refuse to let this predator rewrite his legacy of abuse.\"\n\nThe group also includes actresses Rosanna Arquette and Jessica Barth, and Weinstein's former assistant Rowena Chiu.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. November 2019: Rowena Chiu and Zelda Perkins worked for Weinstein in the 1990s\n\nThe BBC has asked Weinstein's representatives for a comment.\n\nLast week Weinstein reached a tentative $25m (£19m) settlement with dozens of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, lawyers said.\n\nHe faces a separate criminal trial next month on rape and sexual assault charges, which he also denies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government is to consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said.\n\nRishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.\n\nProsecution for non-payment of the fee can currently end in a court appearance and potential fine of up to £1,000.\n\nBut the BBC warned decriminalisation could cost it £200m a year.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported the consultation had been ordered by the PM after the Conservatives won a majority of 80 at last week's election.\n\nAsked whether non-payment of the fee should be decriminalised, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"That is something the prime minister has said we will look at, and has instructed people to look at that\".\n\n\"I think it's fair to say people find the criminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee to be something that has provoked questions in the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak did not elaborate on an alternative method that could be used to enforce payment of the TV licence.\n\nHowever a previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.\n\nThe review also examined whether unpaid TV licence fees should be considered a civil debt in the same way as unpaid utility bills or council tax.\n\nHowever, it recommended against changing the criminal sanctions regime, saying decriminalisation could bring with it an increased risk of evasion.\n\nIt added that penalties brought under civil law could still be enforced using the criminal law as a last resort.\n\nIncome from the licence fee was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in the last financial year, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he thought replacing the licence fee entirely needs \"looking at\".\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"speculate\" on the long-term future of the licence fee itself, adding that it had been \"secured\" through to 2027, when the current Royal Charter governing the corporation ends.\n\nBut he added: \"How people consume media is changing, and it is of course right we continue to look at those things over time.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said the previous government review recommended the existing criminal sanctions regime should be maintained.\n\n\"The government has already commissioned a QC to take an in-depth look at this matter and he found that 'the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained' and that it is fair and value for money to licence fee payers,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The review also found that non-payment cases accounted for 'a minute fraction' - only 0.3% - of court time.\"", "The man was shot by armed officers on Hessle Road\n\nA man is in a critical condition after being shot in the street by police.\n\nOfficers were called to reports of a man \"believed to be in possession of a firearm\" in Hessle Road in Hull in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe man was shot by officers and taken from the scene for treatment at an unnamed hospital.\n\nHumberside Police Assistant Chief Constable Paul Anderson said he did not believe the incident had any connections to terrorism.\n\nThe force said no-one else was injured and a cordon remained in place.\n\nA 100-metre section of Hessle Road - one of the busiest routes in Hull - was cordoned off, with a large number of police vehicles and officers in the area.\n\nForensics officers are examining a grey BMW four wheel drive vehicle that remains parked inside the cordon.\n\nForensic officers are working at the scene of the shooting\n\nDep Ch Con Chris Rowley said: \"In incidents like this our officers have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the local community that incidents like this are very rare.\n\n\"We do have officers in the area and if anyone in the area is concerned I would encourage them to speak to one of those officers.\"\n\nHe said the man who had been shot was in a \"critical but stable \" condition in hospital.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man and also with those officers who were involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said: \"We were notified by Humberside Police about a police shooting in Hull in the early hours of this morning.\n\n\"We understand a man was shot by police and is in hospital being treated for serious injuries.\n\n\"We have attended the scene at Hessle Road and the police post-incident procedure.\n\n\"We are carrying out an assessment to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in any investigation.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sales discounts on clothing and products in the lead up to Christmas could be the biggest in almost ten years, according to one consultancy.\n\nDeloitte, which has monitored the prices of 800,000 products online and in shops since 2011, expects average discounts to hit 50% by Christmas Eve.\n\nIts forecast came as data provider Springboard said shopper numbers were lower than the same time last year.\n\nThe firm said shoppers were waiting for deeper discounts before buying.\n\n\"Consumers clearly took advantage of early discounts to purchase Christmas presents, and are now waiting for discounts to deepen once again in the days immediately before Christmas as retailers do their best to shift unsold stock,\" said Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard.\n\nDeloitte said current discounts ranged from 8% to 78% with the biggest discounts on clothing, but said the coming weekend - the last before Christmas - could see \"a tipping point in promotions\".\n\nThe consultancy said the price cuts had been driven by UK shops discounting earlier in the season due to Black Friday - the day after the American holiday of Thanksgiving, when retailers drop their prices for 24 hours. The tradition has increasingly been adopted by UK retailers too.\n\nDeloitte said this had created a long run-up for pre-Christmas discounting, with prices falling steadily in the lead up to Christmas Day.\n\n\"Consumers have come to expect an increasing amount of pre-Christmas discounting. The result is a blending of promotions, one seeping into the next, and a steady price decline rather than a steep Boxing Day drop, reminiscent of Christmases past,\" said Jason Gordon, consumer analytics partner at Deloitte.\n\nPost Christmas, Deloitte is expecting deeper discounts, with average reductions of up to 54% on Boxing Day.\n\nRetail expert Natalie Berg said the current retail environment is worrying: \"This is the most important time of the year for retailers, and this is a sign of distress.\"\n\nShe added that retailers have become worried and started discounting earlier due to consumers buying less, and once a few big brands start discounting, it is difficult for the rest of the High Street not to join in.\n\n\"It's a combination of pent-up demand and the late timing of Black Friday being on 29 November, not 23 November,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Generally, there's been a lot of political and economic uncertainty this year so consumers have been quite cautious about spending. That pent-up demand has been released at Christmas, when you spend, but consumers have cottoned on to the fact that there will be pre-Christmas discounts now.\"\n\nBut consumers might not even have to wait for the Boxing Day sales. Deloitte predicts that many Boxing Day discounts could go live online on Christmas Day itself, and on Christmas Eve in bricks and mortar shops.\n\n\"The operational challenges that sales present in-store mean some retailers could be offering Boxing Day sale prices on Christmas Eve, for those willing to hit the shops early,\" says Mr Gordon.\n\nWhen's the best time to get a bargain? What's the best bargain you've ever purchased? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of Brussels sprouts covered the road and pavement\n\nA trailer full of Brussels sprouts has spilled over a road and pavement in Fife.\n\nThe vehicle pulling the trailer full of the Christmas dinner vegetable overturned in Queensferry Road in Rosyth at about 10.45.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had closed the road and was urging drivers to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesman tweeted: \"There's been a bit of a BrusselSprouts accident at the roundabout at Admiralty Road.\"\n\nThe tweet added: \"Please avoid the area if possible. Traffic and Christmas dinners may be affected. Apologies for any delays.\"\n\nThere are not thought to be any injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner was announced\n\nThe final of this year's Strictly Come Dancing, which saw former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lift the glitterball trophy, was watched by an average of 11.3 million people.\n\nKelvin and partner Oti Mabuse topped a public vote to win the BBC One show.\n\nOvernight ratings show the Saturday night programme had a peak audience of 12.5 million viewers, and was the most-watched show across all channels.\n\nKelvin only joined the programme after another contestant suffered an injury.\n\nDrafted in as a last-minute replacement, he replaced Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing who injured his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nAfter scooping the prize, Kelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, he said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nKelvin left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades, three years ago.\n\nSaturday night's show saw him triumph over Karim Zeroual, the CBBC presenter, and his dance partner Amy Dowden; and EastEnders actress Emma Barton, who was paired with Anton Du Beke.\n\nThe couples all performed three dances - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Mabuse came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe couple began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\".\n\nMabuse's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nIt is also the first time Mabuse has lifted the trophy.\n\nSpeaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nSaturday's viewing figures made Strictly one of the most watched TV programmes of the year. But they were a slight fall on last year's Strictly final, which attracted an average audience of 11.7 million and a peak of 12.7 million when Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton won.\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit and topped the judges' leaderboard\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie - Tonioli told Emma that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Google street view picture with a warning that the building is not earthquake safe\n\nThe Japanese city of Hiroshima plans to knock down two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb - but some locals want them preserved as landmarks.\n\nThe two blocks - built in 1913 - were first used as a military clothing factory, and later as university student accommodation.\n\nThey were also used as a makeshift hospital after the bomb itself.\n\n\"They could be used as facilities toward (promoting) the abolition of nuclear weapons,\" said one survivor.\n\nAround 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the bomb, and another 35,000 were injured.\n\nThe attack flattened most of the city, and - as of last year - only 85 buildings built before the bomb remained within five kilometres of \"ground zero\".\n\nThe blocks survived, at least partly because they were made from reinforced concrete. Some bomb damage to the metal windows and doors is still visible.\n\nIn 2017, authorities found the structures - now publicly-owned - were highly likely to collapse in a strong earthquake.\n\nAnd - as the buildings are not in use, and are not open to the public - the local government decided they should be demolished by 2022.\n\nA third building at the site will be preserved, and its walls and roof will be repaired and reinforced to protect it from earthquakes.\n\nThe atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings in Hiroshima\n\nIwao Nakanishi, 89, was in one of the buildings when the city was bombed. He is now the head of a local group demanding the preservation of the buildings.\n\n\"Considering the historical significance of telling the tragedy to the future generation, we can no way accept the demolition,\" he told the Mainichi newspaper. \"We strongly oppose it.\"\n\nMr Nakanishi said the buildings could be used to promote \"the abolition of nuclear weapons\".\n\nIn recent years, they have not been used - although visits were possible via the local authority.\n\n\"These are valuable buildings that are telling us the horror of the atomic bomb,\" one 69-year-old who visited the site told Hiroshima paper Yomiuri.\n\n\"I felt strongly after looking at them directly for the first time so I want all of them to be preserved.\"\n\nHiroshima's most famous ruin from the bomb is the dome in the city's Peace Memorial Park.\n\nA Unesco World Heritage site, it has undergone reinforcement work to make it more earthquake resistant.\n\nThe ruin of the Genbaku dome is preserved as a memorial\n\nAfter Germany had surrendered in May 1945, Japan continued the war in Asia.\n\nThe US hoped that dropping a nuclear bomb - after Japan rejected an earlier ultimatum for peace - would force a quick surrender without risking US casualties on the ground.\n\nThe first bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, killed an estimated 140,000 people in total, once long-term radiation illness was taken into account.\n\nThe attack was the first time a nuclear weapon was used during a war.\n\nWhen no immediate surrender came from the Japanese, US forces dropped a second bomb three days later, on the city of Nagasaki.\n\nJapan surrendered six days later and officially brought about the end of World War Two.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A brief history of nuclear weapons - in 90 seconds", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he takes responsibility for Labour's \"catastrophic\" election defeat.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has now also apologised for the result in two newspapers articles.\n\nInterviewed on Saturday, Mr McDonnell was challenged over whether he really did, in his own words, \"own this disaster\" by the BBC's Andrew Marr.", "Water firms in England and Wales are facing the toughest restrictions on investor payouts since privatisation 30 years ago, the regulator has said.\n\nOfwat also said water firms would have to cut the average customer bill by £50 over the next five years.\n\nIt is also forcing firms to invest billions of pounds to improve their performance and reduce leaks.\n\nChief executive Rachel Fletcher said she was \"firing the starting gun on the transformation of the water industry\".\n\n\"Now water companies need to crack on, turn this into a reality and transform their performance for everyone,\" she added.\n\nWater companies listed on the stock market - such as United Utilities and Severn Trent - initially fell, but later traded higher.\n\nOfwat wants water companies to spend more on tackling leaks\n\nThere has been widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of many water companies over the past few years. Criticism has centred around some high profile pollution incidents as well as leaks, water quality and high bills.\n\nIn January, a review of water companies' business plans found only three out of 17 water firms in England and Wales were of an acceptable standard.\n\nOfwat's five-year assessment, which comes into effect on 1 April 2020, has been hammered out over the course of this year. The draft determinations were set out in July.\n\nBut the latest announcement includes a tougher stance on the return on capital - a measure of the returns that can be paid to investors - in part because of lower interest rates which makes it cheaper for companies to borrow to invest.\n\nLabour's threat to renationalise the water companies had rather overshadowed another looming issue for them - a regulator that had had enough of having sand kicked in its face, and had decided to get tough.\n\nOfwat's plan to cut bills over the five years from 2020 to 2025 has its roots in water companies' own decision to load up with debt, pay generous dividends to shareholders (often via tax havens) and their failure to deliver service of a sufficiently high quality.\n\nDespite water companies' protestations that service levels have continued to improve, public anger has grown.\n\nThames Water, the largest of the water and sewage companies in England and Wales, was the focal point - it was fined £1.4m for a serious leak of raw sewage in 2017 - as was Southern Water, which deliberately misreported monitoring failures at its sewage treatment plants.\n\nAn analysis for the Financial Times suggests that since privatisation the companies have taken on a combined £51bn in debt, and paid out £56bn in dividends.\n\nThe question now is whether the companies whose spending plans have not been cleared by Ofwat will appeal. They have two months to do so.\n\n\"This is the lowest allowed return on capital since privatisation 30 years ago but is consistent with market expectations for returns in 2020-25,\" Ofwat said.\n\nMs Fletcher said in an interview with the Today Programme that it would now be harder for companies to pay shareholders dividends.\n\n\"We are seeing increasingly the penny drop with companies, some announcing they expect no dividend in the next five years.\"\n\nShe said firms had the option of appealing to the Competition and Markets Authority over the price targets.\n\nAs it is cheaper for these companies to borrow, bills should come down, she said.\n\nThe Thames Tideway tunnel is being built in London as part of an overhaul of its sewage systems\n\n\"We've said all along this was going to be a tough review,\" she said. \"We think this is the greenest package ever for water companies.\"\n\nPopulation growth and climate change will be the big challenges for them in the long term, she added.\n\nWater companies will be able to increase their returns to investors if they meet customer service target and increase their investment.\n\n\"Where a company outperforms our allowed costs or expected service levels it should earn a higher equity return; where a company underperforms our allowed costs or expected service levels it should earn a lower return,\" Ofwat said.\n\nIn response the regulator drew up plans outlined in draft form in July which it said would mean \"better services, a healthier natural environment and lower bills\".\n\nWater UK, the industry trade body, said companies would now work through the details of the \"tough price review\".\n\n\"Today's announcement is a highly important one as the industry looks to deliver for customers and for the environment, today and in the future, said Christine McGourty, Water UK's chief executive, said.\n\nOffice of Water Services is the government regulator tasked with overseeing the privatised water market in England and Wales. Scotland has its own separate regulator, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.\n\nOfwat monitors the market to see if it needs to intervene to protect customers and to set limits on the price they're asked to pay.", "Parliament tends to be dominated by its grandest figures, the party leaders, and their cabinet or shadow cabinet teams.\n\nBut others can cut a dash in the Commons by weight of expertise, through passion for an issue, by sheer street-smarts, or simply by being in the right place at the right time.\n\nSo here are a few MPs who - while not aspiring to the top table - could exert serious leverage in the newly elected House of Commons.\n\nAfter a strong performance in the race to succeed John Bercow as Speaker - and in a House of Commons with many more Conservatives - she must surely be the front runner to become Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior deputy speaker.\n\nShe would then have the key responsibilities of chairing budget debates and selecting amendments for consideration by committees of the whole house - a key task when the government begins to push through its Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nHe pulled off a considerable coup in 2017, when, as a junior backbencher, he wrested the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee from ex-minister Crispin Blunt.\n\nAn ex-army officer - he served in Iraq and Afghanistan - Tugendhat writes notes to himself on an office whiteboard in Arabic to preserve privacy. He's a reasonable bet for a ministerial job, perhaps in the Foreign Office.\n\nHawkish on Russia - he said the Salisbury poisoning was \"if not an act of war… certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation\" - expect him to be an influential voice on foreign policy if he remains on the backbenches.\n\nChairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - where she performed impressively - she is being tipped as the person around whom the remains of the Blairite-Brownite group of Labour MPs might coalesce.\n\nThat may not translate into an attempt on the leadership, but she may now become an important factional leader.\n\nFew MPs come into Parliament with a clearly defined policy mission, but the ex-army officer who won Plymouth Moor View against the expectations of his own party, announced himself with a blistering maiden speech on the need for better care for military veterans.\n\nHe was an early backer of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign and was frequently seen shepherding the would-be leader around Westminster. His support was rewarded with the job he always wanted - defence minister responsible for veterans. Mercer will expect the political support and funding to reform the system.\n\nBriefly Leader of the House in the dog days of Theresa May's premiership, the former Treasury minister found himself surplus to requirements when Boris Johnson took over. But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.\n\nHe didn't have much time to make an impact in this key committee corridor job before the election was called, but if he is re-elected as Parliament's scrutiniser-in-chief of economic policy (and others may cast covetous eyes on the post) he will get to pronounce on levels of spending and public debt at a ticklish moment for the UK economy.\n\nDouble-hatted as Metro Mayor of South Yorkshire and MP for Barnsley Central. In a Parliament where one of the big themes looks certain to be devolution - and demands for greater powers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - the mayor of a fair chunk of left-behind territory could find himself \"speaking for England\".\n\nOnce talked up as a possible Labour leadership contender, he defied pressure to give up his Commons seat and maintains a perch in Westminster. He is a Parachute Regiment veteran with service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nSeen as a bit of a star of the 2017 intake, Afolami is on the Commons end of the Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group which wants to rebalance a constitution destabilised by an uneven devolution settlement.\n\nThis is the group behind the Act of Union Bill, a private member's bill proposed by the former clerk of the Commons, Lord Lisvane. It may all sound high-powered and rather nerdy, but the tug of war between the nations and regions of the UK is set to be a big theme of the new Parliament, and Afolami looks set to be a player.\n\nSmart, personable, and articulate in two languages he seized and held a seat which has see-sawed between Plaid and the Lib Dems since the 1990s. In his maiden speech, he complained of the steady, silent haemorrhage of young people leaving their communities to seek opportunities elsewhere. A future leader?\n\nNewly elected, he is nonetheless an experienced figure, having served in the European Parliament since 2004. He looks ready-made to become the SNP's new Brexit spokesman in Westminster.\n\nThe Lib Dems' Wendy Chamberlain has taken the North East Fife seat from the SNP's Stephen Gethins\n\nShe contested the most marginal seat in the country (the SNP won with a majority of just two votes in 2017) in North East Fife.\n\nAn ex-police officer who is already attracting rave reviews. Part of an infusion of new blood into a rather bruised and diminished Lib Dem parliamentary contingent.\n\nThose leaving Parliament include Dr Sarah Wollaston, a GP who was originally elected as a Conservative in 2010 but ended up in the Lib Dems, by way of the short-lived Independent Group of MPs. Labour's Frank Field, a maverick Labour MP, almost permanently at odds with his constituency party, and the SNP's Stephen Gethins, who might have been a candidate to lead their Westminster group had he enjoyed a more comfortable majority, also both lost their seats.\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh led a series of high-profile inquiries into the environmental issues around the fashion industry and toxic chemicals in everyday life. And Dennis Skinner - the Labour stalwart would have been the father of the House, the longest serving MP, had he survived the election - also departs. He was first elected in 1970, and fell just short of half a century in the Commons.", "Two former executives at the private security company Serco have been charged over an alleged scandal involving the electronic tagging of criminals.\n\nNicholas Woods and Simon Marshall have been charged with fraud by false representation and false accounting.\n\nEarlier this year, Serco was fined £19.2m over its electronic tagging service for the Ministry of Justice.\n\nSerco lost its contract to tag criminals in the UK in late 2013.\n\nMr Woods is the former finance director of Serco Home Affairs while Mr Marshall is a former operations director of field services within Serco.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office said both men had been \"charged with fraud by false representation and false accounting in relation to representations made to the Ministry of Justice between 2011 and 2013\".\n\nIn July, Serco was fined £19.2m after claims it had charged the government for electronically monitoring people who were either dead, in jail, or had left the country.\n\nMr Woods is also charged with false accounting in relation to the 2011 statutory accounts of Serco Geografix Ltd, the SFO said.\n\nThe SFO statement added: \"This follows the SFO's completion of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Serco Group subsidiary Serco Geografix Ltd, which was approved by Mr Justice William Davis on 4th July 2019.\n\n\"The investigation remains active and we are unable to comment further at this time.\"\n\nMr Woods and Mr Marshall were charged by postal requisition and will appear in court on a date to be fixed.\n\nSolicitor Andrew Katzen who is representing Mr Woods, said his client was \"very disappointed that the SFO has decided to charge him with criminal offences dating back to his work at Serco about 10 years ago.\n\n\"The SFO has spent six years investigating this matter and Mr Woods fully co-operated throughout.\n\n\"He denies the allegations and looks forward to the opportunity of clearing his name.\"", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "Hundreds of thousands of people could have their Christmas ruined by flu, say England's top doctors, who are predicting a rise in cases.\n\nThey say the flu season has started early this year, with lots of the virus circulating.\n\nGP consultations for flu-like illness were up by a quarter to nearly 7,500 visits in the week ending 8 December.\n\nExperts are urging anyone who has not yet had their flu vaccine to get immunised.\n\nGrandparents visiting their grandchildren could be particularly at risk, they say.\n\nChildren are \"super-spreaders\" of flu and the over-65s are one of the \"at-risk\" groups that can develop health complications, such as pneumonia, if they catch it.\n\nFree NHS flu vaccines are available for people who are:\n\nWhile more over-65s have had a free flu jab than this time last year, coverage among two- to three-year-olds is lagging behind previous seasons, following delays in delivery of the nasal flu vaccine.\n\nThe delays have now been resolved but some school programmes will not take place now until January.\n\nPublic Health England and the NHS are urging parents of at-risk children to contact their GP instead to get the vaccine this side of Christmas to help stop the virus spreading.\n\nNHS national medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"Our message is simple: the flu season is here, get your jab now. It might be the difference between a Christmas to remember and one to forget.\"\n\nPublic Health England's Prof Yvonne Doyle said: \"No-one wants to see their children suffering with flu - far from a common cold, flu can have serious consequences for young children and those with underlying medical conditions.\n\n\"There's still a week before Christmas, parents of two- to three-year-olds or those with underlying medical conditions should not delay, get your children vaccinated as soon as possible.\"\n\nFor most people, flu lasts for just a few days and gets better after some rest at home.\n\nTo reduce the risk of spreading flu:\n\nCurrent evidence shows vaccinations available this year are well matched to the main strain of flu circulating.\n• None 'Flu nearly killed me last winter'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish Labour were key drivers of the No campaign in 2014 - but could they now back a second vote?\n\nScottish Labour is having a very public debate about its future in the wake of a humbling defeat in the general election. So, could the party be about to back a second independence referendum?\n\nThe Labour Party is searching for answers - and a new leader - after a devastating night of general election results, which consigned the party to five more years of opposition at Westminster and near irrelevance in Scotland.\n\nNorth of the border, Labour lost six of their seven seats and almost a third of their voters from 2017, taking less than 20% of the vote for the first time in the modern era.\n\nThe party which once dominated Scottish politics hasn't just been supplanted at the top by the SNP - they have now fallen far behind the Conservatives as the third party.\n\nLeader Richard Leonard has promised a \"swift evidence-based review\" - and has said the party \"must develop a clear constitutional offer that wins back the confidence of voters who in this election felt that we did not offer clarity over Scotland's future\".\n\nFor all Mr Leonard would probably prefer this to be an internal review, many of his MSPs, councillors and former MPs have already started the debate in the press and on social media.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Labour's position on the holding of a second independence referendum softened somewhat.\n\nThe party had previously sought to take a firm line against independence and indyref2, but seemed to accept that should SNP votes be needed to prop up a Labour administration at Westminster, this could eventually shift.\n\nThey ended up going with a sort of \"maybe later\" position, that a second referendum would be justified if pro-independence parties won a majority in the 2021 Holyrood elections - a position which sat slightly uncomfortably with the fact there was already a pro-independence majority of MSPs.\n\nIn light of the SNP's landslide win in the general election, some have suggested the party needs to go further and come off the fence entirely.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ged Killen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTo be clear, we are not yet at the point where senior Labour figures are actually backing independence. But many seem to be coming around to the idea of backing a referendum.\n\nFormer MP Ged Killen, who lost his Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat to the SNP, wrote on Twitter that he had \"campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2 - but I lost\".\n\nHe said: \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum, and as democrats we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nThis was echoed by Labour councillor Alison Evison, who chairs council umbrella body Cosla. She said that a \"fragile\" democracy could be strengthened by \"enabling the voice of Scotland to be heard through its formal processes, and that must mean a referendum on independence\".\n\nThis position is not universal, though - MSP Jenny Marra replied to Ms Evison's tweet about a referendum saying: \"We had one, just five years ago. Once in a generation. Fully democratic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Leonard: \"We have to look at what we said about Brexit and about the whole constitutional question in Scotland\"\n\nA number of prominent Labour MSPs have suggested that the decision on whether there is a referendum should be put in the hands of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMonica Lennon, the party's health spokeswoman, said that \"if Boris Johnson isn't prepared to grant this request [for indyref2], he should allow the Scottish Parliament to decide...the future of Scotland must be decided by the people of Scotland\".\n\nThere might be a subtext here though that the decision on whether or not to hold a referendum would take place on the other side of the 2021 elections - making them effectively the crunch moment of decision.\n\nNeil Findlay, who is stepping down as an MSP at those elections, has also said that \"we cannot deny the people of Scotland a referendum where the majority is calling for it\".\n\nBe he added that \"there would need to be a clear proposition - something that is impossible until we know the outcome of Brexit, and that will not happen in 2020\". By necessity, this would kick the referendum off into 2021.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Daniel Johnson MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother MSP, Daniel Johnson, tweeted that the general election result was not a mandate for indyref2 and that \"the Scottish Parliament is Scotland's expression of self governance, it is Holyrood elections that were the source of the last mandate\".\n\nCouncillor Paul O'Kane said many voters had told him they were voting SNP as a \"one time thing\", and that \"surely 2021 is the true test of feeling on the issue\".\n\nMr Leonard has also phrased his thinking in the context of the 2021 elections, and how how Labour needs to go into that campaign offering \"a clear prospectus for a transformed society and economy\".\n\nAs well as having a position on a referendum, though, Labour are going to have to decide which side they are on when it comes to the issue itself. Jeremy Corbyn's attempt to have a \"neutral stance\" on Brexit doesn't appear to have done him any favours.\n\nAs MSP Colin Smyth pointed out, \"whether or not to have a referendum isn't a position, it's a process - it still leaves the public wondering what we stand for\".\n\nOn election night, several Labour figures observed that the party was standing in the middle of the road on the big constitutional issues - that being an ideal place to get run over.\n\nThe SNP and the Conservatives have found success (one more than the other, but still) by occupying firm positions on either side of the binary issues - one is the party of independence, the other is the party of the union. In 2019, one was pro-EU, the other pro-Brexit.\n\nLabour meanwhile were caught in the middle on both issues, plaintively asking if voters wouldn't rather talk about something else, like inequality or the NHS.\n\nAnd yet, some still see a third way through the independence debate, a compromise position of sorts - federalism.\n\nThis would rebuild the structure and constitution of the UK so that it more resembles the United States, with formal separation of powers between state governments and the central one.\n\nPaul Sweeney, who lost his Glasgow North East seat to the SNP, said that \"the British state as it is currently constructed is not sustainable\", calling for a \"radical\" change.\n\nHe said: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"\n\nMr Findlay campaigned heavily for a federal solution in 2014 - but interestingly is now even thinking about what Labour's position should be after independence.\n\n\"If the people accept a new prospectus for independence, so be it,\" he wrote. \"That is democracy, and if it happens, Labour should offer its own prospectus for a progressive, socialist, outward-looking and egalitarian independent country.\"\n\nIs Scottish Labour's leadership too close to the UK party?\n\nAlmost as important as where Labour ends up on indyref2 is who is actually seen to make the decision.\n\nSome in the party north of the border are concerned that they have become too closely entwined with the UK party leadership, giving Scottish Labour less ability to appeal specifically to Scots.\n\nThis was a key concern voiced by Johann Lamont when she quit as party leader in 2014, accusing Westminster colleagues of treating Scotland like a \"branch office\". This was something Kezia Dugdale, never a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, sought to rectify in her time in charge.\n\nBut some think the party - now led by a Corbyn ally in Mr Leonard - has drifted too much back into that \"branch office\" role.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Anas Sarwar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nColin Smyth wrote on Twitter that \"the rolling back of anything resembling autonomy for Scottish Labour by the UK Labour leadership meant we had nothing to say on the big constitutional issues facing Scotland except what the London leadership decided the party could say\".\n\nHe added: \"Let's begin by deciding the party in Scotland agrees our position, not London, then setting out a radical alternative to independence and the status quo.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who lost out in the leadership election to Mr Leonard, said that \"rather than making rash pronouncements on indyref2, I think that we need a genuine period of reflection and some humility from those who led us to our worst EU election result and worst general election results in living memory\".\n\nAs much as the party would like to take a moment to lick their wounds and regroup, time is not on their side. Nicola Sturgeon is heading into a constitutional confrontation with Boris Johnson, and is pushing to hold a referendum inside the next year.\n\nIf Labour are to play a meaningful part in the debate to come and avoid being caught in the middle of the road, they will need to come to a position quickly.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Mar Show that Scotland 'cannot be imprisoned' in UK\n\nScotland \"cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will\" by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister says the SNP's success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be \"respected\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, \"it can only be by consent\".\n\nShe told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be \"completely wrong\" to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: \"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will.\"\n\nHowever Mr Gove told the Sophy Ridge programme on Sky that \"we were told in 2014 that that would be a choice for a generation - we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland\".\n\nThe SNP won a landslide of Scottish seats in the snap general election, making gains from the Conservatives and Labour and unseating Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nHowever UK-wide the Conservatives won a comfortable majority, returning Boris Johnson to Downing Street and setting up a constitutional stand-off over Scotland's future.\n\nThe Scottish government wants a referendum deal with UK ministers similar to that which underpinned the 2014 vote, to ensure that the outcome is legal and legitimate - but are facing opposition from the UK government.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"fundamentally not democratic\" for Mr Johnson to rule out a referendum when his party had been \"defeated comprehensively\" in Scotland - losing seven of its 13 seats while standing on a platform of opposition to independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nThe SNP leader said: \"I said this to him on Friday night on the telephone - if he thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he's going to find himself completely and utterly wrong.\n\n\"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will. You can't lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope everything goes away.\n\n\"If the UK is to continue it can only be by consent. If Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.\n\n\"Scotland cannot be imprisoned within the United Kingdom against its will. These are just basic statements of democracy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The risk for the Conservatives here is the more they try to block the will of the Scottish people, the more utter contempt they show for Scottish democracy, the more they will increase support for Scottish independence - which in a sense is them doing my job for me.\n\n\"The momentum and the mandate is on the side of those of us who think Scotland should be independent, but also on the side of those who want Scotland to be able to chose its own future.\"\n\nMr Johnson returned to Downing Street on Friday after the Conservatives won a big majority in the election\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Ms Sturgeon on the phone after being returned to government, and told her that he \"remains opposed\" to a second independence vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minster was \"standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty\".\n\nThis was echoed on Sunday morning by Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who said the result of the previous referendum in 2014 should hold for \"a generation\".\n\nHe said: \"In this general election we have just seen what happens when politicians try to overturn a referendum result, and in the same way we should respect the referendum result in 2014 in Scotland.\n\n\"Scotland is stronger in the United Kingdom. You can be proudly Scottish and proudly British together.\n\n\"The best of this country are British institutions like the NHS and the BBC, and therefore we should be proud of what we have achieved together and confident that the UK is a strong partnership that works in the interests of all.