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BBC News", "Climate watchdog urges PM to get back on track - BBC News", "Brussels fish talks: New quotas will see cod landings cut by half - BBC News", "Labour leadership: Emily Thornberry to run for Labour leadership - BBC News", "Whirlpool boss apologises for recalling machines at Christmas - BBC News", "Neil Shipperley sentenced for public masturbation - BBC News", "Carabao Cup semi-finals: Man City face Man Utd, Leicester draw Aston Villa - BBC Sport", "Brexit: Emily Thornberry warned Labour of dangers of neutral Brexit stance - BBC News", "Virgin Trains: Final service departs as UK's longest-running rail franchise ends - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua beats Andy Ruiz Jr to reclaim heavyweight world titles - BBC Sport", "General election 2019: Tory chairman 'sorry' for Islamophobia in party - BBC News", "United Airlines passenger stung by scorpion during flight - BBC News", "Man missing overnight after two rescued in Firth of Clyde - BBC News", "General Election 2019: Will there be checks on goods entering NI? - 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BBC News", "Alleged neo-Nazi Andrew Dymock in court over terror charges - BBC News", "General election 2019: Andrew Neil issues interview challenge to Johnson - BBC News", "Everton sack Marco Silva as manager after 18 months in charge - BBC Sport", "General election 2019: Nigel Farage defends decision not to contest Tory seats - BBC News", "Matt Baker fights tears in One Show exit speech - BBC News", "General election 2019: Swinson sorry for Lib Dem support for coalition benefit cuts - BBC News", "Trio admit Owen Jones attack but deny homophobic motive - BBC News", "Arsenal 1-2 Brighton: Maupay seals victory for Seagulls - BBC Sport", "Sturgeon denies claims of police crisis - BBC News", "Labour plans will 'slow' climate change fight, says energy firm - BBC News", "Joshua v Ruiz II: Anthony Joshua responds to 'sportswashing' Saudi human rights claims - BBC Sport", "Saudi Aramco raises $25.6bn in world's biggest share sale - BBC News", "George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin's family for $100m - 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BBC News", "Treasury 'to rewrite rules to favour the North' - BBC News", "Christmas tree decorated in Chernobyl 'ghost town' - BBC News", "Kazakhstan country profile - BBC News", "PDC Darts Championship: Fallon Sherrock loses to Chris Dobey in third round - BBC Sport", "NHS to offer cancer patients 'prehab' fitness plan 'to boost recovery' - BBC News", "New Year Honours 2020: Newton-John and England cricketers on list - BBC News", "Gavin and Stacey top Christmas Day TV ratings - BBC News", "US base near N Korea in emergency siren 'error' - BBC News", "Brexit: EU chief says 2020 trade talks deadline may need to be extended - BBC News", "Disney characters inappropriately touched at theme parks - BBC News", "Channel migrants: More than 60 people found on Boxing Day - BBC News", "Battersea shooting: Man killed in front of family - BBC News", "'Feels surreal to see Jill Scott MBE' - BBC News", "Home Alone 2: Canada's CBC broadcaster defends cutting Trump scene - BBC News", "Costa del Sol: Tributes paid to man and two children who drowned at resort - 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place in the run-up to Christmas.", "NHS England says access to Epidyolex has been fast-tracked and will be available from 6 January.", "The duke, 98, was admitted in relation to a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace has said.", "The PM says Brexit is \"one step closer\" after MPs back his EU withdrawal bill by a majority of 124.", "A school in a deprived area \"levels the playing field\" by paying for private tutors.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.", "John Crilly, who fought the London Bridge attacker, says he shouted for police to shoot Usman Khan.", "Critics say the announcement was \"cynically timed\", but Boris Johnson defends the decision.", "The Haitian-American model was an advocate for women of colour and disabled women in fashion.", "Ministers have drawn up the plans amid growing concerns more people are struggling to pay their debts.", "The uncrewed demonstration of Boeing's Starliner capsule is cut short because of technical problems.", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.", "The legislation makes it easier to dismiss judges who question the ruling party's judicial reforms.", "The MoD says the entrance does not meet the security standards required by US and UK armed forces.", "Michael Gerard Owens must serve at least 16 years in prison for the murder of Robert Flowerday.", "One man was found dead in Elstree on Friday while another was found in Barnet on Thursday.", "BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty looks at the life of 1966 World Cup winner Martin Peters, who has died aged 76.", "The M23 in West Sussex reopens as flooding causes road and rail disruption across the South East.", "Four years late and £100m over budget - but who is to blame for the problems at Ferguson shipyard?", "Boris Johnson stresses the UK commitment to Nato on a visit to the alliance's mission in Estonia.", "The duke, 98, was admitted in 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members filmed themselves living a lavish lifestyle in Spain and Monaco.", "Darryn Frost reveals for the first time how he tackled Usman Khan, despite thinking he had a suicide vest.", "Dubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier.", "Fallon Sherrock beats the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.", "Some of the 12 fire crews called in Cornwall had to withdraw over fears the manor might collapse.", "The lawyer for five of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers says he wants the Duke of York to testify in court cases.", "A Kenyan fisherman is airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.", "Nurses are taking the unprecedented action following a four-week ballot of members.", "Andreas Dowling admitted carrying out a campaign of bomb hoaxes in Britain, US and Canada.", "Patricia Tulip killed her best friend Joyce Nainby when she hit the accelerator instead of the brake.", "A bread roll was thrown at The Mash Report star after his Brexit jokes went down badly.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg said that adults should stop making young people \"angry\" over global warming.", "The family of Usman Khan express condolences to his victims, as a man who fought Khan speaks out.", "Speaking at the 70th anniversary of Nato trump said that the NHS is not on the trade talk table.", "Provisional data suggests the decade from 2010-2019 is the warmest yet recorded.", "Five others were hurt and police want to speak to Terry Glover, 51, about the crash near a school.", "The Nordic nation's PM says modern governments need to value green energy and family welfare more.", "A Welsh Tory election candidate criticises Boris Johnson's language after the London Bridge attack.", "Two state-funded schools are accused of pressurising parents to take their children out of lessons.", "A fashion industry executive is hoping to make clothing rental a popular trend in the UK.", "Sales volumes over the weekend in the UK rose by more than 7% from last year, Barclaycard says.", "Tensions with Russia and Turkey give Nato stress as it shapes its new role, Jonathan Marcus writes.", "Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping back from the day-to-day running of Google's parent company.", "The Tesla boss is due to appear in court accused of defaming a British man during a 2018 cave rescue.", "The Reunion Nugget, a 121g lump of pure gold, was discovered in a Scottish river in May this year.", "The incredible aircraft, vehicles and entourage the US president brings with him.", "New Zealand seal a 1-0 series win over England as Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor centuries ensure a draw in the second Test in Hamilton.", "Children born this year expected to live shorter lives than previously thought, say official stats.", "As wicketkeeper for England Geraint Jones won the Ashes but is now facing a very different challenge.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Drake and Ariana Grande are among the most popular artists of the moment.", "The dog's owner was not in but was alerted by a camera feeding live images to their mobile phone.", "The Conservative Party complained about its representation in the Channel 4 News Climate Debate.", "Four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman were also struck by a Ford KA outside a school in Essex.", "Harley Watson's family say the 12-year-old was a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".", "Leader Jo Swinson says her party has taken \"swift action\" following an \"unacceptable\" incident.", "Disability campaigners say it was \"bizarre\" to limit video views to reduce bullying on the app.", "Les Rutherford escaped the bombing in Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door.", "The Labour leader apologises after being pressed on ITV's This Morning by Phillip Schofield.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Andrew \"Greedy\" Smith died of a heart attack while driving in Sydney.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.", "The heavily pregnant woman was struck by a car as she cycled on a road in Leicester.", "Europeans in the UK give their views about a British general election which could decide Brexit.", "More than 93,000 suspects of crimes including rape and murder have been freed without restrictions.", "The first eyewitness from inside Fishmongers' Hall recounts the attack that claimed two lives.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The media giant says 2,000 jobs will be created near the existing production site north of London.", "Tables and signs were thrown leaving witnesses \"terrified\" as the men fought in the street.", "The corporation promises a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation on screen.", "Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.", "The US President says the NHS will not feature in trade talks but Labour says it still has concerns.", "USA's Megan Rapinoe has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.", "The screening programme, launched after the disease killed a woman, will now include children.", "How Virginia Giuffre's account of what happened in March 2001 is very different from Prince Andrew's.", "A campaigner wants judges to rule in favour of having an \"X\" category to recognise non-gendered identity.", "Leanne O'Brien, whose boyfriend died in the London Bridge attack, promises to \"make a difference\".", "Latest news from general election campaigning on Tuesday - as Nato leaders gathered in London.", "The singer says she turned to alcohol after struggling to cope with life in the spotlight.", "Lil Thomas has just turned 100 but is still the \"little sister\" to Win, who is 108.", "A minister said the show \"was not Malaysian culture...the majority of Malaysians are Muslim\".", "A judge's ruling over the IT system comes after the Post Office offered a £58m deal for workers.", "Compared with last year, 20,000 fewer people were in work, but the rate is close to historic highs.", "Elizabeth Steel left the Collie cross without food or water while she went away for the weekend.", "Nora Quoirin's family say that many serious questions remain about her disappearance.", "The presenter won't host the next series of the ITV2 show after being charged with assault.", "PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as the administrator while the troubled firm looks for a buyer.", "Liam Whoriskey was found guilty of the manslaughter of three-year-old Kayden McGuinness.", "Russia's state media reports that the matter was resolved after Twitch removed pirated recordings.", "Far-right interior minister Mart Helme described Finland's PM Sanna Marin as \"a sales girl\".", "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.", "Natalie Elphicke says French authorities must do more to \"stop illegal departures from shores\".", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "There may be outrage in Boris Johnson's planned changes, but there is unlikely to be surprise.", "The Northern Ireland secretary met the leaders of the five biggest parties at Stormont on Monday.", "Firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue the boy who was trapped between two buildings.", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan in the heart after they brushed past each other at a shopping centre.", "Pope Francis lifts the secrecy rule that critics said protected some abusers from investigation.", "Employment rises to all-time high, while wage growth slows less sharply from August to October.", "The Committee on Climate Change says the 2045 date for net-zero emissions is a \"step-change in ambition\" for Scotland.", "The Love Island host has been the subject of a \"witch hunt\", partner Lewis Burton says.", "Gwybodaeth am Etholiad Cyffredinol 2019, gan gynnwys canlyniadau a dadansoddi.", "A review also says the house builder's corporate culture needs to change.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "A charity says the deaths are \"not acceptable\" and urges visitors to keep their distance.", "RCN nurses in NI are set to strike for the first time on Wednesday amid complaints about pay.", "The names and nationalities of 17 people have been released, including two who remain missing.", "Serie A is criticised for a \"misguided\" anti-racism campaign using posters of monkeys, with anti-discriminatory body Fare calling it \"a sick joke\".", "He succeeds Alun Cairns who resigned amid a row over an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.", "Sian Tarrant's job is to maintain a 13-mile wall which keeps North Ronaldsay's rare sheep on the beach.", "Several mobile phone providers offer handsets that cannot easily be transferred to a new network.", "Boris Johnson is cheered by his triumphant party, while Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to Labour MPs who lost their seats last week.", "The jobless rate now stands at 3.7%, just below the UK figure of 3.8%, according to official figures.", "A former insider tells Panorama that SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, \"has to be shut down\".", "Cutbacks to the justice system mean more rape victims are being let down by the courts, says a report.", "Discounting by retailers in the run-up to Christmas is predicted to reach record heights in 2019.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "Admiral Tony Radakin describes Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in June as \"outrageous\".", "An ex-pro talks about pressure in the sport amid a rise in footballers seeking mental health help.", "A lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and others of using cobalt mined by child labour.", "Stickers bearing the slogan \"It's okay to be white\" appeared throughout Perth city centre at the weekend.", "John Worboys is given two life sentences for drugging women with intent to sexually assault them.", "The body of former British soldier James Le Mesurier was found near his Istanbul flat in November.", "Global gender inequality will take a century to eradicate and the UK's ranking has fallen six places.", "Irish Rail said concerns over scalding meant customers could not refill reusable cups on the Enterprise.", "The 30-year-old was on the phone outside her work when the three-seater sofa landed on her.", "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.", "The Amazon-owned streaming giant is facing claims it illegally broadcast matches.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "AC Milan say they \"strongly disagree\" with, and were not consulted about, the use of monkeys in a Serie A anti-racism campaign.", "The Reverend Richard Coles said his partner David had been \"ill for a while\".", "Jeff Noel says it is unfortunate timing, but after problems with some machines, customer safety comes first.", "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.", "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", "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", "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", "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", "Olivia Wilde says she did not intend to suggest the late reporter she plays \"traded sex for tips\".", "A busy night of vote counting and election results.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "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", "The jury found Holly Strawbridge guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.", "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", "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", "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", "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", "He said the teenage activist - who won Time Person of the Year - had an \"anger management problem\".", "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", "A study of North America's only native parrot confirms its disappearance was down to humans alone.", "TV presenter Caroline Flack was charged with assault after an incident at her Islington home.", "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", "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", "The SNP makes big gains across Scotland, including the defeat of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.", "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", "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", "Boris Johnson's strong win provides only temporary relief for EU leaders wrestling with Brexit.", "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", "Promises have been made and plans put in place that will have an effect on your finances after the election.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Nigel Farage claims the Brexit Party is responsible for the Conservatives' majority in Parliament.", "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", "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 says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "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.", "Jailed banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva says she has been unfairly targeted by the National Crime Agency.", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "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", "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.", "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", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "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", "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.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "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.", "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 DUP's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his seat to Sinn Féin.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "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", "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", "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", "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", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "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", "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", "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", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "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", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "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", "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", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Rohingya refugee Hasina Begun says Myanmar troops set her village alight and opened fire.", "Brian Taylor gives insight into the results of the 2019 general election in Scotland.", "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", "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", "With all seats declared, the Tory party have a majority of 80 - the largest since 1987.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "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 shadow chancellor says the exit poll predicting large Conservative gains has come has a shock.", "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", "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", "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 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", "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 last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "Katherine Jenkins had been in London to perform at a carol concert when she was attacked.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "The number of Scots registered to vote in the general election is up by 120,000, new figures show.", "Albanian boys who jumped to safety and lost family members delight in meeting Juventus stars.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "The award-winning actor, best known for playing Rachel's dad in Friends, had a decorated career.", "Hiker Audrey Schoeman's heart stopped beating for six hours - but doctors saved her life.", "Jo Swinson's party would scrap business rates and provide greater support for entrepreneurs.", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "Britain's Anthony Joshua regains his heavyweight world titles by beating Andy Ruiz Jr over 12 rounds in Saudi Arabia.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "Stolen Lottie is a therapy dog and \"best friend\" to 11-year-old Chloe Hopkins.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "Party pledges more government funding for amateur football as it eyes a 2030 tournament bid.", "The US president vowed to label Mexican drug gangs as terrorists after US citizens were ambushed.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "The use 21 separate electronic record systems in NHS hospitals across England 'could lead to errors'.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "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.", "Action 4 Equality Scotland said the move followed an approach by the Financial Conduct Authority.", "Journeys over the two Severn Crossings have increased since the £5.60 toll was axed a year ago.", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "The latest developments on the last weekend of campaigning before voters go to the polls on Thursday.", "The BBC's David Shukman returns to the Sermilik glacier that he last visited in 2004.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "Manchester United dent neighbours Manchester City's Premier League title hopes with a superb counter-attacking victory in the Manchester derby.", "They make up 51% of the population but what are the parties offering to women this election?", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Friends of the Earth rates the party above the Greens and Lib Dems in its environment policy survey.", "Willis also co-wrote hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and is a Songwriters Hall of Fame member.", "A number of vehicles were involved in the crash on the northbound stretch of the M1 at about 23:15 GMT.", "Ben Stokes returns to full training with England as they prepare for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa, after his father shows signs of improvement in hospital.", "Author Ari Behn and the king's eldest child, Princess Martha Louise, divorced in 2017.", "The Duke of Edinburgh returns to Sandringham for Christmas after four nights in a London hospital.", "Burkina Faso declares two days of national mourning after 35 people, 31 of them women, were killed.", "There is no sign Anthony Knott left the Sussex town he was visiting on a Christmas work night out.", "A relaxed family photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge is released for Christmas.", "Donald Trump confessed that he is yet to buy a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.", "A \"serious\" collision shut a stretch of the busy motorway near Wakefield on Christmas Day.", "Past competitors took to the dance floor again in a bid to lift the show's star-shaped trophy.", "A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk shortly on Christmas Eve.", "Crowds waited for hours to greet the Royal Family - the first the young royals had attended.", "Her lawyer says TV presenter Christian Jessen tweeted a \"false and highly defamatory allegation\".", "A man believed to be in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's attack.", "The Duke of Edinburgh left the King Edward VII's Hospital after four nights of \"observation and treatment\".", "Pots, jugs and jewellery are among the items carefully dug up from burial sites in Warwickshire.", "Andrew Miller was elected in 1992 and served under five Labour leaders before standing down in 2015.", "\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" one witness said.", "The family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they celebrate Christmas.", "A British man and his two children were found unresponsive in a pool at a hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol.", "The monarch says \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.", "The jail where the disgraced publicist was held is told to improve its inmate healthcare provision.", "Experts believe the marsupial could have been taken by a wolf named August, known to roam the area.", "Tony Occleshaw, 64, is at home having end-of-life care for bladder cancer.", "In his Christmas Day message, Francis says a more compassionate attitude can help end suffering.", "Police battle activists again as Hong Kong's leader accuses \"reckless rioters\" of ruining Christmas.", "The individual stories and their impact were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "Three members of the same family were found in a Costa del Sol swimming pool on Christmas Eve.", "The Canadian pop star announces he is releasing a single in January and will go on tour from May.", "Anastasia Uglow, 17, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, police say.", "The company is recalling half a million washing machines but some MPs are calling on it to do more.", "Critics say there are still national security questions over the sale of Cobham to a US equity firm.", "The 16-year-old was a passenger in one of three cars which collided on the A9 north of Inverness.", "Homes and cars are damaged as more than 90 flood warnings are in place in the run-up to Christmas.", "Evacuating residents and their pets have found safety and support in a store's car park.", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.", "A 25-year-old man is arrested and released as investigations continue into the crash on Friday.", "The 27-year-old had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car while cycling through Texas.", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.", "Police say the injured man was arrested on suspicion of murdering the two women in Crawley Down.", "One man was found dead in Elstree on Friday while another was found in Barnet on Thursday.", "The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win over Tottenham is marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.", "BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty looks at the life of 1966 World Cup winner Martin Peters, who has died aged 76.", "His daughter, presenter Fern Britton, confirms that the Don't Wait Up star died early on Sunday.", "Harry died after a crash involving a US diplomat's wife and his family met Priti Patel in extradition talks.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the ISS.", "Gemma Williams says the \"generosity of the community is completely unbelievable\".", "France's president urges striking transport unions to call a truce \"out of respect for families\".", "Boris Johnson stresses the UK commitment to Nato on a visit to the alliance's mission in Estonia.", "The Queen is in Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "The 32-year-old was arrested after an incident outside a bar in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil visits Balmoral where residents have been battling fires.", "The six-year-old found a hand-written message from Chinese prisoners in a box of Christmas cards.", "A National Express coach and car were engulfed in flames after a crash in south-west London.", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "World Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.", "A mother and her three sons had to be rescued from their car as nearly 80 flood warnings are issued.", "The 22-year-old escaped injury when his car crashed through the gates of a Cardiff park.", "Familiar old films or a favourite festive song can help those with dementia reconnect with family and friends.", "The state-owned company that procures ferries for Cal-Mac was prepared to stop work at Ferguson yard.", "Chemicals in Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll may affect future fertility, experts warn.", "The Paris cathedral will miss its first Christmas Mass in more than 200 years as repairs continue.", "Australia's prime minister apologised after taking a holiday in Hawaii while wildfires raged at home.", "Roberto Firmino scores in extra time as Liverpool claim their first Fifa Club World Cup triumph against Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.", "Dubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier.", "Fallon Sherrock beats the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.", "Some of the 12 fire crews called in Cornwall had to withdraw over fears the manor might collapse.", "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.", "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.", "The veteran actor, best known as Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, dies after a short illness.", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "Arsenal distance the club from comments made by midfielder Mesut Ozil on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "The star, who played Annie Sugden, was part of the soap from its launch as Emmerdale Farm in 1972.", "One of the women is seriously injured in hospital, police say.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "Boris Johnson tells Nicola Sturgeon in a phone call that he has \"unwavering commitment\" to the union despite the SNP's election success.", "Boris Johnson was in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's former constituency, after the Tories' biggest election win in more than 30 years.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "Boris Johnson's strong win provides only temporary relief for EU leaders wrestling with Brexit.", "Fire warnings are in place for many areas including Perth, where temperatures are set to remain high.", "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.", "New rail timetables come in on Sunday, with more and speedier services promised on some routes.", "Finnish Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni deletes her poll on repatriating IS-linked women and children.", "Voters in Leigh are happy to have a Tory MP and are \"hoping that there's going to be a big change\".", "The jury found Holly Strawbridge guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.", "The results demonstrated the SNP's argument that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.", "Brian Taylor assesses the significance of the Scottish National Party's success in the general election.", "More than three-quarters of consumers who haggled were offered a better deal, according to Which?", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "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.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "Dennis Skinner, known as the Beast of Bolsover, has lost his seat after 49 years. What went wrong?", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "Why did the Conservatives win a seat they did not target and one they had never won before?", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "TV presenter Caroline Flack was charged with assault after an incident at her Islington home.", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "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.", "The kids laughed a lot, shouted a great deal and talked through the bits they found boring.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "The veteran singer beats Robbie Williams and The Who to the UK number one spot in a close race.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "Boris Johnson's Brexit U-turn on Northern Ireland is being downplayed as the election looms.", "The \"grandmother effect\" was even stronger with grandmothers that had gone through the menopause.", "Locals report the \"worst day yet\" of a haze that has sparked health problems and forced evacuations.", "The fire broke out on Glasgow's Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the Clyde on Monday evening.", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "The patient said she was \"traumatised\" after feeling a cut in her belly button during surgery.", "The chief executive and executive chairman at the High Street fashion retailer are to step down.", "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", "With just two days until the general election, Scotland's main party leaders faced questions from a live studio audience.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "Updates as politicians continued to seek voters' support, ahead of Thursday's poll.", "The man opened fire at the hospital in Ostrava before going on the run and shooting himself dead.", "Joe Ousalice was discharged in 1993 when there was a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner?", "Drax, which generates 5% of UK power, says it will capture more carbon than it produces by 2030.", "What happened when young voters challenged politicians representing the main seven parties?", "Carl Roberts visits a Swansea primary school to find out what pupils think about the election.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "Twitter abuse of election candidates has escalated during the campaign, with Conservatives seeing the biggest rise, research suggests.", "Volunteers have been working since the 1970s to rebuild a railway line between two towns.", "One of New Zealand's most active volcanoes has erupted, claiming the lives of tourists.", "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.", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "Banksy praises Brummies' generosity as he reveals a Christmas-themed work in the city.", "The economy sees the weakest three months for more than a decade as growth flatlines.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "The body issuing refunds to customers of the tour operator has apologised for payment delays.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "Police in Chicago say the rapper suffered a seizure as they questioned his entourage in an airport.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "More than half the people on the island were Australian, with others from the US, the UK, and elsewhere.", "The Brexit Party leader says his party can win seats if people vote \"tactically and sensibly\".", "Rob Brydon had no clue there were plans for a Christmas special until the script was written.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "House Democrats bring two charges, obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, against the US president.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "The PM's bizarre response to questions about hospital photograph was a gift to Labour.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "John Allen, who is already serving a life sentence, abused five boys between 1976 and 1992.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "A minute's applause is held at Harley Watson's school, a week after his death.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Tuition fees in England would also be scrapped as part of a plan to make education \"free for life\".", "The 33-year-old is arrested at a property in Bristol as part of a planned operation, police say.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "Indigenous people come to COP25 to protest plans to expand oil production in the western Amazon.", "Climate change could make the problem worse, multiplying the misery for displaced people.", "Dave Merritt accuses Boris Johnson of using his son Jack's death to \"score points\" in the election.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "Jasmine Francis-Smith gave birth after her fertilized egg had been incubated by her wife Donna.", "Key dates in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization", "Nurses are taking the unprecedented action following a four-week ballot of members.", "It is believed to be the final member of a group of three who went missing two weeks ago, police say.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "A bread roll was thrown at The Mash Report star after his Brexit jokes went down badly.", "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.", "Police say the INLA and Óglaigh na hÉireann were behind the killing of Jim Donegan a year ago.", "Election campaign updates - including interviews with Boris Johnson, Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon.", "Firefighters faced \"challenging conditions\" and took just over four hours to tackle the fire.", "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\".", "A Welsh Tory election candidate criticises Boris Johnson's language after the London Bridge attack.", "Usman Khan went on counter-terror schemes in prison which have not been evaluated, the BBC finds.", "Launching the UUP manifesto, Steve Aiken says he hopes party MPs will stop the current Brexit deal.", "Tensions with Russia and Turkey give Nato stress as it shapes its new role, Jonathan Marcus writes.", "Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping back from the day-to-day running of Google's parent company.", "The Reunion Nugget, a 121g lump of pure gold, was discovered in a Scottish river in May this year.", "The party promises new spending on trains, buses and trams outside London.", "A Christmas ad for the exercise bike firm has been mocked on social media as being \"out of touch\".", "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.", "Boris Johnson insists the alliance is \"the most successful in history\", despite tensions between members.", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 women and children aged 11 to 71.", "It is believed the patient contracted the infection while visiting Nigeria, Public Health England said.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "Harley Watson's family say the 12-year-old was a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".", "The bank says it makes payments above £30 without a bank card or mobile possible for the first time.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "Julian Smith is in Belfast where he met the NI Civil Service and unions over ongoing industrial action.", "Les Rutherford escaped the bombing in Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door.", "The prime minister set out his plan just hours after the US warned France of import tariffs.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "The Tesla founder says his tweet about a British cave diver was responding to \"an unprovoked attack\".", "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.", "Five men are on trial accused of sexually abusing and raping a girl in Telford.", "The body is believed to be Claire Hockridge, according to Northern Territory Police", "Launching his party's manifesto, Colum Eastwood says \"decisions are made by those who show up\".", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Lisa Smith from Dundalk is charged with committing a terrorist offence outside of Ireland.", "More than 93,000 suspects of crimes including rape and murder have been freed without restrictions.", "Nicola Sturgeon, Jackson Carlaw, Richard Leonard and Willie Rennie debated on STV ahead of the general election.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Nato continues to provide \"peace and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people.\"", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "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.", "The greetings card chain will be sold back to its existing owners, saving 2,500 jobs.", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "The TV advert received the third highest number of complaints this year, the regulator says.", "Mr Trump labelled the French president's comments over the defence grouping \"nasty, insulting, and disrespectful\".", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Farieissia Martin's mental health was not evaluated when she was convicted of murdering her ex.", "David Genney spotted the fungus while on a trail in the Ben Wyvis National Nature Reserve in the Highlands.", "Three members of the same family were found in a Costa del Sol swimming pool on Christmas Eve.", "Willis also co-wrote hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and is a Songwriters Hall of Fame member.", "Irish premier Leo Varadkar says he will not dismiss the idea of building a bridge but insists the UK must pay for it.", "Glencoe Mountain Resort says the base station restaurant was \"almost completely\" destroyed.", "The man, who had been on the run for five years, was detained at a restaurant in The Hague.", "The two male victims were found within five miles of each other on 19 and 20 December.", "Author Ari Behn and the king's eldest child, Princess Martha Louise, divorced in 2017.", "A severe reaction to nuts left a woman in her 20s with brain injuries.", "A relaxed family photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge is released for Christmas.", "In an annular eclipse the moon covers the centre of the Sun, giving the appearance of a bright ring.", "A \"serious\" collision shut a stretch of the busy motorway near Wakefield on Christmas Day.", "The boat with 71 migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan sank in Lake Van at night.", "Complaints about racism often become \"one word against another\", a coach says.", "Past competitors took to the dance floor again in a bid to lift the show's star-shaped trophy.", "Crowds waited for hours to greet the Royal Family - the first the young royals had attended.", "A 75-year-old man is being held for questioning following the death in north Wales.", "A man believed to be in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.", "Thousands are stranded at ports and more than 100 families are without a home this Christmas.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's attack.", "Sam Curran stars with the ball as England make a promising start against South Africa in the first Test of the series in Centurion.", "It's the first Christmas tree to be put up in Pripyat since the 1986 nuclear disaster.", "There was a rise in the number of people seeking advice about sexual abuse and mental health after BBC shows.", "The animals were moved from a South Africa park in the hope they would be protected from poachers.", "The show toppled the Queen's Christmas Broadcast and is the most-watched Christmas show in 11 years.", "The family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they celebrate Christmas.", "The Home Office has been accused of trying to \"whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".", "The monarch says \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.", "Neighbours described hearing gunshots on Christmas Eve and a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.", "Experts believe the marsupial could have been taken by a wolf named August, known to roam the area.", "Gabriel Diya, a pastor in London, and two of his children died in a resort pool on the Costa del Sol.", "In his Christmas Day message, Francis says a more compassionate attitude can help end suffering.", "Retail analysts said Boxing Day footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011.", "The individual stories and their impact were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.", "The Chinese man, who murdered a family of four, is the first foreigner to be executed in 10 years.", "The Russian leader's war of words with Poland focuses on events from the distant past.", "Dr Rowan Williams says some people don't believe in the climate crisis as it is hard to face up to.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says it is \"a crime\" that some Premier League teams have to play two games in three days over the festive period.", "The story of how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami unfolded, by those who survived.", "The charity says it is aware of Jolyon Maugham's \"distressing\" claim, which was posted on Twitter.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "Thousands will be offered fitness programmes in the hope of \"priming\" them for their recovery.", "Former prime minister Tony Blair says Labour \"let our country down\" at the general election.", "Super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor says he is \"ashamed\" and will take time off to reflect on his actions.", "Pupils were asked to imagine themselves being a parent of a Manchester Arena bombing victim.", "Nora Quoirin's family say that many serious questions remain about her disappearance.", "The presenter won't host the next series of the ITV2 show after being charged with assault.", "The Ministry of Justice said Ali Zahawy faces disciplinary action over the message filmed in jail.", "The prosecution had argued the 28-year-old was in a \"drugged-up state\" after taking tramadol.", "Fallon Sherrock says female darts players need \"more opportunities\" after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.", "Jordan Davies, 23, is described by his family as a \"loving son, brother and father\".", "The Hotpoint and Indesit washing machine recall starts in January, but some customers are still waiting for answers.", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan in the heart after they brushed past each other at a shopping centre.", "An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.", "The Stepney-born entertainer became a TV regular after enjoying musical success in the early 1960s.", "Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.", "Influencers including Lauren Goodger are filmed about promoting a drink containing cyanide.", "Stephen Graham, Charlotte Riley and Joe Alwyn discuss the darker, more psychological take on Charles Dickens' classic novel.", "The co-founder of the Bet365 website receives another huge pay award as online gambling booms.", "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit policy left voters \"without guidance and leadership\".", "Homeowners, including former customers of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, claim they have been overcharged.", "Swearing in of new MPs concludes as ex-PM Tony Blair weighs in on how Labour should react to its election defeat.", "The party's choice to head a probe into Islamophobia and other prejudices does not \"bode well\", Tory peer says.", "Harris James was mistakenly treated for pneumonia when he had a heart condition.", "Scientists say it's 'not a myth' that people on a vegan diet need extra vitamin B12.", "Hundreds of passengers struggled to get home from Victoria and London Bridge stations following a major signal failure.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "Lady Hale warns against moving towards a US-style Supreme Court, in her last speech as the UK's top judge.", "Anne and Julia care for husbands who have dementia and face agonising decisions about the future.", "RCN nurses in NI are set to strike for the first time on Wednesday amid complaints about pay.", "PC Amjad Ditta, a serving officer at the time of his alleged offence, has been suspended from duty.", "The party's candidates won \"unwinnable\" seats in the North East - but they have a lot to prove.", "Healthcare workers across Northern Ireland are set to strike on Wednesday.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "Emma Dent Coad says she chose not to reveal her condition to prevent it becoming a campaign issue.", "Nearly half of GPs now work part-time with a drive to increase numbers under threat, regulators warn.", "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 match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had been postponed in October because of unrest.", "Cutbacks to the justice system mean more rape victims are being let down by the courts, says a report.", "The three Extinction Rebellion activists halted services by gluing themselves to a train in London.", "We did nothing wrong, Donald Trump tells supporters in Michigan after historic vote in House.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "It may be Wales' smallest school, but it still plans a Christmas show to remember.", "Dancers at Vienna State Opera's academy were encouraged to smoke to stay slim, a report finds.", "John Worboys is given two life sentences for drugging women with intent to sexually assault them.", "British American Tobacco and three other vaping companies have posts promoting e-cigarettes banned.", "Christine Edwards lost \"everything\" when her husband Vaughan was killed in a Christmas party attack.", "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.", "Action by UNITE health workers and NIPSA ambulance staff will continue into Thursday morning.", "Ryan's World is ranked number one for the second year in a row.", "The comments from the UK's official climate come ahead of a global climate conference in Glasgow.", "Talks in Brussels end with agreement that 2020 will see far fewer fish landed from the North Sea.", "The shadow foreign secretary tells the BBC she can win the contest \"from the heart of the party\".", "Jeff Noel says it is unfortunate timing, but after problems with some machines, customer safety comes first.", "Ex-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley performed a sex act in front of a mother and her daughter.", "Holders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-finals.", "The shadow foreign secretary told the BBC in September a pro-Remain stance would help its election chances.", "The last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "James Cleverly says an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "An investigation has been launched into an alleged six-figure fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "Events in cities including London, Edinburgh and New York aim to raise £38m to help rough sleepers.", "Police have arrested hundreds of people on drug charges, but a charity says the same issues remain.", "The PM says a leaked Treasury document that says there will be customs checks is \"wrong\".", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "The vicar said he discovered the thieves smashed one of the church's stained glass windows earlier.", "Kamil Biecke has not been seen for a year and police fear he may have been killed.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "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.", "Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "The singer has been accused of fetishising bisexuality on his new album.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "Leaders make fresh appeals to voters, saying the stakes are higher than in any recent election.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The Brexit Party will get a new name and \"change politics for good\", its founder and leader says.", "The last Virgin train left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "State media did not give details of the test, which comes amid new tensions with the US.", "The Norwegian-South African duo met up with a rescue team as they were dangerously low on food.", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku and Roma defender Chris Smalling condemn the 'Black Friday' headline used by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "Andrew Dymock, who faces 12 terror charges, is accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels to call for \"total war\".", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Everton dismiss manager Marco Silva after 18 months in charge with the club in the relegation zone.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "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.", "The first minister denies opposition claims of a \"crisis\" after Susan Deacon resigns as chairwoman of the SPA.", "The boss of Scottish Power says nationalising the energy industry will delay reaching a zero carbon future.", "British heavyweight Anthony Joshua fields questions about Saudi 'sportswashing' human rights abuse claims with his re-match against Andy Ruiz Jr.", "The oil giant's listing is the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba in 2014.", "The neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of murdering the black teenager who he shot dead in the US in 2012.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "Vittorio Grigolo admits there was \"a brawl between colleagues\" after a performance on tour in Japan.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "Officials say a US sailor opened fire at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii.", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Robert Pugh, 75, has also been found not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse.", "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.", "Seventy former and current officials submit evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.", "Stormzy's Vossi Bop topped the charts in the UK, but Latin Pop ruled around the world.", "Debts including credit card debt and personal loans have risen 11% to £119bn in two years.", "The corporation's boss Tony Hall outlines the plan to place its \"BAME talent\" in top positions.", "Thomas Griffith Jones, 82, whose first language is Welsh, could be cared for 135 miles from home.", "One in three of the first Thomas Cook customers to claim refunds will not be paid within the 60-day target.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "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 move will as much as quadruple the rate it charges some customers.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "The Brexit Party leader says three of his MEPs who quit have strong links to the Conservatives.", "Gareth Delbridge and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis were killed on 3 July after being hit by a train.", "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 study by a Beijing-based body indicates many are worried about their biometric data being hacked.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "The Chinese company filed the case after it was labelled as a security threat by Washington.", "With a week until polling day, party leaders continued to tour the country in the hope of winning votes.", "The men claim they were wrongly convicted of assaulting a police officer nearly 50 years ago.", "The party promises to recruit nearly 20,000 extra teachers in England over five years if it wins power.", "The documents contained sensitive information on the building's layout, such as entry and exit points.", "A picture-focused round-up of some of the famous names on the 2020 New Year Honours list including.....", "A grey Land Rover hit a group of people in the incident in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.", "Russia appeals against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years.", "It led to the evacuation of more than 58,000 people and stranded thousands over the holiday period.", "President Putin says the nuclear-capable Avangard missiles put Russia in a class of its own.", "A woman whose husband and two children drowned believes there was \"something wrong with the pool\".", "The pop star's cover of Joni Mitchell's River tops the singles chart, after LadBaby drops 56 places.", "A 75-year-old man is being questioned over the death of a 74-year-old woman on Christmas Day.", "A mission to launch thousands of satellites is about to begin, but scientists say this could affect astronomy.", "Challenger Gideon Saar concedes defeat, pledging to now rally behind Benjamin Netanyahu.", "The man, who had been on the run for five years, was detained at a restaurant in The Hague.", "The Tony Award-winning Broadway composer wrote the music and lyrics for Hello, Dolly!", "Services in and out of Edinburgh will be badly affected as track is upgraded at Haymarket junction.", "Mr Weir, who won the then-record jackpot along with his wife Chris in 2011, dies after a short illness.", "Crews were called to the blaze which broke out at the building in the Trongate area of Glasgow.", "The British film-makers are among many entertainment figures recognised in the New Year Honours.", "Lady Hale says it is 'unreasonable' to expect families in crisis to make their own arrangements without help from the state.", "The PM of Mauritius says he is considering charges against UK officials over Indian Ocean islands.", "Crews are bracing for another dangerous period as calls grow for volunteer firefighters to be paid.", "The 60-year-old victim died minutes after being found injured in a street in Thornton Heath.", "Anthony Knott, 33, was last seen with a group of friends at a pub in Lewes on 20 December.", "How Australian bushfires have affected Blue Mountain businesses in holiday period.", "Swedish national Flamur Beqiri was killed in front of his family in Wandsworth on Christmas Eve.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "A 75-year-old man is being held for questioning following the death in north Wales.", "Wolves fight back from 2-0 down against 10-man Manchester City to clinch a memorable win over the Premier League champions with two late goals.", "Didzis Pirags won £1m on an online scratchcard but decided he needed to finish his shifts.", "The plan could hand fresh cash to Labour's former heartlands, which backed the Tories in election.", "It's the first Christmas tree to be put up in Pripyat since the 1986 nuclear disaster.", "Provides an overview of Kazakhstan, including key dates and facts about this central Asian country.", "Fallon Sherrock's challenge at the PDC World Championship is ended in a third-round defeat by world number 22 Chris Dobey.", "Thousands will be offered fitness programmes in the hope of \"priming\" them for their recovery.", "Ben Stokes, Elton John and Nadiya Hussain are named alongside the Grease star on the New Year list.", "The show toppled the Queen's Christmas Broadcast and is the most-watched Christmas show in 11 years.", "A spokesman says the alarm was broadcast by mistake amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.", "Ursula von der Leyen says she is \"very worried\" about the PM's December 2020 deadline.", "Women who play Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck file complaints with police.", "The Home Office has been accused of trying to \"whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".", "Neighbours described hearing gunshots on Christmas Eve and a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.", "England footballer Jill Scott has been made an MBE on the New Year Honours list for her contribution to the sport.", "CBC say edits to Home Alone 2 were not politically motivated, but their decision was criticised.", "Gabriel Diya, a pastor in London, and two of his children died in a resort pool on the Costa del Sol.", "\"You are there for women at their most vulnerable,\" the Duchess of Cambridge says in an open letter to midwives.", "Retail analysts said Boxing Day footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011.", "The competition watchdog is worried the deal could increase the cost of getting food delivered.", "Archaeologists believe the palace was used at the height of the Mayan civilisation, 1,000 years ago.", null, "Melanie Panayiotou was found dead on Christmas Day - precisely three years after her superstar brother.", "The National Trust says it's been a good year for migrant butterflies but not for water voles.", "The charity says it is aware of Jolyon Maugham's \"distressing\" claim, which was posted on Twitter.", "Prosecutors accept Guy Martin may have been deceived and thought his licence was genuine.", "In 2017-18, the average school in London raised £43,000 from donations. In Yorkshire, it was about £13,300.", "The system for resolving world trade disputes grinds to a halt after the US blocks any new WTO judges.", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "Over to you...", "He gives the leather jacket back to Olivia Newton-John after buying it from her for $243,000.", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "Jaden Moodie's mother explains the despair of losing her 14-year-old son in London's drug gang war.", "Investigators say a genocide may have been committed in Myanmar. This is how they came to that conclusion.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "A number of birds at a chicken farm in Suffolk are found to have the H5 strain of avian flu.", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "Castles and mirrored ceilings attracted clicks among window shoppers on a property website.", "A ricochet bullet from the London Bridge terror attack could have gone straight through a bus.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "The main messages of the leaders are clear - but it is uncertain they can convince the public.", "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.", "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.", "The raids took place in Luton as part of a human trafficking investigation into modern day slavery.", "BBC Wales' correspondents share their views on the policies that could make a difference.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "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.", "A jet that skidded off the runway at Liverpool Airport was carrying one of the owners of Liverpool FC.", "Nikki Birgit Campbell and her 23-month-old daughter, Rhea, were pulled from their car as it filled with flood water.", "Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations in court in The Hague.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "Brazil, China, India and Saudi Arabia are criticised as anger grows at a UN climate change meeting.", "The singer has amassed a combined run of 12 number one singles and albums between 2010 and 2019.", "The stabbing of a 47-year-old man took the number of killings in the capital to 142 since 1 January.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "The six-week election campaign has seen politicians working hard to win your votes.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "The gifts were for an event in Bristol at the weekend but it was cancelled due to high winds.", "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.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "The party leaders are making a last-ditch attempt to win support ahead of Thursday’s general election.", "Genaro García Luna, architect of Mexico's \"war on drugs\", is accused of taking bribes from a cartel.", "Grieving parents say including their children's names \"acknowledges the little life that was\".", "How a photographer captured a traumatic journey through chemotherapy. Then had to do it all again.", "Toni-Ann Singh was given the title on Saturday's event in ExCel London.", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "The Scottish first minister tells the BBC that if the union is to continue, \"it can only be by consent\".", "Labour reflects on defeat and a new leader, as the SNP and government clash over a Scottish referendum.", "The pop star will make her Glastonbury debut on the Pyramid Stage this summer, organisers say.", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "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.", "Guymon, Oklahoma, was on its way to becoming a ghost town. Then Mexican immigrants arrived 20 years ago.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "Kevin de Bruyne scores twice and sets up another for Raheem Sterling as Manchester City produce a masterful display to beat Arsenal.", "Karina, a Danish-French actress, was the muse of director Jean-Luc Godard.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "The driver of the truck apologises ahead of the fifth anniversary of the crash which killed six people.", "The victim, in his 40s, was found with fatal injuries at a property in east London.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "Riot police fire tear gas and rubber bullets as anti-government protests continue in Lebanon.", "Johnson's historic win has redefined the electoral map, but he will be hoping it doesn't break the union, writes Nick Watt.", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "The phenomenon was filmed by firefighters in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales.", "Why mainland China insists there is a sinister hand of foreign meddling in the protests.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "Samantha Morton says she still does not feel justice has been done despite a major inquiry.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "An 18-year-old is accused of killing Alex Rodda, 15, whose body was discovered on Friday.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "Staff had contacted police with concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "The public has granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power, and he will need to spend it well.", "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.", "Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the party's election defeat but the shadow chancellor says: \"This is on me\".", "Residents in Bedfordshire have been queuing for bottled water after supplies were cut off on Friday.", "Nine people are arrested on suspicion of murder and abuse of power after last month's deadly tremor.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is pictured on the seabed for the first time.", "The government is to examine whether failure to buy an annual TV licence should remain an offence.", "The Spanish reporter told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\".", "Father-of-three Shazad Saddique, 38, died while his wife was expecting their fourth child.", "Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan were subjected to the abuse on a London bus.", "Grenfell Tower blaze survivors dismiss a parade for Dany Cotton as a \"street party\".", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "Roy Beddows, who lost the gold ring while working aged 17, says he never expected to see it again.", "The 27-year-old had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car while cycling through Texas.", "Mo Fayose says it has taken months to write them all but it's \"all about love\".", "The Prince of Wales met rescue workers and residents in Fishlake who were affected by recent floods.", "The men were arrested as part of a large 2010 operation with help of London's Metropolitan police.", "Zipporah Kuria, whose father died on board a 737 Max, met with the European aviation safety regulator.", "Police say the injured man was arrested on suspicion of murdering the two women in Crawley Down.", "The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win over Tottenham is marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.", "John Halloran and John Stacey served in Cyprus in the 1950s and met again by chance at an event.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the ISS.", "The party received £1.4m in the final two days - including £500,000 from mobile phone mogul John Caudwell.", "His daughter, presenter Fern Britton, confirms that the Don't Wait Up star died early on Sunday.", "Harry died after a crash involving a US diplomat's wife and his family met Priti Patel in extradition talks.", "Hundreds of parents allege Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust provided poor maternity care.", "Frontman Fran Healy tells how Travis went from a critical mauling to inspiring a generation of bands.", "The boat was carrying 600 gallons of diesel when a crane collapsed, causing it to sink.", "The firm says it hopes to \"restore confidence\" but still faces questions about its commitment to safety.", "The Love Island host's boyfriend was found \"covered in blood\" after he dialled 999, a court hears.", "The Queen is at Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "Steven Bouquet is charged relating to attacks on 16 cats, nine of which were killed.", "The commission aims to \"map out a route back to power\" after this month's general election defeat.", "The opening weekend box office for The Rise of Skywalker fell short of previous films in the trilogy.", "British sign language is receiving an astronomical update thanks to a unique collaboration between a space scientist and a group of deaf astronomers.", "Tottenham's investigation into the alleged racist abuse of Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger has so far offered \"inconclusive\" findings.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "At least 16 inmates are killed in fighting between gangs, two days after 18 died in another jail.", "A girl found a handwritten message, claiming to be from Chinese prisoners, in a Christmas card.", "The work, which the artist gave away, is now expected to fetch up to £1m at auction.", "More than 60 vehicles were involved in the crash on a foggy and icy stretch of road in Virginia.", "The jihadists are managing to regroup - should the West be worried?", "One of two women who were killed in Crawley Down on Sunday is named as Sandy Seagrave.", "The six-year-old found a hand-written message from Chinese prisoners in a box of Christmas cards.", "A National Express coach and car were engulfed in flames after a crash in south-west London.", "A football match in Tanzania is briefly stopped when a swarm of bees invades the pitch.", "Two fighter jets had to be scrambled to accompany the aircraft back to Stansted in June.", "Sailors and Royal Marines spotted a \"suspicious\" ship during a patrol in the Arabian Sea.", "The 17-year-old girl was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, New York police say.", "Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman denies ordering the killing of the Saudi journalist.", "A mother and her three sons had to be rescued from their car as nearly 80 flood warnings are issued.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a \"loving wife, devoted mother and cherished daughter,\" her family say.", "The audio tapes that recorded the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.", "Despite \"improved visual effects\", the film takes just £8.4m in North America and the UK.", "A study of 140,000 men finds being dependent on alcohol increases the risk of being a domestic abuser.", "The discovery was made by scientists at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in the Hebrides.", "Clinical and human waste has been piled up at the HQ of Healthcare Environmental Services for a year.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, survived a 70mph crash in the US while attempting to cycle round the world.", "The government says it will not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism.", "The party vows to slash rail fares and make travel free for young people under the age of 16.", "Lewis Hamilton takes dominant victory in season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Charles Leclerc set to be investigated by stewards.", "About 8,000 homes in the Falkirk area are without heating after a gas main failure.", "Boris Johnson says they are being supervised 'to make sure there is no threat.'", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Royal Air Force Typhoons went supersonic on Sunday morning to investigate an unresponsive aircraft.", "Members of the public pinned down the attacker and took a knife away from him.", "Jack Merritt spoke to the Law in Action podcast about his work helping prison inmates in Suffolk study law.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel clashes with Labour's Yvette Cooper over Usman Khan's prison release.", "The NHS Digital figures show a rise in patients having to wait more than two weeks in October.", "The incident took place in the early hours on the well-known Canal St, police said.", "Footage shows members of the public using a fire extinguisher and a tusk to confront Usman Khan.", "The social media giant says the Tory video infringed the BBC's intellectual property rights.", "Australian Timothy Weeks says he thinks US special forces tried to rescue him six times.", "University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, described by his father as a \"beautiful spirit\", was one of two people killed by Usman Khan.", "Senior figures from seven political parties also exchanged views on the NHS and terror legislation.", "Joe Root and Rory Burns score centuries for England but the second Test in New Zealand remains in the balance.", "Plans aim to improve flood defences and see more woodland planted to combat climate change.", "The BBC says it's in the public interest, but it still wants him to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.", "England are drawn against Croatia and Czech Republic in Group D at Euro 2020, with Wales alongside Italy, Switzerland and Turkey in Group A.", "Witnesses to the London Bridge attack describe a sense of chaos as the incident unfolded.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall describes how his staff fought back during the London Bridge attack.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride arrived back in Dublin on Sunday morning.", "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.", "Loved ones remember \"funny, kind\", \"empathetic\" friends and colleagues Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.", "Boris Johnson pays tribute to the bravery of members of the public and to the emergency services.", "Met police say attacker Usman Khan was complying with 'extensive list' of conditions.", "The party is proposing a \"one-stop shop\" for fares with no booking fees if it wins the election.", "Jo Swinson says Labour's plans to take utilities back into public ownership are \"not the way forward\".", "Watford sack manager Quique Sanchez Flores after the 2-1 loss to Southampton on Saturday.", "The mammal, believed to be a minke whale, was found below Battersea Bridge in London.", "The 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate was fatally stabbed alongside Jack Merritt.", "The Doctor Who star has cancelled shows at the start of a UK tour after being rushed to hospital.", "Andrew Marr asks Boris Johnson about his refusal to commit to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.", "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.", "The 7m tree was removed less than two weeks after being put up outside Broadcasting House.", "Becky's discovery led thousands of other women to find their information had been posted.", "Ex-Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson speaks to the BBC about the attitudes and issues she encountered during her pregnancy.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "\"Creative genius\" Nell Gifford died from breast cancer on Sunday surrounded by her family.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge are among those up for prizes.", "At least 12 fire engines are sent to the fire at Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the River Clyde.", "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.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "Chris Hopson says election debate has \"fallen short\" with regard to long-term solutions for the NHS.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "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.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "Exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing for the past three years, research suggests.", "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.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "Nearly 4,000 bottles of rare whisky owned by a US businessman will go on sale in an online auction next year.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "A leaked government document says customs plans for Northern Ireland may not be ready in time.", "Chris Davies is being sued for constructive dismissal by Sarah Lewis, who discovered false invoices.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "China's Ding Junhui beats Stephen Maguire to win the UK Championship - 10 years after he last lifted the title.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "How closely have you been following the comings and goings in the run up to the general election?", "The YouTube star, who landed last year's Christmas number one, is back - sausage rolls and all.", "Electricity supplies are restored after gales cut power and bring down trees across Wales.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "A woman captured the moment the White Island volcano erupted in New Zealand.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "It had previously been mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "Which business sectors will be winners and losers when, and if, climate change policies take affect?", "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered - with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Ms McShane, who worked as a a community midwife in Ballycastle, is described as \"kind and dedicated\".", "Boris Johnson said his programme for government was the \"most radical\" in a generation.", "The singer has been accused of sharing racist jokes on an old Tumblr account.", "The men's young victim was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard and raped above a shop.", "Will Gompertz reviews the new film adaptation of Cats starring Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson.", "Police believe the child illegally entered the UK and had been separated from his parents.", "He said he wanted to break up the \"never-ending\" news coverage of President Trump's impeachment.", "Peter Chilvers' \"landscape of unending misery\" on Magda Lesicka led to a breakdown, a court hears.", "Jodie Kidd discusses how her \"crippling\" anxiety forced her to quit modelling in her teens.", "Maya Forstater lost her job after she questioned government plans to let people declare their own gender.", "The BBC's experts give their analysis of what the government is, and isn't, planning for the next year.", "The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had been postponed in October because of unrest.", "A law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies is proposed.", "Next year is expected to be another warm year, extending the series of the hottest on record.", "Scientists say it's 'not a myth' that people on a vegan diet need extra vitamin B12.", "The Office for Students also raises concerns about \"conditional unconditional\" offers of places.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The shadow Treasury minister is the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.", "The Queen sets out the government's plans in a ceremony rich with tradition.", "Incidents occur with \"depressing frequency\", the first Service Complaints Ombudsman tells the BBC.", "The A5 road upgrade, Casement Park and Ulster University's new campus are among the projects.", "A court in Edinburgh rules Natalie McGarry had suffered a miscarriage of justice.", "Hundreds of passengers struggled to get home from Victoria and London Bridge stations following a major signal failure.", "Anne and Julia care for husbands who have dementia and face agonising decisions about the future.", "Staff left the platforms at Manchester Victoria after the \"threat of serious assault\".", "An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.", "The 19-year-old British woman is accused of lying about being raped by Israeli tourists at an Ayia Napa hotel.", "Mia Austin, who had locked-in syndrome, wanted to do a challenge she'd apparently seen on Love Island.", "The rapper said the Christmas version of one of his hits by a Stoke-on-Trent school was \"brilliant\".", "PC Amjad Ditta, a serving officer at the time of his alleged offence, has been suspended from duty.", "Mohammed Shah Subhani is thought to have had thousands of pounds on him when he disappeared.", "Will Gompertz reviews the new film adaptation of Cats starring Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson.", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirms Trump is impeached - and warns Democrats not to celebrate.", "The shadow foreign secretary tells the BBC she can win the contest \"from the heart of the party\".", "Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.", "Influencers including Lauren Goodger are filmed about promoting a drink containing cyanide.", "Ex-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley performed a sex act in front of a mother and her daughter.", "Scotland's first minister calls on UK government to negotiate the transfer of power to allow another independence referendum.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "We did nothing wrong, Donald Trump tells supporters in Michigan after historic vote in House.", "Holders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-finals.", "A gunman kills one officer and wounds several others in an attack on the FSB security service.", "The Tory and Labour breakaway group failed to win any seats at the general election.", "He is making \"wonderful progress\" although he now \"feels more pain\", his family reveals.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "The 3.2 magnitude tremor caused houses to shake, says the British Geological Survey.", "The Labour leader says he has \"hard evidence\" disproving claims there will be no border in the Irish Sea.", "The brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly, an earlier inquest heard.", "A series of failures in the justice system meant rapist Joseph McCann was not recalled to prison.", "The victims' barrister tells the inquiry London Fire Brigade bosses were not fit to run the service.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he has taken a neutral stance because \"the country has to come together\".", "A replacement bus service can take up to two hours to travel the 40-mile journey.", "Llinos Môn Owen says she spiralled into addiction after she started taking cocaine aged 18.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "Steve Brooks and Matt Jones return back to Britain after a record 27,000-mile flight around the world.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "Thomas Griffiths stabbed his ex-girlfriend Ellie Gould repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\".", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson, who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "After being tipped for success, the singer will get to perform at the 2020 Brit Awards in February.", "Reporter Mark Edwardson witnessed the end of game of the huge manhunt for rapist Joseph McCann.", "They'll be the rapper's first UK festival appearances since he was banned from the country in 2015.", "An environmental charity finds 95% of Christmas jumpers on sale this year are made with plastic.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are still adored by their supporters but the rest of the public are not so sure.", "Police footage shows Joseph McCann trying to outrun officers after stealing a car belonging to one of his victims.", "Hundreds of people gather to watch as a former power station's cooling towers are brought down.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn square off in a live BBC debate, less than a week out from polling day.", "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.", "Two men are killed overnight, in Knightsbridge and Deptford, after another man died in Hackney.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "It is the first time in over a year North Korea has been openly critical of the US president.", "Dany Cotton says the \"utter devastation\" of the Grenfell Tower fire will never leave her.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "Survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire had called for Dany Cotton to step down.", "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.", "The cooling towers finally come down after 50 years, as hundreds of people watch from surrounding hills.", "Sally-Ann Hart defends an article suggesting people with disabilities could be paid less.", "The 24 and 28-year-olds were found at what is believed to be a holiday home in Aberdeenshire.", "Christina Tham won silver in the Southeast Asian Games aged 12 - and has now won gold aged 50.", "Ten people were inured when a carriage fell to the ground at the M&D's theme park in North Lanarkshire.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "Sikh couple Sandeep and Reena Mander have won nearly £120,000 in damages from a council.", "It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would \"scrap vital new roads\".", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "The former PM encourages voters to back three independent candidates running against his own party.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "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.", "The centuries-old specialist insurance market has faced a raft of complaints about bullying and sexism.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "The figures come as the ride-hailing company is under intense pressure globally over safety issues.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "The Democratic presidential hopeful reacts after being challenged over his son's Ukraine activities.", "The star, who was on her way to a carol concert in Chelsea, had come to the aid of an older woman.", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "Nearly 12,000 children are placed in care 20 miles or more from friends and family, a report shows.", "The Spanish reporter told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\".", "Father-of-three Shazad Saddique, 38, died while his wife was expecting their fourth child.", "Teresa Xu challenges a Chinese law forbidding unmarried women to freeze their eggs.", "Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan were subjected to the abuse on a London bus.", "Grenfell Tower blaze survivors dismiss a parade for Dany Cotton as a \"street party\".", "Two women were killed outside a Sussex house and a man arrested remains critically ill in hospital.", "Greeting sent to friends and family features photo of seven-month-old crawling towards the camera.", "A Scottish salmon farmer moves to tackle the sale of fake products ahead of a planned US expansion.", "Police said their decision \"follows extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches\".", "Marley, from Stoke-on-Trent, needed emergency treatment after scoffing toxic Christmas treats.", "The Duke of Edinburgh returns to Sandringham for Christmas after four nights in a London hospital.", "The animal drank from a bottle before running back into an area of unburnt scrub in south Australia.", "There is no sign Anthony Knott left the Sussex town he was visiting on a Christmas work night out.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "If accidentally swallowed, the tiny batteries can burn and choke young children, doctors warn.", "Donald Trump confessed that he is yet to buy a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.", "Ben Stokes did not train with England on Tuesday after his father was admitted to hospital after suffering a serious illness.", "She caught the 10:42 Great Northern service from London King's Cross to King's Lynn.", "Zipporah Kuria, whose father died on board a 737 Max, met with the European aviation safety regulator.", "A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk shortly on Christmas Eve.", "The move follows the deaths of US-trained dogs due to negligence - one died of heat stroke.", "A profile of the Duke of Edinburgh, who is standing down from public life from the autumn.", "The party received £1.4m in the final two days - including £500,000 from mobile phone mogul John Caudwell.", "Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to NHS staff and other public sector workers.", "The firm says it hopes to \"restore confidence\" but still faces questions about its commitment to safety.", "A 35-year-old man is in custody after the discovery of the bodies of two people in north Belfast.", "The Love Island host's boyfriend was found \"covered in blood\" after he dialled 999, a court hears.", "There is hope faster TB tests on cattle can help stop infection spreading - and stop healthy animals being culled.", "Tottenham's investigation into the alleged racist abuse of Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger has so far offered \"inconclusive\" findings.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" one witness said.", "Russia's alternative to the global internet would cut its citizens off from some foreign services.", "The Queen is in Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "Several people were injured in a balloon drop at Westfield Parramatta mall in Sydney.", "The producers cut the scene so the film didn't get a higher age rating, the film regulator says.", "A British man and his two children were found unresponsive in a pool at a hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol.", "The bus carrying 50 people plunges 150m (500ft) into a river in South Sumatra province.", "Elsie, three, has a rare form of epilepsy and has been in hospital since last Christmas Eve.", "Tony Occleshaw, 64, is at home having end-of-life care for bladder cancer.", "Sailors and Royal Marines spotted a \"suspicious\" ship during a patrol in the Arabian Sea.", "The 17-year-old girl was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, New York police say.", "The discovery was made by scientists at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in the Hebrides.", "An anonymous donor helps eight-year-old Anna Drysdale reach her cancer treatment funding target.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace pays tribute to the \"selflessness\" of armed forces personnel.", "Bethany Haines hopes to locate the remains of her father, David, who was beheaded by the Islamic State group in Syria.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "A study attempts to assess the devastation caused by the invasive emerald ash borer in US forests.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "The Canadian pop star announces he is releasing a single in January and will go on tour from May.", "Anastasia Uglow, 17, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, police say.", "The men were arrested as part of a large 2010 operation with help of London's Metropolitan police.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, survived a 70mph crash in the US while attempting to cycle round the world.", "How well do you remember the campaign? Try Richard Osman's election quiz and find out", "Huw Edwards announces that the exit poll suggests Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.", "John Crilly, who fought the London Bridge attacker, says he shouted for police to shoot Usman Khan.", "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", "Asia stocks rose after the two sides reportedly reached a deal days before new tariffs were due to start.", "A factory in France is trialling a more efficient way of packaging orders, Emma Simpson reports.", "They're among 10 acts tipped for success in the annual BBC list, previously won by Adele and Sigrid.", "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", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "Election night could be a long one for financial traders, with sterling the most sensitive market to political events.", "He said the teenage activist - who won Time Person of the Year - had an \"anger management problem\".", "One firm lets employees work from the comfort of their own sofa, even after they've been out drinking.", "The SNP makes big gains across Scotland, including the defeat of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.", "A ricochet bullet from the London Bridge terror attack could have gone straight through a bus.", "Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.", "Non-medicinal CBD is now on sale in High Street shops across the country, including chemists.", "Ben Roberts spends up to £1,600 a month ordering in, more than three times the national average for a year.", "The money had been in police stores waiting for the \"rightful owner\" but they did not come forward.", "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.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Jailed banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva says she has been unfairly targeted by the National Crime Agency.", "If the exit poll is correct Boris Johnson will have the backing to take the UK out of the EU next month.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil flies close to White Island, while it continues to spew toxic gas.", "Find out how to stay in touch with live election results on TV, radio, online, and on social media.", "Manchester United seal top spot in their Europa League group with a comfortable win over AZ Alkmaar at Old Trafford.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "She is one of Scotland's biggest film stars, but Karen Gillan says her young dreams took a few knocks.", "PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, have been unable to form majority coalitions.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "The picture of a family dressed in finery features in an exhibition charting 150 years of visitors.", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "Millions of people are casting their vote in the third general election in less than five years.", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "Premier League interim chief executive Richard Masters has been given the job on a permanent basis.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "We visit a constitution law class a few miles from where the US president faces an impeachment inquiry.", "Former Beatle Sir Paul says he has no plans to release his demo of traditional carol instrumentals.", "With all seats declared, the Tory party have a majority of 80 - the largest since 1987.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "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.", "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.", "Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.", "A lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and others of using cobalt mined by child labour.", "A judge's ruling over the IT system comes after the Post Office offered a £58m deal for workers.", "Food systems are behind poor growth and over-eating in many low-income countries, a report says.", "It is the first week of Boris Johnson's new Conservative government following the election.", "The Scottish first minister tells the BBC that if the union is to continue, \"it can only be by consent\".", "The body of former British soldier James Le Mesurier was found near his Istanbul flat in November.", "Commuters criticise rail firms Northern and Transpennine Express over the cancellations and delays.", "The pop star will make her Glastonbury debut on the Pyramid Stage this summer, organisers say.", "The Love Island host has been the subject of a \"witch hunt\", partner Lewis Burton says.", "It is not clear who opened the SS officer's unmarked grave - police say no remains were taken.", "Accusers react to the movie mogul's claims that his female empowerment legacy is being destroyed.", "The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "Former politicians who failed to win the vote share how it feels to lose their seat as an MP.", "A former insider tells Panorama that SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, \"has to be shut down\".", "Every department from health to housing, transport and education will see funding go up from April.