\"\n\nMeanwhile some senior figures in the Scottish Labour party are backing Nicola Sturgeon's calls for Holyrood to decide the timing of another independence vote.\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said she insists she would still oppose separation from the UK but accepts the SNP now have a mandate for a referendum in 2020.\n\nHer views were supported by former Labour MP Ged Killen, who lost his seat on Thursday.\n\n\"I campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2, but I lost,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum and, as democrats, we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nAnother former MP Paul Sweeney said it was important for Labour to \"reflect\" on the constitutional position.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"", "Every Welsh Government department will see an increase in funding from next April.\n\nIt is the first time in a decade that has happened, and follows the announcement of £600m extra from the UK government earlier this year.\n\nBut finance minister Rebecca Evans said funding remains below 2010 levels.\n\nAs part of the plans the Welsh NHS will receive around £340m extra from April, while council funding will rise by 4.3%.\n\nThe latter is the first significant increase in council funding for 12 years, according to the Welsh Local Government Association.\n\nMinisters in Cardiff have revealed their £20bn draft budget for the next financial year, 2020-21.\n\nIt includes what is described as \"significant funding\" for low carbon transport and housing in the first Welsh Budget since it declared a climate emergency earlier this year.\n\nThere will be £4.5m for a National Forest, planned to extend the full length of the country, and £25m of capital funding to develop near-zero carbon homes.\n\nThere will also be £30m for electric buses and refuse vehicles.\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said: \"This draft budget delivers on our promises to the people of Wales and invests for the future of our planet.\"\n\nExpenditure in the main areas from the Welsh Government budget over the last four years\n\nAnnual spending on services funded by the health and social services department will increase from £8bn to £8.366bn by April next year.\n\nLocal councils are being given £4.474bn to spend on day-to-day services - including schools and social care - an above-inflation increase of 4.3%.\n\nIndividual increases in central funding range from 3% for Monmouthshire to 5.4% for Newport, to which local authorities will add their own revenue from council tax, charges for services and other income.\n\nLocal government is under pressure because of rising wage and pension bills.\n\nMost of the political representatives in the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said the council settlement was positive.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf leader Andrew Morgan, who has just taken over as WLGA leader as well, said: \"I welcome this exceptionally good finance settlement.\n\n\"I am pleased that our positive engagement with the Welsh Government has paid dividends for our services, for our workforce, and for our residents.\"\n\nHowever Peter Fox, the Conservative leader of Monmouthshire County Council, said it was disappointing.\n\n\"The UK Government gave sufficient resource to the Welsh Government to do significantly better than this and they have failed local government in Wales again,\" he said.\n\nMr Fox called the difference between his council's 3% rise and the 5.4% for Newport \"ridiculous\".\n\nCash for education - which includes higher and further education but excludes most school spending - will rise by 3.7% to £1.56bn.\n\nTotal spending on environment, energy and rural affairs rises by 2.5% to £216m.\n\nHowever the main pot of cash for running Natural Resources Wales - the country's environmental regulator and Wales' biggest quango - is staying about the same at £69m.\n\nMoney for the Welsh Government's central administration is rising by 8.3% to £357m - mostly accounted for by more money on Brexit staff.\n\nMuch of the reason the Welsh Government has had more money to give to its main departments is thanks to Chancellor Sajid Javid announcing in September that he was increasing public spending.\n\nWales' share of that amounted to a very welcome £600m. On one hand, the Welsh Government is pleased to have it, but at the same time it argues that had the spending kept up with inflation during the past 10 years it would have had an extra £300m to spend.\n\nHealth spending continues to take up about half of overall Welsh Government spending. The finance minister described the 4% increase as inflation busting.\n\nThat it may be, but it is generally recognised the NHS doesn't just have to cope with price rises, but also increasing pressure on its services from an aging population and more people living with long-term conditions such as diabetes.\n\nThe budget reflects a growing emphasis on us all living healthier lives - encouraging walking and cycling and eating more healthily. In other words, the government is using its money to try to encourage behaviour change rather than just trying to treat problems when they occur.\n\nThe harsh reality that climate change is affecting many different aspects of our life is reflected in the budget with money for a wide variety of measures - from a national forest, initiatives to improve air and water quality and measures to protect communities against flooding.\n\nCampaigners in both health and the environment are likely to argue that these measures are not enough to cope with growing pressures.\n\nThe Welsh Government's Welsh Language budget remains static at £20.9m. Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg - the Welsh Language Society - said it amounted to a real terms cut.\n\nTamsin Davies from Cymdeithas yr Iaith said: \"Such cuts cannot be justified. The Welsh Government has more than one billion extra pounds for next year so, at the very least, we would expect them to increase Welsh language budgets in line with inflation.\"\n\nCapital spending on infrastructure and other major projects will rise from £1.7bn to £2.3bn between 2019 and next April.\n\nThis includes £785m for the economy and transport, which the Welsh Government says has risen by 29%, and £735m for housing and local government - up by 38%.\n\nThe latter includes an extra £35m on social housing grants.\n\nMs Evans said that \"despite a decade of austerity, we have consistently prioritised our NHS\".\n\n\"Even though our like-for-like funding remains below 2010 levels, this Budget strives for a greener, equal and prosperous Wales.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative finance spokesman Nick Ramsay said the budget was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nHe said: \"Welsh Conservatives welcome the considerable sums of money now coming to Wales as a result of the spending decisions of the UK Government.\n\n\"We now need a budget that delivers a dynamic, forward-thinking, and agile Wales but this budget falls sadly short.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the budget \"delivers only in its lack of ambition\" and claimed councils were still not getting the funding they needed.\n\nEconomy spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Twenty years of Labour rule in Wales has shown us that more money for our NHS doesn't in itself mean better services.\n\n\"What we need to see from this Labour government is a strategic plan on how this extra funding will be spent on preventative measures instead of the continued mismanagement of our NHS and health boards that are still in special measures.\"", "There was a Blank Space on this year's Glastonbury's line-up… and that's where Taylor Swift has written her name.\n\nShe will make her Glastonbury debut in June - the festival's 50th anniversary - headlining the Pyramid Stage.\n\nSwift announced on Twitter that she was \"ecstatic\", while holding up a photo of the festival's in-house newspaper with the headline: \"Sunday Night Taylor Made For Glastonbury.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSwift, who performed on this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing final, joins previously-announced Saturday night headliner Paul McCartney; and Motown star Diana Ross, who will play the Sunday afternoon \"legends slot\".\n\nShe is the first female artist to top the bill since Adele in 2016.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis said he was excited to welcome the singer to Worthy Farm next year.\n\n\"She's one of the biggest stars in the world and her songs are absolutely amazing,\" he said. \"We're so delighted.\"\n\nTaylor Swift will join Paul McCartney and Diana Ross in headlining Glastonbury festival on its 50th anniversary\n\nFriday's headliner is still to be revealed but festival organiser Emily Eavis recently said it would be a male artist, playing the festival \"for their first time\".\n\nMany Glastonbury-watchers expect the slot to be taken by US rapper Kendrick Lamar.\n\nThe festival sold out in just 34 minutes when tickets went on sale in October. A resale for unwanted and unpaid tickets will take place on April 16, 2020 for coach tickets and April 19 for general tickets.\n\nSwift topped the charts everywhere from the UK to China with her seventh album, Lover, earlier this year. It has since become the only album of 2019 to sell more than one million \"pure\" copies - ie CD, vinyl and downloads, not including streams - in the US.\n\nThe star, who celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday with a Christmas-themed party, recently announced a new approach to touring for 2020.\n\nAfter 2018's ambitious, 53-date Reputation stadium tour, which played to 2.8m fans and took $345.7m (£259.3m) at the box office, she's taking her show to festivals around the world, in an effort to meet new and unfamiliar audiences.\n\n\"The Lover album is open fields, sunsets, and summer,\" she wrote on social media. \"I want to perform it in a way that feels authentic. I want to go to some places I haven't been and play festivals.\"\n\nThe star will play one further date in the UK next summer: At London's BST festival in Hyde Park.\n\nHowever, general admission tickets for the show sold out within hours of going on sale earlier this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conned by My Church: Young worshippers left in debt\n\nAn evangelical church praised for helping ex-gang members has been accused of financially exploiting young people from its congregation.\n\nOne member of charity SPAC Nation said she was persuaded to commit benefit fraud by a trustee, while another said she had a £5,000 loan taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nA former senior insider told the BBC that the church \"has to be shut down\".\n\nThe church's leader, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview\n\nKurtis, 23, was one of the church's trusted inner circle until his departure in January this year.\n\nHe appears in a BBC Panorama investigation into SPAC Nation, which is accused of leaving young people with debts of thousands of pounds.\n\n\"Certain leaders shouldn't be around youth, they shouldn't be around anywhere where people are vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe church's leader Pastor Tobi Adegboyega \"has to be held accountable\", Kurtis added.\n\nKurtis was one of the church's inner circle until his departure in January\n\nGracy was 21 when she joined SPAC in 2017. She told Panorama she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit after her Pastor Ebo Dougan - who is also a trustee of the charity - noticed she had stopped giving money to the church.\n\nShe handed over her details to Pastor Dougan and someone filled out an online application form on her behalf. She then attended a meeting at the job centre.\n\nThe BBC has seen messages and documentation that confirm her version of events.\n\nGracy's online application shows that after she left the appointment someone changed her details to show that she had two children. This made her eligible for a £1,200 payment.\n\n\"Even sometimes when we know things are wrong, in that moment I'm just thinking like 'OK, my father figure would not tell me to do something bad',\" she said.\n\nGracy was told to pay £900 of the sum into two accounts. She kept the rest, but was later investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions, who fined her £600 and ordered her to repay the £1,200.\n\n\"I can't afford it obviously,\" she said. \"I feel heartbroken because I thought this was supposed to be a family.\"\n\nGracy said she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit\n\nLovis was 18 when a loan was taken out in her name and without her knowledge, she said.\n\nShe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in November 2017.\n\nThe illness left her unable to continue working as an assistant sous chef and she began looking for a job with less demanding hours.\n\nShe was invited to an interview at a firm called Zuriel Recruitment. The agency was run by Tobi Adegboyega's second in command Samuel Akokhia, who has a conviction for attempted robbery.\n\nAt the interview Lovis provided Zuriel Recruitment with personal details including a photocopy of her passport, her home address, her mobile number and bank account details.\n\nAt the end of the process, her interviewer - a pastor at SPAC Nation - encouraged her to attend a service that week.\n\n\"It was a bit weird,\" she said. \"But at the end of the day it's church - so I didn't really think much of it.\"\n\nLovis started going to SPAC Nation services and several months later moved into a safe house - known as a \"TRAP house\" - run by Pastor Samuel Akokhia.\n\nIn March Lovis discovered a £5,000 four-year loan had been taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nThe money never reached her, instead being transferred to a company called E. R. Management Group. That company is run and owned by Emmanuel Akokhia, Samuel's brother.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen paperwork confirming the money trail. It is not known what happened to the money after it arrived in E. R. Management Group's account.\n\n\"They basically said the loan was for the greater good and they were going to use the money to buy a bigger TRAP house to accommodate more people,\" she said.\n\n\"And I was thinking 'that's all well and good - but why did I not know about it?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SPAC Nation has been praised for helping people to leave gangs\n\nOn Friday the charities regulator revealed it had opened its own investigation into SPAC Nation's safeguarding and finances.\n\nThe Charity Commission also ordered SPAC Nation to \"bank its money\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reviewing allegations of possible fraud and other offences before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nSPAC Nation denies that the church's lead pastor Tobi Adegboyega is financially exploiting young people.\n\nIt said the church had a \"robust complaints procedure\" and \"a well run disciplinary system\".\n\nSPAC Nation told the BBC that the church \"is not responsible what goes on inside individual leaders' or members' houses\".\n\nTobi Adegboyega ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview.\n\nWatch the full investigation on Panorama at 19:30 GMT or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Burton said Caroline Flack is \"loyal and kind\" and \"doesn't deserve any of this\"\n\nThe boyfriend of Caroline Flack says the Love Island host has been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since she was charged with assault at their home last week.\n\nOn Thursday, police were called to the 40-year-old TV presenter's house in Islington, north London, where she lives with tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nMr Burton described her as \"the most lovely girl\" on Instagram on Monday.\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nCaroline Flack is a TV presenter and also won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nMs Flack is due to host the winter series of Love Island next month in South Africa, but has found herself in the spotlight for a different reason since being charged with assault by beating.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday, 23 December.\n\nMr Burton's message comes after Ms Flack's former fiance Andrew Brady posted screenshots of what appeared to be a heavily-redacted non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on his social media.\n\nBurton wrote: \"I have not signed any NDA. Why would I?\n\n\"Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Frith said he felt \"blessed and proud\" of his campaign, which was supported by comedian Eddie Izzard\n\nThe general election brought surprise victories and shock defeats for MPs across the UK. Former politicians who failed to win the vote have shared how it feels to lose their seat in the House of Commons.\n\nHours after losing his seat in Bury North by 105 votes, former MP James Frith said it was \"too soon\" to say what the \"full impact\" of the defeat would be on him and his family.\n\nHowever, he said he did feel \"a degree of release\" from the weeks of intense campaigning.\n\nMr Frith was one of the 60 Labour candidates to lose out in the general election, and one of 54 to see their seat turned over to the Conservatives. Although, in Bury North, this was more like a return to the Conservatives, after Mr Frith ousted David Nuttall in 2017.\n\n\"I'm still processing it, the grieving is at the 'stunned' stage,\" the former rock band front-man said. \"We had a re-count where the results changed twice, but I conceded on the third re-count, congratulated my opponent and went home.\n\n\"I stayed up the rest of the night, and in the morning I spent time with the children explaining it to them, one of my sons got very upset, but the younger two didn't really understand.\"\n\nWhen Parliament dissolved, Mr Frith said he understood running in a marginal seat meant losing was \"a possibility\", but added he felt the impact of being \"inches from winning\".\n\nAsked about the future, he said he'd like to be involved in \"rebuilding the party\", but said for now he was going to take some \"well deserved time off for Christmas\".\n\nBen Howlett was the Conservative MP for Bath between 2015 and 2017\n\nBen Howlett became the Conservative MP for Bath in 2015 and lost his seat in the 2017 general election. \"I was back home after the count taking the washing out of the machine when Mrs May phoned to say sorry which was a bit surreal,\" he said.\n\nThe 33-year-old described his defeat as \"a bit like losing a close relative\".\n\n\"You don't do it as a nine to five Monday to Friday job - it's basically your life,\" he said. \"The people you work with become your family, you've got your team and the hundreds of people you've been helping.\n\n\"Suddenly you have that ability to help people taken away. I got emotionally attached to some of the people I was trying to help with immigration cases and I had to hand them over to my successor.\"\n\nMr Howlett said he felt emotionally drained by the end of the count and had been living off adrenalin and coffee. \"I went out with my family for a Sunday dinner and it dawned on me that I had to close down my constituency office on Monday,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone else goes back to work and you're on your own for the first time in months or years. You're physically on your own and you're emotionally on your own. I remember sobbing on my own in my kitchen. You need a lot of support and people to turn to.\"\n\nMr Howlett now owns a policy advisory and development organisation in the health, care and local government sectors. \"I know MPs who carry on acting as MPs because that's all they've known and their families never get them back,\" he said.\n\nTania Mathias said her work in conflict zones put losing her seat into perspective\n\nTania Mathias is an NHS doctor and was Conservative MP for Twickenham between 2015 and 2017.\n\n\"Losing your seat is disappointing but it's not as bad as the worst night in hospital or in a conflict zone - nobody died,\" she said. \"At first I wasn't telling colleagues that because I felt it was downplaying how people were feeling. But my politician friends who are doctors understood.\"\n\nDr Mathias now works as an ophthalmology doctor and has continued to campaign for the Conservative Party.\n\nShe is a volunteer medical doctor with the charity Freedom from Torture and has led workshops in Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina and Sierra Leone for people standing in elections for the first time.\n\n\"I tried my best and I wanted every single vote but when you lose you think 'hey I'm part of democracy' and you're really, really proud of that. The voters had their say and there was no violence so I'm happy.\n\n\"[The murder of MP] Jo Cox puts everything into perspective. Every good conversation, every honest conversation is worth it. We have to keep this basic thing of being able to knock on a stranger's door and have that discussion about what you believe in.\n\n\"If you've managed to put your message across and used every single minute of the day and night to communicate with your voters then be happy.\"\n\nSimon Wright and wife Anna Thorpe have done more than 200 Parkruns between them\n\nSimon Wright was the Liberal Democrat MP for Norwich South between 2010 and 2015. \"I once heard losing your seat described as the most public sacking imaginable and there's no escaping from that,\" he said.\n\n\"By the time the results came in we had a fair sense of how things were going. So when the declaration came, it was more a sense of accepting what had increasingly become inevitable.\n\n\"You always fight an election campaign as you want to win it so it will always come as a crushing blow and a bitter shock. But in the weeks that followed I took heart in the positive words and kind support from my former constituents and even my rivals.\"\n\nMr Wright said he felt \"very fortunate\" to find a new position as chief executive officer of children's bereavement charity Nelson's Journey within a matter of weeks.\n\nHe married wife Anna Thorpe in April 2019 and 100 friends joined them at Parkrun at Catton Park in Norwich on the morning of their wedding.\n\n\"Circumstances lined up and I was able to find a new job that I really wanted to do and that I was really enthusiastic and passionate about,\" he said.\n\n\"The time and emotional energy that goes into being an MP is very significant and you're pulled in lots of different directions. I've had more time for family, friends and hobbies and the running community has become a really big part of my life.\n\n\"There is life after parliament so that doesn't have to be what defines your future.\"\n\nMatthew Green said losing his seat was gut-wrenching\n\nMatthew Green was the Liberal Democrat MP for Ludlow between 2001 and 2005.\n\n\"I was aware that I was going to lose from the weekend before because I did the number crunching,\" he said. \"But I didn't tell anyone in my team because I wanted to keep campaigning up to the end.\n\n\"I had a few days of this surreal situation where I knew I was heading for defeat but I couldn't tell anyone. But when it came to it, it's a gut-wrenching thing. It's comparable to what I envisage would be a fairly sudden sacking or a company going bust.\n\n\"It's a very uncertain time, you've still got a mortgage to pay. You've lost your job and you've got to close down your operation and make your team redundant, it's not pleasant.\"\n\nMr Green said he applied for jobs before creating a planning and architecture consultancy \"almost by accident\".\n• None 'I will miss the House of Commons'", "Russia's third-largest internet company is suing streaming service Twitch for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League games.\n\nRambler Group alleges its exclusive broadcasting rights were breached by the service more than 36,000 times between August and November.\n\nIt is seeking to permanently ban the Amazon-owned platform in Russia.\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch, which has more than 15 million daily active users worldwide.\n\nIts terms and conditions state users cannot share content without permission from the copyright owners, including films, television programmes and sports matches.\n\nThe streaming giant's lawyer, Julianna Tabastaeva, told Russian-language news website Kommersant Twitch \"only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations\".\n\nShe added the company took \"all necessary measures to eliminate the violations, despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler\".\n\nThe Moscow City Court will hear the case on 20 December.\n\nIt has ordered a temporary suspension of English Premier League streams on Twitch pending the outcome.\n\n\"Our suit against Twitch is to defend our exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League matches and we will continue to actively combat pirate broadcasts,\" said Mikhail Gershkovich, head of Rambler Group's sports project, in a statement.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for the English Premier League in 2019, for three seasons.\n\nIt is holding talks with Twitch in the hope of reaching a settlement agreement.\n\nAmazon holds the exclusive rights to a number of Premier League matches in the UK over the next three years.\n\nThe company bought Twitch for $970m (£585m) in 2014.", "The chief executive of Hallmark Cards has apologised for its decision to withdraw television advertisements featuring same-sex couples.\n\nThe company's cable network pulled the ads for wedding registry and planning site Zola under pressure from the conservative group One Million Moms.\n\nThe decision drew criticism on social media and calls for a boycott.\n\nHallmark said it would reinstate the adverts and attempt to re-establish its partnership with Zola.\n\n\"We are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused,\" Hallmark's president and chief executive Mike Perry said.\n\nIn a statement posted to its website, Hallmark said it would \"be working with [advocacy group] Glaad to better represent the LGBTQ community across our portfolio of brands.\"\n\nThe original decision to withdraw the adverts drew criticism from a number of high-profile gay figures, including Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Netflix US Twitter account also criticised the decision, as did California Governor Gavin Newsom.\n\nThe #BoycottHallmarkChannel hashtag, which was launched by Glaad, featured in over 16,000 tweets as of Sunday afternoon.\n\nSaturday Night Live performed a skit which mocked Hallmark's decision, concluding with the line: \"This is Emily Cringle for Hallmark, reminding you to stay straight out there.\"\n\nThe original decision to withdraw the advert was prompted by complaints from a conservative activist group.\n\nOne Million Moms is an online project of the American Family Association, which is a long-time opponent of gay rights.\n\nOne Million Moms said it had personally spoken to Bill Abbott, who's the chief executive of Hallmark's parent company Crown Family Networks.\n\nAccording to the site, Mr Abbott told them Hallmark had withdrawn the commercial and the advertisement aired in error.\n\nCrown Media notified Zola that four of its ads would no longer be airing, with the explanation that Crown Media is \"not allowed to accept creatives that are deemed controversial\".", "The world's biggest bottle of single malt holds the equivalent of 150 standard bottles\n\nThe world's biggest bottle of single malt whisky has sold at auction for £15,000.\n\nThe 105.3 litre bottle of 14-year-old Tomintoul is nearly 1.5m (4.9ft) tall, weighs more than 180kg (396lbs) and would serve up about 5,250 drams.\n\nThe bottle was part of an online Christmas auction which ended at 20:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe giant Speyside bottle holds 150 standard bottles of whisky and holds a 20cm (7.8in) cork.\n\nThe bottle was filled at the Tomintoul Distillery in August 2009 by a team of 14 people.\n\nIt left the Highland village for the first time since it was created to go on display at the the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh in 2012 when it was worth about £5,000.\n\nGraham Crane, director and co-founder of auctioneers Just Whisky, said ahead of the sale: \"Every now and then the opportunity to purchase a truly unique bottle of whisky occurs - this is one of those times.\n\n\"We're delighted to be auctioning this supersized bottle this month and hope that the lucky buyer has either an appropriate sized stocking for Christmas if it's a gift, or is planning a memorable Hogmanay celebration to welcome in 2020.\"", "Whoever vandalised the grave of Reinhard Heydrich (inset) is thought to have inside knowledge\n\nBerlin police are trying to find out who opened the unmarked grave of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, a top Nazi killed by Czechoslovak agents in 1942.\n\nAn employee at the Invalids' Cemetery in central Berlin found on Thursday that the grave had been opened.\n\nNo bones were removed, police say.\n\nHeydrich was a key organiser of Nazi Germany's mass murder of European Jews. He chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where Hitler's genocidal \"Final Solution\" was planned.\n\nTampering with a grave can be prosecuted under a German law against \"grave defilement\".\n\nThe Allied occupation forces at the end of World War Two decreed that the graves of prominent Nazis should not be marked, to prevent Nazi sympathisers turning them into shrines.\n\nWhoever violated Heydrich's grave is thought to have had inside knowledge of its location.\n\nThe unmarked grave of Heydrich is in the foreground (16 Dec 19)\n\nA similar incident happened at Berlin's Nikolai Cemetery in 2000, when a left-wing group opened what they claimed was the grave of Horst Wessel, a Nazi stormtrooper murdered in 1930, who was turned into a martyr and honoured with a Nazi anthem.\n\nThe group claimed to have thrown Wessel's skull into the River Spree, but police denied that, saying the grave was that of Wessel's father and no bones had been removed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivors: The families who weren’t meant to live\n\nHeydrich, nicknamed \"the Butcher\", headed the Reich Main Security Office under SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler called Heydrich \"the Man with the Iron Heart\".\n\nHe ruled over Bohemia and Moravia until May 1942, when British-trained Czechoslovak agents attacked his limousine, and he died later of his injuries.\n\nIn retaliation, the Nazis destroyed Lidice village, murdering all the men and adolescent boys and deporting the women and children to concentration camps.", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "James Le Mesurier received an OBE for his work with White Helmet volunteers in Syria\n\nA British ex-soldier who helped found Syria's White Helmets volunteer group died as a result of a fall, Turkish forensic experts have concluded.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street below a window of his flat in Istanbul's Beyoglu area on 11 November\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was \"general body trauma linked to a fall from height\", state broadcaster TRT said on Monday.\n\nNo DNA belonging to another person was found, it added.\n\nThe private news channel NTV meanwhile said a toxicology report showed Le Mesurier, 48, had taken sleeping pills.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street in Istanbul, outside his home\n\nLast week, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Le Mesurier's Swedish wife, Emma Winberg, had told police that he contemplated suicide in the days before his death and had started taking medication for a \"stress disorder\".\n\nShe said that on the night of his death Le Mesurier had taken a sleeping pill at 02:00, Anadolu cited a police statement as saying.\n\nHe awoke when she went to bed about two-and-a-half hours later and asked her if she wanted a sleeping pill as well, it added.\n\nMs Winberg reportedly said she woke up between 05:30 and 06:00, when the police knocked on the door of their flat. She then saw her husband's body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the bombs go off in Syria, the White Helmets go in\n\nMr Le Mesurier was widely considered a founder of the White Helmets.\n\nThe organisation, which is also known as the Syria Civil Defence, helps rescue civilians caught up in attacks in areas of Syria controlled by the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIn 2016, the White Helmets received the Right Livelihood Award in recognition for \"outstanding bravery, compassion and humanitarian engagement in rescuing civilians\". Later the same year the group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nBut the Syrian government and its allies Russia and Iran have accused the White Helmets of aiding terrorist groups - something the organisation has denied.\n\nA week before he died, the Russian foreign ministry accused Le Mesurier of being a former agent of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. The UK's ambassador to the UN said the claim was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nLe Mesurier received an OBE from the Queen in 2016 for \"services to the Syria Civil Defence group and the protection of civilians in Syria\".", "All of Tamara Ecclestone's jewellery is said to have been stolen in the raid on her house next to Hyde Park\n\nThieves have reportedly stolen £50m worth of jewellery from the Kensington home of Tamara Ecclestone.\n\nThe daughter of ex Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone was left \"shaken and angry\" after the burglary on Friday.\n\nAccording to The Sun, rings, earrings and a Cartier bangle worth £80,000, which was given to the heiress as a wedding present, were all taken in the raid.\n\nThe Met said no arrests had been made and it was looking for three men.\n\nTamara Ecclestone, pictured with father Bernie, worked on F1 magazine and also modelled for Armani\n\nA spokesman for Ecclestone said: \"I can sadly confirm there has been a home invasion. Internal security are co-operating with police in this matter.\n\n\"Tamara and family are well but obviously angry and shaken by the incident.\"\n\nOfficers were called to the home in Palace Green, Kensington, shortly after 23:00 GMT.\n\nDet Sgt Matthew Pountney said the force had been \"called by security within the building\" about \"three males being present inside the property\".\n\nHe added that the suspects had already left before the Met was called and \"a fast-paced investigation is under way to locate the suspects and missing items\".\n\nA police spokesman earlier said it was \"reported that an amount of high value jewellery had been stolen\".\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly stolen in the burglary\n\nEcclestone bought the 55-room Kensington home in 2011 for £45m, according to Forbes magazine.\n\nThe 35-year-old also spent millions renovating the property to include an \"Amazonian crystal bathtub, a private nightclub, a bowling alley, a subterranean swimming pool, a beauty salon, a dog spa and a car lift\".", "Sarah Wellgreen was last seen on the evening of 9 October\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a missing mother from Kent.\n\nSarah Wellgreen, 47, was last seen near her home in New Ash Green, Kent, on 9 October.\n\nBen Lacomba, 38, from Bazes Shaw, New Ash Green, was charged with the mother of five's murder on Thursday.\n\nMr Lacomba was first detained on 16 October before being re-arrested and charged. He has been remanded to appear before Medway Magistrates' Court on Friday, police said.\n\nThe search for Ms Wellgreen is ongoing.\n\nOfficers previously searched a property, believed to be Ms Wellgreen's home, after receiving fresh information.\n\nIt is understood to be the third time the property has been searched since 11 October.\n\nThe beautician's family celebrated Ms Wellgreen's birthday in her absence on 14 December.\n\nSon Lewis Burdett has said the family was living a \"never-ending nightmare\".\n\nAbout 2,000 hours of footage has been received by police, while more than 1,300 volunteers have joined searches of the surrounding area.\n\nOfficers have searched woodland near Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford and areas in Greenhithe near the River Thames.\n\nDivers also searched the River Darent in Dartford town centre, while the fire service has provided a drone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles designed to transport cars, at high speed, around the city.\n\nThe goal is a network of tunnels to alleviate chronic traffic congestion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has accused the UK and US political classes of \"disrespecting\" the public by questioning the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election.\n\n\"They don't want to recognise [Mr Trump's] victory. That's disrespect of voters,\" he said.\n\n\"The same in Britain: Brexit happened, but no-one wants to implement it.\"\n\nHe also warned that the world was becoming complacent about the risks of nuclear war.\n\nThe president's comments came at his year-end press conference in Moscow.\n\nRussia's leader also said British Prime Minister Theresa May has no choice but to follow through with Brexit, as failing to do so would undermine UK democracy.\n\n\"She must enact the will of the people, expressed during the referendum,\" he said. \"Or otherwise it is not a referendum at all: doing it over and over again if someone did not like it [the result]. Is it a democracy?\"\n\nMr Putin described relations with the UK as in \"deadlock,\" saying it was in both countries' interests to improve matters.\n\n\"Are we interested in restoring full relations with Britain? Yes, we are interested,\" he said. \"And we know that British [companies] work pretty actively here.\"\n\nThe UK is one of a number of Western countries that have enacted economic sanctions against Russia over its annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in southern England.\n\nThese are strange times. Today I watched the leader of an increasingly authoritarian Russia lecturing the West on the true meaning of democracy.\n\nPresident Putin's message was basically this: You don't like Trump? Tough. The American voters elected him.\n\nYou don't like Brexit? Tough again. The British people voted for it.\n\nThis from a political leader who, famously, created a system of \"managed democracy\" in Russia (in which the Kremlin does all the managing).\n\nAt times, the news conference looked and sounded more like a circus - journalists shouting at the tops of their voices to attract the attention of the Kremlin \"ringmaster\" up front to get a question. At one point, President Putin had to ask everyone to calm down.\n\nBy the end of the \"show\" my arm was aching. I'd been holding up a BBC News sign for nearly four hours. Sadly, the president didn't take my question.\n\nI had planned to ask about the Salisbury poisoning. Next time, perhaps…\n\nMr Putin also addressed his country's strained ties with the US, saying he did not know if he would meet President Trump soon or not.\n\n\"We must normalise our bilateral relations; we are ready for this, as soon as the other side is ready too,\" he said.\n\nWashington has invited the Russian leader to visit in 2019, but such a visit could prove controversial because US intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the 2016 US presidential election in favour of Mr Trump.\n\nAt a summit in July of this year in Finland, Mr Trump was heavily criticised for appearing to back Mr Putin's denials of election interference over his own intelligence agencies' assessments. Mr Trump later said he \"misspoke\".\n\nMr Putin's comments came a day after the US Treasury said it would lift sanctions on the aluminium businesses of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, one of 24 Russian businessmen targeted by the US authorities, after he reduced his stakes in the firms. Mr Deripaska, a political ally of Mr Putin, remains under sanction.\n\nTurning to the threat of nuclear war, Mr Putin said: \"The danger of such a scenario is getting obscured and receding... if something like this were to happen - God forbid - it can lead to the demise of the whole civilisation or possibly the planet.\n\n\"These questions are serious, and it's a great shame that this tendency to underestimate does exist and is even getting worse.\"\n\nHe also criticised President Trump's plan to withdraw from a key nuclear treaty with Russia.\n\n\"We are essentially witnessing the breakdown of the international arms control order and (the start of) an arms race,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump said the US would pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty because Russia had \"violated\" it.\n\nThe deal bans ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of 500-5,500km (310-3,400 miles).\n\n\"What's going to happen?\" said Mr Putin. \"It's difficult to imagine how the situation will develop further. If these rockets appear in Europe, what should we do? Of course we have to respond.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRussia's president also accused the US of having world domination on its mind.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trump announced that he would withdraw US troops from Syria, saying Islamic State forces had been defeated there.\n\nMr Putin cautiously welcomed the move, but questioned whether it would actually happen.\n\n\"We don't see signs of a pullout,\" he said, adding that the US \"has been in Afghanistan 17 years, and they always say they're withdrawing\".", "At his year-end news conference, the Russian president was asked about Brexit and accused the British political establishment of \"disrespecting\" the public", "The Great North Run has been held annually since 1981\n\nRunners who did the Great North Run using charity places but did not raise any money have been described as \"fraudulent\" by the race organisers.\n\nIt is after a BBC investigation found 1,278 people who accepted places paid for by charities in 2017 were recorded as raising nothing.\n\nThat was despite promising to fundraise as a condition of their entry.\n\nOrganisers said they knew of a \"small number of runners\" who had cheated the system which they \"absolutely condemn\".\n\nThe figures come from 42 charities who responded to a request for information from BBC Radio 4's You and Yours.\n\nSome of those who donated nothing are believed not to have taken part in the race because of illness or injury but others did cross the finish line.\n\nA place in the Great North Run offered by a charity can be the only way in for runners who are not selected in the public ballot or who miss its deadline.\n\nIf they accept a charity place they often have to pay the charity a registration fee, perhaps of £20 or £50, but also promise to raise a minimum amount of money.