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "Discounting by retailers in the run-up to Christmas is predicted to reach record heights in 2019.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The Amazon-owned streaming giant is facing claims it illegally broadcast matches.", "The 1.5m-tall, 14-year-old Tomintoul holds the equivalent of 150 normal-sized bottles of whisky.", "The Northern Ireland secretary met the leaders of the five biggest parties at Stormont on Monday.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "Firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue the boy who was trapped between two buildings.", "Amy Dalla Mura called Anna Soubry a \"traitor\" on live television and interrupted interviews.", "A vehicle pulling a trailer full of the Christmas dinner vegetable overturned in Queensferry Road in Rosyth.", "A charity says the deaths are \"not acceptable\" and urges visitors to keep their distance.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "The city says the buildings, built in 1913, are unsafe - but some locals want them preserved.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "Police confirm a \"high value of jewellery\" was stolen from Tamara Ecclestone's home in Kensington.", "The actor, who was 74, appeared in the classic sitcom as well as EastEnders and Downton Abbey.", "The AI will tell users to reconsider their words before publishing, if they are deemed offensive.", "Sports Direct says it will be closing 'unprofitable' House of Fraser stores in the next 12 months.", "Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.", "The blaze in the Kinning Park area of Glasgow has closed roads and \"devastated\" shops and restaurants.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "As Scottish Labour seeks to regroup after its election loss, party members are publicly talking about their stance on indyref2.", "They predict a peak in cases and want people to get immunised now, before visiting friends and family.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, expresses fears over the direction the UK is travelling in.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "The regulator announces a cap on investor returns as it cuts the average bill by £50 over five years.", "Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the party's election defeat but the shadow chancellor says: \"This is on me\".", "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.", "The company withdrew the adverts under pressure from conservatives, then reversed its decision.", "Nicholas Woods and Simon Marshall are charged over an alleged scandal involving tagging criminals.", "Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is pictured on the seabed for the first time.", "The government is to examine whether failure to buy an annual TV licence should remain an offence.", "Residents in Bedfordshire have been queuing for bottled water after supplies were cut off on Friday.", "The three are found guilty of \"institutional harassment\" that saw staff deaths in the 2000s.", "The airport claims a decision by the aviation regulator to limit its spending will delay progress.", "The uncrewed demonstration of Boeing's Starliner capsule is cut short because of technical problems.", "Peter Chilvers' \"landscape of unending misery\" on Magda Lesicka led to a breakdown, a court hears.", "Maya Forstater lost her job after she questioned government plans to let people declare their own gender.", "The BBC's experts give their analysis of what the government is, and isn't, planning for the next year.", "A law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies is proposed.", "The M23 in West Sussex reopens as flooding causes road and rail disruption across the South East.", "The A5 road upgrade, Casement Park and Ulster University's new campus are among the projects.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Customers in a wine bar rushed to help when a car crashed through a window and hit two women.", "The Queen sets out the government's plans in a ceremony rich with tradition.", "The duke, 98, was admitted in relation to a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace says.", "The Iowa man was found guilty of committing a hate crime against the Iowa gay community.", "She is best known to international audiences for starring as Domino alongside Sean Connery.", "Human rights groups say they will appeal the \"knife-edge\" ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.", "A gunman kills one officer and wounds several others in an attack on the FSB security service.", "The PM says Brexit is \"one step closer\" after MPs back his EU withdrawal bill by a majority of 124.", "Jodie Kidd discusses how her \"crippling\" anxiety forced her to quit modelling in her teens.", "Alun Cairns did not breach ministerial code of conduct over former aide who \"sabotaged\" rape trial.", "Fardin Kazemi was stranded in central Poland, after his lorry broke down and couldn't be repaired.", "The officer accidentally fired their Glock pistol when the stopped car pulled away, a report says.", "Boris Johnson passed a big milestone today on the road to Brexit, but what about his wider political mission?", "Prosecutors said they had started extradition proceedings via the Home Office against Anne Sacoolas.", "'The WAB' has passed all its stages in Parliament. Here's what it is.", "The test flight has a dummy on board but, if successful, astronauts are due to start using the craft from 2020.", "The gang members filmed themselves living a lavish lifestyle in Spain and Monaco.", "MPs vote by 358 to 234 to back the prime minister's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January - a majority of 124.", "They were deployed by police in 23,000 incidents last year, double the 2016 total.", "The PM says the legislation, enabling Brexit to happen on 31 January, will allow the UK to \"move forward\".", "Caroline Flack stood down from the hit ITV show after being charged with assault.", "Ex-Ferguson shipyard boss Jim McColl speaks out against plans to spend £110m on part-finished ferries.", "Samantha Brousas died after a three hour wait in an ambulance outside an A&E department.", "A woman who was sexually abused as a child in Telford believes young girls are still at risk.", "The legislation makes it easier to dismiss judges who question the ruling party's judicial reforms.", "Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death at a prisoner rehabilitation event.", "Two men are dead and two others are in hospital after separate stabbings in London.", "Camille Schrier, who wowed judges with a science experiment, said she aims to \"break stereotypes\".", "A town councillor asks for a rule change so parents can claim for childcare while attending meetings.", "The YouTube star beats Stormzy and Wham! to top the UK's Christmas chart for the second time.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "It comes during the British actor's first visit to the country where his late father grew up.", "The new Bank of England governor once had to offer support to his wife as she faced down a grizzly bear.", "Glenda Kenyon, who owns \"Gwen's house\", says visits from the show's fans helped lift her depression.", "Andrew Bailey, the new Bank of England governor, was an early favourite for the job.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle was diagnosed with the condition shortly before the general election.", "Michael Gerard Owens must serve at least 16 years in prison for the murder of Robert Flowerday.", "Elizabeth Warren criticises presidential rival Pete Buttigieg over how he's funding his campaign.", "Arsenal appoint their former captain Mikel Arteta as head coach on a contract until the summer of 2023.", "The shadow Treasury minister is the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.", "Four years late and £100m over budget - but who is to blame for the problems at Ferguson shipyard?", "Simultaneous services were held for Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who were stabbed last month.", "The Tory and Labour breakaway group failed to win any seats at the general election.", "The party vows to slash rail fares and make travel free for young people under the age of 16.", "The fashion retailer appoints a major law firm and independent accountants to carry out a review.", "The lawyer for five of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers says he wants the Duke of York to testify in court cases.", "About 8,000 homes in the Falkirk area are without heating after a gas main failure.", "A huge wildlife haven is at risk as Russian coal ships exploit melting Arctic ice in Siberia.", "Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began.", "Tens of thousands of UK car buyers start a compensation claim over the Volkswagen emissions scandal.", "Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.", "A Kenyan fisherman is airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.", "The US President says the NHS will not feature in trade talks but Labour says it still has concerns.", "Captain Joe Root makes a double century but England face an uphill task to win the second Test against New Zealand.", "Andreas Dowling admitted carrying out a campaign of bomb hoaxes in Britain, US and Canada.", "DNA testing allows police to identify the body of a man found in Anglesey 36 years ago.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell's delusions led him to believe his victims were paedophiles, a court hears.", "USA's Megan Rapinoe has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.", "Emergency services are at the scene close to a secondary school.", "Virginia Giuffre tells BBC Panorama she urges the British public to 'stand beside her'", "It follows a row over guards on South Western Railway services, which run from London Waterloo.", "Two friends, who had attended Cambridge University, were stabbed to death in the capital on Friday.", "Politicians are urged to speed up mental health services and compensation, and ensure \"basic security\".", "The incident took place in the early hours on the well-known Canal St, police said.", "The social media giant says the Tory video infringed the BBC's intellectual property rights.", "Senior figures from seven political parties also exchanged views on the NHS and terror legislation.", "The tiger has traversed 1,300km in five months, the furthest a big cat is known to have walked in India.", "Pat and Donna Workman left their home in 2017 and say the clean-up bill has cost more than £250,000.", "Colin Payne, 61, denies murdering charity worker Mark Bloomfield but has admitted manslaughter.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall describes how his staff fought back during the London Bridge attack.", "Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, are honoured at services in London and Cambridge.", "The Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride arrived back in Dublin on Sunday morning.", "Updates with the election ten days away, including some of the pledges from the smaller parties.", "Children born this year expected to live shorter lives than previously thought, say official stats.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash 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might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nAdvent International made its initial offer in July and it was approved by shareholders in August.\n\nThe government ordered a review from the competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a week after Admiral Lord West expressed concerns, in an interview with the Daily Mail,\n\nThe CMA's report, published at the end of October, said the MoD had outlined two main areas of security concern over the sale:\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nBut Admiral Lord West said that while he was \"delighted\" that was the case, \"it does mean that there are national security risks that are being mitigated\".\n\nHe stressed the importance of maintaining 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are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and that she had taken advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nShe added that sensitive government information would continue to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "The crash was at a busy junction on the A9 on the Black Isle\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died after a crash involving three cars in the Highlands.\n\nHe was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa caught up in the collision on the Black Isle, close to the A9's junction with the B9161 Munlochy road.\n\nThe driver of the car was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness after the crash, which took place at about 18:55 on Friday.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to make contact with them.\n\nThe occupants of the two other vehicles, a Nissan Juke and a VW Polo, are not believed to have been injured.\n\nSgt Angus Murray of Police Scotland said: \"We are supporting the young man's family at this time and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who may have seen what happened to contact us. I would also ask if there are drivers with dash-cam footage which might help with our investigation to call us.\"\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. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nA tornado has hit Surrey as more than 90 flood warnings remain in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory. Firefighters said homes and cars were also damaged.\n\nMore downpours are expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.\n\nSome 91 flood warnings and 237 flood alerts are in place.\n\nMotorists embarking on the Christmas getaway are being advised to check their routes in advance.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed a tornado had struck the Chertsey area.\n\nVerity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory\n\nCrews were called at about 10:30 GMT \"to a high wind incident affecting a number of houses in the Chertsey area,\" Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement.\n\nFour fire engines and two aerial ladders were sent and they worked to \"make houses safe from damage to roofs\".\n\nChertsey resident Verity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\n\"In the past it has withstood bad weather. Luckily nobody was hurt and my partner has managed to fix it.\n\n\"One of my neighbours has smashed windows. Trampolines have flown across the gardens here.\"\n\nA trampoline was also knocked over\n\nFellow resident Philip Passey said he froze when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"The leaves were going horizontal. I said, 'That looks like a tornado.' There was a huge roar, then nothing.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden. My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\n\n\"One shed has disappeared; one blown apart, one has no roof on it. Son said there was a tree across the garden, two cars have been written off.\n\n\"In the farm across the road, we heard a dog broke his leg.\"\n\nThe tornado came after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday. The M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: \"Because it's been so very wet across the south this extra rain falling on to saturated ground could cause some further problems, so there is a weather warning in force scooting along southern counties during Saturday evening.\"\n\nMr Deakin said the rain was coming from a \"fairly angry weather system\" which would also bring some \"very strong winds\".\n\nThe M23 was closed because of flooding but has now reopened\n\nIan Nunn, from the Environment Agency, said weather in the south of England was expected to get worse overnight.\n\n\"Today we've got a relatively dry period, but we've got more rain coming tonight, possibly up to another 20mm, so although the situation is getting better today, we are going to see it getting worse overnight and into tomorrow morning.\n\n\"After that we've got more rain on Sunday and more rain on Monday as well so it's not going to get any better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weather forecast as further downpours are due across Wales and England after days of heavy rain.\n\nBut he added that after Christmas there would be a drier period, \"so hopefully things will calm down then\".\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with severe epilepsy will be able to access a cannabis-based medicine on the NHS from early next year after it was fast-tracked for use.\n\nNHS England said doctors would be able to prescribe Epidyolex from 6 January.\n\nIt will be for children from age two, as well as adults, but some campaigners warn it is \"too little too late\".\n\nClinical trials have shown the oral solution, which contains cannabidiol (CBD), could reduce the number of seizures by up to 40% in some children.\n\nThe medicine will be used to treat two rare, but severe, forms of childhood epilepsy - Lennox Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome - which can cause multiple seizures a day.\n\nEpilepsy Action's chief executive Philip Lee welcomed the announcement, saying it \"brings much-needed hope and could be life-changing for some\".\n\nHowever, he added that Epidyolex was not \"a silver bullet\" and there was more work to be done to \"collect robust high-quality evidence of the effectiveness of other cannabis-based medicines\".\n\nMedical cannabis campaigner Peter Carroll said it was \"too little, too late\" as he urged action towards making medicinal cannabis with CBD and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) available for families in need.\n\nTHC is the psycho-active component of cannabis.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he said: \"What's shown to have a transforming effect for children in desperate need is a CBD medicine with a little bit of THC, but those are unlicensed in the UK at the moment.\"\n\nMr Carroll added: \"The law was changed in November 2018 so that specialist doctors could write a prescription for medical cannabis with the CBD and THC, even though they are unlicensed.\n\n\"Shockingly, to our knowledge, not a single prescription for the medicine with those two parts was issued on the NHS since the law was changed.\"\n\nAn official NHS review earlier this year found that a \"lack of evidence\" was holding back cannabis medicines, which specialist doctors have been allowed to prescribe in the UK since the law change last year.\n\nDecisions on drug availability are devolved around the UK.\n\nIt is estimated there are 3,000 people with Dravet and 5,000 with Lennox Gastaut syndrome in England.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said that thousands of people would now have access to the treatment \"which has the potential to make a real difference\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh has spent the night in hospital after being admitted as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk, to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday morning.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe BBC's Simon Jones said the Royal Family will be hoping the duke is able to return to Sandringham for Christmas.\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor. But it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nAs he was travelling to London, the Queen was on her way to Sandringham for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nMembers of the media have set up camp outside the hospital\n\nWhile Prince Philip remains in hospital, the surrounding streets are full of TV satellite trucks from around the world, waiting to broadcast the latest news on his condition.\n\nBuckingham Palace hasn't released any further statements overnight - though that's to be expected. The Duke is known as a deeply private person who doesn't like a fuss.\n\nThe palace won't want to give a running commentary on any treatment he might be receiving.\n\nFor as long as it's unclear though why he's been admitted to hospital, speculation will continue - and one key question is whether he'll be well enough to join the Queen at Sandringham for Christmas.\n\nAlthough there's concern about the duke's condition, in palace circles there's not a sense of alarm. I think we see that by the fact that the Queen has decided to continue with her Christmas traditions rather than remaining here in London.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church.\n\nIn February, it was announced he had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties in 2017, the duke has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011. The following year, he suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.\n• None Prince Philip taken to hospital 'as a precaution'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThey voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nThe bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nThe PM said the country was now \"one step closer to getting Brexit done\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU - but six of them backed the government.\n\nMr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.\n\nThe bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election.\n\nMPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess - on 7, 8 and 9 January.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\n\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill, as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous PM Mrs May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "In London more than 40% of pupils get extra help from private tutors\n\nAn east London secondary school with high levels of deprivation is paying for private tuition to help pupils with their GCSE exams.\n\nUrswick school in Hackney is buying one-to-one lessons with its \"pupil premium\" money, given to schools to support disadvantaged pupils.\n\nAssistant head Naomi Dews said her pupils should not miss out on private tuition available to richer families.\n\n\"Why should they be penalised by where they're born?\" she said.\n\nBut the National Education Union says schools \"should not have to resort to using pupil premium money to provide tuition\".\n\nThe union's co-leader Kevin Courtney says schools should have enough funding for their own staff, without having to use the pupil premium to buy in additional support.\n\nAlthough parents might pay for extra lessons for their children, it is unusual for a school to use its budget this way.\n\nAccording to research from the Sutton Trust education charity, 41% of pupils in London get private tuition.\n\nBut Ms Dews says in her school almost none of her pupils' families can afford a tutor.\n\nHer school has very high levels of deprivation - about three quarters of pupils are eligible for pupil premium payments, compared with a national average of about a quarter.\n\nThe school is using £10,000 of its pupil premium per year to pay for the tuition\n\nMs Dews says the school decided to level the playing field by using £10,000 per year of its pupil premium to pay for tuition for students taking or re-taking GCSE maths.\n\n\"It opens a huge number of doors if you can pass at English and maths,\" she says.\n\nThe maths department picks 35 students who would benefit from an hour per week of individual tuition, delivered in the school day through an online connection to tutors from the MyTutor firm.\n\n\"It's a great help for some students with less confidence and resilience,\" says Ms Dews.\n\n\"It's not a substitute for a teacher, but it has real advantages.\n\n\"It's one to one, they can ask questions they want, they can go back to lessons they didn't understand,\" says Ms Dews.\n\nAccess to private tutors gives wealthier families an advantage, says the Sutton Trust\n\nBut why couldn't the school provide the tuition itself?\n\n\"There isn't a spare teacher who could cover 35 hours per week,\" she says.\n\nIt would mean hiring another teacher, and apart from maths teachers being in short supply, it would be more expensive for the school.\n\nStacey, a pupil who has been using the maths tutors, says she has \"definitely made progress\".\n\n\"You can spend time on things you struggle with,\" she says. \"All young people should have the same opportunity.\"\n\nJalen said it helped to be \"able to work at my own pace\".\n\nSchools across England have received about £2.4bn in pupil premium funding this year, based on factors such as pupils on free school meals or children in local authority care.\n\nThe purpose is to raise the achievement of disadvantaged pupils, but it is up to individual schools to decide how to use their allocation.\n\nResearch from the Sutton Trust and the National Foundation for Educational Research has shown the use of tutors is skewed towards wealthier families and to those living in London.\n\nIt found that 27% of secondary school pupils had private tuition - but this rose to 34% in better-off households and 41% for pupils in London.\n\nThe Sutton Trust has warned this is a hidden form of advantage in exam results.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton backed the use of pupil premium for private tuition, saying school leaders should make their own decisions about what made the biggest difference.\n\n\"The evidence shows that one-to-one tuition can be an effective approach to boosting progress,\" said the leader of the Association of School and College Leaders.\n\n\"However it is expensive to provide this additional level of support in schools and buying in a service could be a cost-effective method of supporting students in this way,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nBut the National Education Union said the scheme was a reflection of school funding problems and teacher shortages.\n\n\"The idea of doing this would not even occur to schools if they were able to recruit and retain enough maths teachers,\" said Mr Courtney, the union's joint general secretary.\n\n\"What is needed is for all schools to have the funding and the staff necessary to ensure every child gets the education they deserve,\" he said.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "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.", "The government has approved a US private equity firm's takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham.\n\nAdvent International made a £4bn offer to buy Cobham in July, but it was delayed when the government intervened over national security concerns.\n\nThe government announced its approval of the deal late on Friday night - which the firm's founding family said was \"timed to avoid scrutiny\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said the UK remained a \"dynamic\" part of the defence industry.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nDefence experts said its role in air-to-air refuelling was essential for modern warfare and could raise national security issues if the company was sold.\n\nShareholders approved Advent's offer in August, but a month later the government intervened in the takeover, citing national security concerns.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and came after she took advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nThe business secretary added sensitive government information would continued to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nLady Nadine Cobham - part of the family which set up the UK firm - called the decision \"deeply disappointing\" and criticised the timing of the decision.\n\nShe said it was \"cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before Christmas\", adding: \"In one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.\n\n\"In Cobham we stand to lose yet another great British defence manufacturer to foreign ownership.\"\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nSir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the announcement was \"deeply concerning\" and said \"we have yet to see evidence\" that concerns over national security had been mitigated.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson's government are happy to sell off a leading UK defence and aerospace company to Trump's America, how can we expect his government to protect our defence and manufacturing sectors, not to mention every other sector of our economy, as they negotiate trade deals after Brexit?\" he added.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked about the takeover while visiting British troops in Estonia\n\nWhen asked if he was comfortable with the takeover, the prime minister said: \"I think it's very important that we should have an open and dynamic market economy.\"\n\nMr Johnson added: \"A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that in that particular case, all the security issues that might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nShonnel Malani, a partner at Advent, said the company took the takeover \"seriously\".\n\n\"We are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "Mama Cax was a powerful advocate for women of colour and disabled women in the fashion industry\n\nMama Cax, a groundbreaking model and activist, has died at the age of 30.\n\nThe Haitian-American model, whose full name was Cacsmy Brutus, died on Monday after falling ill on a trip to London, her family wrote in an Instagram post.\n\nCax had lost her leg to lung and bone cancer as a teenager, and was a powerful advocate for women of colour and disabled women in fashion.\n\n\"To say that Cax was a fighter would be an understatement,\" her family's statement said.\n\n\"As a cancer survivor, she had grown accustomed to taking on life's several challenges head on and successfully. It is with that same grit... that she fought her last days on earth.\"\n\nCax first found fame through her blog, in which she wrote frankly and honestly about disability - alongside posts about fashion, travel and general lifestyle.\n\nShe later became known for her distinctive street style, and for decorating her prosthetic leg in bold ways.\n\nMama Cax said earlier this year that she learned to see her prosthetic \"as a piece of art\"\n\nThis, she told Dazed and Confused magazine earlier this year, was her way of learning to \"look at it as a piece of art as opposed to something that I had to be ashamed of\".\n\nOver the last few years, Cax hit several major fashion milestones.\n\nShe modelled for big-name brands including Sephora, Asos and Tommy Hilfiger, and last year she was on the cover of the September issue of Teen Vogue.\n\nThis year, she walked in both New York Fashion Weeks - in February she modelled for Chromat, while in October, she walked for Rihanna's Savage x Fenty label.\n\nPaying tribute on social media, Rihanna posted a photo of Cax walking in her catwalk show and called her a \"powerhouse beauty\" - before adding, \"rest in power sis\".", "Current debt advice systems have suffered with poor morale and staffing problems\n\nPlans for a new debt advice service for Scotland have been unveiled by ministers amid growing concern about problem debts.\n\nMore than 600,000 Scots - 14.2% of the population - are struggling to pay debts and cover their bills, according to the Money Advice Service.\n\nAnd Citizens Advice Scotland says it issued more than 100,000 pieces of advice about the issue last year alone.\n\nPowers to fund the new service were devolved to Holyrood in January.\n\nExperts say more people are falling into debt as the cost of living rises, while incomes remain static.\n\nOf those who have problem debts in Scotland, it is estimated that only about 20% will seek advice from a free debt advice provider.\n\nBut in a new report the Scottish government says it wants to set up a service which is focused on the users.\n\nThe Tackling Problem Debt Advice report claims growing numbers of people seeking advice may have contributed to low staff morale and high turnover at current advice services.\n\nMinisters say they also want to ensure the new service is sustainable in the long-term by providing adequate funding and ensuring the necessary staffing levels.\n\n\"Problem debt can increase stress and strain on families and friendships and it often affects those who are already struggling,\" said Business Minister Jamie Hepburn.\n\n\"Sadly, these issues can become a greater strain at Christmas.\n\n\"Early intervention can help mitigate the damaging effects of problem debt but people often delay getting help, or advice providers struggle to meet demand.\n\n\"This plan sets out our ambition to create a free debt advice system that responds to the needs of those who seek it, offers more joined up services and has adequate funding to survive and provide high quality services.\"\n\nIt is hoped longer-term planning could make services more efficient\n\nTheir plan was drawn up with help from the Tackling Problem Debt Group (TPDG), made up of current advice services and local authorities.\n\nIt sets out nine actions to ensure the debt services work best for Scottish users.\n\nThe government has also pledged to hold roundtable meetings with providers to streamline services, as well as launching a Scotland-only marketing campaign, to raise public awareness of the services on offer.\n\nThe report has been welcomed by Citizens Advice Scotland, which already offers free debt advice in Scotland.\n\nChief executive Derek Mitchell said CAS advisers were seeing evidence of problem debts in communities across the country every day.\n\n\"The Citizens Advice network in Scotland is one of the biggest providers of free debt advice in the country, and last year we issued over 100,000 pieces of advice relating to debt,\" he added.\n\n\"Debt is second only to social security in terms of the top issues our advisers see.\"\n• None Levels of Over-Indebtedness in the UK - Money Advice Service 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.\n\nThe Boeing company has cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule.\n\nThe Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but then suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nIt appears the capsule burnt too much fuel as it fired its thrusters, leaving an insufficient supply to complete its planned mission.\n\nStarliner came back to Earth on Sunday.\n\nIt landed in New Mexico's White Sands testing range, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft touchdown on desert terrain.\n\nIt marked the first US land-landing for this type vehicle. Past crewed capsules have always made splashdowns in the ocean.\n\nBoeing and the US space agency (Nasa) must now review the truncated mission before deciding when to allow crew to fly aboard future Starliners.\n\nWhile this automated demonstration ticked off many of its objectives, such as a safe entry, descent and landing - it failed to achieve other key ones, the most significant being a rendezvous and docking with the space station.\n\nArtwork: The capsule ticked off many of its mission objectives - but failed to get to the ISS\n\nThe Administrator of Nasa, Jim Bridenstine, said in a press conference on Friday that Starliner had experienced a timing \"anomaly\" shortly after launch. This led the capsule to become confused over where it was in its mission sequence. Starliner then expended an excessive amount of propellant trying to maintain very precise pointing, or attitude.\n\nFlight controllers recognised the problem but were unable to intervene quickly enough because the capsule was passing between satellite links.\n\nMr Bridenstine remained upbeat, taking the positives out of the day's events.\n\n\"A lot of things went right,\" he said. \"This is why we test.\"\n\nThe Administrator then suggested that had astronauts been in the capsule, they could have helped re-direct the craft to the space station.\n\nNasa astronaut Mike Fincke, who has already been selected to fly on a future Starliner, agreed with this assessment.\n\n\"Had we been on board, we could have given the flight control team more options on what to do in this situation,\" he said.\n\nNot since 2011, when the shuttles were retired, have Americans launched from their own soil; US astronauts have been hitching rides in Russian Soyuz capsules instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The capsule launched on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida\n\nThe Starliner, and another capsule called Dragon from the SpaceX company, have been developed to reinstate the capability.\n\nThe business model will be different from the past, however.\n\nInstead of owning and operating the new capsules, Nasa will simply buy seats in the craft. And Boeing and SpaceX will also be free to sell any spare capacity to others - to other space agencies and commercial concerns.\n\nThe agency \"seeded\" Starliner and Dragon under its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The companies were given milestone payments to encourage the development of their capsules.\n\nThe vehicles are late, however; they should have been flying in 2017.\n\nMike Fincke and Nicole Mann are looking forward to flying in Starliner\n\nThat they are still at the demonstration stage is due in part to Congress squeezing the amount of money Nasa could spend on the initiative. But also because of technical set-backs, such as the explosive destruction of a Dragon capsule on a test stand.\n\nThe SpaceX craft does look closer to entering service, though, after completing its own uncrewed trial in March. Whether Boeing will now have to repeat its test flight, going all the way to the station, before it can join Dragon on the \"taxi rank\" is uncertain. \"I think it's too early to make that assessment,\" Mr Bridenstein said.\n\nIt's still possible Boeing and Nasa may decide to move directly to crewed flights.\n\nMike Fincke's Nasa astronaut colleague on the upcoming Starliner mission will be Nicole Mann. \"We are looking forward to flying on Starliner. We don't have any safety concerns,\" she commented.", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nIt came as more than 90 flood warnings remained in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nMore downpours were expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.", "Thousands have demonstrated against the controversial reforms, with some brandishing EU flags and copies of Poland's constitution\n\nPoland has approved a controversial law which makes it easier to dismiss judges critical of the governing party's judicial reforms.\n\nThe legislation passed by 233 votes to 205 in the lower house of parliament in Warsaw on Friday.\n\nIt came just hours after the European Commission urged Poland to reconsider the proposed changes.\n\nDemonstrators rallied in their thousands across Poland earlier this month to protest against the law.\n\nOn Wednesday, the country's Supreme Court warned that Poland could be forced to leave the EU over its reforms.\n\nThe law now goes to the Senate after passing on Friday. The upper chamber cannot block the legislation, though it can delay it.\n\nUnder the legislation, championed by the socially conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party government, judges can be punished for engaging in \"political activity\".\n\nAny judge that questions the legitimacy of other judges nominated by the National Council of the Judiciary might be handed a fine, have their salaries cut, or in some cases be dismissed.\n\nThe PiS changed the law in 2018 allowing the lower house of parliament - which it controls - to choose the members of that council.\n\nDemonstrators have called for a judge who was suspended for questioning another judge's independence to be reinstated\n\nPiS alleges that Poland needs the reforms to tackle corruption and make the judicial system more efficient, arguing it is still haunted by the communist era. The party also insists that other EU countries allow politicians to take part in selecting judges.\n\nBut critics fear it has curtailed the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The EU has accused the party of politicising the judiciary since it came to power in 2015.\n\nEarlier on Friday, European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova wrote to Poland's president, prime minister and parliamentary speakers, calling on them to consult legal experts before proceeding with the law change, and asking them not to break EU legal norms.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the law \"risks further undermining the already heavily challenged independence of the judiciary in Poland\".\n\nThe governing party fast-tracked the bill in a little over 24 hours during an often stormy parliamentary session.\n\nOpposition MPs cried out \"Shame!\" as Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro called judges a privileged caste who ignored citizens' interests.\n\nThe minister said judges could not have the right to question the status of hundreds of newly appointed judges selected by a council which is now controlled by the governing party.\n\nSome judges have already done so after Poland's Supreme Court ruled the council was no longer an independent body.", "Plans submitted to Harrogate Borough Council would see major changes to the entrance\n\nSecurity improvements are needed at a major communications and intelligence base in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) has applied for an extensive overhaul of the entrance to RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate.\n\nPlanning application documents say it does not meet the security standards required by the US and UK armed forces.\n\nSecurity regulation for US and UK military operations have \"tightened considerably,\" the MoD says.\n\nAn environmental screening statement submitted as part of the planning application to Harrogate Borough Council says: \"Due to the classified nature of the operations at the base, security is a prominent concern.\n\n\"In response to the heightened risk of terrorist activity in the wake of 9/11, security regulations for both UK and US military operations have been tightened considerably.\"\n\nThe overhauled main entrance would include a new visitor centre, registration office and gatehouse, as well as new security barriers, roads and car parks, the Local Democracy Reporting Service says.\n\nThe listening base plays a role in US and UK intelligence gathering\n\nRAF Menwith Hill was established in 1954 to act as a \"communication intercept and intelligence support service\" for both the United Kingdom and the United States, according to the documents submitted to the council.\n\nThe base's operations and location have frequently attracted controversy, with local and national objectors protesting about the nature of work undertaken at the site, as well as the presence of international military personnel.\n\nHarrogate Borough Council approved the erection of three new radar shelters at the site earlier this month.\n\nNo date has been set for it to consider this latest application.\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.", "The family of a retired school teacher murdered during a burglary at his house in Crumlin in 2018 have said his killer should spend longer in prison.\n\nMichael Gerard Owens, 35, of Lisburn Road, Glenavy, pleaded guilty to the murder of Robert Flowerday in October and was given a life sentence.\n\nOn Friday at Belfast Crown Court, Owens was jailed for a minimum of 16 years.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Flowerday's brother Alan said: \"Life should mean life.\"\n\nOwens killed Mr Flowerday at his home on Mill Road in Crumlin during a burglary he carried out to help clear a drugs debt.\n\nThe body of 64-year-old Mr Flowerday was found in January 2018.\n\nHis family said they would never be the same again.\n\nSpeaking outside Belfast Crown Court, Alan Flowerday and his sister Pat said: \"No sentence could ever make up for the devastation Owens has done to our family.\"\n\n\"The family have been devastated by Robert's murder and our hearts ripped apart,\" added Alan.\n\n\"Today, after almost two years, we hear the judge committing this brutal murderer to a life imprisonment with a tariff of 16-and-a-half years.\n\n\"This is not justice for taking our brother's life so cruelty. Life should mean life.\n\n\"Robert's house - which was once the happy, warm, welcoming family home - is now a cold, desolate shell that presents constant reminder of the heinous crime, the tragedy, the cruelty and the torture and pain.\"\n\nThe body of Mr Flowerday was found in his home in January 2018.\n\nA hammer, hatchet and poker were used in the murder.\n\nOwens had initially denied the murder, but later pleaded guilty.\n\nMr Flowerday, who lived alone, was still involved in tutoring after he left his job at Antrim Grammar School.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 28 January 2018 after he failed to turn up for a tutoring session, something that was very out of character.\n\nThe parents of his pupil went to Mr Flowerday's home to find an \"unknown male\" inside.\n\nThey knocked the door but no-one answered and the lights were turned out.\n\nPolice then gained access to the property and found his body sitting on an armchair, covered in a duvet and one cushion.\n\nThe court was told Owens had owed money because of his cocaine addiction.\n\nThe judge said his \"attempt to steal money escalated into a violent assault\" and Mr Flowerday had suffered a \"vicious and prolonged attack in his own home\".\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Flowerday had 18 lacerations to his scalp, face and neck and 20 bruises on his hands, arms, legs and torso.\n\nHis nose and jaw were also broken.\n\nThe judge said Mr Flowerday had led a \"worthy and blameless\" life.\n\nOwens also admitted one charge of burgling Mr Flowerday's home on an unknown date between 27 January and 30 January 2018.\n\nHe was sentenced Owens to a minimum of 16 years and six months for the murder, and two years for burglary, to be served concurrently.", "Detectives investigating the deaths of two eastern European men five miles apart have said they cannot rule out \"a potential organised criminal element\".\n\nA 35-year-old man was found dead in undergrowth on Hogg Lane, Elstree, at about 15:40 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt 20:30 the previous day, a 30-year-old man was found stabbed in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet.\n\nA 31-year-old man at the scene was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe, from the Met Police, said: \"While we retain an open mind as to a motive, we cannot rule out whether there might be a potential organised criminal element.\n\n\"We also believe that the two victims might have been known to each other.\"\n\nThe road was closed to allow police to search the area\n\nPolice were called shortly after 20:10 to reports of a fight in Courtland Avenue, Barnet, but found no victims or suspects.\n\nThe man in the car was found about 15 minutes later and died a short time afterwards.\n\nThe 31-year-old man at the scene was initially taken to hospital with injuries before being arrested.\n\nThe second victim was found in a remote lane about five miles (8 km) from where the first man discovered.\n\nOfficers are working to establish how long the body had been there and whether his death occurred before or after the discovery in Barnet.\n\nInvestigators have asked residents who might have any information or footage to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stancombe added: \"I am asking those residents who live in the vicinity of the crime scenes in Barnet and Elstree to think very carefully about anything suspicious you may have seen over the last few days, and to make contact with us immediately.\n\n\"It could be that you may have caught something via dashcam footage that could prove massively important. The slightest fragment of information could prove crucial.\"\n• None Two dead and two hurt in stab attacks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Peters, who has died aged 76, will forever be remembered as the England World Cup winner described as \"10 years ahead of his time\" by his manager Sir Alf Ramsey.\n\nAs immaculate off the pitch as he was on it, Peters was the thinking man's midfielder and a trailblazer for the modern goalscoring midfield players who populate the Premier League today.\n\nHe scored England's second goal in the 4-2 win over West Germany in the World Cup final - but this is just one part of a career that brought club successes in domestic and European football to set aside his day in the glorious sunshine at Wembley on 30 July 1966.\n\nThe pupil from the West Ham academy\n\nPlaistow-born Peters, whose father was a lighterman on the River Thames, was a product of the West Ham United academy, a hothouse of forward thinking led by players such as Malcolm Allison and put into practice by managers Ted Fenton and most notably Ron Greenwood.\n\nTall, lean and elegant, Peters was the perfect pupil for Greenwood's desire to bring intelligence and tactical awareness to the game, developing alongside those other England World Cup heroes captain Bobby Moore and hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst - and Hammers fans still boast about how West Ham won the World Cup.\n\nHe had the natural gifts and awareness that allowed him to act like a sponge for Greenwood's progressive techniques, easily absorbing his manager's instructions and carrying them out with authority.\n\nPeters, like another West Ham legend of later years Sir Trevor Brooking, exerted his influence through speed of thought and natural ability as opposed to physical presence. He became known as 'The Ghost' for his ability to arrive undetected among heavy traffic in the penalty area to score.\n\nHe made his debut on Good Friday 1962 in a 4-1 win against Cardiff City and his first goal came in a 6-1 win at Manchester City the following September.\n\nIt was the start of a career that would bring him 100 goals in 364 games for West Ham as he settled into a pattern of performance and goalscoring that would define his style.\n\nGreenwood's team was regarded as talented but fragile alongside the fierce competition offered by the likes of Manchester United, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds United and the north London giants Arsenal and Tottenham, but they still enjoyed moments of glory.\n\nAmid that success there was disappointment for Peters, who was not included in the West Ham side that won the FA Cup final against Preston North End in 1964, victory being secured by Ronnie Boyce's last-minute winner.\n\nThere was to be consolation, of sorts, for Peters a year later when he was a key component of the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup against 1860 Munich at Wembley, courtesy of two goals from Alan Sealey.\n\nPeters continued to be one of the most significant members of a West Ham team that was pleasing on the eye, operating with characteristic stealth and intelligence, but short on success - his future glories were to come elsewhere.\n\nIn the modern parlance, Peters was a \"bolter\" in Sir Alf Ramsey's plans for the 1966 World Cup - the player who came up on the rails to make his case for inclusion close to the tournament.\n\nIt proved to be an inspired choice by Ramsey as Peters helped him fulfil his much-derided prophecy that England would indeed lift the Jules Rimet Trophy on home soil.\n\nPeters only made his England debut on 4 May 1966 in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia at Wembley, scoring the first of his 20 goals for his country on his second appearance against Finland in Helsinki on 26 June.\n\nHe did not actually figure in England's line-up at the start of the 1966 World Cup, missing the opening group game against Uruguay at Wembley. Peters started the second match against Mexico and was then a permanent fixture under Ramsey.\n\nPeters helped Ramsey implement a system known as the \"wingless wonders\" after Liverpool's Ian Callaghan, Southampton's Terry Paine and Manchester United's John Connelly all played in the group phase but were left out of the knockout games as England's system reaped the ultimate reward.\n\nHe once said: \"I wasn't a winger. Alan Ball and I were midfield players that broke wide. We had to get back and defend. We worked hard to defend when we played against a midfield player opposite us and then would break to support attacks.\n\n\"I wasn't quick but I could run and run and run, so I would run into the box, see a space, run into there. If the ball didn't come in you'd get out again, run in and then would come in and bang - goal.\"\n\nIt was Peters' cross from the left flank that enabled Hurst to head home England's winner in the tempestuous quarter-final against Argentina at Wembley, a game remembered for the sending-off and lengthy departure of the visitors' captain Antonio Rattin and Ramsey tearing George Cohen's shirt away from an opponent as they tried to exchange them at the final whistle.\n\nAt the age of 22, Peters was to take his place in England's sporting hall of fame as he scored the sort of goal that became his trademark in the final against West Germany, pouncing in the penalty box to put England 2-1 ahead.\n\nHurst recalled: \"When you look at the film of Martin after his goal in the final you can see him flicking his fingers out. He said the exhilaration was like an electric current running through his hands.\n\n\"He was a fantastic player, a natural footballer who was totally and utterly devoted to the game.\"\n\nIt was the high watermark of his England career and future World Cups would provide bitter disappointment for Peters and Ramsey, the manager whose aloof public profile was at odds with the complete devotion he inspired in his players.\n\nPeters, now at Spurs, was still central to Ramsey's plans when an England team many still argue was better than the 1966 World Cup winners in terms of pure talent, headed to Mexico four years later.\n\nThe great names remained while Nobby Stiles had been replaced in midfield by Spurs captain Alan Mullery, Everton pair Brian Labone and Keith Newton replaced Jack Charlton and Cohen, while Manchester City's Francis Lee came in for Liverpool's Roger Hunt.\n\nAnd when Peters put England 2-0 up in the now infamous quarter-final against West Germany in Leon with one of those familiar far-post arrivals on the end of Newton's right-wing cross, Ramsey looked on course for more success.\n\nInstead, with the outstanding Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti having a rare off day as a late replacement after Gordon Banks was taken ill and Ramsey's substitution of Bobby Charlton with Colin Bell backfiring, West Germany fought back to win 3-2.\n\nIt was the end of that golden England era.\n\nPeters was Ramsey's captain, with Moore replaced by Norman Hunter, on one of the dark nights of England's football history - 17 October 1973 and the final World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley that they needed to win to qualify for the 1974 finals in West Germany.\n\nIt was a night that belonged to Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski, labelled \"a clown\" by Brian Clough, as he performed heroics and his goal led a charmed life as England could only draw 1-1.\n\nIt was the end of Ramsey, and Peters followed not long after. He won his final cap on 18 May 1974 in the 2-0 defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, Joe Mercer having taken over as caretaker manager from Ramsey.\n\nPeters may have had an inauspicious end to a magnificent England career but his record of 67 caps, 20 goals and a World Cup win secures his place in history.\n\nPeters cut his ties with West Ham in March 1970, becoming Britain's first £200,000 player when he signed for Spurs, although a portion of the fee was taken up with Jimmy Greaves making the reverse journey to Upton Park.\n\nHe was at his peak at 26, figuring in a side with a more ruthless edge under manager Bill Nicholson and alongside players of the calibre of Pat Jennings, Mike England, Mullery, Martin Chivers, Steve Perryman and Alan Gilzean.\n\nPeters was able to add his elegant flourishes and natural eye for a goal to these talents and he went on to further success at White Hart Lane.\n\nHe scored on his debut in a 2-1 loss against Coventry City and finally won domestic honours when Spurs beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the 1971 League Cup final at Wembley. Peters was captain when Spurs repeated the feat two years later as Norwich City were beaten in the final.\n\nPeters won the Uefa Cup with Spurs in 1972 when Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten in an all-English final, but tasted defeat in the final two years later when they lost to Feyenoord in a tie that was overshadowed by crowd violence.\n\nHe left Spurs for Norwich City in a £50,000 deal in March 1975, having scored 76 goals in 260 appearances for the club.\n\nEven in his latter years, Peters was still able to show the old mastery and enjoyed an Indian summer at Carrow Road, winning the club's player of the year award in 1976 and 1977. In 2002 he was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall Of Fame.\n\nIn 1978, while still at Norwich, Peters was made an MBE for services to football. He is still regarded as one of the finest players to represent the Canaries, scoring 44 goals in 206 league appearances before joining Sheffield United as player-coach in July 1980.\n\nPeters was Harry Haslam's designated successor as Sheffield United manager but only had a brief and unhappy spell in charge for 16 games between January and May in the 1980-81 season when the Blades were relegated to the old Fourth Division.\n\nIt was his final involvement as a player or manager and he later went on to work in the insurance industry.\n\nPeters made a career total of 880 appearances, scoring 220 goals and was inducted into English football's Hall Of Fame in 2006, confirming his status as one of the towering figures of the post-war football generation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooding is causing travel disruption across the south east of England after heavy rain overnight.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nOn the railways, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express passengers have been advised not to travel, with disruption on the Brighton mainline.\n\nSoutheastern said there were no trains between Strood and Maidstone West, and between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings.\n\nMotorist Ellis Hart was on his way to a work Christmas meal, but missed it when he got stuck in the M23 backlog for more than two hours.\n\nThe 26-year-old stone restorer said: \"We were all going for a curry in London, paid for by the boss. It was our Christmas bonus.\n\n\"I was looking forward to that, but I've missed it now.\n\n\"I'm just glad I didn't bring my three kids with me. I was going to drop them off with my mum on the way.\"\n\nHighways England said the stream of water on to the M23 had to been stemmed and pumps were on the scene.\n\nSoutheastern posted on its website: \"A tree blocking the railway between Strood and Maidstone West means all lines are blocked. Train services running between these stations will be suspended.\"\n\nDisruption had been expected until the end of the day, but Southeastern later tweeted that the line would remain closed until Sunday due to the damage and repair work required.\n\nServices through Tonbridge have been disrupted due to a failure of the electricity supply.\n\nA subsequent landslip at Robertsbridge meant there were no trains running between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, with replacement buses serving the route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads and trains in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are closed after heavy rain caused flooding\n\nSoutheastern said it would be introducing a phased reintroduction of trains on the line in both directions from about 17:00 GMT.\n\nIssues with flooding at Frant had been resolved, the rail company said.\n\nAlmost 50mm (2in) of rain fell in some areas in 36 hours, and the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain, saying water on roads would cause delays in some areas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\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 Highways England 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\nDetails of Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services affected have been posted on Southern's website.\n\nIt said all lines had reopened but services may be cancelled, delayed or revised, with disruption expected until the end of the day.\n\nEarth is still at risk of moving following a landslide in the Guildford area, Great Western Railway says\n\nSouth Western Railway said all lines between Guildford and Godalming were blocked after a landslip, but the lines had later reopened. Lines were also blocked between Epsom and Ewell West.\n\nGatwick Airport is \"running as usual\", but it advised customers to allow extra time for their journeys due to the flooding on the M23 and the disruption to rail services.\n\nA fallen tree and landslip at Halling has closed the Medway Valley line between Strood and Maidstone West\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said crews were helping a man who had become stuck after driving through floodwater in Coppins Road, Leigh, near Tonbridge.\n\n\"Firefighters in water-safety suits are working to release the man from his vehicle and people are asked to avoid the area due to the floodwater,\" a spokesman 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 Bishop’s Stortford 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 service warned drivers: \"Floodwater is often deeper than it looks and may be moving quite fast. Your vehicle could be swept away or become stranded.\n\n\"If you see a sign to say that the road is closed due to flooding, remember the sign is there for a reason and find an alternative route.\"\n\nDaniel Grimmett Batt took these photos of flooding in Burgess Hill, West Sussex\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued flood warnings and alerts across England.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for large parts of the south of England until midday on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will there be more flooding?\n\nA Met Office spokesman warned that more rain was \"coming from the south through the night and tomorrow\".\n\nIn Leatherhead in Surrey horses were left stranded in a flooded field after the River Mole burst its banks.\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 Adrian Harms 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 Cornwall, the A30 was closed on Thursday due to flooding, with Devon and Cornwall Police declaring a major incident in Hayle.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said there could be up to 30mm of rain in the south on Saturday, with localised flooding.\n\nThe village of Cardinham in Cornwall saw 52mm of rain over 36 hours, while Bastreet Downs got 53mm.\n\nDevon & Cornwall Police said flooding across the force area had made \"a number of roads impassable\", and Great Western Railway services between Exeter St Davids and Taunton have been disrupted.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk Police said roads in both counties had been affected by floodwater.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued about 60 flood warning across England - where flooding is expected - as well as 200 flood alerts, which warn of possible flooding.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the floods? 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\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three years late and £100m over budget. The deal to build two new CalMac ferries for Arran and the Hebrides has run into serious trouble.\n\nBack in 2015, the £97m order was seen as a lifeline for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow - the last commercial yard on the Clyde which had been rescued by industrialist Jim McColl the previous year.\n\nThat contract ended up dragging the yard back into administration. The yard has been nationalised and the final cost of building the ferries will be at least double the original estimate.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? You'll get very different answers to that question, depending on who you're talking to.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay visited the shipyard after the Scottish government stepped in\n\nMinisters have published email correspondence and a report by marine engineer Tim Hair - the \"turnaround manager\" appointed after they took the shipyard into public ownership.\n\nHe blames an \"immature design\" along with poor project management and cost controls. Here are some of the key points.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined Jim McColl and the Ferguson workforce for the slipway launch of Glen Sannox in 2017\n\nA self-made billionaire who transformed the ailing Clyde Blowers into a successful portfolio of engineering investment companies, Jim McColl claimed he was \"begged\" to step in and rescue the Ferguson shipyard when it went bust in 2014.\n\nOne of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum of that year, he enjoyed a close relationship with the Scottish government, sitting on its council of economic advisers.\n\nBut the ferry problems have strained that relationship, with Mr McColl laying the blame at the door of Caledonian Marine Assets Ltd (CMAL) the Scottish government-owned company that owns the ferries used by CalMac.\n\nCaledonian Marine Assets Ltd is the Scottish government-owned body that owns the ships and other infrastructure used by the state-owned ferry operator CalMac. CMAL - the customer in the ferry deal - emphatically rejects Jim McColl's versions of events.\n• None Call to 'scrap CalMac ferries and start again'", "The PM served turkey and Yorkshire puddings in the base's canteen\n\nBoris Johnson has served Christmas lunch to British troops during a visit to a Nato mission in Estonia.\n\nVisiting the Tapa military base near Tallinn, Mr Johnson wished them a merry Christmas as he dished up the meals.\n\nThe 850 British soldiers based there represent the UK's largest operational deployment in Europe.\n\nThe PM also stressed the UK's commitment to Nato and its defence of Estonia's eastern border with Russia.\n\nThe UK is playing a leading role in the alliance's Baltic mission.\n\nThe troops, from the Queen's Royal Hussars, head the Nato battle group in Estonia, working alongside the country's troops and personnel from France and Denmark.\n\nMr Johnson told them: \"In the course of the next few days, everybody in our country is going to be celebrating Christmas with their families and you're going to be here - a long way away, a pretty cold place.\n\n\"What you're doing is incredibly important because the reason everybody in our country can have Christmas in peace and security is because of what you're doing here.\n\n\"What you're doing is showing that Nato works and that Nato is an alliance to which we in this country are absolutely committed to.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked the troops what it was like being posted at the Estonian base\n\nMr Johnson addressed troops in a vehicle hangar on the base\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson also held talks with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas and thanked him for the \"support and hospitality Estonia has shown in hosting British Armed Forces\".\n\nThe No 10 spokeswoman added: \"The leaders discussed the close partnership between the UK and Estonia, in particular our joint security and defence cooperation. The prime minister reaffirmed the UK's unconditional commitment to Estonia's regional security through Nato.\n\n\"The two leaders discussed the need to work together to address shared global challenges and the prime minister invited Prime Minister Ratas to attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow next year.\"\n\nDuring a four-month deployment earlier this year, a squadron of RAF Typhoon jets was scrambled 21 times to intercept 56 Russian aircraft which had strayed over the border into Estonian airspace.\n\nThe UK is one of the few Nato countries that meets the commitment to spend at least 2% of national income on defence.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-1.\n\nBut a prolonged squeeze on defence spending between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is adequately equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the Public Accounts Committee, the House of Commons' spending watchdog, reported that the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.\n\nIn a BBC interview on Thursday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget and confirmed he had recently met with Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings about improving the way the department spends its money.", "The last time the Duke of Edinburgh was seen in public was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital as a \"precautionary measure\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to the King Edward VII Hospital in London on Friday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said it was for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition on the advice of Prince Philip's doctor.\n\nHe was not taken by ambulance and it was a planned admission.\n\nThe duke, 98, retired from public life in August 2017.\n\nHe spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties, he has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nThe duke has not been seen in public since attending Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nPolice officers are stationed outside the hospital in Marylebone where the duke has been admitted\n\nPrince Philip's other public appearance in May was at the Order of Merit lunch, with Sir David Attenborough among the guests\n\nIn the statement, the palace said: \"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition.\n\n\"The admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness' doctor.\"\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nIt comes as the Queen arrived at her Sandringham Estate on Friday for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nGiven his age, Prince Philip is in pretty good shape. He walked away from a car accident in January - that sent his car spinning - shaken but uninjured, bar a few cuts and bruises.\n\nHe has had a series of health challenges in the past few years.\n\nHowever, the suggestion coming from the palace is that there is no immediate cause for alarm.\n\nThe Queen arrived at Sandringham this morning as planned; the duke went to hospital in a car rather than ambulance.\n\nThe hope and expectation of the Royal Family must be that he will spend Christmas back at home in Sandringham.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "New Zealand announced it would buy back the weapons as part of a six month amnesty\n\nMore than 56,000 weapons have been handed to authorities in New Zealand during a six-month amnesty, police say.\n\nThe buy-back scheme was launched when authorities banned semi-automatic weapon in response to the killing of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nThe ban was agreed by parliament weeks after the 15 March shootings - the worst in modern times in New Zealand.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged and faces trial next year.\n\nThe scheme was launched in April.\n\nIn return for handing in the firearms, owners were compensated up to 95% of the original price of the weapons.\n\nThe programme ended on 20 December with police hailing the amnesty as a success.\n\n\"We have taken well over 50,000 of these guns out of our community. That's got to be a good thing,\" said Police Minister Stuart Nash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever the amnesty has faced some criticism from some groups including the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners.\n\nThe group's spokeswoman Nicole McKee told the New Zealand Herald that she believed there were 170,000 prohibited guns in the country.\n\nSpeaking about gun owners, she said: \"Some of them are going to hide their firearms, some of them are protecting history and some of them - a good portion of them - don't know what's going on.\"\n\nIn 2016, New Zealand Police estimated that there were 1.2 million legal firearms owned by civilians - which equates to around one for every four people.\n\nOn 15 March, Brenton Tarrant attacked the Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch.\n\nHe is charged with the murder of 51 people, 40 counts of attempted murder and one terrorism charge.\n\nThe gunman was armed with semi-automatic rifles, and is believed to have modified his weapons with high-capacity magazines so they could hold more bullets.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all charges and is expected to face trial next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand PM, Jacinda Ardern on semi-automatic weapons: \"These weapons were designed to kill\"", "\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nAt home, no-one's ever really spoken about Johnsonism.\n\nHe's maybe been too busy facing challenges and dangers day-to-day, hour-to-hour, for a guiding philosophy to take shape, let alone find a name.\n\nBut the PM's goal of ending austerity and reuniting the country, north and south, richer and poorer, behind the Tory flag could fairly be described as a new. highly ambitious, political idea.\n\nEven so, giving a political mission a name - calling it Johnsonism - is a lot easier than pulling it off.", "The race for 2019's Christmas number one has been won by LadBaby, who is top of the UK's festive chart for the second year in a row.\n\nThe YouTube star, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, beat Stormzy and Wham! to claim the title with his sausage roll-themed cover of I Love Rock 'n' Roll.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it was the year's fastest-selling download.\n\n\"How have we done this again?\" said Hoyle, whose song is raising money for food bank charity The Trussell Trust.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for supporting us once again, and all for an amazing cause.\"\n\nLadBaby is only the third act in chart history to score consecutive Christmas number one singles. The others were The Beatles and the Spice Girls.\n\nHoyle, from Nottingham, found fame making YouTube videos about his journey from \"lad to dad\" after the birth of his two sons with wife Roxanne.\n\nHis single I Love Sausage Rolls racked up 93,000 chart sales this week - 18,000 more than his Christmas number one last year, We Built This City On Sausage Rolls.\n\nMore than 90% of this year's sales (approximately 85,000) came from digital purchases, making it the fastest-selling download since June 2017's Artists For Grenfell charity single.\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\nThe extent of his achievement shouldn't be underestimated. In an era when the charts chiefly measure consumption via streaming services like Spotify and YouTube, it is incredibly hard to break into the top 40 with a charity record, particularly at Christmas.\n\nMore than a dozen attempts were made to scale the chart this year, raising money for causes including The Children's Society and The British Heart Foundation - but only LadBaby reached the top 40.\n\nA Facebook campaign to propel Jarvis Cocker's Running The World into the countdown, organised by people disappointed with the result of last week's general election, also fell short, with the song landing at number 48.\n\nAs the number one was announced on BBC Radio 1, LadBaby livestreamed his reaction on YouTube.\n\nHoyle was overcome with emotion, burying his head in his hands, while his wife screamed and jumped up and down - both wearing sausage roll-themed jumpsuits they'd had printed for the occasion.\n\nAsked by Radio 1's Scott Mills if they planned to make a third attempt on the charts next year, Hoyle replied: \"Who knows? I don't want it to become a joke. It needs to still be funny and it needs to still be right. I don't want people to start boycotting it next year if we go for it.\"\n\nAt the age of 74, Rod Stewart is the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK\n\nDespite losing the chart race, Stormzy had a stellar week, placing three tracks from his new album Heavy Is The Head in the top 10.\n\nThey included Own It, which ended the week at number two, followed by Audacity at six and Lessons at nine.\n\nBut the Glastonbury headliner missed out on the top spot in the album chart, where he was pipped to the post by Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nWith Stormzy in second place, while Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line, is a new entry at three.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Racist slurs, rape threats, being chased with a sledgehammer - abuse of political candidates and their teams is on the rise. How do those running to be an MP cope in this toxic environment?\n\n\"I've been told that I'm not English enough, that I should go back to where I came from. I've been told that, because of the way my surname sounds, I'm a nobody.\"\n\nBefore she put her name forward as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Camberwell and Peckham, south London, 33-year-old Julia Ogiehor had a difficult decision to make. Was standing up for what she believed in worth the toll on her mental health?\n\nAnd sure enough, she says, she faced a torrent of abuse, some of it racist. She was told that she didn't deserve to represent the seat, and should go and work in McDonald's.\n\n\"I'm human too, I've got feelings. I don't always have to be the strong black woman,\" she says.\n\n\"I have cried on this campaign. I've had moments when I just couldn't get out of bed. I just didn't want to speak to anybody.\n\n\"I was prepared for the abuse on the right but I was dismayed, disappointed, hurt and then frightened by the abuse from Labour supporters.\"\n\nFor candidates running for election across the UK, the general election wasn't just a succession of 18-hour days, it also meant enduring an unprecedented level of personal attacks.\n\nAccording to a study by the University of Sheffield, the number of abusive tweets sent to candidates - racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic or in other ways offensive - was up dramatically in 2019.\n\nThe Next Episode podcast followed seven people standing for election, all of whom kept a record of the abuse they received. Download the episode here.\n\nThe researchers registered 158,000 abusive tweets, compared with 31,000 during the election period in 2017. This year 4.5% of replies to the candidates' tweets were abusive, compared to 3.3% at the last election.\n\n\"The abuse has become normalised and it doesn't shock me any more,\" says Andrea Jenkyns, who was re-elected as Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire.\n\nShe says she has received rape and death threats since she was first elected in 2015. She came off social media for three months after a man rang her office and threatened to rip her face off.\n\nBut she says the level of abuse in the most recent general election was worse than in 2015 or 2017. This year, she says, every piece of outdoor signage put up by her campaign was defaced. One of her canvassers was even threatened with a sledgehammer.\n\nThe murder of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox in 2016 has left many candidates feeling understandably fearful. For the first time, police advised candidates not to engage with abuse online or in person, to block abusers online and to report any intimidation. This was for their own safety, they said.\n\nSome candidates have their own rules, too - they might not go out alone, or after dark, and some carry personal alarms.\n\nLabour's Luke Pollard, the first openly gay MP to represent Plymouth, has his office in the centre of his constituency so it can be easily accessible to constituents. Twice during the election campaign it was vandalised with homophobic graffiti.\n\nLuke Pollard painting over graffiti outside his office\n\nPollard says that although he was keen for the building \"not to look like Fort Knox\", he took security advice and had bomb-proof windows installed. The abuse, he says, \"kind of eats away at you\". Like Andrea Jenkyns, he has a \"file of hate\" - a collection of all the abusive correspondence received in case it needs to be taken to the police.\n\nBut he tries not to let the abusers get to him as \"that's what they want.\"\n\nCharlotte Nichols, 28, who was elected for the first time in Warrington North for Labour, was so frightened by some of the messages she was sent that she called the police.\n\n\"I've been called things like 'another southern Labour slag', I've had stuff about how I'm a vile sewer rat, that I'm a traitor,\" she says. \"Probably the most sinister and hurtful one for me personally was someone who sent an anonymous letter to the local Catholic churches to let them know I've had an abortion.\"\n\nNichols, who converted to Judaism in 2014, also faced abuse connected with her religion. \"There's a lot of stuff saying how could I be Jewish if I was campaigning on a Saturday? And how can I be Jewish if I'm a Labour Party candidate, when the party has got issues with anti-Semitism?\" One person accused of her being a \"kapo\" - a term that was used for Jewish people who became concentration camp guards.\n\nSometimes, however, it is the candidates themselves who are accused of contributing to the toxic environment. Nichols was criticised during the campaign when old tweets came to light in which she swore and told one antagonist that she hoped \"you lose your virginity\".\n\nNichols acknowledges that, as someone who now holds public office, \"I will have to react differently.\"\n\nBut she refuses to apologise for tweeting that a group of Italian football fans pictured giving fascist salutes in Glasgow should \"get their heads kicked in\". Her Conservative opponent in Warrington North accused her of inciting violence. She responded: \"I believe fascism should be physically confronted.\"\n\nAfter the 2017 general election, the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life conducted an investigation into abuse of candidates. Its chairman, Lord Jonathan Evans, says that two years later some of its recommendations have yet to be implemented. He's particularly disappointed that the parties have yet to agree to a joint code of conduct.\n\nThe current situation is deterring people from entering politics, he believes.\n\n\"This is really important to the future of our democracy,\" he says. \"Because if people don't feel confident to stand, or if, as we have seen, some people stand down, then that means we are going to have a less representative and less effective democracy.\" MPs have told him that they have changed their votes in parliament as a result of \"intimidation\".\n\nAccording to the Sheffield University researchers, first-time candidates running in areas they aren't likely to win tend to experience more online abuse than others.\n\nNeva Novaky, 32, says she was taken aback by the vitriol she was subjected to in her first parliamentary campaign for the Conservatives in Garston and Halewood, a safe Labour seat in Merseyside.\n\n\"What I was not expecting was the level of animosity and the way that you get a lot of anger and hate directed at you as an individual,\" she says. People swore at her and told her she was a liar. One of her canvassers was threatened with a shovel, another with a hammer, she says.\n\nBut no matter how much abuse they've suffered, candidates still want to go out and campaign.\n\nJulia Ogiehor says the moments when she didn't want to get out of bed or speak to anyone always passed. They \"revived me to then get back out there\", she says. \"I will not stop fighting.\"\n\nThe reporter on the Next Episode podcast was Molly Lynch", "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\".", "An armed police officer accidentally shot a driver in the arm while trying to stop his car, a police watchdog report has concluded.\n\nOfficers stopped the Mercedes car in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, on 7 August 2018.\n\nThe officer put their hand on the driver's door but accidentally fired their Glock pistol when the car pulled away, the report said.\n\nThe two people in the car later had proceedings against them dropped.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry concluded the officer had not committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.\n\nInvestigators also looked into the planning and safety of the operation by Dorset Police.\n\nThe police watchdog said the stop was carried out in line with national guidelines\n\nThey concluded it was carried out where no members of the public were in the immediate vicinity and the Mercedes had slowed to a crawl close to a roundabout.\n\nCatrin Evans, IOPC regional director, said: \"We are satisfied the shot fired by a Dorset Police officer into the car window was unintentional, and brought about by the Mercedes moving off.\"\n\nThe officer has been advised to complete a refresher armed response training course before returning to full firearms duties.\n\nDorset Police Assistant Chief Constable Julie Fielding said a \"full debrief\" would be held into the events of the night to see if there were any \"learning points\".\n\nThe passenger in the Mercedes was later charged in connection with a stabbing but no evidence was offered on the first day of his trial and a not guilty finding was returned.\n\nThe driver was charged with dangerous driving in relation to the police stop and assisting an offender. His case was discontinued and not guilty verdicts returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWorld Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.\n\nPeters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain's first £200,000 player in a move to Tottenham in 1970.\n\nHe scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.\n\nWest Ham said \"the 1966 World Cup winner passed away peacefully\" on Saturday after \"a long and courageous battle with illness\".\n\n\"He is the fifth member of English football's greatest-ever team now sadly lost - along with Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks and his fellow West Ham Academy hero and great friend, Bobby Moore,\" the club added.\n\nHis former England team-mate Sir Geoff Hurst said it was a \"very sad day for football and for me personally\".\n\n\"Martin Peters was one of the all-time greats and a close friend and colleague of mine for in excess of 50 years,\" Hurst continued.\n\n\"A fellow World Cup final goalscorer and my West Ham partner for years along with Bobby Moore. RIP old friend.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton, who also played alongside Peters in 1966 said: \"We shared one of the greatest days of our lives at Wembley and the fact Martin is one of only two Englishman to have scored in a World Cup final gives him a special place in England's history of the game.\n\n\"He was a fantastic footballer. As a team-mate he was someone I could trust completely to do his job and I am proud to have shared that great day with him.\"\n\nPeters won the European Cup Winners' Cup with West Ham in 1965 as well as the Uefa Cup and two League Cups with Spurs.\n\nAfter five years at Norwich he moved to Sheffield United for a season before retiring in 1981.\n\nPeters, who was awarded an MBE for services to football in 1978, still regularly attended West Ham games as a club ambassador.\n\nPeters was only handed his England debut by manager Alf Ramsey shortly before the 1966 World Cup and he impressed in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia.\n\nTwo months later his goal looked set to win the final at Wembley, only for West Germany to level with seconds remaining before Hurst sealed a 4-2 win and completed his hat-trick in extra time.\n\nAsked about his goal, Peters once said: \"The emotion was like being struck by lightning, it was unbelievable.\"\n\nRamsey himself said Peters was \"10 years ahead of his time\".\n\nWest Ham said Peters, Hurst and Moore were able to \"ensure immortality for Ramsey's team\".\n\nThe club's joint owners David Sullivan and David Gold, said: \"In many ways, though, Martin's greatest legacy is not the World Cup medal itself, but the example that he provides to every young player who walks through the door of our Academy.\n\n\"The word 'legend' is used all too freely nowadays. But Martin Peters is a true legend. A legend of West Ham United. A legend of world football. And his contribution to our club and our game will never, ever be forgotten.\"\n\nPeters won 67 caps for England and made over 700 appearances for clubs throughout his career.\n\nHis former West Ham team-mate Trevor Brooking told BBC Sport: \"The best description of Martin was that he was very humble. They enjoyed the World Cup but it was probably only when each decade went by and England could never repeat it that the enormity of what they achieved grew.\n\n\"Martin never revelled in it. He was very humble, good company and never went looking for any headlines.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson: Very sad news. No England fan will ever forget the heroics of Martin Peters and his fantastic team-mates. My sympathies go out to all of those who knew and loved him.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker: Sorry to hear that Martin Peters has passed away. One of our World Cup winning heroes. A great player and a true gentleman.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Peter Shilton: So sad to hear of the passing of Martin Peters, World Cup 1966 winner, such a gentleman and a player ahead of his time according to Sir Alf Ramsey. I played with him at England when my career started and was very fond of him, I will miss him. RIP.\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer: He was instrumental in England winning the World Cup in 1966. Football has lost a giant of the game, an absolute legend.\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno: Really sad news about Martin Peters. He was one of my heroes as a kid watching West Ham. A brilliant footballer and a gentleman. RIP Martin Peters.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: He was a complete gentleman. I had the pleasure to play against him when I was young and he was at the end of his career and he gave me a lesson in how to be a footballer. They don't make them like him any more - he was a great, great player.\n\nFormer England striker Stan Collymore: Extremely sad to hear of the passing of West Ham, Spurs and England legend, Martin Peters. An English sporting icon and a lovely man who'll be sadly missed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US woman will be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had started extradition proceedings through the Home Office.\n\nUS officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\nOutside the CPS headquarters she said: \"We feel that we have made a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to Harry that we made.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton where her husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said that at the time of the crash Mrs Saccolas had \"status that conferred diplomatic immunities\" and added the foreign secretary \"stated the same in Parliament\".\n\nIt added: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an egregious abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\n\n\"We do not believe that the UK's charging decision is a helpful development.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nA statement via her lawyer said Mrs Sacoolas had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nThis has been a tortuous, raw, unrelenting, four months for Harry Dunn's family.\n\nThey cannot bear to be at the centre of what they regard as an prolonged, unnecessary, international spat between lawyers, diplomats and politicians over what, to them, was a tragic family road accident.\n\nMeeting presidents, foreign secretaries and chief constables has been an alien, disorientating experience for them.\n\nThey sometimes feel that Harry has been forgotten amid all their efforts to keep his case prominent in the minds of those who carry influence.\n\nThey know that the Home Office will now start the extradition process. They realise that although extradition may take some time, their efforts on behalf of their son now have some meaning.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab previously urged Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK voluntarily\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said a review into the immunity arrangements at Croughton for US personnel and their families had concluded.\n\nIt found that it was an \"anomaly\" that family members had \"greater protection from UK criminal jurisdiction than the officers themselves\".\n\nHe said he welcomed the decision to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Raab added: \"I hope that Anne Sacoolas will now realise the right thing to do is to come back to the UK and cooperate with the criminal justice process.\"\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said it had authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nShe said the director of public prosecutions had met Mr Dunn's family to explain the decision.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's parents Tim Dunn and Mrs Charles had previously been critical of the lack of communication from the CPS.\n\nHis father said on Friday he was \"overwhelmed\" by the CPS's decision.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Mrs Sacoolas at the White House in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chief Insp Al Barby said: \"The picture says it all - this couple are very lucky to be alive.\"\n\nTwo people are \"lucky to be alive\" after a tree branch pierced the windscreen of their car in a crash.\n\nPolice involved in a Christmas drink-drive crackdown found the car in a ditch off the A40 near Gloucester.\n\nChief Insp Al Barby, of Gloucestershire Police, said the driver \"tested positive at the roadside\" and officers were waiting for blood test results to see if he would be charged.\n\n\"The picture says it all - this couple are very lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\n\"It puts everything into context really - why we are running this Christmas drink drive campaign and what the consequences can be.\"\n\nSince the campaign started on 1 December, police said there had been 53 arrests for drink and drug driving offences\n\nSince the campaign started on 1 December, police said there had been 53 arrests for drink and drug driving offences, compared to 40 at the same time last year.\n\nThey said 24 people had been charged and were due to appear in court.\n\nChief Insp Barby said: \"The arrests for this year's campaign are up, but the fact that the proportion of people blowing positive at the roadside has gone down is encouraging.\n\n\"From our perspective the easiest way to avoid problems is to make sure it's none for the road.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dolls mimic popular brands, but do not carry quality marks and there is poor English on the packaging\n\nToxic chemicals have been found in cheap dolls putting children exposed to them at risk of long-term fertility problems, officials warn.\n\nThe Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll - costing between £1 and £3 - have been supplied across the UK.\n\nThe Nottingham wholesaler is being investigated by city officials, who said it could not yet be named or the shops it supplied for Christmas.\n\nThe dolls contain high levels of phthalates, say trading standards.\n\nThe potentially harmful chemicals are used to toughen plastic in the Chinese-made dolls, said the council team.\n\nThe Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that very young children and babies could chew the toys and \"consume the chemicals\"\n\nJane Bailey, the team's manager, said: \"We understand the financial pressures people are under at the moment, but I'd urge parents to resist the temptation to buy cheap toys like these.\n\n\"They will carry none of the required quality marks and will likely have been subjected to no product testing at all.\"\n\nThe council could not tell the BBC how many had been sold, or where in the UK they were on sale.\n\nAlthough such investigations are led by local authorities, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, a national body, said there was a rise of \"substandard toys\" being brought to the UK around Christmas and there had been \"several seizures\".\n\nRobert Chantry-Price, a lead officer for product safety, said: \"It is frightening to think that large quantities of phthalates are still being used in children's toys.\n\n\"Phthalates are carcinogenic, mutagenic and can cause reproductive problems but, despite legislation to the contrary, significant amounts of these substances can be found in a wide range of toys and child-care products.\n\n\"If these toys fall into the hands of very young children or babies, it's more likely they will chew on the plastic and consume the chemicals.\"\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.", "Katie Scott, bottom left, celebrates Christmas in 2017 with mum Hazel, brother Ben, and grandparents, Anne and John\n\nChristmas celebrations in the UK often centre on food, drink and family gatherings, but campaigners warn that the party season can place additional strain on those living with eating disorders.\n\n\"It's tricky even years down the line to watch the happiness and festivities at Christmas,\" says Katie Scott, 21, who is in recovery from an eating disorder.\n\n\"I have always loved [the time of year] - I love the food, I love being with my family. But now it's difficult because of the eating disorder.\"\n\nShe adds: \"No matter how hard I try or want it to be carefree or eating-disorder free I know that it can't be - it's bittersweet.\"\n\nHer comments come as new guidance is published to help those living with eating disorders over the festive season.\n\nKatie first became unwell at the age of 14, restricting her food intake and falling into depression. She was initially diagnosed with eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), and later with anorexia aged 16.\n\nShe describes her first diagnosis as the beginning of a \"long and ongoing struggle\" with eating and her weight, mood and self-harm, straining her relationships with her family and friends.\n\n\"It left me feeling desperate and isolated,\" she says. \"It was a life-threatening situation.\"\n\nKatie, who is in recovery, is now in her third year at university\n\nKatie dropped out of school for periods of time, undergoing inpatient treatment. She was finally discharged from hospital aged 18, joining the year below her at school to finish her education before going to university.\n\n\"I had to rebuild my life from rock bottom,\" she says.\n\nKatie explains that she has found Christmas \"an especially difficult time\" both while unwell and in recovery, often feeling unable to get fully involved with the festivities.\n\n\"The celebrations are obviously very focused around food,\" she says. \"I love food, but I'm scared of it so I have this contradiction - the fear factor.\n\n\"I've found Christmas quite hard to deal with in the past because I wanted to look forward to it, but all of the elements that I love [about it] became stressful and scary.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I think anorexia might be an extreme version of losing the magic of Christmas. It's still a lovely time of year but it's not quite the same.\n\n\"I kid myself each year that it will be but it's never as easy as it was before. It can be disappointing.\"\n\nThe charity Beat estimates 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder, with anorexia known to have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.\n\nThe NHS and eating disorder charity Beat have published new guidance on how to support people with eating disorders and their families at Christmas.\n\nThe advice aims to help friends and family of those of any age with such an illness navigate the festive period - while continuing to manage a condition.\n\nSome of the suggested techniques, based on experience from clinicians, patients and parents, include:\n\nFor Katie, planning the structure of the day is key, including what she will do if she is feeling stressed - whether that is stepping outside or going for a walk.\n\nShe also advises finding someone to confide in. \"Try and have one person who is at least aware that you might struggle,\" she says.\n\nBeat has also published advice on how to spot the signs of an eating disorder on its website.\n\nKatie says the Christmas period can also be a hard time for her mother, who, she notices, is focused on keeping her safe and feeling OK amid the celebrations.\n\n\"She's had a few very difficult Christmases with me,\" Katie says. \"It's almost worse for mum because she has to deal with me and can't anticipate how I'm going to react.\"\n\nDr Prathiba Chitsabesan, NHS associate clinical director for children and young people's mental health, says supporting families to manage eating disorders at home is \"crucial\".\n\nShe adds that the \"added pressure of New Year's resolutions and the bombardment of weight loss messaging\" so close to Christmas can prove challenging for those living with an eating disorder.\n\n\"Hopefully these tips will really make a difference,\" she says.\n\nCaroline Price, Beat's director of services, has warned that the pressure to eat large amounts at Christmas \"can be triggering\" for people with binge-eating disorder and bulimia, as well as causing anxiety for people with anorexia.\n\nShe says: \"People with eating disorders often try to hide their illness and at Christmas when eating is a social occasion - often with people who they do not see frequently - they may feel ashamed and want to isolate themselves from others.\n\n\"At the same time, Christmas can be a source of distress for families who are caring for someone with an eating disorder.\n\n\"All these pressures can be made more difficult as the normal support networks are often not available at Christmas, as friends may be away, and regular social activities close for the holidays.\"\n\nAnyone worried about their own or someone else's health is urged to contact Beat's helplines, which are open year-round and every day from 16:00 to 20:00 GMT from 24 December to 1 January.\n\nThose in need of support can get in contact via phone, email, anonymous one-to-one webchat or social media messaging.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino struck in extra time to hand Liverpool a first Fifa Club World Cup triumph as Jurgen Klopp's side eventually ended the resistance of Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.\n\nFirmino, who scored a dramatic injury-time winner against Monterrey to send Liverpool into the final, produced a composed finish in the 99th minute as the Reds became the second English side to win the tournament, after Manchester United in 2008.\n\nIn a dramatic conclusion to normal time, Liverpool had seen an injury-time penalty decision overturned after Sadio Mane went down under a challenge from Rafinha, with referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim reversing his initial verdict after checking the pitchside monitor following a consultation with the video assistant referee.\n\nBrazil forward Firmino squandered the opportunity to put Liverpool ahead inside the opening minute at Khalifa International Stadium, blazing over the bar before Naby Keita and Trent Alexander-Arnold also spurned early chances as the Premier League leaders made a blistering start.\n\nFirmino agonisingly hit the post and Mohamed Salah shot narrowly wide shortly after half-time, but Flamengo responded well to early pressure in both halves and posed Liverpool problems - striker Gabriel Barbosa's attempted bicycle-kick typifying the Brazilian side's steadily growing confidence.\n\nLiverpool suffered an injury blow as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to fall awkwardly on his ankle, and with the prospect of extra time approaching Jordan Henderson's powerful, curled strike from the edge of the box was superbly tipped over by Flamengo goalkeeper Diego Alves.\n\nFirmino's breakthrough in the first half of extra time delivered huge relief for Klopp's side, and while Salah was denied by Alves soon after, the Premier League side were able to see out the second period unharmed.\n\nMexican side Monterrey earlier defeated Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to claim third place.\n\nManager Klopp said he wanted to change perceptions of the Club World Cup in Europe as his Liverpool side prepared to face a Flamengo squad who had been given \"a clear order to win it and come back home as heroes\".\n\nHaving elected to focus on the Club World Cup, Liverpool fielded their youngest ever side as they exited the Carabao Cup on Tuesday in a 5-0 defeat by Aston Villa. Just 24 hours later, the Reds were busy securing their first appearance in a Club World Cup final since losing to Brazilian side Sao Paulo in 2005, eventually overcoming Monterrey 2-1 courtesy of Firmino's dramatic injury-time winner on Wednesday.\n\nDespite taking his senior players, Klopp was forced to name a makeshift side against Monterrey due to injuries and illness, but he welcomed back defensive rock Virgil van Dijk, along with Alexander-Arnold, Firmino and Mane against Flamengo.\n\nAnd how he needed his strongest side to navigate this difficult contest, in which it increasingly appeared it may not turn out to be Liverpool's day. After failing to capitalise on an excellent start, Liverpool came under pressure as tricky winger Bruno Henrique threatened down the right and Barbosa troubled the defence.\n\nBut Klopp's side dug deep, despite the frustration of Henderson's dismissed penalty appeal and Mane's overturned spot-kick at the death, and earned their reward as Firmino once again had the crucial say.\n\nThat 99th-minute winner vindicated Klopp's decision to pursue a first Club World Cup triumph over progress in the Carabao Cup, while delivering an entertaining final sure to have grabbed attention at home.\n• None This was only the fourth Fifa Club World Cup final to go to extra time, after 2000, 2009 and 2016.\n• None European sides have won 12 of the last 13 Club World Cup tournaments, including the last seven.\n• None This was only the second time an English side has beaten Brazilian opposition in a competitive fixture, after Manchester United's 1-0 win over Palmeiras in the 1999 Inter-Continental Cup final.\n• None Only two of the last 10 Club World Cup finals have seen both teams score, with the winning finalist keeping a clean sheet on eight occasions in the past 10 years.\n• None Flamengo are the fourth Brazilian club to finish as Club World Cup runners-up. No other nation has had more second-place finishes.\n• None Sadio Mane has been directly involved in more goals in all competitions in 2019 than any other Liverpool player, scoring 30 goals and making eight assists. Only Raheem Sterling (44) and Sergio Aguero (39) boast a better record among Premier League players this calendar year.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action against second-placed Leicester City on Thursday (20:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester lost 3-1 to reigning champions Manchester City on Saturday, to leave Liverpool 10 points clear with a game in hand on their closest challengers as they chase a first league title in 30 years.\n• None Attempt missed. Lincoln (Flamengo) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Vitinho.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Diego (Flamengo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Barbosa (Flamengo) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diego (Flamengo) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Filipe Luís. 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\nThe race to design and build a new generation of Royal Navy frigates has been won by engineering firm Babcock.\n\nIt has been named preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for five Type 31 warships.\n\nThe deal secures hundreds of jobs at Rosyth in Fife, where the ships will be assembled, with construction work expected to be spread between yards across the UK.\n\nWork is to begin by the end of 2019, with the first ships delivered in 2023.\n\nThe Type 31 is a smaller, cheaper frigate than the Type 26 warships currently being built at the Upper Clyde shipyards.\n\nWith a price ceiling of £250m per ship, the aim is to maintain the size of the Navy's surface fleet and generate export orders.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the modular construction method would support 2,500 jobs throughout the UK.\n\nHe said the UK was \"a great shipbuilding nation\" and that there were \"all sorts of ways\" in which UK naval vessels were helping the modern world.\n\nHe added: \"What it delivers is high quality jobs for young people - really high-skilled jobs for young people in this country - but also massive export opportunities of vessels that not only help to keep the peace but tackle piracy, help dealing with immigration issues across the seas.\"\n\nThe Babcock team's Arrowhead 140 design beat competition from a Cammell Laird/BAE Systems consortium and a bid led by Atlas Elektronik UK.\n\nThe winning consortium also includes Thales and BMT, as well as Ferguson Marine, based in Port Glasgow, and Harland and Wolff in Belfast - both of which are currently in administration.\n\nLast month, Babcock insisted these firms' financial difficulties would not affect its bid because its \"flexible build approach\" could accommodate \"a range of delivery sites\".\n\nScotland's Economy Secretary Derek Mackay said the awarding of the contract was \"testament to the skilled workforce and expertise which we have in Scotland\".\n\nHe added: \"I have spoken with Babcock this morning to assure them they have the full support of the Scottish government.\n\n\"Once the final details of the contract are announced, we look forward to discussions on the role that Ferguson Marine could play alongside other suppliers in Scotland.\"\n\nUnions also welcomed the announcement, with Unite saying it would secure hundreds of jobs at Rosyth \"for well over a decade\". GMB Scotland said it was \"excellent news\", adding that the team that put the bid together \"should be congratulated\".\n\nThree different designs were in the running for the Type 31 contract but they all have something in common - they're cheap.\n\nThe price cap of £250m per ship might sound a lot of money but, to put it in context, the bill for the eight Type 26 frigates currently under construction comes to about £8bn.\n\nThe extremely tight cost constraints on the new ship have led some critics to describe it as \"the Lidl frigate\".\n\nEach bidder has tried to keep the price down by basing its design on successful existing ships rather than starting from scratch.\n\nBabcock's \"Team 31\" design is derived from the Iver Huitfeldt frigates developed for the Danish navy.\n\nPlenty of flexibility has been factored in - equipment can be upgraded or reconfigured for different roles .\n\nThe ship is sometimes referred to as the Type 31e - the \"e\" standing for exportability.\n\nThe hope is that this \"bargain basement ship\" will prove its worth and orders from foreign navies will lead to economies of scale that will drive down costs.\n\nSuch value for money, some argue, might even tempt the Royal Navy to bolster its surface fleet by increasing the order.\n\nThe last big frigate order - for the Type 26 - was announced in the summer of 2014, just months before the Scottish independence referendum, with the work going to the BAE Systems yards in Glasgow.\n\nWhile the government insisted this was a value-for-money decision, many pro-union campaigners argued it demonstrated the benefits of being part of the UK.\n\nThe 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review scaled back the expected size of the Type 26 fleet from 13 to eight ships - and instead proposed building \"at least five\" new general purpose frigates, at a much lower cost.\n\nWith no guarantee this work would come to Scotland, pro-independence campaigners condemned this as a broken promise.\n\nIn 2017, the government's new National Shipbuilding Strategy, based on Sir John Parker's independent review, sought to encourage competition in naval procurement, with an emphasis on supporting shipyards across the UK.\n\nThe choice of Babcock - with its Rosyth site playing a key role in construction but with work spread across various UK sites - is in line with this strategy.\n\nIt also reduces the government's reliance on BAE Systems, which has long been the dominant force in naval shipbuilding.\n\nThe rival BAE Systems bid would have seen the company providing design expertise but the bulk of construction would have taken place at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Merseyside.\n\nNew Type 31 frigates will be built by Babcock in the Fife yard, as work comes to an end on the aircraft carrier programme\n\nIn shipbuilding, they talk a lot about the need for a drumbeat, describing the rhythm of production of ships, to keep the workforce busy and efficient, like you'll find on a factory production line.\n\nThe industry here has had an irregular drumbeat, partly because of lumpy government orders. And British shipbuilding has not been competitive in export markets.\n\nInstead, the larger yards, such as the two on the upper Clyde, have thrived only in the protected market of building warships for the Royal Navy.\n\nThe Type 31e decision means there should be a steadier drumbeat of work. It's already on the Clyde, with the Type 26 frigate programme running until 2030.\n\nSoon, the Forth should have its own drumbeat at Rosyth.\n\nThat's nearly a decade of work on both sides of Scotland. It's an opportunity to build in more efficiency, helped by an extra £50m Babcock investment in Rosyth facilities.\n\nWhat's much less clear than expected is what this means for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. It was part of the \"Babcock Team 31\", but at Rosyth, there's no talk of teams or consortiums now.\n\nBabcock is the preferred bidder (that is, the only one now in negotiations with the government). It has the capacity for all the work to be done at Rosyth, or it can choose how and where it sub-contracts.\n\nThat is subject, however, to a lot of political pressure - if not instruction - as to how the contract should be shared around the UK, to fit with the government's shipbuilding strategy.\n\nSo Ferguson has to fight with others for a share of the work, even including Cammell Laird on Merseyside with BAE Systems, which formed the losing bid.\n\nAnother uncertainty that has to be built into this announcement stems from the dismal track record of Ministry of Defence estimates of timing and budget for its procurement. This one looks particularly ambitious in driving costs down.", "The ringleaders of a nationwide drug gang who lived a lavish lifestyle which included gambling in Monte Carlo have been jailed.\n\nLiam Cornett, Michael Rice and Kieran Eves headed up the gang which spread across Hull, south Wales and Cornwall.\n\nGang leader Cornett was jailed for 26 years, while Rice was sentenced to 12 years and eight months and Eves was jailed for 13 years and nine months.\n\nTwenty-five others were also jailed at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a grenade exploded at a property on Beresford Road in Dingle, Liverpool, in March 2017.\n\nA search of the house led police to discover 160kg of amphetamines and 11kg of heroin.\n\nThis lead to an investigation led by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit featuring Merseyside Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, South Wales Police and Humberside Police.\n\nMembers of the group were seen transporting drugs and money in a County Lines operation, trying to take funds out of the country to fund Cornett's lifestyle and buying expensive cars with money.\n\nRice and Eves were stopped by armed police in Liverpool\n\nRice, 26, and Eves, 28, both of no fixed address, were stopped by police in December 2017 in a car on Smithdown Road, with a Glock handgun found in the vehicle.\n\nPolice said Cornett, 29, of Huyton in Merseyside, lived a life of luxury in Spain and gambled in Monte Carlo.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2018.\n\nDet Insp Paul McVeigh, from Merseyside Police, said: \"For a time, Cornett enjoyed a lavish lifestyle off the back of the misery of others, living most of the year in Spain, driving expensive cars and wearing expensive watches. But his web of conspiracy and deceit quickly unravelled.\n\n\"While he made some last ditch efforts to pretend he dealt only cannabis and no Class A drugs, in a desperate attempt to reduce his sentence, he failed to pull the wool over the eyes of police or the courts.\"\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. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nA man has described how he fought off the London Bridge knifeman with a narwhal tusk before pinning him to the ground to help end the attack.\n\nDarryn Frost, 38, was seen in pictures confronting Usman Khan, 28, who was armed with two knives.\n\nThe civil servant has spoken of his \"deep hurt\" at not being able to save Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones who were killed by Khan on 29 November.\n\nKhan, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot dead by police.\n\nMr Frost, who works in communications at the Ministry of Justice, told how he grabbed the narwhal tusk from the wall in Fishmongers' Hall as Khan launched his attack during a prisoner rehabilitation event near London Bridge.\n\nThe South African-born Londoner then chased Khan onto the bridge, where footage captured him and fellow members of the public fending off the attacker.\n\nMr Frost, whose identity was unknown until now, can be seen pinning Khan to the ground before being pulled away by a police officer. The terrorist was shot dead moments later.\n\nKhan was out on licence from prison when he killed Mr Merritt and Ms Jones and injured three others in the stabbing attack.\n\nCivil servant Darryn Frost (left) has described how he helped tackle knifeman Usman Khan on London Bridge (right)\n\nSpeaking to the PA news agency, Mr Frost said he was attending the rehabilitation event with colleagues when he heard a commotion downstairs.\n\nHe said he then grabbed the decorative whale tusk, which had been hanging on a wall: \"A few of us rushed to the scene. I took a narwhal tusk from the wall and used it to defend myself and others from the attacker.\n\n\"Another man was holding the attacker at bay with a wooden chair. I ran down the stairs, stood next to the man with the chair, and the two of us confronted the attacker.\"\n\nMr Frost added: \"He had knives in both hands and, upon seeing me with the narwhal tusk, pointed at his midriff.\n\n\"He turned and spoke to me, then indicated he had an explosive device around his waist. At this point, the man next to me threw his chair at the attacker, who then started running towards him with knives raised above his head.\"\n\nMr Frost handed the tusk to the man next to him before heading back upstairs to find another one.\n\nWhen he returned, he found the first tusk \"shattered across the floor\" and people fleeing the building.\n\nHe said: \"Along with others, I pursued the attacker, tusk in hand, onto the bridge. We called out to warn the public of the danger and, after a struggle, managed to restrain him to the ground.\n\n\"At that point I was trying to isolate the blades by holding his wrists so that he could not hurt anyone or set off the device.\"\n\nIn the footage of the altercation, Mr Frost can be seen grappling with Khan on the ground before being pulled away by an officer - seconds before police shot the attacker.\n\nMr Frost has revealed that he was the previously unknown man who pinned Khan to the ground\n\nCambridge University graduates Ms Jones, 23, and Mr Merritt, 25, were stabbed to death in the attack.\n\nThey were also attending the conference organised by the university's programme called Learning Together.\n\nMr Frost said that after reading about the work of Ms Jones and Mr Merritt he is \"convinced they represent all that is good in the world\" and said he \"will always feel the deep hurt of not being able to save them\".\n\nThree others - a man and two women - were also injured in the attack.\n\nMr Frost, who has lived in the UK for 14 years, revealed how some of those hurt refused treatment until others more seriously wounded were helped. A kindness, he said, that \"filled me with hope on that dark day\".\n\nHe said he has given his account of the \"terrible day\" in an effort to urge people to unite against terrorism and raise money for the victims' families.\n\nFuneral services have taken place this week to remember Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23\n\nHe said he was \"eternally grateful\" to everyone who came to help, and thanked the emergency services.\n\n\"Not only do I want to thank those who confronted the attacker, but also those who put themselves in danger to tend to the injured, relying on us to protect them while they cared for others.\"\n\nAddressing the public, he said he hoped \"the part I played in these terrible events can be used for good\".\n\nAmong those who were first to tackle the knifeman was a porter known only as Lukasz. He was armed with another makeshift weapon - a pole - and was stabbed five times as he confronted Khan alongside Mr Frost.\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\nIn a statement released in the week after the attack, the Polish national said he had \"acted instinctively\" and called the attack \"sad and pointless\".\n\nHe joined Mr Frost and others in following Khan out of the building but his injuries forced him to stop at bollards at the end of the bridge.\n\nAnother man, John Crilly, 48, has told how he helped Mr Frost and Lukasz in the tussle.\n\nThis 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\nCrilly, who was jailed for murder after a burglary went wrong, first fought Khan with a wooden lectern and then a fire extinguisher, all the while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\nIn the video footage, he is seen using the spray from the extinguisher to blind Khan, while Mr Frost held him back with the narwhal tusk.\n\nCrilly 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\nMr Frost said he had left out details of the attack out of respect for the victims, their families and the ongoing investigation and inquests.\n\nHe appealed for privacy to continue his recovery and urged the press to use its \"amazing ability to connect with people\" as a force for good to \"unify this country\".\n\n\"I feel we all have a duty to challenge the spread of fear, hatred or intolerance within our communities,\" he added.", "Hotel manager Wissam Salsaa said the work would \"make people think more\"\n\nA manger scene by British artist Banksy has appeared at a hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank.\n\nDubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier, which appears to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star.\n\nOn Instagram, the artist said the work was a \"modified Nativity\".\n\nIsrael says the barrier is needed to prevent terror attacks. Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.\n\nThe International Court of Justice has called it illegal.\n\nBanksy's work is in Bethlehem's Walled Off hotel, which is itself a collaboration between the hotel's owners and the artist.\n\nHotel manager Wissam Salsaa said Banksy had used the Christmas story to show how Palestinians in the West Bank were living.\n\n\"It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way - to make people think more,\" he said.\n\nThe scene shows the words \"love\" and \"peace\" as graffiti on the barrier in English and French. There are also three large wrapped presents in the scene.\n\n\"Banksy is trying to be a voice for those that cannot speak,\" Mr Salsaa added.\n\nAll the rooms in the Walled Off hotel overlook a concrete section of the controversial West Bank barrier.\n\nThe rooms are filled with the anonymous artist's work, much of which is about the conflict.\n\nBanksy has also created a number of works in Bethlehem and on the separation barrier itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Walled Off hotel opened in 2017", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock beat the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the event, beat the Austrian 3-1.\n\nSherrock fought back from two legs down to win the first set, before Suljovic reversed the fortunes in the second.\n\nA composed Sherrock took the third set before sealing the win by hitting the bull at Alexandra Palace and will face world number 22 Chris Dobey next.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight,\" Sherrock told Sky Sports after her win.\n\n\"I've proved that we [women] can beat anyone - I've just beaten two of the best players in the world\".\n\nSherrock's first-round win against Ted Evetts thrust her into the spotlight and she was roared on by the crowd once again, missing just five doubles on Saturday evening.\n\n\"With everything that has been going on the last couple of days I have just been focusing on my finishing because I know that I can score,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm still waiting for it all to sink in.\"\n\nAnd asked if she can go all the way to take the title, she answered: \"Why not? I have won two games, I am just going to take each game as it comes but there is nothing to say that I can't. I am going to try.\"\n• None Sherrock calls for more opportunities for women in darts\n\nEarlier, two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis came from two sets down to beat Cristo Reyes and reach the third round.\n\nThe Englishman won a tie-break in the deciding set after recovering from a poor start against the Spaniard.\n\nRyan Searle eased to a 3-0 win over Steve West, while Simon Whitlock also saw off Harry Ward in straight sets.\n\nJapan's number one Seigo Asada beat Keegan Brown and Daryl Gurney progressed to the third round by beating Justin Pipe.\n\nIn the final match of the night, Belgium's Dimitir Van den Bergh recorded the highest average of the tournament so far - 103.81 - in a straight sets win over Josh Payne.", "Firefighters were withdrawn from the building in Milltown \"due to risk\" to them\n\nAn 18th Century manor house has been damaged by fire which left crews fearing it might collapse.\n\nThe blaze was spotted in the three-storey building in Milltown, Cornwall, at about 08:50 GMT.\n\nInitially, three fire crews were called but nine more were sent to the scene, near Lostwithiel, at about 11:45.\n\nAfter nearly nine hours it was brought under under control and there were no reports of injuries. It is understood the house was empty at the time.\n\nExperts from the Environment Agency were called in to carry out an environmental risk assessment.\n\nStaff from Western Power Distribution and Cornwall Council emergency management officers were also called to the scene.\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 Wadebridge Community Fire Station 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe blaze spread from the first floor of the house to a roof space before it was brought under control.\n\nFirefighters in breathing apparatus had gone into the building to try and stop that spread but had to pull back building \"due to risk\" to them, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nTerry Nottle, of Bodmin Fire Station, said it was a \"significant fire\" and \"we don't get many 12-appliance fires in the county\".\n\nAlthough the fire is under control, crews are due to remain at the scene until Sunday.\n\nAn investigation is to be carried out into the cause.\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.\"", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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 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.\"", "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", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "* 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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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. 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.\"", "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.", "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. 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 Jamie Campbell 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\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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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. 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\".", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.\"", "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\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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", "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", "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.", "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", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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 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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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:", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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. 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 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.", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "Wilde said her opinions \"may differ from others involved with the film\"\n\nOlivia Wilde has broken ranks with the makers of her new film, which sparked anger by suggesting the late reporter she plays traded sex for information.\n\nThe ex-House star plays Kathy Scruggs in Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's drama about a media frenzy following the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing.\n\nThe actress said she did not believe Scruggs \"traded sex for tips\", and did not mean to suggest that was the case.\n\nBut she \"did not have a say in how the film was ultimately crafted\", she said.\n\nAccording to reviews, including in The Hollywood Reporter, the LA Times and the Associated Press, the film strongly implies that Scruggs had sex with an FBI agent played by John Hamm in return for information about a suspect.\n\nScruggs died in 2001 and her old paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has threatened to sue Eastwood and Warner Bros, saying the paper and its staff were \"portrayed in a false and defamatory manner\".\n\nRichard Jewell's attorney holding a copy of the Atlanta Journal at a press conference in 1996\n\nWilde directed this year's acclaimed teen comedy Booksmart as well acting in medical TV drama House and films including Tron: Legacy.\n\nIn a Twitter thread, she said a director could \"control the voice and message of the film\", but for an actor \"it's more complicated\".\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 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.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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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.", "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.", "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 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. 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 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.", "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. 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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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 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 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.", "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", "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 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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. 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\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.", "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?", "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.", "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 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.", "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: 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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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. 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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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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 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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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", "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", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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", "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", "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?", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "Allee Willis, a Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated songwriter who helped compose the theme song for the sitcom Friends, has died aged 72.\n\nI'll Be There for You, the single she co-wrote for the Rembrandts, became one of the most recognised television theme songs of all time.\n\nWillis also co-wrote the Earth, Wind & Fire hits September and Boogie Wonderland and, last year, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nThe cause of death was cardiac arrest.\n\nBorn and raised in Detroit, home of the legendary record label Motown, Willis would visit the studios every weekend growing up, she told the New York Times last year. \"You could hear through the walls, which is how I became a songwriter,\" she said.\n\nDespite writing music and lyrics for a catalogue of hits that also include the Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance and the Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done to Deserve This?, she never learned how to read or play music.\n\n\"I hear melodies constantly,\" she told the Times. \"I always say: 'If you were to drop dead, I could write to the clunk of the body.'\"\n\nAllee Willis's home in Los Angeles is a temple of kitsch items\n\nShe studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and then, in 1969, moved to New York, where she landed a copywriting job at Columbia and Epic Records. In 1972, she turned to music and songwriting.\n\nHer hits have sold more than 60 million records around the world, according to her website. She won two Grammy Awards, one for the soundtrack for the film Beverly Hills Cop and another for the musical The Color Purple.\n\nIn 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy for I'll Be There for You, which she had co-written as a short theme for Friends before it was expanded into a full song. But the theme music of Star Trek: Voyager won the Emmy that year.\n\nA kitsch lover whose hairstyle was long on one side and short on the other, Willis lived in a light-pink house in Los Angeles known as Willis Wonderland, a nod to the Earth, Wind & Fire hit.\n\nWillis's house in Los Angeles is known as Willis Wonderland\n\nIn her house, she hosted large parties with A-list celebrities and gathered the objects she collected throughout her career, now catalogued online at the Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch.\n\nAlso in that house, Willis reportedly composed September, which was \"still that song that when people found out I'd written that, they just go 'Oh my God,' and then tell me in some form how happy that song makes them every time they hear it,\" she was quoted by Variety as saying.\n\nWhen September was covered by Taylor Swift last year, Willis said she was \"thrilled\" - before describing the cut \"as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium\".\n\nHer partner Prudence Fenton paid tribute on Instagram, saying: \"Rest In Boogie Wonderland.\"\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 prufencef 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.", "The woman was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA woman has been killed in a crash on the M1 late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA number of vehicles were involved in the crash at about 23:15 GMT on the northbound stretch of the motorway, Bedfordshire Police said.\n\nThe woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the force has appealed for any witnesses to come forward - another person suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe M1 was closed between junctions 11a, north of Luton and Dunstable, and 12 at Flitwick, but has since reopened.\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 Bedfordshire 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\nThere was also an unrelated crash on the southbound carriageway between junctions 10 and nine. It is not yet known if there were any injuries.\n\nThis stretch of the M1, between Luton Airport and Dunstable, was reopened by 09:00.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics attended both crashes along with the two police forces.\n\nThe M1 was closed between junctions 11a and 12 but has since reopened\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live text commentary and The Cricket Social on the BBC Sport website\n\nBen Stokes has returned to full training with England as they prepare for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa at Centurion, after his father showed signs of improvement.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes missed training on Christmas Eve after his father Ged, 64, was taken to hospital in Johannesburg.\n\nHe remains in intensive care, but has responded to treatment and is stable.\n\nHowever, illness continues to affect the England camp, with batsman Ollie Pope the latest to be afflicted.\n\nPope missed practice on Christmas Day along with all-rounder Chris Woakes and spinner Jack Leach, two of the earlier victims of the illness outbreak in the squad.\n\nAlthough none of the trio has been formally ruled out of the first of the four Tests against the Proteas, they are major doubts - with England's team selection severely hampered as a result.\n• None England need intelligence in South Africa but I expect them to win - Agnew\n• None 'The greatest game of cricket ever' - England's World Cup winners recall thrilling final\n\nThe potential loss of Pope is a blow after the Surrey right-hander, who deputised as wicketkeeper during the second Test in New Zealand when Jos Buttler was ruled out with a back injury, scored a century in England's final warm-up game against South Africa A in Benoni.\n\nAssuming Buttler reclaims the gloves, and that vice-captain Stokes is available to play, Pope's absence could mean a recall for Jonny Bairstow as a specialist batsman, or another chance for Zak Crawley who debuted against the Kiwis in Hamilton.\n\nThe tourists must also decide the make-up of their bowling attack - illness doubts notwithstanding - after omitting Leach in Hamilton to field an all-seam attack. Pace duo Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad had also missed some training because of illness, but returned on Christmas Eve.\n\nWith Stokes' father still seriously ill, England will therefore delay naming their team until the morning of the match.\n\nA statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) read: \"The Stokes family wishes to thank everyone for their support and in particular the medical practitioners in South Africa for their care of Ged. The ECB continues to request that the media and public respect Ben and his family's privacy at this time.\"\n\nEngland pace spearhead James Anderson, 37, will hope to be setting a new landmark if selected - as it will be his 150th Test, and his first competitive appearance after limping out of the Ashes with a calf injury after bowling only four overs in the first Test at the start of August,\n\n\"I've been very lucky that I've got the frame that I've got - my body's been very durable throughout my career, my action's very repeatable and it doesn't take a lot out of me,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It would be a proud moment if I play, I don't think there are any fast bowlers who have played 150 Tests. I've worked hard to get here.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Broad, who has been Anderson's regular new-ball partner for most of his international career, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Following his mate Alastair Cook and getting that 150th cap shows dedication.\n\n\"For him to have come back stronger after his calf injury in the summer and missing out on most of the Ashes, is a credit to him and shows the sort of desire you need at the top level.\"\n• None Overton and Bess called up as illness cover\n\nAt the opposite end of the scale in terms of Test experience is South Africa batsman Rassie van der Dussen - at 30, only seven years Anderson's junior, but who will be making his Test debut at Centurion.\n\nCaptain Faf du Plessis confirmed that right-hander Van der Dussen, who has appeared in 18 one-day internationals and nine Twenty20 internationals in the past 14 months, would bat at number five after Temba Bavuma was ruled out with a hip injury.\n\n\"He was a mature cricketer when he started for us in ODIs and is someone who knows his game very well‚\" Du Plessis said.\n\n\"He came into international cricket looking very comfortable and has scored a lot of runs in white-ball cricket.\n\n\"He is calm and composed with the bat. You can just see it sometimes when someone is suited for international cricket and that's been the case with him. I think he will be very much at home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Du Plessis feels the addition of several Proteas legends to the backroom staff can lift the team after a troubled time on and off the field which has included the suspension of chief executive Thabang Moroe, the departure of long-term sponsors and a run of five successive Test defeats.\n\nFormer skipper Graeme Smith, the acting director of cricket, has brought in former Test wicketkeeper Mark Boucher as head coach and legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis as batting consultant.\n\n\"It's been a breath of fresh air to have the guys back. There's a real positive feel to what we've been doing and a real energy,\" added Du Plessis.\n\n\"The last six months has felt like there's been a bit more weight on my shoulders. I could see so many things happening off the field that were not the right structures.\n\n\"You kind of sit back and go 'why have these guys not been here for the last few years?'. Look at Australia as an example, you play them and there's Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh... it makes you sit back and say 'we want that'.\"", "Ari Behn, the former son-in-law of Norway's king, has died aged 47, his spokesman has said.\n\nBehn, the author of several novels and plays, married Princess Martha Louise in 2002 but the couple divorced two years ago.\n\nHis spokesman told Norway's NTB agency that Behn had taken his own life.\n\nIn a statement, Norway's king and queen said he had been \"an important part of our family for many years and we carry warm and good memories of him with us\".\n\nAt the time of their wedding, Denmark-born Behn was seen as a controversial partner for Princess Martha Louise, the only daughter and eldest child of King Harald and Queen Sonja.\n\nBehn met his future wife through his mother, who was the princess's physiotherapy tutor. He was best known then as the author of a short book, Sad as Hell, but attracted controversy and was filmed partying with prostitutes who were taking drugs in Las Vegas.\n\nThe couple had three daughters - Maud, Leah and Emma - but separated in 2016 before divorcing a year later. At the time, the princess said in a statement: \"We feel guilty because we are no longer able to create the safe harbour that our children deserve.\"\n\nIn December 2017, Behn accused the disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey of groping him after a Nobel Peace Prize concert. He said the actor had reached under a table and inappropriately touched him. Spacey did not respond to the allegation, one of many made at the same time.\n\n\"We are grateful that we got to know him,\" King Harald and Queen Sonja said of Behn in their statement. \"We grieve that our grandchildren have now lost their beloved father.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has returned to Sandringham in time for Christmas after four nights in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, was taken to the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had returned to the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Tuesday and thanked people for \"their good wishes\".\n\nIt comes after the revelation the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge 2019 has been \"bumpy\".\n\nThe monarch herself travelled to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nThe palace, meanwhile, said the duke's hospital admission had been a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHis last public appearance was Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was a \"precautionary measure\" in relation to a \"pre-existing\" condition\n\nThe Prince of Wales said on Monday his father had been \"looked after very well\" by hospital staff.\n\nBut Charles, who was visiting flood-hit communities in South Yorkshire, added: \"When you get to that age things don't work so well.\"\n\nRoyal commentator Caroline Aston told the BBC it was \"entirely in keeping with the man\" for Prince Philip to have seemingly had no visitors during his hospital stay, because he likes to make \"no fuss about anything\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual Christmas Day message before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn the message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, the monarch will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II recorded her annual Christmas message from Windsor Castle in Berkshire\n\nAfter a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family, the Queen will say: \"Small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding.\"\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near Sandringham. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nAnd last month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nAs is customary, family photos can be seen positioned near the Queen for her annual speech.\n\nAddressing speculation about the absence of a photo of the Sussexes, the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was not in the Queen's nature \"to snub anybody\", adding: \"Certainly not her grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said that the photos on the Queen's desk focus on the line of succession.\n\nThere has also been speculation surrounding which members of the royal family will attend the church service tomorrow morning.\n\nBBC news correspondent Charlotte Gallagher said it was believed Prince Andrew would be at the service, as well as Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a collision with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "Security forces in Burkina Faso have been battling militants for years\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have killed 35 civilians, 31 of them women, in an attack on a military base and a town in Burkina Faso, officials say.\n\nThey say seven soldiers and 80 militants were also killed as the army repelled Tuesday's attack in Arbinda, in northern Soum province.\n\nJihadist groups have stepped up attacks in Burkina Faso and other West African countries, in recent years.\n\nThe violence has continued despite Western efforts to help regional governments combat the insurgents. In November, 13 French troops died in a helicopter collision during an operation in southern Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso.\n\nLast weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the fight against militants in the Sahel region during a visit to Niger.\n\n\"The coming weeks are absolutely decisive for our fight against terrorism,\" he said.\n\nTuesday's attack was carried out by dozens of fighters on motorbikes and lasted several hours. No group has so far said it was behind it, but groups allied to al-Qaeda or Islamic State are active in the region.\n\n\"This barbaric attack resulted in the deaths of 35 civilian victims, most of them women,\" President Kaboré said in a statement. He also praised the \"heroic action of our soldiers\" who battled the assailants.\n\nEarlier this month, at least 14 people were killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in the east of the country.\n\nBurkina Faso, a predominantly Muslim country, was once relatively stable but has descended into serious unrest since 2015. About 700 people have been killed and 560,000 displaced.\n\nThe conflict spread across the border from neighbouring Mali, where Islamist militants took over the north of the country in 2012 before French troops pushed them out.", "Firefighter Anthony Knott was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nA firefighter who went missing on a Christmas work night out \"may have come to some harm,\" police have said.\n\nAnthony Knott was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, with a group of 12 London firefighters on 20 December.\n\nSussex Police said there were no signs the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nHis partner Lucy Otto said: \"I just feel numb... it's very strange. It's the not knowing, it's terrible.\"\n\nExtensive inquiries and searches of CCTV recordings have been carried out to find Mr Knott, from Orpington.\n\nVolunteers have been helping emergency services with the search, which has included scouring the nearby River Ouse.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said police were \"grateful\" for the assistance, but, for their own safety, asked that \"the ongoing search is left to the emergency services\".\n\nThe River Ouse is being search by the coastguard\n\nPolice described him as a \"family man\" and Ms Otto told BBC Radio Sussex he had been in a happy mood before he disappeared, adding: \"He loved his job, he loved his family, it was just simply a Christmas night out.\"\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeve top, dark denim coat, dark denim jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe group were moving between various pubs, but he was last seen at 19:30 GMT in The Lamb in Fisher Street.\n• None Concern for firefighter missing after night out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge is seen kissing his youngest child Prince Louis in a new photograph taken by his wife.\n\nThe black-and-white picture was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year and released on Christmas Day.\n\nIt also shows Princess Charlotte and Prince George, who are due to attend the Sandringham Christmas Day church service for the first time later.\n\nThe picture was posted on social media with the message: \"Merry Christmas\".\n\nIn the photo, the duke wears a flat cap as he holds his youngest son, with Princess Charlotte standing beside them.\n\nPrince George sits next to them in a chair as he smiles at the camera.\n\nThe duchess has previously been praised for her photographic portraits of her children and was named as the new patron of the Royal Photographic Society earlier this year.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is a keen photographer and is often seen with a camera, such as in Pakistan earlier this year\n\nKensington Palace has often published photos taken by Kate to mark milestones in her children's lives, such as birthdays and first days at nursery.\n\nThe duchess began the tradition in 2015 when she took the first official portraits of Princess Charlotte, rather than hiring a photographer.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, Norfolk, later.\n\nIt comes after the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Queen's estate following a four-night stay at a hospital in London.", "Donald Trump has confessed that he is yet to get a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.\n\nDuring a Christmas Eve video conference with American military personnel stationed overseas, the president was asked what gift he had bought for the First Lady.\n\nMr Trump said he was \"still working on\" on a present, but had picked her \"a very beautiful card\".\n\n\"There's a little time left\" to buy a present he added. \"Not too much, but there's a little time left.\"", "The southbound carriageway of the M1 in West Yorkshire has reopened after it was shut following a \"serious incident\" involving \"multiple vehicles\".\n\nIt was the third major crash on the motorway in 24 hours.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the latest incident happened on a stretch between junction 40 and junction 39 near Wakefield.\n\nA woman died in a collision 140 miles further south in Bedfordshire late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA diversion route was put place following the latest incident in West Yorkshire and Highways England had issued instructions for drivers planning to travel in the area.\n\nThe agency said the road was \"now fully open again\".\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 Highways England 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 Bedfordshire crash happened between Aylesbury and Flitwick on the northbound carriageway at about 11.15pm, and involved a number of vehicles.\n\nAnother person suffered minor injuries, police said. The woman who died has not been named.\n\nA stretch of the motorway was closed from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning after the crash near junction 12.\n\nBedfordshire Police attended the incident along with members of the ambulance service and fire brigade.\n\nPolice are asking witnesses or anyone with information about the crash to call 101 and quote Operation Granborough.\n\nThere was also an accident on the southbound carriageway in Hertfordshire, between Luton Airport and Dunstable.\n\nThe M1 fully reopened in both directions before 9am on Christmas Day.", "Debbie McGee has been crowned the winner of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.\n\nThe widow of magician Paul Daniels and her professional partner Kevin Clifton scored 40 points for a ski-themed quickstep to Jingle Bells.\n\nMcGee, who got to the final of the Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, said she \"wasn't expecting\" to win.\n\n\"It's just amazing but you know, everybody has been fantastic,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the show's star-shaped trophy, she said: \"I think it's everybody's, because we all had a great time, everyone did such great dances.\"\n\nStrictly 2018 competitors Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell on the dance floor\n\nActress Chizzy Akudolu made an appearance with her professional partner Graziano Di Prima\n\nDebbie McGee and Kevin Clifton were told they were \"a class act\"\n\nMcGee was up against fellow former contestants Chizzy Akudolu, Gemma Atkinson, Joe Sugg, Mark Wright and Richard Arnold.\n\nThe festive show on BBC One was hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman and judged by Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Bruno Tonioli and Shirley Ballas.\n\nScoring McGee's performance 10 points, Horwood said it was \"a class act\".\n\nDuring the event in Leeds Castle in Kent, each couple performed their routines in front of a studio audience, who voted for their favourite. Those votes were combined with the judges' scores.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk\n\nResidents of villages in the Falkirk area were left without power after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 07:00 on the A905 at Airth.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said a 29-year-old male casualty was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital. His condition was described as \"stable\".\n\nThe road is closed between Bowtrees and the approach to Airth, with local diversions busier than usual.\n\nIt is understood that the road is likely to remain shut for most of the day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the closure was to enable repairs to be carried out to the pole.\n\n\"Inquiries are continuing in to the cause of the crash,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe road was closed while the emergency services dealt with the incident\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had sent an ambulance, its special operations team, and an air ambulance to the scene.\n\n\"We transported one male patient to Forth Valley Royal Hospital by road,\" it said.\n\nLocal councillor Laura Murtagh said it was a \"very sad incident\" and her prayers were with anyone who may have been injured.\n\nShe said the power had been cut to a number of local villages as a result of the crash but most had now been restored.\n\nThe councillor advised HGV drivers \"not to attempt\" the A905 due to other local diversions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George and Princess Charlotte met well-wishers at St Mary Magdalene Church for the first time\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte mingled with the crowds as they attended the Royal Family's Christmas Day church service for the first time.\n\nPrince Philip, who was released from hospital on Tuesday, did not attend.\n\nA large crowd gathered to greet the Queen and family members as they attended the service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Andrew, who stepped back from royal duties last month, kept a low profile at the event.\n\nPrince Andrew was not seen with the rest of the Royal Family as they left the church\n\nThe 11am service was broadcast live to the hundreds of visitors who had gathered outside the church.\n\nSome had queued from the early hours of the morning in the hope of seeing the Royal Family.\n\nPrincess Charlotte made her debut at the service and met visitors with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe crowd were eager to meet Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nWell-wishers held out flowers and gifts for Princess Charlotte, four, and Prince George, six, who were accompanied by their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThere had been speculation over whether Prince Andrew would join the rest of his family at Sandringham, after controversy over his links with billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein saw him sidelined from royal duties.\n\nWhile most of the family arrived in front of crowds lining the roads, Andrew, accompanied by his brother, arrived earlier at the church and used a different entrance.\n\nHis daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both attended the main service.\n\nThe Queen was not accompanied by her husband, who was discharged from hospital on Tuesday\n\nPrince Andrew arrived with his brother Charles at an earlier church service\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the prince was a \"significant absentee\" from the main service at 11am.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"If he had attended [the main service] a lot of the coverage would have been around him. He has become... something of an embarrassment currently to the Royal Family.\"\n\nPrincess Charlotte and Prince George attended the Christmas Day service for the first time\n\nThe Queen's attendance at church preceded her Christmas Day message - in which she described 2019 as \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe said that \"positive things\" could be achieved when differences were set aside and people came together \"in the spirit of friendship and reconciliation\".\n\n\"As we all look forward to the start of a new decade, it's worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while also looking ahead at causes being championed by younger generations.\n\n\"The challenges many people face today may be different to those once faced by my generation, but I have been struck by how new generations have brought a similar sense of purpose to issues such as protecting our environment and our climate,\" the Queen said.\n\nThe Queen's message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nAs well as the controversy over Prince Andrew, the year has seen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex take legal action against a newspaper and speak of the pressures of parenthood and royal life.\n\nThere have also been concerns over the health of Prince Philip, who was involved in a car crash at the beginning of the year.\n\nPrince Phillip returned to Sandringham on Christmas Eve after spending four nights in hospital.\n\nHe was taken to King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nThe 98-year-old retired from public life in August 2017 and his last public appearance was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex was accompanied by his daughter, Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex and his daughter Lady Louise Windsor also arrived for the Christmas morning church service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend this year's church service as they are in Canada taking a break from royal duties with their son Archie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new photograph showing the duke kissing his youngest son, Louis, alongside Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nThe picture was posted by Kensington Palace on Twitter with the message: \"Merry Christmas to all our followers!\"\n\nThe photo was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year", "Arlene Foster has led the DUP since 2015\n\nA lawyer for Arlene Foster has threatened legal action against doctor and TV presenter Christian Jessen.\n\nDr Jessen is one of a number of people who have tweeted an unsubstantiated rumour about the DUP leader's private life.\n\nThrough her lawyer, Paul Tweed, Mrs Foster has emphatically rejected the allegation as false.\n\nMr Tweed said, if necessary, legal proceedings would be taken against Dr Jessen.\n\nIn a statement issued to BBC News NI, Mr Tweed said: \"I would confirm, if necessary, legal proceedings will be taken against Dr Christian Jessen, Twitter and any persons who have recklessly retweeted this false and highly defamatory allegation\".\n\nMrs Foster is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and served as first minister of Northern Ireland from 2016 to 2017.\n\nDr Jessen is best known for presenting Channel Four programme Embarrassing Bodies.", "A man has died after being shot on Christmas Eve in south west London, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to Battersea Church Road at about 21:00 GMT on 24 December to reports of shots being fired, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man believed to be in his 30s had suffered gunshot injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to talk about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police.\n\nDuring the service at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said the light of Jesus could bring hope.\n\nHe also reflected on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is dealing with an Ebola virus outbreak.\n\n\"Darkness is a monster that lies\", he told the congregation. \"Its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love-filled whispers of light.\n\n\"We see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. They may be violence as in the Congo or on London Bridge; they may be political; they may be purely personal.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Whether solid or illusion, they are the reality with which we live. By contrast we do not see light, but we do see truth in light.\"\n\nMr Welby described Canterbury as a \"city of peace that celebrates Christmas gloriously\", before comparing it to Beni, which is five times the size of the Kent city.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"It [Beni] has been at the centre of the second worst outbreak of Ebola in history; roughly 3,000 people have died. Its Anglican bishop is alight with Christ, always present, always giving of himself.\"\n\nIt comes after the spiritual leader of the Church of England shared a message of unity on 23 December, as he appealed to anyone who felt \"embarrassed or ashamed\" during the festive period.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he spoke of Jesus' humble beginnings, appearing to direct his message to those living in poverty.\n\nHe said: \"God meets us wherever we are, however messy. If you're embarrassed or ashamed, God is neither.\"\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 Archbishop of Canterbury 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 Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMeanwhile, in his homily on Christmas Eve, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said that after \"so much bitter political discourse and division\" we \"are to look one another in the eye and see there all that is good\".\n\nCardinal Nichols added during Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral: \"The source of that good in every person we meet is, of course, the life of God, a divine goodness, which shows itself fully in Christ Jesus.\"\n\nHe encouraged worshippers to find \"the goodness of God in every person\", adding: \"Only then will our society become a place in which no-one is afraid and all sense a welcome. This is the fresh start we need.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh left the King Edward VII's Hospital after four nights of \"observation and treatment\".\n\nRead more: Philip leaves hospital in time for Christmas", "A Gaulish flagon used to pour wine has been preserved\n\n\"Breathtaking\" Roman and Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been discovered in burial sites near the edge of an airport.\n\nPots, jugs and jewellery were found in Baginton, next to Lunt Roman Fort and Coventry Airport in Warwickshire.\n\nArchaeologists believe two of the graves contained a \"high status\" ranking officer and Roman girl, aged between six and 12.\n\nThe artefacts could go on display at local museums.\n\nThe pieces were found during a dig at a housing development site in summer 2017 but many of the items have only just been officially dated and verified by experts.\n\nSenior archaeologist Nigel Page, from Warwickshire County Council which led the dig, said it was a \"remarkable\" find.\n\n\"It's a significant discovery in the West Midlands,\" he said. \"There was a real buzz of excitement when the site was found. It's breathtaking.\"\n\nA number of pots were found at one burial site\n\nA decorative brooch was found within a Roman cremation burial site of a young girl.\n\nIt was one of four brooches from a small pile of jewellery placed in the grave and covered by a polished mirror.\n\nOther jewellery included a ring, with an image of a cicada - an insect associated with immortality - and a hair pin.\n\nExperts said the items and imagery on some of the jewellery suggested a link to southern Europe.\n\nThis Roman brooch is likely to have belonged to a young girl and put with her for a cremation burial\n\nA dozen Anglo-Saxon graves were excavated, some of which contained goods including a Frankish vessel from the northern France and Belgium area.\n\n\"The presence of the Frankish vessel suggests that, just as during the Roman period, goods and people were moving into and through the area from a wide area, including from Europe,\" Mr Page said.\n\nOne burial contained the centre of a shield, fragments of a knife blade in its leather sheath and a crushed copper alloy hanging bowl.\n\nExperts said the richness of the Anglo-Saxon grave suggested a person of reasonably high status, such as a high ranking officer.\n\n\"The settlement at Baginton continued to flourish after the Romans left in the early 5th Century,\" added Mr Page.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Miller worked for legislative changes including the minimum wage and agency workers' rights\n\nThe former Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, Andrew Miller, has died.\n\nMr Miller was first elected to the Cheshire seat in 1992 and served under five Labour leaders before standing down at the May 2015 general election.\n\nFamily friend and Labour MP for Knowsley George Howarth said Mr Miller was seriously ill for some time before he died, aged 70.\n\nMr Miller had a passion for science and technology and chaired the Commons select committee over 10 years.\n\nBorn in Middlesex in 1949, Mr Miller was educated in Malta and later earned a Diploma in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics.\n\nHe was a former official of the technicians' union MSF and won his seat in 1992 from the Conservatives, holding it for 23 years.\n\nWhen he stood down, Mr Miller said he was \"proud\" of being part of legislative changes like the minimum wage and improving the rights of agency workers.\n\nHe also worked with political parties in his former home of Malta in the lead up to the country's accession to the EU and fondly recalled helping get a plaque for Nelson Mandela placed in Westminster Hall.\n\nHe had a keen interest in tennis and lived in Cheshire in a house he bought derelict and rebuilt.\n\nThe University of Chester awarded Mr Miller an honorary DSc in 2014 and he was made an honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University a year later.\n\nMr Miller leaves his wife, Fran, and three children.\n• None Andrew Miller to stand down as MP", "A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas then threw the money in the air and enthusiastically wished passers-by a merry Christmas, witnesses have said.\n\nPolice said \"an older white male\" robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs on Monday lunchtime.\n\n\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" witness Dion Pascale told Colorado's 11 News.\n\n\"He started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!'\"\n\nWitnesses said the hirsute suspect then wandered over to a nearby Starbucks coffee shop, sat down in front of it, and waited to be arrested.\n\nIn a particularly festive gesture, the passers-by are reported to have scooped up all the money from the street and taken it back inside the bank.\n\nColorado Springs police named the suspect as David Wayne Oliver, 65. He is not believed to have had any little helpers.", "Kirsty Maxwell was with a group of friends in Benidorm when she died in 2017\n\nThe family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they remember her at Christmas.\n\nThe 27-year-old fell to her death from a balcony in Benidorm in 2017 while on a hen party weekend with friends.\n\nHer family say the courts still refuse to carry out \"basic lines of inquiry\".\n\nThey will set a place for her over the festive period \"to honour and remember the loving and caring girl we all miss\".\n\nMrs Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, had only recently married when she travelled to Benidorm for a friend's hen party.\n\nShe fell from the 10th floor balcony of a room where five men were staying at Apartamentos Payma on 29 April 2017. The men were arrested but never charged.\n\nFollowing the hen celebration, Mrs Maxwell returned to her apartment on the ninth floor in the early hours, and was filmed asleep at about 06:50 on the morning she died.\n\nAbout an hour later she fell to her death after inexplicably entering an apartment on the floor above which was occupied by five British men.\n\nAdam and Kirsty Maxwell had only been married for seven months\n\nHer father previously said that in the hours following her death, there was very little information from the authorities about what had happened.\n\nNow the family has issued a statement on social media saying they were \"resolute\" in their pursuit of information.\n\nIt read: \"As each year goes by it does not get any easier, every time our legal team request basic lines of inquiry to be done the court refuses them.\n\n\"In conjunction with our lawyer Lorena Soler Bernabeu we await an appeal to the higher court in Spain regarding the continual refusal to allow progression of evidential opportunities.\n\n\"With the assistance of our crime expert/reviewer David Swindle, his team and our Spanish lawyer Lorena we continue to push for evidential opportunities to be progressed.\"\n\nThe statement also reiterated an appeal for help to anyone with information surrounding Mrs Maxwell's death.\n\nIt added: \"We know there are people who have not come forward or provided information which can assist so we continue to appeal to the many UK visitors to Benidorm and locals to contact us with any information which can assist.\n\n\"Thanks for the continued support we get from family, friends, the public and on social media, it means so much to us as a family to know people care and are trying their best to assist in whatever way they can.\"", "Three members of the same family are reported to have drowned at a holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain.\n\nThey were found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola, a statement from the owners said.\n\nIt has been reported that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was assisting a British woman in Spain.\n\nIt is understood the father and daughter were both British while the brother was American.\n\nHotel firm CLC World Resorts said first response teams and emergency services attended and administered first aid.\n\nA local journalist, Fernando Torres, told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nThe sprawling resort near Fuengirola has several pools\n\nCLC World Resorts said it offered its \"heartfelt condolences to the family affected by the loss of three family members on 24th December 2019\".\n\n\"The management are assisting the authorities fully with their investigation into the deaths.\n\n\"We would like to thank our first response team and the emergency services for their quick and appropriate responses, and our staff for the continuing support of the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"We are offering assistance to a British woman following an incident in Spain.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "The Queen, in her annual speech, has said \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.\n\nShe also acknowledged that 2019 had been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nHer message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, left hospital on Tuesday after four nights for a \"pre-existing condition\".", "Max Clifford was jailed in 2014 for a string of indecent assaults against girls and young women\n\nDisgraced publicist Max Clifford was given wrongly-labelled medication at least twice in prison before he died, a report has found.\n\nClifford, 74, died two years ago while serving an eight-year sentence at Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire for historical sex offences.\n\nThe Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said inmates should be monitored more closely to ensure medicine was taken.\n\nThe prison's healthcare provider said it had implemented a plan to improve.\n\nThe report, written in November 2018, was published after an inquest into Clifford's death concluded he had died of natural causes.\n\nOn one occasion Clifford became dizzy after taking a mislabelled tablet four times the intended strength, the report said.\n\nHe told staff he realised their error because of the effects of taking the 8mg tablet of a heart medication that was labelled as 2mg.\n\nMax Clifford died of natural causes, an inquest concluded\n\nAfter Clifford's death, \"a significant quantity\" of prescription medicine was found unused in his cell, said deputy ombudsman Richard Pickering.\n\n\"We are concerned that Mr Clifford was given incorrectly labelled medication on at least two occasions, and that staff did not monitor his medication compliance adequately at other time,\" he wrote.\n\nHe also raised concerns at a delay in transferring Clifford to hospital, because staff called an urgent ambulance instead of the emergency one the GP requested.\n\nThe report recommends that prison pharmacy services be reviewed to avoid medication errors, staff ensure patients take their medication and respond with greater urgency to emergency situations.\n\nClifford died on 10 December 2017 at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, near Huntingdon, where he was taken after collapsing in the shower.\n\nHis inquest heard he could have received better care if his heart condition had been diagnosed sooner.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded the cause of death as congestive heart failure.\n\nNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which provides healthcare at HMP Littlehey, said the coroner had accepted its action plan and evidence of implementation.\n\nIt said it would \"continue to share learning and implement our findings to ensure our care is of a high standard\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No remains of the kangaroo have been found (stock photo)\n\nA wolf has reportedly taken a privately owned kangaroo from a family's garden in Balen, north-east Belgium.\n\nJan Loos, a wolf expert, was called to the property by the owners and said he had found wolf prints at the scene.\n\nMr Loos told AFP the kangaroo is \"probably dead\" having been eaten by the animal. He said a second kangaroo had also been wounded in the attack.\n\nWild wolves used to live in much of continental Europe, but their numbers have been depleted by hunting.\n\nIn recent years, sightings of the animals have been on the increase and in 2018 one was recorded in Belgium for the first time in more than 100 years.\n\nMr Loos, the director of a wolf and wildlife centre called Landschap, said he believed an animal named August could be behind the animal's disappearance.\n\nThe wolf has been spotted slipping across a nearby border into Germany and is known to roam the area, he said.\n\n\"I found wolf prints, so it's quite sure it's a wolf, but we're not 100 per cent sure which wolf,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe expert said local wolves usually ate animals like boars and deer, but the size of a kangaroo would have made it easy to carry off.\n\nNo remains of the kangaroo have been found, Mr Loos added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA bagpiper has surprised a terminally ill man outside his home on Christmas Eve.\n\nTony Occleshaw, who worked for Nottinghamshire Police, is having end-of-life care at home for cancer.\n\nHe wanted to see the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August but was too ill so his daughter organised for a piper, who plays for the same force to perform.\n\nMr Occleshaw, from Arnold, said he and his wife were \"both in tears\" during the performance.\n\nHe said: \"I absolutely love pipers. I heard something and opened the front door- it was a real surprise.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw said about 30 people came out to watch.\n\n\"It was really wonderful. The best surprise I have ever had.\"\n\nTony Occleshaw has been in a lot of pain over the last few months after developing another tumour\n\nSally Bates said her dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer about a week after her wedding in August 2018, and a couple of months later was told he only had a year to live.\n\nMrs Bates said: \"It was a huge shock to my dad. He had just turned 63 and was looking forward to retiring.\"\n\nHe has since developed another tumour, she said.\n\n\"He was discharged from hospital about one month ago to have end-of-life care at home.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw worked as a station assistant for Nottinghamshire Police for 20 years\n\nMrs Bates put out an appeal on Facebook looking for a bagpiper to play for her dad and a man got in touch saying his 14-year-old son would be happy to do it.\n\n\"It was an absolute miracle,\" she said.\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. The Pope spoke to thousands who had gathered to hear his Christmas message\n\nThe Pope has prayed for a softening of \"stony and self-centred hearts\" to help end injustice in the world, in his Christmas Day message.\n\nFrom the Vatican balcony, Pope Francis spoke of \"walls of indifference\" being put up to people fleeing hardship in the hope of finding a better life.\n\nThe Pope prayed for those hit by conflict, natural disasters and disease, listing several countries.\n\nHe singled out parts of Africa where Christians had been killed.\n\nSpeaking under a clear blue sky to thousands crowded into St Peter's Square, the Pope urged \"comfort to those who are persecuted for their religious faith, especially missionaries and members of the faithful who have been kidnapped, and to the victims of attacks by extremist groups, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria\".\n\nAn attack on Christmas Eve in Burkina Faso left 35 people dead, most of them women.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nHours earlier, in a rare joint message with two other Western Church leaders, the Pope appealed for peace in South Sudan.\n\nIn their statement, the pontiff, the head of the Anglican Church and the former moderator of the Church of Scotland called for \"a renewed commitment to the path of reconciliation and fraternity\".\n\nSouth Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 but has been crippled by conflict ever since.\n\nIn what was his seventh \"Urbi et Orbi\" (\"To the City and the World\") Christmas Day address, the Pope also highlighted other hotspots of unrest including Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine and the Holy Land.\n\nFor change to happen for the better, he said, people had to be more compassionate.\n\n\"May [God] soften our often stony and self-centred hearts, and make them channels of His love. May He bring His smile, through our poor faces, to all the children of the world: to those who are abandoned and those who suffer violence,\" he said.\n• None In pictures: Christmas around the world", "Tear gas was fired in busy shopping and tourist districts\n\nChristmas Day in Hong Kong has seen no let-up in clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters.\n\nThe police used tear gas and pepper spray as demonstrators gathered again in a number of shopping districts.\n\nThe latest protests began on Christmas Eve, with police battling activists who were throwing petrol bombs.\n\nHong Kong leader Carrie Lam said many residents and tourists had seen their Christmas celebrations \"ruined by a group of reckless and selfish rioters\".\n\n\"Such illegal acts have not only dampened the festive mood but also adversely affected local businesses,\" she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.\n\nThe protests began in June, focusing on a bill that would have allowed the extradition of suspects to mainland China.\n\nThe bill was later withdrawn, but demonstrations have since evolved into a broader movement demanding investigations into police brutality and democratic reform.\n\nThe protests, which had been largely peaceful in recent weeks, have turned more confrontational over the festive season.\n\nOn Wednesday hundreds of activists marched through shopping centres shouting slogans such as \"Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times!\" Police arrested several people after using pepper spray.\n\nThe clashes were on a lesser scale than Tuesday, when activists set up barricades and threw petrol bombs across the city, while police used pepper spray and batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHong Kong was a British colony until 1997, after which it was returned to China under the \"one country, two systems\" arrangement.\n\nUnder the agreement, Hong Kong is expected to have a high degree of autonomy from mainland China, and residents enjoy more freedoms than those on the mainland.", "To celebrate its 50th anniversary year Scottish Ballet granted five wishes.\n\nPeople from across Scotland were invited to submit their ballet dreams and a celebrity judging panel, which included Dame Darcey Bussell, selected the final five.\n\nThe individual stories and their impact on the wider community were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.\n\nLily Douglas took a class with the Scottish Ballet company\n\nIn January, Lily Douglas, who has been living with rare cancer Ewing's Sarcoma, was invited backstage at Glasgow's Theatre Royal.\n\nThe 11-year-old avid dancer, from Perth, thought she was attending a workshop but was told she would actually be watching the company take their morning class, before joining them on stage.\n\nLily has had 14 rounds of chemotherapy and her left shoulder blade removed but it has not stopped her passion for dance.\n\nHer mother Jane said: \"Lily used to come out of chemo and go straight to dancing. We are now two and a half years down the line and her doctor thinks she is amazing. She thinks she is a miracle.\"\n\nThe day the wish was granted was the last time Jemma (centre) made it to the dance studio\n\nThe Academy Street Dance Studio, from Aberdeen, worked with Scottish Ballet to create a special performance in April - but the person who had made the wish was not there.\n\nJemma McRae, who ran the studio, died from breast cancer months earlier.\n\nThe 43-year-old's death came less than a week after Scottish Ballet visited her studio to announce it would be bringing its stars to the dance school as a way of thanking the youngsters for their support throughout her cancer journey.\n\nWhen the wish was granted, Jemma said it was not for her but for the people who came to her dance studio.\n\nShe said: \"My first wish would be for a cure for cancer, but that's not possible right now - so I'm hoping to give back to the students and parents who have supported me.\"\n\nDance school teacher Gillian Stuart said working towards the wish filled some of the emptiness felt by Jemma's death.\n\n\"It gave us something to focus on and kept us really busy,\" she said.\n\nFollowing a day of workshops with Scottish Ballet, 85 dancers from the dance studio performed to an audience of 600 friends and family at Aberdeen's Beach Ballroom.\n\nJemma's mum Marlene said her daughter would have loved it.\n\n\"This was her life. She loved every minute of dancing, every child, and she would have given anything to be here,\" she said.\n\nScottish Ballet and Alzheimer Scotland's Every Voice Choir perform Wish 3\n\nIn June, a choir made up of people with dementia as well as their families and carers had their wish granted when they performed with dancers from Scottish Ballet.\n\nEvery Voice Community Choir, run by Alzheimer's Scotland, created a unique performance at St Augustine's Church in Dumbarton, where they rehearse.\n\nThe BBC documentary shows Catherine and her husband Danny, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia at just 52.\n\nThe couple met as teenagers and have been married for 33 years.\n\nAfter the \"shock\" of Danny's diagnosis they found the choir and Catherine went along to support her husband. She soon found herself joining in.\n\nPrincipal dancer Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon performed while the choir sang\n\n\"The choir has become a big part of our lives,\" Danny says.\n\n\"It really helps you progress through a journey where you don't know where it is going to take you.\"\n\n\"It gives you the confidence to take the next step.\"\n\nCatherine says her husband was worried at first that he might have to do ballet.\n\n\"I didn't think I would suit a tutu,\" he says.\n\nFor the wish, Scottish Ballet soloist Jamiel Laurence choreographed a duet between principal Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon.\n\nThey danced as the 50-strong choir performed their rendition of 'Only You' by British synth-pop band Yazoo.\n\nThe dance company also invited the choir to perform on stage at a performance of The Snow Queen in Edinburgh in December.\n\nIn October, young designer Poppy Camden joined Scottish Ballet on tour to work with the wardrobe department.\n\nPoppy, a recent graduate of the Fashion Design programme at Glasgow School of Art, experienced what goes into creating, fitting and maintaining costumes for the production of The Crucible at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.\n\nScottish Ballet artistic director Christopher Hampson said the wardrobe team were the \"unsung heroes\" of the company.\n\n\"They don't get to be on stage like the dancers but all of their work is on the stage,\" he said.\n\nPoppy said there was an \"incredible amount of detail\" that goes into the costumes. \"It has been a real eye-opener,\" she said.\n\n\"For anyone who has seen the Scottish Ballet productions, they make it look effortless. But there is a lot of graft going on behind, which is fascinating to see.\"\n\nThe final wish saw musician Colin Bowen, who has lived with Parkinson's disease for almost 20 years, conduct the 70-strong Scottish Ballet Orchestra.\n\nAt the age of 45, Colin was diagnosed with Parkinson's - a neurological condition that affects the central nervous system.\n\n\"Music takes me away to another land,\" he tells the programme.\n\nColin is an accomplished musician, teacher and conductor but his worsening condition means he is no longer able to play to the standard he once did.\n\n\"I have never lost the will to do music and do it well,\" he says.\n\nIt was his wife Anne who put in the wish to put Colin back where she thinks he belongs, conducting a full professional orchestra.\n\n\"He's just so talented and it is such a shame this talent was taken away because of Parkinson's,\" she says.\n\nColin says: \"It is an opportunity for me to give Parkinson's a kick up the backside.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "The sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nThe drowning of a man and his two children in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol was a \"tragic accident\", the hotel owners have said.\n\nThe three family members were found unresponsive on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nReports suggest that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her father and 16-year-old brother tried to rescue her.\n\nPolice in Spain launched an investigation into the deaths.