\n\nMost runners hit or exceed their fundraising targets but some do not just miss them, they fail to raise anything at all.\n\nThe charity Epilepsy Action had 10 of its 93 runners raise nothing in 2017. Three of them withdrew before the race but seven of them completed it.\n\nThe charity's fundraising events manager, Katie Reah, said they have not been able to get any explanations from those seven runners.\n\n\"Often when they don't raise the sponsorship we tend not to see them at the finish either so they don't come to the charity marquee.\"\n\nThe donations are important because like many charities, Epilepsy Action receives no government funding and so relies upon people's generosity to fund its work.\n\nEach place in the Great North Run cost it over £110 in 2017, which is more than twice as much as an individual will have paid who secured a place through the public ballot.\n\nIt can cost charities more because they often buy packages which guarantee a certain number of places in the event, along with other benefits like marquees at the finish and adverts in the race magazine.\n\nThat is in addition to a standard race entry fee which they pay for each place.\n\nOn average, 17% of people who accepted Great North Run places in 2017 from these 42 charities were recorded as not raising any money.\n\nSimon Ledsham from Cancer Research UK says the charity still made over £500,000 from the Great North Run in 2017\n\nThe highest proportion was reported by Cancer Research UK which also had the largest number of runners.\n\nOf the 758 people who took its charity places, 318 (42%) raised nothing.\n\n\"We're really keen to try to urge people when they've made that commitment to raise that money because it is vital to fund our research,\" said Cancer Research UK's director of communities, Simon Ledsham.\n\n\"We've introduced new methods of contacting the people that take our places, we're increasing our level of telephone calls that we make to them to explain the commitment they're making and the support that we have on offer to them to encourage them to raise the money.\"\n\nThe Great North Run was still really profitable in 2017 for charities including Cancer Research UK and Epilepsy Action who say they really appreciate the efforts of the majority of runners who do keep their fundraising promises.\n\nCharities do not insist on runners signing contracts making them personally liable if they fail to hit their fundraising targets because it might put off genuine fundraisers, according to Daniel Fluskey from the Institute of Fundraising.\n\n\"If somebody has taken a place and then they can't participate in the event or they are not doing well with their fundraising, the main thing to do would be to speak to the charity because the charity can help them out or reassign that place if needed,\" he said.\n\nDaniel Fluskey is the head of policy and external affairs at the Institute of Fundraising\n\nHelp for Heroes was one of six charities that said all of their runners raised money in the 2017 Great North Run.\n\n\"We have a two-step fundraising target so if they reach their first fundraising target then they will get entry into the event,\" said Louise Brimble, senior events manager at Help for Heroes.\n\n\"If they don't reach that first fundraising target then unfortunately they won't be able to take part.\"\n\nSome charities said that runners they recorded as raising nothing individually may in fact have raised money as part of a team.\n\nOthers said runners who raise nothing sometimes claim not to have taken part in an event when the race results suggest they have.\n\nThe problem is not unique to the Great North Run but charities say it tends to be more of an issue at events like it, where places are in high demand.\n\nIn a statement, The Great Run Company said: \"We are aware of a small number of runners who exploit the charity system in the manner highlighted today, and absolutely condemn that practice, which is fraudulent, damaging for the charities involved, and goes against the spirit of the Great North Run.\"\n\nYou can hear more on this story on You & Yours on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 20 December just after 12:15pm.", "British Gas owner Centrica is to mount a legal challenge against Britain's upcoming energy price cap, arguing it has not been calculated fairly.\n\nThe energy provider said it would apply for a judicial review against the regulator Ofgem, saying it had set the threshold too low.\n\nThe firm said it wanted not to delay the cap, due to come in on 1 January, but to change how it is set.\n\nThe regulator said it would defend its proposals \"robustly\".\n\nOfgem proposed a cap on energy bills in September, following concerns that consumers were not getting best value for money from suppliers' default rates, or standard variable tariffs (SVT) .\n\nIt means an average dual fuel customer who pays by direct debit should pay no more than £1,137 a year, £68 lower than British Gas's SVT.\n\nHowever, the policy has rattled some suppliers who say it will damage their profits and it has also been blamed for some smaller providers going bust.\n\nIn November Centrica warned the cap would cost it £70m in lost operating profits in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nThis was after British Gas shed 372,000 household accounts in the four months to the end of October as customers left its SVT.\n\nCentrica says that Ofgem had not properly taken into account the wholesale energy costs that \"all suppliers incur\" when it devised the cap.\n\nExplaining its decision to seek a judicial review, it said: \"Through this action Centrica has no intention to delay implementation of the cap, and does not expect the cap to be deferred in any way.\n\n\"As we have previously said, we do not believe that a price cap will benefit customers but we want to ensure that there is a transparent and rigorous regulatory process to deliver a price cap that allows suppliers, as a minimum, to continue to operate to meet the requirements of all customers.\"\n\nOfgem told the BBC that it \"carried out an extensive consultation process when setting the price cap and we believe that it offers consumers on poor value tariffs a fairer deal.\n\n\"In the event of a judicial review we would defend our proposals robustly.\"\n\nThe regulator says the new energy price cap could save 11 million customers an average of £76 a year on their gas and electricity bills.\n\nBut it has already said that the level of the cap is likely to rise in April 2019, to reflect the higher cost of wholesale energy. As a result, the average annual saving in 2019 is likely to be lower.", "'They couldn't have cared less'\n\n“They couldn’t have cared tuppence to be honest” Ruth Kent, 80, from West London was forced to borrow $1,000 from friends to buy a flight home from Florida via Dublin after Gatwick grounded flights. “I was completely and utterly panic stricken when I found out,” she said. Ms Kent said that she tried getting in touch with both Norwegian Airlines and her insurers but neither responded. She said that she even told Norwegian Airlines in an email that she was a woman on her own and in her 80s but: “They couldn’t have cared tuppence to be honest.” “Luckily I had friends here,” Ms Kent said. “I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have friends because to be honest I was in a complete panic because I wanted to get home before Christmas.”", "Barack Obama has paid a Christmas visit to staff, patients and their parents at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC.\n\nThe former US president donned a Santa hat to give out gifts, and lead some festive singing.", "The alert began at Stuttgart airport in south-west Germany\n\nGermany's biggest airports are on alert after four suspected terrorists were spotted staking out Stuttgart airport, reports say.\n\nPolice are said to be hunting for a son and father from North Rhine-Westphalia and two others seen taking photos of the airport's terminal and grounds.\n\nDetails of the suspects were passed to German police by Morocco's secret service, reports say.\n\nThis comes a week after a terror attack across the border in France.\n\nThree people were killed by Cherif Chekatt near a Christmas Market in Strasbourg, which is some 150km (93 miles) from Stuttgart.\n\nPolice told public broadcaster ARD that security forces were on alert at German airports, while Bild website said warnings had been extended to all 14 major hubs.\n\nSince the Strasbourg attack, suspicious activity had been spotted at both Stuttgart Airport and at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, public broadcaster SWR reported.\n\nThe father and son were captured on surveillance cameras taking photos around the airport, but had disappeared by the time police arrived.\n\nThe Stuttgart airport suspects' names as well as details of their communications were reportedly given to police by intelligence officials in Morocco.\n\nGerman police would not confirm the reports, with spokesman Roman Strohmayer saying only \"we have information that for the moment cannot yet be judged conclusively.\"\n\nBut, he told Bild website: \"We have detected spying attempts at Stuttgart Airport and have massively tightened our security measures at the airport in cooperation with the state police. \"\n\nGermany was targeted just before Christmas in 2016, when Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving dozens more wounded.", "Christina Abbotts died at a friend's flat in Crawley where she had been house-sitting\n\nA City banker has been found guilty of murdering a 29-year-old sex worker by bludgeoning her to death with a pestle.\n\nZahid Naseem, 48, admitted killing Christina Abbotts at a flat in Crawley, West Sussex, in May, but denied murder.\n\nNaseem stayed in the flat for 12 hours after Ms Abbotts died and pretended to be unconscious when police broke down the door, the court heard.\n\nJurors at Lewes Crown Court heard Ms Abbotts suffered more than 13 wounds to her head and 20 other injuries.\n\nNaseem, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, claimed he was acting in self-defence after Ms Abbotts tried to strangle him during a sex game.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nZahid Naseem claimed Ms Abbotts held his neck \"and didn't let go\"\n\nPolice were called to the flat when no-one had heard from Ms Abbotts after midday on 25 May and she failed to turn up to her own birthday party.\n\nShe is thought to have been dead for about 12 hours before she was found, the court heard.\n\nOfficers found Naseem lying motionless on the sofa with his eyes flickering, but a paramedic was \"sceptical\" he was unconscious.\n\nHe only \"woke up\" fully when he was arrested in hospital, claiming to have no idea what happened.\n\nWhen he gave evidence in court, he admitted striking Ms Abbotts but claimed it was in self-defence as he feared she was strangling him to death in a sex game gone wrong.\n\nHe also said a \"red mist\" may have come over him.\n\nMs Abbotts, who was born in the West Midlands and lived in London, was described as a \"socialite\" who led a party lifestyle in London and told relatives she worked in IT.\n\nBut she lived a secret life as a high-class escort, who advertised her services online under the pseudonym Tilly Pexton.\n\nNaseem paid her up to £3,500 a time when they met.\n\nIn a statement read out after the trial, Ms Abbotts' family said: \"This has had a tremendous impact on our personal and professional lives as we have not been able to meet commitments due to the level of stress and shock we have been experiencing.\n\n\"She was beautiful inside and out, and also very kind to others, putting everyone else's needs first.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teddy, seven, tells Victoria Derbyshire of his sadness at having to cancel a trip to Lapland\n\nDrones flying over Gatwick Airport have caused Christmas travel chaos for thousands. Among them is a couple hoping to honeymoon in New York and a little boy who wants to go to Lapland.\n\nInstead of celebrating her marriage in the festive fairytale of New York, newlywed Hope Lauren Eder is stranded at the airport.\n\n\"We haven't heard anything from our airline, by text or anything, so we thought we'd head to the airport,\" she said.\n\n\"There weren't any queues at the desk, so we managed to get through quickly.\"\n\nShe said the scenes at the check-in lounge were \"awful.\"\n\n\"I saw a woman crying, someone had collapsed at the bottom of the escalator, it's just an absolute shambles.\n\n\"No-one's really saying what's going on. They're just checking you in and then once we're through you've just got to wait and hear. It's not a guarantee that it's going to take off.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTanya Stewart had been due to fly to Lapland with her seven-year-old son Teddy, who she said was being \"very brave\".\n\nHe said: \"My dad, he walked to the front desk of the airport and he asked what was going on, and the lady gave him a letter and it said the flights would be cancelled. I was just sad and upset.\"\n\nMrs Stewart said: \"I just feel so bad. I wanted it to be a day to remember for Teddy, one that he will treasure forever.\"\n\nBut optimistic Teddy insisted: \"We can do it next year.\"\n\nAlison Battle, one of the founders of Lapland UK, heard Mrs Stewart on BBC 5 Live earlier and has invited Teddy to go and help Father Christmas and the elves at Lapland UK.\n\nMrs Stewart cried on air. She said: \"I don't know what to say. Thank you so much. That's made our Christmas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Victoria Derbyshire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGordon in Blackheath, London, texted BBC Radio 5 Live and said: \"My wife and seven-year old boy are going to Greece to visit a very ill grandmother. It will break her heart if they can't make it. It may be her last chance to see them.\"\n\nMichelle from Guernsey told the radio station her daughter Caitlyn was stuck in Spain as her flight home via Gatwick had been cancelled.\n\nEmilie-Kate Owen from Dorking had planned to fly to Edinburgh for her grandfather's funeral on Friday but is now travelling with her father by train in the hope of making it on time. She said her ticket had been accepted on LNER so she did not have to pay extra.\n\nCaitlyn is a third year foreign exchange student who is spending a year living and studying in Barcelona.\n\nHer mother said: \"It's going to be a big family Christmas, all four of my children are coming home and I would like her to be here, we don't want her stuck there on her own.\"\n\nGeoffrey Grove is trying to get to the Swiss Alps with his wife and five-year-old twins\n\nGeoffrey Grove, 42, is stranded on a plane at Orly airport in France after his flight from Boston, USA was grounded.\n\nThe plane has been on the runway since 08:05 GMT and passengers are not allowed off the plane.\n\n\"There is no air conditioning. Babies are being stripped because it is so hot,\" Mr Grove said.\n\n\"We are trying to get to the Swiss alps. So this will definitely slow things down.\n\n\"The unfortunate thing is the utter waste of time just sitting on the plane for four hours.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Game of Thrones star Iain Glen has described how security measures put in place to prevent story details leaking to the public caused problems for some actors.\n\n\"They're absolutely paranoid now about anyone finding out anything about the series and spoiling it,\" he said.\n\nThe final season of Game of Thrones will be shown on Sky Atlantic in April 2019.\n\nGlen said: \"Everything was accessed through iPads with different security you had to get through to access it. Which caused a problem for the actors, I have to say.\"\n\nIain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont with Emelia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen\n\nThe Scottish actor, who has played Ser Jorah Mormont in HBO's global phenomenon since it began in 2011, also said that the show's final season is \"absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake, Glen described the table read for Game of Thrones' final season, which saw more than 100 cast and crew gather together to read through the scripts for all six episodes.\n\n\"This season was the first ever that we sat and read the entire arc of the story from beginning to end right through over the course of a day,\" he said.\n\n\"Kit [Harington - who plays Jon Snow], if he wasn't lying, had not read it, so he was reading it on that day for the first time.\"\n\nIain Glen says the cast are really pleased with the writing for the final season\n\nGlen said there were moments of shock from the actors, as they realised how the show's intricate plot was set to be resolved, but that the consensus was that the actors were thrilled by what had been written.\n\n\"Honestly, these six episodes are absolutely phenomenal. The writers really, really came up trumps. The way they pulled it all together was a real writing task.\n\n\"There were a lot of tears that day... and it's been a season of that because it's been a season of farewells and finishes.\"\n\nListen to the full interview on BBC Radio 5 Live during Afternoon Edition on Thursday 20 December from 13:00 GMT.", "Cabinet colleagues Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd have set out rival plans if Theresa May can't get her Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nThe two ministers stressed that their top priority was securing Parliamentary backing for the prime minister's deal.\n\nBut Ms Rudd said a referendum was a \"plausible\" way forward if MPs were deadlocked.\n\nMrs Leadsom said a new referendum would be \"unacceptable\" and argued instead for a \"managed no deal\".\n\nAsked if a second referendum was plausible if Parliament remains gridlocked, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"No.\"\n\nMrs May had \"been very clear on the dangers of calling a second referendum\" and Amber Rudd had been \"clear\" that the priority was to get the prime minister's deal through Parliament, he added.\n\nAsked about Mrs Leadsom's comments on a managed no-deal Brexit, the spokesman said: \"The Leader of the House was clear this is not government policy.\n\n\"This is not something that is available. The EU has been very clear that there is no withdrawal agreement available that does not include a backstop.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Downing Street, with the Polish prime minister, Mrs May said all cabinet ministers were \"working to ensure that the deal is able to be agreed by, and get through, Parliament\".\n\nMrs May also spoke Polish during the press conference:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My message to Polish people is clear\"\n\nExplaining what she meant by a \"managed no deal\", Mrs Leadsom told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"A managed no deal does not necessarily mean there is no withdrawal agreement at all.\"\n\nThe Commons leader, who was a Leave campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, said it could be a stripped-down agreement incorporating some of the EU's no-deal preparations.\n\n\"What I am looking at is trying to find an alternative so that in the event that we cannot agree to this deal that there could be a further deal that looks at a more minimalist approach but enables us to leave with some kind of implementation period.\n\n\"That avoids a cliff edge, that avoids uncertainty for businesses and travellers and so on.\"\n\nAsked about Amber Rudd's suggestion that a referendum was a \"plausible\" alternative, she said: \"It's not government policy.\n\n\"I myself think it would undermine the biggest democratic exercise ever, where we had a clear majority to leave the European Union.\n\n\"To have a second referendum would unfortunately be going back to people and telling them they have got it wrong and they needed to try again.\n\n\"I think it would be unacceptable.\"\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but an agreement on the terms of its withdrawal and a declaration on future relations will only come into force if the UK and EU Parliaments approve it.\n\nThe Commons vote was due to be held earlier this month but the PM postponed it once it became clear it would be defeated by a large margin.\n\nShe has since sought to gain further assurances from EU leaders to allay MPs' concerns.\n\nMPs will start debating her Brexit bill again on Wednesday, 9 January. There will be five days of debate before the vote takes place.\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is rejected, the default position is for the UK to leave in March unless the government seeks to extend the Article 50 negotiating process or Parliament intervenes to stop it happening.\n\nMs Rudd, who campaigned for Remain in 2016, said she was not sure MPs would back Mrs May's deal and suggested arguments for another referendum would come into play if they did not and if they rejected other options.\n\n\"I have said I don't want a People's Vote or referendum in general but if parliament absolutely failed to reach a consensus I could see there would be a plausible argument for it,\" the work and pensions secretary told ITV's Robert Peston show.\n\n\"Parliament has to reach a majority on how it is going to leave the EU. If it fails to do so, I can see the argument for taking it back to the people again as much as it would distress many of my colleagues.\"\n\nOn page three of the Ministerial Code, is the section entitled \"collective responsibility\".\n\nPage 19 offers something approaching a definition: \"Ministers should ensure that their statements are consistent with collective Government policy. Ministers should take special care in referring to subjects which are the responsibility of other Ministers.\"\n\nOr: row in private, be loyal in public.\n\nLet's be clear: those cabinet ministers offering a commentary on other options preface their remarks by insisting they back the prime minister's deal.\n\nBut imagine, in calmer times, ministers did this before a budget, or floated an alternative to Universal Credit for instance.\n\nIt would be a suggestion probably accompanied by the sack.\n\nBut these, you'll have spotted dear reader, are not the calmest of times.\n\nAnd so cabinet ministers can get away with a whole lot more freelancing.\n\nBut it is not entirely unhelpful to Downing Street: if this aeration of alternatives helps expose their lack of support, it allows the prime minister to make the case her deal is the only game in town.\n\nAmber Rudd - who went head-to-head with Mrs Leadsom in a televised debate during the 2016 referendum - has likened the idea of a no-deal exit to a car crash. She said it was imperative that MPs \"find a way of getting a deal through Parliament\".\n\nTo that end, she said she backed the idea of testing the will of Parliament through a series of \"indicative\" votes on \"Plan B\" options should MPs reject the PM's agreement.\n\n\"It would flush out where... the majority is,\" she said. \"So people who hold on to the idea of one option or another would see there is no majority and so they will need to move to their next preference.\n\n\"We will hopefully be able to find where the compromise and the consensus is.\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said talk of another referendum was \"hypothetical\" at this stage and would represent a \"failure\" by Parliament.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to scare MPs into backing her deal by delaying the vote on it to the latest possible date.\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the European Commission announced a series of temporary measures designed to reduce the economic impact if the UK was to leave without a comprehensive legally-binding agreement.\n\nBut it made clear that it could not counter all the problems it expects.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has given more details of its own no-deal contingency planning, saying the risk of the UK leaving without an agreement was \"very real\".\n\nIt warns of potentially \"severe macroeconomic, trade and sectoral impacts\" for Ireland as well as \"significant gaps\" in policing and judicial co-operation.\n\nIn such a scenario, it said its priorities would be to uphold the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, ensure there is no return of physical checks on the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland and ensure the \"best possible outcome\" in terms of trade.\n\nThe UK has allocated a further £2bn in funding to government departments to prepare for the possibility and has urged businesses to put their own no-deal plans in motion.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nTottenham midfielder Dele Alli was struck on the head by a plastic bottle thrown from the crowd during the Carabao Cup quarter-final at Arsenal.\n\nThe 22-year-old was hit near the touchline as Arsenal prepared to take a throw-in in the 73rd minute at Emirates Stadium.\n\nHe reacted with a 2-0 gesture to fans - referencing the scoreline at the time.\n\n\"In a different country, maybe they close the stadium for a few games,\" said Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino.\n\n\"It's lucky it wasn't a big problem but I think people need to be careful, and we need to try and avoid this type of action. Some people behave very bad.\"\n\nArsenal have told BBC Sport they are examining CCTV to find the person who threw the bottle.\n\nAlli had earlier scored the second goal and Spurs went on to reach the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory.\n\nWednesday's incident follows a banana skin being thrown towards Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Premier League match between the sides at the same venue on 2 December.\n\nThe Spurs fan responsible was fined and banned from football for four years on Tuesday.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live pundit Dion Dublin, who was co-commentating on the game, said: \"It's sad to see. It's mindless. Why would you do that?\n\n\"It must have had water or something in it to reach Dele Alli. Why would you risk being idiots?\n\n\"Just support your club, don't do ridiculous things like that.\"\n\nWhen asked about the incident after the game, Alli told Sky Sports: \"It is what it is. It made the goal a bit sweeter and the win.\"\n\nAn EFL spokesperson told BBC Sport the matter would be up to the Football Association to investigate, but they would \"assist\" if required.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of low-skilled migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under proposed new post-Brexit immigration rules.\n\nThe measure, which would last until 2025, is intended to protect parts of the economy reliant on overseas labour.\n\nThe idea was described as \"shocking\" by campaign group Migration Watch.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said the new system would be based on UK needs rather than where migrants were from and show the UK \"open for business\".\n\nUnveiling what he said would be the biggest shake-up of immigration policy for 40 years, Mr Javid said that while there was no \"specific target\" for reducing numbers coming into the UK, net migration would come down to \"sustainable levels\".\n\nThe much-delayed White Paper - a document setting out proposed new laws before they are formalised in a government bill - also includes:\n\nMr Javid said the proposals would enable the UK to exercise control over its borders and \"deliver on the clear instruction\" of the British people when they voted to leave the EU.\n\nThe ending of free movement from Europe is a key part of Mrs May's Brexit deal, although any replacement system is set to be part of post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nThe government says lower-skilled and unskilled migrants will not routinely be able to come to the UK and settle permanently.\n\nHowever, as a \"transitional measure\", people from \"low-risk countries\" in Europe and further afield will be able to come to the UK, without a job offer, and seek work for up to a year.\n\nThe scheme is designed to fill vacancies in sectors such as construction and social care which are heavily dependent on EU labour and which ministers fear could struggle to adapt when free movement ends.\n\nThere will be a \"cooling off period\" after a year, meaning people will be expected to leave at that point and not to apply again for a further 12 months.\n\nMinisters say applicants, who will have to pay a fee and not get access to public funds, will not be able to switch to any other migration scheme.\n\nIt is understood that the numbers being admitted this way would be \"similar\" to the 170,000 workers from outside the European Economic Area currently in low or unskilled roles.\n\nThe government said it reserved the right to tighten the criteria or impose numerical caps prior to a review in 2025 but campaigners for lower migration said the plans were \"astonishing\".\n\nMigration Watch said there was no way of making sure people left after a year and the immigration figures, which do not include people in the UK for less than a year, could be distorted as a result.\n\n\"It is shocking that the government should have caved in so completely to the demands of industry while ignoring the strong public desire to get immigration down,\" said its chair Lord Green.\n\n\"The chief winners will be business, as they exploit the bonanza of a huge new pool of labour from around the world while continuing to avoid their responsibility to the public to recruit and train up local talent.\"\n\nThe White Paper was trailed as creating an immigration system based on \"skills\". The delay in publication was partly down to a dispute between ministers over a possible £30,000 salary threshold for skilled workers.\n\nBut it's the plan to create a route into Britain for unskilled or low-skilled workers which is likely to prove particularly controversial.\n\nThe document says the reason for the route is that some sectors have built up a \"reliance\" on such staff from the EU and require a \"period of time\" to adjust to the end of freedom of movement.\n\nBut the new scheme will be in place until at least 2025; it'll be open to those in other \"low-risk\" countries, not just the EU; and there is currently no numerical cap.\n\nIt raises the prospect that the immigration system the government is designing is as much about ensuring there's a flow of unskilled labour, as it is about skilled workers.\n\nThe White Paper introduces a new visa route for skilled migrants, from Europe and beyond.\n\nIt accepts a recommendation from the independent Migration Advisory Committee to scrap the current limit of 20,700 on workers classed as high-skilled coming to the UK using \"Tier 2\" visas.\n\nTier 2 is the name for general work visas for people from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland who have been offered a skilled job in the UK. Eligible professions include nurses and doctors.\n\nThere will be a consultation about the salary threshold of £30,000 for skilled worker visas, amid opposition to such a cap from business and some cabinet members.\n\nThe £30,000 minimum earnings rule already applies to non-EU workers in most Tier 2 visa cases but could also apply to migrants from the EU.\n\nExtending it to skilled migrants could affect the NHS's ability to recruit the staff it needs, the body representing NHS trusts has warned.\n\nNHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery told Today: \"We are deeply concerned about what is going to happen. High skills does not equal high pay.\n\n\"You have got starting salaries for nurses at £23,000 - also for paramedics, midwives. Junior doctors starting salaries at £27,000, healthcare assistants at £17,000, all coming in way below that £30,000 cap.\n\n\"It is not just health workers, it is social care as well. We have to remember where the skills lay. They lay in those staff under £30,000.\"\n\nThe document also suggests the changes could have a negative economic impact, reducing annual output, or GDP, by between 0.4% and 0.9% by 2025.\n\nDuring a BBC interview, Mr Javid repeatedly declined to say whether the government's target of reducing net migration - the difference between the numbers of people leaving the UK for at least a year and those moving to the UK for at least a year - to less than 100,000 would still apply after Brexit.\n\nBut, at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May confirmed the government was sticking to the \"tens of thousands\" ambition.\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the government had \"disgracefully labelled workers on less than £30,000 as low-skilled\" when \"our economy and public services are kept ticking by this majority of workers\".\n\n\"The government is not, as it wrongly claims, using a skills-based criteria to meet the needs of our economy and our society.\n\n\"It is using an income-based system which allows derivatives traders free movement but which excludes nurses, social care workers and other professions in which we have severe skills or labour shortages.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government's plans would be \"devastating for the Scottish economy\" because \"our demographics make it essential that we attract people to live and work here\".\n\nBusiness groups said the salary threshold would need to be lower than £30,000 and warned the proposals could \"tie the hands\" of employers\n\nAdam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"Employers are hugely concerned that the complexity and cost associated with new immigration rules will impact their ability to invest and grow at a time when many areas are facing near-full employment.\"\n\nCurrently, someone is eligible to apply for a \"Tier 2\" general work visa - which can last for up to five years - if they are from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland.\n\nThey must also have been offered a high-skilled job in the UK - which is any profession ranked at level six and above on a list called the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) - and which has not been filled by a UK worker.\n\nThe high-skilled category includes a range of professions such as doctors, nurses, musicians, aircraft pilots, brokers, paramedics, librarians, journalists, food inspectors, probation officers, social workers, surveyors, architects, lawyers, and some teachers.\n\nIn most cases, the migrant will need to be earning at least £30,000 per year (or £20,800 for new entrants), or the \"appropriate rate\" for their job if that figure is higher. Some professions, like nurses, are exempt.\n\nPeople who do jobs which the UK needs - on the shortage occupation list - are also eligible to apply for the Tier 2 visa, even if the job is less highly-skilled and ranked at RQF level four.", "The US justice department has indicted two Chinese men accused of hacking into the computer networks of companies and government agencies in Western countries.\n\nThe pair are allegedly part of a \"hacking group\" known as Advanced Persistent Threat 10, affiliated with China's main intelligence service.\n\nThey have not been arrested.\n\nThe US and UK have accused China of violating an agreement relating to commercial espionage.\n\nZhu Hua and Zhang Shilong worked for a company called Huaying Haitai and in association with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the US court filing says.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that from at least 2006 until 2018, the two extensively hacked into computer systems with the aim of stealing intellectual property and confidential business and technological information from:\n\nThe FBI said they had also hacked into US Navy computer systems and stolen the personal information of more than 100,000 personnel.\n\nFBI director Christopher Wray said the two men were at present \"beyond US jurisdiction\".\n\nAnnouncing the unsealing of the indictments, US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said China had violated a 2015 agreement under which it had pledged to not engage in commercial cyber-spying.\n\nUS Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: \"We want China to cease its illegal cyber activities\"\n\nMr Rosenstein said his department's move had been co-ordinated with US allies in Europe and Asia to rebuff \"China's economic aggression\".\n\nHe added: \"We want China to cease its illegal cyber activities.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was joining allies in holding the Chinese government responsible for a global campaign targeting commercial secrets.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: \"This campaign is one of the most significant and widespread cyber intrusions against the UK and allies uncovered to date, targeting trade secrets and economies around the world.\n\n\"These activities must stop. They go against the commitments made to the UK in 2015, and, as part of the G20, not to conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property or trade secrets.\"\n\nAustralia and New Zealand said they too held China responsible for the global hacking campaign and joined their \"like-minded partners\" in condemning the activity.\n\nThis is the latest salvo in Washington's attempt to pressure Beijing on a range of issues, with economic espionage one of the most high-profile.\n\nUS and UK officials are reluctant to name the companies that have been hit but they say the economic damage has been significant.\n\nThe hackers, officials say, work under the direction of China's Ministry of State Security - one of the country's intelligence organisations.\n\n\"It is organised more like a corporation than a gang,\" one UK official says, adding that British intelligence has the highest level of confidence in their assessment of who was responsible.\n\nThe UK and US believe China is breaking a 2015 agreement not to steal commercial data to help its companies. There was a dip in activity after the deal was signed (which followed a period of pressure by Washington, including the indictment of Chinese military hackers and the threat of sanctions).\n\nBut US and UK sources both say that recently they have seen Chinese hackers return, now operating more stealthily, whereas in the past they were easier to spot.\n\nWhere the US has been vocal in recent months, this is the first time the UK has spoken out - perhaps because it has been concerned about risking trade ties and getting pulled into the Trump administration's broader confrontation with Beijing.\n\nUK officials say they have raised the matter privately a number of times with Beijing over the last two years, including during the prime minister's visit earlier this year, and officials are keen to stress that they think the relationship with China is strong enough to allow them to address these issues without causing wider problems.", "Gatwick Airport will extend part of its North Terminal as part of a £1.11bn five-year investment plan, it has announced.\n\nThe extension will help the West Sussex airport cope with rising passenger numbers, which it predicts will increase by 8m to nearly 53m per year by 2023.\n\nThe primary work includes creating six new departure gates.\n\nAbout £266m of the money will be spent in the current financial year.\n\nNew departure gates will be added to the extended Pier 6\n\nChief executive of the airport, Stewart Wingate, said: \"Gatwick is a major piece of national infrastructure, and our continued growth and ability to attract long-haul airlines is vital for the health of the UK economy, particularly in a post-Brexit world.\n\n\"By committing to spend another £1.11 billion, Gatwick can continue to grow sustainably, attract new airlines and offer more global connections\".\n\nUnder the plans Pier 6 will double in size and the superjumbo departure area will move to Pier 5, which will be upgraded with a widened taxiway to accommodate the 80m wingspan of the larger planes.\n\nA new Boeing aircraft hangar is also opening next year, and a quieter aircraft will be introduced by easyJet.\n\nThe latest round of funding will bring the total investment by the airport's current owners to £3.14bn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA coroner is investigating the death of a teenager in a care home in Greater Manchester, a year after a four-year-old girl died at the same facility.\n\nIn April, another coroner published a formal report into EAM House in Partington saying that \"action should be taken to prevent future deaths\".\n\nNurses and carers \"lacked the ability to act\", it said. Health inspectors also found the home to be \"unsafe\".\n\nEAM Care Group founder Liz Marland said it would \"co-operate fully\".\n\nRochdale teenager Jordan-Lee Fitton had been taken into care and was living at EAM House when he was admitted to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital with a chest infection in August 2017. The 17-year-old died a short time later.\n\nAt the time, his parents David and Lisa-Louise Fitton said they were unaware that Lea Louise Hunsley, four, had died a year earlier after being admitted to hospital from the same home.\n\nManchester North coroner, Lisa Hashmi, published a formal report, finding nurses and carers at EAM House had failed to read care records and \"lack the ability to identify, recognise and act\".\n\n\"There is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is taken,\" the report said.\n\nJordan-Lee Fitton at EAM House, in the last photograph of him taken before his death\n\nDavid Fitton said he and his wife did not know about this until a public hearing into their son's death in November.\n\n\"We're both very angry. Very, very angry,\" he told the BBC. \"It was a shock when we heard about it in the courtroom.\n\n\"Why two deaths in the same place? It shouldn't have been allowed to happen again,\" he said.\n\nMrs Fitton, from Rochdale, said her son had a complex developmental disability that caused him to have frequent seizures. He needed full-time care.\n\n\"He was a right little character,\" she said.\n\n\"He was a happy boy when he was at home. That seemed to slip slightly when he was in care.\"\n\nThe Manchester North coroner warned EAM House in April 2018 that \"action should be taken to prevent future deaths\"\n\nDuring the pre-inquest public hearing into Jordan-Lee's death, Manchester coroner Angharad Davies said she would be investigating a number of issues. These include:\n\nThe coroner will also consider Ms Hashmi's Report to Prevent Future Deaths issued following Lea's death in July 2016.\n\nSuch reports are sent to the chief coroner of England and Wales when a coroner believes that action should be taken.\n\nLea, who had profound cerebral palsy, was admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital from EAM House, where she had been receiving respite care.\n\nShe died hours later due to complications from previous surgery.\n\nThe coroner's report found \"opportunities to assess, escalate and intervene were missed\" when Lea became ill.\n\n\"Neglect more than minimally contributed to the deceased's death\", it concluded.