\n\nIn a statement released on Christmas Day the owners of Club La Costa World said: \"The Guardia Civil have carried out a full investigation which found no concerns relating to the pool in question or procedures in place, which leaves us to believe this was a tragic accident which has left everyone surrounding the incident in shock.\n\n\"Naturally, our primary concern remains the care and support of the remaining family members.\"\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"The message from the hotel is very clear. They were given permission to reopen the pool by the police yesterday,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is supporting a British woman in Spain.\n\nThe father and daughter were both British while the brother was American, it is understood.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "Bieber said he was \"excited\" to perform and tour with his new material\n\nJustin Bieber has given fans an early Christmas present - confirmation he is to make a 2020 comeback.\n\nThe Canadian pop star chose 24 December to announce he will release a new single, called Yummy, on 3 January - the debut track from an upcoming, as yet untitled fifth album.\n\nThe 25-year-old also revealed he is to tour the US and his home nation between May and September.\n\nThe singer announced as well he is to appear in a new documentary TV series.\n\nBieber took an extended break from music in 2017 after cancelling the last 14 dates of his Purpose World Tour.\n\nYet this year saw him appear as a guest vocalist on Ed Sheeran's I Don't Care and a remix of Billie Eilish's Bad Guy.\n\nThis - together with an appearance with Ariana Grande at Coachella in April - led to speculation that he might be about to return with new solo material.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"As humans we are imperfect,\" he can be heard saying in a teaser \"super trailer\" for his New Year plans.\n\n\"My past, my mistakes, all the things that I've been through… I believe that I'm right where I'm supposed to be and God has me right where he wants me.\"\n\nEarlier this year he wrote about his struggles with drug use and depression in an emotional essay, in which he described himself as \"the most hated person in the world\".\n\n\"I feel like this is different from the previous albums just because of where I'm at with my life,\" he goes on in the video. \"I'm excited to perform it and to tour it.\n\n\"We all have different stories, I'm just excited to share mine. It's the music I've loved the most out of anything I've done.\"\n\nThe promo video finds Bieber, wearing his trademark baggy hoodie and woolly hat, sitting outside a petrol station and wandering around a trailer park near Los Angeles as he contemplates his next move.\n\nBieber shot to fame as a teenager after impressing manager Scooter Braun with his cover versions online.\n\nWith his first EP, 2010's My World, he became the first act to have seven tracks from a debut in the US top 100.\n\nThroughout his career the star has amassed more than 50 billion streams and shifted more than 60 million album equivalents worldwide.\n\nHis North American tour begins in Seattle, Washington, on 14 May and concludes in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on 26 September.\n\nHis tour dates make it unlikely - though not impossible - he will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nThis will be Bieber's first album and tour since marrying girlfriend Hailey Baldwin.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl from Bristol Grammar School who died while on a school trip to New York has been named by police.\n\nAnastasia Uglow, from the Redland area of Bristol, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December.\n\nA New York Police spokeswoman said there were \"no signs of trauma and no criminality was suspected\".\n\n\"The medical examiner [coroner] will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing,\" she said.\n\nHer family has been notified.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe sixth form student was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged four to 18.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have called on Whirlpool to offer refunds or \"swift compensation\" as it recalls 519,000 washing machines.\n\nA cross-party group on consumer protection said customers had been \"severely let down\" owing to the delay until machines are fixed or replaced.\n\nThe former head of the Commons Business Committee has also demanded the company give refunds to those who want them.\n\nBut the company said its priority was to ensure potentially dangerous appliances were removed from homes.\n\nAbout 20% of the Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines sold since 2014 are affected by a safety fault. Up to 519,000 washing machines sold in the UK need to be recalled, a process that will start in early January.\n\nSeventy-nine fires are thought to have been caused by an overheating door locking system, a fault which develops over time, according to Whirlpool, which owns the brands.\n\nYvonne Fovargue MP, who chaired the Consumer Protection All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) in the last Parliament and Carolyn Harris MP, who chaired the Electrical Safety APPG in the last Parliament, said that Whirlpool appeared to have learned little from its handling of a safety problem regarding tumble dryers,\n\n\"Whirlpool's advice to affected customers simply not to use the machines until repaired or replaced is wholly inadequate, particularly in the busy holiday period when families are at home,\" said Ms Fovargue.\n\n\"It appears that once again customer trust is being abused and eroded. Whirlpool should swiftly compensate customers who have been severely let down.\"\n\nWhirlpool has set up a model checker online. Owners of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines bought since October 2014 will need to enter the model and serial number of their appliance - found inside the door or on the back - to see if it is one of those affected.\n\nThere is also a free helpline, open every day, available on 0800 316 1442.\n\nMeanwhile, Rachel Reeves, who chaired the Business Committee in the last Parliament, which investigated the Whirlpool saga, called for those affected by the washing machine recall to be offered a refund, rather than just a repair or replacement.\n\n\"I understand Whirlpool is refusing to offer refunds to consumers hit by this latest safety problem in what seems to be a never-ending saga,\" she said.\n\n\"That refusal will further damage consumer confidence and shows a lack of respect for the people on whom Whirlpool's profits depend.\"\n\nThe company said that a refund would not ensure the fire-prone machines were withdrawn from people's homes, which was its priority. It has put in a range of plans, including hiring engineers and building up call centre staffing.\n\nThe company said it was in contact with various second-hand sales platforms to alert them to recall and ensure the affected products were not sold, as it had for the tumble dryer recall. It said very few of these appliances would still be in stock with regular retailers and should not be sold.", "Boris Johnson has defended the controversial £4bn takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham by a US private equity firm.\n\nThe government approved the sale of Cobham to Advent International on Friday, after the deal was delayed because of national security concerns.\n\nFormer First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West said Cobham holds defence technologies which are \"critically important\".\n\nBut the PM said \"a lot of checks\" had been gone through to satisfy concerns.\n\nSpeaking on a trip to see British troops in Estonia, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important that we should have an open and dynamic market economy.\n\n\"A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that in that particular case all the security issues that might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nAdvent International made its initial offer in July and it was approved by shareholders in August.\n\nThe government ordered a review from the competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a week after Admiral Lord West expressed concerns, in an interview with the Daily Mail,\n\nThe CMA's report, published at the end of October, said the MoD had outlined two main areas of security concern over the sale:\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nBut Admiral Lord West said that while he was \"delighted\" that was the case, \"it does mean that there are national security risks that are being mitigated\".\n\nHe stressed the importance of maintaining defence capabilities in what he called a \"chaotic and rapidly changing world where old alliances are no longer certain\", adding \"no other advanced industrial nation and certainly no permanent member of the UN Security Council is so cavalier about giving up such capabilities\".\n\nSir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Lib Dems, described the move as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nHe added that \"we have yet to see evidence\" that the previous concerns over national security had been mitigated.\n\nThe decision to approve the takeover was described as \"deeply disappointing' by Lady Nadine Cobham - part of the family which set up the UK firm.\n\nShe criticised the timing of the announcement, saying it was \"cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before Christmas\", adding: \"In one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.\"\n\nShonnel Malani, partner at Advent, said the firm took the takeover \"seriously\".\n\n\"We are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and that she had taken advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nShe added that sensitive government information would continue to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "The crash was at a busy junction on the A9 on the Black Isle\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died after a crash involving three cars in the Highlands.\n\nHe was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa caught up in the collision on the Black Isle, close to the A9's junction with the B9161 Munlochy road.\n\nThe driver of the car was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness after the crash, which took place at about 18:55 on Friday.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to make contact with them.\n\nThe occupants of the two other vehicles, a Nissan Juke and a VW Polo, are not believed to have been injured.\n\nSgt Angus Murray of Police Scotland said: \"We are supporting the young man's family at this time and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who may have seen what happened to contact us. I would also ask if there are drivers with dash-cam footage which might help with our investigation to call us.\"\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. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nA tornado has hit Surrey as more than 90 flood warnings remain in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory. Firefighters said homes and cars were also damaged.\n\nMore downpours are expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.\n\nSome 91 flood warnings and 237 flood alerts are in place.\n\nMotorists embarking on the Christmas getaway are being advised to check their routes in advance.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed a tornado had struck the Chertsey area.\n\nVerity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory\n\nCrews were called at about 10:30 GMT \"to a high wind incident affecting a number of houses in the Chertsey area,\" Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement.\n\nFour fire engines and two aerial ladders were sent and they worked to \"make houses safe from damage to roofs\".\n\nChertsey resident Verity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\n\"In the past it has withstood bad weather. Luckily nobody was hurt and my partner has managed to fix it.\n\n\"One of my neighbours has smashed windows. Trampolines have flown across the gardens here.\"\n\nA trampoline was also knocked over\n\nFellow resident Philip Passey said he froze when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"The leaves were going horizontal. I said, 'That looks like a tornado.' There was a huge roar, then nothing.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden. My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\n\n\"One shed has disappeared; one blown apart, one has no roof on it. Son said there was a tree across the garden, two cars have been written off.\n\n\"In the farm across the road, we heard a dog broke his leg.\"\n\nThe tornado came after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday. The M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: \"Because it's been so very wet across the south this extra rain falling on to saturated ground could cause some further problems, so there is a weather warning in force scooting along southern counties during Saturday evening.\"\n\nMr Deakin said the rain was coming from a \"fairly angry weather system\" which would also bring some \"very strong winds\".\n\nThe M23 was closed because of flooding but has now reopened\n\nIan Nunn, from the Environment Agency, said weather in the south of England was expected to get worse overnight.\n\n\"Today we've got a relatively dry period, but we've got more rain coming tonight, possibly up to another 20mm, so although the situation is getting better today, we are going to see it getting worse overnight and into tomorrow morning.\n\n\"After that we've got more rain on Sunday and more rain on Monday as well so it's not going to get any better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weather forecast as further downpours are due across Wales and England after days of heavy rain.\n\nBut he added that after Christmas there would be a drier period, \"so hopefully things will calm down then\".\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evacuating residents and their pets have found safety and support in a store's car park which they've made their temporary shelter.\n\nFires have hit many parts of Australia, including the region of New South Wales on the country's eastern coast.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "An 84-year-old woman has died after a crash between two cars on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe collision, involving a grey Peugeot and a red BMW, happened on Rhigos Road, Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Friday, at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nA 25-year-old man, from Hirwaun, was arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving and has been released under police investigation.\n\nThe family of the woman, from Aberdare, is being supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Josh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nA cyclist attempting to ride around the world has been badly injured after being knocked off his bike in the US.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car whilst cycling through the state of Texas.\n\nHis injuries include a fractured pelvis, ribs and skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nThe 27-year-old has said it will be at least two months before he can walk again.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, he said: \"I don't remember much about it but I've been told by the police that I was struck from behind by a vehicle driving at 70mph.\n\n\"After the vehicle hit me I was launched off the bike and landed 50 feet away.\n\n\"This happened whilst riding at night wearing reflective clothing and with strong rear lights.\"\n\nMr Quigley, who said one of the few things he remembers is being in the helicopter, added that \"for now I'm just happy to be alive\".\n\nKnown as the Tartan Explorer, Mr Quigley has cycled about 14,000 miles on his bike since he left Scotland in April.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse and said in his Facebook post about the crash that he will \"find a way to overcome this and finish what I started\".\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York in the latest leg of his trip but changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida because his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter conditions.\n\nJosh Quigley with his bike \"Braveheart\" before it was stolen in London\n• None Round-the-world bike trip to go ahead after U-turn", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nIt came as more than 90 flood warnings remained in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nMore downpours were expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.", "The women were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nTwo women have been found dead and a man seriously hurt at a house in West Sussex.\n\nThe women's bodies were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, while the man was found inside by police at 10:20 GMT.\n\nPolice said the injured man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police have since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of death. The injured man has been taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.\n\nA large number of police officers were at the house\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart said: \"This is a fast-moving investigation which will see significant police resources deployed to the scene for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support and patience of the local community while we conduct our inquiries.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with the friends and family of the two women who have sadly lost their lives.\"\n\nThe detective said it was an isolated attack with no risk to the public and added: \"In response to media speculation I wish to make it absolutely clear that this is not a knife crime.\"\n\nTwo women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA double murder investigation as been launched and a man has been arrested\n\nThree forensic tents were pitched in the street and forensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence.\n\nA cordon is in place around the houses close to where the bodies were found.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to report online or call 101, quoting Operation Deanland, or ring Crimestoppers.\n\nForensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Detectives investigating the deaths of two eastern European men five miles apart have said they cannot rule out \"a potential organised criminal element\".\n\nA 35-year-old man was found dead in undergrowth on Hogg Lane, Elstree, at about 15:40 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt 20:30 the previous day, a 30-year-old man was found stabbed in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet.\n\nA 31-year-old man at the scene was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe, from the Met Police, said: \"While we retain an open mind as to a motive, we cannot rule out whether there might be a potential organised criminal element.\n\n\"We also believe that the two victims might have been known to each other.\"\n\nThe road was closed to allow police to search the area\n\nPolice were called shortly after 20:10 to reports of a fight in Courtland Avenue, Barnet, but found no victims or suspects.\n\nThe man in the car was found about 15 minutes later and died a short time afterwards.\n\nThe 31-year-old man at the scene was initially taken to hospital with injuries before being arrested.\n\nThe second victim was found in a remote lane about five miles (8 km) from where the first man discovered.\n\nOfficers are working to establish how long the body had been there and whether his death occurred before or after the discovery in Barnet.\n\nInvestigators have asked residents who might have any information or footage to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stancombe added: \"I am asking those residents who live in the vicinity of the crime scenes in Barnet and Elstree to think very carefully about anything suspicious you may have seen over the last few days, and to make contact with us immediately.\n\n\"It could be that you may have caught something via dashcam footage that could prove massively important. The slightest fragment of information could prove crucial.\"\n• None Two dead and two hurt in stab attacks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win at Tottenham was marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.\n\nReferee Anthony Taylor stopped play during the second half after Blues defender Antonio Rudiger complained of hearing monkey noises.\n\nTottenham have vowed to \"take the strongest possible action\" and said they will conduct \"a thorough investigation\".\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n\nThe PFA said: \"We are disgusted and dismayed that once again, a Premier League fixture has been tainted by abuse from the stands towards players.\n\n\"It has become clear that football players are on the receiving end of the blatant racism that is currently rife in the UK, but they are not alone.\n\n\"The PFA stands beside every player who faces discrimination. We will continue to fight on their behalf to combat this issue for good.\n\n\"Football is part of the fabric of British society - with the huge global audience that English football attracts, we have a responsibility to lead the way with a zero-tolerance policy.\"\n\nThe PFA added that \"all governing bodies\" and \"all football stakeholders\" should work together to \"confront, challenge and eradicate racist abuse in our stadiums and in our country\".\n\nIt said: \"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism within football and encourage the establishment of an All-Party Group at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\"\n\nSpurs confirmed that they will be liaising with Chelsea and their players for their observations.\n\n\"Any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium,\" said Spurs in a statement.\n\n\"We take any such allegations extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way, including stadium bans.\"\n\nThe Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) and Tottenham have confirmed that the game was stopped over a single incident of alleged racist behaviour.\n\nTottenham forward Son Heung-min had been sent off after a second-half clash involving Rudiger moments earlier.\n\nThe match was also held up when objects were thrown towards Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\n'When will this nonsense stop?'\n\nRudiger has since tweeted: \"It is really sad to see racism again at a football match, but I think it's very important to talk about it in public. If not, it will be forgotten again in a couple of days (as always).\n\n\"I don't want to involve Tottenham as an entire club into this situation as I know that just a couple of idiots were the offenders. I got a lot of supportive messages on social media from Spurs fans as well in the last hours - thank you a lot for this.\n\n\"I really hope that the offenders will be found and punished soon, and in such a modern football ground like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with dozens of TV and security cameras, it must be possible to find and subsequently punish them.\n\n\"If not, then there must have been witnesses in the stadium who saw and heard the incident. It's just such a shame that racism still exists in 2019. When will this nonsense stop?\"\n\n'He told me he was listening to monkey noises'\n\nIn his post-match interview, Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta said: \"It is made very clear to us all if we have heard any racist incident to report it.\n\n\"Toni came to me and he told me he was listening in the crowd [to] monkey noises and my job as a captain is to go straight to the referee and to report it.\n\n\"We are very concerned and aware of the problems. All together we need to make it stop. We have to work together towards the eradication of the problem. It's an issue in life and football unfortunately and we have to keep working hard.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho reiterated that view in his post-match interview on Sky Sports.\n\n\"I saw nothing. I saw the referee follow the protocol, he came to [fourth official] Andre Marriner, he came to me and Frank Lampard and told us what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The protocol was followed and we are one of the clubs; every club is together on this situation and of course we are disappointed.\"\n\nTottenham defender Toby Alderweireld added: \"It does not belong in football. I hope they find the individuals quickly because it is not good and we are all sick of it.\"\n\nSpeaking at the game, former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said: \"With the technology they have in this stadium, I would be shocked if they could not pinpoint the individual.\n\n\"That person will be isolated and dealt with accordingly. There is no place for it but I want more than an announcement.\n\n\"I do not want them back in the stadium ever again - sadly some people are that ignorant.\"\n\nAnti-racism organisation Kick it Out later released a statement on Twitter.\n\nIt read: \"We are aware of the alleged racist incidents at today's game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.\n\n\"We applaud the reaction of referee Anthony Taylor in following step one of the protocol and the ensuing steps taken by Tottenham Hotspur in repeating the stadium announcements.\n\n\"We have offered our support to both of the clubs and also to Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.\"\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge in December 2018, 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\nA supporter was also arrested and bailed over allegations of racist abuse against Manchester United players during their Premier League match at Manchester City on 7 December.\n\nA video had been circulated on social media of a man appearing to make monkey gestures and sounds towards United players at Etihad Stadium.\n\nSerie A's 'No To Racism' campaign - which arrived off the back of a number of racist incidents in Italy - has been widely condemned after they commissioned posters showing three monkeys with painted faces.", "Martin Peters, who has died aged 76, will forever be remembered as the England World Cup winner described as \"10 years ahead of his time\" by his manager Sir Alf Ramsey.\n\nAs immaculate off the pitch as he was on it, Peters was the thinking man's midfielder and a trailblazer for the modern goalscoring midfield players who populate the Premier League today.\n\nHe scored England's second goal in the 4-2 win over West Germany in the World Cup final - but this is just one part of a career that brought club successes in domestic and European football to set aside his day in the glorious sunshine at Wembley on 30 July 1966.\n\nThe pupil from the West Ham academy\n\nPlaistow-born Peters, whose father was a lighterman on the River Thames, was a product of the West Ham United academy, a hothouse of forward thinking led by players such as Malcolm Allison and put into practice by managers Ted Fenton and most notably Ron Greenwood.\n\nTall, lean and elegant, Peters was the perfect pupil for Greenwood's desire to bring intelligence and tactical awareness to the game, developing alongside those other England World Cup heroes captain Bobby Moore and hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst - and Hammers fans still boast about how West Ham won the World Cup.\n\nHe had the natural gifts and awareness that allowed him to act like a sponge for Greenwood's progressive techniques, easily absorbing his manager's instructions and carrying them out with authority.\n\nPeters, like another West Ham legend of later years Sir Trevor Brooking, exerted his influence through speed of thought and natural ability as opposed to physical presence. He became known as 'The Ghost' for his ability to arrive undetected among heavy traffic in the penalty area to score.\n\nHe made his debut on Good Friday 1962 in a 4-1 win against Cardiff City and his first goal came in a 6-1 win at Manchester City the following September.\n\nIt was the start of a career that would bring him 100 goals in 364 games for West Ham as he settled into a pattern of performance and goalscoring that would define his style.\n\nGreenwood's team was regarded as talented but fragile alongside the fierce competition offered by the likes of Manchester United, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds United and the north London giants Arsenal and Tottenham, but they still enjoyed moments of glory.\n\nAmid that success there was disappointment for Peters, who was not included in the West Ham side that won the FA Cup final against Preston North End in 1964, victory being secured by Ronnie Boyce's last-minute winner.\n\nThere was to be consolation, of sorts, for Peters a year later when he was a key component of the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup against 1860 Munich at Wembley, courtesy of two goals from Alan Sealey.\n\nPeters continued to be one of the most significant members of a West Ham team that was pleasing on the eye, operating with characteristic stealth and intelligence, but short on success - his future glories were to come elsewhere.\n\nIn the modern parlance, Peters was a \"bolter\" in Sir Alf Ramsey's plans for the 1966 World Cup - the player who came up on the rails to make his case for inclusion close to the tournament.\n\nIt proved to be an inspired choice by Ramsey as Peters helped him fulfil his much-derided prophecy that England would indeed lift the Jules Rimet Trophy on home soil.\n\nPeters only made his England debut on 4 May 1966 in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia at Wembley, scoring the first of his 20 goals for his country on his second appearance against Finland in Helsinki on 26 June.\n\nHe did not actually figure in England's line-up at the start of the 1966 World Cup, missing the opening group game against Uruguay at Wembley. Peters started the second match against Mexico and was then a permanent fixture under Ramsey.\n\nPeters helped Ramsey implement a system known as the \"wingless wonders\" after Liverpool's Ian Callaghan, Southampton's Terry Paine and Manchester United's John Connelly all played in the group phase but were left out of the knockout games as England's system reaped the ultimate reward.\n\nHe once said: \"I wasn't a winger. Alan Ball and I were midfield players that broke wide. We had to get back and defend. We worked hard to defend when we played against a midfield player opposite us and then would break to support attacks.\n\n\"I wasn't quick but I could run and run and run, so I would run into the box, see a space, run into there. If the ball didn't come in you'd get out again, run in and then would come in and bang - goal.\"\n\nIt was Peters' cross from the left flank that enabled Hurst to head home England's winner in the tempestuous quarter-final against Argentina at Wembley, a game remembered for the sending-off and lengthy departure of the visitors' captain Antonio Rattin and Ramsey tearing George Cohen's shirt away from an opponent as they tried to exchange them at the final whistle.\n\nAt the age of 22, Peters was to take his place in England's sporting hall of fame as he scored the sort of goal that became his trademark in the final against West Germany, pouncing in the penalty box to put England 2-1 ahead.\n\nHurst recalled: \"When you look at the film of Martin after his goal in the final you can see him flicking his fingers out. He said the exhilaration was like an electric current running through his hands.\n\n\"He was a fantastic player, a natural footballer who was totally and utterly devoted to the game.\"\n\nIt was the high watermark of his England career and future World Cups would provide bitter disappointment for Peters and Ramsey, the manager whose aloof public profile was at odds with the complete devotion he inspired in his players.\n\nPeters, now at Spurs, was still central to Ramsey's plans when an England team many still argue was better than the 1966 World Cup winners in terms of pure talent, headed to Mexico four years later.\n\nThe great names remained while Nobby Stiles had been replaced in midfield by Spurs captain Alan Mullery, Everton pair Brian Labone and Keith Newton replaced Jack Charlton and Cohen, while Manchester City's Francis Lee came in for Liverpool's Roger Hunt.\n\nAnd when Peters put England 2-0 up in the now infamous quarter-final against West Germany in Leon with one of those familiar far-post arrivals on the end of Newton's right-wing cross, Ramsey looked on course for more success.\n\nInstead, with the outstanding Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti having a rare off day as a late replacement after Gordon Banks was taken ill and Ramsey's substitution of Bobby Charlton with Colin Bell backfiring, West Germany fought back to win 3-2.\n\nIt was the end of that golden England era.\n\nPeters was Ramsey's captain, with Moore replaced by Norman Hunter, on one of the dark nights of England's football history - 17 October 1973 and the final World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley that they needed to win to qualify for the 1974 finals in West Germany.\n\nIt was a night that belonged to Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski, labelled \"a clown\" by Brian Clough, as he performed heroics and his goal led a charmed life as England could only draw 1-1.\n\nIt was the end of Ramsey, and Peters followed not long after. He won his final cap on 18 May 1974 in the 2-0 defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, Joe Mercer having taken over as caretaker manager from Ramsey.\n\nPeters may have had an inauspicious end to a magnificent England career but his record of 67 caps, 20 goals and a World Cup win secures his place in history.\n\nPeters cut his ties with West Ham in March 1970, becoming Britain's first £200,000 player when he signed for Spurs, although a portion of the fee was taken up with Jimmy Greaves making the reverse journey to Upton Park.\n\nHe was at his peak at 26, figuring in a side with a more ruthless edge under manager Bill Nicholson and alongside players of the calibre of Pat Jennings, Mike England, Mullery, Martin Chivers, Steve Perryman and Alan Gilzean.\n\nPeters was able to add his elegant flourishes and natural eye for a goal to these talents and he went on to further success at White Hart Lane.\n\nHe scored on his debut in a 2-1 loss against Coventry City and finally won domestic honours when Spurs beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the 1971 League Cup final at Wembley. Peters was captain when Spurs repeated the feat two years later as Norwich City were beaten in the final.\n\nPeters won the Uefa Cup with Spurs in 1972 when Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten in an all-English final, but tasted defeat in the final two years later when they lost to Feyenoord in a tie that was overshadowed by crowd violence.\n\nHe left Spurs for Norwich City in a £50,000 deal in March 1975, having scored 76 goals in 260 appearances for the club.\n\nEven in his latter years, Peters was still able to show the old mastery and enjoyed an Indian summer at Carrow Road, winning the club's player of the year award in 1976 and 1977. In 2002 he was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall Of Fame.\n\nIn 1978, while still at Norwich, Peters was made an MBE for services to football. He is still regarded as one of the finest players to represent the Canaries, scoring 44 goals in 206 league appearances before joining Sheffield United as player-coach in July 1980.\n\nPeters was Harry Haslam's designated successor as Sheffield United manager but only had a brief and unhappy spell in charge for 16 games between January and May in the 1980-81 season when the Blades were relegated to the old Fourth Division.\n\nIt was his final involvement as a player or manager and he later went on to work in the insurance industry.\n\nPeters made a career total of 880 appearances, scoring 220 goals and was inducted into English football's Hall Of Fame in 2006, confirming his status as one of the towering figures of the post-war football generation.", "His daughter, TV presenter Fern Britton, announced on Twitter that he had died early on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Great actor, director and charmer,\" she wrote. \"May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.\"\n\nBritton was best known for starring in BBC sitcom Don't Wait Up alongside Nigel Havers in the 1980s, as well as many British films including The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe also appeared in Robin's Nest alongside Richard O'Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt, and films Operation Amsterdam as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday.\n\nIn 1975 he won the Broadcasting Press Guild's best actor award for his role in The Nearly Man.\n\nFern Britton's tweet sparked hundreds of tributes and messages of support 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 Fern Britton 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\nJasper Britton, Britton's son from his second marriage, also tweeted, saying: \"As he was wont to say, 'that's show business, kid'\".\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 Jasper Britton 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\nComedian and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar wrote: \"Profound condolences Fern and gratitude for the joy and entertainment your Dad brought to me and millions of others. Sending love and strength.\"\n\nActor Peter Egan tweeted: \"Very sad to see the passing of the legend Tony Britton. A wonderful actor and light comedian. Condolences to his family. A lovely man too.\"\n\nBorn in Birmingham, Britton served in the Army and worked in an aircraft factory during World War Two.\n\nInterviewed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1973, Britton said he did not come from a theatrical background \"at all\".\n\n\"I believe one of my many aunts had a good voice but she never used it professionally,\" he said.\n\nBritton added: \"Ever since I was old enough to think, I've always wanted to be an actor. I couldn't tell you why, it was just there.\"\n\nHe joined an amateur dramatics group in Weston-super-Mare before turning professional.\n\nHe went on to appear on stage at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as the role of Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady for two and a half years as part of a national tour.\n\nTony Britton with his co-star Nigel Havers in sitcom Don't Wait Up in 1984\n\nDon't Wait Up ran from 1983 to 1990\n\nIn 1955, Britton played Romeo on TV, which led him to get a film contract\n\nIn 2013, Britton appeared in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.\n\nHe had two children with his first wife, Ruth Hawkins - Fern and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.\n\nHe had a son Jasper with his second wife, Danish sculptor Eva Castle Britton (nee Skytte Birkenfeldt).", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's father has met the home secretary, as her department considers requesting the extradition of a US woman charged over his death.\n\nThe meeting comes after suspect Anne Sacoolas was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe family said they were \"incredibly reassured\" to meet Ms Patel, who was accompanied by their local MP Andrea Leadsom.\n\nPriti Patel and Andrea Leadsom met the Dunn family at the home of the family's lawyer in the village of Charlton\n\nThe home secretary said she had met the family to explain the extradition process to them and spoken to Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn.\n\nShe said: \"It was a nice opportunity to hear from them, obviously about what they have been experiencing, what they have been going through, and to reassure them at what has been a very difficult and traumatic time for them.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they were now \"incredibly reassured this whole saga will be dealt with under the rule of law\".\n\n\"You hear from some of the most senior politicians in this country... they are going to go to bed tonight feeling reassured.\"\n\nHarry's father Tim Dunn thanked the home secretary for the meeting\n\nMr Dunn said it had been a \"positive meeting\" and a \"great way to end the year\", but Christmas would be difficult without his son.\n\nHe said: \"He loved Christmas... people have one Christmas jumper, Harry would have four... every day he would be wearing one.\"\n\nFriends of Harry Dunn put up a Christmas tree and decorations around his banner outside RAF Croughton on Sunday\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, did not attend the meeting.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in August after his motorbike was in collision with a car driven by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, where her husband worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas left for the US under diplomatic immunity, but on Friday was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, following a campaign by Mr Dunn's family.\n\nThe home secretary hugged Mr Dunn during the meeting\n\nMrs Leadsom said there was a \"clear process\" of extradition.\n\nShe added: \"There's a clear extradition treaty and it is absolutely vital that we get justice for Harry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunn's mother had said the family was \"relieved\" the 42-year-old suspect had finally been charged.\n\nBut US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK \"to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident\".\n\nAfter it confirmed Mrs Sacoolas had been charged, the CPS said extradition proceedings had started, noting that the \"Home Office is responsible for considering our request and deciding whether to formally issue this through US diplomatic channels\".\n\n\"Our specialist extradition team will be working closely with the UK Central Authority at the Home Office to do this,\" it added.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from Amy Jeffress, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyer, said she had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the International Space Station.", "Gemma Williams was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in January\n\nA woman whose application for a cancer drug was turned down three times said she was \"overwhelmed\" after raising £52,000 to pay for it.\n\nGemma Williams, of Cwmbran, Torfaen, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in January.\n\nAfter going through treatment, the 35-year-old was told by doctors a drug called Kadcyla gave her the best chance of stopping the cancer's return.\n\nBut her application to have the drug was rejected three times by the NHS.\n\nShe has now raised the cash to have private treatment at the end of what she called a \"rollercoaster year\".\n\nMrs Williams started chemotherapy in January and found the side effects hard to deal with - including losing her waist-length hair.\n\n\"Within two weeks I started to get what they call 'the dreaded shed' and my husband had to shave my head.\n\n\"I thought that was going to be my breakdown point but believe it or not, I didn't actually shed a tear.\n\n\"I just got on with it and looked in the mirror and thought 'hmm, I didn't realise how small my head was'.\n\n\"The chemo was brutal - sickness, aching and my skin blistered and peeled off in places which was really really painful.\"\n\nAfter a mastectomy and radiotherapy, she was told she was cancer free, but doctors said because of her age, the best way to stop a relapse was to take Kadcyla.\n\nThe drug is available to NHS patients in Wales with secondary cancer.\n\nSome trials in the US have shown the drug appears to stop the disease from returning for some patients and Mrs Williams' doctors applied to Aneurin Bevan health board's Individual Patient Funding Request (IPFR) panel on this basis.\n\nThe application was rejected and two further appeals were also dismissed.\n\nThe health board said the IPFR panel \"considers each request on its merits, using the clinical evidence available at that time and the criteria set out within the All Wales Policy.\"\n\nMrs Williams and her friends and family, who have become known as Gem's Pink Army, set about the \"daunting\" task of trying to raise the £45,000 she needed for 12 cycles of Kadcyla.\n\nThey started on fundraising on 23 October and reached their goal within five weeks.\n\n\"We said that ideally, we'd like to get to £12,000 by Christmas. So that would be enough to have three cycles and then we would look at what we needed to do after Christmas,\" said Mrs Williams.\n\n\"We didn't think that we'd hit £20,000 in a week, so it's quite overwhelming. The generosity of the community is completely unbelievable.\"\n\nDonations have ranged from coins thrown into collection buckets to an anonymous donation of £2,500, which all meant Mrs Williams could have her first round of Kadcyla in mid-November.\n\nThe fundraising page has exceeded the original target and now stands at about £52,000.\n\nGemma Williams had her first round of Kadcyla in mid-November\n\nMrs Williams is planning to help the breast cancer unit at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach, as well as a local charity helping families in need over Christmas and Torfaen's Women's Refuge.\n\n\"I've been lucky enough for people to give to me so now I think it's time to give back.\"\n\nThe health board said it was unable to comment on individual cases, but added: \"We do appreciate that patients are disappointed when they are not granted access to drugs not routinely available despite their clinician having made an application and our best wishes go to Gemma and her family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail operator SNCF has warned that services will be severely disrupted over the holidays\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to transport unions to suspend strikes that threaten travel chaos over the Christmas holidays.\n\nOn a trip to Ivory Coast, Mr Macron suggested the strikers should \"observe a truce out of respect for families and family life\".\n\nTwo weeks of strikes over planned pension reforms have caused widespread disruption across France.\n\nTrain operator SNCF said services would be \"severely disrupted\" over Christmas.\n\nHalf the usual number of high-speed TGV trains operated on Saturday, the company said, and half the metro lines in Paris were closed.\n\nMany French citizens heading off to spend the holidays with family and friends have found themselves stranded because of cancelled trains and gridlocked roads. Hundreds of flights have also been cancelled.\n\nPresident Macron (l) has been on an official visit to Ivory Coast\n\nSpeaking in Abdijan alongside Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, Mr Macron said strikers should embrace a \"spirit of responsibility\".\n\n\"Strike action is justifiable and protected by the constitution, but I believe there are moments in the life of a nation when it is also good to call a truce to respect families and the lives of families,\" he said.\n\nPresident Macron wants to replace France's 42 separate pension regimes with a universal points-based pension system.\n\nRoads around Paris have been jammed as people try to get away for the holidays\n\nBut workers say the reforms would see them retiring later or facing reduced payouts.\n\nMr Macron's system would reward employees for each day worked, awarding points that would later be transferred into future pension benefits.\n\nThe official retirement age has been raised in the past decade from 60 to 62, but remains one of the lowest among wealthy nations. In the UK, for example, the retirement age for state pensions is 66 and is due to rise to at least 67.\n\nThe French reforms would remove the most advantageous pensions for a number of jobs, and unions fear the new system will mean some workers having to work longer for a lower pension.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The PM served turkey and Yorkshire puddings in the base's canteen\n\nBoris Johnson has served Christmas lunch to British troops during a visit to a Nato mission in Estonia.\n\nVisiting the Tapa military base near Tallinn, Mr Johnson wished them a merry Christmas as he dished up the meals.\n\nThe 850 British soldiers based there represent the UK's largest operational deployment in Europe.\n\nThe PM also stressed the UK's commitment to Nato and its defence of Estonia's eastern border with Russia.\n\nThe UK is playing a leading role in the alliance's Baltic mission.\n\nThe troops, from the Queen's Royal Hussars, head the Nato battle group in Estonia, working alongside the country's troops and personnel from France and Denmark.\n\nMr Johnson told them: \"In the course of the next few days, everybody in our country is going to be celebrating Christmas with their families and you're going to be here - a long way away, a pretty cold place.\n\n\"What you're doing is incredibly important because the reason everybody in our country can have Christmas in peace and security is because of what you're doing here.\n\n\"What you're doing is showing that Nato works and that Nato is an alliance to which we in this country are absolutely committed to.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked the troops what it was like being posted at the Estonian base\n\nMr Johnson addressed troops in a vehicle hangar on the base\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson also held talks with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas and thanked him for the \"support and hospitality Estonia has shown in hosting British Armed Forces\".\n\nThe No 10 spokeswoman added: \"The leaders discussed the close partnership between the UK and Estonia, in particular our joint security and defence cooperation. The prime minister reaffirmed the UK's unconditional commitment to Estonia's regional security through Nato.\n\n\"The two leaders discussed the need to work together to address shared global challenges and the prime minister invited Prime Minister Ratas to attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow next year.\"\n\nDuring a four-month deployment earlier this year, a squadron of RAF Typhoon jets was scrambled 21 times to intercept 56 Russian aircraft which had strayed over the border into Estonian airspace.\n\nThe UK is one of the few Nato countries that meets the commitment to spend at least 2% of national income on defence.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-1.\n\nBut a prolonged squeeze on defence spending between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is adequately equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the Public Accounts Committee, the House of Commons' spending watchdog, reported that the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.\n\nIn a BBC interview on Thursday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget and confirmed he had recently met with Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings about improving the way the department spends its money.", "The Queen was accompanied by the Countess of Wessex\n\nThe Queen has attended a carol service in Sandringham after the Duke of Edinburgh spent a second night in hospital in London.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen was at St Mary Magdalene with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nShe is expected to attend the same church on Christmas Day.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.\n\nViscount Severn watches as the Queen, his grandmother, steps out of the car at St Mary Magdalene\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBut it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nPrince Edward was pictured after the service with his son\n\nPolice have been stationed outside King Edward VII hospital during Prince Philip's stay", "The incident took place outside the bar on Saturday evening\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with a firearms incident in Glasgow.\n\nThe 32-year-old is alleged to have been in possession of a gun outside Nico's Cafe Bar in the city's Sauchiehall Street.\n\nThe incident happened about 18:35 on Saturday.\n\nPolice Scotland said the weapon has since been recovered.\n\nMany premises in the area have security cameras", "The BBC's Sydney correspondent Shaimaa Khalil visits Balmoral where residents have been battling fires.\n\nSince September, Australia's bushfire emergency has killed at least nine people, destroyed more than 700 homes and scorched millions of hectares.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nTesco has suspended production of charity Christmas cards at a factory in China after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one.\n\nThe note, found by Florence Widdicombe, was allegedly written by prisoners in Shanghai claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\n\"Please help us and notify human rights organisation,\" the message said.\n\nTesco said it was \"shocked\" by the report, adding: \"We would never allow prison labour in our supply chain.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it would de-list the supplier of the cards, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nFlorence was writing cards to her school friends when she found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nThe pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nIt asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, told BBC News she was writing \"my sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nHer father, Ben Widdicombe, said he first felt \"incredulity\" at discovering the message, adding he first thought it was \"some sort of prank\".\n\n\"But on reflection we realised it was potentially quite a serious thing,\" he said. \"I felt very shocked but also felt a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do.\"\n\nHe said: \"It hits home. There are injustices in the world and there are people in difficult situations and we know about that and we read about that each and every day.\n\n\"There is something about that message hitting home at Christmas... that really does make it very poignant and very powerful.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nHe added: \"It could have ended up anywhere. And indeed we have many cards as all families do that are left over and we put them in a drawer and forget about them. There is an incredible element of chance in all of this that the card was written, it got to us and we opened it on the day we did.\"\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nThe retailer has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nHe then wrote the story for the Sunday Times.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nHe said the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\n\"They sleep in very rusty iron bunkbeds with a mattress which is no more than about 1cm thick underneath,\" he said.\n\n\"In the winter it's extremely cold, there's no heating in the building and in the summer it's extremely hot because there is no air conditioning.\n\n\"They get up around 5:30-6:00am every day they have to go to bed again at about 9.30.\"\n\nHe said when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\n\"Everyone I know in there at the time was in there for very questionable reasons,\" he said. \"I met so many people who I considered to be the victims of wrongful imprisonment or at least reckless sentencing for minor offences.\"\n\nMr Humphrey said he believes those who wrote the note \"knew very well what risks they were taking and they were prepared to take this risk\".\n\n\"They know very well that if they're caught, they will be punished. They could be punished for example by losing some merit points or having some kind of deprivation of some of their food allowance.\n\n\"They could be punished by sending them to solitary confinement for a month or something like that where conditions are fairly harsh.\"\n\nMr Humphrey also said that censorship in the prison had increased, cutting off his usual methods of contacting prisoners he had met before his release in 2015.\n\n\"They resorted to the Qingpu equivalent of a message in a bottle, scribbled on a Tesco Christmas card,\" he said.\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "Both vehicles were destroyed by fire after a collision in Battersea\n\nA woman has died in a crash between a National Express coach and a car, in which both vehicles caught fire.\n\nThe coach, travelling from Gatwick to London Victoria, was in collision with a car on Queenstown Road, Battersea, south-west London, at 04:30 GMT.\n\nA 26-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene. The car driver and a bus passenger were taken to hospital.\n\nAll other passengers boarded a replacement coach, National Express said.\n\nFootage of the scene shows a blaze erupt between the two vehicles\n\nFootage circulating on social media of the scene shows both vehicles on fire on Queenstown Road close to Chelsea Bridge.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said the grey Volkswagen Polo Zipcar and the coach were destroyed by fire.\n\nA National Express spokeswoman said: \"One of our vehicles on the A3 service from Gatwick to London Victoria was involved in an incident with a car on Queenstown Road in the early hours this morning.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the scene and we will continue to provide every assistance with the ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the occupant of the car, who sadly passed away.\"\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 Battersea 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\nQueenstown Road is currently closed in both directions between Queens Circus and Chelsea Bridge due to the collision.\n\nInquiries into the circumstances continue, the Met said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWorld Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.\n\nPeters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain's first £200,000 player in a move to Tottenham in 1970.\n\nHe scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.\n\nWest Ham said \"the 1966 World Cup winner passed away peacefully\" on Saturday after \"a long and courageous battle with illness\".\n\n\"He is the fifth member of English football's greatest-ever team now sadly lost - along with Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks and his fellow West Ham Academy hero and great friend, Bobby Moore,\" the club added.\n\nHis former England team-mate Sir Geoff Hurst said it was a \"very sad day for football and for me personally\".\n\n\"Martin Peters was one of the all-time greats and a close friend and colleague of mine for in excess of 50 years,\" Hurst continued.\n\n\"A fellow World Cup final goalscorer and my West Ham partner for years along with Bobby Moore. RIP old friend.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton, who also played alongside Peters in 1966 said: \"We shared one of the greatest days of our lives at Wembley and the fact Martin is one of only two Englishman to have scored in a World Cup final gives him a special place in England's history of the game.\n\n\"He was a fantastic footballer. As a team-mate he was someone I could trust completely to do his job and I am proud to have shared that great day with him.\"\n\nPeters won the European Cup Winners' Cup with West Ham in 1965 as well as the Uefa Cup and two League Cups with Spurs.\n\nAfter five years at Norwich he moved to Sheffield United for a season before retiring in 1981.\n\nPeters, who was awarded an MBE for services to football in 1978, still regularly attended West Ham games as a club ambassador.\n\nPeters was only handed his England debut by manager Alf Ramsey shortly before the 1966 World Cup and he impressed in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia.\n\nTwo months later his goal looked set to win the final at Wembley, only for West Germany to level with seconds remaining before Hurst sealed a 4-2 win and completed his hat-trick in extra time.\n\nAsked about his goal, Peters once said: \"The emotion was like being struck by lightning, it was unbelievable.\"\n\nRamsey himself said Peters was \"10 years ahead of his time\".\n\nWest Ham said Peters, Hurst and Moore were able to \"ensure immortality for Ramsey's team\".\n\nThe club's joint owners David Sullivan and David Gold, said: \"In many ways, though, Martin's greatest legacy is not the World Cup medal itself, but the example that he provides to every young player who walks through the door of our Academy.\n\n\"The word 'legend' is used all too freely nowadays. But Martin Peters is a true legend. A legend of West Ham United. A legend of world football. And his contribution to our club and our game will never, ever be forgotten.\"\n\nPeters won 67 caps for England and made over 700 appearances for clubs throughout his career.\n\nHis former West Ham team-mate Trevor Brooking told BBC Sport: \"The best description of Martin was that he was very humble. They enjoyed the World Cup but it was probably only when each decade went by and England could never repeat it that the enormity of what they achieved grew.\n\n\"Martin never revelled in it. He was very humble, good company and never went looking for any headlines.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson: Very sad news. No England fan will ever forget the heroics of Martin Peters and his fantastic team-mates. My sympathies go out to all of those who knew and loved him.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker: Sorry to hear that Martin Peters has passed away. One of our World Cup winning heroes. A great player and a true gentleman.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Peter Shilton: So sad to hear of the passing of Martin Peters, World Cup 1966 winner, such a gentleman and a player ahead of his time according to Sir Alf Ramsey. I played with him at England when my career started and was very fond of him, I will miss him. RIP.\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer: He was instrumental in England winning the World Cup in 1966. Football has lost a giant of the game, an absolute legend.\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno: Really sad news about Martin Peters. He was one of my heroes as a kid watching West Ham. A brilliant footballer and a gentleman. RIP Martin Peters.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: He was a complete gentleman. I had the pleasure to play against him when I was young and he was at the end of his career and he gave me a lesson in how to be a footballer. They don't make them like him any more - he was a great, great player.\n\nFormer England striker Stan Collymore: Extremely sad to hear of the passing of West Ham, Spurs and England legend, Martin Peters. An English sporting icon and a lovely man who'll be sadly missed.", "Dozens of homes have been flooded and villages left under water after parts of England were again deluged by rain.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 79 flood warnings for the South, Midlands, East and Yorkshire, meaning immediate action is needed.\n\nA mother and her three sons had to be saved after their car got stuck in flood water in Buckinghamshire.\n\nAnd rivers including the Medway in Kent, Cuckmere in East Sussex and Loddon in Berkshire burst their banks.\n\nThe mother and her family were rescued in Edgcott, near Aylesbury, on Saturday night.\n\nMeanwhile, homes and gardens were damaged when a tornado hit Surrey, earlier on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nTravellers embarking on the Christmas getaway have been advised to check their routes in advance and drivers have been warned not to move or ignore \"road closed\" signs.\n\nThe Medway has flooded towns and villages including Maidstone, Yalding and Teston. Alfriston, in East Sussex, has been flooded.\n\nHomes in Yalding have been flooded\n\nCars in the village were swept away and the Environment Agency warns there is more rain forecast for Tuesday.\n\nPolice in Bedfordshire said they had received calls from people out walking who had become stuck in rural areas because of the flooding.\n\nThey urged people to be aware of weather conditions in secluded locations, with Bedford Borough Council saying several bridges had been closed in its district because they are \"no longer safe to use\".\n\nSupermarket workers at Sainsbury's in Tonbridge continued to push trolleys despite rising levels of rain water.\n\nA Sainsbury's worker continued to push trolleys despite the rising water levels\n\nResidents of Little Venice Caravan Park in Yalding, Kent, had to be rescued by motorboat.\n\nOn Friday night, one officer had to strip down to his boxer shorts to check on a car stuck in Kingsey.\n\nThe tornado struck a number of houses in the Chertsey area on Saturday, according to firefighters.\n\nResident Verity Boultwood said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nPhilip Passey said he \"froze\" when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden,\" he said.\n\n\"My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\"\n\nThe tornado struck after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but was later reopened.\n\nYoung people had to be ferried across a car park at Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, next to the River Soar\n\nA tractor was used to carry guests to and from the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Sindlesham near Reading, where the car park has been inundated by overflow from the River Loddon.\n\nA hotel car park at Sindlesham near Reading was inundated when the River Loddon burst its banks\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? 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.", "The silver Vauxhall Corsa crashed into gates at the park on Sunday morning\n\nA 22-year-old driver is \"lucky to be alive\" after his car crashed though the entrance gates of a Victorian park.\n\nSouth Wales Police said he escaped injury in the crash at Roath Park, Cardiff, at about 07:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nHe was initially arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, but later released without charge after giving a negative second reading.\n\nFire crews were called to the scene to make the car safe after it was left lying on its side outside the park.\n\nPolice said the silver Vauxhall Corsa left the road and collided with the gates, causing significant damage.\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 police cordon was erected at the scene before the vehicle was removed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Old films like It's A Wonderful Life can stimulate memories and feelings\n\nTV repeats and familiar festive songs can help people with dementia by stimulating memories and keeping the brain active.\n\nChristmas can be an unsettling time for those with dementia.\n\nBut experts say singing along to songs like White Christmas can stimulate \"emotional memories\".\n\nAnd while people with dementia might not remember the exact details of It's A Wonderful Life, they may recall how they felt at the end of the film.\n\nNHS England's national clinical director for dementia, Prof Alistair Burns, says Christmas can sometimes be strange or confusing for those living with dementia.\n\nLots of social engagements and a steady stream of house guests coming through the door have the potential to be unsettling.\n\nThe familiarity of Christmas specials on TV can be reassuring\n\nBut he says watching familiar films or singing along to favourite songs can help make the festive season easier to navigate.\n\n\"People with dementia might find it hard to follow convoluted conversations amid the chaos and noise of Christmas and can end up feeling excluded.\n\n\"Gathering the family round to watch a much-loved classic film, thumb through an old photo album, play a family game or even sing along to a favourite carol can bring people together and help everybody feel part of the fun.\"\n\nExperts say it is the emotional details of a favourite film or song that remain lodged in our minds.\n\nRekindling them improves a feeling of connectedness with other people which is important for both people with dementia and their friends and families.\n\nNHS England has this advice on how to make Christmas easier to cope with for someone with dementia.\n\nProf Burns is also urging people to look out for signs of dementia among older family members and friends over Christmas.\n\nThese might include emotional changes and forgetfulness which can sometimes be the first indication that someone has dementia.\n\nThe Good Life: An old favourite\n\nKathryn Smith, chief operating officer at the Alzheimer's Society, says Christmas can pose difficulties for the 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, but there are strategies that can help.\n\n\"Whether it's an old song they used to enjoy or a classic Christmas film, reminiscing can be beneficial to someone with dementia - it can help to maintain their self-esteem, confidence and sense of self, as well as improve social interactions with others.\n\n\"However, every person with dementia is different, so it's important to listen and accommodate your loved one's unique needs and wishes.\"", "The Glen Sannox remains unfinished at the Port Glasgow yard\n\nThe state-owned company that procures ferries for Cal-Mac decided last May to torpedo the contract to build the first of two ships at Ferguson shipyard.\n\nCaledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) told economy minister Paul Wheelhouse that he should prepare for an announcement in late June of the contract for the first ship, the Glen Sannox, being cancelled.\n\nCMAL chief executive Kevin Hobbs wrote that the board's decision could be expected to lead swiftly to the second ship being cancelled.\n\nAn exchange of letters and emails, released by the Scottish government this week, points to a ministerial veto being applied.\n\nNeither boat was cancelled, but three months after the exchange in May, the shipyard was put into administration in August. It has since been nationalised.\n\nDerek Mackay, the finance secretary, announced last Wednesday that the cost of completion takes the total cost to well over double the £97m in the fixed price contract signed in 2015.\n\nWhen Ferguson Shipbuilders went bust in the summer of 2014 it seemed the last shipyard on the lower Clyde was heading for oblivion, more than a century after it was founded by the four Ferguson brothers.\n\nBut within weeks, in a deal brokered by the Scottish government, a white knight stepped forward in the shape of Jim McColl.\n\nA self-made billionaire, he was one of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum in September that year.\n\nRead more on the attempt to save Ferguson.\n\nThe ships were due to be in service in 2018, but they are now running at least three years late.\n\nOn Friday, BBC Scotland reported that Jim McColl, former chairman of the shipyard, believes it would cost less to scrap the part-built ships and start again.\n\nThe cancellation in summer, decided by the board of CMAL on 21 May, would have secured £12m for each ship in bond pay-outs - a form of guarantee that had to be lodged by Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) when it took on the work in 2015.\n\nBut by last May, the Scottish government had sunk £45m in loans into FMEL, without explaining the loans to its own procurement agency.\n\nIt told MSPs the loans were to help modernise the yard, yet it has since been learned that drawdown of the money was linked to progress on the ferry contract.\n\nJim McColl is said to have been frustrated that ministers would not intervene directly\n\nAn email in May from Mr Hobbs made his frustration clear that the Scottish government was not engaging with its own agency \"for reasons of confidentiality\".\n\n\"This is causing concern because our plans and Scottish government involvement are inextricably linked. Unless we work closely together, we cannot develop our plans any further!\" Mr Hobbs wrote to a civil servant on 31 May.\n\nHe said the crisis was compounded by CMAL having \"no visibility\" on the £45m loan.\n\nAt the time, Jim McColl, chairman of FMEL, was also venting his frustration that ministers were not willing to engage with the deep division between the shipyard management and the procurement firm.\n\nThe Scottish government told him that they could not intervene because of CMAL's autonomy.\n\nMr McCall claims that Derek Mackay told him, in private, that the CMAL board threatened to resign if there were ministerial interference.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government ignored the advice of its own independent adviser, Luke van Beek, to seek mediation.\n\nThe Scottish government has issued a statement, saying: \"The management of the fixed price design and build contract was for FMEL and CMAL. However Scottish Ministers and officials held meetings with both parties on this issue over an extended period of time.\n\n\"The Scottish government explored every avenue within its power to help the two parties resolve this issue.\"\n\nIn a separate statement issued in response to Mr McColl's call for the ships to be scrapped and the project re-started, the Scottish government spokesman said:\n\n\"Our commitment is to complete the vessels, protect the workforce and secure a future for the yard. Scrapping the vessels and starting again would not meet those objectives.\n\n\"It is also likely that the timescales involved in retendering and subsequent design and construction of vessels from scratch would add considerable delays for the delivery of these much needed vessels.\"\n\nThe question of why the contract was allowed to drift to the point where it faced cancellation will be examined in a Holyrood inquiry next year.\n\nThe rural economy and connectivity committee announced on Friday it will look into the implications for replacement of other ferries in the ageing Cal-Mac fleet.", "The dolls mimic popular brands, but do not carry quality marks and there is poor English on the packaging\n\nToxic chemicals have been found in cheap dolls putting children exposed to them at risk of long-term fertility problems, officials warn.\n\nThe Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll - costing between £1 and £3 - have been supplied across the UK.\n\nThe Nottingham wholesaler is being investigated by city officials, who said it could not yet be named or the shops it supplied for Christmas.\n\nThe dolls contain high levels of phthalates, say trading standards.\n\nThe potentially harmful chemicals are used to toughen plastic in the Chinese-made dolls, said the council team.\n\nThe Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that very young children and babies could chew the toys and \"consume the chemicals\"\n\nJane Bailey, the team's manager, said: \"We understand the financial pressures people are under at the moment, but I'd urge parents to resist the temptation to buy cheap toys like these.\n\n\"They will carry none of the required quality marks and will likely have been subjected to no product testing at all.\"\n\nThe council could not tell the BBC how many had been sold, or where in the UK they were on sale.\n\nAlthough such investigations are led by local authorities, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, a national body, said there was a rise of \"substandard toys\" being brought to the UK around Christmas and there had been \"several seizures\".\n\nRobert Chantry-Price, a lead officer for product safety, said: \"It is frightening to think that large quantities of phthalates are still being used in children's toys.\n\n\"Phthalates are carcinogenic, mutagenic and can cause reproductive problems but, despite legislation to the contrary, significant amounts of these substances can be found in a wide range of toys and child-care products.\n\n\"If these toys fall into the hands of very young children or babies, it's more likely they will chew on the plastic and consume the chemicals.\"\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.", "Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will not hold a Christmas Mass for the first time in more than 200 years, as repair work continues following April's fire.\n\nMidnight Mass will still be celebrated on Christmas Eve, officials said, but it will take place at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.\n\nThe 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage site, lost its spire and roof during the blaze.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has set a five-year goal for its reconstruction.\n\nIn October, the French culture ministry said nearly €1bn (£850m; $1.1bn) had been raised or pledged for the work.\n\nThe iconic building has celebrated Christmas Mass through two centuries of often turbulent history, only closing during the French revolution when anti-Catholic forces turned it briefly into \"a temple of reason\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCathedral rector Patrick Chauvet told the Associated Press that this year's service at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois would include a wooden liturgical platform that has been made to resemble the one at the cathedral.\n\n\"We have the opportunity to celebrate the Mass outside the walls, so to speak... but with some indicators that Notre-Dame is connected to us,\" he said.\n\nThe cathedral had been undergoing restoration work when the devastating blaze broke out earlier this year.\n\nThe cause of the fire remains unknown, but investigators are probing the possibility of negligence.\n\nA \"badly stubbed out cigarette\" or electrical fault are among the possible causes being considered.\n\nNo evidence has been found to suggest any criminal origin to the fire, officials have said.", "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised for taking a trip to Hawaii whilst wildfires raged in his home country.\n\nThe prime minister cut his trip short as criticism increased and announced that he was sorry in a press conference in Sydney.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino struck in extra time to hand Liverpool a first Fifa Club World Cup triumph as Jurgen Klopp's side eventually ended the resistance of Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.\n\nFirmino, who scored a dramatic injury-time winner against Monterrey to send Liverpool into the final, produced a composed finish in the 99th minute as the Reds became the second English side to win the tournament, after Manchester United in 2008.\n\nIn a dramatic conclusion to normal time, Liverpool had seen an injury-time penalty decision overturned after Sadio Mane went down under a challenge from Rafinha, with referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim reversing his initial verdict after checking the pitchside monitor following a consultation with the video assistant referee.\n\nBrazil forward Firmino squandered the opportunity to put Liverpool ahead inside the opening minute at Khalifa International Stadium, blazing over the bar before Naby Keita and Trent Alexander-Arnold also spurned early chances as the Premier League leaders made a blistering start.\n\nFirmino agonisingly hit the post and Mohamed Salah shot narrowly wide shortly after half-time, but Flamengo responded well to early pressure in both halves and posed Liverpool problems - striker Gabriel Barbosa's attempted bicycle-kick typifying the Brazilian side's steadily growing confidence.\n\nLiverpool suffered an injury blow as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to fall awkwardly on his ankle, and with the prospect of extra time approaching Jordan Henderson's powerful, curled strike from the edge of the box was superbly tipped over by Flamengo goalkeeper Diego Alves.\n\nFirmino's breakthrough in the first half of extra time delivered huge relief for Klopp's side, and while Salah was denied by Alves soon after, the Premier League side were able to see out the second period unharmed.\n\nMexican side Monterrey earlier defeated Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to claim third place.\n\nManager Klopp said he wanted to change perceptions of the Club World Cup in Europe as his Liverpool side prepared to face a Flamengo squad who had been given \"a clear order to win it and come back home as heroes\".\n\nHaving elected to focus on the Club World Cup, Liverpool fielded their youngest ever side as they exited the Carabao Cup on Tuesday in a 5-0 defeat by Aston Villa. Just 24 hours later, the Reds were busy securing their first appearance in a Club World Cup final since losing to Brazilian side Sao Paulo in 2005, eventually overcoming Monterrey 2-1 courtesy of Firmino's dramatic injury-time winner on Wednesday.\n\nDespite taking his senior players, Klopp was forced to name a makeshift side against Monterrey due to injuries and illness, but he welcomed back defensive rock Virgil van Dijk, along with Alexander-Arnold, Firmino and Mane against Flamengo.\n\nAnd how he needed his strongest side to navigate this difficult contest, in which it increasingly appeared it may not turn out to be Liverpool's day. After failing to capitalise on an excellent start, Liverpool came under pressure as tricky winger Bruno Henrique threatened down the right and Barbosa troubled the defence.\n\nBut Klopp's side dug deep, despite the frustration of Henderson's dismissed penalty appeal and Mane's overturned spot-kick at the death, and earned their reward as Firmino once again had the crucial say.\n\nThat 99th-minute winner vindicated Klopp's decision to pursue a first Club World Cup triumph over progress in the Carabao Cup, while delivering an entertaining final sure to have grabbed attention at home.\n• None This was only the fourth Fifa Club World Cup final to go to extra time, after 2000, 2009 and 2016.\n• None European sides have won 12 of the last 13 Club World Cup tournaments, including the last seven.\n• None This was only the second time an English side has beaten Brazilian opposition in a competitive fixture, after Manchester United's 1-0 win over Palmeiras in the 1999 Inter-Continental Cup final.\n• None Only two of the last 10 Club World Cup finals have seen both teams score, with the winning finalist keeping a clean sheet on eight occasions in the past 10 years.\n• None Flamengo are the fourth Brazilian club to finish as Club World Cup runners-up. No other nation has had more second-place finishes.\n• None Sadio Mane has been directly involved in more goals in all competitions in 2019 than any other Liverpool player, scoring 30 goals and making eight assists. Only Raheem Sterling (44) and Sergio Aguero (39) boast a better record among Premier League players this calendar year.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action against second-placed Leicester City on Thursday (20:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester lost 3-1 to reigning champions Manchester City on Saturday, to leave Liverpool 10 points clear with a game in hand on their closest challengers as they chase a first league title in 30 years.\n• None Attempt missed. Lincoln (Flamengo) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Vitinho.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Diego (Flamengo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Barbosa (Flamengo) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diego (Flamengo) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Filipe Luís. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hotel manager Wissam Salsaa said the work would \"make people think more\"\n\nA manger scene by British artist Banksy has appeared at a hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank.\n\nDubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier, which appears to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star.\n\nOn Instagram, the artist said the work was a \"modified Nativity\".\n\nIsrael says the barrier is needed to prevent terror attacks. Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.\n\nThe International Court of Justice has called it illegal.\n\nBanksy's work is in Bethlehem's Walled Off hotel, which is itself a collaboration between the hotel's owners and the artist.\n\nHotel manager Wissam Salsaa said Banksy had used the Christmas story to show how Palestinians in the West Bank were living.\n\n\"It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way - to make people think more,\" he said.\n\nThe scene shows the words \"love\" and \"peace\" as graffiti on the barrier in English and French. There are also three large wrapped presents in the scene.\n\n\"Banksy is trying to be a voice for those that cannot speak,\" Mr Salsaa added.\n\nAll the rooms in the Walled Off hotel overlook a concrete section of the controversial West Bank barrier.\n\nThe rooms are filled with the anonymous artist's work, much of which is about the conflict.\n\nBanksy has also created a number of works in Bethlehem and on the separation barrier itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Walled Off hotel opened in 2017", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock beat the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the event, beat the Austrian 3-1.\n\nSherrock fought back from two legs down to win the first set, before Suljovic reversed the fortunes in the second.\n\nA composed Sherrock took the third set before sealing the win by hitting the bull at Alexandra Palace and will face world number 22 Chris Dobey next.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight,\" Sherrock told Sky Sports after her win.\n\n\"I've proved that we [women] can beat anyone - I've just beaten two of the best players in the world\".\n\nSherrock's first-round win against Ted Evetts thrust her into the spotlight and she was roared on by the crowd once again, missing just five doubles on Saturday evening.\n\n\"With everything that has been going on the last couple of days I have just been focusing on my finishing because I know that I can score,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm still waiting for it all to sink in.\"\n\nAnd asked if she can go all the way to take the title, she answered: \"Why not? I have won two games, I am just going to take each game as it comes but there is nothing to say that I can't. I am going to try.\"\n• None Sherrock calls for more opportunities for women in darts\n\nEarlier, two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis came from two sets down to beat Cristo Reyes and reach the third round.\n\nThe Englishman won a tie-break in the deciding set after recovering from a poor start against the Spaniard.\n\nRyan Searle eased to a 3-0 win over Steve West, while Simon Whitlock also saw off Harry Ward in straight sets.\n\nJapan's number one Seigo Asada beat Keegan Brown and Daryl Gurney progressed to the third round by beating Justin Pipe.\n\nIn the final match of the night, Belgium's Dimitir Van den Bergh recorded the highest average of the tournament so far - 103.81 - in a straight sets win over Josh Payne.", "Firefighters were withdrawn from the building in Milltown \"due to risk\" to them\n\nAn 18th Century manor house has been damaged by fire which left crews fearing it might collapse.\n\nThe blaze was spotted in the three-storey building in Milltown, Cornwall, at about 08:50 GMT.\n\nInitially, three fire crews were called but nine more were sent to the scene, near Lostwithiel, at about 11:45.\n\nAfter nearly nine hours it was brought under under control and there were no reports of injuries. It is understood the house was empty at the time.\n\nExperts from the Environment Agency were called in to carry out an environmental risk assessment.\n\nStaff from Western Power Distribution and Cornwall Council emergency management officers were also called to the scene.\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 Wadebridge Community Fire Station 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe blaze spread from the first floor of the house to a roof space before it was brought under control.\n\nFirefighters in breathing apparatus had gone into the building to try and stop that spread but had to pull back building \"due to risk\" to them, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nTerry Nottle, of Bodmin Fire Station, said it was a \"significant fire\" and \"we don't get many 12-appliance fires in the county\".\n\nAlthough the fire is under control, crews are due to remain at the scene until Sunday.\n\nAn investigation is to be carried out into the cause.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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 page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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.", "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'", "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\".", "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.", "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?\"", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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 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’.", "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. 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 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 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.", "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?", "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. 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "(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", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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?", "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?", "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?", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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. 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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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. 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 ´ 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\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.", "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.", "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", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "* 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.", "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 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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\".", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "* 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", "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.", "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.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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\".", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.”", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.\"", "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.", "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? 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.", "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?", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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? 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "The Club-wielding Crust Lichen was discovered on the verge of a gravel forest road\n\nA lichen has been found growing in Britain for the first time after being discovered by a mountain biker.\n\nDavid Genney spotted it while on a trail in the Ben Wyvis National Nature Reserve in the Scottish highlands.\n\nMr Genny is a respected expert at Scottish Natural Heritage on the fungal growths.\n\nAnd he knew related specimens were among those conservationists at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London had highlighted as rare or under-recorded.\n\nThe Club-wielding Crust Lichen, also known as Multiclavula corynoides, was discovered on the verge of a gravel forest road.\n\nIt occurs across Scandinavia, in Iceland and in northern North America, but this is the first record of the species in Britain.\n\nMr Genney said: \"I was out with a couple of friends enjoying a day's mountain biking around Ben Wyvis.\n\n\"While I'm usually focused on the trail ahead and wide mountain views I also keep half an eye out for interesting plants and fungi, especially on the long, slow uphill sections.\n\n\"I suppose I was secretly hoping for an excuse for a rest so was delighted when I spotted something a little different out of the corner of my eye.\"\n\nHe said said he recognised it as the Kew Lost and Found Fungi project has been encouraging citizen scientists to look out for rare or under-recorded species.\n\nMr Genny added: \"They had highlighted a related lichen as one of their target species so things like this were on my radar.\n\n\"It's always exciting to find something you've never seen but for it to be a species that has never been seen in Britain before made my day.\n\n\"The discovery fills a gap in our knowledge of the global distribution of this little fungus.\"", "The sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nThe drowning of a man and his two children in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol was a \"tragic accident\", the hotel owners have said.\n\nThe three family members were found unresponsive on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nReports suggest that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her father and 16-year-old brother tried to rescue her.\n\nPolice in Spain launched an investigation into the deaths.\n\nIn a statement released on Christmas Day the owners of Club La Costa World said: \"The Guardia Civil have carried out a full investigation which found no concerns relating to the pool in question or procedures in place, which leaves us to believe this was a tragic accident which has left everyone surrounding the incident in shock.\n\n\"Naturally, our primary concern remains the care and support of the remaining family members.\"\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"The message from the hotel is very clear. They were given permission to reopen the pool by the police yesterday,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is supporting a British woman in Spain.\n\nThe father and daughter were both British while the brother was American, it is understood.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "Allee Willis, a Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated songwriter who helped compose the theme song for the sitcom Friends, has died aged 72.\n\nI'll Be There for You, the single she co-wrote for the Rembrandts, became one of the most recognised television theme songs of all time.\n\nWillis also co-wrote the Earth, Wind & Fire hits September and Boogie Wonderland and, last year, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nThe cause of death was cardiac arrest.\n\nBorn and raised in Detroit, home of the legendary record label Motown, Willis would visit the studios every weekend growing up, she told the New York Times last year. \"You could hear through the walls, which is how I became a songwriter,\" she said.\n\nDespite writing music and lyrics for a catalogue of hits that also include the Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance and the Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done to Deserve This?, she never learned how to read or play music.\n\n\"I hear melodies constantly,\" she told the Times. \"I always say: 'If you were to drop dead, I could write to the clunk of the body.'