\n\nLea's grandfather Ian Hunsley, from Unsworth, told the Bury Times that Lea \"was an extremely happy child, I don't think she even knew she had a disability.\n\n\"She loved playing silly games and we adored her ... she really was beautiful,\" he said.\n\nDavid and Lisa-Louise Fitton say they still do not understand the circumstances that led to their son's death\n\nTwo months after Lea's death, a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection found EAM House provided a \"caring\" service but there were breaches of the legislation around staff recruitment and disease risk assessment.\n\nAnother inspection of the home following Jordan-Lee's death found further breaches, and concluded \"the service was not safe\".\n\n\"Effective systems were not in place to ensure risks to people's safety and welfare were consistently assessed, monitored and managed,\" the CQC found.\n\nInspectors who visited the home in June said the service had improved, and gave it a \"good\" rating overall, but said \"we were not sufficiently assured appropriate measures were in place to keep people safe from harm\".\n\nJordan-Lee Fitton, pictured with his mother Lisa-Louise, in one of the many photos of him on display in his parents' house\n\nMrs Marland, the founder of EAM Care Group, which runs EAM House, said the two deaths were \"under different circumstances\".\n\nFollowing Lea's death \"we have co-operated and worked with CQC to ensure that are staff are experienced and well trained; we have also revised our operating procedures so that families can leave their loved one knowing that the care we provide is safe\", she said.\n\nIn a written response to the coroner, the EAM Care Group said \"we ... have put into place what we feel would prevent a future death\".\n\nMrs Marland declined to comment on the death of Jordan-Lee before the inquest, which is expected to take place next year.\n\nA Rochdale Council spokesman said: \"This is a complex case involving a child with profound needs who required a high level of care.\n\n\"Although we sympathise with the family and recognise their need for answers, the right place for this to be examined is during the inquest process which will determine the cause of Jordan's death.\"", "Rogue drones \"deliberately\" flown over one of the UK's busiest airports caused travel chaos before Christmas.\n\nHeathrow, among the world's busiest airports, was also briefly disrupted by drone activity in January.\n\nAt Gatwick, incoming planes were forced to divert to airports up and down the country as the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), repeatedly appeared over the airfield.\n\nThe situation was so serious the Army was called in to support the local police in tackling the issue, with the runway finally re-opening several days later.\n\nFor some time now, governments around the world have been looking at different ways of addressing the dangers of drone use in areas where they pose safety risks.\n\nHere we look at some of the solutions - ranging from bazookas to eagles.\n\nLondon's Gatwick Airport was forced to close after drones were spotted over the airfield\n\nRogue drones can be detected or located using cameras, radar and radio frequency sensors.\n\nSuch technology can be integrated into existing airport systems and can have a reach of several miles.\n\nIt can then be used to effectively \"jam\" the communication between a device and its operator, causing it to initiate a default mode that sends it back to where it came from.\n\nOne company that has developed this method is Quantum Aviation, which provided the technology to counter possible threats from drones targeting the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nChina has also developed a signal-jamming gun that can reportedly down drones from half a mile away.\n\nThe SkyWall100 bazooka allows users to physically seize drones in high-risk areas\n\nOne way, and perhaps the most obvious, is to shoot them down.\n\nBut police dealing with the issue at Gatwick Airport have said they will not use this method because of the risk of stray bullets.\n\nHowever, a number of companies have produced hand-held or shoulder-mounted devices that can be used to fire nets at rogue drones, trapping them and preventing the blades from rotating, causing them to fall from the sky.\n\nBritish engineering company OpenWorks has also developed a large bazooka, the SkyWall100, which fires a net and parachute at a target, using a scope for accuracy.\n\nThe SkyWall100 system has been issued to security forces and government agencies in Asia, Europe and North America.\n\nSecurity firms have also found a way of using \"interceptor drones\" that can lock onto a target, release a net and disable it in mid-air.\n\nThis type of system was deployed at the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February, and has been used by police in Tokyo for the last three years.\n\nFrance has also used this technique, successfully demonstrating that one drone equipped with a net can catch another.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLasers are another option: both the US and China have experimented with technology that can shoot down a device within seconds of locating it.\n\nEngineering company Boeing has developed a high-energy beam that locates and disables small drones from several miles away. It is said to use infrared cameras that can work in low visibility, such as fog.\n\nEarlier this year, China demonstrated a laser gun at a weapons exhibition in Kazakhstan. The so-called \"Silent Hunter\" was claimed to be effective in helping police intercept drones and other small aerial targets with \"high accuracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has been given access to the airbase where Dutch police are training eagles to take down unauthorised drones\n\nMeanwhile, the Netherlands has discovered a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem.\n\nPolice there have trained eagles to bring down \"hostile\" drones by latching on to the propellers with their talons, instantly disabling them.\n\nTrainers say the eagles see the drones as prey and are not interested in attacking anything else when released.\n\nDutch police are believed to be the first in the world to have implemented this method.\n\nIt is already illegal to fly a drone within 1km (about 1,100 yards) of an airport or airfield boundary in the UK - but regulations in other countries vary.\n\nDrone users in the US have to notify air traffic control in advance if they plan to fly their devices within 8km of an airport. All drones must also be registered, according to the drone community website UAV Coach.\n\nIn Canada, drones cannot be flown within 5.6km of any airport, seaplane base or area where aircraft can take off and land. This is reduced to 1.9km for heliports. Similar laws apply in Sweden.\n\nPermits are also required in Germany - although the restrictions for airport boundaries are similar to those in the UK, at 1.5km - and Spain, where devices must also be insured.\n\nLaws in South Africa, however, are strict. It is illegal to fly devices within 10km of an airport, helipad or airstrip, and they can only be operated elsewhere during daylight hours and in clear conditions.\n\nIn 15 countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, it is illegal to fly a drone at all.", "Passengers at one of the UK's busiest airports are stuck in massive queues as their flights have been halted.\n\nDrones were seen over Gatwick's airfield prompting the suspension of outgoing flights, while incoming planes have been redirected - with some landing in Paris and Amsterdam.\n\nThe airport said 110,000 passengers were due to either take off or land at the airport on 760 flights on Thursday.", "News channel RT, formerly known as Russia Today, broke TV impartiality rules in seven programmes after the Salisbury nerve agent attacks, UK media watchdog Ofcom has ruled.\n\nOfcom may now fine the station for its reporting in the aftermath of the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.\n\nThe seven breaches took place over six weeks between 17 March and 26 April.\n\nRT said it was \"extremely disappointed by Ofcom's conclusions\".\n\nIt described them as \"almost all self-initiated investigations into RT by the regulator\", adding: \"We operate under rules outlined by the regulator, and always strive to abide by them.\"\n\nOfcom said RT had failed to give due weight to a wide range of voices on a matter of major political controversy. It called the breaches \"a serious failure of compliance\".\n\nThe watchdog said: \"We have told RT that we are minded to consider imposing a statutory sanction.\n\n\"The broadcaster now has an opportunity to make representations to us, which we will consider before proceeding further.\"\n\nRT said: \"It appears Ofcom has failed to fully take on-board what we said in response to its investigations and, in particular, has not paid due regard to the rights of a broadcaster and the audience.\n\n\"We are reviewing the findings Ofcom has put forward and will decide shortly the nature of our next steps.\"\n\nThe seven breaches were from the following news and current affairs programmes:\n\nOfcom added that three further programmes were found not in breach of its impartiality rules.\n\nThe Kremlin-backed Russia Today is available in more than 100 countries.\n\nRT, originally Russia Today, began broadcasting internationally in 2005 in English, Arabic and Spanish as a subsidiary of RIA Novosti, one of three Russian state-owned news broadcasters.\n\nThe broadcaster focused on Russia-related news reports and said its goal was to improve the image of the country in the US. At its launch, it promised a \"more balanced picture\" of what Russia is.\n\nSeveral years later, it shortened its name to RT and began focusing on US news, positioning itself as an alternative to US mainstream media on both online and US cable television.\n\nThe channel's slogan is \"Question More\", and the network aims to provide its international audience with the Russian viewpoint on global events.\n\nIt offers 24-hour-news, broadcasting from Washington, London and Paris. RTDoc, broadcast in English and Russian, is aired from Moscow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Australian investigators have released the final pictures taken on board a seaplane which plunged into a river last year, killing six people.\n\nFive members of a British family and a Canadian pilot died in the incident north of Sydney on 31 December.\n\nAuthorities are yet to release their findings on what caused the crash.\n\nBut in an interim report released on Thursday, investigators said photos and witness accounts had helped them to reconstruct the flight's final moments.\n\nThe DHC-2 Beaver was on a sightseeing flight when it nose-dived into the Hawkesbury River at Jerusalem Bay, about 50km (30 miles) from the city centre.\n\nBusinessman Richard Cousins, 58, died alongside his 48-year-old fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather and his sons, Edward, 23, and William, 25, and pilot Gareth Morgan, 44.\n\nMost of the wreckage was recovered by Australian authorities in January.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released photos that had been recovered from a camera and a phone on board.\n\nPictures taken by the front seat passenger have helped to reconstruct events\n\nA witness's photos from the ground, with labels by investigators which refer to a local landmark\n\nInvestigators were able to use images taken by the front seat passenger to recreate the flight path, the ATSB said.\n\nThis was corroborated by the accounts and photos of a witness on the ground.\n\nATSB director Nat Nagy said the evidence had allowed investigators \"to determine what happened in the lead-up to this accident\".\n\nThe photos had also helped investigators to establish the seating positions of those on board, the report said.\n\nEarlier this year, the ATSB said the plane had made a steep right turn before entering the water. Flight operator Sydney Seaplanes described the action as \"totally inexplicable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInvestigators said they would further examine Mr Morgan's health and medical history, but he had appeared fine in the days before the crash.\n\nHe had more than 10,000 hours of flying experience, including about 9,000 hours on floatplanes.\n\nThere was no voice or flight data recorder on board. Neither were required by regulations for an aircraft of such size, officials have said.\n\nThe ATSB will release its final findings and recommendations sometime in the next six months.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he will \"get the players enjoying football\" again following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.\n\nUnited appointed their former striker as boss until the end of the season on Wednesday, a day after Mourinho was dismissed.\n\nSolskjaer, 45, takes over with United sixth in the Premier League.\n\nThe Norwegian told MUTV that he wanted to see the players \"express themselves\" during the rest of the campaign.\n\n\"We will get the players enjoying football and looking forward to seeing the supporters again,\" he said.\n\nMourinho was sacked after no progress with results or style despite spending nearly £400m on 11 players in two and a half seasons in charge, while many of United's performances this season have lacked fluency.\n\nUnited will look to appoint a permanent boss at the end of the season.\n• None 'Solskjaer has chance of becoming full-time Man Utd manager'\n• None What can Man Utd expect from Solskjaer?\n• None Title winners to 'rotten to the core' - where did it all go wrong for Man Utd?\n• None Why Man Utd need a director of football - and is Mitchell the ideal candidate?\n\nSolskjaer spent 11 seasons at Old Trafford, scoring the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final, and said his return \"feels like coming home\".\n\nWhen asked about his status as a fan favourite, he jokingly replied: \"How long will that last?\"\n\nHe also promised fans that he would \"give everything\" to \"bring the club success\" and get players \"enjoying football\".\n\n\"We have to get used to winning again and challenging for trophies,\" he added.\n\n\"Whatever has happened has happened and everyone starts with a clean slate.\"\n\nSolskjaer's first match in charge will be at Cardiff - where he had an eight-month spell as manager in 2014 - on Saturday at 17:30 GMT.\n\nHe was relegated from the Premier League with the Bluebirds in 2014, then sacked after a poor start to the Championship campaign.\n\nIn his first spell as manager of Molde from 2011 to 2014, he won the Norwegian league twice and Norwegian Cup once. He returned to the club in 2015 and signed a new deal there earlier this month.\n\n\"The more mistakes you make, the more you learn and I've made a few mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"I've won the league, I've won the cup but I've also been relegated so I'm getting to know the occupation.\"\n\nMichael Carrick and Kieran McKenna, both part of Mourinho's coaching staff, will continue to work under Solskjaer.\n\nSolskjaer said he felt he needed to bring in the \"experience\" of Mike Phelan, who returns as first-team coach having previously worked as United assistant manager alongside Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\n\"He's done it all, is an incredible calming influence on me and his football knowledge is really good,\" added Solskjaer.", "Chris Evans admitted rhythm was \"not really\" his natural forte\n\nRadio host Chris Evans has revealed he has agreed to take part in next year's Strictly Come Dancing - nine months before the series starts.\n\n\"I have said yes,\" he told BBC One's The One Show, although he added he hadn't yet signed on the dotted line.\n\n\"Everyone puts it off and tries and keep it a secret. No, announce now. We're doing it now,\" he said.\n\nThe 52-year-old DJ is about to swap the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show for the rival slot on Virgin Radio.\n\nStacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton lifted the Strictly glitterball trophy on Saturday\n\nHe joked that he had agreed to Strictly \"primarily because my wife would like to go every week\".\n\nWhen The One Show host Alex Jones offered to go with her, Evans said: \"So you and my wife will go every week. You will have a great time while I'll be petrified backstage, with shaky legs and all that kind of stuff.\"\n\nHe said he had discussed his appearance with Strictly commissioning editor Jo Wallace.\n\n\"We had a cup of tea and she said, 'Are you up for it? This is what you need to know about it, this is the minimum, this is the maximum, it's not as easy as maybe you imagine it is.' But I know it isn't.\"\n\nHe also admitted rhythm was \"not really\" his natural forte.\n\nHe made the announcement less than a week after Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton were crowned winners of this year's series.\n\nEvans will present his final Radio 2 show on Christmas Eve, and will launch his new Virgin breakfast programme in January.\n\nHe said the station, owned by News UK, approached him with the idea of making it the first commercial radio breakfast show to run without conventional advert breaks.\n\nInstead, it will be sponsored by Sky, and the deal means he will promote Sky's programmes during his slot.\n\n\"So we'll go to Formula 1 venues with listeners. We'll go to the set of Game of Thrones, and we'll fill it with that kind of content,\" he said.\n\n\"So many people advertise everywhere. You turn your phone on and there's an advert.\n\nEvans joined BBC Radio 2 in 2005, moving to the breakfast show in 2010\n\n\"There are so many of them now that we sort of become anaesthetised to them, and so if you actually turn your commercial partner into a storyteller... we're trying this thing, it's never been done before, it's quite groundbreaking.\"\n\nCommercial radio is usually funded by adverts, but for listeners they are often an unwelcome interruption.\n\nRoy Martin, managing editor of RadioToday.co.uk, said: \"There have been many attempts by commercial radio to ditch the adverts for sponsor credits in the past, including entire radio stations, but nothing on this scale.\n\n\"It's a gamble which will likely pay off for News UK, especially if BBC Radio 2 listeners, who aren't used to advert breaks, follow him to Virgin.\"\n\nCapital Radio and Capital Xtra also went ad-free on Friday and Saturday nights in 2016, while Absolute Radio promises online listeners that they will hear 50% fewer adverts if they sign up for an account.\n\nMr Martin added: \"The move is a blow to the rest of the commercial radio industry who I suspect will be looking at ways to replicate the idea where possible.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the Guildford Four, Paddy Armstrong, has said a coroner could end the \"secrecy\" over pub bombings that killed five people in 1974.\n\nA pre-inquest review is being held to look at resuming a full inquest, after original proceedings never concluded.\n\nA further 65 people were injured when the IRA blew up two pubs in Guildford.\n\nMr Armstrong said he would be there on behalf of the wrongly-convicted Four. He said they were kept in jail for 15 years and still wanted to know why.\n\nSoldiers Ann Hamilton, 19, Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, and John Hunter, 17, died following the first blast at the Horse and Groom on 5 October, with plasterer Paul Craig, 21.\n\nA four-man IRA unit known as the \"Balcombe Street gang\" claimed responsibility in 1976 but were not charged.\n\nOver the years it has been disputed how many members were in the unit - a court transcript suggested up to 20.\n\nThe case of the Guildford Four became known as one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.\n\nFive died and 65 were injured in the blasts at the Horse & Groom and Seven Stars\n\n\"I want to know why I was in prison for 15 years when those who did it were never charged with it,\" Mr Armstrong, 68, said.\n\n\"We had been in prison a year when the Balcombe Street gang admitted it and said innocent people were in jail... What are they hiding?\"\n\nHe said he believed an inquiry by Surrey coroner Richard Travers \"might get some answers\".\n\nThe Four were released in 1989 after serving 15 years in jail - and were greeted by family and supporters such as Gerry Conlon's sisters\n\nMr Armstrong's comments coincided with a decision that a file thought to contain evidence from former police chief Lord Peter Imbert should remain closed at The National Archives.\n\nThe file contains evidence given on 7 June 1993 - the day Lord Imbert, then Sir Peter, gave an account of how the Balcombe Street admissions were dealt with to former judge Sir John May during a five-year inquiry.\n\nSeveral hundred files from Sir John's inquiry remain closed at Kew - Mr Armstrong has repeatedly made calls for their release.\n\nSurrey Police will assess the material it holds on the bombings\n\nGovernment reasons for keeping the latest file closed include a public interest in \"ensuring police are able to carry out any further investigations\", and that it also contains information relevant to investigations into \"current Irish Republican Terrorism activities\".\n\nMr Armstrong branded the reasons \"ridiculous\" and criticised the \"secrecy\" of Sir John's inquiry, part of which was held in private.\n\n\"Why are they not showing any of it?\" he asked. \"There must be something in it.\"\n\nLord Peter Imbert died last year at the age of 84\n\nOn 7 June 1993, former Surrey and Met police chief Sir Peter Imbert gave evidence to the John May inquiry in a private hearing.\n\nA public transcript has been viewable since 1994, but three other files containing evidence from that day are to stay closed.\n\nThe public transcript showed the inquiry asked about Imbert's interviews with the Guildford Four and scientific research that linked the Guildford and Woolwich bombs with other explosions after the Guildford Four had been arrested.\n\nThe bulk of the hearing looked at what police did after the Balcombe Street gang admitted bombing Guildford and a pub in Woolwich.\n\nImbert said the gang should have been charged over both Guildford and Woolwich but this did not happen. He also said police doubted the \"veracity\" of their accounts.\n\nIn a statement, Surrey Police said the force began work in 2017 to identify, preserve and schedule material it held on the pub bombings.\n\n\"The case is not being re-investigated or made subject to a formal review at this time, however, once all the material held has been scheduled, an assessment will be carried out to consider whether there are any viable investigative opportunities,\" it said.\n\n\"If any potential opportunities are identified, a comprehensive review would then be necessary.\"\n\nIt said the force \"neither requests nor opposes the resumption of inquests\".\n\nKRW Law, representing the family of victim Ann Hamilton and survivor Yvonne Tagg, applied to resume the inquest after the BBC obtained papers about the case.\n\nMr Armstrong, who flew from Dublin to Surrey for the pre-inquest review, said it was \"an honour\" to be there for the Guildford Four, two of whom - Carole Richardson and Gerry Conlon - have died. Paul Hill now lives in the US.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Macaulay Culkin will always be associated with the film he starred in 28 years ago\n\nMany, many movie fans will be settling down for their annual festive viewing of Home Alone this Christmas.\n\nNow they have an extra early present in the form of Macaulay Culkin reprising the role of Kevin McCallister.\n\nThe catch? It's not a feature-length sequel but an advert plugging a gargantuan internet search company. (Yes, Google.)\n\nBut fans have relished seeing an adult Kevin recreate some of the 1990 film's most famous scenes.\n\nPerhaps inevitably, he now fights off the intruders with the help of the aforementioned search giant.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCulkin was 10 when Home Alone was released, and it's become a film that people who grew up in that era love to revisit at Christmas.\n\nThe actor is now 38 and is still best-known for starring in the Home Alone movies, and as the child star of films like My Girl, Uncle Buck and Richie Rich.\n\nHe also hosts a podcast and runs a website, both under the title Bunny Ears.\n\nIn 2015, he made a spoof five-minute sequel that showed Kevin as an adult damaged by his childhood traumas.\n\nAsked last January in a Reddit AMA whether he would ever do a Home Alone remake, he replied: \"Only if it was set in the woods, a la Rambo.\"\n\nIn July, Ryan Reynolds was reported to be working on an R-rated remake titled Stoned Alone, about a 20-something stoner who misses the plane for his holiday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than a third of vintage Scotch whiskies tested at a specialist laboratory have been found to be fake, BBC Scotland has learned.\n\nTwenty-one out of 55 bottles of rare Scotch were deemed to be outright fakes or whiskies not distilled in the year declared.\n\nThe tests were conducted at the East Kilbride-based Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC).\n\nIt used advanced radiocarbon dating techniques to reach its conclusions.\n\nSUERC measured residual concentrations of a radioactive isotope of carbon present in the alcohol contained in each bottle in order to establish the ages of the whiskies.\n\nThe samples had been sent for analysis by whisky broker Rare Whisky 101 (RW101), which said it was responding to \"growing concern surrounding the proliferation of fake whisky\" in the secondary market.\n\nThe bottles had been selected at random from auctions, private collections and retailers.\n\nLast year, the same company exposed a £7,600 dram of vintage Scotch bought in a Swiss hotel as a fake.\n\nRW101 has estimated that about £41m worth of rare whisky on the secondary market and present in existing collections is fake\n\nThe rare whisky bottles identified as fakes this year included an Ardbeg 1885, which had been acquired from a private owner, and a Thorne's Heritage early 20th Century blended whisky purchased from an auctioneer.\n\nRW101 said a total of 10 single malts purporting to be from 1900 or earlier were found not to be genuine.\n\nThe company said that if tests had proven all 21 bottles to be genuine, collectively they could have been valued at about £635,000.\n\nRW101 has estimated that about £41m worth of rare whisky which is currently circulating in the secondary market - and present in existing collections - is fake.\n\nThat is more than the entire UK whisky auction market, which RW101 has forecast will exceed £36m by the end of this year.\n\nRW101 co-founder David Robertson said \"the vast majority\" of vendors were not knowingly selling fake Scotch but every purported rare whisky bottle \"should be assumed to be fake until proven genuine\", especially if it claimed to be a single malt.\n\nHe added: \"This problem will only grow as prices for rare bottles continue to increase.\n\n\"The exploding demand for rare whisky is inevitably attracting rogue elements to the sector.\"\n\nA total of 55 samples of whisky were tested at the Suerc laboratory\n\nThe key to the dating process is an isotope - a variant - of carbon.\n\nCarbon-14 is that element's only radioactive isotope and every piece of organic material - ourselves included - contains a tiny amount of it.\n\nIts relatively slow rate of radioactive decay means it has a half-life of 5,370 years. In other words it takes that long for half of it to be gone.\n\nMeasuring how much Carbon-14 remains in a sample gives an accurate indication of how old it is.\n\nHow did it get there in the first place?\n\nWhen they interact with nitrogen, carbon-14 is created. It combines with oxygen to create a radioactive variant of carbon dioxide.\n\nPlants then take in this radiocarbon. Animals, ourselves included, eat the plants and absorb it. When the plants, animals or we die that process stops.\n\nBut the carbon-14 goes on decaying, so a sample of organic matter like wood or bone will give an indication of when the plant or animal died.\n\nResearchers are constantly refining the \"calibration curve\" of carbon-14 levels to give an more accurate indication of the age of a sample.\n\nTechniques have been developed so that ever smaller samples can be dated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Washington DC's top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.\n\nDistrict of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post.\n\nIt accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping of personal data on tens of millions of users.\n\nThe action adds to a number of regulatory investigations, following a year of privacy and security missteps.\n\nA Facebook spokesperson told the BBC: \"We're reviewing the complaint and look forward to continuing our discussions with attorneys general in DC and elsewhere.\"\n\nAs well as this lawsuit, Facebook is being probed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.\n\nIn the UK, the company was fined £500,000 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the maximum fine the British data regulator could impose.\n\nBigger trouble may arise from the Irish data protection regulator, which is investigating Facebook for multiple admissions of security flaws, in what is being seen as the first major test of Europe’s new privacy rules as dictated by the General Data Protection Regulation.\n\nAccording to the Post, the DC attorney general’s action could be amended to include more recent data security admissions, including more revelations published on Wednesday by the New York Times.", "Users whose IP addresses connected to Slack in countries like Cuba are reportedly affected\n\nSome users of communication service Slack have reported their accounts have been closed over visits to countries under US sanctions.\n\nThe move, which Slack says is to comply with US regulations, is believed to be affecting users who have visited nations including Iran and North Korea.\n\nBut many on social media say they were not warned in advance.\n\nSome have said they had not visited the countries in recent years, and believe their bans were in error.\n\nCuba, Syria and Crimea are other countries and regions where Slack says its systems may not be used.\n\nSlack said it would individually review cases if users thought their account had been wrongly targeted.\n\nThe business messaging service is used by about eight million people every day in thousands of companies, including large firms like Airbnb and Ticketmaster.\n\nOne user, on website Hacker News, complained that his wife's sudden ban meant she had now lost access to years of work data including messages and files.\n\nSlack allows colleagues to easily communicate as a group\n\nHe said she had been flagged for travelling, \"legally\" to Cuba \"years ago\" and seemed unable to appeal against the sudden closure.\n\nAnother series of tweets, by a PhD student in Canada, said he believed he was included in the ban because of his Iranian ethnicity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople have been sharing their experiences using the hashtag #SlackBan.\n\nSome have questioned whether the move goes beyond the remit of US sanctions, which punishes firms in violation.\n\nIn a statement to website Mashable, Slack said they \"prohibit unauthorized Slack use in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea region of Ukraine\" to comply with US regulations.\n\nIt added that its systems \"may have detected an account and/or a workspace owner on our platform with an IP address originating from a designated embargoed country\" but said it would \"review further\" cases where people feel their ban is in error.\n\nIt added: \"If users think we've made a mistake in blocking their access, please reach out to feedback@slack.com and we'll review as soon as possible.\"", "Universal credit was designed to simplify the benefits system, but its introduction has seen some people worse off, and some have had difficulty claiming their money.\n\nHartlepool is home to some of those who have faced the most difficulties with the new system.\n\nRead More: What's the problem with universal credit?", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nArsenal say they have identified an image of the person who threw a bottle at Tottenham's Dele Alli on Wednesday and are \"embarrassed\" by the incident.\n\nEngland midfielder Alli, 22, was struck on the head by a plastic bottle during Spurs' 2-0 win in the Carabao Cup quarter-final at Emirates Stadium.\n\n\"Anyone identified will receive a lengthy club ban and their details will be passed to the police to commence legal proceedings,\" said the club.\n\nAlli was hit by a bottle thrown from the crowd as Arsenal prepared to take a throw-in in the 73rd minute.\n• None Brighton say recent fan behaviour is 'shaming our sport'\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it is working with Arsenal to try to identify the person responsible, but no arrests have been made.\n\n\"We have all been embarrassed by the individual who threw a bottle at Dele Alli,\" Arsenal added in a statement.\n\n\"Behaviour of this type has no place at Emirates Stadium and after analysing CCTV footage, which showed him leaving the stadium after throwing the bottle, we have identified an image of the suspect.\n\n\"We are liaising with the Metropolitan Police and investigations continue in order to apprehend the culprit.\"\n\nThe Football Association is aware of the incident and will support the police and clubs as they look into the matter.\n\nAlli will face no action for responding with a 2-0 gesture to fans - referencing the scoreline.\n• None Arsenal & Spurs fined for failing to control players in Premier League derby\n\nSpurs manager Mauricio Pochettino praised Alli for the restraint he showed after being struck by the object thrown from the crowd.\n\n\"It was an amazing reaction,\" Pochettino said in his news conference to preview Sunday's match with Everton.\n\n\"In another country the player was going to be down on the pitch. Dele behaved really well. Arsenal should be grateful to him because the player could have gone down and created a massive problem.\n\n\"I think the behaviour was top from Dele. Sometimes he is criticised but he was very mature.\"\n\nArsenal's statement added: \"We are not responsible for the actions of one individual, but send our apologies to Dele Alli and everyone at Tottenham Hotspur for this incident.\n\n\"We do not tolerate any anti-social, discriminatory or violent behaviour at Arsenal Football Club.\"\n• None Crawley fan banned for three games for throwing bottle at official\n\nPochettino added that Arsenal should not be punished for the actions of one person, claiming: \"One person cannot create a mess in a club like Arsenal.\n\n\"Arsenal is going to take a big decision, with responsibility to fix. People have to behave and celebrate and support your team but in the right way.\n\n\"It's such a dangerous thing, if the bottle hit him on his head or his eyes we're then talking about a very bad thing.\n\n\"There's no point when you go to enjoy a game and that happens.\"\n\nAlli had earlier scored the second goal and Spurs went on to reach the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory.\n\nWednesday's incident follows a banana skin being thrown towards Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Premier League match between the sides at the same venue on 2 December.\n\nThe Spurs fan responsible was fined and banned from football for four years on Tuesday.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live pundit Dion Dublin, who was co-commentating on the game, said: \"It's sad to see. It's mindless. Why would you do that?\n\n\"It must have had water or something in it to reach Dele Alli. Why would you risk being idiots?\n\n\"Just support your club, don't do ridiculous things like that.\"\n\nWhen asked about the incident after the game, Alli told Sky Sports: \"It is what it is. It made the goal a bit sweeter and the win.\"\n\nAn EFL spokesperson told BBC Sport the matter would be up to the Football Association to investigate, but they would \"assist\" if required.", "The chief coroner for England and Wales has called for armed police on all gates of Parliament following the 2017 Westminster terror attack.\n\nIn his report Mark Lucraft QC said Scotland Yard should order that there is a constant armed presence.\n\nThe coroner also urged MI5 to improve how it records the reasons why it closes investigations.\n\nSolicitors for the families called for all of the recommendations to be swiftly implemented.\n\nKhalid Masood killed four people on 22 March last year after hitting them with his car on Westminster Bridge - American tourist Kurt Cochran, retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, mother-of-two Aysha Frade and Romanian designer Andreea Cristea.\n\nHe then ran into Parliament's grounds and stabbed to death unarmed PC Keith Palmer before he himself was shot dead by other officers.\n\nCoroners have the power to write reports to the government and other public bodies that make recommendations aimed at averting further similar tragedies.\n\nIn his report, Mr Lucraft said: \"It was a matter of concern that, at the time of the attack, one of the most vulnerable and public entrances to the Parliamentary Estate was not protected by armed police.\n\n\"In my view, the Metropolitan Police Service should consider imposing a standing order that there should be armed officers stationed at all open public entry points to the Palace of Westminster and introducing a provision that this standing order may only be varied with the written approval of an officer of very senior rank.\"\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquests, Mr Lucraft ruled that PC Palmer's death could have possibly been prevented if armed police officers had been nearby.\n\nAnd he recommended that officers be trained to deal with \"lone actor or multi-actor marauding attacks\".\n\nDuring the inquests, a senior MI5 officer revealed that the security service had once investigated Khalid Masood - but discounted him as a threat many years before he ultimately attacked.\n\nMr Lucraft urged MI5 to begin recording reasons for closing a file on a suspect - so that if a case were to be reopened in the future, investigators would have a full picture of what was known about the individual and why they had been discounted as a threat.\n\nGary Cassidy and Helen Boniface, solicitors for some of the victims, said: \"Swift application of all these recommendations is crucial in demonstrating that the many lessons arising from this attack have been learned.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scotland Yard said that there had been an immediate review of parliamentary security following the attack - and further work was continuing.", "Almost 600 homeless people died in England and Wales last year, according to official figures published for the first time.\n\nThe figure represents a rise of 24% over five years, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThese are the first official estimates of the number of deaths of homeless people, which show 84% of those who died were men.\n\nCharities say the numbers confirm what they are seeing locally.\n\nThe ONS figures show that there were 482 deaths among homeless people in 2013, rising to 597 in 2017. Overall, an estimated 2,627 homeless people died during the five year period. A detailed breakdown shows:\n\nJonathan Billings with a memorial to homeless people who died in Stockport\n\nAt The Wellspring charity for homeless and disadvantaged people in Stockport, staff and volunteers have created a mural in remembrance of those who have died.\n\nChief executive Jonathan Billings says he personally knows nine homeless people who have died in the past year alone.\n\nHe has worked there for 17 years and, while 10 years ago there might have been a few dozen people on the books, the numbers now run into hundreds - and more of them are dying.\n\n\"Almost certainly, over the five or six years, it has become much more prevalent that people we are working with are passing away.\"\n\nEach death is shocking, he says, and there are a multitude of causes, ranging from murder and suicide to drug and alcohol overdoses.\n\n\"Homelessness is just a symptom of something else. It is often a real concoction - a real mix of different issues that have caused that homelessness, and people's deaths are often a mix of different things, different factors,\" he says.\n\nMark Urmston, who visited the centre for some lunch, says his brother Luke, 31, a rough sleeper, was found dead on a bench earlier this year after a suspected drugs overdose.\n\nThey were in and out of care as children, he says, and both struggled with their mental health as adults.\n\n\"Everyone in my family has mental health issues but I think his might have been worse,\" he says.\n\n\"I think he was taking more drugs than he was letting on.\"\n\nMark Urmston (left) says his brother Luke was found dead on a bench earlier this year\n\nHe says his brother became homeless because of his drug use - but being homeless made it very difficult for him to get off the drugs.\n\nBen Humberstone, head of health analysis at the Office of National Statistics, said: \"What's striking about these figures is how different they are to the general population - 55% of the deaths of homeless people are related to drugs, suicide or alcohol, also known as the diseases of despair, compared to just 3% of deaths from these causes among the general population.\"\n\nThe ONS says the deaths of homeless people were identified from death registration records, and statistical modelling was applied to estimate the most likely number of additional registrations not identified as homeless people.\n\nThe definition of homelessness used by the ONS included rough sleepers and people in emergency accommodation such as night shelters or hostels. People in bed and breakfasts or sleeping on friends' floors or sofas were not counted.\n\nThe ONS says these are experimental figures which means they are not yet fully developed and are still subject to testing - but it says the method provides \"a robust but conservative estimate, so the real numbers may still be higher\".\n\nGreg Beales, campaign director at Shelter, called the deaths a source of national shame, \"a consequence of a housing system which fails too many people\".\n\nCrisis chief executive Jon Sparkes called on the government to fix the root causes of homelessness, \"like building the number of social homes we need and making sure our welfare system is there to support people when they fall on hard times\".\n\nAnd Labour's shadow housing minister, Melanie Onn, called the figures shameful and said a Labour government would end rough sleeping within five years.\n\nHomeless charities say pressure on their services is increasing\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire responded: \"No-one is meant to spend their lives on the streets or without a home to call their own. Every death on our streets is too many and it is simply unacceptable to see lives cut short this way.