\"\n\nAllee Willis's home in Los Angeles is a temple of kitsch items\n\nShe studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and then, in 1969, moved to New York, where she landed a copywriting job at Columbia and Epic Records. In 1972, she turned to music and songwriting.\n\nHer hits have sold more than 60 million records around the world, according to her website. She won two Grammy Awards, one for the soundtrack for the film Beverly Hills Cop and another for the musical The Color Purple.\n\nIn 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy for I'll Be There for You, which she had co-written as a short theme for Friends before it was expanded into a full song. But the theme music of Star Trek: Voyager won the Emmy that year.\n\nA kitsch lover whose hairstyle was long on one side and short on the other, Willis lived in a light-pink house in Los Angeles known as Willis Wonderland, a nod to the Earth, Wind & Fire hit.\n\nWillis's house in Los Angeles is known as Willis Wonderland\n\nIn her house, she hosted large parties with A-list celebrities and gathered the objects she collected throughout her career, now catalogued online at the Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch.\n\nAlso in that house, Willis reportedly composed September, which was \"still that song that when people found out I'd written that, they just go 'Oh my God,' and then tell me in some form how happy that song makes them every time they hear it,\" she was quoted by Variety as saying.\n\nWhen September was covered by Taylor Swift last year, Willis said she was \"thrilled\" - before describing the cut \"as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium\".\n\nHer partner Prudence Fenton paid tribute on Instagram, saying: \"Rest In Boogie Wonderland.\"\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.", "Ireland's premier Leo Varadkar has said he will not dismiss the idea of building a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland, but insisted the UK must pay for it.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Democratic Unionist Party have spoken in favour of the idea.\n\nLast week Mr Johnson described it as a \"very interesting idea\" and added: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nMr Varadkar revealed he told the UK premier it was \"worth examining\".\n\nBut the Taoiseach said he had also told Mr Johnson he would expect the UK to pay for it.\n\nMr Varadkar added: \"At which point he suggested, 'no, no, the EU is going to pay for it'.\n\n\"So that's definitely not going to happen, because neither Northern Ireland or Scotland are going to be in the EU. But it was kind of half serious, half joking in a way.\n\n\"But all messing aside, I do think at the very least a high-level engineering assessment should be done as to whether it is a viable proposal.\"\n\nLeo Varadkar said he has told Boris Johnson the bridge is an idea worth examining\n\nTwo possible routes for a bridge have been floated in the past - from Portpatrick to Larne, or from near Campbeltown to the Antrim coast.\n\nArchitect Prof Alan Dunlop previously said the \"Celtic bridge\" would cost about £15bn, a fraction of the estimate of £120bn for an English Channel bridge.\n\nOther parties have been less enthusiastic about the idea, with Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken saying investment in Northern Ireland's existing infrastructure was a greater priority.\n\nMr Varadkar said: \"I know people dismiss these things out of hand, but they used to dismiss the Channel Tunnel as well - the idea of building a tunnel between France and Britain - and I know what I see when I see a bridge tunnel between Denmark and Sweden, when you fly over New Orleans and you see 110 miles of bridge, it's extraordinary.\n\n\"I think we need to at least check out if this is viable in engineering terms and how much money it would cost to do.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Varadkar also said his focus was on improving existing infrastructure, such as a high-speed rail link connecting Dublin, Belfast and Cork.", "The interior of the base station restaurant was extensively damaged\n\nThe Glencoe Mountain ski resort remains closed after a Christmas Day fire \"almost completely destroyed\" its base station restaurant.\n\nThe resort said all lessons and accommodation bookings for Boxing Day were cancelled as the lodges were without power.\n\nSeveral fire crews tackled the blaze which broke out at about 02:00 but the wooden building was devastated.\n\nThe resort said it hoped to reopen for snowboarding and skiing on Friday.\n\nManaging director Andy Meldrum said the fire burned for several hours before the alarm was raised because it was the only day of the year the resort is closed.\n\nHe said: \"That was a good thing because it meant nobody could get injured but it was a bad thing because the alarm wasn't heard for four hours\n\n\"The fire burned away for four hours and then another hour before the fire brigade came.\"\n\nFirefighters took water from a nearby burn to help douse the flames\n\nCCTV images recorded inside building showed smoke building up in the counter area before fire took hold and engulfed the building.\n\nMr Meldrum said the resort had received many messages of support and offers of help, but it was now waiting for decisions from insurers before making plans to repair the damage.\n\nIn the meantime, he said he hoped the centre would be open for business again on Friday.\n\n\"We'll keep skiing. We always keep going here. We plan to re-open tomorrow,\" he said.\n\n\"The chairlifts are unaffected, the cafe on the hill is unaffected, we've got a second ski hire building that's unaffected and ski school will still be able to operate.\n\n\"We plan to keep going - we'll find a patch around the cafe, whether it's bringing in a temporary cabin, we'll find a way to make it work.\"\n\nThe building that housed the cafe is considered a \"write off\" according to the centre's managing director\n\nLocated at the base of the chairlift the cafe offers impressive views of Buachaille Etive Mor through its panoramic windows.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it sent eight appliances to the isolated resort on Rannoch Moor, close to the A82 at Ballachulish.\n\nFirefighters used water from a nearby burn to douse the flames and had to remove gas cylinders from the rear of the premises.\n\nThe cause of the fire has yet to be determined.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fugitive has been arrested during a Christmas Day meal in the Netherlands after five years on the run.\n\nDaniel Burdett, 28, from Liverpool, sat down to dinner at a restaurant in The Hague when Dutch police arrested him, the National Crime Agency said.\n\nHe is facing 10 charges of conspiracy to import firearms and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.\n\nMr Burdett will appear before Dutch magistrates and is set to be extradited to the UK.\n\nThe arrest was part of an investigation into a group thought to be using truck drivers to smuggle firearms and ammunition from the Netherlands to the UK, an NCA spokeswoman said.\n\nMark Spoors, NCA branch commander, said: \"The arrest of one of our long-standing fugitives is a fantastic result.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The two victims were found on 19 and 20 December\n\nA second man has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of two men within hours of each other.\n\nThe first victim was found in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet, on 19 December, while a second man was discovered by officers in Hogg Lane, Elstree on 20 December.\n\nOn Christmas Day, Besnik Berisha, 42, of Martock Gardens, Friern Barnet, was charged with two counts of murder.\n\nKaziku Tuwisana, 31, of no fixed address, faces the same charges.\n\nMr Berisha is due before Willesden Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police has asked drivers who \"may have caught something that could prove massively important\" on dash-cam footage to contact them.\n\nThe victims were found within five miles of each other\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ari Behn, the former son-in-law of Norway's king, has died aged 47, his spokesman has said.\n\nBehn, the author of several novels and plays, married Princess Martha Louise in 2002 but the couple divorced two years ago.\n\nHis spokesman told Norway's NTB agency that Behn had taken his own life.\n\nIn a statement, Norway's king and queen said he had been \"an important part of our family for many years and we carry warm and good memories of him with us\".\n\nAt the time of their wedding, Denmark-born Behn was seen as a controversial partner for Princess Martha Louise, the only daughter and eldest child of King Harald and Queen Sonja.\n\nBehn met his future wife through his mother, who was the princess's physiotherapy tutor. He was best known then as the author of a short book, Sad as Hell, but attracted controversy and was filmed partying with prostitutes who were taking drugs in Las Vegas.\n\nThe couple had three daughters - Maud, Leah and Emma - but separated in 2016 before divorcing a year later. At the time, the princess said in a statement: \"We feel guilty because we are no longer able to create the safe harbour that our children deserve.\"\n\nIn December 2017, Behn accused the disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey of groping him after a Nobel Peace Prize concert. He said the actor had reached under a table and inappropriately touched him. Spacey did not respond to the allegation, one of many made at the same time.\n\n\"We are grateful that we got to know him,\" King Harald and Queen Sonja said of Behn in their statement. \"We grieve that our grandchildren have now lost their beloved father.\"", "A trust set up in Amy's name will fight for greater awareness of the dangers of nut allergies\n\nThe relatives of a young woman left brain-damaged after an allergic reaction to nuts are warning families of the hidden dangers over Christmas.\n\nAmy May Shead, 32, suffered anaphylactic shock from a single bite of a chicken meal on a trip with friends to Hungary in 2014.\n\nThis is her first Christmas at home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, in five years.\n\nHer aunt, Julie Martin, said Amy's condition has left her loved ones with \"an overwhelming sense of loss\".\n\nThe former ITV producer was left partially paralysed, and unable to see or speak properly after she suffered a severe reaction during the meal at a restaurant in Budapest.\n\nShe spent five years in hospital and has been receiving 24-hour care in a specially-adapted annex of her parents' home since March.\n\nAmy May Shead is spending her first Christmas at home after five years in care\n\nMrs Martin, who runs the Amy May Trust with her son Tom, said it has been \"a challenge to adjust to a completely different way of life.\"\n\n\"Those who are living with an allergy are never complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"But at busy times of the year such as Christmas, when staff in restaurants and bars are extra stretched - and the risk is perhaps greater of messages being relayed to kitchens becoming confused or missed - Amy's story is a graphic reminder of the effect that an anaphylactic reaction can have.\"\n\nThe trust has been meeting officials from Airlines UK and the Department for Transport to push for better in-flight policies for those who travel with severe nut allergies.\n\nA petition calling for a ban on nuts and nut products on airlines has raised more than 350,000 signatures since it was established in August 2017.\n\nAmy May, with her parents Roger and Sue, returned home to Westcliff-on-Sea in March\n\nCatching up with \"loyal friends\" is a highlight, her family said\n\nMiss Shead spent a year at both St Thomas' Hospital and the Putney Neurological Unit and lived at the Marillac Care centre in Brentwood for three years.\n\nThe Amy May Trust raises money for the intensive physiotherapy and speech and language therapy she receives four times a week.\n\nThe cost runs into several thousands a month, Mrs Martin said.\n\nShe said the family was looking forward to celebrating Amy's first Christmas at home after five years of specialist care.\n\n\"It's lovely to be able to say hello in the morning and goodnight at bedtime,\" Mrs Martin said.\n\n\"The transition home has made us realise just how tragically and terribly injured our beloved girl is.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge is seen kissing his youngest child Prince Louis in a new photograph taken by his wife.\n\nThe black-and-white picture was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year and released on Christmas Day.\n\nIt also shows Princess Charlotte and Prince George, who are due to attend the Sandringham Christmas Day church service for the first time later.\n\nThe picture was posted on social media with the message: \"Merry Christmas\".\n\nIn the photo, the duke wears a flat cap as he holds his youngest son, with Princess Charlotte standing beside them.\n\nPrince George sits next to them in a chair as he smiles at the camera.\n\nThe duchess has previously been praised for her photographic portraits of her children and was named as the new patron of the Royal Photographic Society earlier this year.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is a keen photographer and is often seen with a camera, such as in Pakistan earlier this year\n\nKensington Palace has often published photos taken by Kate to mark milestones in her children's lives, such as birthdays and first days at nursery.\n\nThe duchess began the tradition in 2015 when she took the first official portraits of Princess Charlotte, rather than hiring a photographer.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, Norfolk, later.\n\nIt comes after the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Queen's estate following a four-night stay at a hospital in London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 'ring of fire' eclipse witnessed across Asia\n\nPeople across Asia are witnessing an annular solar eclipse, which is also known as a \"ring of fire\".\n\nCrowds have gathered to watch the natural phenomenon in a number of countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn an annular eclipse, the moon covers the centre of the Sun, giving the appearance of a bright ring.\n\nThere are usually two solar eclipses on Earth every year, and they occur only when the Earth is completely or partially in the Moon's shadow.\n\nThe solar eclipse as seen earlier from central Myanmar\n\nChildren use special glasses to watch the eclipse in Wan Twin, Myanmar\n\nThe previous solar eclipse was on 2 July and was visible almost exclusively over South America. The next total solar eclipse will be on 14 December 2020, and will be visible across parts of southern Chile and Argentina, as well as south-west Africa and Antarctica.", "The southbound carriageway of the M1 in West Yorkshire has reopened after it was shut following a \"serious incident\" involving \"multiple vehicles\".\n\nIt was the third major crash on the motorway in 24 hours.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the latest incident happened on a stretch between junction 40 and junction 39 near Wakefield.\n\nA woman died in a collision 140 miles further south in Bedfordshire late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA diversion route was put place following the latest incident in West Yorkshire and Highways England had issued instructions for drivers planning to travel in the area.\n\nThe agency said the road was \"now fully open again\".\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 Highways England 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 Bedfordshire crash happened between Aylesbury and Flitwick on the northbound carriageway at about 11.15pm, and involved a number of vehicles.\n\nAnother person suffered minor injuries, police said. The woman who died has not been named.\n\nA stretch of the motorway was closed from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning after the crash near junction 12.\n\nBedfordshire Police attended the incident along with members of the ambulance service and fire brigade.\n\nPolice are asking witnesses or anyone with information about the crash to call 101 and quote Operation Granborough.\n\nThere was also an accident on the southbound carriageway in Hertfordshire, between Luton Airport and Dunstable.\n\nThe M1 fully reopened in both directions before 9am on Christmas Day.", "It was not clear why the migrants were on the boat in the lake\n\nA boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has sunk in Lake Van in eastern Turkey, with at least seven people dead, officials say.\n\nThe lake is near the border with Iran, from where migrants often cross into Turkey on their journey towards Europe.\n\nSixty-four people were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals and shelters.\n\nThe incident happened at around 03:00 local time (00:00 GMT). It was not clear why they were on the boat in the lake which is completely within Turkey.\n\nThe boat sank after capsizing as it approached Adilcevaz district in Bitlis, on the northern shores of the lake, the governor's office said.\n\nFive people were found dead at the scene and two died at hospital.\n\nTurkey has been a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe, many of them fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries. Many rely on people's smugglers and face dangerous land and sea routes which often result in deaths.\n\nTurkey's security forces have held some 441,532 undocumented migrants on its territory this year, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.\n\nIn 2016, Turkey reached a financial deal with the European Union to stem the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe. Last month, German media cited a confidential EU report as saying the number of crossings from Turkey rose sharply this year, with most people coming from Afghanistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aladdin and Bushra from Syria experienced first-hand how the migrants are treated in Turkey\n\nThis month President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Turkey could not handle a \"new refugee wave\" from Syria amid increased bombardment of the rebel-held Idlib province, saying a new influx would be \"felt by all European countries\".\n\nTurkey already hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population in the world.", "The number of matches in England and Wales where a hate crime was reported increased by 47% last season\n\nThe way racism is reported in grassroots football is \"broken\" and needs an overhaul, a coach has said.\n\nComplaints of racism too often become \"one word against another\", according to award-winning coach Delwyn Derrick.\n\nA multi-ethnic side from Cardiff said they regularly experienced abuse from spectators and found it \"disheartening\" when complaints were dismissed.\n\nWelsh football's governing body said it aims to create an \"inclusive, welcoming and safe environment\" for all players.\n\nIn the 2018-19 season, the number of matches in England and Wales where a hate crime was reported increased by 47%, from 131 matches to 193, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) said \"racism is a societal issue, rather than a football issue\".\n\nDelwyn Derrick (right) was awarded the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality Unsung Hero 2019 by Mickey Thomas\n\nMr Derrick won the 2019 BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality Unsung Hero award for his work managing Wrexham-based Bellevue FC.\n\n\"The reporting system is broken,\" he said\n\n\"The system is: You send in a complaint by email, once that's received by the regional football association or the FAW, they investigate by asking for the observations of the other club.\n\n\"Immediately that becomes one word against another - it becomes an argument.\"\n\nThe FAW deals with complaints in the top four tiers of Welsh football, while incidents in the lower tiers are investigated by regional football associations.\n\nOf the six charges alleging racism brought by the FAW since September 2015, only one was found proven by the FAW disciplinary panel.\n\nThere is a \"lack of confidence\" in the way regional associations deal with complaints, according to Jason Webber from Show Racism the Red Card.\n\nRaphael Kingsley (left) and Rizwan Ahmed say they have lost all confidence in the system\n\nAFC Butetown, from one of the most multicultural areas of Cardiff, play in the South Wales Alliance League.\n\nPlayers Raphael Kingsley and Rizwan Ahmed said the team has lost all confidence in the associations' ability to stamp out racism.\n\nWhile playing a team in the south Wales valleys this season, they say their striker was called the n-word by a spectator.\n\nIt was reported but \"nothing was done about it\", Mr Ahmed said.\n\nHe added: \"It is frustrating. You go down the right routes, the right protocols they tell you to go down - you do the right things and nothing gets done.\"\n\nHermon Yohanes says he was racially abused during the \"worst game of his life\"\n\nHermon Yohanes, of Cardiff-based STM Sport, said he was racially abused during the first half of a game against Wrexham's Cefn Albion FC in March.\n\n\"They were talking about my family, using the n-word and dog. It was the worst game of my life,\" the Eritrean-born 23-year-old said.\n\nMr Yohanes, who moved to Wales in 2011, said he told the referee about the abuse at half time and complained to police and the FAW after the game.\n\nIn July the charge was found not proven, leaving Mr Yohanes \"gutted and disappointed\".\n\nThe alleged racist abuse happened during a game between STM Sport and Cefn Albion at Latham Park, Newtown, in March\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it investigated but found insufficient evidence \"to prove the identity of the offender\".\n\nThe FAW said it \"thoroughly investigated\" the allegation but it was found not proven due to a lack of evidence.\n\nA spokesman said STM Sport were \"encouraged\" to give evidence, but \"this was rejected by the individuals\".\n\nAt the time, Cefn Albion said it was \"delighted and relieved to have been vindicated on these serious allegations\".\n\nSean Wharton - a former professional footballer from Cwmbran who played for teams including Cardiff City and Sunderland - said he was regularly the victim of racism during his playing career.\n\nSean Wharton educates young people about racism for the Show Racism the Red Card charity\n\nNow an anti-racism educator for Show Racism the Red Card, Mr Wharton said racism could have a \"massive effect\".\n\n\"There is research which shows that racism has a negative impact on players' mental health in terms of confidence, in terms of belonging, in terms of self-belonging,\" he said.\n\n\"You can't underestimate the impact that racism has on individuals within football and society. It makes you question who you are and your self-worth and self-belief.\"\n\nFAW accounts show a turnover of almost £13m last year. Its only spending on fighting racism was a £19,000 grant to Show Racism the Red Card.\n\nThe FAW said it worked with other anti-discrimination charities and campaigns, including Stonewall, We Wear the Same Shirt and UEFA Respect/Equal Game.\n\nTo be \"anti-racist\" rather than \"non-racist\", Mr Wharton said football chiefs need to believe victims who are \"fed up of nothing happening\" when they report racism.\n\nSocietal hate crime recorded by police in Wales rose by 14% last year, according to Home Office figures.\n\nMr Derrick agreed with the FAW that problems with racism in football were a reflection of society, but called for independent adjudicators at games.\n\nThe FAW said the referee is the independent adjudicator at every game and encouraged all victims of racism to report it.", "Debbie McGee has been crowned the winner of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.\n\nThe widow of magician Paul Daniels and her professional partner Kevin Clifton scored 40 points for a ski-themed quickstep to Jingle Bells.\n\nMcGee, who got to the final of the Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, said she \"wasn't expecting\" to win.\n\n\"It's just amazing but you know, everybody has been fantastic,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the show's star-shaped trophy, she said: \"I think it's everybody's, because we all had a great time, everyone did such great dances.\"\n\nStrictly 2018 competitors Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell on the dance floor\n\nActress Chizzy Akudolu made an appearance with her professional partner Graziano Di Prima\n\nDebbie McGee and Kevin Clifton were told they were \"a class act\"\n\nMcGee was up against fellow former contestants Chizzy Akudolu, Gemma Atkinson, Joe Sugg, Mark Wright and Richard Arnold.\n\nThe festive show on BBC One was hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman and judged by Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Bruno Tonioli and Shirley Ballas.\n\nScoring McGee's performance 10 points, Horwood said it was \"a class act\".\n\nDuring the event in Leeds Castle in Kent, each couple performed their routines in front of a studio audience, who voted for their favourite. Those votes were combined with the judges' scores.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George and Princess Charlotte met well-wishers at St Mary Magdalene Church for the first time\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte mingled with the crowds as they attended the Royal Family's Christmas Day church service for the first time.\n\nPrince Philip, who was released from hospital on Tuesday, did not attend.\n\nA large crowd gathered to greet the Queen and family members as they attended the service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Andrew, who stepped back from royal duties last month, kept a low profile at the event.\n\nPrince Andrew was not seen with the rest of the Royal Family as they left the church\n\nThe 11am service was broadcast live to the hundreds of visitors who had gathered outside the church.\n\nSome had queued from the early hours of the morning in the hope of seeing the Royal Family.\n\nPrincess Charlotte made her debut at the service and met visitors with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe crowd were eager to meet Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nWell-wishers held out flowers and gifts for Princess Charlotte, four, and Prince George, six, who were accompanied by their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThere had been speculation over whether Prince Andrew would join the rest of his family at Sandringham, after controversy over his links with billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein saw him sidelined from royal duties.\n\nWhile most of the family arrived in front of crowds lining the roads, Andrew, accompanied by his brother, arrived earlier at the church and used a different entrance.\n\nHis daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both attended the main service.\n\nThe Queen was not accompanied by her husband, who was discharged from hospital on Tuesday\n\nPrince Andrew arrived with his brother Charles at an earlier church service\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the prince was a \"significant absentee\" from the main service at 11am.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"If he had attended [the main service] a lot of the coverage would have been around him. He has become... something of an embarrassment currently to the Royal Family.\"\n\nPrincess Charlotte and Prince George attended the Christmas Day service for the first time\n\nThe Queen's attendance at church preceded her Christmas Day message - in which she described 2019 as \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe said that \"positive things\" could be achieved when differences were set aside and people came together \"in the spirit of friendship and reconciliation\".\n\n\"As we all look forward to the start of a new decade, it's worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while also looking ahead at causes being championed by younger generations.\n\n\"The challenges many people face today may be different to those once faced by my generation, but I have been struck by how new generations have brought a similar sense of purpose to issues such as protecting our environment and our climate,\" the Queen said.\n\nThe Queen's message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nAs well as the controversy over Prince Andrew, the year has seen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex take legal action against a newspaper and speak of the pressures of parenthood and royal life.\n\nThere have also been concerns over the health of Prince Philip, who was involved in a car crash at the beginning of the year.\n\nPrince Phillip returned to Sandringham on Christmas Eve after spending four nights in hospital.\n\nHe was taken to King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nThe 98-year-old retired from public life in August 2017 and his last public appearance was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex was accompanied by his daughter, Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex and his daughter Lady Louise Windsor also arrived for the Christmas morning church service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend this year's church service as they are in Canada taking a break from royal duties with their son Archie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new photograph showing the duke kissing his youngest son, Louis, alongside Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nThe picture was posted by Kensington Palace on Twitter with the message: \"Merry Christmas to all our followers!\"\n\nThe photo was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 74-year-old woman died at a house in Gwynedd on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services were called to Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, just after 20:00 GMT following reports she had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 75-year-old man had been arrested and was being held for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly tragic and very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales and I wish to reassure the public that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.\"\n\nHe added that a major incident room had been set up at Caernarfon police station and that the coroner had been informed.\n\nFamily liaison officers are supporting relatives of the victim.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has died after being shot on Christmas Eve in south west London, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to Battersea Church Road at about 21:00 GMT on 24 December to reports of shots being fired, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man believed to be in his 30s had suffered gunshot injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.", "Typhoon Phanfone, also known as Ursula, has battered the central Philippines.\n\nThousands of people have been left stranded, as ferries and flights were cancelled. Thousands more spent the night in temporary shelters.\n\nMore than 100 families' homes have been destroyed by the storm.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to talk about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police.\n\nDuring the service at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said the light of Jesus could bring hope.\n\nHe also reflected on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is dealing with an Ebola virus outbreak.\n\n\"Darkness is a monster that lies\", he told the congregation. \"Its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love-filled whispers of light.\n\n\"We see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. They may be violence as in the Congo or on London Bridge; they may be political; they may be purely personal.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Whether solid or illusion, they are the reality with which we live. By contrast we do not see light, but we do see truth in light.\"\n\nMr Welby described Canterbury as a \"city of peace that celebrates Christmas gloriously\", before comparing it to Beni, which is five times the size of the Kent city.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"It [Beni] has been at the centre of the second worst outbreak of Ebola in history; roughly 3,000 people have died. Its Anglican bishop is alight with Christ, always present, always giving of himself.\"\n\nIt comes after the spiritual leader of the Church of England shared a message of unity on 23 December, as he appealed to anyone who felt \"embarrassed or ashamed\" during the festive period.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he spoke of Jesus' humble beginnings, appearing to direct his message to those living in poverty.\n\nHe said: \"God meets us wherever we are, however messy. If you're embarrassed or ashamed, God is neither.\"\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 Archbishop of Canterbury 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 Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMeanwhile, in his homily on Christmas Eve, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said that after \"so much bitter political discourse and division\" we \"are to look one another in the eye and see there all that is good\".\n\nCardinal Nichols added during Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral: \"The source of that good in every person we meet is, of course, the life of God, a divine goodness, which shows itself fully in Christ Jesus.\"\n\nHe encouraged worshippers to find \"the goodness of God in every person\", adding: \"Only then will our society become a place in which no-one is afraid and all sense a welcome. This is the fresh start we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Supersport Park, Centurion (day one of five):\n\nSam Curran starred with the ball as England made a promising start against South Africa on the opening day of the first Test in Centurion.\n\nAll-rounder Curran impressed with 4-57 as South Africa, asked to bat first, reached 277-9 at the close.\n\nThe hosts slipped to 111-5 after some indifferent batting but mounted a recovery through an entertaining 95 from Quinton de Kock.\n\nDe Kock and debutant Dwaine Pretorius' 87-run stand frustrated England before Curran and Stuart Broad (3-52) struck in the evening session.\n\nWhile England were not at their best with the ball, they took advantage of some poor shots from the South Africa top order.\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes had two lengthy spells off the field because of dehydration and did not bowl in the day.\n\nJonny Bairstow, not initially a part of the squad for the four-Test series, was recalled in place of Ollie Pope, who is one of three players struggling with illness in South Africa.\n• None England need to show intelligence in South Africa - Agnew\n\nCurran has struggled outside of England - he averages 41.75 overseas compared to 29.00 at home - but he was the pick of England's bowlers with his late movement.\n\nHe pushed the ball across the South Africa batsmen, taking advantage of their defensive frailties, and beat the edge more often than any other bowler.\n\nEach time he was introduced into the attack he took a wicket, the highlight being an off-stump delivery that drew a defensive push from De Kock on 95 and sent an edge through to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.\n\nBowling first was a bold call from England captain Joe Root. James Anderson is playing his first Test in four months, both Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad were ill in the build-up to the Test and Stokes has struggled to bowl with a long-standing knee problem.\n\nArcher bowled with pace at times but was inconsistent, while Anderson was rusty after a lengthy spell out with a calf injury and Broad ended the day looking heavy-legged after bowling accurately in sapping temperatures.\n\nWith no frontline spinner - Jack Leach was unavailable for selection due to illness - both Root and Joe Denly bowled a few overs, but England will hope their strike bowlers have enough energy to finish the innings quickly on Friday.\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis said he would have batted had the toss gone his way but the hosts made an inauspicious start.\n\nOpener Dean Elgar fell to the first ball of the day, nicking a leg-side delivery from Anderson, playing in his 150th Test, to Buttler, before Aiden Markram flicked Curran to short mid-wicket.\n\nDespite England's bowlers not being at their best, Du Plessis and Rassie van der Dussen were caught behind playing away from their body before De Kock and debutant Pretorius mounted a partnership.\n\nDe Kock, known as an aggressive batsmen, took 12 runs off an over from Curran, but his big hitting almost cost him when he tried to hit Root down the ground and only just avoided being caught at mid-on.\n\nHis half-century came from just 45 balls with nine fours - his hard hands allowing him to hit the pace bowlers over the top of the slips - while he was strong square of the wicket.\n\nHe was well supported by all-rounder Pretorius, who counter-attacked more successfully against Root with a flat six, but Curran found the edge of Pretorius' bat to end the sixth-wicket stand.\n\nAlthough there was some awkward bounce, this is a good batting pitch - and South Africa may be left to rue their mixed start with the bat.\n\n'There will be some creaking limbs' - what they said\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"It will be interesting to see how England come back tomorrow - there will be some creaking limbs.\n\n\"It has been a really fascinating day's cricket. It is perhaps a bit too early too tell if this is a good score.\"\n\nEngland seamer Sam Curran on Sky Sports: \"De Kock plays his natural game. We let him get off the hook a little bit. Fair play to him - and he got a good score.\n\n\"It's a pretty good wicket and fast-scoring outfield. Hopefully our batters can bat big and put overs in their legs. There is going to be cracks. Hopefully we can bat big first innings and put them under pressure.\"\n\nEngland and Middlesex bowler Steven Finn on The Cricket Social: \"Tomorrow will give us an indication of where we are up to and what exactly is happening.\n\n\"The wickets in the last session have pegged South Africa back and brought it to a more even game.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Michael Carberry on The Cricket Social: \"It's great to see Anderson back. His first spell was a bit rusty, and when he has got the ball in the right area he has looked threatening. It has been a decent comeback.\"", "Former residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree\n\nA Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby \"ghost town\" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports.\n\nOnce home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km (1.9 miles) from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.\n\nFormer residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.\n\nSome of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a \"symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nKateryna Aslamova from the Chernobyl Tour company said it was the first time some former residents had returned to Pripyat since their evacuation after the world's worst nuclear accident.\n\nClock decorations were hung up to symbolise the passing of time\n\n\"The town must live, and for this to happen it must be saved,\" she said.\n\nHer company would like to see Pripyat and parts of the exclusion zone around the plant become a Unesco World Heritage site.\n\n\"Life is returning to Pripyat,\" said Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, founder of the Chernobyl Hub.\n\n\"It is unusual, irregular and touristic. Every day, the once deserted town is filled with tourists from all over the world. They come to learn our history, which changed the course of events in the whole world.\"\n\nUse #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.", "More than a million people have contacted the BBC's information and support service this year - double the number in 2018.\n\nBBC Action Line offers information for viewers and listeners affected by issues addressed in programmes, such as mental health and domestic abuse.\n\nThere was a steep rise in requests about sexual abuse, with more than 185,000 people contacting the service.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 83,000 sought advice about mental health concerns.\n\nDocumentaries about anxiety and depression fronted by celebrities such as the Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain prompted people to contact the service, the BBC's press office said.\n\nAlison Kirkham, the controller of Factual Commissioning at the BBC said the corporation had \"a long commitment to tackling mental health issues in our programmes\".\n\n\"The volume of calls and visits to the BBC Action Line - as well as the increase in contacts received by mental health charities - shows the impact of these films and highlights just how important it is to raise awareness and bring the conversation out into the open,\" she said.\n\nAround 8,000 people visited the Action Line support service online or via a call after watching a programme about how cyber bullying affected the singer Jesy Nelson, from the group Little Mix.\n\nIssues such as addiction, bullying and eating disorders also saw a rise in contacts.\n\nThe BBC Action Line for emotional distress also saw a huge spike in visits, with 148,185 total visits and calls.\n\nKeith Jones, the BBC's head of editorial & complaints, said: \"These programmes and figures show what important public services our Action Lines are.\n\n\"They're a partnership with the many organisations which exist to support those with issues highlighted in our coverage.\n\n\"We're so grateful to them for their involvement and that we can offer viewers and listeners support about these important, often distressing subjects.\"", "British troops have helped to move a group of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi to protect them against poaching.\n\nSoldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles moved 17 of the animals, which are hunted for their horns, in the hope they can be better protected.\n\nThey were transported by air and road from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to Liwonde National Park in Malawi.\n\nThe troops then spent three months training rangers to keep them safe.\n\nMajor Jez England, the officer commanding the British Army counter-poaching team in Liwonde, said the operation had been \"hugely successful\".\n\n\"Not only do we share skills with the rangers, improving their efficiency and ability to patrol larger areas, but it also provides a unique opportunity for our soldiers to train in a challenging environment\", he said.\n\nThere are thought to be 5,500 black rhinos left in the wild\n\nThe UK government says it has committed more than £36m to tackle the illegal wildlife trade between 2014 and 2021.\n\nPart of this is to help support trans-boundary work to allow animals to move more safely between areas and across national borders.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe much-anticipated return of Gavin and Stacey achieved the best Christmas Day TV ratings for more than a decade, early \"overnight\" figures show.\n\nThe Christmas special was watched by a \"well lush\" average of 11.6 million viewers on BBC One.\n\nWhen it went on air at 20:30 GMT, half (49.2%) of all TV viewers tuned in.\n\nThe episode, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nGavin and Stacey pulled in 11.6m viewers on Christmas Day\n\nThe next most-watched programme was the Queen's Christmas Broadcast, which was screened on BBC One, ITV and Sky and seen by 7.85 million people.\n\nIn recent years, The Queen's annual broadcast has become the most-watched TV show, based on the overnight figures which do not include viewers who watch Christmas specials on catch-up services during the rest of the festive period.\n\nThe cast was reunited after nearly ten years off our screens\n\nStrictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Michael McIntyre's Big Show - all on BBC One - rounded out this year's top five shows.\n\nCharlotte Moore, Director of BBC content, said: \"We delivered something for everyone with the seven most-popular programmes that cap off an incredible year for BBC One celebrating British talent and creativity.\"\n\nFor the last few years the headlines out of the Christmas Day viewing figures have been pretty consistent - the Queen's annual address to the nation the most watched show as Christmas Day viewing declines year-on-year.\n\nGavin and Stacey have reversed that trend to such an extent that the cast's reactions have probably been a lot more vociferous than Nessa's \"tidy\" or even Stacey's \"well lush\"!\n\nThey and the BBC will be thrilled. It's proof that while terrestrial Christmas audiences have been decreasing, they're still there in huge numbers for the right kind of show.\n\nSo much of what's been offered on recent Christmas Days has been festive editions of programmes that are already regular fixtures in the schedule.\n\nGavin and Stacey's Christmas Special felt like real event, must-see TV; the first new episode of the award-winning, much-loved comedy for nine years.\n\nAnd once catch-up viewing has been taken into account, it stands a good chance of, at almost the last gasp, overtaking the Line of Duty finale as the most watched programme of 2019.\n\nThe high viewing figures mean that there'll be a lot of expectation from audiences for more Gavin and Stacey, and (without giving away any spoilers) the door has been left enticingly open for that.\n\nAnd if the BBC can persuade co-writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, there's little doubt that BBC One would love more Gavin and Stacey, too.\n\nGavin and Stacey, written by Corden, who plays Smithy, and Jones, who has reprised the iconic role of Nessa, first aired in 2007.\n\nCorden revealed on Wednesday that he and Jones watched the special together, telling fans the show has been \"a labour of love from start to finish\".\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 initial series saw the budding romance between Essex man Gavin Shipman, played by Mathew Horne, and Welsh woman Stacey West, portrayed by Joanna Page, flourish.\n\nThere were two subsequent series and a 2008 Christmas special.\n\nIt had been a decade since audiences left Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa sitting on the seafront on Barry Island, but the Christmas special proved these four - and their famous expressions - are still a big hit.\n\nThe special also saw Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb return as Pam and Mick Shipman, as well as Melanie Walters as Gwen and Robert Wilfort as Jason.\n\nMany fans expressed their eagerness to see another series following last night's special.\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\nJones told BBC Newsbeat that \"there isn't any plan, at the moment\" for another Gavin and Stacey series, but did not rule it out in the future.\n\nIn the Christmas special, viewers only had to wait a few minutes to hear Nessa ask her infamous question \"What's occurring?\".\n\nAnd of course, it wouldn't be a Gavin and Stacey special without a reference to that infamous fishing trip.\n\nThe cast filmed in Barry, Wales, during July's heatwave\n\nThe success of Gavin and Stacey made Corden and Jones household names - even though they were not the Gavin and Stacey named in the title.\n\nSince the original series Corden's career has skyrocketed in the US, with his hugely successful gig as host of The Late, Late Show.\n\nJones told the BBC that trying to find the time to film was challenging, with Corden recording episodes of his US show back-to back to give him to time to work with Jones on the British project together in LA earlier this year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.", "Kirsty Maxwell was with a group of friends in Benidorm when she died in 2017\n\nThe family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they remember her at Christmas.\n\nThe 27-year-old fell to her death from a balcony in Benidorm in 2017 while on a hen party weekend with friends.\n\nHer family say the courts still refuse to carry out \"basic lines of inquiry\".\n\nThey will set a place for her over the festive period \"to honour and remember the loving and caring girl we all miss\".\n\nMrs Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, had only recently married when she travelled to Benidorm for a friend's hen party.\n\nShe fell from the 10th floor balcony of a room where five men were staying at Apartamentos Payma on 29 April 2017. The men were arrested but never charged.\n\nFollowing the hen celebration, Mrs Maxwell returned to her apartment on the ninth floor in the early hours, and was filmed asleep at about 06:50 on the morning she died.\n\nAbout an hour later she fell to her death after inexplicably entering an apartment on the floor above which was occupied by five British men.\n\nAdam and Kirsty Maxwell had only been married for seven months\n\nHer father previously said that in the hours following her death, there was very little information from the authorities about what had happened.\n\nNow the family has issued a statement on social media saying they were \"resolute\" in their pursuit of information.\n\nIt read: \"As each year goes by it does not get any easier, every time our legal team request basic lines of inquiry to be done the court refuses them.\n\n\"In conjunction with our lawyer Lorena Soler Bernabeu we await an appeal to the higher court in Spain regarding the continual refusal to allow progression of evidential opportunities.\n\n\"With the assistance of our crime expert/reviewer David Swindle, his team and our Spanish lawyer Lorena we continue to push for evidential opportunities to be progressed.\"\n\nThe statement also reiterated an appeal for help to anyone with information surrounding Mrs Maxwell's death.\n\nIt added: \"We know there are people who have not come forward or provided information which can assist so we continue to appeal to the many UK visitors to Benidorm and locals to contact us with any information which can assist.\n\n\"Thanks for the continued support we get from family, friends, the public and on social media, it means so much to us as a family to know people care and are trying their best to assist in whatever way they can.\"", "Fourteen migrants were rescued by French authorities and taken to Boulogne-sur-Mer\n\nMore than 60 migrants have been picked up while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nForty-nine people in four boats were met by Border Force and brought to England, while a further two boats were dealt with by French authorities.\n\nThe Home Office said it would try to return anyone who arrived in the UK illegally back to mainland Europe.\n\nCharity workers said the government's \"tough talk\" was \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nA search-and-rescue operation was launched in the early hours, with a coastguard helicopter, aeroplane and two Border Force vessels taking part.\n\nAn RNLI lifeboat was launched from Dover shortly before midnight on Christmas Day.\n\nFrench authorities rescued 14 migrants, some of whom were said to be suffering from hypothermia, after a dinghy got into trouble off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThey were met by border police and medics on their return to the French port.\n\nSince January, more than 120 people who arrived in small boats have been sent back to European countries, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the same period, more than 1,800 people have crossed the Channel in such vessels.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Illegal migration is a criminal activity. Those who seek to come to the UK illegally and the ruthless criminals who facilitate journeys are all breaking the law and endangering lives.\n\n\"When people arrive on our shores unlawfully, we will work to return them to mainland Europe.\"\n\nIt said patrols of French beaches had doubled, with \"drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment\" deployed.\n\nKent Refugee Action Network's Bridget Chapman, who works directly with asylum seekers arriving by boat, said the Home Office's response was \"disgraceful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"very tough talk\" did not \"take account of international law,\" citing the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which states that \"refugees should not be penalised for their illegal entry\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker.\"\n\nMs Chapman said it was an \"extremely irresponsible statement,\" which \"appears to be politically motivated and designed to whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".\n\n\"I would remind the Home Office that Jesus was a refugee,\" she added. \"Would they have turned him away?\"\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to the scene\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, which often encounters migrants before they attempt the crossing, said it was \"disappointing to see the Home Office criminalising refugees in this way\".\n\nShe added: \"Nearly all the people we work with in France have genuine asylum claims.\n\n\"The issue is that there is no safe and legal way for them to get [to England] and have their claims heard.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen, in her annual speech, has said \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.\n\nShe also acknowledged that 2019 had been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nHer message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, left hospital on Tuesday after four nights for a \"pre-existing condition\".", "A man shot dead on Christmas Eve was attacked in front of his family after a night out, police said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in south-west London at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots followed by a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said the killing which \"saw a man losing his life in such a horrific way\" had left his family \"devastated\".\n\nThe 36-year-old, who had a wife and young child, was pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency services.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbour Vittoria Amati, 60, said she heard between \"eight to 10\" gunshots fired.\n\n\"I then heard the screams of the wife. I came out and realised it was one of my neighbours.\n\n\"He was lying in front of his doorway in a pool of blood. He was still alive. We were really hoping he would make it.\n\n\"You have no idea how desperate she [his wife] sounded.\"\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\" in Battersea\n\nA young woman, who identified herself as a nurse, tried to help Mr Beqiri by applying pressure to his wounds, Mrs Amati added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson said: \"Our investigation is in the very early stages and we are still working to establish what the motive could be that has led to a man losing his life in such a horrific way, on Christmas Eve, in front of his family.\n\n\"They have been devastated by this horrible event and are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"We know that the victim was returning home with his wife and young child following an evening out, when he was shot just yards from his home.\"\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe officer added the assailant fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nSupt Richard Smith said: \"There is no suggestion that there is any ongoing risk to members of the local community in Battersea.\"\n\nThe death is the 135th homicide in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n• None London killings: All the victims of 2018\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No remains of the kangaroo have been found (stock photo)\n\nA wolf has reportedly taken a privately owned kangaroo from a family's garden in Balen, north-east Belgium.\n\nJan Loos, a wolf expert, was called to the property by the owners and said he had found wolf prints at the scene.\n\nMr Loos told AFP the kangaroo is \"probably dead\" having been eaten by the animal. He said a second kangaroo had also been wounded in the attack.\n\nWild wolves used to live in much of continental Europe, but their numbers have been depleted by hunting.\n\nIn recent years, sightings of the animals have been on the increase and in 2018 one was recorded in Belgium for the first time in more than 100 years.\n\nMr Loos, the director of a wolf and wildlife centre called Landschap, said he believed an animal named August could be behind the animal's disappearance.\n\nThe wolf has been spotted slipping across a nearby border into Germany and is known to roam the area, he said.\n\n\"I found wolf prints, so it's quite sure it's a wolf, but we're not 100 per cent sure which wolf,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe expert said local wolves usually ate animals like boars and deer, but the size of a kangaroo would have made it easy to carry off.\n\nNo remains of the kangaroo have been found, Mr Loos added.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nTributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died in the pool at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nPolice say they are checking claims the young girl got into difficulties and the other two died trying to save her.\n\nThe church where Mr Diya was a pastor said its prayers were with the family.\n\nThe Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) said in a post on Facebook: \"With heavy hearts, we extend our condolences to the family, parish, friends and associates of Area Pastor Gabriel Diya who sadly passed away, along with two of his children... in a tragic incident while on a family holiday in Spain.\n\n\"At this very difficult time, our prayers are for Pastor Gabriel Diya's family, the parishes that were under his supervision, friends, associates, members of RCCG and the general public,\" the post added.\n\nThe church said Mr Diya was also the parish pastor at Open Heavens, a Christian religious group with origins in Nigeria, based in Charlton, south-east London, and he was survived by his wife, assistant pastor Olubunmi Diya, and another daughter.\n\nA neighbour of the family told the PA news agency she was \"really devastated\" to learn of the deaths, describing the Diyas as \"very religious, very friendly, very humble\".\n\nComfort was described by the head teacher of her primary school as \"the most wonderfully kind, thoughtful, caring pupil\" who was a \"role model\" for her peers.\n\nJo Marchant said: \"Everyone at Windrush Charlton was devastated to hear about the tragic deaths of Comfort Diya, her father and brother on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nMs Marchant said Comfort would be \"greatly missed by the whole school community\" and that support would be made available to pupils and parents.\n\nSpeaking outside her home in Charlton, Lara Akins, 59, added: \"I still can't comprehend it, it's still shocking.\n\n\"They are so nice, that is why everybody is shocked... we are very friendly with each other.\"\n\nThe hotel owners described the incident as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool, which has since reopened.\n\nBecause the pool is a very small one, lifeguards were \"not necessary\" so there were none present, a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard told the BBC.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Spain, thought to be the children's mother.\n\nMr Diya and his daughter were both British passport holders while his son had an American passport.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday, the owners of Club La Costa World said the resort \"continues to co-operate fully with the authorities investigating this appalling tragedy\".\n\n\"Naturally, we will continue to offer every assistance and comply fully and transparently with any requests made by them.\n\n\"At the same time, we are doing everything possible to provide care and support to bereaved family members and to all our other guests,\" the statement added.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR [resuscitation] as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope spoke to thousands who had gathered to hear his Christmas message\n\nThe Pope has prayed for a softening of \"stony and self-centred hearts\" to help end injustice in the world, in his Christmas Day message.\n\nFrom the Vatican balcony, Pope Francis spoke of \"walls of indifference\" being put up to people fleeing hardship in the hope of finding a better life.\n\nThe Pope prayed for those hit by conflict, natural disasters and disease, listing several countries.\n\nHe singled out parts of Africa where Christians had been killed.\n\nSpeaking under a clear blue sky to thousands crowded into St Peter's Square, the Pope urged \"comfort to those who are persecuted for their religious faith, especially missionaries and members of the faithful who have been kidnapped, and to the victims of attacks by extremist groups, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria\".\n\nAn attack on Christmas Eve in Burkina Faso left 35 people dead, most of them women.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nHours earlier, in a rare joint message with two other Western Church leaders, the Pope appealed for peace in South Sudan.\n\nIn their statement, the pontiff, the head of the Anglican Church and the former moderator of the Church of Scotland called for \"a renewed commitment to the path of reconciliation and fraternity\".\n\nSouth Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 but has been crippled by conflict ever since.\n\nIn what was his seventh \"Urbi et Orbi\" (\"To the City and the World\") Christmas Day address, the Pope also highlighted other hotspots of unrest including Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine and the Holy Land.\n\nFor change to happen for the better, he said, people had to be more compassionate.\n\n\"May [God] soften our often stony and self-centred hearts, and make them channels of His love. May He bring His smile, through our poor faces, to all the children of the world: to those who are abandoned and those who suffer violence,\" he said.\n• None In pictures: Christmas around the world", "Black Friday discounts and bad weather have been blamed for a decline in Boxing Day shoppers, with retail analysts reporting a fall in the number of people heading for the sales.\n\nSpringboard, which analyses customer activity in stores, said footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011, dropping by 8.6%.\n\nIt said Boxing Day was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as 04:30 GMT.\n\nHowever, the retail data analyst, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said more people were waiting until later in the day to head to the shops in search of a bargain.\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, said: \"It is clear that consumers visited high streets more in the early evening than during the day.\"\n\nBy lunchtime on Boxing Day, footfall was 10.6% lower than last year, its biggest annual decline since 2010, when Springboard first published its data.\n\nCommenting on the disappointing morning for retailers, Ms Wehrle said many consumers were still celebrating Christmas with their family on Boxing Day, while the rainy weather, online shopping and increased Black Friday spending were also possible factors for the drop in footfall.\n\n\"Boxing Day is indisputably a less important trading day than it once was,\" Ms Wehrle said.\n\nCustomers queue outside Selfridges in London ahead of the Boxing Day sale.\n\nSome bargain-hunters did brave the rain, with some shoppers on London's Oxford Street waiting for stores to open at 9am.\n\nOthers queued outside Selfridges in Greater Manchester's Trafford Centre at 4.30am.\n\nAs the doors to Next opened in Liverpool at 06:00 GMT, more than 150 people were waiting outside the store.\n\nA total of £3.7 billion was expected to be spent in the Boxing Day sales, according to Barclaycard, with four in 10 UK adults predicted to spend an average of £186 each.\n\nBut environmental concerns were also expected to drive down buying, with shoppers also predicted to spend £200 million less in post-Christmas sales this year compared to last year.\n\nOpinium Research surveyed 2,002 UK adults online for Barclaycard between 29 November and 3 December.", "To celebrate its 50th anniversary year Scottish Ballet granted five wishes.\n\nPeople from across Scotland were invited to submit their ballet dreams and a celebrity judging panel, which included Dame Darcey Bussell, selected the final five.\n\nThe individual stories and their impact on the wider community were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.\n\nLily Douglas took a class with the Scottish Ballet company\n\nIn January, Lily Douglas, who has been living with rare cancer Ewing's Sarcoma, was invited backstage at Glasgow's Theatre Royal.\n\nThe 11-year-old avid dancer, from Perth, thought she was attending a workshop but was told she would actually be watching the company take their morning class, before joining them on stage.\n\nLily has had 14 rounds of chemotherapy and her left shoulder blade removed but it has not stopped her passion for dance.\n\nHer mother Jane said: \"Lily used to come out of chemo and go straight to dancing. We are now two and a half years down the line and her doctor thinks she is amazing. She thinks she is a miracle.\"\n\nThe day the wish was granted was the last time Jemma (centre) made it to the dance studio\n\nThe Academy Street Dance Studio, from Aberdeen, worked with Scottish Ballet to create a special performance in April - but the person who had made the wish was not there.\n\nJemma McRae, who ran the studio, died from breast cancer months earlier.\n\nThe 43-year-old's death came less than a week after Scottish Ballet visited her studio to announce it would be bringing its stars to the dance school as a way of thanking the youngsters for their support throughout her cancer journey.\n\nWhen the wish was granted, Jemma said it was not for her but for the people who came to her dance studio.\n\nShe said: \"My first wish would be for a cure for cancer, but that's not possible right now - so I'm hoping to give back to the students and parents who have supported me.\"\n\nDance school teacher Gillian Stuart said working towards the wish filled some of the emptiness felt by Jemma's death.\n\n\"It gave us something to focus on and kept us really busy,\" she said.\n\nFollowing a day of workshops with Scottish Ballet, 85 dancers from the dance studio performed to an audience of 600 friends and family at Aberdeen's Beach Ballroom.\n\nJemma's mum Marlene said her daughter would have loved it.\n\n\"This was her life. She loved every minute of dancing, every child, and she would have given anything to be here,\" she said.\n\nScottish Ballet and Alzheimer Scotland's Every Voice Choir perform Wish 3\n\nIn June, a choir made up of people with dementia as well as their families and carers had their wish granted when they performed with dancers from Scottish Ballet.\n\nEvery Voice Community Choir, run by Alzheimer's Scotland, created a unique performance at St Augustine's Church in Dumbarton, where they rehearse.\n\nThe BBC documentary shows Catherine and her husband Danny, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia at just 52.\n\nThe couple met as teenagers and have been married for 33 years.\n\nAfter the \"shock\" of Danny's diagnosis they found the choir and Catherine went along to support her husband. She soon found herself joining in.\n\nPrincipal dancer Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon performed while the choir sang\n\n\"The choir has become a big part of our lives,\" Danny says.\n\n\"It really helps you progress through a journey where you don't know where it is going to take you.\"\n\n\"It gives you the confidence to take the next step.\"\n\nCatherine says her husband was worried at first that he might have to do ballet.\n\n\"I didn't think I would suit a tutu,\" he says.\n\nFor the wish, Scottish Ballet soloist Jamiel Laurence choreographed a duet between principal Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon.\n\nThey danced as the 50-strong choir performed their rendition of 'Only You' by British synth-pop band Yazoo.\n\nThe dance company also invited the choir to perform on stage at a performance of The Snow Queen in Edinburgh in December.\n\nIn October, young designer Poppy Camden joined Scottish Ballet on tour to work with the wardrobe department.\n\nPoppy, a recent graduate of the Fashion Design programme at Glasgow School of Art, experienced what goes into creating, fitting and maintaining costumes for the production of The Crucible at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.\n\nScottish Ballet artistic director Christopher Hampson said the wardrobe team were the \"unsung heroes\" of the company.\n\n\"They don't get to be on stage like the dancers but all of their work is on the stage,\" he said.\n\nPoppy said there was an \"incredible amount of detail\" that goes into the costumes. \"It has been a real eye-opener,\" she said.\n\n\"For anyone who has seen the Scottish Ballet productions, they make it look effortless. But there is a lot of graft going on behind, which is fascinating to see.\"\n\nThe final wish saw musician Colin Bowen, who has lived with Parkinson's disease for almost 20 years, conduct the 70-strong Scottish Ballet Orchestra.\n\nAt the age of 45, Colin was diagnosed with Parkinson's - a neurological condition that affects the central nervous system.\n\n\"Music takes me away to another land,\" he tells the programme.\n\nColin is an accomplished musician, teacher and conductor but his worsening condition means he is no longer able to play to the standard he once did.\n\n\"I have never lost the will to do music and do it well,\" he says.\n\nIt was his wife Anne who put in the wish to put Colin back where she thinks he belongs, conducting a full professional orchestra.\n\n\"He's just so talented and it is such a shame this talent was taken away because of Parkinson's,\" she says.\n\nColin says: \"It is an opportunity for me to give Parkinson's a kick up the backside.\"", "Justice Minister Masako Mori: \"It is an extremely cruel and brutal case\"\n\nJapan has hanged a Chinese man for the high-profile and brutal murder of a family of four, the first execution of a foreigner in 10 years.\n\nThe man, Wei Wei, carried out the murders in 2003 with two accomplices.\n\nThey fled to China, where one was executed in 2005 and the other sentenced to life in jail.\n\nJapan has more than 100 prisoners on death row. Fifteen were executed last year, including 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.\n\nJapan only started to disclose the names of executed inmates in 2007. Between then and the latest execution only one foreigner had been named - a Chinese man hanged in 2009.\n\nJustice Minister Masako Mori said she had signed off on the execution of Wei Wei \"after careful consideration\".\n\n\"It is an extremely cruel and brutal case in which the happily living family members, including an eight-year-old and 11-year-old, were all murdered because of truly selfish reasons,\" she said.\n\nIn Japan, death row inmates are not told of their impending execution until the day it is carried out.\n\nWei Wei, a former language student aged 40, had admitted carrying out the murders but denied playing the leading role.\n\nHe and his accomplices had tried to rob the home of businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto in the city of Fukuoka.\n\nMr Matsumoto was strangled, his two children strangled or smothered and his wife drowned in the bath.\n\nTheir bodies were weighed down and dumped in Hakata Bay, the Asahi Shimbun reported.\n\nThe Chinese man hanged in 2009 had killed three Chinese people he lived with in Tokyo.\n\nThe increase in executions in 2018 was the consequence of a Sarin nerve agent attack on the Tokyo underground system in 1995 by Aum Shinrikyo, an obscure religious group that believed the end of the world was coming.\n\nThirteen people died and at least 5,800 were injured in the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Russian leader has ramped up pressure on Poland in recent comments\n\nAs top Russian officials were summing up the results of 2019, one subject stood out in President Vladimir Putin's pronouncements: Poland and its role in World War Two.\n\nOver the past seven days, he mentioned it no fewer than five times at key meetings - some of which had little to do with history or even foreign policy.\n\nIn an unusual outburst at a Defence Ministry board on 24 December, he described the Polish ambassador to Nazi Germany as \"scum and an anti-Semite pig\".\n\nTwo hours later, he brought the subject up again at a meeting with parliamentary leaders. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin thanked Putin and demanded an apology from Poland.\n\nThe following day, President Putin held his traditional end-of-year meeting with Russia's key businesspeople. According to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, there, too, he \"surprised everyone with how deeply he was immersed in historical materials relating to the start of World War II and Poland's positions\".\n\nHe is also planning to pen an article about the subject. But why the sudden interest?\n\nThe meeting with business leaders was held in a grand setting in the Kremlin\n\nVladimir Putin's criticism of Poland follows a European Parliament resolution which blames both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany for the outbreak of World War Two.\n\nFor the Russian president, equating the two \"is the height of cynicism\", and once again he resorted to a practice which his critics disparagingly call \"whataboutism\" - where he tried to turn the tables by levelling the charge at someone else, namely Poland.\n\nThe Soviet Union has frequently been accused of carving Poland up together with Nazi Germany as a result of its pact of non-aggression with Hitler (known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact).\n\nIn September 1939, the Polish Republic was invaded first by Hitler and two weeks later by Stalin, with Germany and the Soviet Union annexing the whole of the country between them.\n\nBut why is Putin angered by accusations against a country - the Soviet Union - that does not exist any more?\n\nThe German-Soviet Pact was signed in 1939\n\nThe USSR's victory in World War Two is one of the most venerated pillars of state ideology, and more than 70 years on it is still celebrated with much fanfare and bombast every year. It is also a key way for President Putin to legitimise himself and his expansionist foreign policy as a successor to the Soviet empire. So the Kremlin sees any criticism of what is known in Russia as the Great Victory as an attack on itself.\n\nNone of which is, of course, reason enough for Poland to accept the accusations, which it has described as \"false narratives\".\n\nThey are a highly sensitive subject in Poland, which outlawed suggestions of complicity in Nazi war crimes in 2018. Following an outcry, the law was softened to make them a civil, not a criminal offence.\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. What do Russians think of Stalin?", "Rowan Williams said some people have 'sinister' reasons for denying climate change\n\nThe environmental crisis is the \"largest challenge ever\" to the human race, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nInterviewed by artist Grayson Perry for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rowan Williams said climate change is \"everybody's problem\".\n\nDr Williams said some people do not believe in the crisis because it is \"just too uncomfortable to face\".\n\nBut he warned that for others there is a more \"sinister\" reason for denial.\n\nPerry, who was the day's guest editor on the Today programme, asked Dr Williams what the driving force was behind people disbelieving climate change.\n\nDr Williams, who held the senior Church of England post between 2002 and 2012, said some people were reluctant to acknowledge the climate crisis because it would require them to change their behaviour.\n\n\"For others I think there's a rather a more sinister feeling that this must be some kind of conspiracy,\" Dr Williams said, citing those who might think climate change has been \"invented by communists, illuminati or some mysterious group\".\n\nDr Williams added: \"So that's something I worry about a bit more, the idea that there are people who genuinely believe climate change is a huge confidence trick.\"\n\nPerry, a Turner Award prize winning artist, said he wanted to speak to Dr Williams as he was an \"expert on the nature of belief\", which is not \"necessarily about facts\".\n\nGrayson Perry is the first of this year's four guest editors on Today over Christmas week\n\nDiscussing this month's general election, Dr Williams said there were \"myths\" on both sides of the political spectrum.\n\n\"Broadly on the Conservative side, there's an assumption still that most of our ills are caused by something coming in from outside,\" Dr Williams said, adding it was a \"compelling\" and \"comforting\" myth.\n\nWhereas a \"left wing myth\" would be the idea that it is possible to \"legislate justice into being\" and make tragedy and misunderstanding impossible, Dr Williams said.\n\nDr Williams spoke to Perry as part of the latter's guest editorship of the Today programme, the reins of which are handed to high-profile public figures during the week between Christmas Day and New Year.\n\nThis year's line-up includes environmental activist Greta Thunberg, Supreme Court President, Baroness Hale, spoken word artist George the Poet and journalist Charles Moore.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says it is \"a crime\" that some Premier League teams have to play two games in three days over the festive period.\n\nThe Reds travel to Leicester on Thursday, before hosting Wolves on Sunday but most other sides only have one day off between games.\n\nAfter winning the Club World Cup in Qatar and defeat in the Carabao Cup, Liverpool will have played nine games in a packed December.\n\n\"It's absolutely not OK,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"And we still have it. None of the managers have a problem with matches on Boxing Day, but playing the 26th and 28th is a crime.\n\n\"We can say whatever we want and no-one is really interested but every year it is the same for the coaches involved in it.\"\n• None Download and listen to the latest Football Daily podcast\n\nThe Club World Cup was the second trophy Liverpool - who are 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League with a game in hand - have won this season, after they beat Chelsea on penalties to win the Uefa Super Cup in August.\n\nThe semi-final and final in Qatar clashed with Liverpool's Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat at Aston Villa, meaning they had to send separate teams to compete in the competitions.\n\nKlopp's side, who are chasing a first league title in 30 years, will have two days of rest between festive Premier League fixtures, but 14 sides will only get one day off between matches.\n\n\"There is no reason to give teams less than 48 hours to play another Premier League game,\" Klopp added.\n\n\"Sports science doesn't give you something to deal with it. The body needs a specific amount of time to go again. It's easy. That's science. But you ignore that completely.\"\n\nRoy Hodgson's Crystal Palace play West Ham at home on Thursday (15:00 GMT) and just 48 hours later face Southampton away on Saturday (15:00).\n\n\"I enjoy the training, the matches themselves somewhat less so as I think it's harsh to play at the level we play at with just a day's rest,\" said Hodgson.\n\n\"It's too much to ask. I don't enjoy that part, it's a very dangerous period - there can be injuries, there can be fatigue. Suddenly you find yourself looking up the table rather than down.\"", "Survivors walk through the debris on Phuket's Patong beach the day after the tsunami\n\nShortly before 08:00 on 26 December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia.\n\nIn the hours that followed, a massive tsunami fanned out across the Indian Ocean, killing close to 230,000 people, most in Indonesia.\n\nAhead of the 15th anniversary of the tragedy, BBC Thai's Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai visited southern Thailand, which was devastated by the tsunami.\n\nThis is the story of some of those who survived and what they did to help afterwards. You may find some of the details distressing.\n\nThat morning on Patong beach was very quiet. I was stationed close to Patong Hospital on a rescue truck. Then I got hungry, so I drove toward the beach in order to find something to eat.\n\nIt was the day after the hospital staff party - it was my day off and I had a long lie-in. At 08:00, I heard my wooden bedroom windows were shaking. I told my wife that it must be from the car outside. Then I rolled back to sleep.\n\nSamran Chanyang - master of ceremonies and mortician at Yan Yao temple\n\nI led the prayer ceremony on the morning of 26 December 2004, which was a Buddhist holy day. I said the prayer into the microphone, so everyone could hear it. All of a sudden, we lost the power and we felt the earthquake. I continued without the speaker afterwards.\n\nI sat there to enjoy my breakfast with the beach view. As I sat there, I felt the earthquake at around 08:00. No one panicked or worried. I continued to sit there waiting to get an emergency call.\n\nWe were on our way back from a month-long marine research trip in the Indian Ocean. We made a stop at Koh Racha Yai island in Phuket for a diving lesson for our interns. The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue. I told my team: 'What a perfect day to be in the sea.'\n\nPrimpraow Jitpentom - nurse on a diving trip near the Mahidol ship\n\nI took my friends from Bangkok out for a diving trip on that Sunday morning. I did this many times but my husband had never seen the underwater world. I told him it was really worth it.\n\nAfter breakfast, we all went to the end of the boat on the deck to watch the intern diving with instructors. All of a sudden, I felt the ship lift and swing to the left and to the right. We had no idea what happened, but my instinct told me to start the ship and head out to the middle of the sea.\n\nOur speedboat was getting closer to the shore. All of a sudden, the diving instructor told the boat driver to stop since he noticed something was wrong. He pointed to the sea and told me there was no water at the beach. He told me: 'This can't be good.'\n\nEmergency worker Wittaya Tantawanich: \"I closed my eyes, prayed, and prepared to die\"\n\nAt 10:00, I started to hear local food sellers, they were pointing to the beach. They all said 'Let's go catch fish.' The water had gone down very far, to the middle of the sea, and there were many fish lying around all over the place. I chuckled at what I saw but it wasn't long before I realised something was wrong. As the water came back, one food seller ran back and told everyone in that area to run away from the beachfront as far as possible.\n\nAs I looked toward the shore of the island, I saw one big wave hit the beach and sweep umbrellas and chairs down into the sea.\n\nIt didn't look like the killer wave you see in the movies. What I saw at first was just a flash flood that brought a massive amount of water. As the flood got closer, it started to pick up speed. Finally it hit street level and the water continued to rise. I hopped back in my truck and drove up the hill. At that moment, everything was crazy. So many people were running away from the water.\n\nSomchai and Primpraow Jitpentom, who treated the injured while on holiday\n\nSomchai Jitpentom - doctor on diving holiday with his wife\n\nI contacted my friend who was in the navy and he told me it was a tsunami. He told us to find a big ship and get up there. I saw the Mahidol ship was on its way out from the bay, so we stopped them and asked for help.\n\nThen the water went down, so far out, before the second wave hit the beach again. This time it dragged bungalows and restaurants down to the sea with it.\n\nAs we got on the ship, I saw houses and restaurants on Koh Racha Yai pulled down into the sea. That's when I realised something serious had happened. So we all agreed that we should go help other people on the nearby island since we had two doctors and two nurses on board.\n\nI held my sons tight in my arms and told them 'Mummy and Daddy love you very much. If anything happens, just stay afloat in this life vest. Don't try to swim, someone will come to find you and help you.'\n\nI heard on my walkie-talkie that the second wave had hit. It didn't take long before the whole city was in mayhem. I went back down after the second wave retreated. At that point, I still had no idea what had happened. All I knew was I had to help people.\n\nSamran Chanyang was called to duty while knowing his son was missing\n\nSamran Chanyang - master of ceremonies and mortician at Yan Yao temple\n\nThe ceremony ended just like any other day. Then I went back home, right behind the temple.\n\nSuddenly I heard a lot of cars go by on the main street. All of them were speeding through and honking and they passed by the area. Then villagers here started talking about how villages along the beach here were all gone because of the wave.\n\nWhen I woke up again around 10:00, I took my family out for breakfast before I received a phone call from the hospital calling me in for an emergency. We had a plan to handle a disaster of a massive scale. But we didn't have a plan for something this big.\n\nI got a request to go to a supermarket on the beach road where many people were trapped inside. When I arrived, I saw staff floating face down in the water that flooded the basement of the building. Some of them were still alive but many of them were dead.\n\nI turned on the TV and saw what happened in my area. I didn't know about the tsunami until then. I was shocked and worried since my son had gone to work in Khao Lak [on the mainland coast north of Phuket]. He was a painter and it was meant to be the last working day for him before a long break. I contacted him, but I was unable to reach him.\n\nWe decided to head toward Phi Phi island as it wasn't too far and they had been badly hit. When we arrived, it wasn't something I expected. All I saw were dead bodies floating in the water.\n\nAs we tried to help more people in the supermarket, I heard from outside that another wave was coming. I was looking for the nearest way out but I knew I wouldn't be able to make it. So I closed my eyes, prayed, and prepared to die. Luckily, it came up to street level and stopped.\n\nDr Weerawit Sarideepan: \"There were thousands of dead bodies waiting to be identified\"\n\nHundreds of people were sent in. Most of them had broken bones or cuts on their bodies. Then dead bodies started to come in.\n\nMy son's three friends told me he was missing. I was about to go out looking for him but then the hospital contacted me. They said they needed a place to put dead bodies from the wave so I had to be on standby at the temple waiting for the hospital to deliver the bodies. By 19:00, hundreds of dead bodies start to arrive. We had no place for them so they were wrapped in plastic and white sheets before laying on the ground all over the temple.\n\nThe hospital director asked me to go to help implant microchips into the dead bodies as requested by the forensic police. When I first arrived, the local police took me to Wat Yan Yao, where there were thousands of dead bodies waiting to be identified. As I stepped into the temple, I could smell dead bodies the way I never had before in my life. I noticed the temple ground covered in blood and lymph.\n\nWe decided to help only the injured survivors and we finally rescued at least 414 tourists and locals, and transferred them to a more equipped hospital on Phuket. We were happy to help many people that day.\n\nThe following day, more bodies start to come in. The military started to bring in containers to keep the bodies in. By the middle of the second day, I saw a mountain of dead bodies piling up and it was very sad to see.\n\nI went out with my other sons and friends to look for my eldest son. It took me half a day to find him. He was trapped and died inside the building where he was.\n\nI'd been a rescue worker all my life but I'd never experienced anything that huge before.\n\nIt was a wave like no other.\n• None Indian Ocean tsunami: Then and now", "Jolyon Maugham is director of the Good Law Project\n\nThe RSPCA is investigating after a prominent lawyer said he killed a fox with a baseball bat.\n\nJolyon Maugham posted on Twitter on Thursday morning: \"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?\"\n\nThe animal welfare charity tweeted that the claim was \"distressing\".\n\nMr Maugham, who has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit, later apologised if anyone was \"upset\" by his tweet.\n\nHe said the fox had got caught in protective netting around his chickens at his central London home and he \"wasn't sure what else to do\".\n\n\"My chickens were very distressed by the fox, both before and after I'd despatched it - and I wanted it out of the way quickly,\" he said in another tweet.\n\nGiving further details, Mr Maugham said he had been wearing his wife's \"too small green kimono\" and nursing a hangover at the time.\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 Jo Maugham QC 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 Maugham said he had spoken to the RSPCA and given them his contact details.\n\nThe RSPCA said in a tweet on Wednesday night: \"We're aware of a situation regarding a fox, and would like to reassure people that we're investigating.\n\n\"Due to a very high volume of tweets, unfortunately we can't respond to every single one, and are unable to provide further comment right now. Thank you for your understanding.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines state you can use cage traps and snares to catch foxes and you must \"humanely kill any fox you catch while it's in the trap or snare\".\n\nMr Maugham is director of the Good Law Project and has been involved in several high-profile legal challenges, including against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "Newly-diagnosed cancer patients are to be offered NHS gym sessions before they start chemotherapy, in the hope of boosting the speed of their recovery.\n\nThousands will be invited to sign up for a \"prehab\" fitness programme within 48 hours of being diagnosed.\n\nThe aim is to make patients \"match fit\" ahead of chemotherapy or major surgery.\n\nExperts hope a regime of three fitness sessions a week will reduce the time patients spend in hospital by \"priming\" them for their recovery.\n\nA mix of high intensity cardio workouts and strength-based training, plus nutritional advice and mental health support, will be made available.\n\nAlthough patients would be referred for \"prehab\" within 48 hours of their diagnosis, the start date for the fitness plan may vary on a case by case basis following consultation with a doctor.\n\nMore than 500 patients are already taking part in the exercise programme in Greater Manchester, while another 2,000 are expected to participate over the next two years.\n\nSimilar services are being run in London, Leicester and Yorkshire.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said cancer treatments can take a \"toll\" on the body, despite working \"better than ever\".\n\n\"There's increasing evidence that it's really worth trying to get match fit ahead of chemo or major surgery,\" he added.\n\n\"In effect you are 'priming' your own recovery before your treatment even begins.\"\n\nPatient David Fowles entered the \"prehab\" programme earlier this year ahead of his 10.5-hour surgery.\n\nMr Fowles said: \"I was told I'd be in hospital for two, three or four weeks. Well, I was out within nine days. I couldn't believe it. All this is down to the fitness regime - it's been marvellous.\n\n\"If someone had told me in February... that I would be going to the gym, I'd have laughed at them,\" the 68-year-old retiree added.\n\nThe BBC spoke to patients at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last month who had taken part in \"prehab\" trial sessions.\n\nOne patient, 77-year-old Allen Prescott, had surgery following a bowel cancer diagnosis. His wife credits the scheme with his recovery.\n\nJune Davis, an adviser at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"While it might seem extraordinary that newly-diagnosed patients are being referred to exercise classes and personal trainers, we know that prehabilitation can support people during this difficult time to prepare both physically and mentally for treatment, reclaim a sense of control and improve their health in the long-term.", "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:", "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.", "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. 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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?\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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. Please enable Javascript or try a different 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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\".", "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.", "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\"", "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\".", "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.", "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.\"", "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. 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 Network Rail Kent and Sussex 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 Network Rail Kent and Sussex\n\nPeter Kyle, the Labour MP for Hove and Portslade, was caught up in the disruption. 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:", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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?", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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. 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:", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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The 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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 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 .", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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).", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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", "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.", "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. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇+𝐋 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\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.", "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.\"", "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 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.\"", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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\".", "* 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 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.\"", "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.", "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. 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The 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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. Please enable Javascript or try a different 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.", "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", "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.", "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.\"", "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 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\".", "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.\"", "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\".", "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 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.", "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?", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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 Governor David Ige 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\nSenator Mazie Hirono also paid tribute to the first responders at the scene.\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 Senator Mazie Hirono This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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.", "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. 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.\"", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "Floor plans of MI6's central London headquarters were lost by building contractors during a refurbishment.\n\nThe documents, most of which were recovered inside the building, held sensitive information on the layout, including entry and exit points.\n\nBalfour Beatty, the company working on the refurbishment at the headquarters in Vauxhall, is reportedly no longer working on the project.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it did not comment on intelligence matters.\n\nThe documents, which went missing a few weeks ago, were produced and owned by Balfour Beatty and designed to be used for the refurbishment.\n\nThe contractor kept the plans on the site at Vauxhall Cross in a secure location.\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the missing plans were not classified or intelligence documents, but the pages did hold sensitive details.\n\nMost, but not all, of the documents were recovered inside the building after it was noticed they were missing, he said.\n\nBalfour Beatty said it could not comment because of sensitivities.\n\nThe incident, first reported by the Sun newspaper, is reportedly a result of carelessness, rather than any hostile activity.\n\nBalfour Beatty mainly carries out work in the UK, US and Hong Kong and has 26,000 employees worldwide, according to the company's website.\n\nThe BBC reported earlier this month that Balfour Beatty's order book for 2019 was expected to be more than £14bn - \"significantly higher\" than 2018's £12.6bn book.", "More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the New Year Honours list.\n\nThe majority of recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities. But here are some of the better-known names.\n\nHonour: Damehood for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment\n\nQuote: \"I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me.\n\n\"As a girl born in Cambridge, I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognised in this way by the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHonour: MBE for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts\n\nOccupation: England cricketer, World Cup and BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner\n\nHonour: Companion of Honour for services to music and charity\n\nHonour: MBE for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts\n\nQuote: \"When I was first told about it, I immediately thought about my dear late mum - which really choked me up, because I know how proud she would have been.\n\n\"Her boy's proud too - it's a great honour for me and for everyone who has helped me on my way.\"\n\nQuote: \"There's been tough times - I remember going away on an England camp when I was 14, and I never got selected then for four years.\n\n\"It was really difficult because a couple of my teammates were being picked.\n\n\"Standing here now, I think I've got 146 caps for England, so I'm glad I made that decision not to quit.\"\n\nHonour: MBE for services to sports broadcasting and promoting women in sport\n\nQuote: \"I am buzzing with excitement like a little girl. I just feel so happy and thrilled, and honoured and privileged to be able to accept this honour.\n\n\"For the last 40 years, I believed that you have to give back and you have to try and think about other people as much as you can because when I came to Britain, aged 10, I had a pretty tough time, people told me to go back, they didn't want me here.\n\n\"And I realised that I was worthy because my parents kept telling me that.\"\n\nHonour: Knighthood for services to art and film\n\nOccupation: Theatre and film director - Olivier and Bafta award winner, Academy Award for American Beauty\n\nQuote: \"I'm amazed, delighted and extremely proud. I have stood on the shoulders of so many collaborators and colleagues over the last 30 years - actors, writers, designers, producers, technicians - to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude. I would not be receiving this honour without them.\"\n\nHonour: OBE for services to taekwondo and sport\n\nNeed a reminder of what the acronyms mean? Read our guide to the honours", "The crash happened in Manse Road in Bearsden\n\nA 60-year-old woman is in a critical condition with a serious head injury after a car hit a group of people in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nSix other pedestrians were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after the crash on Manse Road at about 16:55 on Thursday.\n\nPolice Scotland appealed for witnesses. An eyewitness described the aftermath of the crash as \"total carnage\".\n\nTwo women, aged 21 and 65, and a 15-year-old boy are in a serious but stable condition, while another two women, aged 45 and 52, and a 50-year-old man suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe 64-year-old female driver was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary as a precaution.\n\nA nearby resident told the BBC she saw the injured pedestrians when she ran out of her house after the crash.\n\n\"A parked car took the brunt of the impact after the first seven casualties and probably saved more pedestrians being hurt,\" she said.\n\n\"It was pushed back down the road. It was devastating. Total carnage.\"\n\nInsp William Graham from Police Scotland said: \"We're keen to establish the full circumstances and are looking for people to contact us who have any relevant information about this incident.\n\n\"We're appealing for anyone who might have witnessed this incident or saw the grey Land Rover just before the incident happened to contact us.\"\n\nThe road reopened at about 22:00.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nRussia has appealed against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years.\n\nThe ban means Russia's 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\nThe Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) has sent a letter to Wada stating that it \"disputes the ban in its entirety\".\n\nThe case will now be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nIn a letter dated 27 December and addressed to Wada's director general Olivier Niggli, Rusada general director Yury Ganus wrote: \"Rusada herewith disputes the notice in its entirety, including Wada's assertion of non-compliance, the (alleged) facts on which such assertion is based, as well as the sanctions and reinstatement conditions set out in the notice, all of which are unfounded.\"\n\nWada's executive committee made the unanimous decision to impose the ban on Russia in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 9 December.\n\nIt came after 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• 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 president Sir Craig Reedie said the decision showed its \"determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis\".\n\nHowever, vice-president Linda Helleland says the ban was \"not enough\", and it has also been criticised by other nations' doping bodies.\n\nRussian athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.\n\nA total of 168 Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.\n\nRussia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents start to clean up after deadly storm hits central Philippines\n\nThe number of people killed by a typhoon that battered the Philippines over the Christmas period has risen to 28, say officials.\n\nTyphoon Phanfone, which made landfall on Tuesday, caused severe floods and destroyed homes in several provinces.\n\nAccording to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, 12 people remain missing.\n\nThe typhoon led to the evacuation of more than 58,000 people and stranded thousands over the holiday period.\n\nOfficials said some of the dead were hit by trees, while others were electrocuted or drowned.\n\n\"The likelihood is present that the casualty count will still increase. We're hoping against it,\" disaster agency spokesman Mark Timbal told news agency AFP.\n\nRescue workers are now carrying out operations\n\nPhanfone struck close to regions hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed more than 6,000 people and considered one of the Philippines' deadliest storms.\n\nTyphoon Phanfone, known locally as Typhoon Ursula, made its way through many islands of central Philippines on 25 December.\n\nIt reached winds of 200kmph (125 miles per hour), leaving thousands stranded as they tried to make their way home for Christmas.\n\nWestern parts of Visayas, the central of the three main island groups that make up the Philippines, were among the worst affected. In lloilo province, at least 13 people died.\n\nAccording to news site Rappler, six people from the same family were killed while visiting the town of Batad for a family funeral.\n\nThe province of Iloilo was among the worst hit\n\nThe popular tourist island of Boracay was also damaged by the typhoon, with homes destroyed and mobile phone and internet access cut off.\n\n\"Communication lines are down. Electricity is still down,\" Jonathan Pablito, a police chief in Alkan province, an island neighbouring Boracay, told agency AFP on Thursday.\n\nTacloban, a low-lying that was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, was also among those affected. However, the city escaped the worst of the damage this time round.\n\nThe typhoon is said to have eased in strength on Thursday and has headed towards the South China Sea.", "A still from the defence ministry video shows an Avangard warhead (computer simulation)\n\nRussia's first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles has been put into service, the defence ministry says.\n\nThe location was not given, although officials had earlier indicated they would be deployed in the Urals.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said the nuclear-capable missiles can travel more than 20 times the speed of sound and put Russia ahead of other nations.\n\nThey have a \"glide system\" that affords great manoeuvrability and could make them impossible to defend against.\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the \"Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10:00 Moscow time on 27 December\", calling it a \"landmark event\".\n\nMr Putin said on Tuesday the Avangard system could penetrate current and future missile defence systems, adding: \"Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons.\"\n\nThe West and other nations were \"playing catch-up with us\", he said.\n\nMr Putin unveiled the Avangard and other weapons systems in his annual state-of-the-nation address in March 2018, likening it to a \"meteorite\" and a \"fireball\".\n\nIn December 2018, the weapon hit a practice target 6,000km (3,700 miles) away in a test launch at Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains.\n\n\"The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defence means of the potential adversary,\" Mr Putin said after the test.\n\nPutin watches on as the Russian military tests the Avangard missile system in December 2018\n\nMounted on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Avangard can carry a nuclear weapon of up to two megatons. Russia's defence ministry has released video of the Avangard system, but weapons experts have expressed scepticism about its effectiveness.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said it would \"not characterise the Russian claims\" about the Avangard's capabilities. The US has its own hypersonic missile programme, as does China, which in 2014 said it had conducted a test flight of such as weapon.\n\nOn 26 November Russia allowed US experts to inspect the Avangard under the rules of the 2010 New START treaty, an agreement that seeks to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers.\n\nThe New START accord, which expires in February 2021, is the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the US.\n\nIn August this year, the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he wanted a new nuclear pact to be signed by both Russia and China.\n\nIt is hard to determine if Russia's new Avangard hypersonic missile system really has entered service, as Moscow claims, or if this is just an advanced phase of field testing.\n\nBut President Putin's eagerness to claim bragging rights is to some extent justified. Russia looks to be ahead in the hypersonic stakes. China is also developing such systems; while the US appears to be somewhat behind.\n\nHypersonic missiles, as their name implies, fly very fast, at above Mach 5 - ie at least five times the speed of sound.\n\nThey can be cruise-type missiles, powered throughout their flight. Or, they can be carried aloft on board a ballistic missile from which the hypersonic \"glide vehicle\" separates and then flies to its target.\n\nSuch \"boost-glide\" systems, as they are known (Avangard appears to be one of these), are launched like a traditional ballistic missile, but instead of following an arc high above the atmosphere, the re-entry vehicle is put on a trajectory that allows it to enter Earth's atmosphere quite quickly, before gliding, un-powered, for hundreds or thousands of kilometres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia released footage of two hypersonic systems in July 2018 - but was also concerned about a suspected leak of secrets\n\nIt is not so much the speed of the hypersonic weapon alone that counts. It is its extraordinary manoeuvrability as it glides towards its target.\n\nIndeed the glide vehicle's trajectory, \"surfing along the edge of the atmosphere\" as one expert put it to me recently, presents any defensive system with additional problems.\n\nThus, if Russia's claims are true, it has developed a long-range intercontinental missile system that may well be impossible to defend against.\n\nThe announcement that Avangard is operational heralds a new and dangerous era in the nuclear arms race.\n\nIt confirms once again President Putin's focus on bolstering and modernising Russia's nuclear arsenal. It's indicative of the return of great power competition.\n\nSome analysts might well see Russia's development programme as a long-term strategy to cope with Washington's abiding interest in anti-missile defences. The US argument that these are purely designed to counter missiles from \"rogue-states\" like Iran or North Korea has carried little weight in Moscow.\n\nThis all comes at a time when the whole network of arms control agreements inherited from the Cold War is collapsing.\n\nOne crucial treaty - the New START agreement - is due to expire in February 2021. Russia seems willing to extend the agreement but the Trump administration has so far appeared sceptical.\n\nWith a whole new generation of nuclear weapons at the threshold of entering service, many believe not just that existing agreements should be bolstered, but that new treaties are needed to manage what could turn into a new nuclear arms race.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nA woman whose husband and two children drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve has insisted all three knew how to swim.\n\nSpanish police concluded Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died after getting out of their depth.\n\nBut Olubunmi Diya has denied that - and said \"something was wrong with the pool\" at the resort in Fuengirola.\n\nHotel operator Club La Costa World said the pool was \"working normally\".\n\nA statement from the Spanish police said initial evidence found the incident was a \"tragic accident\" caused by the victim's \"lack of expertise\" in swimming.\n\nAn autopsy of the bodies found they died by drowning.\n\nEarlier, Spanish media reported another of Mrs Diya's daughters had told police that the three could not swim.\n\nBut, in a statement released to the media, Mrs Diya said \"We never informed the police or anyone that the family members could not swim.\"\n\nShe added: \"I believe something was wrong with the pool that must have made swimming difficult for them at that point in time.\n\n\"My husband went in via the steps trying to help the two struggling [children] while I ran to the nearby apartments shouting for help to assist my husband.\n\n\"By the time assistance came, the three of them were under the water.\"\n\nIn response to Mrs Diya's statement, Club La Costa World resort said her claims were \"directly at odds with the findings of the police report\" and \"their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind\".\n\nThe resort said the pool remained closed \"out of respect to the victims of this tragedy\".\n\n\"Our sympathies remain with the family at what we understand must be a stressful and desperately upsetting time for them,\" a statement added.\n\nA police spokesman said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool.\n\nThey also confirmed there were no lifeguards on duty because it was so small it was \"not necessary\".\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nPaying tribute to her husband and children, Mrs Diya said she was \"utterly heartbroken\".\n\nShe added: \"We are deeply shocked, saddened and struggling to come to terms with their passing.\n\n\"They all brought a joy and love to the world and to everyone that crossed their path.\n\n\"We love them all dearly, will always remember them in our hearts and miss them greatly.\"\n\nMr Diya was a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in south-east London.\n\nHis fellow pastor Agu Irukwu described him as a \"humble, friendly and a committed pastor and Christian leader\".\n\nLemmy Gbenga Ayodele, from the same church, said that it was \"difficult to comprehend\" the death of his \"very good friend\" and two children.\n\nHe added: \"When you said 'bye and seeing you later' a few days ago I didn't know you meant eternity.\"", "Ellie Goulding started the decade by winning the BBC's Sound of 2010 competition\n\nPop star Ellie Goulding has scored the final number one of the decade, with her version of Joni Mitchell's River.\n\nHer track dethrones LadBaby's I Love Sausage Rolls, which plummets to number 57 after just one week on the chart.\n\nRiver is Goulding's third number one, following 2013's Burn and 2015's Love Me Like You Do.\n\nShe managed the achievement despite the song being an Amazon exclusive, meaning it was unavailable on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services.\n\nHowever, fans could stream the song on YouTube, where it was accompanied by a video highlighting the problem of plastic pollution.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe clip, directed by David Soutar, sees Goulding and her friends gathering litter and discarded plastic on the beaches of Dungeness, and using it to make a zero-waste Christmas tree.\n\nShooting the video was \"a timely reminder that every single piece of plastic ever made is still on this planet,\" the star said in a statement.\n\n\"It's a material that will last for hundreds of years so we need to have a plan. We wanted to show something different and to incorporate a different type of Christmas message while creating something reusable and beautiful.\"\n\nThe track scored 78,000 chart sales. The rest of the singles chart was dominated by Christmas songs, with 29 festive hits appearing in the Top 40.\n\nMariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You led the chasing pack at number two, with Wham's Last Christmas at three. Both songs were streamed more than 1.5m times on Spotify on Christmas Day alone.\n\nFurthermore, the latter track, featuring the vocals of the late George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, failed to reach even number two despite having set a new UK chart record for the most number of streams in one week - overtaking Ariana Grande's 7 Rings - with a massive 17.1 million plays.\n\nIn the album chart, Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart held on to the top spot for a third week.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nMichael Buble's Christmas album was at number two - its highest chart placing since it was first released in 2011 - followed by Lewis Capaldi's platinum-selling Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent at three.\n\nAnd Lana Del Rey's fifth album, Norman Rockwell, rebounded 45 places to number 32, after topping numerous \"best of 2019\" lists in the run-up to Christmas.\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.", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nDetectives have been granted an extra 36 hours to question a man held on suspicion of murdering a woman on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services attended Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, Gwynedd, following reports a 74-year-old woman had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nPolice were called to Francis Avenue on Christmas Day\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney, of North Wales Police, described the woman's death as \"truly tragic\" and added it was a \"very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales\".\n\nA major incident room has been set up 50 miles away at Caernarfon police station.\n\nPolice family liaison officers are supporting the dead woman's family, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research\n\nAstronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat.\n\nFrom next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space.\n\nBut the first fleets of these spacecraft, which have already been sent into orbit by US company SpaceX, are affecting images of the night sky.\n\nThey are appearing as bright white streaks, so dazzling that they are competing with the stars.\n\nScientists are worried that future \"mega-constellations\" of satellites could obscure images from optical telescopes and interfere with radio astronomy observations.\n\nDr Dave Clements, an astrophysicist from Imperial College London, told BBC News: \"The night sky is a commons - and what we have here is a tragedy of the commons.\"\n\nThe companies involved said they were working with astronomers to minimise the impact of the satellites.\n\nWhy are so many satellites being launched?\n\nIt's all about high-speed internet access.\n\nInstead of being constrained by wires and cables, satellites can beam internet access down to the ground from space.\n\nAnd if you have lots of them in orbit, it means even the most remote regions can get connectivity.\n\nOneWeb's satellite constellation will sit 1,200km above the Earth\n\nTo give you an idea of the numbers, there are currently just 2,200 active satellites flying around the Earth.\n\nBut as of next week, the Starlink constellation - a project by US company SpaceX - will start sending batches of 60 satellites into orbit every few weeks. This will mean about 1,500 satellites have been launched by the end of next year, and by the mid-2020s there could be a fleet of 12,000.\n\nUK company OneWeb are aiming for about 650 satellites - but this could rise to 2,000 if there is enough customer demand.\n\nWhile Amazon have a constellation of 3,200 spacecraft planned.\n\nIn May and November, Starlink sent 120 satellites into orbits below 500km.\n\nBut stargazers were concerned when the spacecraft appeared as bright white flashes on their images.\n\nDhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich said: \"These satellites are about the size of a table, but they're very reflective, and their panels reflect lots of the Sun's light, which means that we can see them in images that we take with telescopes.\n\n\"These satellites are also big radiowave users… and that means they can interfere with the signals that astronomers using. So it also affects radio astronomy as well.\"\n\nShe warns that problem will grow as the numbers of satellites in orbit increase.\n\nWhat could this mean for research?\n\nDr Clements believes the satellites could have a real impact on observations.\n\n\"They present a foreground between what we're observing from the Earth and the rest of the Universe. So they get in the way of everything.\n\n\"And you'll miss whatever is behind them, whether that's a nearby potentially hazardous asteroid or the most distant Quasar in the Universe.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly troublesome for telescopes taking large surveys of the sky, such as the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile.\n\nHe explained: \"What we want to do with LSST and other telescopes is to make a real-time motion picture of how the sky is changing...\n\n\"Now we have these satellites that interrupt observations, and it's like someone's walking around firing a flashbulb every now and again.\"\n\nBut Prof Martin Barstow, an astrophysicist from the University of Leicester said some of the problems could be fixed.\n\n\"The numbers of satellites do sound frightening, but actually space is big - so when you superimpose them all on the sky, the density of these things is not going to be very large,\" he said.\n\n\"And because the satellites have known positions, you can mitigate. A satellite is going to be a dot in an image and it might appear as a transient burst of light - but you will know about it and can remove it from the image.\n\n\"It will cost effort and work for observatories to deal with it, but it can be done.\"\n\nFor radioastronomy, however, the constellations could pose more of an issue - especially for relatively new telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).\n\nThe radio signals the satellites use will be different from the ones astronomers are looking for, but they could still interfere, said Prof Barstow.\n\nWhat do the companies involved say?\n\nSpaceX want to see if they can make their satellites less bright\n\nSpaceX told the BBC that they were actively working with international astronomers to minimise the impact of the Starlink satellites.\n\nFor their next launch, they are trialling a special coating that is designed to make the spacecraft less bright to see if this will help.\n\nOneWeb said they wanted to be a \"thought leader in responsible space\" and were putting their satellites into an orbit of 1,200km so they would not interfere with astronomical observations.\n\nRuth Pritchard-Kelly, vice president of OneWeb, said: \"We chose an orbit as part of our dedication to responsible use of outer space… And we've also talked to the astronomy community before we launched to make sure that that our satellites won't be too reflective, and that there won't be radio interference with their radio astronomy.\"\n\nShe added that it shouldn't be a case of having to choose between connectivity and astronomy.\n\n\"There is no question that the entire world is entitled to be connected to the internet…. So it's going to happen. And probably three or four of these systems are going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"And the question will be working with the other stakeholders to make sure that we're not interfering with them, whether they are existing satellite technologies, or the mobile phone on the ground, or the astronomy community.\n\n\"We know we're going to work it out with everybody.\"\n\nStargazers will be watching the skies to see if a compromise can be found.", "Mr Netanyahu faced a challenge from Gideon Saar (right), one of his former ministers\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed a \"huge win\" in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party.\n\nMr Netanyahu secured 72.5% as opposed to his rival Gideon Saar, who polled 27.5%.\n\nMr Saar admitted defeat, saying he would now back Mr Netanyahu in a general election due in March.\n\nThe internal party vote was seen as a test of Mr Netanyahu's hold on power at a time of mounting difficulties.\n\nMr Netanyahu, 70, faces trial on bribery and corruption charges, as well as a third national election within a year.\n\nPrevious elections held in April and September saw Likud deadlocked with the centrist Blue and White party - with neither able to form a government.\n\n\"Huge victory!\" Mr Netanyahu tweeted. \"Thank you Likud members for the vote of confidence, support and love. God willing and with your help, I will lead the Likud to a great victory in the upcoming elections and will continue to lead the state of Israel to unprecedented achievements.\"\n\n\"I am content with my decision to have stood,\" he tweeted. \"Those who are unwilling to take a risk for what they believe in will never succeed.\n\n\"My colleagues and I will stand behind [Netanyahu] in campaigning for the Likud's success in the general elections,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Saar, a well-known figure in the party, had warned that Likud would not win the forthcoming elections under Mr Netanyahu.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu had been expected to win comfortably but campaigned tirelessly because he wanted the result to show his grip on the party remained strong, the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher in Jerusalem says.\n\nMr Netanyahu, who is the country's longest serving leader, is facing mounting difficulties after being indicted in three corruption cases last month.\n\nHe denies wrongdoing and claims the charges are a politically motivated \"witch-hunt\" against him.", "A fugitive has been arrested during a Christmas Day meal in the Netherlands after five years on the run.\n\nDaniel Burdett, 28, from Liverpool, sat down to dinner at a restaurant in The Hague when Dutch police arrested him, the National Crime Agency said.\n\nHe is facing 10 charges of conspiracy to import firearms and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.\n\nMr Burdett will appear before Dutch magistrates and is set to be extradited to the UK.\n\nThe arrest was part of an investigation into a group thought to be using truck drivers to smuggle firearms and ammunition from the Netherlands to the UK, an NCA spokeswoman said.\n\nMark Spoors, NCA branch commander, said: \"The arrest of one of our long-standing fugitives is a fantastic result.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Composer Jerry Herman, who created the music and lyrics to classic Broadway shows like Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles, has died aged 88.\n\nThe star, who was diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s, died in Miami on Thursday of pulmonary complications, his god-daughter told the Associated Press.\n\nHerman won two Tony Awards and two Grammys, and was known for his melodic, sentimental and upbeat style.\n\nOne of his best-known songs was I Am What I Am, which became an LGBT anthem.\n\nChoreographer Sir Matthew Bourne led tributes to the musician, describing him as \"one of the all-time greats.\"\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 New Yorker was seen as the successor to Irving Berlin, and he acknowledged that seeing the Russian-American composer's Annie Get Your Gun had set him on the path to Broadway.\n\n\"I walked out of that theatre singing all those wonderful Berlin songs and, from that moment on, that's all I wanted to do with my life,\" he told NPR in 1994.\n\nIn 1964 Hello, Dolly! - the story of a matchmaker trying to find a partner for an unmarried rich man - became his first major success.\n\nStarring Carol Channing, it ran for a record-breaking 2,844 performances on Broadway, and went on to win 10 Tony awards, including best composer and lyricist for Herman, who also won a Grammy for the title song.\n\nTwo years later came Mame, the tale of an eccentric bohemian whose lavish lifestyle is interrupted by the arrival of her nephew. Critics said the show, which starred Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, was too similar to Herman's previous hit - but it ran for four years.\n\nBoth musicals became well-known movies, with Barbra Streisand starring in the 1969 adaptation of Hello, Dolly! directed by Gene Kelly.\n\nThe 1970s were less successful for Herman and the musical Mack and Mabel closed quickly - although its songs, including I Won't Send Roses, later became standards.\n\nIn 1983, he premiered La Cage aux Folles, a musical version of a French comedy about a gay couple. It became his third hit and Gloria Gaynor's cover of its big number, I Am What I Am, became an 80s disco classic.\n\nIt took the Tony award for best musical and was to be Herman's last big smash, as he devoted more time to his off-stage career of developing property.\n\nHowever, he was to fall under the spotlight one final time, when one of Hello, Dolly's songs, entitled It Only Takes a Moment, was used prominently in the 2008 Pixar movie Wall-E, after the director stumbled upon it by chance.\n\nHerman had been living with his partner, real estate broker Terry Marler, at the time of his death.\n\nSuch is the enduring appeal of his tunes that Hello, Dolly! is set for a West End revival next year, with Imelda Staunton in the lead role.\n\nLast month, Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood delivered his own interpretation of the show, performing in drag to a medley of Herman's songs during musicals week.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by BBC Strictly Come Dancing\n\nAnd in 1982, British ice skaters Torvill and Dean famously used the overture from his musical Mack And Mabel to soundtrack their gold medal-winning routine at the World Championships in Copenhagen.\n\nAfter the BBC was flooded with calls from people asking where they could buy the music, the original cast album was re-released and reached the top 40 - eight years after its Broadway premiere.\n\nWhen Herman heard the news, he was perplexed that the British public had suddenly fallen in love with a show that closed after 66 performances and never transferred to the West End.\n\n\"I said, 'That's got to be a mistake, because show albums in these days don't get into charts,'\" he told the Telegraph, confessing that the notorious flop had actually been his favourite piece of work.\n\n\"My musicals are my children [so] I should never say I prefer this to that,\" he explained, but \"I just have never tired of Mack and Mabel.\n\n\"I guess you kind of love the one that didn't make it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rail passengers are being warned to expect disruption as major engineering work takes place in Edinburgh.\n\nNetwork Rail is renewing four sets of points and replacing 250m of track at Haymarket East junction, to the west of the station.\n\nMany services will be affected as the junction is one Scotland's busiest, used by up to 30 trains an hour.\n\nNo trains will be able to pass through Haymarket and replacement buses will operate into Waverley from the west.\n\nNormal services are due to resume on all routes from 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe upgrade is aimed at improving the reliability of the track but requires several days of work.\n\nIt has been scheduled for the holiday period to minimise disruption, as there were no ScotRail services into Edinburgh on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.\n\nScotRail is urging customers to consider making alternative arrangements as the work continues into Friday and Saturday.\n\nMany services will terminate before reaching Edinburgh, with only limited replacement transport available. Details of affected services are available at the ScotRail website.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers would be working round the clock on track renewal\n\nLiam Sumpter, Network Rail Scotland route director, said: \"Haymarket East junction is a key part of Scotland's Railway and is used by hundreds of trains a day travelling to destinations across Scotland and England.\n\n\"We understand the inconvenience this work will cause to some passengers, but renewing such a complex piece of our railway cannot be accomplished without a short-term closure of the line.\n\n\"Our engineers have carefully planned this project to be completed as quickly as possible and we are working hard alongside our train operators to keep passengers informed of the changes to services during this important investment in the railway.\"\n\nNick King, spokesman for Network Rail, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme: \"So far work is progressing very well so we are expecting the job to be completed as planned as engineers are working around the clock.\"\n\nEfforts to improve the line in Glasgow took place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day with engineers renewing 300m of track at Shields Road.\n\nIn Lanarkshire a signalling upgrade was taking place, with control of the West Coast mainline signals transferred from Motherwell to the new £200m West of Scotland Signalling Centre in Glasgow.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colin Weir won a then record jackpot with his wife Chris in 2011\n\nColin Weir, who won one of Europe's biggest lottery jackpots, has died after a short illness aged 71.\n\nMr Weir and wife Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, claimed the £161m Euromillions prize in 2011.\n\nEarlier this year the pair confirmed that they were to divorce after 38 years of marriage.\n\nMr Weir recently completed his takeover of Scottish Championship football club Partick Thistle and had announced plans to gift ownership of the club to fans.\n\nA minute's applause was held at Saturday's Partick Thistle game to commemorate Mr Weir's death.\n\nPlayers also paid tribute by wearing black armbands during the fixture against Greenock Morton.\n\nIn 2013 the couple set up The Weir Charitable Trust and made a donation to a community football club in Largs.\n\nThey also invested in Partick Thistle Football Club which led to the youth set-up being rebranded the Thistle Weir Youth Academy and a section of their Firhill Stadium being named the Colin Weir Stand.\n\nIn November this year Mr Weir secured a majority shareholding at the club and promised to give the 55% shareholding directly to a fans group by March 2020.\n\nThe club tweeted: \"It is with deep sadness that we confirm that lifelong Jags fan Colin Weir passed away earlier today.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at Partick Thistle, our love, thoughts and prayers are with the family and close friends of Colin at this most difficult time.\"\n\nIt later added: \"To commemorate the sad passing of lifelong Jags fan, Colin Weir, there will be a minute's applause held ahead of kick-off at this afternoon's Ladbrokes Championship game against Greenock Morton.\n\n\"Thistle players will also be wearing black armbands during this afternoon's fixture.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Weir's lawyers asked for \"privacy for his family and friends at this distressing time\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Colin Weir early today after a short illness.\n\n\"No further comment will be made other than to offer sincere thanks to the staff of University Hospital Ayr for their care and compassion.\"\n\nThe couple defended making a donation of £1m to the independence campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, and continued donating to the SNP afterwards.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"incredibly sad\" to hear of the death.\n\n\"Colin's determination and generosity in the cause of Scottish independence cannot be overstated and was hugely appreciated,\" she said.\n\n\"The SNP and the independence movement has lost a true friend today and we will miss him dearly.\"\n\nRecalling the night of their win back in 2011, the couple said they stayed awake all night after discovering their good fortune at about midnight as they checked their tickets on the BBC's Red Button text service.\n\nAt the time it was one of Europe's biggest ever lottery wins after a series of rollovers boosted the jackpot.\n\nMr Weir, who previously worked as a television cameraman, is survived by his two adult children.", "A man died after the fire in the second floor flat in Parnie Street\n\nA man has died after a fire at a flat in the Trongate area of Glasgow.\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue crews were called to the blaze on the second floor of flats in Parnie Street at about 01:35.\n\nPolice Scotland said a man was removed from one of the flats and treated by ambulance staff at the scene. However he was pronounced dead.\n\nAn investigation to establish the cause of the fire is under way. Other residents were evacuated.\n\nResidents were evacuated from the block\n\nRoddie Keith from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Firefighters located and removed one man from inside the property, who was treated at the scene by our crews and ambulance staff, however sadly he was pronounced dead.\n\n\"A joint fire investigation alongside our Police Scotland colleagues is now under way.\"\n\nFire crews also tackled a separate blaze on the 22nd floor of a high rise in Kirkton Avenue in Knightswood on Friday morning.\n\nFour appliances and an aerial unit were sent to Dunvegan Court at 04:56. Three people were treated - two in hospital.\n\nFire appliances at Dunvegan Court in Knightswood where a fire broke out on the 22nd floor\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mendes (left) and McQueen became CBEs in 2000 and 2011 respectively\n\nOscar-winning British film-makers Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen have both been knighted in the New Year Honours.\n\nMendes, who won the Academy Award for best director for American Beauty, has been recognised for services to drama.\n\nThe director of two Bond films said he was \"amazed, delighted and extremely proud\" to receive the honour.\n\nMcQueen - recognised for services to art and film - is the first black film-maker to win the best picture Oscar, for 2013's 12 Years a Slave.\n\nBefore moving into movies, both men enjoyed successful careers in other aspects of the arts.\n\nMendes, 54, built his early reputation on the stage, as artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse and for his productions of such musicals as Oliver! and Cabaret.\n\n\"I have stood on the shoulders of so many collaborators and colleagues over the last 30 years - actors, writers, designers, producers, technicians - to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude,\" he said.\n\n\"I would not be receiving this honour without them.\"\n\nMcQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999 for his film and video works - fending off competition from the likes of Tracey Emin.\n\nThe 50-year-old is currently working on a TV series set within London's West Indian community.\n\nSam Mendes with his best director Oscar trophy\n\nReading-born Mendes began his career in the theatre, directing productions for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Donmar Warehouse.\n\nHe won a Laurence Olivier award in 1995 for directing The Glass Menagerie, and another the following year for his revival of the musical Company.\n\nAmerican Beauty, his first film, saw him win best director honours at the 2000 Golden Globes and the Oscars that followed.\n\nHis other films included Jarhead, Road to Perdition and 2008's Revolutionary Road, which starred his then-wife Kate Winslet,\n\nHis other film credits include 2012's Skyfall and 2015's Spectre, the two recent instalments in the James Bond series.\n\nHis upcoming war epic, 1917, tells of two young British soldiers racing against time to avert an assault on their comrades.\n\nIn 2000 Mendes was made a CBE for services to drama.\n\nMcQueen with the Oscar he received for producing 12 Years a Slave\n\nMcQueen's early work includes Deadpan, a black-and-white 1997 short in which he recreated a stunt from Buster Keaton's silent film Steamboat Bill, Jr.\n\nHe subsequently went to Basra as an official war artist and produced Queen and Country, a 2007 work that marked the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps.\n\nHunger, McQueen's first feature film, told the story of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.\n\nHe went on to work again with its star Michael Fassbender on 2011's Shame and 12 Years a Slave, an intense and graphic adaptation of an 1850s slave memoir.\n\nHis most recent feature, 2018's Widows, relocated Lynda La Plante's 1980s TV series about female criminals to contemporary Chicago.\n\nLast month McQueen's exhibition of photographs of more than 75,000 Year 3 London school children was unveiled at Tate Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 75,000 children from London schools were photographed\n\nThe project, inspired by McQueen looking at his own 1977 class photo, was intended to serve as a visual snapshot of people in his home city.\n\nMcQueen received a CBE in 2011 for services to the visual arts.\n\nJoining McQueen and Mendes as a newly-named knight of the realm is the playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton.\n\nThe 73-year-old is best known for his 1985 play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which he helped adapt into the Oscar-winning 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.\n\nBritish classical music presenter Humphrey Burton also becomes a knight for his services to classical music, the arts and media.\n\nDamehoods are given to Baroness Floella Benjamin, novelist Rose Tremain and Grease star Olivia Newton-John.\n\nSir Elton John, meanwhile, is made a Companion of Honour for services to music and charity.\n\nThe pop veteran joins fellow musician Sir Paul McCartney in the elite order, which has a maximum 65 members at any one time.\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, EastEnders actor Rudolph Walker and Butterflies actress Wendy Craig all become CBEs.\n\nSo does trailblazing DJ Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1.\n\nAinsley Harriott and Nadiya Hussain are now MBEs\n\nQueen drummer Roger Taylor and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol - whose track Chasing Cars was recently named the most listened-to song of the 21st Century on UK radio - now have OBE after their names. The Northern Irish singer-songwriter, who has campaigned to raise awareness of dementia lost his father Jack to the condition over Christmas.\n\nWine expert Oz Clarke, playwright James Graham, food writer Nigel Slater, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and broadcaster June Sarpong - the BBC's new director of creative diversity - are all OBEs now too.\n\nChef Ainsley Harriott, Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain and children's TV favourite Derek Griffiths become MBEs, as do British-Trinidadian pop singer Billy Ocean and Mike Pender of Merseybeat band The Searchers.\n\nSo do fashionista Gok Wan, BBC Sport's Gabby Logan and Hamilton star Giles Terera, who recently made headlines after accusing a London blues bar of racial profiling - claims the bar denied.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The retiring president of the Supreme Court says legal aid cuts in England and Wales have caused \"serious difficulty\" to the justice system.\n\nBaroness Hale, who was guest editing BBC Radio 4's Today, said it was a particular problem in family courts.\n\nIn 2013, legal aid was removed from many civil law cases to achieve a saving of £350 million a year.\n\nThe government said it was piloting early legal advice in some welfare cases, plus extra financial support.\n\nBaroness Hale of Richmond, who retires next month, is the first female president of the Supreme Court, which is the final court of appeal in the UK.\n\nShe said: \"I don't think that anybody who has anything to do with the justice system of England and Wales could fail to be concerned about the problems which the reduction in resources in several directions has caused for the system as a whole.\"\n\nThe outgoing president said the problem was particularly evident in family courts.\n\nLady Hale said: \"It's unreasonable to expect a husband and wife or mother and father who are in crisis in their personal relationship to make their own arrangements without help.\"\n\nShe said in such family dispute cases \"there may be an imbalance in resources because of the lack of access\".\n\nMost people require legal help at the beginning of cases, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There was a gasp in the courtroom\" - retiring Supreme Court President Lady Hale\n\nAdditional resources would allow many disputes to be resolved at an early stage, without the need to go to court or stretch their finances, she added.\n\n\"It is that lack of initial advice and help which is a serious difficulty.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"We are improving early legal support to reduce the number of people going to court unnecessarily and prevent undue stress and costs.\n\n\"We are piloting early legal advice in certain welfare cases, have committed £5 million for a Legal Support Innovation Fund to identify and resolve legal problems, and will soon launch an awareness campaign to improve understanding of entitlements.\n\n\"This is on top of £1.7 billion we spent on legal aid last year and ongoing work to improve the Exceptional Case Funding scheme and legal aid means testing.\"\n\nThe BBC found last year that about a million fewer claims for legal aid are being processed each year, with \"deserts\" of provision across England and Wales.\n\nLady Hale turns 75 years old next month, which is the mandatory retirement age for judges appointed before 1995.\n\nShe made headlines in September when she delivered the Supreme Court's ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nLegal aid is the money provided by the government to cover legal costs for those who cannot afford them.\n\nCuts to legal aid came into effect on 1 April, 2013 as part of the government's plan to save £350 million a year.\n\nThe changes meant that some types of cases, such as divorce, welfare benefits, child contact, housing law and employment were no longer eligible for public funds.\n\nSuch cuts have proved controversial, with the Criminal Bar Association, which represents criminal lawyers in England and Wales, advising its members last year to strike.\n\nAngela Rafferty QC, chair of the CBA, said that underfunding meant the poor and vulnerable were \"being denied access to justice\".", "One of the Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia, as seen from space\n\nThe UK has been accused of committing \"crimes against humanity\" for refusing to allow people to return to their former homes on the Chagos Islands, despite a ruling earlier this year by the United Nation's highest court.\n\nDescribing Britain's behaviour as stubborn and shameful, the prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, told the BBC that he was exploring the possibility of bringing charges of crimes against humanity against individual British officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n\n\"It is a violation of the basic principle of human rights. I fail to understand why Britain, this government, is being so stubborn,\" said Mr Jugnauth.\n\nElderly Chagossians, living in Mauritius, have echoed that criticism and accused Britain of deliberately dragging its heels on the issue in the hope that the community will simply die out.\n\nEarlier this year, Mauritius won a major victory against Britain when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled - in an advisory opinion - that the Chagos Islands should be handed over to Mauritius in order to complete its \"decolonisation.\"\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly then voted to give Britain a six-month deadline to begin that process. Britain has steadfastly refused to comply.\n\nIt is half a century since Britain took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the entire population of more than 1,000 people in order to make way for an American military base - part of a secret deal negotiated behind Mauritius's back as it was seeking to secure independence from the UK.\n\n\"Britain has been professing, for years, respect for the rule of law, respect for international law… but it is a pity the UK does not act fairly and reasonably and in accordance with international law on the issue of the Chagos archipelago,\" said Mr Jugnauth.\n\nPhilippe Sands, a lawyer representing the Mauritian government, said: \"Britain is on the edge of finding itself as a pariah state.\n\n\"We now have a situation where Chagossians - a deported population, want to go back and have a right to go back. And the UK is preventing them from going back.\n\n\"Question - is that a crime against humanity? My response is that, arguably, it is.\"\n\nBritain continues to insist that the ICJ ruling is wrong. But it has apologised for its past treatment of the Chagossians and promised to hand the islands over to Mauritius when they are no longer needed for security purposes.\n\nIn a statement, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) told the BBC: \"The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help protect people in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats and piracy.\n\n\"We stand by our commitment to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it's no longer required for defence purposes.\"\n\nThe FCO said Britain had pledged more than £40m to improve the livelihoods of Chagossians living in Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK.\n\nThe UK has also begun to take small groups of Chagossians back to the archipelago for brief \"heritage\" visits.\n\nBut in Mauritius, those tours have been condemned as a crude attempt to \"divide and rule\" the Chagos community.\n\n\"I boycott those trips. The British are trying to buy our silence. That's why we say our dignity is not for sale,\" said Olivier Bancoult, who heads the Chagos Refugees Group.\n\nThe inscription on the gravestone of a Chagossian in Port Louis reads: \"Diego my land. I would have loved to have finished my life there.\"\n\nIn a graveyard in the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, the graves of several Chagossians are marked with headstones mourning their failure to return to the islands.\n\n\"I fear my wish will not come true before I die - to see my motherland again,\" reads the script beside the grave of Mr Bancoult's mother, Marie Rita Elysee Bancoult.\n\n\"Every day, one by one, we're dying. I believe the British are waiting for us to die so there will be no one to claim the islands,\" said Liseby Elyse, 66, who was 20 when she left the archipelago.\n\n\"We're like birds flying over the ocean, and we have nowhere to land. We must keep flying until we die,\" said 81-year-old Samynaden Rosemond.", "A heatwave forecast to sweep across Australia in coming days could escalate conditions for the nation's bushfires, authorities fear.\n\nTemperatures are set to hit over 40C (104F) from Friday in several bushfire-affected states including New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.\n\nThere are more than 100 fires burning, with the largest to the west of Sydney.\n\nFirefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures over Christmas to try and and contain fire fronts.\n\n\"[It] is all about shoring up protection before we see the conditions deteriorate again,\" said New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons on Friday.\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 NSW RFS 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 surge of heat is due to return just a week after Australia recorded its two hottest days on record, consecutively. On 19 December, the national average maximum hit an all-time high of 41.9C (107.4F).\n\nFire officials said they were bracing for similar dryness, low humidity and volatile winds. Last week, dozens of homes were lost in rural towns south-west of Sydney from a flare-up in the blazes.\n\n\"We're not expecting the catastrophic conditions like we've seen in the last few weeks... but it's certainly going to be another tough period,\" said Mr Fitzsimmons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil visited the village of Balmoral which was razed by the fires\n\nHolidaymakers have been warned to check the status of major highways before setting out, after some roads were cut off last week due to bushfires.\n\nMassive blazes to the south-west of Sydney could also pose a threat to the city's drinking water supplies, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nAustralia has been ravaged by bushfires which have killed nine people and razed hundreds of homes since September.\n\nAs the fires rage on, Australia's government has been criticised for its response to the crisis and its reluctance to acknowledge the impact of climate change.\n\nProtesters in New South Wales called for greater action on climate change\n\nPublic debate in the past week has centred on compensation for volunteer firefighters, who make up almost 90% of the responders battling the blazes in New South Wales. Last week, two volunteer firefighters died while en route to a blaze near Sydney.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has consistently rebuffed suggestions of payments to volunteers. Instead, on Tuesday, he announced an extended paid leave entitlement for public servants who went to fight the fires.\n\nHowever government minister Darren Chester broke ranks on Thursday, suggesting payments or a tax was necessary in the long term.\n\n\"Once you move to campaign fires - fires that go weeks and months - we have volunteers taking a long time away from work,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"How much pressure can we keep putting on them?\"", "The victim died outside a property in Woodcroft Road, Thornton Heath\n\nA second man has been arrested over the killing of a 60-year-old man who was stabbed in a street in south London.\n\nThe victim was found injured in Woodcroft Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon, at 21:30 GMT on Monday and died minutes later.\n\nA 41-year-old was arrested on Boxing Day on suspicion of murder.\n\nA 50-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on Monday remains in a stable condition in hospital after he became unwell, police said.\n\nDetectives have asked for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A CCTV image shows Anthony Knott in Market Street walking back towards the pub\n\nAn image of the last known sighting of missing firefighter Anthony Knott has been released by police.\n\nThe 33-year-old was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, during a work night out on Friday 20 December.\n\nHe had been with a group of friends at The Lamb pub in Fisher Street, but for unknown reasons he left the premises alone at about 19:16 GMT.\n\nThe image shows him walking up Market Street - towards the pub - at 19:41, 20 minutes after his phone was turned off.\n\nSpecialist teams have carried out extensive searches of the area surrounding the pub and the open-air Pells Pool area, which has been severely affected by flood water over the past few days.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Godley said: \"We have reviewed CCTV footage from a number of premises such as homes and businesses, and we are continuing to retrieve and review further footage as we attempt to find out what happened to Anthony.\n\n\"Our searches have included local officers, drones and the dog unit, and we have also been assisted by London Fire Brigade, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, the National Police Air Service helicopter, Sussex Search and Rescue and the Coastguard agency in our quest to locate Anthony.\"\n\nThe firefighter was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nShe said: \"The area we have searched includes Pells Pool and Pellbrook Cut, as well as bins, street furniture, alleyways and dark areas.\n\n\"In addition to the local area, we have also extended our search of the River Ouse north towards Hamsey.\"\n\nCh Insp Godley added that a further search of the Pells Pool area and the river would be carried out over the weekend as the natural water level falls.\n\n\"We will continue to search for Anthony until we get the answers his family are so desperately seeking. Seven days on, our priority remains to find him,\" she said.\n\nPolice have said they are \"growing increasingly concerned\" for Mr Knott's welfare.\n\nThere have been no signs that the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home to Orpington in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeved top, dark denim coat, dark jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bushfires, which continue to rage in Australia, are having a negative impact on the country's tourism industry, business owners have reported.\n\nIn areas such as the Blue Mountains, people in the area say thick smoke is putting off visitors.\n\nAuthorities fear a heatwave forecast in the coming days could escalate the dangerous conditions.", "A man who was shot dead on Christmas Eve in front of his family may have had criminal links in Sweden, police have said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in Wandsworth, south-west London, at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nThe Met Police said it thought the 36-year-old was the victim of a targeted attack.\n\nNo arrests have been made, the force added.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots and a woman screaming for help.\n\n\"Flamur's family, his wife and very young child, bore witness to this horrific attack and are coming to terms with having their world turned upside down,\" Det Insp Jamie Stevenson, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said.\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\"\n\nHe added Mr Beqiri was of Albanian heritage and had been living in London for four or five years.\n\n\"Work is ongoing to determine what the possible motive could be, and while we retain an open mind, we are considering that this is a targeted attack,\" he continued.\n\n\"We believe Flamur may possibly have been involved in some criminality in Sweden, and are in liaison with our Swedish counterparts to try to understand what, if any, incidents there may have been that might have led to someone seeking retribution against Flamur in the UK.\"\n\nHe said he would not comment further, adding the investigation was \"in the very early days\".\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe lone assailant is believed to have fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nPolice are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThere have been more than 145 homicides in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 74-year-old woman died at a house in Gwynedd on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services were called to Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, just after 20:00 GMT following reports she had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 75-year-old man had been arrested and was being held for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly tragic and very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales and I wish to reassure the public that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.\"\n\nHe added that a major incident room had been set up at Caernarfon police station and that the coroner had been informed.\n\nFamily liaison officers are supporting relatives of the victim.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nWolves fought back from two goals down to beat 10-man Manchester City in a memorable and controversial Premier League encounter at Molineux.\n\nCity looked as though they would make light of the 12th-minute red card shown to goalkeeper Ederson for a foul on Diogo Jota when Raheem Sterling scored twice.\n\nThe first came after two dramatic interventions by the video assistant referee, one to award City a penalty, then to rule a retake, both of which Rui Patricio saved before Sterling tapped the rebound from the second kick into an empty net.\n\nBut Wolves, roared on by a passionate crowd, levelled through Adama Traore and Raul Jimenez before Matt Doherty won it with a shot from the edge of the area in the final minute.\n\nThe result leaves City in third place, 14 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand.\n\nThere were jubilant scenes among the home fans at the final whistle - but the match was overshadowed by an incident which saw objects thrown from the stands as City celebrated their opener.\n\nIt seems certain that will lead to further action, as a public announcement needed to be made warning supporters that charges would be brought against anyone caught on CCTV committing an offence.\n• None Title race is over, says Guardiola\n\nWhen Sterling scored the opener, Manchester City manager Guardiola did not look entirely satisfied that the winger had taken both spot-kicks.\n\nThere was no complaint about the England international's second goal of the night, though, as he raced on to Kevin de Bruyne's superb through ball and chipped brilliantly past an advancing Rui Patricio.\n\nIt was the first time Sterling had scored two in a league game since the opening day of the season - and City seemed certain to become only the sixth team in Premier League history to win after having a man sent off in the opening 12 minutes.\n\nInstead, it provided the backdrop to a Wolves comeback that will live long in the memory.\n\nGuardiola had brought on Eric Garcia and changed to a three-man defence at the break. It was supposed to repel the twin threat posed by Jimenez's power and Traore's pace. But that defence was breached five minutes after Sterling's second when Traore drove a shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nIt was the Spaniard's third goal of the season against City - only Eden Hazard and Jamie Vardy had previously scored that many against a Guardiola team in a Premier League season.\n\nMore was to come. A dreadful loss of possession inside his own area by Benjamin Mendy allowed Traore to cross low for Jimenez, who converted from close range.\n\nRoared on by a partisan crowd and with tensions on the touchline heightening, Wolves won it - with Doherty providing the climax by drilling home from the edge of the area. He raced away to be greeted by ecstatic team-mates as Nuno Espirito Santo and his coaching staff leapt for joy on the touchline.\n\nBoth sides must play again within 48 hours of the final whistle at Molineux - a result of the congested festive fixture programme that has brought complaints from both Nuno and Guardiola.\n\nAn early night for Ederson and Aguero\n\nIn his pre-match media conference, Guardiola said replacing Sergio Aguero would be one of his hardest tasks as manager.\n\nThe City boss was referring to the possibility of the striker's exit at the end of his contract in 2021. Little did he know then that he would be replacing Aguero against Wolves after just 12 minutes.\n\nJust back from a thigh injury, the Argentine was only playing at Molineux because Gabriel Jesus had been ruled out through illness.\n\nBut when Ederson raced out of his penalty area and clumsily brought Jota down, Aguero was the man substituted to allow second-choice keeper Claudio Bravo to come on.\n\nAguero looked less than impressed, although he got himself off the pitch far quicker than Ederson.\n\nThe Brazilian keeper pleaded his case to referee Martin Atkinson, waited for VAR confirmation that the decision was correct, and then hung around some more before eventually heading down the tunnel.\n\nVAR in the middle of more drama\n\nIf the VAR intervention for Ederson's dismissal was fairly straightforward, what happened around City's opening goal lit the fuse for furious reactions on the pitch and disgraceful scenes off it that led to the public address announcement warning supporters about their behaviour.\n\nThe trigger was a tackle on City winger Riyad Mahrez by Wolves defender Leander Dendoncker, which Atkinson ignored as he awarded a goal-kick. VAR had other ideas and decided contact between the pair merited a City penalty.\n\nSterling took it, Rui Patricio saved to his right and the ball was cleared behind for a corner.\n\nBut VAR wasn't done. Replays showed Wolves skipper Conor Coady had encroached into the penalty area before making the clearance, so a retake was awarded.\n\nOn the touchline, Guardiola appeared to be screaming for someone else to take it. The message did not get through. Again Sterling went to Patricio's right. Again the Wolves keeper saved. But this time the rebound rolled straight back to the City man, who tapped home.\n\nIn front of the home dug-out, Wolves assistant boss Rui Silva was furious, ripping off his gloves in a rage before shouting at fourth official Andre Marriner.\n\nThe City players celebrated in front of the Jack Hayward Stand. As they did so, missiles were thrown at them, one of which was handed to Atkinson, who in turn, brought it to the touchline for Marriner to pass to Wolves security staff.\n\nIt was after that the public announcement came, although this just fuelled anti-VAR sentiment among the Wolves fans, who made their feelings clear by chanting \"it's not football any more\".\n\nWhy Wolves can never be written off - the key stats\n• None Wolves have won more points from losing positions than any other side in the Premier League this season (14).\n• None Manchester City had just 37.8% possession versus Wolves - the lowest figure recorded by a side managed by Pep Guardiola in top-flight history.\n• None City lost a Premier League game having led by two or more goals for the first time since April 2018, when they were beaten 3-2 at home by Manchester United. Only Tottenham (eight) and West Ham (six) have lost more games in Premier League history having led by two or more goals than Manchester City (five), with two of those defeats coming under Pep Guardiola.\n• None Wolves have completed their first league double over Manchester City for the first time since 1999-2000 in the second tier, and for the first time in the top-flight since 1960-61.\n• None Adama Traore is only the third player to score three goals in a single Premier League season against Guardiola's Manchester City, following Eden Hazard and Jamie Vardy (both in 2016-17).\n• None Of all the players with more than one top-flight goal to their name, Traore is the only man ever to have scored more than half of his Premier League goals against the reigning champions. Three of his five top-flight strikes have come against the champions, a ratio of 60%.\n• None Manchester City's Raheem Sterling has scored more goals in all competitions this season than any other Premier League player (20).\n• None Wolves' Raul Jimenez has been directly involved in 26 goals in all competitions this season (17 goals, nine assists) - more than any other Premier League player.\n• None Ederson became just the second Manchester City goalkeeper to be sent off in the Premier League, after Andy Dibble against QPR in October 1994.\n• None No player has provided more assists in Europe's big five leagues this season than Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne (11).\n\nBoth sides have less than 48 hours to prepare for their next Premier League fixture in the busy Christmas period.\n\nWolves go to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 GMT), with Manchester City hosting Sheffield United on the same day (18:00 GMT).\n• None Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Manchester City 2. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raúl Jiménez.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Moutinho.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Manchester City 2. Raúl Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adama Traoré. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Didzis Pirags has bought a house but wants the National Lottery win to \"soak in\" before making further purchases\n\nA pub chef who worked on Christmas Day despite winning £1m on a scratchcard four days earlier has said he felt he needed to finish his shifts.\n\nLatvian national Didzis Pirags, 36, won the cash while playing online during his lunch break at the Phantom Winger pub in Broughton, Preston, on Saturday.\n\nHe had been working 60 hours a week at the pub but said he now wanted to spend more time with his son.\n\nHe said the win was \"the best dream come true ever at Christmas time\".\n\nThe 36-year-old was in his flat at the pub when he won the money online\n\nMr Pirags, who moved to the UK nine years ago, said he had been spending his lunch break with his son, who lives with him in a flat above the pub, when he started playing an online National Lottery game.\n\n\"The first thing I scratched off said £1m - the nanny was there and I said 'could you look at it please, I can't believe it, is that £1m?',\" he said.\n\n\"I literally ran downstairs and said to my boss 'look, look it's £1m, isn't it?'\n\n\"She said 'yeah, it is £1m' and I rang the number and they confirmed it.\"\n\nHe said he had decided to work over Christmas, despite the win, adding: \"I still need to finish my shifts.\"\n\nHe has since bought a four-bedroom house with his winnings and treated his son to some headphones as an extra Christmas present, but said he wanted to let the win \"soak in\" before spending more.\n\n\"All I want is to be able to provide the best possible life for my son and this win will enable me to do exactly this,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Treasury is reportedly planning to rewrite rules governing public spending in a move that may benefit areas in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nThe changes, reported by the Times, would make it easier for cash to be allocated to projects outside of London and the South East.\n\nIt could help boost investment in infrastructure, business development projects and schemes like free ports.\n\nThe Treasury has not denied the reports.\n\nCurrent rules require government to allocate cash to projects that promise the biggest economic benefits.\n\nThose projects tend to have most impact in areas with more people and businesses.\n\nBut under the new plans, reported on Friday, investment decisions would be made with a focus on reducing inequality between northern and southern England, rather than promoting overall economic growth across the country.\n\nIt will affect decisions made about projects ranging from rail improvements to investment in scientific research.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's electoral wins in northern England, the pressure is on to deliver on promises to spend more money improving road and rail links, and increase productivity beyond the South East.\n\nSources at the Treasury suggest there will some big changes at the next budget this spring.\n\nAt the moment, projects are given the go-ahead based on how much money they would add per person, which favours heavily populated areas, and tends to attract more funding to London.\n\nNew rules would allow money to be spent on different criteria - improving wellbeing and productivity imbalances across the country. That includes transport schemes and scientific research and development.\n\n\"A big project in the North will often be stimulating growth, which wouldn't otherwise happen,\" said Henri Murison from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, which speaks for business and civic leaders across northern England.\n\nBut, in the South, that investment will help a regional economy that is already expected to grow significantly, he told the BBC.\n\n\"If the UK is going to succeed post-Brexit, we need to get comparable levels of growth in the North and in the Midlands,\" he said.\n\nBut Tom Forth from the Open Data Institute Leeds said the rules on value for money were not to blame for regional spending disparities.\n\n\"For as long as we have records, far more UK government money has been invested in public transport in south-east England than in the cities of north England and the Midlands,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no evidence that this was because investing in London offered better value for money.\n\n\"The rules say the Treasury should invest with preference to schemes with higher value for money.\n\n\"But there is no evidence that it has done that.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We work across government to ensure investment is focused on where it is needed across the UK and delivers value for money for the taxpayer.\"\n\nAfter his election victory, Boris Johnson thanked voters in northern England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" and placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson said.\n• None PM thanks northern voters for 'trust' in Tories", "Former residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree\n\nA Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby \"ghost town\" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports.\n\nOnce home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km (1.9 miles) from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.\n\nFormer residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.\n\nSome of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a \"symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nKateryna Aslamova from the Chernobyl Tour company said it was the first time some former residents had returned to Pripyat since their evacuation after the world's worst nuclear accident.\n\nClock decorations were hung up to symbolise the passing of time\n\n\"The town must live, and for this to happen it must be saved,\" she said.\n\nHer company would like to see Pripyat and parts of the exclusion zone around the plant become a Unesco World Heritage site.\n\n\"Life is returning to Pripyat,\" said Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, founder of the Chernobyl Hub.\n\n\"It is unusual, irregular and touristic. Every day, the once deserted town is filled with tourists from all over the world. They come to learn our history, which changed the course of events in the whole world.\"\n\nUse #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.", "A huge country the size of Western Europe, Kazakhstan has vast mineral resources and enormous economic potential.\n\nThe varied landscape stretches from the mountainous, heavily populated regions of the east to the sparsely populated, energy-rich lowlands in the west, and from the industrialised north, with its Siberian climate and terrain, through the arid, empty steppes of the centre, to the fertile south.\n\nEthnically the former Soviet republic is as diverse, with a large Russian minority in the north and smaller minorities in the south and east. Suppressed under Soviet rule, the main religion, Islam, is undergoing a revival.\n\nSince independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, major investment in the oil sector has brought rapid economic growth, and eased some of the stark disparities in wealth of the 1990s.\n\nMr Tokayev has been a senior official since independence\n\nA long-standing colleague of independent Kazakhstan's founder, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took over as president when his mentor suddenly stepped down in March 2019.\n\nMr Tokayev was chairman of the Senate at the time, having served earlier as prime minister and foreign minister.\n\nHe said he would continue the policies of his predecessor and rely on his opinion in key policy matters, going on to win a snap presidential election in June 2019 to consolidate his position.\n\nHowever, President Tokayev then used a wave of public protest in January 2022 to oust Mr Nazarbayev and his supporters from their remaining positions of power.\n\nThe media market is dominated by state-owned and pro-government outlets.\n\nTV is the most popular medium. The government operates national networks.\n\nThe authorities regularly block websites and access to social media and messaging apps has been cut several times.\n\nOil money is driving the development of Astana, which became Kazakhstan's new capital in 1997\n\n1st-8th Centuries - Turkic-speaking and Mongol tribes invade and settle in what is now Kazakhstan and Central Asia.\n\n1219-24 - Mongol tribes led by Genghis Khan invade Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Later they become assimilated by Turkic tribes that make up the majority in their empire.\n\nLate 15th Century - With the formation of the Kazakh khanate, the Kazakhs emerge as a distinct ethnic group.\n\nEarly 17th Century - Kazakhs split into three tribal unions, the Elder, Middle and Lesser Zhuzes, or Hordes, which were led by Khans.\n\n1731-42 - The Khans of the three Zhuzes formally join Russia in pursuit of protection from invasions from the east by the Mongols.\n\n1822-68 - Despite many uprisings, Tsarist Russia retains control over the Kazakh tribes, deposing the Khans.\n\n1868-1916 - Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian peasants are brought in to settle Kazakh lands; first industrial enterprises set up.\n\n1916 - A major anti-Russian rebellion is repressed, with about 150,000 people killed and more than 300,000 fleeing abroad.\n\n1917 - Civil war breaks out following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.\n\n1920 - Kazakhstan becomes an autonomous republic of the USSR. Until 1925 it is called the Kyrgyz Autonomous Province to distinguish its people from the Cossacks.\n\nLate 1920s-1930s - Intensive industrialisation and forced collectivisation under Soviet rule leads to the death of more than one million people from starvation.\n\n1940s - Hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Crimean Tatars, Germans and others forcibly moved to Kazakhstan.\n\n1949 - The USSR's first nuclear test explosion is carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test ground in eastern Kazakhstan.\n\n1954-62 - About two million people, mainly Russians, move to Kazakhstan during Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's campaign to develop virgin lands.\n\n1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space and the first to orbit the earth when Vostok 1 launches from the Baikonur space launch site in central Kazakhstan.\n\n1986 - About 3,000 people take part in protests in Almaty after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appoints Gennadiy Kolbin, an ethnic Russian, as head of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, replacing Dinmukhamed Kunayev, an ethnic Kazakh.\n\n1989 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, an ethnic Kazakh, becomes head of the Kazakhstan's communist party.\n\n1991 - Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan declares itself an independent state. Nursultan Nazarbayev wins uncontested presidential elections.\n\n1997 - The Kazakh capital is moved from Almaty in the south to Akmola (formerly Tselinograd) in the north, a year later this is renamed Astana.\n\n2001 - First major pipeline for transporting oil from Caspian to world markets opens, running from huge Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan to Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.\n\nKazakhstan joins China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in launching the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).\n\n2010 - A customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan comes into force after Belarus ratifies a key customs code.\n\n2014 Russia, Kazahkstan and Belarus sign an agreement creating the Eurasian Economic Union, which aims to create a shared market and integrate economic policy across the three former Soviet countries.\n\n2019 - President Nazarbayev steps down from the presidency, but retains a powerful role as chairman of the National Security Council.\n\nA Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from Baikonur in 2022. The cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been at the centre of Soviet space missions since the 1950s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock's challenge at the PDC World Championship was ended in a third-round defeat by world number 22 Chris Dobey.\n\nSherrock, who had made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the tournament, was beaten 4-2.\n\nThe 25-year-old led 1-0 and 2-1, only for Dobey to recover and win.\n\n\"I've enjoyed myself so much,\" said Sherrock. \"Unfortunately, it wasn't my result but I can't take it away from him - he played so well.\"\n\nSherrock had the crowd behind her at Alexandra Palace and, even though she was being outscored, her clinical finishing helped her into the lead.\n\nShe hit a 180 in the first leg and took it against the darts and, after Dobey missed a 40 checkout, Sherrock finished with a 77 - hitting double top - to take the first set.\n\nDobey levelled at 1-1 but, in the first leg of the third set, missed three darts at double eight and Sherrock punished him with a 142 checkout.\n\nShe went on to take a 2-1 lead before Dobey started to find his range on the doubles and he reeled off three sets in a row.\n\nSherrock, from Milton Keynes, is the fifth woman to play at the tournament but became the first to win a match when she beat Ted Evetts in the first round.\n\nShe then knocked out world number 11 Mensur Suljovic in the next round.\n\n\"I didn't think this was ever possible,\" she said. \"Thank you to everyone. This is amazing. Hopefully I can experience it again.\n\n\"Hopefully I'll be back here next year. I've got the ladies' BDO World Championships next week so let's see where I go from there.\"\n\nPioneering tennis player Billie Jean King was among those to tweet their support after the match, saying Sherrock had \"inspired millions\" and \"her talent & grace under pressure will take her far\".\n\nCanadian Gayl King was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship in 2000, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to the latest event.\n\nDobey will play Glen Durrant, who beat Daryl Gurney 4-2, in the last 16.\n\n\"I knew what I had to do from the start,\" said Dobey. \"This girl can play and I needed to be at my best.\n\n\"[She was] absolutely astonishing today and she fully deserves all this support.\"\n\nSimon Whitlock is also through to the fourth round after a 4-1 victory over Mervyn King. Whitlock will play Gerwyn Price, who beat John Henderson 4-0.\n\nIn two fourth round matches, defending champion Michael van Gerwen thrashed Stephen Bunting 4-0, while two-time world champion Gary Anderson was knocked out following a 4-2 defeat by Nathan Aspinall.", "Newly-diagnosed cancer patients are to be offered NHS gym sessions before they start chemotherapy, in the hope of boosting the speed of their recovery.\n\nThousands will be invited to sign up for a \"prehab\" fitness programme within 48 hours of being diagnosed.\n\nThe aim is to make patients \"match fit\" ahead of chemotherapy or major surgery.\n\nExperts hope a regime of three fitness sessions a week will reduce the time patients spend in hospital by \"priming\" them for their recovery.\n\nA mix of high intensity cardio workouts and strength-based training, plus nutritional advice and mental health support, will be made available.\n\nAlthough patients would be referred for \"prehab\" within 48 hours of their diagnosis, the start date for the fitness plan may vary on a case by case basis following consultation with a doctor.\n\nMore than 500 patients are already taking part in the exercise programme in Greater Manchester, while another 2,000 are expected to participate over the next two years.\n\nSimilar services are being run in London, Leicester and Yorkshire.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said cancer treatments can take a \"toll\" on the body, despite working \"better than ever\".\n\n\"There's increasing evidence that it's really worth trying to get match fit ahead of chemo or major surgery,\" he added.\n\n\"In effect you are 'priming' your own recovery before your treatment even begins.\"\n\nPatient David Fowles entered the \"prehab\" programme earlier this year ahead of his 10.5-hour surgery.\n\nMr Fowles said: \"I was told I'd be in hospital for two, three or four weeks. Well, I was out within nine days. I couldn't believe it. All this is down to the fitness regime - it's been marvellous.\n\n\"If someone had told me in February... that I would be going to the gym, I'd have laughed at them,\" the 68-year-old retiree added.\n\nThe BBC spoke to patients at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last month who had taken part in \"prehab\" trial sessions.\n\nOne patient, 77-year-old Allen Prescott, had surgery following a bowel cancer diagnosis. His wife credits the scheme with his recovery.\n\nJune Davis, an adviser at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"While it might seem extraordinary that newly-diagnosed patients are being referred to exercise classes and personal trainers, we know that prehabilitation can support people during this difficult time to prepare both physically and mentally for treatment, reclaim a sense of control and improve their health in the long-term.", "Singer Olivia Newton-John has been made a dame in a New Year Honours list that recognises four members of England's Cricket World Cup winning squad.\n\nAll-rounder Ben Stokes, man of the match in the victory against New Zealand at Lord's in July, becomes an OBE, while team captain Eoin Morgan receives the higher CBE award.\n\nWicketkeeper Jos Buttler and batsman and England Test captain Joe Root become MBEs, and coach Trevor Bayliss an OBE.\n\nSir Elton John is also on the list.\n\nThe singing superstar, who was knighted in 1998, said he was \"humbled and honoured\" to join the elite companions of honour, an order restricted to a maximum 65 members, for services to music and charity.\n\nAnd Queen drummer Roger Taylor is made an OBE in the year his band's biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, set cinema box office records.\n\nRoger Taylor of Queen becomes an OBE\n\nThree television cookery stars appear - Nigel Slater becomes an OBE, and Nadiya Hussain and Ainsley Harriott MBEs.\n\nAnother familiar face on TV, Gabby Logan, becomes an MBE for services to sports broadcasting and promoting women's sport.\n\nFemale sporting success is also celebrated with an OBE for world taekwondo champion Jade Jones, and MBEs for netballers Serena Guthrie and Joanne Harten, and footballers Jill Scott of England and Loren Dykes of Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jill Scott: \"It feels surreal to see my name, Jill Scott MBE\".\n\nIn politics there are knighthoods for former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith and fellow Tory MP Robert Neil. Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, becomes a dame for charitable and political service.\n\nNewton-John's damehood is for services to music, cancer research and charity. The Cambridge-born star, who moved to Australia as a child, achieved global fame in the 1978 film Grease. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she became a campaigner and in 2012 set up a cancer centre near Melbourne.\n\n\"I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me,\" she said.\n\nIain Duncan Smith is knighted and Diana Johnson becomes a dame\n\nThe other damehoods include author Rose Tremain; former Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders; social justice campaigner Julia Unwin; FA director of Women's football Susan Campbell, and Floella Benjamin, the TV presenter turned Lib Dem peer, who is recognised for services to charity.\n\nEoin Morgan said: \"Winning the World Cup has been a dream come true and the honours and awards that have come since that day at Lord's really mean a lot to everyone connected with the team.\"\n\nThe knighthoods include veteran cricketer Clive Lloyd; Oscar-winning film directors Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen; classical music presenter Humphrey Burton, and playwright Christopher Hampton.\n• None 72%Given for work in the community\n\nFormer Thames Valley Police chief constable Francis Habgood is knighted and Rachel Lloyd, who heads a New York-based organisation supporting victims of sexual exploitation, becomes a dame.\n\nOverall, 1,097 people are on the list issued by the Cabinet Office, with 51% being women. The Foreign Office has announced 100 honours, and separate lists cover gallantry awards for police, ambulance and fire staff and military personnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Year Honours 2020: MBE for woman engineer from Rugby\n\nThe youngest person on the list is Ibrahim Yousaf, 13, who receives a British Empire Medal (BEM) for charity fundraising in Greater Manchester.\n\nOther sporting honours include OBEs for horse racing trainers Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls, and MBEs for ex-Northern Ireland footballer Aaron Hughes, and Rose Reilly, who played for Scotland and Italy in the 1970s.\n\nParalympic champion runner Michael McKillop, from Co Antrim, who won gold in Beijing, London and Rio is made an MBE.\n\nMBEs also go to golfer Catriona Matthew, captain of Europe's Solheim Cup winning squad; former squash world number one Laura Massaro; ex-England cricketer Alan Knott; and British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen, and Olympic heptathlete Kelly Sotherton.\n\nCatriona Matthew - pictured with the Solheim Cup - has been made an OBE\n\nFrom business, there is a damehood for Sharon White, chief executive of telecoms watchdog Ofcom. She is to become the first female chair of the John Lewis store group. Donna Langley, who chairs Hollywood film studio Universal, is also made a dame.\n\nAndrew Wylie, co-founder of software company Sage, is knighted for services to business and charity, and former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Ross McEwan becomes a CBE.\n\nThere are OBEs for fashion designer David Nieper, and Thomas and Ruth Chapman, who founded clothes retailer Matches. Television presenter Gok Wan is appointed an MBE for services to fashion and social awareness.\n\nGraphic designer Peter Saville, who began his career 40 years ago with the cover of the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures, becomes a CBE.\n\nArchitect Sadie Morgan, part of the team behind the Stirling Prize winning Hastings Pier, becomes an OBE.\n\nSnow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody is to be made an OBE for services to music and charity in Northern Ireland. His song Chasing Cars was named the most-played song of the 21st Century on UK radio.\n\nNadiya Hussain, who becomes an MBE, made a cake for the queen's 90th birthday in 2016\n\nOther CBEs include actress Wendy Craig; Steven Knight, who created TV hit Peaky Blinders, and BBC Radio 1's longest serving DJ Annie Nightingale.\n\nSinger Billy Ocean, and Mike Pender of 1960s band The Searchers become MBEs.\n\nEastEnders star Rudolph Walker becomes a CBE, in recognition of his foundation helping disadvantaged children become actors. Ex-Coronation Street actor Derek Griffiths is made an MBE for services to drama and diversity.