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire said the government was committing £1.2bn to tackle homelessness, with £100m earmarked to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it by 2027.\n\nHe added that councils were now required to provide early support for people at risk of having nowhere to live, \"boosting access to affordable housing and making renting more secure\".\n\nHowever, the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said this was becoming increasingly difficult as homelessness services faced a funding shortfall of £100m next year.", "Epic Games regularly releases new \"skins\", allowing players to change the look of their characters\n\nChildren as young as 14 are making thousands of pounds a week as part of a global hacking network built around the popular video game Fortnite.\n\nAbout 20 hackers told the BBC they were stealing the private gaming accounts of players and reselling them online.\n\nFortnite is free to play but is estimated to have made more than £1bn through the sale of \"skins\", which change the look of a character, and other add-ons.\n\nHackers can sell player accounts for as little as 25p or hundreds of pounds, depending on what they contain.\n\nEpic charges differing amounts of V-Bucks - an in-game currency - for different skins\n\nThe items are collected as in-game purchases but are purely cosmetic and do not give gamers any extra abilities.\n\nFortnite-maker Epic declined to comment on the investigation but said it was working to improve account security.\n\nThe game has more than 200 million players.\n\nOne British hacker said he got involved at the age of 14 earlier this summer, when he himself became the victim of a hack.\n\nSpeaking from his bedroom via a video chat, wearing a baseball cap and bandana to hide his identity, the teenager said he had spent about £50 of his pocket money to build up a collection of skins, when he had woken up to a message that changed everything.\n\n\"The email said that my password had been changed and two-factor authentication had been added by someone else. It felt horrible,\" he recalled.\n\nTwo-factor authentication meant his account could only be accessed by entering a code sent to an email address or app registered by the perpetrator.\n\nLike many victims, he turned to Twitter to vent his frustration.\n\nThat was where he saw new accounts containing even better items on sale.\n\n\"I was approached by someone who said I could buy an account for 25p and I could clearly see the account was worth a lot more,\" he recalled.\n\nHe knew he was playing on a stolen account but with so many others doing it online and making lots of money, he was soon drawn into the world of \"Fortnite cracking\".\n\n\"I was approached by a cracking team and they told me what it was and all about 'combos', 'proxies' and I guess they showed me how to crack,\" he said.\n\nHe said they showed him where to find the vast lists of usernames and passwords published online from other data breaches over the years.\n\nHackers can lock out players by tying the account to their own email address\n\nThey showed him where to buy \"off-the-shelf\" hacker tools needed to input those credentials into the login page of Fortnite. Once inside an account, they showed him how to take it over and then sell it to the hungry online community.\n\nHe insisted that he only carried out one cracking session. But in that single day he managed to access more than 1,000 Fortnite accounts.\n\n\"It's lucky dip basically, you either get a good account or you don't. People like the rarity of the 'skins' and it's about the look of them and showing off to friends.\"\n\nThe hacker said he was now a middleman for other crackers, selling on accounts he knew to be stolen. In his first few weeks, he made around £1,500 and bought himself some games and a new bicycle.\n\nHe said he knew what he was doing was illegal, but his parents were aware of his activities and had not stopped him.\n\nSome skins are much rarer than others\n\nOffences like this fall under the Computer Misuse Act and carry a possible prison sentence of two years.\n\nSome hackers show no signs of remorse or concern. One of the most prolific is a 17-year-old from Slovenia, who sells through his own website.\n\n\"You can't get caught, nobody checks it,\" he told the BBC from within the game.\n\nAmidst the gunfire and wall-building, he said he had made £16,000 in the seven months that he had been cracking.\n\nHe said his mother was an accountant who was helping him save for a first car. He sent screenshots of his Paypal accounts and Bitcoin wallets to confirm his business was real.\n\nAnother hacker showed proof of earnings ranging from £50 a day to almost £300.\n\nThe 15-year-old from France said his best week netted him £2,300.\n\n\"Yes I have done other stuff but nothing too big,\" he added, referring to identity fraud among other cyber-crimes.\n\nThe National Crime Agency says there is a long-standing link between video games and hacking, and that publishers need to do more to prevent players being tempted into crime.\n\n\"What we want to see these companies do is not look at this from a purely technical standpoint,\" said the agency's lead on gaming, Ethan Thomas.\n\n\"What we'd like... is the gaming industry engaging more with law enforcement and looking at early intervention messaging on their platforms to divert [youngsters] on to a more ethical and legal path.\"\n\nDebbie Tunstall runs rehabilitation days for low-level hackers who have been caught.\n\nShe is concerned about networks like Fortnite's cracking community.\n\n\"We know that these sorts of activities are linked to organised crime and we know that they are being egged on by more dangerous people behind the scenes,\" she explained.\n\n\"There is definitely cyber-crime grooming taking place and if we don't act they could easily get taken down that route.\"\n\nThe issue of account hacking on Fortnite was first brought to the attention of Epic in March, when it said it was looking into the problem.\n\nHackers say it makes it extremely hard for them to access an account if players add two-factor authentication to their own accounts.\n\nEpic encourages the security measure by rewarding those who adopt it with in-game accessories but has opted not to make the step mandatory.", "Thrill-seeking tourists are putting themselves in danger and hampering emergency services by heading towards volcanoes when they erupt.\n\nA report from the Royal Geographical Society warns of the growing risks caused by \"volcano tourism\".\n\nEmergency authorities in countries such as Iceland now have to contend with the arrival of tourists who rush there to get close to an exploding volcano.\n\nThe study says such tourists fail to understand the seriousness of the risk.\n\nThe study, published by the Royal Geographical Society and written by University of Cambridge geographer Amy Donovan, warns that such visitors can create dangerous problems for already stretched rescue services.\n\nThe phenomenon of \"volcano tourism\" has seen thousands of people trying to get close to the site of erupting volcanoes for the physical experience of seeing, hearing and feeling the heat of such a natural spectacle.\n\nDr Donovan says that such people are fascinated by the elemental power of volcanoes and are attracted by such an intense experience.\n\nHow close is too close for tourists chasing volcanoes?\n\n\"You can breathe the gas, hear the sounds the earth is making. They want to get closer to feel the power of the earth,\" she says.\n\nAt the extreme end, she says there are so-called \"volcanophiles\" who chase exploding volcanoes around the world.\n\nShe says the increase in volcano tourism could be driven by the rise of mobile phones, where people want to be able to record themselves in such dramatic settings.\n\nBut they also fail to realise the great danger they could face.\n\nThere are injuries from people being hit by chunks of rock or lava bombs. Or else people might get close to a \"fire fountain\" and not realise there could be poisonous gases.\n\nTourists might not understand how quickly eruptions could change or that other threats such as flooding could emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Even experienced scientists and journalists can be caught out by the unpredictability of volcanoes - as a BBC crew experienced in March 2017\n\nIn such cases, the need to rescue tourists can put emergency services in danger and delay their safety plans.\n\nAn eruption in Iceland saw a group of tourists avoiding safety limits by hiring a helicopter to try to land at night near the volcano.\n\nIn 2010, there were two deaths among tourists in Iceland trying to cross a glacier to reach a volcano.\n\nThe study says that civil defence services can be left frustrated, as tourists push into areas from which they could not be easily evacuated.\n\nWhile the tourist industry might want to encourage such travel, Dr Donovan says it can become a big challenge for authorities in an emergency.\n\n\"People break safety regulations. You can't police the site of a volcano at night.\n\n\"Many active volcanic countries face the dilemma of wanting tourists, but also wanting to keep people safe, which creates a difficult conundrum,\" said Dr Donovan.", "Another Brexit referendum will become a \"plausible\" way forward if there is deadlock in Parliament, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said.\n\nShe told ITV's Peston show while she did not personally support another vote, the case for one would grow if MPs could not agree another solution.\n\nShe said she hoped MPs would back Theresa May's deal with the EU next month but it would be \"very difficult\".\n\nThe PM says the UK must be ready to leave without a deal if it is rejected.\n\nMrs May has repeatedly ruled out holding another referendum, saying it was the government's duty to implement the result of the 2016 Brexit vote.\n\nA Downing Street source said the government was \"very clear we are 100% opposed\" to another referendum.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but an agreement on the terms of its withdrawal and a declaration on future relations will only come into force if the UK and EU Parliaments approve it.\n\nThe Commons vote was due to be held earlier this month but the PM postponed it once it became clear it would be defeated by a large margin.\n\nShe has since sought to gain further assurances from EU leaders to allay MPs' concerns.\n\nMs Rudd told Robert Peston she could not be sure MPs would back the deal. She suggested arguments for another referendum would come into play if they did not and if they rejected other options.\n\n\"I have said I don't want a People's Vote or referendum in general but if parliament absolutely failed to reach a consensus I could see there would be a plausible argument for it,\" she said.\n\n\"Parliament has to reach a majority on how it is going to leave the EU. If it fails to do so, I can see the argument for taking it back to the people again as much as it would distress many of my colleagues.\"\n\nIf Mrs May's deal is rejected, the default position is for the UK to leave in March unless the government seeks to extend the Article 50 negotiating process or Parliament intervenes to stop it happening.\n\nMs Rudd, who has likened the idea of a no-deal exit to a car crash, said it was imperative that MPs \"find a way of getting a deal through Parliament\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nTo that end, she said she backed the idea of testing the will of Parliament through a series of \"indicative\" votes on \"Plan B\" options should MPs reject the PM's agreement.\n\n\"It would flush out where... the majority is,\" she said. \"So people who hold onto the idea of one option or another would see there is no majority and so they will need to move to their next preference.\n\n\"We will hopefully be able to find where the compromise and the consensus is.\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said talk of another referendum was \"hypothetical\" at this stage and would represent a \"failure\" by Parliament.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to scare MPs into backing her deal by delaying the vote on it to the latest possible date.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the European Commission announced a series of temporary measures designed to reduce the economic impact if the UK was to leave without a comprehensive legally-binding agreement.\n\nBut it made clear that it could not counter all the problems it expects.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland has given more details of its own no-deal contingency planning, saying the risk of the UK leaving without an agreement was \"very real\".\n\nIt warns of potentially \"severe macroeconomic, trade and sectoral impacts\" for Ireland as well as \"significant gaps\" in policing and judicial co-operation.\n\nIn such a scenario, it said its priorities would be to uphold the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, ensure there is no return of physical checks on the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland and ensure the \"best possible outcome\" in terms of trade.\n\nThe UK has allocated a further £2bn in funding to government departments to prepare for the possibility and has urged businesses to put their own no-deal plans in motion.", "Fiona Onasanya was issued a speeding ticket a week after she was elected as MP\n\nAn MP has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by lying to police about who was behind the wheel of a speeding car.\n\nPeterborough MP Fiona Onasanya denied she was driving her car when it was caught doing 41mph in a 30mph zone in Thorney, Cambridgeshire, in July 2017.\n\nThe 35-year-old Labour MP was convicted in an Old Bailey retrial.\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said she had been \"administratively suspended\" and has called for her to resign.\n\nHe added: \"The Labour Party is deeply disappointed in Fiona Onasanya's behaviour. It falls well below what is expected of politicians. She should now resign.\"\n\nThe MP's brother Festus Onasanya, 33, previously pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced on a date yet to be set.\n\nThe MP's Nissan Micra was caught by a speed camera in Thorney\n\nAfter the verdict, the judge Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said: \"This is not going to be easy, not to give any indication one way or the other [about sentencing].\"\n\nDuring her retrial, after a previous jury failed to reach a verdict, the court was told the MP's Nissan Micra car was caught near Peterborough just after 22:00 BST on 24 July last year.\n\nShe received a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) that required her to state whether she was driving the car at the time or to identify who was.\n\nThe authorities were told the family's former lodger Aleks Antipow had been behind the wheel, but inquiries revealed he had been in Russia visiting his family at the time.\n\nA fake address and telephone number were also provided, which the prosecution said would make Mr Antipow \"untraceable to the police\" and the \"true driver\" would escape prosecution.\n\nFestus Onasanya pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice\n\nThe MP's former communications manager Dr Christian DeFeo came forward during the first trial to give evidence against her, after his wife forwarded him a local newspaper article about the case.\n\nHe said she visited their house, a short distance from the speed camera in Thorney, on the evening of 24 July and that she arrived and left alone.\n\nThe court heard Onasanya's mobile phone was being used in the vicinity of the speed camera at the time of the offence.\n\nShe claimed to the jury that her brother \"would have had to be driving me\" and added: \"I don't use my phone when driving\".\n\nThis will be a blow to the Labour Party - Fiona was one of their rising stars.\n\nShe was quickly promoted to the whip's office and said she had ambitions to be the first black Prime Minister, but it would seem her career with the Labour Party is now over.\n\nThe verdict does not necessarily mean there will be a by-election, but if she is sentenced to more than a year imprisonment, even if it is suspended, it will automatically trigger a by-election.\n\nIf it is less than a year that would trigger a recall petition which means if 10% of all her constituents sign a petition there would have to be a by-election.\n\nIf that did not happen, in theory she could continue sitting as an independent MP, but that seems unlikely.\n\nOnasanya had been elected as an MP six weeks before the speeding offence took place, but stood down as a Labour whip in November.\n\nShe told the court she had been working from a Westminster corridor during her early weeks as an MP and was deluged by thousands of emails.\n\nWhen she received the NIP over the speeding offence she said she had left it at her mother's home in Cambridge for whoever borrowed her car because she assumed she had been in London.\n\nShe had also been admitted to hospital for a relapse of multiple sclerosis while being pursued for the NIP and said she was \"probably not in the best head space\" at the time.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Der Spiegel said it was working to establish the full extent of the scandal\n\nGerman news magazine Der Spiegel has sacked an award-winning staff writer after accusing him of inventing details and quotes in numerous stories.\n\nClaas Relotius \"falsified articles on a grand scale and even invented characters\", Der Spiegel said.\n\nAmong the articles in question are major features that had been nominated for or won awards, the magazine added.\n\nRelotius, 33, admitted deceiving readers in some 14 stories published in Der Spiegel, the magazine said.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the German publication said it was working to establish the full extent of Relotius' \"fabrications\" after a colleague who worked with him on a story raised suspicions about his reporting.\n\nAfter initially denying the allegations, Relotius confessed last week to inventing entire passages of text in several instances, Der Spiegel says.\n\nIn some articles, he is said to have included individuals he had never met or spoken to, \"telling their stories or quoting them\".\n\n\"By his own admission, there are at least 14 articles,\" the magazine said, adding: \"Could that figure actually be considerably higher?\"\n\nDer Spiegel said the reporter's actions were committed \"intentionally\" and \"methodically\".\n\nAn investigation into a story by Relotius about immigration and the US-Mexican border revealed that he had fabricated information about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: \"Mexicans Keep Out.\"\n\nFraudulent information appeared in other stories including one about inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and another about the US NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\nRelotius, who joined the publication as a freelancer in 2011, told the magazine he regretted his actions and was deeply ashamed.\n\nHe has written some 60 articles for the magazine, many of which he has said are accurate.\n\nThe Hamburg-based publication, which has apologised to its readers, said it was \"shocked\" by the revelations, describing them as \"a low point in Spiegel's 70-year history\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritain has twice as many shops as it needs, according to the author of a report looking at how to revive the nation's High Streets.\n\nRetailer Sir John Timpson said local councils must be given more money to turn town centres into communities and meeting places.\n\nSir John told the BBC revival should be a \"bottom up\" job, with councils taking the lead.\n\n\"People should be allowed to get on and do it themselves,\" he said.\n\nSir John, a member of the founding-family of shoe repair and key-cutting business Timpson, said each town centre needed to establish a task force to address issues such as planning. He said \"planning must be made simpler and quicker\".\n\nThe report wants the £675m already announced in the Budget for High Street improvements to be spent at the local level to improve public spaces and transport links.\n\nThe plight of the High Street was underlined on Thursday in retail sales figures for November. Although sales for November rose, that was in large part due to a jump in purchases online.\n\nHowever, Sir John told BBC Breakfast that reviving High Streets and town centres was not just about shopping. \"It's about communities and creating a hub for entertainment, medical facilities, housing. We probably have about twice as many shops as we need. But we are short of housing.\"\n\nAn immediate measure he wants introduced is a National High Street Perfect Day - one day a year where local communities would take ownerships of ensuring their town centre looked as good as possible.\n\nHis report, released alongside a separate study called High Street 2030, also encourages local communities to think innovatively about empty properties, and welcomes the Government's Open Doors scheme which opens empty shops to community groups.\n\nSir John cited the example of Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, where he began his career in retailing. The town centre had suffered decline, but was turned around by reviving the old market and making it a focus for the community, he said.\n\n\"I have learnt, from my own business, that the best way to get things done is to give people on the front line the freedom to get on with the job in the way they know best,\" Sir John added.\n\nHigh Streets Minister Jake Berry, who commissioned the report, said his department would now \"carefully consider\" Sir John's \"proposed tangible ways to keep these treasured spaces alive and thriving for generations\".\n\nHe said: \"We have already taken action by announcing plans to set up a Future High Streets Fund and Task Force, alongside slashing business rates for up to a third of small retailers.\"\n\nIt has been seven years since retail guru Mary Portas was given a similar task to look into the decline of town centres. However, the decline has continued.\n\nA report last month by accountancy firm PwC found that about 14 shops are closing every day, with High Streets face their toughest trading climate in five years.\n\nA net 1,123 stores disappeared from Britain's top 500 High Streets in the first six months of the year. PwC said fashion and electrical stores had suffered most as customers did more shopping online.\n\nRestaurants and pubs also floundered as fewer people go out to eat or drink.", "Fire safety checks across England have fallen by 42% over the last seven years, according to the new watchdog for fire and rescue services.\n\nHM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services says brigades do a good job in emergencies, but amid cuts have reduced \"vital\" prevention work.\n\nAvon was rated \"inadequate\" in its fire regulation work.\n\nThe Home Office said it wanted services to take \"urgent action\" where any failings had been identified.\n\nOf the 14 mainly rural services that have been inspected so far, eight others were told to improve checks.\n\nThe services requiring improvement in their safety checks were: Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Hampshire, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Lincolnshire, Surrey and Warwickshire.\n\nThe other fire services inspected were all rated \"good\" for their safety audits. They were Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Herefordshire and Worcester, Hertfordshire, and Lancashire.\n\nThe watchdog praised what it described as the heroic rescues firefighters carry out - highlighting the efforts at the Grenfell Tower fire as an example - but said the number of buildings given safety checks has been falling steadily.\n\nFirefighters are supposed to look for hazards such as blocked fire exits or faulty doors and give notice to building owners of improvements which are needed.\n\nInspector Zoe Billingham said fire services might simply not know what risks existed in their local areas and that reduced safety.\n\nShe said: \"A vital part of a fire and rescue service's role is to ensure that premises are being kept safe, but protection work is not a priority currently.\"\n\nShe added that the services all have different definitions of \"high risk\" buildings which are necessary to inspect, making it hard to draw direct comparisons.\n\nThe watchdog said the number of audits carried out by firefighters dropped from 84,575 in 2010-11 to 49,423 in 2017-18.\n\n\"The consequences of long-term under-investment in this critical area are too often evident,\" the report said. \"Protection teams are not given a sufficiently large share of the service's resource to do their work.\"\n\nThe inspectorate also criticised the culture of the 14 services inspected - a quarter of staff said they had suffered bullying in the last 12 months, and some had no dedicated provision for female firefighters to change or shower.\n\nMs Billingham said: \"We were also concerned to find fundamental cultural problems in too many services.\n\n\"Too often these outdated practices are not occurring under the radar - most worryingly they are seen as the norm. Swift and sustained action is required for fire and rescue services to create a modern, inclusive environment, where everyone feels welcome.\"\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said working conditions for firefighters still needed to improve and it was \"outrageous\" to find that facilities for some female staff are lacking.\n\nOn the drop in safety checks, FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: \"Services are overstretched and under-resourced, and unable to fulfil key parts of their remit.\n\n\"Ministers must urgently invest in the fire and rescue service, and in particular in fire safety resources, to ensure that the public are kept safe.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"We are pleased most of the services were judged to be effective at keeping people safe from fire and other risks.\n\n\"However, we are extremely disappointed that HMICFRS found that some services require improvement in how they look after their staff and raised concerns about how some carry out their protection duties.\n\n\"We expect fire and rescue services to take urgent action to address these failings and will be engaging with the sector on next steps.\"\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue Service was rated inadequate on both safety audits and \"promoting the right values and culture\", while in other areas it was said to be \"good\" or \"requiring improvement\".\n\nAvon Fire Authority said the HMICFRS assessment represented a \"further challenge\" but the \"report findings reflect what we already know and are working on\".", "Our live updates have come to an end\n\nWe'll leave you with the key points after what police described as an \"incredibly difficult day\" in Loughton:\n• A boy, 12, has been killed in what police called as a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a secondary school\n• Five others - four teens and a woman - were injured\n• Police want to trace Terry Glover, 51, from Loughton, in connection with the incident\n• A silver Ford KA failed to stop after the crash\n• Debden Park High School confirmed the boy killed in the crash was one of its pupils You can read back here to catch up on what happened. For the latest updates overnight, follow our news story.", "A vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the London Bridge attack has been held at Guildhall Yard in the capital.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed by Usman Khan, 28, in a knife attack on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ch Supt Tracey Harman: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nThe crash happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and a 53-year-old woman were also hurt but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police, said officers were looking to speak to Mr Glover, from Loughton, \"in connection with the investigation\".\n\nMs Harman said officers were investigating whether the crash was linked to \"another incident nearby\" and made a \"direct plea\" to Mr Glover to contact police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force has appealed for help locating a silver Ford KA, with registration number LS08 OKW, which was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\" and failed to stop at the scene.\n\nIt is thought all the injured children were also pupils at the school on Willingale Road.\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was hurt told the BBC he believed the driver had deliberately targeted the group.\n\nSpeaking from an east London hospital, he said he was walking on the pavement with a friend when he heard a car revving behind him.\n\nHe described how the Ford KA sped up, mounted the pavement and hit the pair of them, throwing his friend over the bonnet.\n\nThe GCSE student, who is awaiting treatment for injuries to his arm, back, leg and head, said all those hit by the car were walking near to him.\n\nPolice said there was likely to be a \"serious and prolonged investigation\"\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne said she was \"devastated\" to confirm the boy who died was a student at the school.\n\nShe said: \"It is with great sadness that we must report that a 12-year-old student from our school has sadly died.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected....The school will be open tomorrow with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, called the crash \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dash-cam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he added.\n\nPolice have called the crash \"truly shocking\"\n\nInsp Rob Brettell said: \"We are trying to locate and find a silver Ford KA which is likely to have damage to the front of the car.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who has seen the car or knows where it is to contact the force, and said it was likely to be a \"prolonged and serious investigation\".\n\nWillingale Road cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and the area remains cordoned off.\n\nSebastian Fontanelle, who lives near the scene of the crash, said police arrived \"rapidly\" and he saw the air ambulance land at about 16:00.\n\nFather Sam Stuart said St John's Church in Loughton would also be open on Tuesday \"for prayer, lighting candles and if anyone needs to talk\".\n• None Murder probe as boy killed and five hurt in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began\n\nAn American academic has given a graphic account of the moment the London Bridge stabbing attack began, saying it \"felt like a warzone\".\n\nBryonn Bain told the BBC that victim Jack Merritt had been the first person to confront Usman Khan when he launched his knife assault during a prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday.\n\n\"I saw people die, I saw things that I will never be able to unsee,\" he said.\n\nVigils have taken place for Mr Merritt, 25, and second victim Saskia Jones, 23.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the two women are still in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProf Bain said former offenders attending the University of Cambridge-linked conference \"stepped up and intervened\" to tackle Khan, and people at Fishmongers' Hall owed their lives to the actions of those who had previously spent time in jail.\n\nHe said two men from his performance poetry workshop immediately ran towards shouts from elsewhere in Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London as the attack began, and as shouts grew louder he also went to assist.\n\n\"That's when I ran down and saw the scene unfolding there,\" he said. \"I was able to see the attacker.\"\n\nHe added: \"It felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nProf Bain said course co-ordinator Mr Merritt was \"the first line of defence\".\n\n\"I want to honour him,\" Prof Bain said of Mr Merritt. \"I want to honour his father's wishes which have been explicit to not have his life be used for political purposes to ramp up draconian policies, because that's not what he was about.\"\n\nMr Merritt's father criticised newspaper coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to review the early release of convicted terrorists.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, David Merritt says his son \"would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\".\n\nThe article calls for a justice system that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than revenge, and criticises indeterminate sentences, saying his son worked for \"a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key\".\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\nProf Bain added: \"I want to make sure that as much as possible that we uphold the heroes of the day, were formerly incarcerated people, some of the folks who are often easiest to dehumanise.\n\n\"They stepped up and many of the folks in that space would not be here today if it weren't for these guys who did time in prison and literally saved lives.\"\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\nVigils for the victims of the attack were also held in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, which Ms Jones had previously attended.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones both studied for masters degrees at the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nMr Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a volunteer\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones at the weekend.\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal justice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nA group of hall staff, ex-offenders, prison and probation staff are believed to have drawn Khan out on to London Bridge where he was subsequently shot dead by armed police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in an update on Monday night that detectives were continuing extensive inquiries but had so far found nothing to suggest other people were involved in the attack.\n\nKhan, who admitted preparing terrorist acts in 2012, was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relieves pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nFriday was the first time that Khan, who wore a GPS tag, had been permitted to travel to London since he left prison. The BBC has been told that - earlier in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke-on-Trent, which is where he grew up, in order to attend a social event.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early would have their licence conditions reviewed..\n\nPolice said two terror-related arrests following Friday's incident, in Staffordshire and north London, were not directly connected to the London Bridge attack.\n\nIt came after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".", "Years have been knocked off official projections of children's life expectancies in the UK, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report shows.\n\nA baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations.\n\nOfficial 2014 data thought that girl would make it to 93.6. Now the figure is 90.4.\n\nThe report also slashed the likelihood of children reaching 100.\n\nAlthough life expectancies have been and are still improving, experts say previous estimates were too high.\n\nThe improvement is much smaller than previously thought, as part of a widely acknowledged slowdown in life expectancy since 2011.\n\nIn 2018, life expectancy growth stalled for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nThis has led statisticians to re-evaluate their assumptions about future improvements in life expectancy, resulting in the figures released today.\n\nThe ONS report calculates the impact of this less-rosy picture on children's prospects of a long life.\n\nSo a boy born in 2019 is now expected to live for 87.8 years.\n\nBut the 2016 data thought he would reach 89.7 and the 2014 data said 91.1.\n\nAnd looking to the future, to children born in 2043, there is a dramatic drop in the chances of reaching 100.\n\nBut the projections two years ago thought:\n\nThe ONS said: \"There has been considerable public debate about the causes of the slowdown in life expectancy improvements.\n\n\"Researchers have suggested a range of possible explanations for the slowdown... several factors are at play, none of which can be singled out as being the most important with any certainty.\"\n\nMany reports, including by Public Health England and the Health Foundation think tank, have attempted to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nA lack of a recent blockbuster moment in medicine could be an issue.\n\nLife expectancy in the 20th Century improved with the creation of the NHS, falls in smoking, childhood immunisation (the last case of polio in the UK was in 1984) and medical advances particularly for the big killers - heart disease, stroke and cancer.\n\nBut now dementia is listed as the leading cause of death and it is incurable.\n\nPublic Health England says a more elderly population - with dementia and other long-term health problems - may also be more vulnerable to diseases like flu.\n\nBut there are issues affecting life expectancy well before old age. Deaths from drug misuse, with Scotland having the highest drug death rate in the EU, are also quoted.\n\nOne of the most politically charged questions has been around austerity - the programme of government cuts that coincides with the slowdown in life expectancy.\n\nThe evidence either way is hotly contested.\n\nBut Public Health England's report says the poorest people have felt the impact on life expectancy the hardest and that \"could indicate a role for government spending\".\n\nStalling life expectancy in the UK has attracted plenty of attention from academics, but they offer no definitive answers on the causes.\n\nWhen you are talking about shifts in predictions of lifespans, it needs more than a few years of data.\n\nBut there is concern about why it's a different story to that in most other developed economies.\n\nAn analysis by the ONS last year concluded that the slowdown in life expectancy growth in the UK since 2011 was one of the largest of the countries analysed.\n\nThat's led to speculation on UK specific factors.\n\nCuts in government spending in the policy period dubbed by some as \"austerity\" might, according to some commentators, have been a factor.\n\nIt's worth noting, though, that cuts in social care in England were not replicated to the same extent in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe decline in living standards and the reduced ability of some households to pay for heating and food in the decade since the financial crisis in 2008 have also been mentioned.\n\nThe gap between life expectancy in the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in England has increased according to research last year.\n\nThe debate will continue though it may take a while before firm trends and causes can be identified.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and forensics teams inspect the scene in Canal Street\n\nPolice in New Orleans say there have been 11 victims of a shooting incident near the French Quarter tourist hub.\n\nTwo people are in critical condition, with shots to the chest and torso respectively. No fatalities have been reported.\n\nThe incident took place on Canal St between Bourbon and Chartres streets at about 03:20 local time (09:20 GMT).\n\nPolice said on their Twitter feed that \"one suspect had been apprehended near the scene\".\n\nThey later said the person's possible involvement was still under investigation and that no arrests had yet been made. No other details have been given.\n\nThe victims have all been taken to hospital.\n\nVideo footage from the scene showed numerous police vehicles cordoning off the area as forensic teams made checks.\n\nCanal St file image. The street is on the edge of the famous French Quarter tourist hub\n\nLocal media quoted Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson as saying officers on the 700 block of Canal Street at the time believed that they were being fired upon.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, there were so many people out here we were unable to determine who was actually firing shots at the time. We do not know how it started.\"\n\nThe French Quarter has been hosting holidaymakers marking the weekend after Thanksgiving.\n\nThousands of fans and alumni have also been drawn to the city for the Bayou Classic football game traditionally played on Thanksgiving weekend between Southern University and Grambling State University.\n\nOn the same weekend in 2016, a man was killed and nine other people wounded in a shooting on Bourbon St.\n\nIn June 2014, another shooting incident on Bourbon St left one person dead and nine injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bullets and bills: The cost of getting shot in America", "Lisa Smith was interviewed by the BBC in July\n\nAn Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride has been arrested after arriving back in Dublin.\n\nLisa Smith and her daughter travelled from Turkey after being deported, arriving in Ireland on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested on arrival and it is expected she will now be interviewed by police about suspected terrorist offences.\n\nPlans have also been made for the care of her two-year-old daughter, who was born in Syria but is an Irish citizen.\n\nMiss Smith is a former member of the Irish Defence Forces.\n\nIn a statement, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said: \"This is a sensitive case and I want to reassure people that all relevant state agencies are closely involved.\"\n\nIrish state broadcaster RTÉ has posted footage on social media of her being escorted by gardaí (Irish police) on the runway in Dublin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RTÉ News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC interviewed her in Syria earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Smith had denied training girls after becoming an IS bride\n\nShe said was not involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters.\n\nShe also claimed she had been visited more than once by the FBI for questioning, and agents had taken her fingerprints and DNA.\n\nLisa Smith was brought to a south Dublin police station after her arrest, covering herself with a pink blanket\n\nMs Smith had been living with her daughter in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar had previously said she would \"certainly\" be investigated if she returned to Ireland.", "It’s an old story but I’ll tell it anyway.\n\nDuring the 1964 general election campaign Harold Wilson was trumpeting his support for the navy at a vast public meeting in the dockyard town of Chatham.