\n\nCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is among the youngest recipients of an honour\n\nCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 20, who played at the Duke of Sussex's wedding in 2018 becomes an MBE.\n\nThe MBEs for Scotland-based film-maker Gordon Buchanan, who shot Planet Earth II, and naturalist and television presenter Steve Backshall recognise their conservation efforts. Elsewhere, Prof Duncan Wingham, from University College London, is knighted for services to climate science, and Oxford University's Prof Sarah Whatmore, becomes a dame for her environmental policy work.\n\nWine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke is made an OBE.\n\nTV presenter June Sarpong, who this year was appointed director of creative diversity at the BBC, becomes an OBE for services to broadcasting, and BBC senior news controller Sarah Ward-Lilley an MBE for services to journalism.\n\nMore than 20 teachers are on the list. Caroline Allen, ex-head of the Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust schools for students with special needs in the South East, becomes a dame. Kalwant Bhopal, professor of education and social justice at the University of Birmingham becomes an MBE for services to race equality in education.\n\nTwelve nurses and five midwives are on the list including Nicolette Peel, from Derbyshire, who has been made an MBE for supporting pregnant women affected by cancer.\n\nProf Lesley Regan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and author of a number of books on pregnancy, is made a dame for services to women's healthcare. University of Sussex Prof Alan Lehmann, becomes a CBE after his research into rare genetic conditions, and NHS England head Simon Stevens is knighted.\n\nSome 72% of recipients are being recognised for work in their community.\n\nHarry Paticas, the creator of a memorial to the 173 civilians who died at Bethnal Green Tube station in World War Two, becomes an MBE.\n\nHarry Billinge has been raising money for a memorial to his fallen D-Day comrades\n\nAnd six-months after attending the D-Day landing 75th anniversary commemorations in Normandy, veteran Harry Billinge, from Cornwall, is made an MBE for services to charity after raising more than £10,000 towards a national memorial for his fallen comrades.\n\nWilf Oldham, 99, from Greater Manchester, a veteran of the Battle of Arnhem, has been made an MBE for services to commemorations and UK-Dutch relations and is the oldest person on the list.\n\nHolocaust survivors John Hajdu and Mindu Hornick become MBEs - among 31 people on the list for Holocaust education work.\n\nDet Sgt Ashley Jones of Avon and Somerset Police, who came up with the concept of \"chat benches\" where people can have conversations to combat loneliness, becomes an MBE.\n\nAn MBE goes to Mete Coban, co-founder of the My Life My Say charity, for promoting youth engagement in democracy.\n\nThe same honour goes to a woman behind a nude calendar that raised £6m for charity and inspired a feature film and host of imitations. Angela Knowles, 74, from Linton North Yorkshire and 10 Women's Institute friends first posed for the calendar in 1999.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe much-anticipated return of Gavin and Stacey achieved the best Christmas Day TV ratings for more than a decade, early \"overnight\" figures show.\n\nThe Christmas special was watched by a \"well lush\" average of 11.6 million viewers on BBC One.\n\nWhen it went on air at 20:30 GMT, half (49.2%) of all TV viewers tuned in.\n\nThe episode, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nGavin and Stacey pulled in 11.6m viewers on Christmas Day\n\nThe next most-watched programme was the Queen's Christmas Broadcast, which was screened on BBC One, ITV and Sky and seen by 7.85 million people.\n\nIn recent years, The Queen's annual broadcast has become the most-watched TV show, based on the overnight figures which do not include viewers who watch Christmas specials on catch-up services during the rest of the festive period.\n\nThe cast was reunited after nearly ten years off our screens\n\nStrictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Michael McIntyre's Big Show - all on BBC One - rounded out this year's top five shows.\n\nCharlotte Moore, Director of BBC content, said: \"We delivered something for everyone with the seven most-popular programmes that cap off an incredible year for BBC One celebrating British talent and creativity.\"\n\nFor the last few years the headlines out of the Christmas Day viewing figures have been pretty consistent - the Queen's annual address to the nation the most watched show as Christmas Day viewing declines year-on-year.\n\nGavin and Stacey have reversed that trend to such an extent that the cast's reactions have probably been a lot more vociferous than Nessa's \"tidy\" or even Stacey's \"well lush\"!\n\nThey and the BBC will be thrilled. It's proof that while terrestrial Christmas audiences have been decreasing, they're still there in huge numbers for the right kind of show.\n\nSo much of what's been offered on recent Christmas Days has been festive editions of programmes that are already regular fixtures in the schedule.\n\nGavin and Stacey's Christmas Special felt like real event, must-see TV; the first new episode of the award-winning, much-loved comedy for nine years.\n\nAnd once catch-up viewing has been taken into account, it stands a good chance of, at almost the last gasp, overtaking the Line of Duty finale as the most watched programme of 2019.\n\nThe high viewing figures mean that there'll be a lot of expectation from audiences for more Gavin and Stacey, and (without giving away any spoilers) the door has been left enticingly open for that.\n\nAnd if the BBC can persuade co-writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, there's little doubt that BBC One would love more Gavin and Stacey, too.\n\nGavin and Stacey, written by Corden, who plays Smithy, and Jones, who has reprised the iconic role of Nessa, first aired in 2007.\n\nCorden revealed on Wednesday that he and Jones watched the special together, telling fans the show has been \"a labour of love from start to finish\".\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 initial series saw the budding romance between Essex man Gavin Shipman, played by Mathew Horne, and Welsh woman Stacey West, portrayed by Joanna Page, flourish.\n\nThere were two subsequent series and a 2008 Christmas special.\n\nIt had been a decade since audiences left Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa sitting on the seafront on Barry Island, but the Christmas special proved these four - and their famous expressions - are still a big hit.\n\nThe special also saw Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb return as Pam and Mick Shipman, as well as Melanie Walters as Gwen and Robert Wilfort as Jason.\n\nMany fans expressed their eagerness to see another series following last night's special.\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\nJones told BBC Newsbeat that \"there isn't any plan, at the moment\" for another Gavin and Stacey series, but did not rule it out in the future.\n\nIn the Christmas special, viewers only had to wait a few minutes to hear Nessa ask her infamous question \"What's occurring?\".\n\nAnd of course, it wouldn't be a Gavin and Stacey special without a reference to that infamous fishing trip.\n\nThe cast filmed in Barry, Wales, during July's heatwave\n\nThe success of Gavin and Stacey made Corden and Jones household names - even though they were not the Gavin and Stacey named in the title.\n\nSince the original series Corden's career has skyrocketed in the US, with his hugely successful gig as host of The Late, Late Show.\n\nJones told the BBC that trying to find the time to film was challenging, with Corden recording episodes of his US show back-to back to give him to time to work with Jones on the British project together in LA earlier this year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.", "Camp Casey is home to thousands of US troops\n\nTroops at a US military base in South Korea heard an emergency siren instead of a bugle tune on Thursday, sparking fears of a North Korean attack.\n\nA military spokesman blamed \"human error\" at Camp Casey, the closest US base to the border with the North.\n\nNorth Korea had warned it could send a \"Christmas gift\" to the US to force concessions over stalled nuclear talks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has refused to lift sanctions over the country's nuclear programme.\n\nSeparately, early on Friday Japan's public broadcaster NHK mistakenly reported that North Korea had fired a missile that landed in the sea off the Japanese coast.\n\nNHK showed the newsflash on its website just after midnight local time but corrected the error 20 minutes later and apologised, saying the newsflash had been for \"training purposes\".\n\nThe wrongly broadcast siren reportedly \"riled up\" troops at the base and some were seen running in full uniform, according to an online post cited by the Washington Post newspaper.\n\nA video purporting to have been filmed at the time was uploaded on to a Twitter account popular with US soldiers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Moments\n\nSpokesman Lt Col Martyn Crighton said he could not verify whether the video was of Thursday's incident.\n\nTaps, a bugle call played at the end of the day on US bases, should have been played over the announcement system instead, he said.\n\nSoldiers were quickly notified of the mistake, Lt Col Crighton said.\n\nThe strategically important base is near the South Korean town of Dongducheon about 60km (40 miles) north of the South Korean capital Seoul. It covers more than 10 sq km and is home to several thousand US troops.\n\nEarlier in December, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song hinted that Pyongyang could resume long-range missile tests if Washington refused to change its negotiating position.\n\nIt was \"entirely up to the US what Christmas gift it will select\", he said at the time.\n\nThe US special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun has dismissed Pyongyang's deadline but said Washington was ready to resume talks at any time.\n\nNorth Korea has also carried out tests at a satellite launch site to boost its nuclear deterrent, according to state media reports.\n\nLast month, Japan condemned Pyongyang for \"repeated launches of ballistic missiles\" after two projectiles were fired.\n\nThe North however said it was testing a \"super-large multiple-rocket launcher\", and threatened that Japan \"may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he still hopes to reach an agreement with North Korea.\n\nThe president 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 briefly setting foot in North Korea.", "The deadline for negotiating the UK's future relationship with the EU may need to be extended, the European Commission president has said.\n\nBoris Johnson has said the post-Brexit transition period will not be extended beyond 31 December 2020.\n\nBut Ursula von der Leyen told French newspaper Les Echos both sides needed to think seriously about whether this was enough time to reach an agreement.\n\nShe said she was \"very worried\" about how little time was available.\n\n\"It would be reasonable to evaluate the situation mid-year and then, if necessary, agree on extending the transition period,\" she told the paper.\n\nLast week MPs backed Mr Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January, which included a new clause prohibiting the government from extending the transition period beyond the end of 2020.\n\nDuring this 11-month period, the UK will cease to be an EU member but its trading relationship will remain the same and it will continue to follow the EU's rules, such as accepting rulings from the European Court of Justice. It will also continue to contribute to the EU's budget.\n\nThe UK will use the time to negotiate a free trade deal as well as other aspects of its future relationship with the EU, including law enforcement, security and access to fishing waters.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms von der Leyen said the timeframe was \"extremely short\" to discuss not only trade, but also other issues.\n\nIf negotiators fail to agree a trade deal by the deadline and no extension is agreed, this would leave the UK trading on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms with the EU, with the likelihood of tariffs on imports and exports.\n\nIf other aspects of the future relationship are not ready, they too would have to proceed on no-deal terms.\n\nMs von der Leyen, a former German defence minister and long-time close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, replaced Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president earlier this month.\n\nThe Commission drafts EU laws, enforces EU rules and has the power to impose fines on member states if necessary.\n\nMeanwhile, the Times reports that the European Commission will warn Britain that access from the City of London to European markets would be jeopardised unless Britain aligns closely with European regulations.\n\nAccording to the paper, EU chiefs will threaten to block access unless both sides agree on two key issues - equivalence in financial services, meaning the UK's rules on financial regulation are deemed in effect as good as those of the EU, and adequacy, which means Britain's level of data protection is comparable to that of EU law.\n\nFailure to be granted \"data adequacy\" could inhibit vital EU data being shared with Britain for trade, security and medicine.\n\nThe Financial Times quotes a senior European official as saying the UK is at \"the end of the queue\" for a deal to allow data to continue to flow freely with the EU after Brexit.\n\nWojciech Wiewiorowski, the EU's new data protection supervisor, told the paper that assessing the UK's data adequacy would be a lengthy process which may fall down the list of priorities in negotiations.", "Tourists often pose for pictures with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, pictured here, at Walt Disney World theme parks\n\nWalt Disney World employees who work as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck have filed police complaints accusing tourists of inappropriately touching them.\n\nThree female cast members complained to police about incidents at theme parks near Orlando, Florida, this month.\n\nThe woman wearing the Mickey Mouse costume said she was injured by a grandmother who patted her on the head.\n\nThe women who play Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck allege they were groped.\n\nOrange County Sheriff's Office, which investigated all three incidents, said the women wearing the Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck suits decided not to press charges.\n\nPolice told the woman who plays Mickey Mouse the incident was a civil, not a criminal matter.\n\nThe incidents come after a 51-year-old man was arrested in November after an employee portraying a Disney Princess told investigators he groped her breast while having a photo taken.\n\n\"Everyone should feel safe at work, and we encourage cast members to come forward in any uncomfortable situation,\" a Disney spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nThe Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida\n\n\"We provide multiple resources to protect our cast members' well-being, including on-site law enforcement officers who respond, and are available to them, if needed.\"\n\nThe three most recent incidents, first reported by Orlando Sentinel, happened over two days on 3 and 4 December.\n\nThe first incident took place on 3 December, when police were called to a restaurant at the Animal Kingdom theme park.\n\nA woman in her 60s asked if she could kiss Donald Duck at a meet-and-greet, the police report said.\n\nDonald Duck consented to the kiss, but then the woman \"proceeded to touch her all over her chest\" without permission to do so.\n\nWhen the employee attempted to move away, the woman grabbed hold of her, placed her hands inside the costume and \"frantically touched her chest over her bra\".\n\nThe crew member did not press charges, telling police the woman \"appeared to be possibly suffering from dementia\".\n\nThe employee who plays Donald Duck alleges she was groped at the Animal Kingdom theme park\n\nOn 4 December the employee who portrays Mickey Mouse was approached by a family-of-three - a grandmother, her adult daughter, and her grandson - at the Magic Kingdom theme park.\n\nThe grandmother patted Mickey Mouse on the head five times in an attempt to \"show her grandson that Mickey wouldn't hurt him\", the police report said.\n\nThe woman playing Mickey House told investigators this caused her to suffer neck strain, for which she sought treatment at hospital.\n\nThe employee, who did not believe the grandmother intended to hurt her, reported the incident, but was told it was civil, not criminal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Employment lawyer Ruby Dinsmore explains how companies are increasingly concerned about litigation risks at work in the #MeToo era\n\nA second incident on the same day, also at the Magic Kingdom, involved the employee who plays Minnie Mouse.\n\nThe employee told police a male guest groped her three times on the chest after posing for photos alongside his wife in a meet-and-greet area.\n\nThe man, a 61-year-old from Minnesota, was identified from pictures taken at the theme park on the day of the incident.\n\nPolice said the employee did not press charges against the man, a Disney Vacation Club member.\n\nDisney, however, took action to ban the man, who had another \"inappropriate interaction with another cast member\" on 5 December.", "Fourteen migrants were rescued by French authorities and taken to Boulogne-sur-Mer\n\nMore than 60 migrants have been picked up while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nForty-nine people in four boats were met by Border Force and brought to England, while a further two boats were dealt with by French authorities.\n\nThe Home Office said it would try to return anyone who arrived in the UK illegally back to mainland Europe.\n\nCharity workers said the government's \"tough talk\" was \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nA search-and-rescue operation was launched in the early hours, with a coastguard helicopter, aeroplane and two Border Force vessels taking part.\n\nAn RNLI lifeboat was launched from Dover shortly before midnight on Christmas Day.\n\nFrench authorities rescued 14 migrants, some of whom were said to be suffering from hypothermia, after a dinghy got into trouble off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThey were met by border police and medics on their return to the French port.\n\nSince January, more than 120 people who arrived in small boats have been sent back to European countries, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the same period, more than 1,800 people have crossed the Channel in such vessels.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Illegal migration is a criminal activity. Those who seek to come to the UK illegally and the ruthless criminals who facilitate journeys are all breaking the law and endangering lives.\n\n\"When people arrive on our shores unlawfully, we will work to return them to mainland Europe.\"\n\nIt said patrols of French beaches had doubled, with \"drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment\" deployed.\n\nKent Refugee Action Network's Bridget Chapman, who works directly with asylum seekers arriving by boat, said the Home Office's response was \"disgraceful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"very tough talk\" did not \"take account of international law,\" citing the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which states that \"refugees should not be penalised for their illegal entry\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker.\"\n\nMs Chapman said it was an \"extremely irresponsible statement,\" which \"appears to be politically motivated and designed to whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".\n\n\"I would remind the Home Office that Jesus was a refugee,\" she added. \"Would they have turned him away?\"\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to the scene\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, which often encounters migrants before they attempt the crossing, said it was \"disappointing to see the Home Office criminalising refugees in this way\".\n\nShe added: \"Nearly all the people we work with in France have genuine asylum claims.\n\n\"The issue is that there is no safe and legal way for them to get [to England] and have their claims heard.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man shot dead on Christmas Eve was attacked in front of his family after a night out, police said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in south-west London at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots followed by a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said the killing which \"saw a man losing his life in such a horrific way\" had left his family \"devastated\".\n\nThe 36-year-old, who had a wife and young child, was pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency services.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbour Vittoria Amati, 60, said she heard between \"eight to 10\" gunshots fired.\n\n\"I then heard the screams of the wife. I came out and realised it was one of my neighbours.\n\n\"He was lying in front of his doorway in a pool of blood. He was still alive. We were really hoping he would make it.\n\n\"You have no idea how desperate she [his wife] sounded.\"\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\" in Battersea\n\nA young woman, who identified herself as a nurse, tried to help Mr Beqiri by applying pressure to his wounds, Mrs Amati added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson said: \"Our investigation is in the very early stages and we are still working to establish what the motive could be that has led to a man losing his life in such a horrific way, on Christmas Eve, in front of his family.\n\n\"They have been devastated by this horrible event and are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"We know that the victim was returning home with his wife and young child following an evening out, when he was shot just yards from his home.\"\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe officer added the assailant fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nSupt Richard Smith said: \"There is no suggestion that there is any ongoing risk to members of the local community in Battersea.\"\n\nThe death is the 135th homicide in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n• None London killings: All the victims of 2018\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England footballer Jill Scott has been made an MBE on the New Year Honours list for her contribution to the sport.", "Donald Trump makes a brief appearance in the film, in which Macaulay Culkin (centre) starred\n\nCanada's national broadcaster CBC has defended deleting a scene featuring Donald Trump from the film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.\n\nCBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said eight minutes of the 120-minute film had been trimmed to make way for adverts.\n\nHe said the edits were made in 2014, before Mr Trump was elected, and were not politically motivated.\n\nThe edited film was shown by CBC earlier this month, prompting criticism from Mr Trump's supporters.\n\nHis son Donald Trump Jr tweeted a link to a story on Thursday that called the edit 'pathetic'.\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 Trump Jr. 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\nPresident Trump reacted late on Thursday, tweeting that \"the movie will never be the same! (just kidding)\".\n\nIn a reference to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and well-documented disagreements between the two leaders on major policy issues, Mr Trump also quipped: \"I guess Justin T doesn't much like my making him pay up on Nato or trade!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump is on his best behaviour, but is everyone else?\n\nOn Christmas Eve, Mr Trump described Home Alone 2, which was released in 1992, as \"a big Christmas hit\" during a video conference call to US troops overseas, according to Deadline website.\n\n\"Well I'm in Home Alone 2,\" Mr Trump said. \"A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say - especially young kids- they say, 'I just saw you on the movie.' They don't see me on television as they do in the movie.\n\n\"But it's been a good movie and I was a little younger, to put it mildly. And it was an honour to do it.\"\n\nMr Trump has made a number of cameo appearances in films, including Zoolander and Ghosts Can't Do It.\n\nIn Home Alone 2's uncut version, he is briefly seen in a scene at New York's Plaza Hotel, when Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin asks him for directions. Mr Trump was the hotel's owner at the time.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nTributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died in the pool at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nPolice say they are checking claims the young girl got into difficulties and the other two died trying to save her.\n\nThe church where Mr Diya was a pastor said its prayers were with the family.\n\nThe Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) said in a post on Facebook: \"With heavy hearts, we extend our condolences to the family, parish, friends and associates of Area Pastor Gabriel Diya who sadly passed away, along with two of his children... in a tragic incident while on a family holiday in Spain.\n\n\"At this very difficult time, our prayers are for Pastor Gabriel Diya's family, the parishes that were under his supervision, friends, associates, members of RCCG and the general public,\" the post added.\n\nThe church said Mr Diya was also the parish pastor at Open Heavens, a Christian religious group with origins in Nigeria, based in Charlton, south-east London, and he was survived by his wife, assistant pastor Olubunmi Diya, and another daughter.\n\nA neighbour of the family told the PA news agency she was \"really devastated\" to learn of the deaths, describing the Diyas as \"very religious, very friendly, very humble\".\n\nComfort was described by the head teacher of her primary school as \"the most wonderfully kind, thoughtful, caring pupil\" who was a \"role model\" for her peers.\n\nJo Marchant said: \"Everyone at Windrush Charlton was devastated to hear about the tragic deaths of Comfort Diya, her father and brother on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nMs Marchant said Comfort would be \"greatly missed by the whole school community\" and that support would be made available to pupils and parents.\n\nSpeaking outside her home in Charlton, Lara Akins, 59, added: \"I still can't comprehend it, it's still shocking.\n\n\"They are so nice, that is why everybody is shocked... we are very friendly with each other.\"\n\nThe hotel owners described the incident as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool, which has since reopened.\n\nBecause the pool is a very small one, lifeguards were \"not necessary\" so there were none present, a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard told the BBC.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Spain, thought to be the children's mother.\n\nMr Diya and his daughter were both British passport holders while his son had an American passport.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday, the owners of Club La Costa World said the resort \"continues to co-operate fully with the authorities investigating this appalling tragedy\".\n\n\"Naturally, we will continue to offer every assistance and comply fully and transparently with any requests made by them.\n\n\"At the same time, we are doing everything possible to provide care and support to bereaved family members and to all our other guests,\" the statement added.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR [resuscitation] as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "The Duchess of Cambridge visited a maternity ward in London last month\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has commended the UK's midwives for their \"amazing work bringing new life into our world\" in an open letter to those in the profession.\n\nIn the letter, Catherine says: \"You are there for women at their most vulnerable; you witness strength, pain and unimaginable joy on a daily basis.\"\n\nIt comes after the duchess spent two days shadowing healthcare workers at a maternity unit in London in November.\n\nShe also praised the staff's kindness.\n\nIn the letter, the duchess told midwives: \"Your work often goes on behind the scenes, and away from the spotlight.\n\n\"Recently however, I was privileged enough to witness a small section of it first hand, spending several days at Kingston Hospital's maternity unit.\n\n\"Although this was not my first encounter with the care and kindness provided by midwives across the country, it gave me a broader insight into the true impact you have on everybody you help.\"\n\nThe letter was published ahead of the World Health Organization's international Year of the Nurse and Midwife in 2020, which will celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and highlight \"the challenging conditions they often face\".\n\nKensington Palace also released four pictures of her time on the maternity unit.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge took part in home visits during her time on the unit\n\nShe told the midwives: \"The help and reassurance you provide for parents-to-be and parents of newborns is just as crucial.\n\n\"It goes a long way in building parents' confidence from the start, with lifelong impact on the future happiness of their children.\n\nCatherine has advocated the improvement of early years support for children and their parents, believing it can help mitigate \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\".\n\nThe duchess has three children under the age of seven - six-year-old Prince George, four-year-old Princess Charlotte, and 20-month-old Prince Louis.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her third child, Prince Louis, in April 2018\n\nAs part of her work at her and her husband's charity, the Royal Foundation, the duchess brought together a group of academics, practitioners and charities last year to look at how to provide children with the best start in life.\n\nThe foundation's website says the steering group plans to produce \"significant new body of work\".\n\nCatherine's letter, to be posted on the Royal College of Midwives' website, goes on to say: \"The founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale - whose 200th anniversary we celebrate next year - once said, 'I attribute my success to this: I never have or took an excuse' and it is that mantra that I have seen time and time again in all of my encounters with you.\n\n\"You don't ask for praise or for recognition but instead unwaveringly continue your amazing work bringing new life into our world.\n\n\"You continue to demonstrate that despite your technical mastery and the advancement of modern medicine, it is the human to human relationships and simple acts of kindness that sometimes mean the most.\"\n\nProfessor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, England's chief midwifery officer, who helped deliver Catherine's children, said: \"Around 650,000 babies were born this year with our fantastic NHS midwives on hand to provide care to women and their families.\n\n\"It is a huge honour for the duchess to recognise the importance of our profession and, as we look ahead to 2020, her support will no doubt be a massive boost for all those working in maternity services as we celebrate the year of the nurse and the midwife.\"", "Black Friday discounts and bad weather have been blamed for a decline in Boxing Day shoppers, with retail analysts reporting a fall in the number of people heading for the sales.\n\nSpringboard, which analyses customer activity in stores, said footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011, dropping by 8.6%.\n\nIt said Boxing Day was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as 04:30 GMT.\n\nHowever, the retail data analyst, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said more people were waiting until later in the day to head to the shops in search of a bargain.\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, said: \"It is clear that consumers visited high streets more in the early evening than during the day.\"\n\nBy lunchtime on Boxing Day, footfall was 10.6% lower than last year, its biggest annual decline since 2010, when Springboard first published its data.\n\nCommenting on the disappointing morning for retailers, Ms Wehrle said many consumers were still celebrating Christmas with their family on Boxing Day, while the rainy weather, online shopping and increased Black Friday spending were also possible factors for the drop in footfall.\n\n\"Boxing Day is indisputably a less important trading day than it once was,\" Ms Wehrle said.\n\nCustomers queue outside Selfridges in London ahead of the Boxing Day sale.\n\nSome bargain-hunters did brave the rain, with some shoppers on London's Oxford Street waiting for stores to open at 9am.\n\nOthers queued outside Selfridges in Greater Manchester's Trafford Centre at 4.30am.\n\nAs the doors to Next opened in Liverpool at 06:00 GMT, more than 150 people were waiting outside the store.\n\nA total of £3.7 billion was expected to be spent in the Boxing Day sales, according to Barclaycard, with four in 10 UK adults predicted to spend an average of £186 each.\n\nBut environmental concerns were also expected to drive down buying, with shoppers also predicted to spend £200 million less in post-Christmas sales this year compared to last year.\n\nOpinium Research surveyed 2,002 UK adults online for Barclaycard between 29 November and 3 December.", "The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Amazon's bid to buy a stake in food delivery firm Deliveroo.\n\nEarlier this month, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave the two firms a week to address worries that the deal could affect competition.\n\nBut, on Friday, the regulator said Amazon had failed to deal with \"initial concerns that their investment in Deliveroo could be bad for customers, restaurants and grocers\".\n\nThe review could last up to six months.\n\nThe CMA has been looking at the £440m deal since it was announced in May.\n\nHowever, the regulator said Amazon and Deliveroo had failed to offer any undertakings to address its concerns by a December 18 deadline.\n\nThe in-depth investigation threatens to jeopardise Amazon's attempt to break into the UK food delivery space.\n\nThe CMA is worried that Amazon's plans to invest in Deliveroo could stop it from launching a rival company, which would increase competition and potentially lower prices for consumers.\n\nAnnouncing that it was considering a thorough probe into the deal, the CMA's executive director, Andrea Gomes da Silva, said: \"Millions of people in the UK use online food platforms for takeaways, and more than ever are making use of similar services for the same-day delivery of groceries.\n\n\"There are relatively few players in these markets, so we're concerned that Amazon having this kind of influence over Deliveroo could dampen the emerging competition between the two businesses.\"\n\nShe said that if the deal were to go ahead in its current form then there was a \"real risk\" that customers, restaurants and grocers would face higher prices and lower quality services.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said the deal would lead to more innovation and allow Deliveroo to remain competitive.\n\nMeanwhile, Deliveroo said: \"We are confident that we will persuade the CMA of the facts that this minority investment will add to competition, helping restaurants to grow their businesses, creating more work for riders, and increasing choice for customers.\"\n\nIt is not the first time Amazon has tried to enter the food delivery market in the UK.\n\nThe online retailer briefly ran its own delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\nIt was previously reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo regarding an interest in buying it.", "There are fears the site is too exposed to sun and wind\n\nArchaeologists in Mexico have uncovered the ruins of a large palace they believe dates back to the height of the Mayan civilisation, 1,000 years ago.\n\nRemains of a building six metres (20ft) high, 55m long and 15m wide were found at a dig on the site of the ancient city of Kulubá in Yucatán state.\n\nIt is thought the structure was used over two periods of Mayan history as far back as AD 600.\n\nThe Mayan civilisation flourished before Spain conquered the region.\n\nThe palace was possibly in use during two periods of Mayan history\n\nIn their time, the Mayans ruled large stretches of territory in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.\n\nThe palace was possibly in use during two periods of Mayan history, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said: the Late Classic (600-900 AD) and the Terminal Classic (850-1050 AD).\n\nAs well as the former palace, archaeologists are exploring four structures in Kulubá's central square: an altar, remnants of two residential buildings and a round structure thought to be an oven.\n\n\"This work is the beginning, we've barely began uncovering one of the most voluminous structures on the site,\" archaeologist Alfredo Barrera was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nBecause of concerns about damage from wind and sun to the exposed site, near the popular Caribbean resort of Cancún, conservationists are considering reforesting parts of Kulubá.\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.", "You would think that after the operation had been blown, with so many arrested and imprisoned, that the tunnellers would give up. They didn’t. They knew the Stasi had no details about their original tunnel and so they decided to try again.\n\nThis time, they would keep the details tighter and the group of diggers smaller. It was now September 1962, and the original tunnel had dried out enough to allow work to re-start. But before long, it sprang another leak.\n\nThis time, they were too far into the East for the West German water authorities to fix it. The diggers would either have to abandon the tunnel or break through into a random basement.\n\nUsing their maps, the tunnellers worked out they were now under Schönholzer Strasse, a street in the East that was so close to the wall it was patrolled by border guards.\n\nTunnelling up there would be a huge risk - it would be noisy, and what's more, any escapees would have to walk past the border guards to enter the cellar.\n\nIt was hard to imagine how it could work, but these diggers had proved they were brave and they were determined to give it another go.\n\nTunnel 29, after the leak had dried out. Tunnel 29, after the leak had dried out.\n\nThe date was set for 14 September. Some students volunteered to go into the East and tell the escapees the new plan. But like last time, they would need a messenger to cross the border on the escape day itself and give signals, so that the East Berliners would know when to go to the tunnel.\n\nUnsurprisingly, after what happened to Wolfdieter, no-one was keen to step forward. But then one of the tunnellers, Mimmo, had an idea - what about his 21-year-old girlfriend, Ellen Schau? Like Wolfdieter, she had a West German passport so she could go in and out of the East, and as a woman, perhaps she would arouse less suspicion? Ellen agreed to do it.\n\nThe escapees had been told to go to three different pubs and wait. Once the tunnellers had broken through into the cellar, Ellen was to go to each of these pubs and give a secret signal.\n\nEllen was filmed as she boarded a train into the East. Wearing a dress, headscarf and sunglasses, she looks like a 60s movie star. You see her check her watch. It’s midday. She turns towards the station and runs up the stairs.\n\nA road block at the border to East-Berlin A road block at the border to East-Berlin\n\nMeanwhile, Joachim and Hasso began hacking into the cellar of an apartment on Schönholzer Strasse. Joachim eventually climbed up into the cellar and unlocked the door to the apartment lobby using a set of skeleton keys.\n\nHe needed the number of the apartment they'd dug into. First, he went into the hall. No number there. And he realised the only way to find out was to go outside into the street - the street that was patrolled by border guards.\n\nHe opened the front door to the building and saw a group of guards sitting in a hut. They were distracted, so he slipped out into the street. “There was a big number seven just above the door,” he says.\n\nThey used their trusty WW2 telephone to get a message to the rest of the team, who were in a West Berlin flat overlooking the wall. A white sheet was draped from the window - Ellen’s signal that the escape was on. From the East, Ellen saw the sheet and went to the first pub to start giving the signals.\n\n“It was really loud,” Ellen remembers. “And when I walked in, the men all turned round and looked at me. The signal was for me to buy a box of matches. So I walked up to the bar, and that’s when I noticed these people staring at me.”\n\nIt was a family, sitting at a table. The mother was wearing a dress and high heels, holding her toddler on her lap. Ellen ordered the matches and left. In the next pub she ordered some water - that was the next signal.\n\nWhen she arrived at the final pub, things didn't go quite to plan. The signal there was for her to order a coffee, but the waiter said they had run out. “It was a terrible moment,” she says. “How could I give the signal if the pub didn’t have any coffee?”\n\nInstead, she started complaining loudly about the coffee, and ordered a cognac. She drank it, turned around, saw two families waiting and hoped they understood the signal. She left the pub. Her job was done.\n\nAs she made her way back to West Berlin, small groups of people started walking towards Shonholzer Strasse. They were doing their best not to stand out, just a few at a time.\n\nJoachim and Hasso were waiting in the cellar, guns in their hands. Just after 18:00, they heard footsteps. “We stood there, hardly breathing, gripping our guns tightly,” says Joachim.\n\nThe door opened. The mother from the first pub, Eveline Schmidt, stood there, with her husband and two-year-old daughter. They were helped down into the tunnel. “It was dark,” says Eveline. “There was just one lamp by the entrance. One of the tunnellers took my baby and then I started crawling.”\n\nEveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel Eveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel\n\nAt the other end, in the West, the two-man NBC film crew were standing at the top of the tunnel shaft. In the footage of this moment, for a long time nothing happens, and then suddenly a white handbag appears. Then there’s a hand, and then, finally, Eveline.\n\nShe’s covered in mud, her tights are torn and her feet are bare. She’s lost her shoes somewhere in the tunnel. It’s taken her 12 minutes to crawl through it. She looks up towards the camera, blinking into the light. And then she starts climbing the ladder up into the cellar. Just as she reaches the top, she collapses.\n\nOne of the NBC cameramen catches her and helps her to a bench. She sits there, shaking, and then one of the tunnellers brings her baby to her. She bundles her into her arms, nuzzling the nape of her neck.\n\nOver the next hour, more people came. There was Hasso’s sister, Anita, and others - eight-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 80-year-olds. By 23:00, almost everyone on their list had made it through.\n\nThe tunnel was filling with water, but one digger was still waiting. His name was Claus, and he was hoping his wife, Inge, might come.\n\nInge had been sent to a communist prison camp after she was caught trying to escape with him. She’d been pregnant at the time and he hadn’t seen her since.\n\nIn the NBC footage, the camera is focused on the tunnel. Suddenly, a woman emerges. Claus pulls her towards him, but she carries on going - she doesn’t recognise her husband in the dark. He looks up after her, then hears another noise coming from the tunnel.\n\nIt’s a baby, dressed in white, carried by one of the tunnellers. He’s tiny - only five months old. Claus bends down and gently takes the child, delivering it from the tunnel. It’s a boy, his son, born in a communist prison.\n\nBack at the other end, in the East, Joachim was still in the cellar. Twenty-nine people have made it through. With the water up to his knees, he knew it was time to go. “So many things went through my head,” he says.\n\n“All the things we’d gone through digging it. The leaks, the electric shocks, all the mud, so much mud, the blisters on our hands. Seeing all those refugees come through, I felt the most incredible happiness.”\n\nWolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966 Wolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966\n\nA few months later, NBC broadcast the film, despite an attempt by President Kennedy’s White House to block it, fearing a diplomatic incident with the Soviet Union.\n\nIt was described as without parallel in the history of television. The tunnellers heard that President Kennedy himself watched it and that he had been moved to tears.", "George Michael's sister, Melanie Panayiotou, has died aged 59, exactly three years after her brother.\n\nThe family confirmed in a statement that Melanie \"passed away suddenly\" over Christmas.\n\nHer brother, pop icon George Michael, died on Christmas Day 2016 at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.\n\nAndrew Ridgeley, George's former Wham! bandmate, described Melanie's death as \"utterly tragic\" and said his thoughts were with her family.\n\nMelanie and George - whose mother Lesley died in 1997 - are survived by their father Kyriacos, known as Jack, and their oldest sister Yioda.\n\nIn a statement, released through lawyer John Reid, Melanie's family said: \"We would simply ask that the family's privacy be respected at this very sad time.\n\n\"There will be no further comment.\"\n\nGeorge Michael had hits with Wham! and as a solo artist\n\nThe Metropolitan Police also confirmed the death in a statement, which read: \"Police were called by London Ambulance Service at approximately 1935hrs on Wednesday, 25 December to reports of the sudden death of a woman, aged in her 50s.\n\n\"The death is not being treated as suspicious by police.\"\n\nHer age was initially reported as 55, but the family's lawyer confirmed she was 59 at the time of her death.\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 Ridgeley 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 last month's edition of The Big Issue, Melanie spoke about her hopes for the recently-released romantic comedy Last Christmas, which was inspired by George's music.\n\n\"My family and I hope you all enjoy the film, and Yog's [George's] music old and new, woven beautifully into this fun, easy tale of love and self-love,\" she said.\n\n\"As many of you know, Yog adored Christmas and he loved the idea of this film. I am sure he will be enjoying seeing Emilia [Clark]'s amazing light bulb smile, something they share, across the celestial miles!\"\n\nIn 1985, Melanie gave an interview to No.1 Magazine, in which she described what her brother was like growing up.\n\n\"I don't think you could say that he was your regular sort of boy,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean, from what I remember, he was never interested in the kind of things the rest of the fellas were, like football and cars and things like that. He wasn't an introvert and I wouldn't say he was shy like some people have made out. He definitely knew what he wanted to do at an early age!\"\n\nMelanie added that she and her brother were very similar. \"We can be quite honest with each other and we share the same sense of humour,\" she said, revealing that fans would pester her for locks of George's hair.\n\nBut \"it goes in the bin like everyone else's,\" she noted.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Warm and wet weather in 2019 saw the biggest influx of painted lady butterflies in a decade in the UK\n\nIt's been a good year for migrant butterflies, moths and dragonflies in the UK, according to a review of 2019 by the National Trust.\n\nThe charity says warm and wet weather saw the biggest influx of painted lady butterflies in a decade.\n\nBut the impacts of drought and wildfires in some parts mean it's not been a good year for natterjack toads and water voles.\n\nThe fires saw the habitats of mountain hares impacted as well.\n\nThe changeable nature of the weather in 2019 meant there were mixed outcomes for species around the country. The warm spells in the earlier part of the year saw lots of moths, butterflies and dragonflies from Europe arrive en masse.\n\nChief among them was the painted lady butterfly. This orange and black spotted species is commonly seen in the UK but the last mass arrival was in 2008. Some 420,000 of the creatures were recorded in this year's big butterfly count. This butterfly has quite the range, capable of travelling 7,500 miles from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle.\n\nAnother exotic visitor was the long tailed blue butterfly with 50 seen across the south coast of England. It was the third time in six years that the numbers of this delicate creature appeared to be increasing but successive generations haven't yet made it through a British winter.\n\nThere were also large numbers of migrant dragonflies, while a rare moth, the Clifden nonpareil was recorded in Devon. It became extinct in the UK in the 1960s but has been trying to re-establish itself over the past few years.\n\n\"Sightings of migrant insects and birds are becoming more common. This is a result of our changing climate,\" said Ben McCarthy, head of nature conservation and restoration ecology at the National Trust.\n\n\"Although this can seem exciting, the obvious flipside is how these changes will start to affect some of our native species already under pressure from intensive land use, habitat fragmentation and climate change.\"\n\nGrey seals around the UK appeared to be doing well despite the 50% mortality rate of seal pups at National Trust locations.\n\nSeal pups have a high mortality rate but overall numbers are up\n\nBut some native UK species were under pressure due to the impact of drought and wildfire.\n\nFires on Marsden Moor at Easter destroyed around 700 hectares of habitats, including those of mountain hares, curlews and twites.\n\nIt was also a bad year for natterjack toads, who rely on pools of water in their dune habitats to survive. Many of these dried out in May and June resulting in spawn and tadpoles being lost.\n\nRangers also recorded the earliest and latest spawning dates of the last decade, perhaps indicating that natterjacks are trying to adapt to a changing climate.\n\nWater voles in the Yorkshire Dales also suffered due to the heavy and unexpected rainfall in June, July and September. Sudden flood events swept away many of their offspring who were too young to be able to swim.\n\nThere were many other species suffering or benefitting from the changeable conditions throughout the year.\n\n2019 was a boom year for grass growth, which sounds like a good thing. But it could have negative impacts because more grasses can outcompete native wildflowers, which is bad news for pollinators.\n\nManaging the environment with a variable weather picture is a challenge - and could see species become extinct.\n\n\"This brings home the importance of doing all we can to ensure that we protect our remaining habitats and ensure they are in good condition to support our threatened species,\" said Mr McCarthy.\n\n\"By improving the condition of our remaining habitats and increasing patch size it is easier for species to move across landscapes in response to our changing environments. It also means that when they arrive in their new location there is habitat to support them.\n\n\"If our wildlife doesn't have anywhere to move to as temperatures rise and the weather changes, over the coming years we will inevitably see more and more species at risk of becoming extinct.\"", "Jolyon Maugham is director of the Good Law Project\n\nThe RSPCA is investigating after a prominent lawyer said he killed a fox with a baseball bat.\n\nJolyon Maugham posted on Twitter on Thursday morning: \"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?\"\n\nThe animal welfare charity tweeted that the claim was \"distressing\".\n\nMr Maugham, who has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit, later apologised if anyone was \"upset\" by his tweet.\n\nHe said the fox had got caught in protective netting around his chickens at his central London home and he \"wasn't sure what else to do\".\n\n\"My chickens were very distressed by the fox, both before and after I'd despatched it - and I wanted it out of the way quickly,\" he said in another tweet.\n\nGiving further details, Mr Maugham said he had been wearing his wife's \"too small green kimono\" and nursing a hangover at the time.\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 Jo Maugham QC 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 Maugham said he had spoken to the RSPCA and given them his contact details.\n\nThe RSPCA said in a tweet on Wednesday night: \"We're aware of a situation regarding a fox, and would like to reassure people that we're investigating.\n\n\"Due to a very high volume of tweets, unfortunately we can't respond to every single one, and are unable to provide further comment right now. Thank you for your understanding.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines state you can use cage traps and snares to catch foxes and you must \"humanely kill any fox you catch while it's in the trap or snare\".\n\nMr Maugham is director of the Good Law Project and has been involved in several high-profile legal challenges, including against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.", "Guy Martin combines his TV career with working as a lorry mechanic\n\nCharges against motorcycle racer and TV celebrity Guy Martin have been dropped.\n\nMr Martin, 38, from Lincolnshire, had been accused of possessing a fake Irish licence and using it to alter his UK licence to enable him to drive HGVs.\n\nPsychiatrists had concluded Mr Martin does not always apply common sense and may have been taken in, Lincoln Crown Court heard.\n\nThe former Isle of Man TT rider who has autism had been due to stand trial on 6 January.\n\nThe case was brought because an Irish driving licence was submitted on Mr Martin's behalf to add the HGV entitlement to his UK licence, however it was a fake.\n\nMr Martin, of Barnetby, had denied possession of a driving licence with intent to deceive and making a false statement by claiming he had an Irish licence.\n\nJudge Simon Hirst said: \"The prosecution accept that it is conceivable that Mr Martin did think this was a genuine licence.\"\n\nMr Martin, who combines his television work with working as a lorry mechanic, had always said that he believed he passed a test while working in Northern Ireland and received a licence he believed was genuine.\n\nThe prosecution told Tuesday's hearing psychiatrists had concluded he did not always apply common sense and has a tendency to take what people say at face value.\n\nProsecutor Michael Cranmer-Brown said his autism also made him \"vulnerable enough for others to see him as an easy target\".\n\nHe said they accepted Mr Martin \"may well have been taken in by somebody\".\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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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\"", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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", "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.", "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 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 .", "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.", "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.", "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", "* 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.", "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 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.", "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 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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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?", "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.", "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.", "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. 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 Liverpool Airport 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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.", "* 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 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.\"", "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.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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?", "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.\"", "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?", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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 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.\"", "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.\"", "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. 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 Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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 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", "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", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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 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", "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", "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. 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.", "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.", "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. 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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?", "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 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 winning number for Spain's annual Christmas lottery was 26590\n\nA Spanish TV reporter who told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\" while clutching a winning lottery ticket had only won a fraction of the total prize.\n\nNatalia Escudero, who works for public broadcaster RTVE, started screaming on camera - before later learning she had won just €5,000 ($5,550; £4,285).\n\nThe Christmas lottery's top prize is €4m, but can be shared among winners.\n\nMs Escudero later apologised over the way she reacted during the broadcast.\n\nShe said she regretted behaving in such an \"emotional\" manner and wanted to explain her actions to viewers who \"felt cheated\".\n\nMs Escudero's response came after she was accused of a lack of professionalism over the footage, which was widely shared on social media.\n\nIt showed her jumping for joy while champagne was sprayed into the air as it was announced that the winning number for the top prize in the Christmas lottery known as El Gordo (The Fat One) was 26590.\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 TVE 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\nViewers criticised her for giving the impression that she had won the maximum prize and for appearing to suggest that she was quitting her job, Spanish media reported.\n\nShortly after the initial broadcast, Ms Escudero reappeared on TV screens and made the gesture of zipping her lips.\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\nResponding to criticism on Twitter, Ms Escudero said she had recently had a \"difficult\" few months \"for personal reasons\", but that - in her 25 years working as a professional journalist - she continued to have a \"clear conscience\" and was proud of her \"rigorous and proven work\".\n\n\"It is sad that Natalia Escudero is today [known as] the manipulative and lying journalist from RTVE,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe apologised for any confusion caused, but said she was being honest about taking time off because \"I am going on holiday\".", "PC Shazad Saddique's family said he \"had a real passion for the outdoors and helping others\".\n\nA policeman drowned after being sucked into a whirlpool during an adventure holiday in Scotland, an inquest heard.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique, 38, died while swimming near the Fairy Pools waterfall on the Isle of Skye on 19 July.\n\nTourists including a French policeman pulled the father-of-three, of Oldham, Greater Manchester clear but they could not revive him.\n\nThe Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer's wife was expecting their fourth child at the time.\n\nRochdale Coroner's Court heard PC Saddique, who was a student officer based in Ashton-under-Lyne, was involved in outreach work with local youths to get them into the countryside.\n\nHe had arranged the Scottish trip for 30 people including his brother and 13-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard that he jumped into the water at Fairy Pools - a natural waterfall phenomenon in the Cuillin Mountain Range in Glen Brittle - with goggles, wetsuit and swimming shoes.\n\nHe had been swimming for about an hour when tragedy struck.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique was also a keen runner who ran marathons around the world and hiked\n\nFamily friend Temour Ahmed said: \"I heard people shouting and went to the pool I could see Shazad was unresponsive in the water.\n\n\"I tried to get into the water but there was a very strong undercurrent which was pulling my trousers down so I got out.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was looking like a whirlpool effect.\n\n''Eventually we were able to get to Shazad from the water but sadly his lips where blue and he was totally unresponsive.\"\n\nPC Saddique, who joined GMP in 2018, was praised by the coroner for being a \"role model\"\n\nRecording a conclusion of death by drowning Coroner Joanne Kearsley recorded a conclusion of death by drowning and said it was a \"very, very sad case\".\n\nShe added: ''More likely than not he became caught up in a strong current which created a vortex effect.\"\n\nThe coroner also praised PC Saddique for touching \"the lives of many\".\n\nHis family said he was \"the most selfless person you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"He was the best dad, and his wife and kids were his absolute world.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melania Geymonat (right) and Christine Hannigan both needed hospital treatment\n\nA teenager who abused a same-sex couple on a London bus is to attend diversity lessons as part of his punishment.\n\nThe 15-year-old had pleaded guilty to abusing Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan.\n\nThey were injured with pelted coins and had a handbag stolen while on a Camden night bus on 30 May.\n\nThe youth was given an eight-month youth referral order, extended from six due to the homophobic nature of the attack.\n\nHe and two other youths, aged 16 and 17, had surrounded the women and asked them questions such as: \"How do you have sex?\", Highbury Corner Youth Court was told.\n\nThey each admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress against the two women.\n\nThe court heard the 15-year-old had handed the eldest teenager coins which he then pelted at the couple, prompting a scuffle between Ms Hannigan and one of the teenagers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was and still am angry at bus attack'\n\nHe had also made \"degrading gestures\" towards the pair, including references to the sex act of scissoring.\n\nA second charge of handling stolen goods, related to Ms Geymonat's bank card, was included in his sentence.\n\nHe was also sentenced to do 20 hours of community reparation.\n\nDistrict Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: \"You need the close supervision of the youth offending service to think carefully about your behaviour.\n\n\"This will include diversity sessions which will make you think about hate crime, the protected characteristics and minority groups.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old boy was previously given a four-month youth rehabilitation order while the 16-year-old was given an eight-month youth referral order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dany Cotton stepped down in the wake of criticism in the Grenfell inquiry\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner who was forced to retire early following the Grenfell Tower blaze inquiry has had tributes paid on her last day.\n\nThousands of firefighters formed a \"guard of honour\" for Dany Cotton, the first female LFB commissioner.\n\nMs Cotton was due to retire in April 2020 after 32 years of service.\n\nIn response to the parade, which came after she revealed on 6 December she would step down, the Grenfell Action Group dismissed it as \"a street party\".\n\nBut as Ms Cotton joined the parade she was hugged by supporters and met with bagpipes and applause.\n\nThousands of firefighters, and a dog, lined the streets to pay tribute to Dany Cotton on Monday\n\nTaking to an impromptu stage on top of a 1937 Leyland Metz fire engine, she said: \"Things have been a bit difficult recently, but the messages of support I've received, the emails, the messages on social media, have just made everything okay.\n\n\"It makes me feel proud, the fire service looks after each other.\"\n\nShe said she thought all the work over three decades were her legacy, \"but especially recently [on] mental health awareness.\"\n\n\"I'm very very sad to be leaving but I think the legacy of all these people here shows that I must have done something alright,\" she added.\n\nFirefighters held up a sign saying 'We Are Dany'\n\nBut Joe Delaney, from Grenfell Action Group, said: \"Given the findings of the recent inspection, LFB would be better off if efforts were directed at providing its personnel with the training they have been denied and its funding were directed at providing them with the equipment they desperately require.\"\n\nMs Cotton will officially step down on New Year's Eve and will be replaced by Andy Roe, who has served with the LFB since 2002.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Roy Beddows said he had never expected to see the ring again, which was engraved with his initials\n\nA man who lost a gold ring while working in a field in the 1950s has been reunited with it 61 years on.\n\nRoy Beddows lost the nine-carat gold ring - engraved with his initials - while working on a farm in West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire, when he was 17.\n\nIt was found by metal detectorist Robin Kynaston, who traced Mr Beddows after the landowner realised it may belong to an ex-employee of her late father.\n\nMr Kynaston said it was \"amazing\" to return the ring to its rightful owner.\n\nThe ring was lost in a field near Oswestry 61 years ago\n\nHe has now struck up a friendship with Mr Beddows, 79, and the pair realised they knew people in common.\n\n\"I make a point of always returning everything I find to the landowner or at least offering it to them, good or scrap,\" said Mr Kynaston, who took up metal detecting three years ago.\n\n\"But this was the first gold I'd ever found. It was a little bit of a difficult thing to pass it back, but I did pass it back and look what's come out of it - something amazing.\"\n\nRobin Kynaston took up metal detecting three years ago\n\nMr Kynaston said after he contacted the farm, the landowner posted the signet ring through his letterbox.\n\nIt was accompanied with a note saying she had \"wracked her brains\" about who the initials RAB referred to and believed the ring could belong to Roy Beddows.\n\nThe detectorist then contacted local Facebook groups and realised people knew Mr Beddows and he still lived locally.\n\n\"Everybody knows everybody here - they are either friends or related. It's a little bit like Emmerdale,\" he said.\n\nMr Beddows, who had originally bought the ring for himself, said: \"I can remember losing it, but I would never ever expect to see it again - no way would I.\"", "Josh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nA cyclist attempting to ride around the world has been badly injured after being knocked off his bike in the US.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car whilst cycling through the state of Texas.\n\nHis injuries include a fractured pelvis, ribs and skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nThe 27-year-old has said it will be at least two months before he can walk again.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, he said: \"I don't remember much about it but I've been told by the police that I was struck from behind by a vehicle driving at 70mph.\n\n\"After the vehicle hit me I was launched off the bike and landed 50 feet away.\n\n\"This happened whilst riding at night wearing reflective clothing and with strong rear lights.\"\n\nMr Quigley, who said one of the few things he remembers is being in the helicopter, added that \"for now I'm just happy to be alive\".\n\nKnown as the Tartan Explorer, Mr Quigley has cycled about 14,000 miles on his bike since he left Scotland in April.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse and said in his Facebook post about the crash that he will \"find a way to overcome this and finish what I started\".\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York in the latest leg of his trip but changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida because his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter conditions.\n\nJosh Quigley with his bike \"Braveheart\" before it was stolen in London\n• None Round-the-world bike trip to go ahead after U-turn", "Mo Fayose is on a mission to stop people feeling lonely at Christmas\n\nA woman has written and hand-delivered 1,900 Christmas cards to strangers in an effort to combat loneliness.\n\nMo Fayose, from Nottingham, spent months staying up late into the night writing the cards and then trekking the streets to deliver them.\n\nThe 45-year-old said she wanted to reach out to the vulnerable.\n\nEvery card was delivered with chocolates and an invitation to dinner on Christmas Day, hosted by a team of volunteers.\n\nEach handwritten card included chocolate and an invitation to a Christmas dinner hosted by volunteers\n\n\"There's an atmosphere about Christmas that makes it very, very depressing for many, many people - being given something, being remembered, makes a lot of difference,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was \"gutted\" when she ran out of cards last week.\n\n\"I had reached number 35 on a street... but it had another 30 houses. Maybe there's someone in need?\n\n\"Next year I'm going to make even more and start again, where I finished.\"\n\nMiss Fayose encouraged other people to do the same\n\nShe bought the cards in bulk after Christmas last year to keep down costs but said she lost count of how much she spent, with the total somewhere \"in the hundreds\".\n\n\"Someone came out and said thank you, and I could see on their face it meant something to them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's all about love. If you can give that back, that little gesture means everything.\"\n\nThe mum-of-two, who runs the Community Cares Club, came up with the idea while working as a mental health nurse when a woman told her how isolated she had become.\n\n\"She said, 'can you imagine, no-one even sends me Christmas cards'. That hit something inside me, it hurt me.\"\n\nAs well as hosting an annual Christmas dinner, this year Mo and her team will be delivering meals to people who cannot leave their house\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Charles met rescue workers on the outskirts of the South Yorkshire village of Fishlake\n\nPrince Charles has been visiting South Yorkshire to meet people affected by last month's floods.\n\nHe met firefighters, police officers and soldiers at the village of Fishlake, near Doncaster, and toured the worst-affected areas.\n\nHundreds of home were evacuated and businesses were affected when a month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours, causing the River Don to burst its banks.\n\nThe prince has made a donation to the flood relief fund, Clarence House said.\n\nCharles shared a joke with some of the residents of Fishlake during his walkabout\n\nAsked by a reporter about his father the Duke of Edinburgh as he walked into the village, Charles said: \"He's being looked after very well in hospital.\n\n\"At the moment that's all we know.\"\n\nThe prince spent two hours in the village chatting to many of the locals lining the streets and looking inside some of the badly damaged homes.\n\nMany of the villagers gathered outside the Old Butchers cafe, which owners Louise and Claire Holling turned into a relief centre during worst of the flooding.\n\nThe prince spent two hours touring the village of Fishlake\n\nThe royal visitor praised the pair when they turned up later at the village hall, serving refreshments for locals and dignitaries who had gathered to meet him.\n\nAs he left, Charles told the crowds: \"I hope you've been in and tried those cakes. They're amazing those two, aren't they?\"\n\nCharles also had a beer at the Hare and Hounds pub, which was at the centre of the flood relief effort in the village.\n\nThe prince visited the Hare and Hounds pub which acted as a relief hub during the flooding\n\nAngie and Scott Godfrey, who run the pub, made sure stranded residents were fed by sending round hot meals on boats.\n\nMr Godfrey said to Charles outside the pub: \"We were just going to get you a pint when you got here. You might have needed one by this time.\"\n\nThe prince replied \"I do\" and went inside for a quick sip of a half of bitter before moving on to St Cuthbert's Church, which also acted as a relief hub.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Shukman views the scale of the flooding in the Doncaster area from a helicopter\n\nMany villagers whose properties are still uninhabitable will spend Christmas away from their homes.\n\nOthers will mark the holiday in mobile homes, static caravans and campervans provided by insurance companies.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The BBC's Panorama investigated London's child begging, connected to the police probe, in 2011\n\nA Romanian court has upheld the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation.\n\nThe men were arrested in 2010 as part of a large joint operation with British police - where children were rescued in London raids.\n\nThe men were accused of running a scheme where children were sent across the continent to beg and steal.\n\nHuman rights groups have criticised Monday's ruling, which puts an end to the almost-decade long legal saga.\n\nThe men were previously acquitted by a lower court in February and the appeal court, based in Targu Mures, said prosecutors had failed to present evidence.\n\nThey were originally arrested in 2010, along with another man who has since died, in raids with the help of UK police.\n\nThey had faced charges for trafficking and criminal exploitation of more than 160 unnamed children, being members of an organised criminal network and money laundering.\n\nThe case centred around the village of Tandarei in south-eastern Romania. The victims and suspects were members of the Romanian Roma community.\n\nBernie Gravett, who led the British investigation, told the BBC that he had personally seen \"truckloads\" of evidence being sent to Romanian officials in 2010.\n\n\"I know the evidence is there, I've seen it with my own eyes...\" he said.\n\n\"We convicted 120 people in the UK of child trafficking, child neglect, child exploitation, money laundering, benefit fraud and a range of other crimes. Yet Romania have not convicted a single individual.\"\n\nAccording to Europol, their Joint Investigation Team worked with London's Metropolitan police as well as the Romanian National Police force from 2008.\n\nThe 2010 operation involved 300 Romanian and British police officers and about 30 raids, AFP reports.\n\nAfter one raid in Ilford, east London, 28 children aged between three and 17 years old were placed in protective custody.\n\nPolice at the time said proceeds from the criminal enterprise were being sent back to fund luxury lifestyles in Tandarei.\n\nSilvia Tabusca, coordinator of the Human Security Programme at the European Centre for Legal Education and Research, was quoted as saying the case represented a \"huge failure\" of the Romanian justice system.\n\n\"We are talking on the one hand about an extremely vulnerable group of people that need to be protected, a very large group of Roma children. On the other hand, this is cross-border organised crime that puts in jeopardy the entire security of Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe initial acquittal, issued nine years after the men's initial arrest, caused a number of NGOs to ask international bodies to \"remind Romania of its responsibilities\" regarding trafficking.", "Zipporah Kuria met with the European Aviation Safety Agency about the Boeing 737 Max\n\nBoeing is not a trustworthy company anymore, according to Zipporah Kuria, whose father was killed when a 737 Max plane crashed earlier this year.\n\nMs Kuria, who met with Europe's aviation watchdog on Wednesday, said: \"I wouldn't even use the word trust anywhere near Boeing.\"\n\nBoeing is fighting for its reputation while the 737 Max remains grounded.\n\nA company spokesman said: \"The safety of passengers and crews flying on our aircraft is our absolute priority.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are truly sorry and we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"We know we have a deep responsibility to everyone who flies on our airplanes to ensure that the 737 Max is one of the safest aircraft ever to fly.\"\n\nMs Kuria met with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) along with other family members who lost loved ones, to gain reassurances that the Boeing 737 Max will not return to the skies until rigorous tests are carried out.\n\nThe British woman's father, Joseph Waithaka, died with 156 others on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March.\n\nIt was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max following the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia which killed all 189 people onboard.\n\n\"They are not trustworthy anymore - if they had been in the past,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nShe said the EASA's executive director Patrick Ky had reassured her that \"he would not be caving\" to either the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US regulator, or Boeing in terms of reclassifying whether the 737 Max is safe for European air travel.\n\nBoeing will temporarily stop making the 737 Max in January\n\nBoeing is hoping that the FAA will allow the Max back into the air in the early part of next year but the FAA's close relationship with Boeing has been under intense scrutiny.\n\nIt recently emerged that the FAA allowed the 737 Max to keep flying after the first disaster in October last year despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nMs Kuria said: \"I think the more discovery is done, the more reason we are finding not to trust [Boeing] when it comes to the 737 Max.\n\n\"There are so many things that were hidden that shouldn't have been, so many things that were bypassed that shouldn't have been and I think every time we sit down and have a hearing or hear from an aviation authority on documents of discovery we just find out how preventable the death of our loved ones was.\"\n\nMr Ky said that the European regulator will \"take their time to recertify\" the plane.\n\nMs Kuria also said her safety concerns not only relate to the plane's automated flight control system which malfunctioned before both crashes but other critical safety systems on board the 737 Max.\n\nDuring the meeting, EASA said \"they would reassess all the critical safety systems that are on the 737 Max\", according to Ms Kuria.", "The women were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nTwo women have been found dead and a man seriously hurt at a house in West Sussex.\n\nThe women's bodies were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, while the man was found inside by police at 10:20 GMT.\n\nPolice said the injured man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police have since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of death. The injured man has been taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.\n\nA large number of police officers were at the house\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart said: \"This is a fast-moving investigation which will see significant police resources deployed to the scene for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support and patience of the local community while we conduct our inquiries.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with the friends and family of the two women who have sadly lost their lives.\"\n\nThe detective said it was an isolated attack with no risk to the public and added: \"In response to media speculation I wish to make it absolutely clear that this is not a knife crime.\"\n\nTwo women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA double murder investigation as been launched and a man has been arrested\n\nThree forensic tents were pitched in the street and forensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence.\n\nA cordon is in place around the houses close to where the bodies were found.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to report online or call 101, quoting Operation Deanland, or ring Crimestoppers.\n\nForensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win at Tottenham was marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.\n\nReferee Anthony Taylor stopped play during the second half after Blues defender Antonio Rudiger complained of hearing monkey noises.\n\nTottenham have vowed to \"take the strongest possible action\" and said they will conduct \"a thorough investigation\".\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n\nThe PFA said: \"We are disgusted and dismayed that once again, a Premier League fixture has been tainted by abuse from the stands towards players.\n\n\"It has become clear that football players are on the receiving end of the blatant racism that is currently rife in the UK, but they are not alone.\n\n\"The PFA stands beside every player who faces discrimination. We will continue to fight on their behalf to combat this issue for good.\n\n\"Football is part of the fabric of British society - with the huge global audience that English football attracts, we have a responsibility to lead the way with a zero-tolerance policy.\"\n\nThe PFA added that \"all governing bodies\" and \"all football stakeholders\" should work together to \"confront, challenge and eradicate racist abuse in our stadiums and in our country\".\n\nIt said: \"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism within football and encourage the establishment of an All-Party Group at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\"\n\nSpurs confirmed that they will be liaising with Chelsea and their players for their observations.\n\n\"Any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium,\" said Spurs in a statement.\n\n\"We take any such allegations extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way, including stadium bans.\"\n\nThe Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) and Tottenham have confirmed that the game was stopped over a single incident of alleged racist behaviour.\n\nTottenham forward Son Heung-min had been sent off after a second-half clash involving Rudiger moments earlier.\n\nThe match was also held up when objects were thrown towards Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\n'When will this nonsense stop?'\n\nRudiger has since tweeted: \"It is really sad to see racism again at a football match, but I think it's very important to talk about it in public. If not, it will be forgotten again in a couple of days (as always).\n\n\"I don't want to involve Tottenham as an entire club into this situation as I know that just a couple of idiots were the offenders. I got a lot of supportive messages on social media from Spurs fans as well in the last hours - thank you a lot for this.\n\n\"I really hope that the offenders will be found and punished soon, and in such a modern football ground like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with dozens of TV and security cameras, it must be possible to find and subsequently punish them.\n\n\"If not, then there must have been witnesses in the stadium who saw and heard the incident. It's just such a shame that racism still exists in 2019. When will this nonsense stop?\"\n\n'He told me he was listening to monkey noises'\n\nIn his post-match interview, Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta said: \"It is made very clear to us all if we have heard any racist incident to report it.\n\n\"Toni came to me and he told me he was listening in the crowd [to] monkey noises and my job as a captain is to go straight to the referee and to report it.\n\n\"We are very concerned and aware of the problems. All together we need to make it stop. We have to work together towards the eradication of the problem. It's an issue in life and football unfortunately and we have to keep working hard.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho reiterated that view in his post-match interview on Sky Sports.\n\n\"I saw nothing. I saw the referee follow the protocol, he came to [fourth official] Andre Marriner, he came to me and Frank Lampard and told us what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The protocol was followed and we are one of the clubs; every club is together on this situation and of course we are disappointed.\"\n\nTottenham defender Toby Alderweireld added: \"It does not belong in football. I hope they find the individuals quickly because it is not good and we are all sick of it.\"\n\nSpeaking at the game, former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said: \"With the technology they have in this stadium, I would be shocked if they could not pinpoint the individual.\n\n\"That person will be isolated and dealt with accordingly. There is no place for it but I want more than an announcement.\n\n\"I do not want them back in the stadium ever again - sadly some people are that ignorant.\"\n\nAnti-racism organisation Kick it Out later released a statement on Twitter.\n\nIt read: \"We are aware of the alleged racist incidents at today's game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.\n\n\"We applaud the reaction of referee Anthony Taylor in following step one of the protocol and the ensuing steps taken by Tottenham Hotspur in repeating the stadium announcements.\n\n\"We have offered our support to both of the clubs and also to Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.\"\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge in December 2018, 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\nA supporter was also arrested and bailed over allegations of racist abuse against Manchester United players during their Premier League match at Manchester City on 7 December.\n\nA video had been circulated on social media of a man appearing to make monkey gestures and sounds towards United players at Etihad Stadium.\n\nSerie A's 'No To Racism' campaign - which arrived off the back of a number of racist incidents in Italy - has been widely condemned after they commissioned posters showing three monkeys with painted faces.", "John Halloran (left) and John Stacey (right) served together in Cyprus in the 1950s\n\nTwo army veterans who served together in Cyprus were reunited for the first time in 60 years after a chance encounter at a Christmas party.\n\nJohn Stacey, 83, and John Halloran, 81, both from Cardiff, lost touch in 1959 after being demobbed from the army.\n\nThe meeting happened as Mr Halloran walked past an event for veterans with dementia at the Royal British Legion club in Whitchurch, Cardiff.\n\nMr Stacey's wife said the reunion was like an \"early Christmas present\".\n\nRoger Lees (left) set up the encounter after speaking to Mr Halloran outside the event\n\nThe men served as infantry in the Welch Regiment during a conflict between Greek-Cypriot guerrillas and the British Army between 1955 and 1959.\n\nMr Halloran was passing the event on 9 December and asked Roger Lees, who helps to support Mr Stacey, who was standing outside, what was happening inside.\n\nMr Lees said: \"I said to Halloran, 'Do you know John Stacey?', and he said they were best mates out in Cyprus. I told him he was inside if he wanted to meet him.\n\n\"The bit that gets me going is Stacey's emotion when he saw his mate. Halloran tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around and he said, 'blimey O'Riley'.\n\n\"They sat down holding hands. It was like they didn't want to be parted.\n\n\"They started hugging and that was the most beautiful thing I'd seen.\"\n\nJohn Halloran (left) returned to Cardiff after fighting in Cyprus to work as a steelworker\n\nMr Halloran, who worked as a steelworker, said: \"We were in the same company, and John was a character around the camp. He was always laughing and joking, playing jokes on people including me.\n\n\"I got emotional when I saw him. He's a character and he hasn't changed.\"\n\nMr Stacey's wife, Judy, 76, said: \"I was surprised he remembered John. I thought it was wonderful.\n\n\"It was like an early Christmas present. It was lovely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the International Space Station.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Caudwell: \"Nearly every wealthy person I know, including me, is thinking of leaving the UK if Labour get in\"\n\nThe Conservative Party received £1.4m in donations in the final two days of the general election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe SNP got £14,929 and the Brexit Party £50,000, according to the register of donations above £7,500.\n\nThe biggest donor was Phones4U founder John Caudwell, who gave the Conservatives £500,000.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and other parties did not get any donations above £7,500 in the final two days.\n\nBillionaire businessman and philanthropist Mr Caudwell told the Daily Telegraph he decided to make the donation on the Monday before the general election over fears that Labour would get in.\n\nHe said he had never donated to a political campaign before, apart from to Tory MP Sir Bill Cash's campaign for Brexit.\n\nIn total, across the six pre-poll donations reports, political parties in the UK reported receiving a combined total of £30,721,998 in donations, the Electoral Commission said.\n\nJust £231,333 was donated to parties in the final two days of the 2017 general election campaign, with most going to the Conservatives.\n\nThe second biggest donor in the final two days of the 2019 campaign was Sir Ehud Sheleg, the Conservative Party's co-treasurer, who gave the party £375,000.\n\nSir Ehud, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who owns an art gallery in Mayfair, has donated more than £3.4m to the party in recent years.\n\nHedge funds and property companies also splashed out big money on Boris Johnson's campaign for Number 10, the Electoral Commission figures reveal.\n\nThe SNP received a £14,929 donation from one individual, Moira Louise Stratton, in the final two days.\n\nFormer Tory Donor Christopher Harborne made two gifts of £25,000 to the Brexit Party in the final two days, having already handed the party more than £3m since the summer.\n\nMr Harborne is the boss of private plane dealers Sherriff Global Group and the owner of AML Global, which sells jet fuel.\n\nThe latest figures put the Conservatives on nearly £20m in registered large donations, compared with £5.4m raised by Labour, although this does not include small donations from party members and supporters.\n\nThe biggest non-individual donor across the entire reporting period was the union Unite, which has given £3.2m to the Labour Party.", "His daughter, TV presenter Fern Britton, announced on Twitter that he had died early on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Great actor, director and charmer,\" she wrote. \"May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.\"\n\nBritton was best known for starring in BBC sitcom Don't Wait Up alongside Nigel Havers in the 1980s, as well as many British films including The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe also appeared in Robin's Nest alongside Richard O'Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt, and films Operation Amsterdam as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday.\n\nIn 1975 he won the Broadcasting Press Guild's best actor award for his role in The Nearly Man.\n\nFern Britton's tweet sparked hundreds of tributes and messages of support 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 Fern Britton 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\nJasper Britton, Britton's son from his second marriage, also tweeted, saying: \"As he was wont to say, 'that's show business, kid'\".\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 Jasper Britton 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\nComedian and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar wrote: \"Profound condolences Fern and gratitude for the joy and entertainment your Dad brought to me and millions of others. Sending love and strength.\"\n\nActor Peter Egan tweeted: \"Very sad to see the passing of the legend Tony Britton. A wonderful actor and light comedian. Condolences to his family. A lovely man too.\"\n\nBorn in Birmingham, Britton served in the Army and worked in an aircraft factory during World War Two.\n\nInterviewed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1973, Britton said he did not come from a theatrical background \"at all\".\n\n\"I believe one of my many aunts had a good voice but she never used it professionally,\" he said.\n\nBritton added: \"Ever since I was old enough to think, I've always wanted to be an actor. I couldn't tell you why, it was just there.\"\n\nHe joined an amateur dramatics group in Weston-super-Mare before turning professional.\n\nHe went on to appear on stage at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as the role of Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady for two and a half years as part of a national tour.\n\nTony Britton with his co-star Nigel Havers in sitcom Don't Wait Up in 1984\n\nDon't Wait Up ran from 1983 to 1990\n\nIn 1955, Britton played Romeo on TV, which led him to get a film contract\n\nIn 2013, Britton appeared in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.\n\nHe had two children with his first wife, Ruth Hawkins - Fern and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.