\n\n“And why am I saying all this?\" he asked rhetorically. \"Because you're in Chatham!” shouted a voice from the crowd.\n\nA famously fine heckle from an era where prime ministers had to contend with the electorate face to face. They still do from behind their TV studio podiums of course but the public meeting and town centre walkabout has mostly gone.\n\nWe’re 10 days from polling day and from my perch in the Tory campaign I’ve yet to hear a heckle. Not one.\n\nToday Boris Johnson turned up at a deserted cruise liner terminal at Southampton docks to plug his party’s policies for border control after Brexit.\n\nHe chugged around the quiet port in a boat and did a quick television interview on his response to Friday’s terror attack before heading off to a rally for Tory activists this evening.\n\nThe PM was in and out before the city’s voters twigged he was there. It’s the same wherever Mr Johnson goes.\n\nThe Conservative campaign feels efficient, focused and sterile. Clips for broadcasters are provided, Tory social media content is recorded and pictures of the prime minister in different bits of Britain are taken that will appear online and in tomorrow’s newspapers.\n\nBut spontaneous encounters between the PM and the general public hardly ever happen.\n\nIt’s now impossible to imagine Boris Johnson copying John Major’s 1992 campaign and plunging into the crowd to argue his case.\n\nDuring the 2016 referendum, Mr Johnson seemed to relish the chaotic cut and thrust of town to town campaigning but there’s none of that now.\n\nThe Tory battle bus still ploughs up and down the country’s motorways carrying the media from one event to the next but it feels the real electioneering is happening somewhere else.", "Volkswagen \"cheated\" European emissions rules designed \"to save lives\" by installing unlawful \"defeat devices\" in diesel cars, the High Court has heard.\n\nTens of thousands of UK motorists who bought VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda diesel cars are taking legal action in the aftermath of the \"dieselgate\" scandal.\n\nThe claimants' QC Tom de la Mare said: \"It is difficult to think of a more obvious cheat than the one VW used.\"\n\nVolkswagen has said it will \"defend robustly its position\".\n\nIn 2015, VW admitted 11 million cars worldwide - including 1.2 million in the UK - had software that reduced readings of emissions in tests. However, the UK hearing, expected to last two weeks, centres on whether that software constitutes a \"defeat device\" under EU regulations.\n\nIn his opening remarks, Mr de la Mare told the court that VW engines were \"optimised to minimise the amount of pollutants\" in emissions tests, meaning the vehicles operated in a \"completely different way in the street to how it operated in the test\".\n\nHe added: \"It is difficult to think of a more obvious cheat than the one VW used.\" Mr de la Mare said European emissions standards were designed \"to save lives\", adding that \"the most up-to-date evidence\" showed that pollution was \"killing approximately 1,000 people a day in Europe\".\n\nHe said internal VW documents showed that the company has \"long known that the software was unlawful and indefensible\", pointing to one document in which a VW employee said the vehicles would \"flunk\" emissions tests without the software.\n\nHe submitted that the documents showed a \"clear acceptance that the software was the only basis on which they were meeting the emissions limits\".\n\nVW's barrister, Michael Fordham QC, argued in written submissions that the claimants had misunderstood the legal definition of a defeat device.\n\nIn a statement before the hearing, a VW spokeswoman said: \"Volkswagen Group continues to defend robustly its position in the High Court in London.\n\n\"It remains Volkswagen Group's case that the claimants did not suffer any loss at all and that the affected vehicles did not contain a prohibited defeat device.\"\n\nVolkswagen has faced a flurry of legal action worldwide, and has been forced to pay out more than €30bn (£26bn) in fines, recall costs and civil settlements. The carmaker's current and former senior employees are facing criminal charges in Germany.\n\nThe English litigation was filed back in 2016, but has now reached what the claimants' lawyers have called \"a decisive court battle\".\n\nGareth Pope, head of group litigation at Slater and Gordon, which represents more than 70,000 of almost 90,000 claimants, said before the start of the hearing: \"This trial will establish once and for all whether VW installed prohibited 'defeat devices' in affected vehicles and is a significant milestone in our clients' attempts to hold VW accountable in the UK.\n\n\"This is a decisive point for VW. For years, the carmaker has deceived its customers, marketing cars as complying with emissions standards while all the time knowing they were emitting many times more than the allowed level of toxic pollutants, perpetrating an environmental and health scandal.\n\n\"VW has had plenty of opportunity to come clean, make amends and move on from this highly damaging episode.\n\n\"But instead it's chosen to spend millions of pounds denying the claims our clients have been forced to bring against it rather than paying that to their own customers in compensation.\"\n\nOne of the claimants, Brian Levine - who bought two affected Volkswagens - told the Press Association: \"VW's tactics have been to delay and prevaricate - anything but face a day when it would have to explain what this software did. Well, that day has finally come.\n\n\"More than four years after the emissions scandal broke, the tens of thousands of customers will be able to hold VW to account in a British court of law and expose its efforts to cheat us.\"\n\nBuying a car is one of the big financial decisions we make. We pay a hefty price for a brand we trust and expect the specifications to be as promised.\n\nBut VW argues that the drivers claiming they were fooled by a defeat device will not qualify for compensation whatever the merits of their case, because they haven't suffered a loss.\n\nAnd VW denies having a defeat device, anyway, despite findings against the carmaker in other countries.\n\nWaiting for a result from this case will feel like being trapped in the mother of all traffic jams. Lawyers involved are expecting the whole process could take two to three years.", "Simon Parkes disappeared after spending the evening in bars in Gibraltar\n\nPolice have begun to search a cemetery for the remains of a Royal Navy sailor who was thought to have been murdered in Gibraltar in 1986.\n\nNaval rating Simon Parkes, 18, from Kingswood near Bristol, disappeared after going ashore with crewmates from HMS Illustrious.\n\nPolice said a member of the ship's crew had provided \"credible\" information.\n\nThe case was reopened in 2001 after a shipmate, petty officer Allan Grimson, was convicted of two murders.\n\nPolice said they had received \"credible\"new information relating to Trafalgar Cemetery\n\nHMS Illustrious docked in Gibraltar on 12 December 1986 during its return to Portsmouth from a deployment to Asia and Australasia.\n\nMr Parkes spent the evening in bars before telling friends he was leaving to buy food, police said.\n\nThe Royal Navy conducted a search when the radio operator failed to rejoin the ship, but found no trace of him.\n\nMr Parkes' parents said they hoped his remains would be found and brought home\n\nIn 2003, a number of Gibraltar cemeteries were searched after a police review concluded Mr Parkes was likely to have been murdered.\n\nDet Insp Roger Wood said the new information made Trafalgar Cemetery \"more interesting and more significant than it was in the early 2000s\".\n\nHe said: \"This year Hampshire Constabulary has received new information from a witness which has been assessed as credible.\n\n\"Based on that information, today we are beginning a search operation and conducting further inquiries over in Gibraltar with the hope of finally locating Simon's remains.\"\n\nDet Insp Roger Wood said the cemetery search would take about a week\n\nMr Parkes' parents said they hoped his remains would be found and brought home.\n\nHis mother Margaret said: \"We're getting older, time's getting on, we desperately need to know.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary has issued a new appeal to trace more of Mr Parkes' crewmates, including those who were with him on the evening he vanished.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pat and Donna Workman say they may now have to live in a caravan\n\nA family who left their home two years ago after it was contaminated by fuel and sewage are demanding action from those they hold responsible.\n\nPat and Donna Workman believe work carried out by the local authority is to blame for their situation.\n\nThey said it cost them their life savings, with an estimated £250,000 clean-up bill for their Cardigan home.\n\nCeredigion council said it was continuing to work to resolve the situation and was offering advice.\n\nMr and Mrs Workman said they began to notice problems with damp at their home after asphalt was laid on an adjacent lane in 2013.\n\nThe work was part of a refurbishment programme on Ceredigion council buildings.\n\nAn extra toilet was also installed in the council building, leading to sewage overflows leaking into the ground around their home, the couple said.\n\nThey said surveys of their property pinpointed the road-surfacing as the cause of damp.\n\nLand under the house has become contaminated by fuel and sewage\n\nIn 2017, they began smelling petrol fumes in the house.\n\nInvestigations revealed a fuel line at a neighbouring petrol station had been damaged.\n\nThe garage owner, Peter Williams, has accused the council of being responsible for damaging pipes during the refurbishment project - but said that has been rejected by the authority.\n\n\"The council said we had to move out because it's unsafe,\" said Mr Workman.\n\n\"We've been out for two years. We've been paying £600 rent and also paying the mortgage in this house which we can't live in.\n\n\"All the land underneath the house and around the house has been contaminated.\"\n\nThe Cardigan couple were forced to leave their home two years ago\n\nThe Workmans said the council offered to pay half the cost of rental accommodation for the first six months.\n\n\"After that, they expected us to take a mortgage break, so to stop paying the mortgage,\" said Mr Workman.\n\nNow, with all their savings gone, the couple said they are considering living in a caravan next to the house.\n\n\"All we want is for them to to pay for our accommodation somewhere else, because we don't know how long this is going to last.\n\n\"It could last six years - it could take 60 years,\" added the couple.\n\n\"Great sympathy\" for the family, says garage owner Peter Williams\n\nMr Williams said he remained in a legal dispute with the council over the pipe issue, and was convinced their work was responsible for causing the damage.\n\n\"They're saying it's my fault, and I'm saying it's not,\" he said.\n\n\"We're at stalemate. It's dragging on and we don't seem to be getting anywhere. I think the council should be responsible for it.\"\n\nHe said he had great sympathy for the Workman family: \"I've seen the family grow up. They've been good neighbours to me.\"\n\nCeredigion council says it is still trying to resolve the situation\n\nIn a statement, Ceredigion council said it was \"sympathetic\" to the Workman's situation and remained committed to offering advice and assistance.\n\n\"The council is also working towards resolution of the contamination issue, but the matter remains extremely complex with a number of technical obstacles present, as well as a number of different parties involved.\"\n\nThe authority said it had commissioned detailed investigations of the site and is considering all available options to enable the family to return to their home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook has deleted a Conservative election ad that used BBC News footage because it infringed the corporation's intellectual property (IP) rights.\n\nThe BBC said the material had been used out of context in a way that \"could damage perceptions of our impartiality\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Tories rejected a request from the BBC's lawyers to remove the 15-second video.\n\nThe BBC also complained to Facebook, which has now deleted the ad.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"We have removed this content following a valid intellectual property claim from the rights holder, the BBC.\n\n\"Whenever we receive valid IP claims against content on the platform, in advertising or elsewhere, we act in accordance with our policies and take action as required.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We welcome the decision.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"All political parties make use of BBC content. We will be asking the BBC if in the interests of fairness they intend to complain about other political parties who use their content.\"\n\nThe unprecedented and unpredictable campaign tactics being used during this election are putting Facebook's policies under increasing amounts of scrutiny and strain.\n\nThe decision to remove the Conservative advert is significant; not because of the action the platform took, but the grounds on which it acted.\n\nThe row between the BBC and the Conservative Party was about the ethics of the party's advert. The BBC believes that the ad misled viewers into thinking that its news reporters were supporting the Conservatives. The Conservatives disagreed.\n\nFacebook were aware of the row on the night the ad began running but didn't get involved until a copyright claim was lodged days later.\n\nThe decision to take it down then was effectively a black and white one - and easy enough for the social media giant to act on without getting into the icky business of judging what counts as disinformation.\n\nIt's another example of the platform taking action on simple technical grounds and helps us to build a clearer picture of the fuzzy policies that the platform and its sister site Instagram adheres to.\n\nFacebook will take action on political adverts but only when it has an excuse to stay out of the politics.\n\nThe move also brings into sharp focus the need for regulation of what elements of news coverage are or aren't allowed during an election campaign.\n\nClips of BBC presenters - political editor Laura Kuenssberg and News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards - speaking in recent broadcasts about Brexit delays were used in the ad.\n\nThe clips were edited into a montage of protest footage and video of debate in the House of Commons, all set to dramatic music.\n\nThe advert, which was used to target three separate groups of Facebook users, was seen by at least 350,000 people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt began running on Thursday afternoon and, according to the Facebook Ad Library, was mainly aimed at 35-54 year olds and cost the party around £7,000.\n\nThe advert, along with two others, was removed so it is no longer visible online and a message reads: \"This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook's intellectual property policies.\"\n\nIn Facebook's policy guidelines it states that \"ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights\".\n\nWhen it rejected the BBC's initial request to stop running the ads, the Conservative Party said it was \"clear the footage was not edited in a manner that misleads or changes the reporting\".", "An American academic has spoken of the moment the convicted terrorist, Usman Khan, launched an attack during a conference near London Bridge on Friday.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were stabbed to death and three others were wounded.\n\nBryonn Bain, a professor at UCLA, was running a workshop about prisoner rehabilitation at the Fishmonger's Hall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I knew I had to keep him happy\"\n\nA US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has implored the British public to \"stand beside her\" and \"not accept what has happened to her\".\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, says she was trafficked to London by Epstein in 2001.\n\nShe describes how Epstein's girlfriend told her what \"to do for Andrew\".\n\nThe prince has \"categorically\" denied any sexual contact with Ms Giuffre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I implore the people in the UK... to not accept this as being OK\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, has given her first interview for British television as part of a special hour-long Panorama. Her interview includes her account of how she was introduced to Prince Andrew.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, took her to Tramp night club in London, where the Prince asked her to dance.\n\n\"He is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life\", she says. \"His sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere\".\n\nWhen they had left the club, Ms Giuffre said Ghislaine Maxwell gave her instructions.\n\n\"In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.\"\n\nShe said that later that evening, she had sex with Prince Andrew upstairs at Maxwell's house in Belgravia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis last month, the prince said he didn't recall meeting Virginia Roberts, and that he had a medical condition that meant he did not sweat. However, of the claim that he had sex with her, the Prince said he could \"absolutely and categorically\" say \"it never happened\".\n\nAnd in a court statement, Ghislaine Maxwell has said the allegations are lies.\n\nAsked about a photo that appears to show him with his arm around Virginia Giuffre's waist in Maxwell's house, the prince said he didn't recall the photograph ever being taken and questioned whether it was his hand in the picture.\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew.\n\nBut in the Panorama interview, which was recorded before Prince Andrew's interview, Ms Giuffre said: \"The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored.\n\n\"I'm calling BS on this,\" she said. \"He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there's only one of us telling the truth.\"\n\nIn response to tonight's Panorama, Buckingham Palace said the Duke \"unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and \"deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\"\n\nThey said \"it is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nPrince Andrew - the Queen's third child - has been facing questions over his ties to Epstein, a US financier who took his own life in August awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince has faced a growing backlash since the Newsnight interview about his friendship with the US financier.\n\nHe stepped back from royal duties last month because he said the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nCompanies he had links with, such as BT and Barclays, also joined universities and charities in distancing themselves from him.\n\nAfter his BBC interview he said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who \"wants some form of closure\".\n\nPanorama: The Prince and the Epstein Scandal will air at 21:00 GMT on BBC One.", "Gogglebox is now in its 14th series\n\nComments about former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who is facing a sexual assault trial, have been edited out of catch-up versions of Channel 4's Gogglebox.\n\nIn Friday's episode, the Siddiqui family referred to Scotland's former first minister - who denies all charges - while watching Question Time.\n\nBut the comments were cut after the programme became available on catch-up.\n\nA Channel 4 spokesperson said: \"This episode of the programme has been edited and is now available on All 4.\"\n\nContempt of court laws mean the media must not broadcast or publish anything that might influence jurors and prejudice a trial.\n\nThe Scottish legal system has a stricter attitude to contempt of court than in England.\n\nMr Salmond is to plead not guilty to charges including one attempted rape, one intent to rape, 10 sexual assaults and two indecent assaults. The trial date is set for 9 March next year.\n\nSpeaking outside court after a brief hearing last month, Mr Salmond said he was innocent and would defend himself \"vigorously\" during the trial.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The First Lady Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe elaborate decorations were put on display with the help of over 100 volunteers and include displays made from gingerbread.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell was arrested twice in the two days before he killed the three men\n\nA man who killed three elderly men because he wrongly believed they were paedophiles has been cleared of murder.\n\nExeter Crown Court heard Alexander Lewis-Ranwell battered his victims - all in their 80s - with a shovel and a hammer in a \"whirlwind of destruction\".\n\nHe has paranoid schizophrenia and was having delusions about saving girls from a paedophile ring, jurors heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old was found not guilty by reason of insanity after jurors decided he \"did not know it was illegal\".\n\nTwins Richard and Roger Carter, 84, and Anthony Payne, 80, were bludgeoned on 10 February.\n\nThe court heard Lewis-Ranwell was arrested and released by police twice in the lead-up to the killings.\n\nHe began the first fatal attack just three hours after he had been released from police custody, where he had been held for wounding a farmer with a saw.\n\nIt was his second arrest in the space of 24 hours and came just seven hours after he was arrested over an attempted burglary at another farm.\n\nAnthony Payne was killed at his home near Exeter St David's station\n\nThree psychiatrists agreed Lewis-Ranwell was insane when he battered his victims.\n\nBut the prosecution had argued the defendant bore some responsibility for what happened.\n\nThe court heard evidence of Lewis-Ranwell's interaction with various health professionals during his three spells in custody between 8 and 11 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stasys Belevicius says Alexander Lewis-Ranwell attacked him at the hotel he was managing\n\nLewis-Ranwell was released from Barnstaple police station at about 09:30 on 10 February and travelled to Exeter.\n\nHe entered Mr Payne's home at about 12:30 and bludgeoned the pensioner to death with a rusty hammer.\n\nLess than three hours later he scaled the wall of the Carter brothers' home in Cowick Lane, took a spade from the garden and beat them both to death with it.\n\nAfter his final arrest the defendant told a psychiatrist at Broadmoor secure hospital: \"I cannot believe no-one helped me - they let me out twice when I was unwell.\"\n\nIn sentencing, Mrs Justice May described the case as \"disturbing... on so many levels - three dead, two injured at the hands of someone floridly psychotic at the time and therefore not criminally responsible\".\n\nShe said she would be making a hospital order with restrictions to ensure Lewis-Ranwell \"won't be allowed into the community until agencies are absolutely content it is OK for him to be released\".\n\nThe judge informed the court that, prior to returning their verdicts, the jury had passed her a note raising concerns about the \"state of psychiatric services in Devon and the failings in care in Alexander Lewis-Ranwell's case\".\n\nLewis-Ranwell caught on CCTV on the day of the killings\n\nIn a statement, the head of custody for G4S Health Services, Jon Allen, said the company \"stood by their decision\" that \"Lewis-Ranwell was not suicidal and did not meet the requirements of a full Mental Health Act assessment in the out-of-hours period\".\n\nHead of major crime at Devon and Cornwall Police, Det Supt Mike West, said: \"We fully accept our responsibilities to look after those detained in our custody units.\n\n\"However, it is unreasonable to suggest that police officers or staff, in these circumstances, should have over-ridden decisions made by those who are trained, qualified and skilled in health care.\"\n\nFollowing the trial Mr Payne's family said they were \"still profoundly shocked\" and described the victims as \"gentle, kind and caring gentlemen\".\n\nThe family of the Carter brothers said they were \"quiet\" twins who \"loved the outdoors, wildlife and bird watching\" and \"were born, lived and died at the house in Cowick Lane\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Bloomfield died two days after being found injured outside a pub in Swansea\n\nA charity worker died after being struck by a martial arts expert with two \"ferocious\" blows following an argument in a pub, a court has heard.\n\nMark Bloomfield, 54, who had previously worked as a special assistant to Mother Teresa, was found injured outside the Full Moon pub on the High Street in Swansea in July.\n\nColin Payne, 61 and from the city, denies murder but has admitted manslaughter.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard Mr Bloomfield had been sitting on a stool at the bar near Mr Payne and his partner.\n\nThe jury was shown CCTV of a can of alcohol Mr Bloomfield was holding touching the back of Mr Payne's partner, and Mr Payne is then seen arguing with Mr Bloomfield before grabbing him by the throat and throwing him to the floor.\n\nHe then kicked him in the head \"for good measure\", prosecuting barrister Christopher Clee QC said.\n\nHe told the jury it will be up to them to decide whether Mr Payne \"overreacted.\"\n\nMr Bloomfield is then seen sitting back in his seat while Mr Payne's partner attempts to keep him away from the charity worker. Mr Payne then follows Mr Bloomfield outside.\n\nA second CCTV clip shown to the jury showed Mr Bloomfield arguing with Mr Payne outside the premises.\n\nMr Clee said the footage shows Mr Payne \"spoiling for a fight\" before \"delivering two powerful blows in quick succession to Mark Bloomfield's face\" which knock him to the ground.\n\nThe court heard Mr Payne then returned to the pub while Mr Bloomfield was treated by paramedics.\n\nMr Clee says it was \"immediately apparent\" Mr Bloomfield had sustained a \"very serious head injury\".\n\n\"Blood was coming from inside his nose, his mouth, and very significantly, his ear,\" Mr Clee said, adding he sustained a \"traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures across his face\".\n\nThe incident took place in Swansea's High Street\n\nMr Payne gave \"no comment\" answers during his first police interview but in the second he said he did not intend to kill or cause grievous bodily harm to Mr Bloomfield, the court heard.\n\nMr Payne said he was \"acting in self-defence of another\" when he threw Mr Bloomfield to the floor and kicked him, \"inadvertently\" striking him on the head.\n\nHe said Mr Bloomfield \"offered to fight me outside\" and, concerned he may have had a weapon such as a glass, followed him.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Payne said he threw two punches as he thought Mr Bloomfield was about to strike him.\n\nMr Clee said the claims of self defence were \"desperate attempts to cover up what he'd done\" and his \"martial arts expertise means he knew how to hurt somebody.\"\n\nThe prosecution is expected to continue with its case on Tuesday before the defence begins on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An icebreaker (red) escorts Russian cargo ships on the Northern Sea Route\n\nNatural riches come in two conflicting types in Russia's Arctic north: valuable minerals and spectacular wildlife.\n\nBut sadly for many threatened species, the decline in Arctic sea ice has created a new economic opportunity for Russia in their remote habitat.\n\nIn a decree last year President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian firms to boost cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route to an annual 80m tonnes by 2024.\n\nAmbitious energy co-operation deals were signed with India in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east, in October.\n\nOne centres on a big open-cast coal mining project in the Taymyr Peninsula, in the far north of central Siberia.\n\nThe area is rich in high-quality coking coal (anthracite), used to make steel and aluminium.\n\nDharmendra Pradhan, India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said: \"We are the second largest coal importer in the world, and we intend to achieve production of 3m tonnes of steel per year by 2030, so we need to increase coal supplies.\"\n\nThe Taymyr coal mining is open-cast, like at this mine in Yakutia, eastern Russia\n\nBut Taymyr is a haven for wildlife. It has Russia's largest nature reserve - Bolshoi Arkticheskiy - covering 4.2m hectares (16,200 sq miles).\n\nOn TV President Putin presents himself as a caring conservationist, famously relaxing in Siberia's unspoilt wilderness.\n\nBut he is also championing the expansion of fossil fuel projects in that wilderness.\n\nRussia is boosting trade with China, India and other growing Asian markets hungry for raw materials. Coal is to contribute to meeting that 80m-tonne target for Arctic deliveries, which will go via Russia's far east.\n\nDespite global warming, icebreakers still play a key role, as winter temperatures plunge below minus 20C. Remote settlements lack equipment to deal with any pollution emergency. And long voyages to India will mean more greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.\n\nThe Arctic is estimated to have 72% of Russia's total gas reserves. Oil and gas mega-projects are far advanced further west, notably on the Yamal Peninsula.\n\nThe snowy owl (L) and red-breasted goose: many bird species flock to Taymyr\n\nIn Taymyr the coastal tundra - marshland with permanently frozen subsoil - is a nesting ground for migratory birds, which fly there for the brief Arctic summer.\n\nPolar bears sometimes come ashore on Taymyr while, inland, vast reindeer herds roam and snowy owls hunt lemmings.\n\nAlong with the pollution threat, reindeer are now seriously threatened by poaching, says Alexey Knizhnikov, a conservationist at WWF Russia.\n\n\"Developing new projects in such an ecologically sensitive area is madness, in our view,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Human-polar bear confrontations are becoming ever more common due to the effects of climate change\n\nThere is already pollution with heavy metals and sulphur dioxide (SO2) around the city of Norilsk, from the Norilsk Nickel ore smelter.\n\nA Greenpeace study published in August said: \"In terms of individual hotspots, the Norilsk smelter complex continues to be the largest SO2 emission hotspot in the world.\"\n\nIt also found India to be the world's top SO2 emitter.\n\nNow a bay just south of Dikson - a tiny weather-beaten port and one of the world's remotest settlements - is a new, ecological danger zone.\n\nAn anthracite coalfield lies at Medusa Bay, part of the Bolshoi Arkticheskiy nature reserve.\n\nThe bay attracts big flocks of birds, including six rare or endangered species: the small swan, peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, white-headed loon, white-tailed eagle and red-breasted goose.\n\nBolshoi Arkticheskiy nature reserve in Taymyr: a wilderness now at risk from mining\n\nThe open-cast coal company, Vostokugol, is embroiled in a legal battle with the state environmental monitoring agency, Rosprirodnadzor, over mining violations.\n\nVostokugol is appealing against a ruling that it abused the licensing system: a Moscow court found it had mined and exported coal from Medusa Bay, yet only had permits for prospecting. It was fined 601m roubles (£7.3m; $9.4m).\n\nThe company has a joint production deal with Coal India Limited, an industrial giant.\n\nMeanwhile, Greenpeace urged Russia's chief prosecutor in August to intervene, after the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources more than halved the size of a buffer zone protecting Medusa Bay nature reserve.\n\nThe zone - where mining and related construction are banned - was reduced to 1,150 hectares (2,842 acres), from 3,020 ha.\n\nThat government move in July came despite a 2016 plea from the ministry itself and the Taymyr nature reserve authority to site a planned new coal terminal well away from the reserve.\n\nIn line with Mr Putin's Arctic ambitions, Vostokugol is developing - albeit slowly - the Medusa Bay coalfield and two coal terminals for loading on to ships.\n\nGreenpeace says the Chaika terminal is just 1km (0.6 miles) from the nature reserve. \"At that distance, when coal is loaded at the terminal, coal dust will pour down on the nature reserve,\" says the Greenpeace legal complaint against the natural resources ministry.\n\nVostokugol plans to export 20m tonnes of coal from there by 2024. Another firm, Severnaya Zvezda, also has licences to mine coal in Taymyr.\n\nVostokugol's shiny new office block in Dikson contrasts with old buildings nearby\n\nVostokugol started mining and building infrastructure at Medusa Bay in 2016, but later suspended operations. The company did not respond to the BBC's questions.\n\nJust 2km from the open-cast coal mine stands an international bird monitoring centre - the Willem Barents Biological Station. It was set up with Dutch government funding in 1994.\n\nDr Sergey Kharitonov, a biologist, was there last year. Coal dust from the mine had already reached as far as Dikson, he told the BBC.\n\n\"The bird populations are in danger, I'm worried about their future,\" he said. \"The place has lots of coal, and it's apparently easy and profitable to mine it.\"\n\nWWF's Alexey Knizhnikov said \"there is little transparency in this project - there is a lack of regulation and they didn't do any public consultations\".\n\nMore than 500,000 reindeer migrate across Taymyr\n\nStrategic priorities however are driving this mining and energy extraction in the polar wilderness.\n\nRussia is the world's third-largest coal exporter (210m tonnes in 2018), after Indonesia (439mt) and Australia (382mt), the World Coal Association reports.\n\nPayakha oilfield in Taymyr is another new industrial project\n\nIndia has become increasingly dependent on imported coking coal for metallurgy, says Rohit Chandra, a coal expert at Delhi's Centre for Policy Research.\n\nIndia and Russia signed an energy co-operation agreement in Vladivostok in September\n\nRussia aims to boost its coal exports to India six-fold by 2025, to 28m tonnes annually.\n\nMr Chandra told the BBC such a volume was \"realistic - it's not massive by international standards\". China consumes vastly more coking coal than that every year.\n\nA steel furnace fuelled by coal in Jharkhand, a mineral-rich area in northeastern India\n\nHe noted that even back in the 1970s the then-communist Russian state had been helping India to industrialise.\n\n\"India's co-operation with Russia is deeper than with other coal-exporting countries,\" he said. \"It's a reliable partner, and there are lots of other commercial deals [with Russia].\"\n\nMoreover, he said, \"renewable energy is not replacing traditional power sources any time soon in India\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeading figures from the UK's political parties have clashed on Brexit, the NHS and terror legislation in the latest televised general election debate.\n\nLabour's Richard Burgon declined to say during the ITV programme which way he would vote in the EU referendum his party is promising, if it wins power.\n\nTory Rishi Sunak was pushed to rule out a no-deal Brexit if the Conservatives won, but did not give a direct answer.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on 12 December.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon defended Jeremy Corbyn's decision to remain neutral in the event of a second referendum, saying the Labour leader was \"determined to bring the country together and heal divisions, not try to exploit them for votes\".\n\nPressed by presenter Julie Etchingham on whether he would vote to stay in the EU or leave in another referendum, he said: \"I want to speak to my local Labour Party members after a Labour government comes back with that deal and then we'll decide how we approach that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Richard Burgon on Brexit: 'It would be for the people to decide'\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson said being neutral showed Mr Corbyn was a \"bystander not a leader\", but Mr Burgon said her party's policy of cancelling Brexit was \"not very liberal, not very democratic\".\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who also wants another referendum, added it was \"dreadful\" that the Conservatives want \"Brexit at any cost\" and Labour \"can't even decide what side they're on\".\n\nShe pushed Conservative minister Mr Sunak to rule out a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year if the Conservatives failed to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury insisted \"we already have a deal\", prompting Ms Sturgeon to say that that was a withdrawal deal, not a trade deal.\n\nMr Sunak said a trade deal was \"in the future\", adding that \"we can only get to that future\" by respecting the result of the EU referendum and leaving.\n\nThe UK would continue to abide by EU rules under the terms of Boris Johnson's EU deal until 31 December 2020, by which time he says a permanent trading relationship will be agreed with Brussels.\n\nBut his opponents say that raises the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year, if an agreement is not reached by then.\n\nGreen party co-leader Sian Berry said the best way to finish off the Brexit process was \"more democracy\" by having a \"people's vote\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Ms Swinson said Brexit should be cancelled altogether.\n\nMr Price said the economic effect of leaving the EU would divide the rich from the poor and \"will not be the answer to our problems\".\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said a second referendum would cause \"even more division and acrimony\".\n\nHis party has pledged to leave the EU and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules if a free trade agreement cannot be struck by the end of next year.\n\nIn a particularly spiky exchange, Ms Swinson attempted to use Mr Farage's defence of US President Donald Trump against him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader acknowledged that some of Mr Trump's comments about grabbing women were \"wrong\" .\n\n\"It was crass and it was crude and it was wrong - men say dreadful things sometimes,\" he said.\n\n\"If all of us were called out for what we did on a night out after a drink...\", he said, before being interrupted by the Lib Dem leader.\n\n\"Is that what you do on a night out after a drink?\" she asked.\n\nMr Farage replied: \"He is president of the USA and that relationship matters. You are so anti-American you are prepared to put your hatred of Trump above our national interest. That is a great mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage on Trump: 'Men say dreadful things sometimes'\n\nScotland's first minister Ms Sturgeon accused Mr Johnson of modelling himself on Mr Trump.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the UK's relationship with the US was \"incredibly important for keeping us safe\" and was \"not something to turn your nose up at\".\n\nThere were also heated exchanges over the the release from prison of Usman Khan, who went on commit the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nMr Sunak said the Conservatives wanted \"tougher sentences\" and he defended Mr Johnson against claims he had politicised the attack, saying it was \"incumbent\" on the prime minister in an election \"to explain to people how they will keep them safe\".\n\nMr Burgon said he was \"very uncomfortable with the way the discussion from the Conservatives moves straight from a tragedy to reheating pre-packaged political lines smearing the Labour Party\".\n\n\"I think our democracy, regardless of our parties, should be better than that\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"I think these people should never ever be let out prison unless we are absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus. But political correctness stops us from doing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak accused Labour of making \"baseless allegations\" that the Conservatives would sell the NHS, as part of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nHe told Mr Burgon: \"The real risk to the NHS are your reckless plans for the economy, Richard, which will mean there isn't money to invest, and silly plans like the four-day week.\"\n\nBut the Labour shadow minister replied: \"It is not Labour's policy to have a four-day week in the National Health Service.\"\n\nChallenging the comment, Mr Sunak said: \"John McDonnell stood there and said very clearly that it would apply to everyone. Are you now saying that he was wrong?\"\n\nMr Burgon replied: \"No, I'm reiterating what he said before which is the idea of people working a four-day week at some point in the future - in maybe 10 years - is something which could be considered.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Mr McDonnell said last month that Labour's plans for a 32-hour working week will apply to all employees, including those in the NHS, and will be implemented over a decade.\n• None Who should I vote for? Election 2019 manifesto guide", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day four of five):\n\nCaptain Joe Root made a double century on day four of the second Test but England's hopes of winning the match and drawing the series with New Zealand may be hampered by the weather.\n\nRoot's painstaking 226 from 441 balls and 75 from Ollie Pope helped England to 476 and a first-innings lead of 101.\n\nThe Black Caps fell to 28-2 but Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor guided them to 96-2, trailing by only five runs.\n\nHeavy rain is forecast to fall in Hamilton for much of the final day.\n\nAnd on a pitch that is still good for batting, New Zealand will be confident of seeing out what play is possible from 21:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis was the first time England - 269-5 overnight - have made 400 in the first innings since Alastair Cook's double century against Australia in Melbourne two years ago.\n\nRoot led by example. While he was patient - he was in the middle for just over 10 hours - there was a busyness about his innings that had been missing on the third day.\n\nHe played well off his legs, used soft hands to dab the ball down to third man, took quick singles and, when England decided to push towards a declaration, he hit out, striking pace bowler Matt Henry back down the ground for six.\n\nRoot's only real miss-step came when, on 199, he called Pope through for a quick single and his partner was almost run out at the striker's end. Pope dived, however, and Root was able to celebrate his third Test double century.\n\nHe was well supported by Pope in a 193-run stand for the sixth wicket. Playing in his fourth Test and keeping wicket in Jos Buttler's absence, Pope struggled at first to keep up with Root's tempo.\n\nWhile his drives often found the fielders, Pope ran well and found the backward point boundary more frequently as New Zealand's bowlers tired.\n\nThe only disappointment for England will be the way their innings ended as the final five wickets fell for 21 runs.\n\nIt was just reward for Neil Wagner, though. After Pope and Root were caught in the deep, the indefatigable Wagner had Chris Woakes caught behind, outfoxed Jofra Archer with a slower ball and bowled Stuart Broad to secure his fourth five-wicket haul in his past four Tests.\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None Root's previous highest Test score away from home was 182 not out in the West Indies in 2015.\n• None He is now the 10th leading Test run-scorer for England.\n• None It is the fourth time an England captain has made a double century overseas, after Alastair Cook, Ted Dexter and Len Hutton.\n• None Only three Englishman have more Test double tons than Root: Wally Hammond (7), Cook (5) and Hutton (4).\n• None Root is the first visiting captain to make a double century in New Zealand.\n• None Root's double century, off 412 balls, was the slowest for England since Dennis Amiss' 432-ball effort against West Indies in 1974.\n\nEngland made early inroads with the ball, but Root admitted at the end of play that the tourists hoped the pitch would do \"a little bit more\" in the final session.\n\nJeet Raval, who has scored only 24 runs in the series, was lbw to Sam Curran for a two-ball duck, although replays suggested there was an inside edge.\n\nWhen Tom Latham, who made a century in New Zealand's first innings, edged Chris Woakes to Root at a wide first slip, New Zealand were struggling.\n\nWilliamson was ruffled by Jofra Archer, who bowled short and into his body, while Ben Stokes tried the same tactic with Taylor later in the evening.\n\nBut Williamson and Taylor are two of New Zealand's most experienced players and they played carefully on a placid surface.\n\nWilliamson ducked and Taylor pulled in an unbroken 68-run partnership across 25 overs.\n\nThere were, however, encouraging signs for England. Stokes, who struggled to bowl on the opening day with a left knee problem, found some awkward bounce, while Woakes was economical after his past struggles overseas.\n\n'We can still win' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"I have been close for a long time in terms of a real big score. I have never felt like it has been far away.\n\n\"Once I got in I had the bit between my teeth and wanted to make a big one. We have got ourselves in a position where we can still win.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Neil Wagner: \"We had to graft really hard. I was lucky enough to get the rewards. I felt a bit sorry for the other guys because they bowled well without much luck. A big shout goes to the other bowlers.\n\n\"It will be tough. We don't want to look too far ahead of ourselves. We want to get in a good position first and once you earn the right to strike that is when you can try to dictate terms.\"\n\nEngland & Middlesex bowler Steven Finn: \"Even from the beginning of Root's innings, you could see he meant business.\n\n\"It will give him great satisfaction. It is one of the best feelings in cricket when you have worked so hard and come out of the other side of it.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash: \"England will come and give it everything tomorrow morning.\n\n\"Whether or not England get a result, with the process they have put in place, the captain will be delighted. It is the type of tough cricket they want to play.\"", "The Lib Dems would not support Labour's plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party's leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics the policy was a \"distraction\" and not \"the way forward\".\n\nThe Lib Dems and Labour have both ruled out a coalition deal if there is no clear general election winner.\n\nAsked if she would try to block Labour from forming a minority government, she said it was a \"fantasy situation\".\n\n\"Nobody is expecting, on the current scenario, that Jeremy Corbyn is getting anywhere near Downing Street and the Liberal Democrats are going to put him there.\n\n\"So the Labour manifesto, it's a wish list, they cannot deliver it.\"\n\nMs Swinson, who was a business minister in the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government, began the general election campaign by saying she was aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government but has since conceded that would be a \"big step\" given the opinion polls.\n\nIf her party ends up holding the balance of power after 12 December's election, she has said her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokesman Chuka Umunna refused to speculate about what his party would do in this situation, in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"We don't know who the Queen is going to approach to be prime minister.\"\n\nJo Swinson has not ruled out allowing a Conservative or Labour leader to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nLabour is committed to holding another EU referendum, on a renegotiated deal with the EU.\n\nBut the party's first Queen's Speech would be likely to include plans to take the Royal Mail, rail companies, energy supply networks, water and sewerage companies back into public ownership.\n\nAsked whether she would support Labour's plans, Ms Swinson told Pienaar's Politics: \"No, I think renationalisation is a distraction.\n\n\"I don't think it's a way to deliver better public services and I think it's taking us away from, actually, how do you make things better for people?\"\n\nPushed for further clarity on whether the Lib Dems would block the renationalisation of water, Ms Swinson said: \"We don't think that renationalisation is the way forward.\"\n\nAs well as criticising Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans, Ms Swinson condemned Boris Johnson's actions in the aftermath of Friday's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to make Friday's terror attack an election issue.\n\n\"This was an opportunity for Boris Johnson to be a statesman, and yet again he has failed in that and has just shown why he is not fit for the job of Prime Minister,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got a community which is coming together in a brilliant way and straight out of the door the prime minister's trying to make it an election issue - I just think it's pretty distasteful.\n\n\"I think we ought to be able to behave with respect, even when these things happen in the middle of a general election campaign.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMegan Rapinoe of the United States has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.\n\nWinger Rapinoe, 34, co-captained the US to victory at this summer's World Cup, where she was named player of the tournament and finished joint-top scorer with six goals.\n\nBronze, 28, the Uefa Women's Player of the Year, played a key part in England's run to the semi-finals.\n\nRapinoe's compatriot Alex Morgan came third in the Ballon d'Or ranking.\n\nLyon striker Ada Hegerberg, who became the first winner of the women's version of the award last year, finished fourth, while Arsenal and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema rounded out the top five.\n\nThe men's award was won by Argentina and Barcelona's Lionel Messi for a record sixth time.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Another Messi milestone and Rodgers to Arsenal?\n\nRapinoe, who was not in attendance at the awards ceremony, said in a recorded message: \"I'm so sad I can't make it tonight. It's absolutely incredible, congrats to the other nominees.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm the one winning in this field, it's been an incredible year. I want to thank my team-mates and the US federation.\"\n\nRapinoe has had a memorable 2019, becoming a global star for her performances during the World Cup but also for her willingness to use the spotlight to speak out on causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and equal pay.\n\nShe also made headlines after saying she would refuse to visit the White House if the US won the World Cup and joined the national team squad in suing their federation over equal pay.\n\nAfter winning the women's award at the Best Fifa Football Awards in September, she was the favourite to become the second ever recipient of the Women's Ballon d'Or.\n\nA runner-up spot for Bronze is an impressive achievement, finishing ahead of star forward Morgan and Women's Champions League record scorer Hegerberg.\n\nRegarded as the best right-back in the world, Bronze will be familiar with finishing second to Rapinoe, having won the Silver Ball for second-best player at the World Cup.\n\nThe months since the World Cup have been tough for Bronze in an England shirt, having been played out of position in an experimental midfield role and being part of a side that has won just two of their last six games.\n\nBut she has experienced an incredible 2019 with club side Lyon, winning the French league and cup double and the Women's Champions League.\n\nBronze's Lionesses team-mate Ellen White was ninth in the Ballon d'Or ranking after finishing as joint top scorer at the World Cup with six goals.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Disabled employees are paid 12.2% less than their non-disabled peers, according to official data.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that in 2018 the median pay for non-disabled workers was £12.11 an hour, against £10.63 for disabled.\n\nLondon had the widest disability pay gap at 15.3%, with the narrowest in Scotland, at 8.3%.\n\nThe gap was the widest for those in their 30s and 40s, the ONS said in its report.\n\nThe data underlines the struggle facing many disabled workers, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said.\n\n\"Too many disabled people continue to face prejudice and struggle to get into employment or to remain in work, and are less likely to progress to senior management roles or to work in professional occupations,\" said the CIPD's Dr Jill Miller.\n\n\"Businesses that aren't inclusive - and don't manage health and disability effectively - risk missing out on hard-working and talented individuals, and damaging their reputation among staff and customers.\"\n\nAngela Matthews, head of policy and research at Business Disability Forum, added: \"Disabled workers are not 'one group'. Some people with disabilities do not experience many barriers in work, and others experience many, multiple barriers.\n\n\"But we know that unjustified attitudes about what various groups of disabled people can and can't do are still widespread, and affect many employment related issues, including equal pay, bonus pay, and pay increases,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nThe ONS report is the first analysis of disability pay gaps in the UK using newly reweighted earnings data from the Annual Population Survey.\n\nTo define disability, the ONS uses the Government Statistical Service (GSS) definition. This identifies \"disabled\" as a person who has a physical or mental health condition, or illness that has lasted or is expected to last 12 months or more, that reduces their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.\n\nThe ONS said disabled females were in general paid 10.1% less than non-disabled females in 2018 - narrower than the pay gap between disabled and non-disabled male employees who had a gap of 11.6%.\n\nHowever, employment rates for disabled men and women were similar at 51.7% and 50.4%.\n\nThe ONS also found that those disabled employees with mental impairments had the biggest pay gap at 18.6%, while the gap was 9.7% for the physically impaired.\n\nMuch of the difference in pay can be put down to factors such as what employees do and how qualified they are, the agency said.\n\nUsing the GSS definition of disability, the ONS said 18.9% of people in the UK aged 16 to 64 years were disabled in 2018. Women were more likely to be disabled than men, at 21.1% and 16.6%, respectively.", "A Kenyan fisherman has been airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.\n\nVincent Musila had gone fishing at a river near Thika town in central Kenya when it burst its banks.\n\nCrowds watched helplessly for three days as they waited for emergency services to rescue him.\n\nWhy the floods in East Africa are so bad", "Conor Whooley's family said they were relieved to know his final resting place\n\nA body found on an Anglesey beach in 1983 has been identified as a missing Irishman thanks to DNA testing.\n\nConor Whooley, from Greystones, County Wicklow, was 24 when he disappeared.\n\nHis body was buried in an unmarked grave at Menai Bridge Cemetery on Anglesey after being found on the beach.\n\nBut thanks to Operation Orchid - which uses DNA testing to solve cold cases of unidentified human remains - Mr Whooley's body has now been identified.\n\nHe was found at Rhoscolyn, Anglesey, and later buried locally after police were unable to identify him.\n\nIn 2013, the body was exhumed after police believed it could be a match for a missing person.\n\nThat did not prove to be the case, but as a result of the publicity Mr Whooley's family contacted North Wales Police.\n\nHe had been missing from Dublin since 1983 and his family heard about Operation Orchid on RTÉ television in Ireland.\n\nDet Con Don Kenyon said: \"I hope that this positive news will encourage other families of missing people to provide DNA samples to help solve other outstanding cases in North Wales and beyond.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Whooley's family said they were relieved to know his final resting place and the community in Anglesey, and Menai Bridge, had cared for his grave.", "A Norwegian pensioner convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia’s atomic submarine fleet.\n\nFrode Berg has just returned home after complex negotiations led him being included in a spy swap between Russia and Lithuania.\n\nHis arrest and conviction for espionage has caused controversy in Norway, where many criticise the Nato country’s use of a civilian in risky intelligence operations - especially when tensions between the West and Russia are so high.\n\nSarah Rainsford has been to meet Frode Berg in Norway where he is preparing to return to his hometown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has insisted the US wants \"nothing to do\" with the NHS in post-Brexit trade talks as he sought to repudiate opposition claims that the health service would be \"up for sale\".\n\nOn a visit to the UK, the US President claimed he had no interest in increased market access to the NHS for US firms even if handed on a \"silver platter\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he still had \"very serious concerns\".\n\nAnd the SNP said MPs should pass a law to exclude the NHS from discussions.\n\nBoris Johnson said the Conservative election manifesto had \"categorically ruled out\" any NHS services, or drug prices, being up for negotiation.\n\nIn June, the US president suggested the health service would form part of negotiations over a possible future trade deal after the UK leaves the EU, saying: \"When you're dealing in trade, everything is on the table.\"\n\nBut speaking on Tuesday morning as he and other world leaders prepared for a summit to mark the 70th anniversary of Nato, he issued a different message.\n\n\"I don't even know where that rumour started,\" he told journalists. \"We have absolutely nothing to do with it. If you handed it [the NHS] to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at hugely sensitive time, with less than 10 days to go before the election - and with the issues of Brexit and the NHS having largely dominated the campaign so far.\n\nThe US President insisted he would be \"staying out\" of the election. While he remained a \"fan of Brexit\" and thought Mr Johnson was \"very capable\", he said he would be prepared to \"work with anybody\" in No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: \"Our NHS will not be put up for sale to anybody\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: Trump is \"not someone who shares our values\"\n\nIn October, he suggested Mr Corbyn would be \"bad\" for the UK and declined an offer to meet the Labour leader during his state visit.\n\nMr Corbyn has repeatedly claimed that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" if the Conservatives hold onto power. At a campaign event last week, the Labour leader showed an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials.\n\nThe document shows the US is interested in discussing drug pricing - mainly extending patents that stop cheaper generic medicines being used - and refers to the US policy of making \"total market access\" a starting point in any trade talks.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed Mr Trump's latest comments but said he was far from reassured by them.\n\n\"I'm pleased that he's said that but, if that's the case why have these talks gone on for two years?\" he told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.\n\n\"Why have they been kept secret? I think there is very very legitimate grounds for very very serious concern here.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said if he was introduced to Mr Trump at a reception at Buckingham Palace later, which both are attending, he would impress on him how \"precious\" the NHS was to the British people and make clear a Labour government would discontinue trade talks if it was not excluded.\n\nOn a trip to Salisbury, the prime minister described the opposition's claims as \"pure Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda triangle stuff\".\n\n\"I can categorically rule out any part of the NHS will be on the table in any trade negotiation... including pharmaceuticals.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested Labour was only raising the issue because it had \"no plan for Brexit and no plan for the economy\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab ruled out any privatisation of the NHS \"under the Conservatives' watch or this prime minister's watch\". Trade decisions would be made by the next government \"in the best interest of patients and consumers\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says Donald Trump should comment on the NHS\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, Chuka Umunna, said Mr Trump's comments should be taken \"with a lorry load of salt\".\n\nHe added: \"Trump has repeatedly made clear in the past that everything including the NHS will be on the table in future negotiations.\"\n\nAnd SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said its MPs would be pressing for legislation to ringfence the NHS from any involvement in a future deal.\n\n\"I don't want the future of our NHS to be dependent on trusting the word of Boris Johnson or Donald Trump,\" she said at a campaign rally in Perth.\n\n\"Let's have legislation that explicitly and in statute takes any risk of trade negotiations to the NHS away, and make absolutely clear that the NHS not just will not be on the table but could not be on the table in any trade negotiations.\"\n\nNigel Farage called on the US president to challenge the \"complete fib\" that the Tories would \"sell the NHS\" to him in a trade deal.\n\n\"He has been accused by the Labour Party of wanting to buy the National Health Service,\" the Brexit Party leader told BBC Breakfast. \"It isn't true, I know it isn't true, and I think it would be wholly appropriate for him to say that.\"", "Sixteen men have been sentenced for their roles in a \"terrifying\" street brawl after an England World Cup match.\n\nThe fight broke out in Park Street, Bristol on 24 June last year, after the Three Lions beat Panama.\n\nTables and signs were thrown, with several men injured, including one who suffered a broken leg.\n\nAfter the 16 men were sentenced for affray Avon and Somerset Police said: \"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThirteen of the men were jailed, with three receiving suspended sentences.\n\nThe brawl was witnessed by families with children, with one bystander describing it as a \"vicious attack\".\n\n\"[I] found it distressing to watch that level of violence in real life, watching people get hurt and bleeding in the street,\" they said.\n\n\"What I was seeing really disturbed me. I felt terrified.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver the past week, the defendants have all been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nSupt Rhys Hughes said: \"This incident of violent disorder was quickly brought under control on the arrival of police officers.\n\n\"However, those few minutes were enough to put many of those enjoying a Sunday afternoon in the city in fear of being injured.\n\n\"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew have very different accounts of what happened in March 2001 - so how do they differ?\n\nFive women who accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them say Prince Andrew witnessed how people were given massages at the sex offender's homes.\n\nThe lawyer for the women has told BBC Panorama he plans to serve subpoenas to force the Duke of York to testify as a witness in all five cases.\n\nHe says the prince could have important information about sex trafficking.\n\nThe prince says he did not witness or suspect any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe lawyer for victims of the US financier, David Boies, said: \"One of the things that we have tried is to interview Prince Andrew and to try to get what his explanation is. He was a frequent visitor. They ought to submit to an interview. They ought to talk about it.\"\n\nThe subpoenas - court summonses to give testimony - have been prepared for all five cases and would have to be signed off by a judge once the prince was on US soil.\n\nHe would then be able to challenge the subpoena in court if he did not want to give evidence.\n\nAnother lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, who questioned Epstein a decade ago and now represents several of his unnamed alleged victims, made a personal plea for Prince Andrew to give a sworn testimony.\n\n\"Be a man, stand up for what you believe and what you're saying is the truth and come forward,\" said Mr Kuvin on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Kuvin said he is not planning to serve a subpoena but added: \"If he truly wants to help these victims, then step forward.\"\n\nPanorama also uncovered new information about the infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre - then called Virginia Roberts.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, went to Tramp nightclub in London.\n\nMs Giuffre said that in the car on the way back \"Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick\".\n\nWhen they got back to the house, she said she asked Epstein to take a picture of her to show her family. She then carried out the instructions to entertain the prince.\n\n\"Well there was a bath and it started there and then it led into the bedroom and it didn't last very long, the whole entire procedure.\n\n\"It was disgusting. He wasn't mean or anything, but he got up and he said thanks and walked out.\"\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nOn Tuesday, lawyer Lisa Bloom - who represents five other Epstein accusers - told ITV's This Morning that she has a witness who says she was at Tramp nightclub on the night when the alleged incident happened, and \"saw Prince Andrew with Virginia\".\n\n\"She remembers it vividly because she was told 'this is a member of the Royal Family',\" said Ms Bloom. \"That was a very big thing to her, she was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him and so I'm going to take her to the FBI.\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew\n\nThe photo of them together was first published in 2011 after the Mail on Sunday tracked down Ms Giuffre and paid her $160,000 for her story.\n\nThis year palace sources started suggesting the photo was a fake - but Prince Andrew stopped just short of that in his interview with BBC Newsnight.\n\nHe said: \"You can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it's a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.\"\n\n\"It's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph being taken. That's me but whether that's my hand… I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.\"\n\nThe prince also said he thought he had never been upstairs in his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's house, where the photo appears to have been taken.\n\nBut Ms Giuffre told Panorama the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011.\n\n\"I think the world is getting sick of these ridiculous excuses. It's a real photo,\" she said. \"I've given it to the FBI for their investigation and it's an authentic photo. There's a date on the back of it from when it was printed.\"\n\nShe said the date on the back of the photo is 13 March 2001 - two days after she left London on her trip with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nPanorama also spoke to the freelance photographer Michael Thomas who first copied the picture in 2011.\n\nHe is convinced the picture is genuine because he found it in the middle of a bundle of photos that Ms Giuffre handed him from her travels with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nHe said: \"It was nothing sophisticated. These were 5x7 photos that looked like they had come from Boots the chemist. They were typical teenage snaps.\"\n\nThe programme also found evidence that supports Ms Giuffre's claim that she gave the original to the FBI.\n\nA redacted court document shows she gave 20 photos to the FBI in 2011 and they were scanned front and back.\n\nBut there are only 19 photos shown in the public version.\n\nPanorama has been told the Prince Andrew photo was removed from the public document to protect his privacy.\n\nThe news that five women say that Prince Andrew witnessed Epstein and his guests receiving massages and have prepared subpoenas should he travel to the US is bad for the prince on several fronts.\n\nHe says he had at no time seen, witnessed or suspected suspicious behaviour at Epstein residences. This flatly contradicts that.\n\nThe existence of subpoenas - court-backed demands for sworn testimony - makes any visit to the US by the prince vanishingly unlikely. It's pretty extraordinary: the Queen's second son is now effectively unable to travel to the US, unless he fancies being forced to give a deposition.\n\nThe subpoenas can be challenged, but it would be a huge risk getting embroiled in the US legal system.\n\nThis news, and the rest of the programme, with a powerful interview by Virginia Giuffre, puts Prince Andrew, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and his denials, back into the spotlight. The controversy refuses to go away; instead, it grows.\n\nAnother Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome told Panorama Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Prince Andrew's oldest friends, worked hand in hand with Epstein.\n\n\"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the Madam,\" she said.\n\n\"She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation and she would always visit Jeffrey on the island to make sure the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing.\n\n\"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell could not be reached for comment but has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nAllegations of sex abuse against her were first made public in court documents in 2009, but Prince Andrew has maintained the friendship.\n\nPanorama uncovered an email from 2015 which suggests he even asked for Ms Maxwell's help in dealing with Virginia Giuffre's claims. She was known at the time by her maiden name Virginia Roberts.\n\nIn the email the prince told Ms Maxwell: \"Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.\"\n\nShe replied: \"Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.\"\n\nPrince Andrew declined to answer Panorama's detailed questions but he said in a statement that he deplores the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour.\n\n\"The Duke of York unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein's suicide left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims. The duke deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\n\n\"It is his hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. The duke is willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COP25: What you need to know about the climate conference\n\nThe president of an island nation on the frontline of climate change says it is in a \"fight to the death\" after freak waves inundated the capital.\n\nPowerful swells averaging 5m (16ft) washed across the capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, last week.\n\nBut President Hilda Heine said the Pacific nation had been fighting rising tides even before last week's disaster.\n\nPolitical leaders and climate diplomats are meeting in Madrid for two weeks of talks amid a growing sense of crisis.\n\nThis conference of the parties, or COP25, was due to be held in Chile but was cancelled by the government due to weeks of civil disturbances.\n\nSpain then stepped in to host the event, which will see 29,000 attendees over the two weeks of talks.\n\nSchool protesters are among those who have taken to the streets\n\nThe world's average surface temperature is rising rapidly because human activities release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2). These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, a bit like the glass roof of a greenhouse.\n\nAt the meeting, Ms Heine commented: \"Water covers much of our land at one or other point of the year as we fight rising tides. As we speak hundreds of people have evacuated their homes after large waves caused the ocean to inundate parts of our capital in Majuro last week.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's a fight to the death for anyone not prepared to flee. As a nation we refuse to flee. But we also refuse to die.\"\n\nMs Heine is not alone in the view that small nations like the Marshall Islands face an imminent existential threat. At the Madrid summit, ambassador Lois Young, from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which represents low-lying coastal countries and small island nations, launched a rebuke to the world's big polluters.\n\n\"We are disappointed by inadequate action by developed countries and outraged by the dithering and retreat of one of the most culpable polluters from the Paris Agreement,\" she said.\n\n\"In the midst of a climate emergency, retreat and inaction are tantamount to sanctioning ecocide. They reflect profound failure to honour collective global commitment to protect the most vulnerable.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"With our very existence at stake, COP 25 must demonstrate unprecedented ambition to avert ecocide.\"\n\nThe COP25 meeting will aim to step up ambition so that all countries increase their national commitments to cut emissions. The meeting follows on the heels of three UN reports which stressed the increased urgency of limiting dangerous climate change.\n\nAccording to UN Secretary General António Guterres, \"the point of no return is no longer over the horizon\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, he said political leaders had to respond to the imminent climate crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who took wind power to another level\n\n\"In the crucial 12 months ahead, it is essential that we secure more ambitious national commitments - particularly from the main emitters - to immediately start reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a pace consistent to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.\n\n\"We simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and nature-based solutions,\" Mr Guterres said.\n\nAlmost every country in the world has now signed and ratified the Paris climate agreement and under the terms of the pact they will all have to put new climate pledges on the table before the end of 2020.\n\nThe UN secretary general says no new coal-fired power stations should be built after 2020\n\nThis meeting in Madrid signals the start of a frantic 12 months of negotiations that will culminate in Glasgow with COP26 in November next year.\n\nSome 50 world leaders are expected to attend the meeting in the Spanish capital - but US President Donald Trump will not be among them.\n\nThe US became a signatory to the landmark Paris climate agreement in April 2016, under the Obama administration. But President Trump has said the accord - which has been signed by more than 190 countries - would lead to lost jobs and lower wages for American workers.\n\nLast month, he began the process of withdrawing from the Paris deal.\n\nHowever, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will attend the conference with a congressional delegation.\n\nWhile her presence has been welcomed, US environmentalists want to see concrete steps on climate.\n\n\"While it's great Speaker Pelosi is coming to Madrid in place of Trump, symbolic gestures are no substitute for bold action,\" said Jean Su from the US Center for Biological Diversity.\n\n\"America remains the number one historic contributor to the climate emergency, and even Democratic politicians have never committed to taking responsibility for our fair share.\"\n\nUnderlining the real world impacts of climate change, a report from the charity Save the Children, says that what it calls \"climate shocks\" are threatening tens of millions of people in East and Southern Africa.\n\nThe charity says 33 million people are at emergency levels of food insecurity due to cyclones and droughts. More than half of these are believed to be children.\n\nThe situation has been made worse because the two strongest cyclones ever to hit the African continent, affected the same region just weeks apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCyclone Idai struck Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi last March, while six weeks later Cyclone Kenneth slammed Mozambique with millions affected by flooding.\n\n\"The climate crisis is happening here, and it's killing people, forcing them from their homes and ruining children's chance of a future,\" said Ian Vale from Save the Children.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Southampton rail commuters speak out on first day of strike\n\nCommuters are facing disruption as workers on South Western Railway (SWR) begin a 27-day strike.\n\nIt comes after talks between the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and SWR over a long-running dispute over guards on trains broke down.\n\nThe operator called the action \"unnecessary\" and said \"more than half\" of weekday trains would run, but warned of queues at stations.\n\nThe union said the strike is \"in defence of passenger safety\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sophia Griffiths This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe RMT said SWR had \"point-blank refused\" to show any serious movement at talks held at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe union has been demanding that guards should oversee the operation of doors and perform other safety functions in dispatching trains.\n\nIt said the company's proposals would leave guards as \"glorified porters\" without any safety responsibilities.\n\nAs the strike got under way earlier, disruption was compounded when a man seen carrying an air rifle led to a train being evacuated.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Hattie C This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere, Sophia Griffiths, who travels from Earlsfield station into central London, said: \"Usually when they strike the station is not too bad but today was just nuts.\n\n\"I saw the queue outside and thought 'no way' - I've never seen it that long so I took the bus to Tooting and got the Tube from there.\"\n\nShe said she was supportive of the striking workers and said it was \"crazy they (SWR) would let it get to this\".\n\nThe communications officer at Nuffield Council on Bioethics said she was considering cycling to work during the prolonged action and working from home more.\n\nCharlotte Burnell said it took almost an hour to travel from Claygate, Surrey, to Waterloo - a journey which usually takes 34 minutes.\n\n\"You can manage a couple of days of strike action but the thought of it going on for 27 days is pretty overwhelming,\" she said.\n\n\"It's physically uncomfortable. I was forced to stand awkwardly and my back was killing me.\"\n\nSteve Nagioff described passengers \"rammed\" into a carriage on his commute from Whitton in south west London.\n\n\"A woman next to me said that she couldn't breathe. The train stopped at Richmond and I fell out - luckily other passengers got off the train so I got back on it again.\n\n\"It's just not right - I pay full ticket prices. If the service is going to be like this then it should be free,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nBecky Bartlett, from Wokingham in Berkshire, said she was an hour late for work in London after her regular train was cancelled.\n\n\"I have various theatre and gig plans for the month, plus Christmas parties and events, which I have either had to cancel, some at loss of the ticket price, or I'm going to have to pay for a £30+ taxi from Reading just to get home.\n\n\"This whole experience is going to be horrific. I'm one day in and I've already had enough.\"\n\nPassengers faced packed carriages on the line from Guildford to Waterloo\n\nRMT assistant general secretary Steve Hedley said members were \"absolutely furious\" with SWR following the Acas talks.\n\n\"Of course our members don't want to lose a month's money running up to Christmas but they're prepared to do that to show that safety and accessibility for disabled people is non-negotiable.\"\n\nRegional organiser Mick Tosh said the union would consider financial support for any members who suffered particular hardship because of the strike.\n\nSWR said it had offered \"a guard on every train, and a safety critical role for that guard\".\n\nManaging director Andy Mellors said the action was \"unnecessary\" and the issue needed to be settled before a new fleet of modern suburban trains was introduced next year.\n\n\"Our assessment is that by having drivers opening and closing doors, that will actually optimise the performance of the network by getting more trains to Waterloo on time.\n\n\"We've been very clear that we're committed to keeping a guard on our trains and those guards will have safety critical competencies. Our proposals will make guards more customer facing and improve safety, security and accessibility.\"\n\nCommuters at Bracknell station are among those affected by the strike\n\nAt Chandler's Ford station this morning, the ticket office door was locked. The platform was empty and all the signs were blank.\n\nIt's going to stay that way for a month. The next train isn't due until 2 January 2020.\n\nIt's the same story at Swaythling, Millbrook, Dean, Dunbridge and a few other small stations popular with children heading to school as well as daily commuters.\n\nThe two sides are trading insults and blaming each other. They haven't budged in more than two years of strikes.\n\nI don't think many passengers have any goodwill left at all for either the RMT or South Western Railway - because this month-long strike is going to cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people each day.\n\nUnion members took part in a picket at Waterloo Station\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nVigils for the victims of the London Bridge attack have been held in London and Cambridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were commemorated at the services, which included a minute's silence.\n\nThey were stabbed to death by Usman Khan - convicted of terrorism in 2012 - at a prisoner rehabilitation event.\n\nThe BBC has learned Khan, 28, was put under MI5 investigation when he left prison a year ago but was given one of the lowest priorities.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones were both graduates of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed on Friday.\n\nMr Merritt's family and his girlfriend attended the service in Cambridge outside the Guildhall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were among those at the vigil at the Guildhall in the City of London.\n\nThey were joined London Mayor Sadiq Khan who said the best way to defeat the hatred shown in the attack was to focus on the values of hope, unity and love.\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\n\"The best way to defeat this hatred is not by turning on one another, but it's by focussing on the values that bind us, to take hope from the heroism of ordinary Londoners and our emergency services who ran towards danger, risking their lives to help people they didn't even know,\" he said.\n\nThe London service happened less than a mile from Fishmongers' Hall, where Usman Khan launched his attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A moment of silence was held at the vigil for the victims in London\n\nBishop of London Sarah Mullally said the vigils remembered \"academics celebrating rehabilitation and finding only danger\".\n\nShe paid tribute to the workers at Fishmongers' Hall, who she said went to work to offer hospitality, but found themselves needing to give protection.\n\nA book of condolences is open at Guildhall Art Gallery and members of the public are invited to lay flowers outside nearby Mansion House.\n\nThe vigil in Guildhall Yard in London was led by Bishop of London Sarah Mullally\n\nMembers of the public also paid their tributes\n\nA vigil was also held at Anglia Ruskin University, where Saskia Jones attended before taking her masters at Cambridge\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones over the weekend.\n\nMr Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones a volunteer\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nMr Merritt's father went on to criticise the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers for their coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to review licence conditions placed on convicted terrorists released from jail.\n\nOn Twitter, David Merritt shared images of the Mail and Express front pages - which reported a \"blitz on freed jihadis\" - and wrote: \"Don't use my son's death, and his and his colleague's photos - to promote your vile propaganda. Jack stood against everything you stand for - hatred, division, ignorance.\"\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor Prof Stephen J Toope said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nTwo others grabbed makeshift weapons including a fire extinguisher before the attacker fled down a staircase and then got trapped in reception.\n\nDr Vin Diwakar, medical director for the NHS in London, said two people injured in the attack remained in a stable condition in hospital, while one had been able to return home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nKhan, who was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence was shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relives pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed.\n\nLater that day, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts - but added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nThe man has been named as Nazam Hussain, who was jailed in 2012 alongside Usman Khan and received the same sentence - 16 years with half of that served in prison - after pleading guilty to preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Hussain was recalled to prison due to a suspected breach of his licence conditions. Inquiries by detectives into the potential terrorism offences are continuing, police said.\n\nAnother man, Yayha Rashid, 23, of north London, has been charged following his arrest on Sunday on suspicion of breaching notification requirements.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Rashid's arrest was not connected with the London Bridge attack.\n\nFriday's incident comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nFriday's attack took place close to where eight people died and 48 were injured by three men who drove into pedestrians on London Bridge, before stabbing people in Borough Market in June 2017.", "Andreas Dowling admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent at a previous hearing\n\nA computer enthusiast who made 107 hoax bomb threats to targets including schools, the Palace of Westminster and the Super Bowl, has been jailed.\n\nAndreas Dowling from Torpoint, Cornwall admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent.\n\nHe was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to four years and five months.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice May said the 24-year-old's actions were \"pernicious and nasty\" and calls targeting Jewish schools were racially motivated.\n\nDowling made threats to about 70 schools in the UK, affecting more than 44,000 pupils, and various locations in the US and Canada.\n\nHe was fascinated by computers from the age of six and studied network and software development at Cornwall College. The court was told he also had a good knowledge of security systems.\n\nHis motivations varied and included racism, punishing the US Government for perceived corruption, and closing schools for pupils in return for payment, the court heard.\n\nHe lived with his mother and used software to disguise his voice.\n\nIn 2015 he made repeated bomb threats to the Super Bowl in Arizona but the event went ahead.\n\nThe following year he targeted the Palace of Westminster - his only non-education target in the UK - saying a bomb was attached to a parked vehicle and there was 30 minutes to evacuate, but it was correctly identified as a hoax.\n\nThe court heard Jewish schools were \"over-represented\" as targets in the UK-based hoaxes and were selected \"based on racial or religious identity of the students\".\n\nThe prosecution said threats to the Jewish schools referred to bombs going off at \"4.20pm\", which was a reference to Adolf Hitler's birthday of April 20.\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice May said: \"One has only to imagine the extreme anxiety head teachers must have felt receiving news of a bomb threat and how pernicious and cruel it was to make those calls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angelene Perry's children donned blankets and woolly hats as the family struggled to stay warm\n\nThousands of homes could be without heating for \"several days\" after a gas main failure in central Scotland.\n\nGas infrastructure company SGN said about 8,000 properties in the Falkirk area had been left without supplies,\n\nSGN engineers were working to fix equipment that regulates gas pressure but warned each property would have to be visited.\n\nElectric heaters and cookers were being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children.\n\nTemperatures in the Falkirk area were barely above freezing for much of Sunday and were forecast to fall to minus 2C overnight.\n\nFalkirk Council said schools may have to close on Monday and it would be working with SGN to care for vulnerable people affected.\n\nSGN said it had a large team of engineers working to fix the problem\n\nSGN said homes in Bainsford, Carron, Carronshore, Larbert, Langlees, New Carron Village, Skinflats and Stenhousemuir were affected by a faulty \"gas governor\" which regulates pressure in the network.\n\nIn its latest update it said it would need to visit every property to turn off the gas supply at the meter.\n\n\"With so many homes affected, it's likely you could be without your gas supply for several days,\" it added.\n\n\"We're sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We're doing all we can to restore gas supplies to the area as soon as possible. \"\n\nA customer information centre at the Camelon Community Centre in Falkirk will be stocked with portable cooking and heating appliances for elderly, disabled and chronically sick customers, as well as those with young children or other special needs.\n\nCustomers can request the appliances by calling 0800 9121717.\n\nOne customer, Angelene Perry, who has four young children including a baby, said the family woke on Sunday morning to find the boiler off and displaying an error message.\n\nGas customers woke to find error messages on their boilers\n\nShe said: \"It's really cold in the house and we're all huddled in the living room where we've got a small heater. I've dressed the baby in plenty of clothes and a hat.\n\n\"I spoke to the gas company and was told a valve had been broken by the cold but they didn't know how long it would take to fix it.\n\n\"I think we're going to have to leave here and go to my sister's as we don't have any hot water or anything.\"\n\nFalkirk Council said it had alerted housing and social work services to be on standby to support SGN and was contacting head teachers to let parents know if schools would be affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a list of vulnerable people in the area so we know were people who may have the most difficulty are.\"\n\nHe said schools could potentially close if the buildings are very cold, though all care homes in affected areas are currently fine.\n\n\"We are ready to support SGN in any way we can,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 70 terror attack survivors have demanded that all political parties agree a \"charter\" protecting their wellbeing after the election.\n\nThey want quicker access to mental health support and faster compensation.\n\nThe group, which includes survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing and attacks in London, also says all venues must set up anti-terror security plans.\n\nIts demands follow Friday's London Bridge attack, in which two people were stabbed to death.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, are being honoured in a remembrance service at Guildhall Yard in the City of London on Monday.\n\nBoris Johnson launched an urgent review after it emerged that convicted terrorist Usman Khan - who was shot dead by police following Friday's attack - had been released having served half his sentence.\n\nThe prime minister blamed legislation introduced when Labour was in power and said there were currently 74 people convicted of terrorist offences who had been released early.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the Conservatives of trying to keep people safe \"on the cheap\" and called for more funding for public services, including probation and mental health.\n\nThe survivors' group, which has written to the Daily Telegraph outlining its demands, includes Brendan Cox, whose wife the Labour MP Jo Cox was killed in 2016 and Gina Van Dort, whose husband Chris Dyer died in the Tunisia attack in 2015, in which 30 Britons were murdered.\n\nIts letter says: \"We are sick of the promises [made by politicians] that never materialise. The promises to look after victims who then face months of delay for mental health support or years of waiting for compensation.\n\n\"We ask all of the parties to agree to consult on and implement a new 'Survivors' Charter' that would guarantee basic rights and services for survivors.\"\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders near London Bridge\n\nThe group wants MPs to back \"Martyn's Law\", compelling all owners of events spaces to have in place a \"basic security plan\". This is named after Martyn Hett, killed in the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017, in which 22 people were killed.\n\nThe group says it is \"sick of promises that never materialise\" but praises the \"heroes\" who confronted Khan on London Bridge, preventing him from continuing his attack.\n\nIt also asks the public not to \"give the terrorists what they want by sharing videos or views from attackers or by blaming whole groups or giving in to hate\".\n\nAnd it wants the media to \"allow survivors the space to recover after terrorist incidents and to focus coverage on the heroes rather than the attackers\".\n\nThree people were injured in Friday's attack, which Khan began at a prisoner rehabilitation conference, organised by Cambridge University, at Fishmongers' Hall, next to London Bridge.\n\nTwo of the injured remain in hospital and are described as being in a stable condition.", "Henrik Stiesdal has been thinking about wind turbines since he was a teenager and now he wants to take the next big step.\n\nHenrik thinks offshore wind farming, using floating turbines, is the key and he talked to the BBC's Freya Cole about his vision.\n\nProduced by the BBC's Stephen Hounslow, filmed by Helene Daouphars and edited by Franz Strasser.\n\nClimate Defenders is a five-part series highlighting people who lead the battle to protect the planet from rising temperatures.", "The tiger has walked across two states in India\n\nA tiger has undertaken the longest walk ever recorded in India, travelling some 1,300km (807 miles) in five months.\n\nExperts believe the two-and-a-half-year-old male is possibly in search of prey, territory or a mate.\n\nThe tiger, which is fitted with a radio collar, left its home in a wildlife sanctuary in the western state of Maharashtra in June.\n\nIt was then tracked travelling back and forth over farms, water and highways, and into a neighbouring state.\n\nSo far, the tiger has come into conflict with humans only once, when it \"accidentally injured\" one person who was part of a group that entered a thicket under which it was resting.\n\nThe tiger, called C1, was one of three male cubs born to T1, a female tiger in Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary, home to 10 tigers in Maharashtra state.\n\nHe was fitted with a radio collar in February and continued to roam the forests until the onset of monsoon rains to \"find a suitable area to settle\".\n\nThe animal left the sanctuary at the end of June, and since then has travelled through seven districts in Maharashtra and the neighbouring state, Telangana. At the weekend, he was located in another wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra.\n\nWildlife officials say the big cat has not travelled in a \"linear manner\". He is being tracked through GPS satellite information every hour and has been recorded in more than 5,000 locations in the past nine months.\n\n\"The tiger is possibly looking for territory, food and a mate. Most of the potential tiger areas [in India] are full and new tigers have to explore more,\" Dr Bilal Habib, a senior biologist with the Wildlife Institute of India, told the BBC.\n\nThe tiger hid during the day and travelled in the night time, killing wild pigs and cattle for food.\n\nDr Habib confirmed the one accidental injury to a man who entered the thicket where the tiger was resting, but said there had been no serious conflict with humans.\n\n\"People don't even know that this tiger is travelling in the backyard,\" he said.\n\nIndia is now estimated to be home to 70% of the world's tigers\n\nHowever, wildlife officials say the tiger may need to be captured and relocated to the nearest forest to \"avoid any untoward accidents\", forest officials said.\n\nThey also fear they will lose communication with the animal in the near future as the battery of the radio collar has been drained by 80%.\n\nTiger numbers have increased in India, but their habitat has shrunk and prey is not always plentiful, say experts.\n\nEvery tiger requires a breeding prey population of 500 animals in its territory to ensure a \"food bank\", say experts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tigers 'on brink of extinction' brought to wildlife park", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nTwo Royal Air Force Typhoons caused sonic booms as they went to intercept an aircraft which had lost its radio contact over south-east England.\n\nThe fighters from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were cleared to go supersonic because of the emergency.\n\nThe booms were heard in the early hours across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe aircraft first developed problems as it flew across Germany on its way to the US, said one of its pilots.\n\nThe pilot praised the speed of the RAF response, but said he was shocked when he first saw the fighters.\n\nSteven Giordano told the BBC: \"It took us about 10 minutes to realize that the radio wasn't working and then about 10 minutes to resolve that problem.\n\n\"Amazing how fast the RAF reacted. I applaud them for that.\"\n\nHe said the crew was busy checking frequencies when the radio came back online and had not noticed the RAF fighters.\n\n\"I looked left and about had a heart attack when I saw one - so close - strobes on and with blueish 'glow strips' along the side of his fuselage.\n\n\"We flashed our landing lights to acknowledge and established radio contact on 'guard'... with the fighters.\n\n\"We were already talking to London control at that point.\n\n\"They remained with us for about five minutes.\"\n\nHe said the empty aircraft eventually landed safely in the US.\n\nThe sonic booms woke people at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens sounding immediately after.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn RAF spokeswoman said: \"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Earlier this year, the BBC got exclusive access to the Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon team at RAF Coningsby\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km per hour), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "Fashion retailer Ted Baker has said it may have overstated the value of its stock by between £20m and £25m.\n\nLaw firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to carry out a review, and independent accountants will also be appointed to investigate.\n\nShares in Ted Baker fell to a 10-year low as analysts described the news as \"less than ideal\" and a \"blunder\".\n\nThis year, former boss Ray Kelvin stepped down over misconduct claims, while sales and profits have tumbled.\n\nIn the latest setback, Ted Baker said it may have accounted for up to £25m of stock, mainly clothing, on its balance sheet that did not exist.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"Ted Baker is committed to ensuring the independent review is completed in an efficient and transparent manner and will update the market as appropriate. Whilst the review is ongoing, the company will not comment further.\"\n\nTed Baker added, however, that it did not expect any cash impact from the overstatement of inventory.\n\nThe problems are the latest setback in a difficult year for the firm.\n\nIn March, Mr Kelvin - who had been chief executive since the company's launch in 1988 - resigned over claims he presided over a culture of \"forced hugging\". He has denied all allegations of misconduct.\n\nThe company has also seen its sales, profits and share price tumble. In October, the retailer reported a £23m loss for the six months to 10 August, down from a £24.5m profit last year.\n\nFor years Ted Baker bucked the trend with growing sales and profits, a business which knew its customers and pitched its products at the right price. But it's had a turbulent 2019.\n\nRay Kelvin turned the business from a single store in Glasgow into a global brand. He was one of the UK's most successful retailers. In many ways Ray Kelvin was Ted Baker.\n\nHis departure was bound to have some impact on the brand, especially when it came to innovation and quirkiness.\n\nBut some wonder whether its troubles point to far deeper issues within the business. For instance, has Ted Baker become too expensive in a very competitive market where rivals are discounting like mad. This blunder is the last thing it needs.\n\nNews of the inventory problems come just weeks after the company appointed Rachel Osborne as its new finance head.\n\nThe issue was also mentioned in Ted Baker's last annual report based on information from its auditors, KPMG.\n\nThe accounting giant said it had uncovered mis-statements but concluded they were too small to affect the fashion label's accounts.\n\nRetail analysts at Liberum said: \"Today's latest news from Ted Baker, regarding the overstatement of last year's inventory value, is less than ideal.\"\n\nAJ Bell's investment director Russ Mould said it appeared that \"Ted Baker has found another banana to slip up on\".\n\n\"Discovering that the value of inventory on its balance sheet has been overstated is a huge blunder on its behalf,\" he said.\n\n\"It suggests that the business hasn't got a grip on its numbers which is a bit worrying considering that new chief executive Lindsay Page used to be the finance director.\n\n\"Appointing a law firm and the intention to bring in independent accountants will raise questions about whether more serious problems are bubbling under the surface at the business.\"\n\nThe company is due to publish its latest trading next week.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police said: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".", "Almost 200 countries are meeting in Madrid to discuss what they're doing to tackle climate change.\n\nThe 25th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 25) is a key moment for the world to come together and explore how they'll reduce rising temperatures.\n\nSo what can we expect from it? BBC Minute's Shivani Dave explains.\n\nTo find out more, check out BBC Minute's Instagram page", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge\n\nTributes have been paid to two friends stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, had been at a conference celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Learning Together prison programme when knifeman, 28-year-old Usman Khan, attacked them and three others.\n\nHe was shot dead by police minutes after he fatally wounded the University of Cambridge graduates.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family of Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people,\" they added.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"Saskia had a great passion for providing invaluable support to victims of criminal injustice, which led her to the point of recently applying for the police graduate recruitment programme, wishing to specialise in victim support.\"\n\nMs Jones had completed a Masters degree in criminology in 2018.\n\nProf Loraine Gelsthorpe, director of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology, said Ms Jones had a \"determination to make an enduring and positive impact on society in everything she did\".\n\n\"Saskia's warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation,\" she added.\n\nColleen Moore, a former tutor of Ms Jones at Anglia Ruskin University, paid tribute, telling the BBC: \"She was fearless, she was a warrior, she was going to change the world - maybe she will.\"\n\nShe added: \"She stood out above everyone else, partly because she wanted to. She was not afraid to say anything, there was no fooling her… she said things that she knew would be a bit risky but they were always right.\"\n\n\"She was a lovely, lovely woman, she made me laugh. She called me out on things - a lot of people were scared of me, she wasn't.\"\n\nOlivia Smith, a lecturer in criminology who marked Ms Jones' dissertation when she was at Anglia Ruskin, described her as \"one of a kind\" who \"would have been a force for good\".\n\nDr Smith said: \"I'm so sorry that the world won't get to see what she could have achieved.\n\n\"Saskia's dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it.\"\n\nA friend, Sebastian Lefeuvre, described the young woman's death as senseless.\n\n\"She was just the most perfect soul and she's gone,\" he said.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was a \"friend and colleague\" of Ms Jones.\n\n\"Our beautiful, talented boy, died doing what he loved, surrounded by people he loved and who loved him,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He lit up our lives and the lives of his many friends and colleagues, and we will miss him terribly.\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person who was looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne, and making a career helping people in the criminal justice system.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to the relatives and friends of his friend and colleague who died with him in this incident, to the colleagues who were injured, and to his brilliant, supportive colleagues at the University of Cambridge Department of Criminology.\"\n\nMr Merritt had completed the same masters degree Ms Jones had, but a year earlier.\n\nHe had previously gained a degree in law at the University of Manchester.\n\nOne woman who called Mr Merritt her \"best mate\" described him in a tribute posted on Twitter as \"quite simply the best thing, completely golden\".\n\n\"I wanted so much for you. Your life had so much enjoyment in it, and you gave us all so much happiness,\" she wrote.\n\nThe friend, who calls herself Holl on Twitter, said she went to the pub and \"kept expecting you to turn up, swanky coat, Dr Martens on\".\n\n\"I need you to be known for who you were, your beliefs and voice. I'm so angry Jack,\" she said.\n\n\"Your voice won't be lost, you will never be lost and I will never let you be forgotten.\"\n\nShe added Mr Merritt \"could have done anything\" but \"you chose to help others, you championed the underdog\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nProf Gelsthorpe said: \"Jack's passion for social and criminal justice was infectious. He was deeply creative and courageously engaged with the world, advocating for a politics of love. He worked tirelessly in dark places to pull towards the light.\"\n\nLegal commentator Joshua Rozenberg interviewed Mr Merritt for the BBC in February, when he was working with Learning Together at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk.\n\nMr Rozenberg described him as \"a fine young man, dedicated to improving people's lives\".\n\nRapper Dave said Mr Merritt was \"the best guy\" and the news of his death was \"one of the most painful things\".\n\nDave's Mercury Prize-winning album was inspired by rehabilitation therapy his brother Christopher Omoregie has received while serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nThe Streatham-born rapper said Mr Merritt had \"dedicated his life to helping others\" and it was \"genuinely an honour to have met someone like you\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have paid their respects to two former Cambridge University students who were killed in the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nSaskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, died after they were attacked by a knifeman in the capital on Friday.\n\nCrowds gathered outside the Guildhall in Cambridge city centre and at nearby Anglia Ruskin University where vigils and minutes of silence took place.\n\nAmong the attendees at the Guildhall was the girlfriend of Mr Merritt, Leanne O'Brien.", "Labour has announced plans to slash rail fares by 33% and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 and build a central online booking portal with no booking fees.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nConservative Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the plan was \"desperate\".\n\nThe Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have also pledged to improve transport.\n\nLabour said privatisation had \"created one of the most expensive ticketing systems in the world\", which discriminated against part-time workers, discouraged rail travel and excluded the young and low-paid.\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Our pledge] is much overdue given that passengers have had to suffer rises amounting to about 40% since 2010.\n\n\"And if we really want to make the shifts that we need to get people from cars into public transport this is a major contribution to it, because obviously that's critical to addressing the climate change crisis.\"\n\nLabour's manifesto contained a pledge to make rail travel cheaper but no details about what that would entail.\n\nThe party said the proposal to slash fares by a third would cost £1.5bn per year and be covered by Vehicle Excise Duty - money the Conservatives have earmarked for roads.\n\nMore generally, Labour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe Conservatives' Mr Shapps said: \"This is another desperate attempt from Labour to distract from their inability and unwillingness to be straight with people on where they stand on Brexit, and the fact they would raise taxes on low and middle-income workers across the country.\n\n\"You simply cannot trust [Jeremy] Corbyn to deliver what he claims. His ideological plans would wreck our economy, cost people their livelihoods and with the help of Nicola Sturgeon, would waste the whole of next year on two more chaotic referendums.\"\n\nIn keeping with their proposals to nationalise the railways, Labour's plans to significantly cut fares would see a reverse in the direction of travel for policies on train fares since privatisation.\n\nSince 1995, successive governments have tried to move the day-to-day cost of running the railways onto fare-payers and away from the taxpayer. At that time, it used to be split 50/50 - now it's more like 75% on the shoulders of the passenger.\n\nThe argument goes that by raising fares in line with the Retail Prices Index inflation figure each year, government spending on the railways can be reserved for investment in infrastructure.\n\nAnnounced just two days after the average train fare rise of 2.7% was published, and coinciding with major industrial action on several lines in the run-up to Christmas, Labour's proposal for a significant cut to fares could prove popular with commuters.\n\nThe future of ticketing and rail fares is just one of the issues being looked at by a major review into the UK's railways due to report after the election.\n\nIt is led by Keith Williams, the former boss of British Airways, who is particularly interested in how innovation in aviation fares and ticketing could be applied to the railways.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have pledged to freeze peak-time and season ticket train fares for the next five years and cancel the 2.7% rise in rail tickets from 2 January 2020. They also plan to complete the HS2 high-speed rail link.\n\nAnd the Conservatives are pledging to improve transport links as part of a £3.6m Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 rail project - a goal it shares with the Green Party.\n\nRegulated fares include season tickets for most commuter journeys, as well as saver returns, standard returns and off-peak fares between major cities. They make up about 45% of all fares.\n\nThe average change in these figures is capped at July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure. They are due to rise 2.8% in January.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland regulated fares raised about £3.3bn for the rail operators, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nLabour says they will pay for this by ring-fencing income from Vehicle Excise Duty, which the Conservatives plan to allocate to a special road-building fund from 2020-21 onwards.\n\nSo, an interesting question will be which road projects will be defunded to pay for this pledge.", "A sperm whale which died after stranding on the Isle of Harris had a 100kg \"litter ball\" in its stomach.\n\nFishing nets, rope, packing straps, bags and plastic cups were among the items discovered in a compacted mass.\n\nWhale experts said it was not immediately clear whether the debris had contributed to the whale's death.\n\nBut locals who found the carcass on Seilebost beach on Thursday said it highlighted the wider problem of marine pollution.\n\nNetting and bundles of rope were among the items found inside the whale\n\nDan Parry, who lives in nearby Luskentyre, said: \"It was desperately sad, especially when you saw the fishing nets and debris that came out of its stomach.\n\n\"We walk on these beaches nearly every day and I always take a bag to pick up litter, most of which is fishing-related.\n\n\"This stuff could have easily been netting or the like lost in a storm, we just don't know, but it does show the scale of the problem we have with marine pollution.\"\n\nMembers of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (Smass), an organisation that investigates the deaths of whales and dolphins, dissected the whale to try and determine its cause of death.\n\nA post on the group's Facebook page stated: \"The animal wasn't in particularly poor condition, and whilst it is certainly plausible that this amount of debris was a factor in its live stranding, we actually couldn't find evidence that this had impacted or obstructed the intestines.\n\n\"This amount of plastic in the stomach is nonetheless horrific, must have compromised digestion, and serves to demonstrate yet again the hazards that marine litter and lost or discarded fishing gear can cause to marine life.\"\n\nThe debris is believed to have originated from both the land and the fishing industry.\n\nThe Coastguard and workers from Western Isles Council helped with the examination of the whale on Saturday, as well as digging a giant hole on the beach to bury the sub-adult male.\n\nAccording to Smass figures reports of whale and dolphin strandings in Scotland are on the increase.\n\nThere were 204 reports in 2009, rising to more than 930 in 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yang Hengjun, a popular blogger and former Chinese diplomat, was detained in January\n\nAustralia says the treatment endured by one of its citizens in criminal detention in China is \"unacceptable\".\n\nChinese-Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has been held in Beijing since January. He has been accused of espionage - charges denied by him and the Australian government.\n\nHe now faces daily interrogations while being shackled, and has been increasingly isolated, Canberra said.\n\nAustralia has consistently lobbied Chinese authorities for his release.\n\nBut China's foreign ministry has told Australia to not interfere in the case, and to respect the nation's \"judicial sovereignty\".\n\nOn Monday, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she was \"very concerned\" about his condition, which was reported in a recent consulate visit.\n\nMr Yang, a former Chinese diplomat, has been allowed one visit from Australian officials per month.\n\nBut he has been barred from contact with his lawyers and his family for close to 11 months and has not been given any of their letters.\n\nSupporters say his health has deteriorated in recent months. China formally charged him in August.\n\nMr Yang, a scholar and novelist based in New York, was detained when he travelled to China in January with his wife Yuan Ruijuan and her child.\n\nPrior to the arrest he had maintained an active presence on Chinese social media.\n\nNicknamed \"the democracy peddler\", he maintained a blog on the country's current affairs and international relations. However, he had not been directly critical of Chinese authorities in recent years.\n\nBeijing has held him for alleged \"involvement in criminal activities endangering China's national security\". Australia has called for clarification of the charges.\n\nAustralia has also repeatedly requested that he receive \"basic standards of justice, procedural fairness and humane treatment\" during his detention.\n\nHis lawyers say his treatment has got worse as Chinese authorities attempt to extract a confession from him. His case must be brought before a court by March.\n\nCanberra's rebuke comes as tensions remain heightened with Beijing.\n\nAustralia's political class was rocked last week by allegations of Chinese espionage and interference in domestic issues. China has strongly dismissed the claims as \"imaginary fears\".", "Jack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones was a volunteer on the programme\n\nThe woman killed in Friday's London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones.\n\nThe 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt.\n\nThe boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said \"the building turned into a nightmare\".\n\nToby Williamson, of Fishmongers' Hall, said staff who fought attacker Usman Khan believed he was wearing a bomb.\n\nTwo men took chairs, fire extinguishers and narwhal tusks, which were hanging on the wall, to fend off Khan, driving him out of the building.\n\nKhan, 28, a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018, was later shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe families of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones have both paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary,\" the statement read.\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nMs Jones' family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family statement read.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"This is an extremely painful time for the family. Saskia will leave a huge void in our lives and we would request that our privacy is fully respected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nProfessor Stephen J Toope said the victims were taking part in an event \"to mark five years of the university's Learning Together programme\" - which focuses on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nHe added: \"What should have been a joyous opportunity to celebrate the achievements of this unique and socially transformative programme, hosted by our Institute of Criminology, was instead disrupted by an unspeakable criminal act.\n\n\"Among the three people injured, whose identities have not been publicly released, is a member of university staff.\n\n\"Our university condemns this abhorrent and senseless act of terror.\"\n\nVice-chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope said he only met Jack Merritt once but was \"impressed by his charm\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Prof Toope said the fact Mr Merritt was killed by someone he was trying to help \"is the greatest tragedy of all\".\n\n\"I have profound sadness for the family,\" he added.\n\n\"This is an attack on our community and it was intended, in such, to produce a form of terror and sadness - and it has clearly done that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSpeaking about the chain of events inside Fishmongers' Hall on Friday, where Khan launched his fatal attack, chief executive Mr Williamson praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\n\"There was a scream, there was blood. People thought it was an exercise at first,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\nHe recounted how two men, named as Lukasz and Andy, \"used fire extinguishers, chairs and narwhal tusks ripped off the wall\" to take the fight back to Khan\n\n\"They took a decision, one that enough was enough. They were determined it wasn't going to go on.\"\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people... but in the heat of the moment, people do extraordinary things.\n\n\"I am very proud to know them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid on the south side of London Bridge\n\nEarlier in the day, hundreds attended a service at Southwark Cathedral for the victims of Friday's attack on London Bridge.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said many people were struggling with what happened.\n\nOn Friday, the cathedral was put into lockdown as people ran away from London Bridge.\n\nAs crowds ran towards the cathedral, Mr Nunn recalled having \"that sense of déjà vu\", adding that it brought back memories of the nearby attack in Borough Market two years ago, which left eight dead and 48 injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral said Friday's attack brought back memories of the London Bridge terror attack in 2017\n\nPrayers were held for the victims of the London Bridge attack\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's service, Mr Nunn said \"memories have been stirred and wounds have been re-opened\".\n\nHe added: \"What seemed to have been put to the back of people's minds has now been brought to the fore.\n\n\"We have to stand with them. We have to help bear their pain but also speak to that pain with words of hope.\"\n\nMr Nunn, too, praised the bravery of the people who confronted Khan as he carried out his attack.\n\n\"Every event of this nature produces stories of such selfless acts of bravery.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was cordoned for most of the weekend while forensic officers searched the scene\n\nDr Vin Diwaker, medical director for the NHS in London, gave an update on the conditions of the three people who were injured in the attack.\n\nHe said: \"One of the people injured in the London Bridge incident has now been able to return home.\n\n\"Two people remain in a stable condition and continue to receive expert care in hospital.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Gray spoke to BBC 5 Live about how he helped to stop the London Bridge attacker\n\nOver the weekend counter-terrorism officers searched a house in Stafford linked to Khan and another property in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nOn Sunday night, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with a \"review of existing licence conditions of convicted terrorism offenders\".\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, but Staffordshire Police added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nVehicles abandoned as the attack unfolded on Friday have since been removed, the Met Police has said.\n\nFriday's attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "The Conservatives are publishing plans to improve the UK's border security after Brexit.\n\nIf the party wins the general election, it says it will introduce automated exit and entrance checks.\n\nIt would also make it harder for people with serious criminal convictions to enter the UK from EU countries.\n\nLabour says the UK would no longer have access to EU databases or the European Arrest Warrant, undermining the fight against terror and organised crime.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats say the Conservative plans would lead to \"bureaucracy, more red tape and - because the EU will implement a mirrored system for the British public - fees for anyone travelling to the EU for their holiday\".\n\nAnnouncing the proposals, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"When people voted to leave in 2016, they were voting to take back control of our borders.\n\n\"After Brexit we will introduce an Australian-style points based immigration system and take steps to strengthen our border and improve the security of the UK.\"\n\nThe party says introducing automated entry and exit checks and a requirement for biometric passports will enable the government to \"know who and how many people are in the country, and to identify individuals who have breached the terms of their visa and restrict illegal immigration\".\n\nSuccessive UK governments have attempted to introduce a more reliable system for counting people in and out of the country, with limited success.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would also introduce an American-style visa waiver scheme, called Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which travellers would have to obtain before reaching the UK border.\n\nIt would provide an enhanced ability to screen arrivals against watchlists and block those deemed to be a threat from entering the UK, the party claims.\n\nAs the technology becomes available, a future Conservative government would hope to record biometric data - which might include things like fingerprints or retina scans - on all ETAs to provide a further security layer, although the party does not go into details.\n\nIn last year's White Paper setting out its post-Brexit immigration plans, the government said: \"It is our intention to require EU citizens to obtain an ETA, but we intend to discuss this further with the EU in the next phase of negotiations.\"\n\nMs Patel is also proposing broader powers to deny entry to EU foreign nationals who have serious criminal convictions.\n\nMinor criminality will not be a bar to entry in itself, just as is the case with people from non-EU countries at the moment, but would be assessed on a \"case by case\" basis.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would also end the use of European ID cards as proof of identity for travel at the UK border.\n\nThe plans also include more checks on goods entering the UK from the EU using \"pre-arrival data\", which the Tories say would cut revenue \"leakage\" caused by smuggling by £5bn.\n\nThe details of how this would work will be hammered out in trade talks with the EU and the rest of the world, the party says.\n\nThe BBC's Reality Check team said the £5bn figure was composed of a number of different sources, including £1.5bn of VAT fraud and error in online marketplaces.\n\nThere is also a tension between gathering data and keeping trade flowing smoothly without burdening business with red tape.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"Tory claims to be strengthening the border through their sell-out Brexit deal are groundless.\"\n\n\"By quitting the entire system of EU security and justice, we will no longer have real-time access to a host of critical databases or access to the European Arrest Warrant,\" she said.\n\n\"This will undermine the ability of our police and border agencies to apprehend terrorists and organised criminals, and could even make us a safe haven for fugitives fleeing the justice systems in the EU.\"\n• None Why don't we know how many people 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