\n\nHe had a son Jasper with his second wife, Danish sculptor Eva Castle Britton (nee Skytte Birkenfeldt).", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's father has met the home secretary, as her department considers requesting the extradition of a US woman charged over his death.\n\nThe meeting comes after suspect Anne Sacoolas was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe family said they were \"incredibly reassured\" to meet Ms Patel, who was accompanied by their local MP Andrea Leadsom.\n\nPriti Patel and Andrea Leadsom met the Dunn family at the home of the family's lawyer in the village of Charlton\n\nThe home secretary said she had met the family to explain the extradition process to them and spoken to Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn.\n\nShe said: \"It was a nice opportunity to hear from them, obviously about what they have been experiencing, what they have been going through, and to reassure them at what has been a very difficult and traumatic time for them.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they were now \"incredibly reassured this whole saga will be dealt with under the rule of law\".\n\n\"You hear from some of the most senior politicians in this country... they are going to go to bed tonight feeling reassured.\"\n\nHarry's father Tim Dunn thanked the home secretary for the meeting\n\nMr Dunn said it had been a \"positive meeting\" and a \"great way to end the year\", but Christmas would be difficult without his son.\n\nHe said: \"He loved Christmas... people have one Christmas jumper, Harry would have four... every day he would be wearing one.\"\n\nFriends of Harry Dunn put up a Christmas tree and decorations around his banner outside RAF Croughton on Sunday\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, did not attend the meeting.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in August after his motorbike was in collision with a car driven by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, where her husband worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas left for the US under diplomatic immunity, but on Friday was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, following a campaign by Mr Dunn's family.\n\nThe home secretary hugged Mr Dunn during the meeting\n\nMrs Leadsom said there was a \"clear process\" of extradition.\n\nShe added: \"There's a clear extradition treaty and it is absolutely vital that we get justice for Harry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunn's mother had said the family was \"relieved\" the 42-year-old suspect had finally been charged.\n\nBut US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK \"to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident\".\n\nAfter it confirmed Mrs Sacoolas had been charged, the CPS said extradition proceedings had started, noting that the \"Home Office is responsible for considering our request and deciding whether to formally issue this through US diplomatic channels\".\n\n\"Our specialist extradition team will be working closely with the UK Central Authority at the Home Office to do this,\" it added.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from Amy Jeffress, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyer, said she had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An NHS trust at the centre of England's largest inquiry into baby deaths was paid almost £1m for providing good maternity care, the BBC has learned.\n\nUnder the Maternity Incentive Scheme run by NHS Resolution, which aims to improve maternity care, trusts must certify they meet 10 safety standards.\n\nThe Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust did so and received £953,391.\n\nBut weeks after the payment was made, inspectors rated the trust's maternity care as inadequate.\n\nNHS Resolution said it was \"unable to comment on specific trust cases\".\n\nThe trust said evidence of its progress against the maternity safety actions had been shared with committees before being submitted to its board.\n\nThe care of mothers and babies at the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust (SaTH) has been under the spotlight since April 2017 when the BBC revealed a number of preventable deaths at the trust.\n\nHundreds of families have alleged the trust provided them with poor maternity care.\n\nAn interim report into what has become the largest inquiry into maternity care in the history of the NHS, leaked last month, found a toxic culture had contributed to the avoidable deaths of babies and mothers as well as dozens of instances of significant harm.\n\nRhiannon Davies campaigned for an independent inquiry after her baby died in 2009\n\nRhiannon Davies, whose family was among the first to push for the independent inquiry after the death of her baby daughter Kate in 2009, said the trust should \"pay the money back\".\n\n\"They self-certified that they met the 10 standards, the board signed it off and they received no scrutiny, it is more lies,\" she said.\n\n\"It is another perfect, pure example of SaTh creating their own narrative.\n\n\"I want to know what they spent the money on.\"\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust was placed in special measures\n\nIn summer 2018, NHS Resolution, the legal arm of NHS trusts in England, launched a scheme aimed at improving maternity care and reducing the cost of errors.\n\nTrusts were required to assess whether they had met 10 separate maternity safety actions, including reducing errors, workforce development and acting on the concerns of patients.\n\nTo qualify for an incentive payment, the board of a trust had to certify that they met all the standards. NHS Resolution did not ensure each trust had met its requirements.\n\nOf the 132 trusts that participated in the scheme, 75 certified that they had scored 10 out of 10 and became eligible to receive a full refund of their own contribution as well as a portion of the money paid by those trusts that had not scored a perfect 10.\n\nThe money was paid to the Shrewsbury and Telford trust last September, while inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were assessing the trust.\n\nThe CQC report, published in November, rated the trust, including its maternity services, as inadequate.\n\nInspectors were forced to take enforcement action to ensure care was immediately improved.\n\nWhile the trust received almost £1m for providing good maternity care, it has emerged it has paid out almost £50m for maternity errors since 2006.\n\nA Freedom of Information request to NHS Resolution showed 82 claims for damages against the trust had been successful since 2006/7, costing the NHS £47,568,755.\n\nThe largest single category was cerebral palsy. Nine babies were left with the condition as a result of medical errors, forcing the trust to pay out more than £25m.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said: \"Evidence of the trust's progress against the 10 safety actions was shared with committees including the Women and Children's Care Group Board and the Quality and Safety Assurance Committee, before being submitted to the trust board.\n\n\"The content of the report was also shared with the trust's commissioners.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Man Who was a massive hit for Travis\n\nWhen Travis released their second album 20 years ago it was \"slaughtered\" by the critics but it went on to be a massive success which influenced a generation of pop stars.\n\nKeane, The Killers and Amy Macdonald are among the artists who cite The Man Who as a major influence on their musical style and career.\n\nColdplay's lead singer Chris Martin is on the record as saying Travis were \"the band that invented my band and lots of others\".\n\nIn BBC Radio Scotland documentary The Man Who at 20, Travis' frontman Fran Healy says Coldplay \"bodysnatched\" their sound because it was the most popular music around in 1999 when they were recording their debut album.\n\nHealy says Coldplay remain at the top of the music business two decades later because they have since reinvented themselves by adopting the sounds of other big names, such as U2 and Arcade Fire.\n\nHe says his own band, on the other hand, reached the top of the music business, had a look around - then came back down.\n\nThe Glasgow band have released six studio albums since The Man Who but have never reached the heights of that record, which featured songs such as Writing to Reach You, Driftwood and Turn.\n\nDespite its eventual huge success, Travis' second album was not an immediate hit.\n\nIt was not as upbeat as their first and was originally dismissed as \"dour, sad, depressing, low key and really quiet\", says Healy.\n\nHe said it was not what the music press were expecting and they hammered it.\n\nThe Man Who landed at number five when it was released in May 1999, but before they played Glastonbury at the end of June it had been falling down the charts.\n\nFran Healy of Travis performs on stage at Glastonbury in June 1999\n\nJo Whiley, who presented the TV coverage of the festival, told the documentary about the pivotal moment when Travis played their song Why Does It Always Rain On Me? and \"the heavens opened\".\n\n\"It is like a magic song with special superpowers that made the heavens open and rain,\" she says.\n\nThe performance caught the public's attention and the album climbed to number one, where it would spend nine weeks.\n\nWithin a year Travis had won the best band and best album awards at The Brits.\n\nTwelve months after they made it rain, they returned to Glastonbury as headliners.\n\nFran Healy and Travis recently performed the album at Glasgow's SEC Hydro arena\n\nWhy Does It Always Rain On Me? was written in Eilat in Israel, Healy tells the documentary. The chorus refers to the fact it was raining in such a sunny country, while the verse captures the more metaphorical rain of his feelings about their first album not doing well.\n\nA lot of the songs on The Man Who were written for their first album, Good Feelings, but Healy says they could not record them properly because they were \"not that kind of band\". The songs needed to \"ripen\".\n\nTravis's members describe their breakthrough album as the sound of \"being dumped\".\n\nTom Chaplin, from Keane, another band who came on to the scene as Travis were riding high, says he remembers falling head over heels in love with The Man Who.\n\n\"I thought the songwriting was really beautiful,\" he says. \"They became a massive inspiration for us setting out on the start of our dream.\"\n\nScottish pop star Amy Macdonald taught herself to play Travis song Turn on the guitar when she was about 12.\n\n\"Nothing had as much of a profound impact on me as that album did at that time of my life,\" she says.\n\nWhen the album came out in May 1999, the band could not get arrested, says Healy.\n\nWithin a year the music business wanted every band to sound like them.\n\nOne of them was Coldplay.\n\nColdplay have stayed at the top of the music business for 20 years\n\nHealy says: \"One of the things I noticed was Coldplay and the chiming guitar. I thought: 'Oh my god, they totally took Andy's sound'.\"\n\nThe Travis singer says the difference between the two bands was that Chris Martin of Coldplay wanted them to be the biggest band in the world.\n\n\"I think Travis wanted to be the best band in the world,\" says Healy.\n\n\"REM are the best band in the world. Part of their journey involved going up to the top of Mount Everest and going 'that's a nice view, the air is a bit thin, can't breathe - let's go back down'.\n\n\"There is no-one up there and it is quite barren and lonely. But Chris is still up there. He's up there playing tennis with Bono.\"\n\nHe says Martin has taken popular movements in music throughout his career so he can remain at the peak.\n\n\"But you have got to ask yourself, why would anyone want to remain at the top of Mount Everest where there is no-one to talk to?\n\n\"You can't really write from the heart up there. You need to be on the ground.\n\n\"When people have compared us to Coldplay I have always thought that is quite funny because I could not think of two more different approaches to art.\"", "Ecuador was fighting to contain the environmental impact of a fuel spill in the Galapagos Islands after a flatboat carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel sank.\n\nThe Orca barge tipped over after a crane collapsed while it was loading a container onto it.\n\nEcuador's Integrated Security Service added, \"the barge crew jumped into the sea to safeguard their lives\".\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage Site is home to one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet and the Galapagos National Park said military personnel and environmentalists were \"putting up containment barriers and absorbent cloths to reduce the environmental risk\".", "Boeing has fired its chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, in a bid to restore confidence in the firm after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max plane.\n\nMore than 340 people died in the disasters, prompting accusations that Boeing put profit before safety.\n\nFamilies of the victims welcomed Mr Muilenberg's resignation as overdue.\n\nBut they said Boeing's decision to replace him with a long-time board member raised questions about its commitment to change.\n\nBoeing named David Calhoun, who has served on the firm's board since 2009 and is its current chairman, as chief executive and president.\n\n\"While the resignation of Mr Muilenburg is a step in the right direction, it is clear that the Boeing Company needs a revamp of its corporate governance,\" said Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three children and mother-in-law when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in March.\n\nMr Calhoun \"is not the right person for the job\", he added.\n\nZipporah Kuria, whose father was also killed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, said Mr Muilenburg should have been replaced \"a long time ago\" but responsibility for the crashes is shared.\n\n\"I feel as though a lot more people should have resigned including the person who's becoming CEO,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBoeing has been under intense scrutiny since two 737 Max planes crashed within five months of each other, first in Indonesia and then in Ethiopia.\n\nThe 737 Max fleet has been grounded worldwide since March.\n\nWhile the company had been hoping to have the best-selling jet back in the air by the end of this year, US regulators have made it clear that it would not be certified to return to the skies that quickly.\n\nLast week, Boeing said it would halt production of the aircraft.\n\nThen on Friday, the company's reputation took another hit when its Starliner spacecraft suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nBoeing's board said it had \"decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders\".\n\nMr Calhoun, a private equity executive, will take over from 13 January.\n\nLawrence Kellner, a board member since 2011, is to become non-executive chairman immediately.\n\n\"Under the company's new leadership, Boeing will operate with a renewed commitment to full transparency, including effective and proactive communication with the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], other global regulators and its customers,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator says he \"would walk before I got on a 737 Max\"\n\nDespite the ouster, some of the firm's harshest critics in Washington said they still had questions about the firm's commitment to change.\n\nSenator Richard Bumenthal said: \"The company needs new leadership across the board who will take safety seriously.\"\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 Blumenthal 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\nMichael Stumo, who lost his daughter Samya Rose on the Ethiopian Airlines flight and has organised victims' families against Boeing, called the resignation a \"good first step toward restoring Boeing to a company that focuses on safety and innovation\".\n\n\"The next step is for several board members who are underperforming or unqualified to resign,\" he said.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the tragedies have identified an automated control system in the plane, known as MCAS, as a factor in both crashes.\n\nBoeing has said the MCAS software system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nIt has said it is fixing the software and has overhauled its review procedures.\n\nBut US lawmakers, who are investigating the company, have said the firm was aware that the software system could be unreliable. They have accused the company of trying to hide the risks and rush the plane back into service.\n\nDennis Muilenburg had faced calls or his resignation\n\nCongressman Peter DeFazio, who leads a committee investigating Boeing, had called for Mr Muilenburg's resignation in an interview with the New York Times, published over the weekend.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said the shake-up was \"long overdue\".\n\nMr Muilenburg first joined Boeing in 1985. He led the company's defence, space and security division prior to his appointment as chief executive in 2015.\n\nHe was stripped of his role as chairman of Boeing's board of directors in October and later agreed to give up his bonus. However, Boeing, including Mr Calhoun, had continued to express confidence in him.\n\nDennis Muilenburg's departure was inevitable, although the timing was unexpected.\n\nSince the two accidents, he has faced intense criticism over the corporate culture that existed at Boeing on his watch, and over the company's relationship with regulators.\n\nQuestions have been asked about how a seemingly flawed aircraft was allowed into service in the first place, and why it was allowed to continue flying after the first accident. There have been claims - emphatically denied by the company - that it prioritised profits and speed of production over safety.\n\nHis response to the crisis has also come under fire. Although he insisted that Boeing \"owned\" its failures, he also repeatedly said that the crashes were the result of a chain of events. This was seen by some as an attempt to divert blame away from the aerospace giant.\n\nThe final humiliation came last week, when Boeing announced it would have to suspend production of the 737 Max, because regulators had yet to clear the aircraft as safe to fly again. For months, Mr Muilenburg had insisted the plane would be back in the air by the end of the year.\n\nHe had lost credibility, and the board decided he had to go.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police asked photographers to \"move back\" as they helped Ms Flack to a waiting car\n\nFormer Love Island presenter Caroline Flack has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her boyfriend with a lamp.\n\nPolice found her partner Lewis Burton covered in blood after being called to reports of a man being assaulted at the 40-year-old's home in north London on 12 December, a court heard.\n\nHowever, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court was told tennis player Mr Burton did not support the prosecution.\n\nMs Flack will stand trial at the same court on 4 March.\n\nThe court heard the alleged attack occurred after Ms Flack found texts on her boyfriend's phone while he was asleep, leading her to believe he was cheating.\n\n\"He said he had been asleep and was hit over the head by Caroline with a lamp, causing a visible cut to his head,\" prosecutor Katie Weiss said.\n\n\"She had also smashed a glass and she had sustained an injury.\"\n\nThe court heard how Mr Burton made a call to 999 in which he was \"almost begging the operator to send help\".\n\nWhen a police officer arrived at the Islington flat, both Ms Flack and Mr Burton were covered in blood and the officer \"likened the scene to a horror movie\", Ms Weiss said.\n\nMs Weiss told the court Ms Flack was disruptive while in police custody, saying she flipped over a table and had to be \"restrained on the ground\".\n\nHer solicitor Paul Morris told the court Mr Burton had \"never supported\" the prosecution's case, adding: \"He is not the victim, as he would say, he was a witness.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Weiss replied: \"Mr Burton is a victim, he received significant injury to his head.\"\n\nMs Flack put her head in her hands as the judge refused an application to remove bail conditions preventing her from contacting Mr Burton\n\nMs Flack was released on bail on the condition she does not contact Mr Burton directly or indirectly or attends his address.\n\nMr Morris had made an application to have these bail conditions lifted, arguing that they \"remain a couple\" and wanted to spend Christmas together.\n\nCaroline Flack struggled to get through a scrum of photographers as she walked into the court building. Once in, she burst into tears.\n\nIn the courtroom itself she was accompanied by a security officer who walked her to the dock.\n\nShe passed her boyfriend, the man she's accused of assaulting, who was sitting in the packed public gallery.\n\nThey're still a couple, the court heard, and he insists he isn't a victim.\n\nWhen asked how she would plead she quietly said \"not guilty\".\n\nAs the case was laid out against her there were moments when she cried.\n\nTowards the end, when she was told her bail conditions would remain and that she couldn't contact her boyfriend, she burst into tears again and turned to look at him.\n\nHe was looking down with his head in his hands.\n\nMs Flack 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\nShe stood down from the show after she was charged last week, saying it was the \"best thing I can do\".\n\nMs Flack was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore will take over hosting duties on Love Island and its companion show Aftersun when filming starts in South Africa in January.\n\nMs Flack's trial is expected to last one-and-a-half days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a fourth day in hospital in London being treated for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen is at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where she attended a carol service without 98-year-old Prince Philip on Sunday.\n\nHe remains at the King Edward VII's Hospital in central London, having travelled there on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said his father was \"being looked after very well\".\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Fishlake, South Yorkshire, Prince Charles added: \"At the moment that's all we know.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nThe duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor, it said in a statement.\n\nIt refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and was expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nThe Queen did not change her schedule and left Buckingham Palace for Norfolk by train, to begin her traditional festive break at Sandringham, where the duke has spent much of his time since stepping back from public duties.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied to church by the Countess of Wessex\n\nShe is expected to return to St Mary Magdalene Church on Christmas Day, having attended on Sunday with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.", "Samson nearly died after being stabbed in the stomach in November 2018\n\nA man has been charged after a number of fatal attacks on cats in the Brighton area.\n\nSteven Bouquet, 52, is facing 16 charges of criminal damage, relating to attacks on 16 cats, nine of which were killed and seven were seriously hurt.\n\nThe alleged incidents took place between October 2018 and June 2019.\n\nMr Bouquet, from the London Road area of Brighton, is also charged with possession of a knife blade or sharp pointed article in a public place.\n\nHe is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court on 23 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband will sit on a panel of party figures to review its general election failure.\n\nLabour Together, which describes itself as a network of activists from all traditions, is setting up a commission to \"map out a route back to power\".\n\nIt says the panel will view attempts to pin the blame on a single cause, such as Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, as simplistic and wrong.\n\nMembers, focus groups in heartlands, and defeated candidates will get a say.\n\nLabour lost its fourth general election in a row on Thursday, 12 December, recording its worst performance, in terms of seats, since 1935, as a string of constituencies in its traditional Northern strongholds fell to the Conservatives.\n\nA row has broken out between the different wings of the party about what caused the defeat, as contenders to replace leader Jeremy Corbyn jockey for position.\n\nLabour Together was launched after the 2015 general election by a group of Labour MPs, including Lisa Nandy, one of those tipped to be lining up a leadership bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"This is on me. I own this disaster\"\n\nIt says it wants to involve all wings of the party, from left-wing campaign group Momentum to the centrist pressure group Progress, in its post-mortem.\n\nThe group aims to publish its report by the end of February, before the new Labour leader is chosen.\n\nThe review will be spearheaded by Lucy Powell, who ran Ed Miliband's 2015 election campaign.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, she said there was \"a real appetite\" for Labour members of all traditions to come together and analyse what has changed.\n\n\"I think retreating into a factional-based analysis would be the worst thing we could do at this juncture,\" she said.\n\nMs Powell added: \"The Labour coalition has fundamentally changed over the last 20 years.\n\n\"Unless we properly reflect on that, then whoever is leader next won't be able to deal with it.\"\n\nOther confirmed commissioners include Birmingham Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood, Jo Platt, who lost her seat in the former stronghold of Leigh, Greater Manchester, Sienna Rodgers, editor of the news website LabourList, and James Meadway, former economic adviser to shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nThe panel is also expected to recruit a trade union representative and a local organiser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rodgers said the review would pore over the results in \"an even-handed way, which doesn't start with blaming one faction, or individual\".\n\nSome MPs who lost their seat blame Mr Corbyn's unpopularity with voters.\n\nMr Corbyn says Labour \"won the argument\" but blamed the media and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit, rather than Labour's plans to boost public spending.\n\nBut internal opponents of Mr Corbyn say the party must ditch his left-wing policy agenda to stand any chance of regaining power.\n\nLabour last won a general election in 2005 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.\n\nMr Blair said last week that the \"takeover of the Labour Party by the far left\" had \"turned it into a glorified protest movement, with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars past and present came out to celebrate the final film in the Skywalker saga\n\nThe latest Star Wars blockbuster raked in $374m (£288m) in global ticket sales in its opening weekend, falling short of prior films in the trilogy.\n\nThe Rise of Skywalker's US sales were down nearly 30% on the first movie in the saga, The Force Awakens.\n\nStill, the latest instalment ranked as one of the best December openings in North America.\n\nIt is expected to end a strong year for distributor Disney, with a string of hits grossing more than $1bn.\n\nStarring Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, the film is the final chapter in the Skywalker saga begun by George Lucas in 1977. It is set one year after its predecessor.\n\nThe movie, directed by JJ Abrams, has drawn mixed reviews from critics with some describing the plot as unimaginative.\n\nIn North America, the world's largest film market, The Rise of Skywalker pulled in about $176m.\n\nJeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, told Reuters the opening weekend takings marked a \"great number for December\".\n\nBut he added the US sales showed a 20% decline from the previous instalment.\n\n\"That's a cause for concern no matter how big your franchise is.\"\n\nReleased in 2015, The Force Awakens took about $517m in its opening weekend. The Last Jedi, released two years later, scored $450m in its global debut.\n\nDespite the softer debut, many fans showed their enthusiasm for the Star Wars franchise.\n\nDressed as their favourite characters, some attended cinemas for marathon screenings of the eight films leading up to The Rise of Skywalker.\n\nStar Wars characters posed at a Hollywood premiere of The Rise of Skywalker\n\nThe Hollywood blockbuster looks set to end a solid year for Disney.\n\nThe entertainment giant has enjoyed huge box office success with films including Frozen 2, Lion King and Aladdin.\n\nEarlier this year, Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records and within five days it had become the fastest film to break the $1bn sales barrier worldwide.", "British sign language is receiving an astronomical update thanks to a unique collaboration between a space scientist and a group of deaf astronomers.\n\nThe University of Leeds based astrophysicist found that there were no signs for terms describing the latest discoveries in the world of astronomy. So she has decided to help create them.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say their initial findings following the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are \"inconclusive\" - but a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Spurs on Sunday after Chelsea's Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs said they are \"exhaustively investigating\" the incident.\n\nMeanwhile, police arrested a Chelsea fan for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs' Son.\n\nA total of six arrests were made as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture but none were linked to the incident involving Rudiger.\n\n\"We have engaged lip readers to study the footage and contacted Chelsea for further information from their players,\" Spurs said in a statement. \"The police will be reviewing our evidence alongside us.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Please be assured we shall be exhaustively investigating this matter.\"\n• None Players should be empowered to walk off - Neville\n\nSpurs said they are able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism will \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\n\"This club has a proud track record of anti-racism work across all our communities and we are determined to ensure that we conduct a thorough investigation,\" the club added.\n\n\"At this time however we should point out that our findings are inconclusive and would ask that comment is reserved until the facts are established.\"\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it would support both clubs \"in their pursuit of any perpetrators and call for appropriate action to be taken by the authorities and the clubs\".\n\nChelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta told referee Anthony Taylor of Rudiger's complaint during the second half of Sunday's fixture.\n\nThree announcements over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\" between the incident and full-time.\n\nThe Uefa protocol says if a message over the public address system does not stop the racist abuse in a stadium, a second announcement should follow and the temporary suspension of play should be enforced.\n\nIf discriminatory behaviour continues, authorities can decide to abandon the fixture.\n\nSpurs said the fact they repeated the announcement created a \"misconception\" that the issue was ongoing in their stadium.\n\nThe club added: \"In respect of protocols - when the incident was conveyed to the referee Anthony Taylor, he took the decision to call for the implementation of Stage 1 of the Uefa protocol - rather than the Premier League protocol - and asked for an announcement to be made, as well as requesting a further announcement which created a misconception that any issue was ongoing.\n\n\"The Premier League protocol differs from Uefa protocol in that it does not call for an announcement rather that the individual(s) be dealt with by the Safety Team in the first instance.\n\n\"We have asked that the Premier League clarifies the position regarding the use of these protocols to all stakeholders going forward.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, the Professional Footballers' Association called for a government inquiry.\n\nThe government has not ruled out taking \"further steps if required\".\n\nOn Monday, a host of Premier League managers were asked about the issue, with Newcastle's Steve Bruce stating he was \"sickened and saddened by it\", while Manchester City's Pep Guardiola said it will take \"a lot of time\" to \"eradicate\" the issue.", "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 injured inmates were transferred to a hospital in Tegucigalpa\n\nAt least 16 inmates have been killed in a fight between rival gangs at a Honduran prison, less than two days after deadly violence at another jail.\n\nOfficials said guns, knives and machetes were used in the fight on Sunday at El Porvenir prison east of the capital, Tegucigalpa.\n\nOn Friday, 18 inmates were killed and 16 hurt in the northern city of Tela.\n\nThere has been a wave of prison violence in Honduras, where prisons are notoriously overcrowded.\n\nThe government declared a state of emergency in the prison system last Wednesday, transferring control to security forces.\n\nPresident Orlando Hernandez made the decision after five members of the MS-13 gang were killed while in detention.\n\nIt was not immediately clear what had triggered the outbreak of violence at El Porvenir prison, but government security official Luis Suazo said gangs there were trying to \"reverse this process\" of intervention.\n\nAt least two other inmates were injured, officials added.\n\n\"The dead and wounded were attacked with bullets and sharp weapons,\" said Lt Antonio Coello.\n\nHonduran prisons house more than 20,000 inmates, despite only having capacity for about 8,000.\n\nFights are common, as rival street gangs vie for control.\n\nAn inmate's relatives pictured after an earlier riot in the port city of Tela", "The pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nA factory in China has denied it used forced labour after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside a Tesco charity Christmas card.\n\nThe card supplier, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, told China's Global Times it had \"never done such a thing\".\n\nTesco halted production at the factory over the message, allegedly written by prisoners claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\nThe Chinese foreign ministry said the allegation was \"a farce\".\n\nSpeaking to the nationalist newspaper Global Times on Monday, a spokesman for the card supplier said: \"We only became aware of this when some foreign media contacted us. We have never done such a thing.\n\n\"Why did they include our company's name?\"\n\nA spokesman for Tesco said it had launched an on-site investigation at the factory on Friday \"before suspending the site and communicating this decision to factory management over the weekend\".\n\nHe added: \"Our product team have also spoken to the supplier to communicate this decision.\"\n\nThe supermarket added that it has further meetings scheduled for this week with representatives from both the factory and the supplier, and that it has not placed any orders from the site since October.\n\nThe message - first reported by the Sunday Times - was found by Florence Widdicombe, who was writing cards to her school friends. She found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nThe message in the card asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters on Monday the allegation was \"a farce\" created by Mr Humphrey.\n\n\"Shanghai's Qingpu prison has no such foreign prisoners undergoing forced labour,\" Mr Shuang said.\n\nZhejiang Yunguang Printing's factory manager, Shu Yunjia, told the BBC it had not outsourced any of its work to the Qingpu prison.\n\nChina's denial is a specific one: Shanghai's Qingpu prison \"does not at all have...forced labour by foreign convicts\".\n\nThe key word there is 'forced'.\n\nThe convicts who allegedly wrote the note found in the card claimed they were being forced to work against their will.\n\nBut China's foreign ministry is likely making that denial in light of article 69 of the country's Prison Law, which stipulates that \"criminals with working capacity must participate in labour\".\n\nMaking Christmas cards - even ones destined to raise money for UK charities - is almost certainly the least worst outcome in China's penal system.\n\nA politicised judiciary, controlled by the Communist Party, is one step on a road for some prisoners which can involve disappearing, torture and forced confession.\n\nForced hard labour has been used as a tool of punishment and political persecution.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, said she was writing her \"sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman previously said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nTesco added that it would de-list Zhejiang Yunguang if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nTesco has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Mr Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC that the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\nHe added that when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "The work, which depicts workers enjoying a day off, is expected to sell for up to £1m\n\nA painting by LS Lowry that was lost to the art world for more than seven decades has been unearthed.\n\nThe 1943 work, entitled The Mill, Pendlebury, depicts workers enjoying a day off and children playing cricket.\n\n\"There are no records of it, we simply didn't know it existed,\" said British art expert Nick Orchard of Christie's auction house in London.\n\nThe painting, which Lowry gave away, is expected to fetch between £700,000 and £1m when it goes on sale next month.\n\nIt has spent the majority of its life in the US, owned by influential medical researcher Leonard D Hamilton, who died earlier this year.\n\nLowry gave the painting to Mr Hamilton's parents more than 70 years ago, when the family were living in Manchester.\n\n\"Of course today we think 'oh wow, a Lowry' but in the 1940s he wasn't represented by a major dealer or gallery,\" Mr Orchard told the BBC.\n\n\"He most likely would've only shown his work locally or maybe to people he knew,\" he added.\n\nThe couple later gave it to their son who hung it on the wall of his student accommodation while studying at the University of Oxford.\n\nThe Lowry seen (top left) hanging in Mr Hamilton's accommodation at the University of Oxford\n\nMr Hamilton, who played a key role in discovering the structure of DNA, later moved to New York where he lived in one of the city's last standing brownstone buildings which were demolished in the 1950s. The house went on to feature in a Life magazine article.\n\nIn the 1970s, Mr Hamilton moved to a larger home in Long Island where he was able to better house his extensive art collection - including the Lowry.\n\n\"I don't think you can call it a unique painting but it's a very special one\", Mr Orchard added.\n\n\"It's a lovely composition - and it has everything you would want in a Lowry: factory, chimneys, people scurrying around.\"\n\nLS Lowry pictured near his home in Pendlebury, Lancashire, in 1964 with the mill behind him\n\nEarlier this year Lowry's 1938 work A Cricket Match sold for nearly £1.2m at auction.\n\nTwo works hold the record auction sale price for a Lowry: The Football Match and Piccadilly Circus both sold for £5.6m in 2011.\n\nBorn in 1887, Laurence Stephen Lowry gained recognition for his seemingly simple depictions of working-class life in the industrial parts of northern England. He died in 1976.", "Rescue teams clambered over vehicles to free those trapped in the crash\n\nMore than 60 vehicles have been involved in a pile-up in foggy conditions on a motorway in the US state of Virginia.\n\nThere were no reports of fatalities in the crash on Interstate 64 near Williamsburg but more than 50 people were injured, two critically.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nPolice said that the fog, combined with icy conditions, would have been factors.\n\nThe crash happened at about 08:00 on Sunday (13:00 GMT) on the westbound carriageway.\n\nImages from the scene showed a mass of crumpled cars rammed into each other along a stretch of the road. Rescue teams carefully picked their way through the vehicles to reach and treat the injured.\n\nIt took several hours to clear away the damaged cars and reopen the road to traffic.\n\nLorry driver Ivan Levy told the Associated Press that he saw thick fog up ahead and started to slow down, turning his hazard lights on.\n\n\"Next thing I know I see cars just start piling up on top of each other,\" he added.\n\nHis wife, who was travelling in a separate car, was involved in the crash but not seriously injured.\n\nCrumpled cars covered a long stretch of the I-64 in York County, Virginia\n\nFog played a part in the crash, police said", "IS was uprooted after a long fight in Iraq, but it was never completely defeated\n\nThere are growing indications that the Islamic State (IS) group is re-organising in Iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country.\n\nKurdish and Western intelligence officials have told the BBC that the IS presence in Iraq is a sophisticated insurgency, and IS attacks are increasing.\n\nThe militants are now more skilled and more dangerous than al-Qaeda, according to Lahur Talabany, a top Kurdish counter-terrorism official.\n\n\"They have better techniques, better tactics and a lot more money at their disposal,\" he said. \"They are able to buy vehicles, weapons, food supplies and equipment. Technologically they're more savvy. It's more difficult to flush them out. So, they are like al-Qaeda on steroids.\"\n\nThe veteran intelligence chief delivered his stark assessment in a London accent - the legacy of years in the UK after his family had to flee from the regime of Saddam Hussein.\n\nAt his base in Sulaimaniya, nestled in the hills of the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, he painted a picture of an organisation that has spent the past 12 months rebuilding from the ruins of the caliphate.\n\n\"We see the activities are increasing now, and we think the rebuilding phase is over,\" said Mr Talabany, who heads the Zanyari Agency, one of two intelligence agencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A top Kurdish intelligence official says IS in Iraq is now 'like al-Qaeda on steroids'\n\nA different kind of IS has emerged, he says, which no longer wants to control any territory to avoid being a target. Instead - like their predecessors in al-Qaeda before them - the extremists have gone underground, in Iraq's Hamrin Mountains.\n\n\"This is the hub for ISIS [Islamic State group] right now,\" said Mr Talabany. \"It's a long range of mountains, and very difficult for the Iraqi army to control. There are a lot of hide-outs and caves.\"\n\nCaves (left) where IS fighters have been hiding\n\nHe warned that IS would be nourished by the current unrest in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and would exploit the sense of alienation among their fellow Sunni Muslims - a minority community. In Iraq, this is a familiar and bloody pattern.\n\n\"If we have political unrest,\" he said, \"this is Heaven or Christmas come early for ISIS.\"\n\nThe militants are also benefitting from strained relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, following a Kurdish independence referendum in 2017.\n\nThere is now a vast area of no man's land in northern Iraq between Kurdish Peshmerga security forces and Islamic State 'getting stronger again in Iraq' their Iraqi counterparts. According to Mr Talabany, the only ones patrolling in this area are IS.\n\nA Peshmerga soldier looks out across no man's land where IS fighters roam\n\nAt a sandbagged outpost on a hilltop overlooking the town of Gwer, Major General Sirwan Barzani has a commanding view of this no man's land, and a worried expression. The Kurdish Peshmerga commander says IS now have free rein across this swathe of uncontrolled territory.\n\n\"In the delta between the Great Zab and Tigris rivers we can say they are permanently there,\" he said. \"There is too much activity from IS in the area close to the Tigris. Day by day we can see the movement of ISIS, and the activities.\"\n\nAccording to Peshmerga intelligence reports, IS ranks in the area have recently been reinforced by about 100 fighters who crossed the border from Syria, including some foreigners with suicide belts.\n\n\"If the situation continues, IS will become more organised in 2020,\" warns Maj Gen Sirwan Barzani\n\nIt was from this hilltop at Gwer that the Peshmerga launched their first offensive against IS in August 2014. The major general - and others here - say history is repeating itself.\n\n\"I can compare 2019 with 2012, \" he said, \"when they were beginning, organising themselves, and getting taxes from the people. If the situation continues as it is, in 2020 they will reorganise themselves more, be more powerful and carry out more attacks.\"\n\nKurdish intelligence officials estimate that IS is 10,000 strong in Iraq with between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters, and a similar number of sleeper cells and sympathisers.\n\nThe international community should be worried, according to Lahur Talabany. \"The more comfortable they get here,\" he says, \"there more they will think about operations outside of Iraq and Syria.\"\n\nThe top US military commander on the ground in Iraq says IS is trying to reconstitute itself but faces a different response from Iraqi and Kurdish security forces this time around.\n\nAccording to Brigadier General William Seely, Commander of Task Force-Iraq, these forces are better prepared than in 2014 when IS gained control of a third of Iraq and took Mosul, its second largest city, virtually unopposed.\n\n\"The ISF [Iraqi security forces] and the Peshmerga are not the same forces as when Mosul fell,\" said Brig Gen Seely. \"We have been here adding to their training. The ISF is keeping their foot on the pedal to ensure the momentum against Daesh [IS] remains steady.\"\n\nHe cites a single month, from mid-October to mid-November, in which the ISF carried out 170 \"clearance operations\" and destroyed almost 1,700 components for improvised explosive devices.\n\nHe says IS fighters are now hiding out in caves and in the desert \"in conditions that no one can handle for too long\", and they can't move in large formations. \"The largest I have seen in my six months here is 15, he says, adding that even one ISIS fighter is too many.\n\nFor now the extremists are confined to the shadows - emerging at night to carry out hit-and-run attacks. But Iraq has seen terror grow from these beginnings before, and some here fear a new threat is coming, for the region and the West.", "Two women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murdering two women in a village in West Sussex is in a \"very unstable condition\" in hospital, police said.\n\nOne of the victims of the attack in Crawley Down has been named locally as 76-year-old Sandy Seagrave.\n\nShe was found dead outside a house in Hazel Way, alongside the body of a 32-year-old woman, on Sunday.\n\nThe 37-year-old suspect, who knew one of the women, is at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.\n\nHe was found injured inside the property by police at 10:20 GMT, on Sunday.\n\nRetired milkman Tony Jones, 74, said of Ms Seagrave: \"Everybody knows Sandy because she used to walk round the village.\n\n\"Everybody used to see her, wave to her... a lovely lady.\n\n\"I can't believe what happened to her,\" he said.\n\nA message written on a bouquet of flowers at the police cordon read: \"A terrible tragedy. Rest in peace.\"\n\nResidents near the scene turned off their Christmas lights on Sunday night in tribute to those who had been killed, according to a homeowner.\n\n\"It was all the village lights. It was quite dark and eerie but it was a mark of respect,\" she said.\n\nPolice in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police has since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart of Sussex Police said: \"This is a tragic incident which has led to the death of two local women, one of whom was known to the suspect.\n\n\"Members of the public, police and paramedics did all they could to help the victims but sadly the two women died at the scene.\n\n\"I extend my heartfelt sympathies to their families, who are being supported by specialist officers. I ask that people respect their privacy at this distressing time.\n\n\"Extensive inquiries are taking place along with a forensic examination, and any speculation by the media as to what has happened is unhelpful. This was not a knife attack.\n\n\"A cordon will remain in the area while we gather evidence and we appreciate the support and understanding of local residents.\"\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of the women's deaths.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two women killed and man hurt at house\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. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nTesco has suspended production of charity Christmas cards at a factory in China after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one.\n\nThe note, found by Florence Widdicombe, was allegedly written by prisoners in Shanghai claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\n\"Please help us and notify human rights organisation,\" the message said.\n\nTesco said it was \"shocked\" by the report, adding: \"We would never allow prison labour in our supply chain.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it would de-list the supplier of the cards, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nFlorence was writing cards to her school friends when she found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nThe pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nIt asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, told BBC News she was writing \"my sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nHer father, Ben Widdicombe, said he first felt \"incredulity\" at discovering the message, adding he first thought it was \"some sort of prank\".\n\n\"But on reflection we realised it was potentially quite a serious thing,\" he said. \"I felt very shocked but also felt a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do.\"\n\nHe said: \"It hits home. There are injustices in the world and there are people in difficult situations and we know about that and we read about that each and every day.\n\n\"There is something about that message hitting home at Christmas... that really does make it very poignant and very powerful.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nHe added: \"It could have ended up anywhere. And indeed we have many cards as all families do that are left over and we put them in a drawer and forget about them. There is an incredible element of chance in all of this that the card was written, it got to us and we opened it on the day we did.\"\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nThe retailer has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nHe then wrote the story for the Sunday Times.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nHe said the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\n\"They sleep in very rusty iron bunkbeds with a mattress which is no more than about 1cm thick underneath,\" he said.\n\n\"In the winter it's extremely cold, there's no heating in the building and in the summer it's extremely hot because there is no air conditioning.\n\n\"They get up around 5:30-6:00am every day they have to go to bed again at about 9.30.\"\n\nHe said when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\n\"Everyone I know in there at the time was in there for very questionable reasons,\" he said. \"I met so many people who I considered to be the victims of wrongful imprisonment or at least reckless sentencing for minor offences.\"\n\nMr Humphrey said he believes those who wrote the note \"knew very well what risks they were taking and they were prepared to take this risk\".\n\n\"They know very well that if they're caught, they will be punished. They could be punished for example by losing some merit points or having some kind of deprivation of some of their food allowance.\n\n\"They could be punished by sending them to solitary confinement for a month or something like that where conditions are fairly harsh.\"\n\nMr Humphrey also said that censorship in the prison had increased, cutting off his usual methods of contacting prisoners he had met before his release in 2015.\n\n\"They resorted to the Qingpu equivalent of a message in a bottle, scribbled on a Tesco Christmas card,\" he said.\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "Both vehicles were destroyed by fire after a collision in Battersea\n\nA woman has died in a crash between a National Express coach and a car, in which both vehicles caught fire.\n\nThe coach, travelling from Gatwick to London Victoria, was in collision with a car on Queenstown Road, Battersea, south-west London, at 04:30 GMT.\n\nA 26-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene. The car driver and a bus passenger were taken to hospital.\n\nAll other passengers boarded a replacement coach, National Express said.\n\nFootage of the scene shows a blaze erupt between the two vehicles\n\nFootage circulating on social media of the scene shows both vehicles on fire on Queenstown Road close to Chelsea Bridge.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said the grey Volkswagen Polo Zipcar and the coach were destroyed by fire.\n\nA National Express spokeswoman said: \"One of our vehicles on the A3 service from Gatwick to London Victoria was involved in an incident with a car on Queenstown Road in the early hours this morning.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the scene and we will continue to provide every assistance with the ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the occupant of the car, who sadly passed away.\"\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\nQueenstown Road is currently closed in both directions between Queens Circus and Chelsea Bridge due to the collision.\n\nInquiries into the circumstances continue, the Met said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A football match in Tanzania was briefly stopped when a swarm of bees invaded the pitch.\n\nTwo local teams, Young Africans and Iringa United, were playing at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam.", "Chloe Haines also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door mid-flight\n\nA woman has admitted trying to open an aeroplane door mid-flight prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled.\n\nChloe Haines, 26, of High Wycombe, also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door on the Jet2 flight to Dalaman, Turkey, on 22 June.\n\nTwo RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex.\n\nHaines, who admitted two charges, is due to be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 24 January.\n\nShe pleaded guilty on Monday to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.\n\nHaines' barrister Oliver Saxby told Chelmsford Crown Court there was \"no question\" Haines was drunk at the time.\n\nMr Saxby told the court: \"On any analysis, she's a troubled young person with a number of serious issues.\n\n\"Seventeen days before this incident, she had been sentenced to a community order for not dissimilar offences, not committed in the air but with alcohol and a loss of control.\n\n\"That order had not had a chance to bite.\"\n\nHe said Haines, of Station Road in Loudwater, had \"to her credit engaged more fully with Alcoholics Anonymous\".\n\nHer bail conditions include that she does not travel from any UK airport.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dhow was spotted by Sailors and Royal Marines\n\nThe Royal Navy says it has seized 11 \"mailbag-sized\" sacks of crystal meth in the Middle East, worth an estimated £3.3m.\n\nHMS Defender spotted the \"suspicious\" ship while patrolling the Arabian Sea for smugglers and traffickers.\n\nSailors and Royal Marines boarded the ship, and found a total haul of 131kg.\n\nHMS Defender's commanding officer said he was \"proud\" they had seized a \"significant quantity\" of drugs that could have potentially reached the UK.\n\nCdr Richard Hewitt added: \"This has been a real boost for the ship's company as they face Christmas away from their loved ones.\"\n\nThe Navy said the drugs contained in the bags would have had an estimated street value of £3.3m in the UK.\n\nHMS Defender has been deployed to the Middle East since August\n\nThe Portsmouth-based warship HMS Defender carried out the day-long search of the boat - a dhow - after being alerted by the destroyer's helicopter.\n\nThe Navy said the Wildcat helicopter discovered a solo ship without a flying flag and could not find evidence it was carrying out fishing.\n\nThat prompted the destroyer to investigate, sending Royal Marines to secure the ship and its crew.\n\nHMS Defender is one of more than a dozen British warships, submarines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels on duty over the Christmas period.\n\nThe vessel has been deployed to the Middle East since August, safeguarding merchant shipping entering and leaving the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said about 11,000 troops are involved in operations in more than 30 countries across the world over the Christmas period.\n\nThey include personnel serving in Somalia, South Sudan, Estonia, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands and the Caribbean.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families at this time of year.\"", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died while on a school trip to New York.\n\nThe sixth form student at Bristol Grammar School was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December, New York police said.\n\nShe was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice said there were no suspicious circumstances, but they understood the teenager may have been ill during the trip.\n\nThey are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged 4-18 enrolled.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has denied personally ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nBut he told CBS News' 60 Minutes that he took \"responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia\" for what happened.\n\nMr Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Turkey on 2 October 2018.", "Dozens of homes have been flooded and villages left under water after parts of England were again deluged by rain.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 79 flood warnings for the South, Midlands, East and Yorkshire, meaning immediate action is needed.\n\nA mother and her three sons had to be saved after their car got stuck in flood water in Buckinghamshire.\n\nAnd rivers including the Medway in Kent, Cuckmere in East Sussex and Loddon in Berkshire burst their banks.\n\nThe mother and her family were rescued in Edgcott, near Aylesbury, on Saturday night.\n\nMeanwhile, homes and gardens were damaged when a tornado hit Surrey, earlier on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nTravellers embarking on the Christmas getaway have been advised to check their routes in advance and drivers have been warned not to move or ignore \"road closed\" signs.\n\nThe Medway has flooded towns and villages including Maidstone, Yalding and Teston. Alfriston, in East Sussex, has been flooded.\n\nHomes in Yalding have been flooded\n\nCars in the village were swept away and the Environment Agency warns there is more rain forecast for Tuesday.\n\nPolice in Bedfordshire said they had received calls from people out walking who had become stuck in rural areas because of the flooding.\n\nThey urged people to be aware of weather conditions in secluded locations, with Bedford Borough Council saying several bridges had been closed in its district because they are \"no longer safe to use\".\n\nSupermarket workers at Sainsbury's in Tonbridge continued to push trolleys despite rising levels of rain water.\n\nA Sainsbury's worker continued to push trolleys despite the rising water levels\n\nResidents of Little Venice Caravan Park in Yalding, Kent, had to be rescued by motorboat.\n\nOn Friday night, one officer had to strip down to his boxer shorts to check on a car stuck in Kingsey.\n\nThe tornado struck a number of houses in the Chertsey area on Saturday, according to firefighters.\n\nResident Verity Boultwood said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nPhilip Passey said he \"froze\" when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden,\" he said.\n\n\"My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\"\n\nThe tornado struck after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but was later reopened.\n\nYoung people had to be ferried across a car park at Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, next to the River Soar\n\nA tractor was used to carry guests to and from the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Sindlesham near Reading, where the car park has been inundated by overflow from the River Loddon.\n\nA hotel car park at Sindlesham near Reading was inundated when the River Loddon burst its banks\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? 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.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nA woman who was injured after a bus hit a railway bridge has died.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, was travelling on the bus - which was bound for Swansea University - when it crashed into the bridge on Neath Road on 12 December.\n\nMs Ren, a mother of one, was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a 63-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released under investigation.\n\nMs Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nAn inquest into Ms Ren's death has been opened and adjourned until 17 June 2020.\n\nEight people were injured in the crash, including Olympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who is studying at the university.\n\nAfter the crash, Ms Ren was airlifted from Swansea to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, while two others suffered serious injuries.\n\nSwansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren. Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nThe crash happened at about 09:40 GMT while the bus was travelling from Swansea University's Singleton campus to its Swansea Bay campus.\n\nA First Cymru spokesman said the bus was off its normal route due to a temporary road closure.\n\nNetwork Rail said the height restriction on the bridge is 3.3m (11ft) but the sign was dislodged in the crash.\n\nAlastair Hawkes, 22, who was on the top deck of the bus, said: \"There was a crunch and smashing glass and screaming.\n\n\"Everyone was thinking 'what just happened?' as there was a bridge halfway up the bus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking two days after the crash Mr Young, 53, said he and the woman in front of him hit the windscreen of the bus and he suffered a cut to the top of his head.\n\n\"I hit it and I fell straight down onto the floor,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was \"extremely lucky to be alive\".", "I walked along a tree-lined street in a quiet area of Istanbul and approached a cream-coloured villa, decked with CCTV cameras.\n\nA year ago, an exiled Saudi journalist took the same journey. Jamal Khashoggi was caught on CCTV. It would be the last image of him.\n\nHe entered the Saudi consulate and was murdered by an assassination squad.\n\nBut the consulate was bugged by Turkish intelligence - the planning and the execution were all recorded. The tapes have only been heard by very few people. Two of those people have now spoken exclusively to the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\n\"The horror of listening to somebody's voice, the fear in someone's voice, and that you're listening to something live. It makes a shiver go through your body.\"\n\nKennedy made detailed notes of the conversations she heard between members of the Saudi hit squad.\n\n\"You can hear them laughing. It's a chilling business. They're waiting there knowing that this man is going to come in and he's going to be murdered and cut up.\"\n\nKennedy was invited to join a team headed by Agnès Callamard, the UN's special rapporteur for extrajudicial killing.\n\nCallamard, a human rights expert, told me of her determination to use her own mandate to probe the killing, when the UN proved reluctant to mount an international criminal investigation.\n\nIt took her a week to persuade Turkish intelligence to let her and Kennedy, along with their Arabic translator, listen to the tapes.\n\n\"The intention clearly on the part of Turkey to give me access, was to help me prove planning and premeditation,\" she says.\n\nThey were able to listen to 45 minutes, extracted from recordings made on two crucial days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJamal Khashoggi had been in Istanbul - a city where opponents of regimes across the Middle East have long sought refuge - for a few weeks before he was killed.\n\nThe 59-year-old divorced father of four had recently become engaged to Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish academic researcher.\n\nThey were hoping to build their life together in this cosmopolitan city, but to remarry, Khashoggi needed his divorce papers.\n\nOn 28 September, he and Cengiz visited the Turkish municipal office but were told they needed to get the papers from the Saudi consulate.\n\n\"This was the last resort. He had to go and get those documents from the consulate for us to get officially married because he couldn't go back to his country,\" Cengiz tells me when I meet her in a cafe.\n\nKhashoggi hadn't always been an outcast, exiled from his own country. I met him 15 years ago at the Saudi embassy in London's Mayfair. He was then at the heart of the Saudi establishment - a smooth-talking aide to the ambassador.\n\nWe discussed a recent terror attack by al-Qaeda. Khashoggi had known its Saudi leader, Osama bin Laden, for decades. Initially Khashoggi had some sympathy for al-Qaeda's aim to overthrow autocratic Middle Eastern regimes. But later, he spoke out against the group's atrocities as his views became more liberal and he championed democracy.\n\nIn 2007, he returned home to edit the pro-government newspaper al-Watan. But he was fired three years later for what he described as \"pushing the boundaries of debate within Saudi society\".\n\nBy 2011, inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Khashoggi was speaking out against what he saw as the repressive and autocratic Saudi regime. By 2017 he had been banned from writing and went into self-imposed exile in America. His wife was forced to divorce him.\n\nKhashoggi became a contributor for the Washington Post, for whom he wrote 20 hard-hitting columns in the year before he died.\n\n\"When he was an editor in the Kingdom he would cross red lines,\" says his friend David Ignatius, the Post's senior foreign affairs columnist and investigative journalist. \"What I saw with Jamal was that he kept getting himself in trouble by speaking his mind.\"\n\nMuch of Khashoggi's criticism was targeted at the new crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nMBS, as he is known, was admired by many in the West. He was seen as a reformer and moderniser with a new vision for his country.\n\nBut at home in Saudi Arabia, he was cracking down on dissent and Khashoggi was highlighting it in the pages of the Post.\n\nThis was not the image the crown prince wanted to project.\n\n\"I think that particularly aggravated the crown prince, and he kept asking his aides to do something about this Jamal problem,\" says Ignatius, who regularly visits Saudi and writes about its politics.\n\nIn Istanbul, the Saudis were presented with an opportunity to \"do something\" about Khashoggi.\n\nOn the day of his first visit to the consulate, Cengiz had to remain outside.\n\nShe remembers Khashoggi coming out of the building with a smile on his face. He told her that officials had been surprised to see him and had offered him tea and coffee.\n\n\"He said there was nothing to be afraid of, he missed his country so much and breathing that familiar air had made him feel really good.\"\n\nKhashoggi was told to come back in a few days.\n\nBut as soon as he was gone, phone calls were being made back to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia - all recorded by Turkish intelligence.\n\n\"What was interesting about this phone call is that it referred to Mr Khashoggi as one of the persons that was being sought,\" says Callamard.\n\nThe first call is believed to have alerted the powerful aide who ran MBS's so-called communications office - Saud al-Qahtani.\n\n\"Someone in the communication office had authorised the mission. It makes sense to see that reference to the communication office as being a reference to Saud al-Qahtani,\" she continues.\n\n\"He has been named directly in various other campaigns against individuals.\"\n\nAl-Qahtani had already been accused of involvement in the detention and torture of dissidents in Saudi, such as female activists who dared to drive before the ban was lifted, and high-profile individuals suspected of disloyalty.\n\nIn his writings, Khashoggi had accused al-Qahtani of operating a \"blacklist\" for the crown prince.\n\n\"Qahtani began doing extraordinary services - secret black operations,\" says Ignatius, who has investigated the royal aide. \"That became part of his portfolio and he managed it with a particular ruthlessness.\"\n\nThere are recordings of at least four phone calls on 28 September between the consulate and Riyadh. These include conversations between the consul general and the head of security at the ministry of foreign affairs, who told him a top-secret mission - \"a national duty\" - was planned.\n\nThere's no doubt in my mind this was a seriously, highly organised mission coming from the top,\" says Kennedy.\n\n\"This was not some flaky, maverick operation on the side.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of 1 October, three Saudi intelligence officers flew into Istanbul. It's known that two worked in the office of the crown prince.\n\nCallamard believes they were on a reconnaissance mission.\n\n\"They probably assess the consulate building, they determine what can and cannot be done.\"\n\nOn a quiet and shady terrace in Istanbul, overlooking the Bosphorus, I meet a former Turkish intelligence officer with 27 years' experience.\n\nMetin Ersöz is an expert on Saudi Arabia and its special operations missions. He says its intelligence services became more aggressive after Mohammed bin Salman became crown prince.\n\n\"They started the kidnapping operations and pressuring dissidents,\" he says.\n\n\"Khashoggi was late in recognising the threat and taking precautions and he would pay a heavy price for it.\"\n\nIn the early hours of 2 October, a private jet landed at Istanbul airport.\n\nOn board were nine Saudis - including a forensic pathologist named Dr Salah al-Tubaigy.\n\nAfter probing their identities and backgrounds, Callamard believes this was the Saudi hit squad.\n\n\"The operation was conducted by state officials, they were acting in their official capacities,\" she says.\n\n\"Two of them had diplomatic passports.\"\n\nErsöz says that this kind of mission - a special operation - would have needed approval from either the Saudi King or the crown prince.\n\nThe Saudis checked into the large and impersonal Mövenpick Hotel, located within a few minutes' walk of the consulate.\n\nJust before 10:00, CCTV shows one of the hit squad entering the Saudi consulate.\n\nFrom listening to the tapes, Kennedy believes that Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb was the man who ran the operation.\n\nMutreb was regularly seen travelling with the crown prince, discreetly in the background, close to him as part of his security detail.\n\n\"In the calls between the consul general and Mutreb, there's a reference to the fact that 'we received the information Khashoggi will be coming on Tuesday',\" says Kennedy.\n\nLater on the morning of 2 October, Khashoggi received a call to come to the consulate for his documents.\n\nAs he and Cengiz walked towards the consulate, a macabre and shocking phone conversation was taking place inside between Mutreb and the forensic pathologist, Dr al-Tubaigy.\n\n\"He talks about how when he's doing autopsies. You can hear them laughing,\" Kennedy says.\n\n\"He says, 'I often play music when I'm cutting cadavers. And sometimes I have a coffee and a cigar at hand.'\"\n\nThen the tapes reveal the doctor knows what he is expected to do, according to Kennedy.\n\n\"It's the first time in my life, I will have to cut (up) pieces on the ground,\" she recalls him saying. \"Even if you are a butcher you hang the animal up to do so.\"\n\nAn upstairs office in the consulate had been made ready. The floor was covered in plastic sheeting. Local Turkish staff had all been given the day off.\n\n\"They speak about… when is Khashoggi to arrive, and they say, 'Has the sacrificial animal arrived?' That's how they refer to him,\" says Kennedy.\n\nShe is reading to me from her notebook, horror in her voice.\n\n\"I remember we walked there hand-in-hand and when we arrived in front of the consulate, Jamal gave me his phones and said, 'See you later darling, wait for me here,'\" says Cengiz.\n\nKhashoggi knew his phones would be taken at the entrance and did not want the Saudis to access his private information.\n\nThe tapes reveal that he is met by a reception committee and told that there is an Interpol warrant out for his arrest and he must return to Saudi Arabia.\n\nHe is heard refusing to text his son to assure the family he is fine.\n\nThe silencing of Jamal Khashoggi then begins.\n\n\"There was a point where you can hear Khashoggi moving from being a man who's a confident person, towards a sense of fear - rising anxiety, rising terror - and then knowing that something fatal is about to happen,\" says Kennedy.\n\nShe continues: \"There's something absolutely horrifying about the voice changing. The cruelty of it comes across by listening to the tapes.\"\n\nCallamard is not sure how aware Khashoggi was of the Saudis' plans: \"I don't know whether he thinks he could be killed, but he certainly thinks that they could try to abduct him. He is asking, 'Are you going to give me an injection?' to which he's being told 'Yes'.\"\n\nKennedy says she heard Khashoggi asking twice whether he is being kidnapped and then saying, 'How could this happen in an embassy?'\"\n\n\"The sounds that are heard after that point will tend to indicate that he's suffocated. Probably with a plastic bag over his head,\" says Callamard. \"His mouth was also closed - violently - maybe with a hand or something else.\"\n\nKennedy believes the forensic pathologist now takes over on the orders of the team leader.\n\n\"You hear a voice saying, 'Let him cut,' and it sounds like Mutreb.\n\n\"Then somebody shouting, 'It's over,' and someone else shouting, 'Take it off, take it off. Put this on his head. Wrap it.' I can only assume that they had removed his head.\"\n\nFor Cengiz, only half an hour had passed since Khashoggi left her outside the consulate.\n\n\"During that time, I was dreaming of my future - like how our wedding would be. We were planning a small ceremony,\" she says.\n\nAbout 15:00, CCTV shows consular vehicles leaving and arriving at the consul general's residence two streets away.\n\nThree men enter with suitcases and plastic bags. Callamard believes they may have contained parts of the body.\n\nA car later drives away. Khashoggi's body has never been found.\n\nWhat about the most disturbing detail reported at the time of the murder - the bone saw used to dismember the body?\n\nKennedy says she did not hear the kind of grating noise she would have associated with that type of surgical instrument on the tape. But she says there was a low-level humming sound. Turkish intelligence officials believe this was the sound of the saw.\n\nAt 15.53, CCTV shows two members of the hit squad leaving the consulate.\n\nI retraced their footsteps down the street past the cameras that detailed their route between the consulate and the heart of old Istanbul.\n\nOne man is dressed in Khashoggi's clothes, but wearing different shoes. The other man, his face obscured by a hoodie, is carrying a white plastic bag.\n\nThey head towards Istanbul's famous Blue Mosque. When they re-emerge, the man previously dressed in Khashoggi's clothes has changed.\n\nThey hail a taxi back to their hotel, dumping the plastic bag - thought to contain Khashoggi's clothes - in a bin nearby, before going down into a subway and back to the Mövenpick Hotel.\n\n\"There was a very large degree of planning used to give the impression that nothing harmful had happened to Mr Khashoggi,\" says Callamard.\n\nAll this time, Cengiz was still waiting outside the consulate.\n\n\"I waited and waited and waited there past 15:30. Then, when I realised the consulate had closed, I started running towards it. I asked why Jamal didn't come out. A guard told me he didn't know what I was talking about.\"\n\nAt 16:41, Cengiz was desperate and phoned an old friend of Khashoggi's. He had given her the number in case he was ever in trouble.\n\nDr Yasin Aktay is a member of Turkey's ruling party with contacts at the highest levels.\n\n\"I received a call from an unknown number, a really worried voice from a lady I didn't know,\" he says. \"She said, 'My fiance Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi consulate and didn't come out.'\"\n\nYasin swiftly called the head of Turkish intelligence and alerted the office of President Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nBy 18:30, the members of the hit squad were on a private jet to Riyadh, less than 24 hours after they had arrived.\n\nThe next day, the Saudi and Turkish governments issued contradictory statements about what had happened inside the consulate. Saudi Arabia insisted Khashoggi had left the consulate. The Turks said he was still inside.\n\nTurkish intelligence was already poring over the consulate recordings - including the calls made four days before Khashoggi disappeared.\n\nSo did they know at that time that his life was in danger and, if so, why did they not warn him?\n\n\"I don't think they knew. There is no evidence that they were listening live to what was happening,\" says Callamard.\n\n\"This kind of intelligence is done on a regular basis, and it's only because there is a trigger that they may return to the tapes. It was only because Mr Khashoggi was killed and disappeared that they returned to the tape.\"\n\nErsöz tells me his former intelligence colleagues reviewed the tapes retrospectively and went through between 4,000 and 5,000 hours of material to find the key days and the 45 minutes presented to Callamard and Kennedy.\n\nFour days after Khashoggi was killed, another Saudi team arrived - claiming they had come to find out what had happened.\n\nCallamard believes they were really a clean-up team. For two weeks, the Saudis would not allow Turkish investigators to enter the consulate.\n\n\"By the time they were able to collect some evidence, there was nothing there, not even DNA evidence of Mr Khashoggi having been there,\" says Callamard.\n\n\"The only logical conclusion is that the place was thoroughly, forensically cleaned.\"\n\nThat evening, the Turkish authorities told the media that Khashoggi had been murdered in the Saudi consulate.\n\n\"Jamal really didn't deserve this, He deserved so much better,\" says Cengiz. \"The way they killed him, it killed all my hope in life.\"\n\nThe killing in Istanbul, inside an embassy with diplomatic immunity, put the Turkish authorities in a quandary.\n\nFor weeks, despite mounting pressure from the Turks, the Saudis refused to admit the murder, saying first there had been \"a fist fight\" in the consulate and then claiming it was \"a rogue operation\".\n\nProtest outside the Saudi Embassy in the United States, six days after the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi\n\nThe Turkish authorities' strategy was to leak some of what they knew to local and international press. They then invited representatives from the CIA and a few handpicked intelligence agencies, including MI6, to listen to the tapes, proving Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi state operatives.\n\nThe CIA reportedly came to the conclusion there was \"medium to high certainty\" that Mohammad bin Salman had ordered the killing. They briefed Congressmen who were left in no doubt about the finding.\n\nIn January, the Saudi government finally put 11 people on trial in Riyadh for the murder of Khashoggi, including Mutreb and Dr al-Tubaigy, but not the alleged mastermind - Saud al-Qahtani.\n\nHe has not been indicted or even summoned to court to give evidence. I have been told he is being kept in seclusion away from everyone, including his own family, but is still in contact with the crown prince.\n\nCallamard's report for the UN Human Rights Council has reached a decisive conclusion.\n\n\"There is no indication under international law that this crime could be qualified under any other way but as a state killing,\" she says.\n\nKennedy says the revelations of the Khashoggi murder tapes must be acted on.\n\n\"Something treacherous and terrible happened in that embassy. The international community has a responsibility to insist on a high-level judicial enquiry,\" she says.\n\nTurkey has demanded the extradition of those involved to face trial in Istanbul. But Saudi Arabia has refused.\n\nThe Saudi government declined to give an interview to Panorama, but said it condemned the \"abhorrent killing\" and it was committed to holding the perpetrators accountable.\n\nIt said that the crown prince had \"absolutely nothing to do\" with what it called a \"heinous crime\".\n\nOne year on, as we leave the cafe, I can see the pain still suffered by the woman left behind when her fiance's life was cut short so brutally.\n\nIn her parting words to me, Hatice Cengiz warns of the true significance of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.\n\n\"It's not only a tragedy for me - but for all humanity, all the people who think like Jamal and who took a stance like him.\"\n• None 'Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?'", "Taylor Swift is just one member of Cats' all-star cast\n\nThe movie version of Cats has failed to live up to expectations at the box office, taking just $6.5m (£5m) at the North American box office.\n\nThe $100m (£77m) film, which was expected to make double that amount, debuted fourth on the US chart, with the new Stars Wars movie on top.\n\nIn the UK and Ireland, it grossed £3.4m, having been panned by critics.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, an updated print of Cats was sent out to cinemas on Friday.\n\nThe trade paper reported that the film's director, Tom Hooper, had ordered re-edits to his film with \"some improved visual effects\".\n\nIt is highly unusual for a finished title already on release to be altered in this way.\n\nThe movie has an all-star cast that includes Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson and Jason Derulo and is based on the hit stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.\n\nWith Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker at number one at the US box office, Cats trailed after Jumanji: The Next Level and Frozen 2.\n\nHooper, who made Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, has been open about the fact that he only just managed to finish his CGI-heavy movie before its world premiere in New York.\n\nAt the event, Hooper told Variety it was completed in a 36-hour sprint on the Sunday.\n\nCats started on a bad footing even before release, with critics almost unanimously branding it a flop, even though social media reaction after the premiere had been more flattering.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's Tim Robey called it a \"sinister, all-time disaster from which no one emerges unscathed\", giving the film no stars.\n\n\"Everything feels off, from the scale of the purpose-built set (which makes the cats look more like Borrowers) to the erratic interpretations of its musical numbers... Regarding cats or humans, Hooper, it seems, has nothing to say,\" said Simran Hans in the Guardian in her one-star review.\n\nBBC News Arts Editor Will Gompertz said wrote that while he didn't think Cats was \"terrible\", he felt Tom Hooper had \"missed the spot\".\n\n\"The harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another,\" he continued, giving the film two stars.\n\nBut the movie could still make up some ground after the main Christmas festivities are over and people head out to be entertained.\n\nTwo years ago, The Greatest Showman made $8.8m (£7m) over Christmas but ended up pulling in $435m (£334m) globally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Men who are dependent on alcohol or drugs are six or seven times more likely to be involved in domestic abuse against women than others, according to an extensive new study.\n\nThe research, published in the online journal PLOS-Medicine, analysed hundreds of thousands of medical records and police data from Sweden over a 16-year period.\n\nIt also found an increased risk of partner violence among men with mental illnesses and behavioural disorders, though it was not as marked as in the group with a drink or drugs problems.\n\nUniversity of Oxford Professor Seena Fazel, who led the study, said the findings suggest domestic violence could be reduced with improvements in drug and alcohol treatment services and better monitoring of offenders.\n\n\"Treatment programmes for perpetrators have not been very effective to date - probably reflecting lack of high-quality evidence on risk factors that can be targeted,\" Prof Fazel told BBC News.\n\n\"Prevention and intervention programmes should prioritise substance misuse and perpetrators should be assessed for substance misuse to prevent recidivism,\" he said.\n\nThe study, which also involved experts from the US, Sweden and King's College, London, tracked 140,000 men who had been clinically diagnosed with a drink or drug problem between January 1998 and December 2013.\n\nResearchers explored how many had later been arrested for threatening, attacking or sexually assaulting their wives, girlfriends or female ex-partners.\n\nThey found that 1.7% of men dependant on alcohol had subsequently been arrested for such offences - six times as many as those in a sample of the overall male population with a similar age profile.\n\nFor men with a drug problem, 2.1% had been arrested, which was seven times higher than average.\n\nWhile undoubtedly there is some link between alcohol and drugs and domestic abuse, this research should be treated with some caution, said Dame Vera Baird, victims' commissioner for England and Wales.\n\nShe said: \"Many perpetrators who commit domestic violence while drunk will also be violent and controlling while sober.\n\n\"And many perpetrators of domestic violence and coercive control do not have a drink or drug problem, and therefore it would be a mistake to divert resources from domestic violence perpetrator programmes to tackling drink and drugs misuse.\"\n\nThe researchers also carried out \"sibling comparisons\" to check whether the increased risk of domestic abuse among those with alcohol and drug problems could be explained by other factors, such as family background and genetics.\n\nThey found there was still a heightened risk among men dependant on drink or drugs - but it was slightly less pronounced when compared with their brothers who did not have substance misuse problems.\n\n\"Alcohol and drug use disorders decrease an individual's inhibition, which in turn can lead to the use of violence to solve conflicts in intimate relationships,\" the research says.\n\nIt also found a link between some mental health problems and domestic abuse, with those suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), personality disorders and clinical depression among those more likely to face arrest.\n\n\"People with mental disorders are also likely to use alcohol and drugs as coping strategies to deal with difficult symptoms associated with their illnesses,\" the study says.\n\n\"Therefore, alcohol and drug use disorders could be underlying mechanisms linking other mental disorders to later [domestic violence] perpetration.\"", "Evidence of the strike at the centre of the stone circle was found during a geophysics survey\n\nEvidence of a \"massive\" lightning strike has been found at the centre of a stone circle in the Western Isles.\n\nA single large strike, or many smaller ones on the same spot, left a star-shaped magnetic anomaly at the 4,000-year-old site in Lewis.\n\nScientists made the discovery at Site XI or Airigh na Beinne Bige, a hillside stone circle now consisting of a single standing stone.\n\nThe site is at the famous Calanais Standing Stones.\n\nScientists said the lightning strike, which was indentified in a geophysics survey, could show a potential link between the construction of ancient stone circles and the forces of nature.\n\nThey said the lightning struck some time before peat enveloped the stone circle at Site XI 3,000 years ago. The discovery is detailed in new research published online.\n\nThe stone circle may have attracted the lightning, say the scientists\n\nDr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews, said: \"Such clear evidence for lightning strikes is extremely rare in the UK and the association with this stone circle is unlikely to be coincidental.\n\n\"Whether the lightning at Site XI focused on a tree or rock which is no longer there, or the monument itself attracted strikes, is uncertain.\n\n\"However, this remarkable evidence suggests that the forces of nature could have been intimately linked with everyday life and beliefs of the early farming communities on the island.\"\n\nThe discovery was made by the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, a joint venture led by the University of St Andrews with standing stones trust Urras nan Tursachan and the University of Bradford and supported by funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.\n\nThe same project has also produced a 3D virtual model recreating another of the area's \"lost\" stone circle, Na Dromannan.\n\nIts stones are today either lying flat or buried under peat.\n\nThe new discovery was made at the famous Calanais Standing Stones", "A backlog of hundreds of tonnes of clinical and human waste piled up at a failed disposal firm for the last 12 months is being cleared.\n\nHealthcare Environmental Services (HES) stopped trading last December after becoming embroiled in a waste stockpiling scandal.\n\nThe collapse left about 300 tonnes of waste at the firm's plant in Shotts, North Lanarkshire.\n\nBut now HES liquidator BDO has said work to clear this backlog has begun.\n\nBDO said a licence has been agreed with Cliniwaste Ltd to operate the Shotts site, and two more in Nottingham and Newcastle, with an option for the Glasgow-based firm to also buy them.\n\nSpecialist officers from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency have been working with BDO will oversee the clearance operation.\n\nIt comes as BBC Scotland can also reveal the firm appointed to take over the contract to remove waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy in Scotland will not be operating at full capacity until April next year.\n\nTradebe Healthcare was due to start removing hazardous waste in April this year but this was delayed and the Spanish-owned firm is now implementing the deal on a phased basis.\n\nThis means that some NHS contingency measures, which have cost more than the previous contract, will stay in place until then.\n\nWaste was pictured piling up at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in January but has since been collected\n\nMonica Lennon MSP, Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, said: \"It's encouraging that steps are now being taken to clear the mountain of stockpiled waste from the Shotts yard.\n\n\"The local community has had to endure this blight since 2018 and it's important the waste is removed quickly and safely.\n\n\"The clinical waste scandal has cost the NHS in Scotland millions of pounds and it is staggering that emergency payments to private firms will continue well into 2020.\"\n\nMs Lennon added that it was \"hard to see where lessons have been learned\" from the saga.\n\nThe collapse of HES, which previously had the NHS Scotland waste collection contract, saw 150 workers in Scotland lose their jobs and forced contingency measures to be put in place across the health service.\n\nIn the eight months following the collapse of HES these contingency measures cost the taxpayer a total of £14.8m.\n\nBy contrast the ten-year deal with Tradebe Healthcare will be worth about £10m a year.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government has said the higher costs for the contingency measures come as a result of them being put in place at short notice following the collapse of HES.\n\nAbout 150 workers in Scotland lost their jobs when HES collapsed, the majority of whom worked at the firm's headquarters in Shotts\n\nA spokeswoman for BDO said: \"The joint liquidators have agreed a licence with Cliniwaste Ltd to operate the Shotts, Newcastle and Nottingham sites.\n\n\"This agreement provides an option to purchase after three months. As part of this licence, Cliniwaste Ltd is already on site clearing waste.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS National Services Scotland said: \"Contingency plans were introduced last year when HES was no longer able to provide waste collection services to NHS boards across Scotland.\n\n\"Contingency arrangements will reduce as Tradebe Healthcare implement the new contract on a phased basis until Spring, 2020.\n\n\"During the phased introduction, the cost of contingency will decrease, and the amount paid to Tradebe Healthcare will increase because they will be paid for the services they provide.\"", "Josh Quigley fractured his skull during the accident\n\nA cyclist badly injured after being hit by a car in the US says he feels like the \"luckiest guy in the world\" for surviving the 70mph crash.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, was attempting to cycle round the world when he was struck by a vehicle in Temple, Texas on Saturday.\n\nHe suffered fractures to his pelvis, 10 ribs and his skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nHe was due to undergo surgery on a broken ankle and heel.\n\nMr Quigley began his round-the-world trip in Edinburgh in April. He was 2,000 miles short of his 18,000 target when he was hit.\n\nSpeaking from his hospital bed, he said: \"It hurts to talk, it hurts to breath, it hurts to lie in this bed, my ribs and my back are in agony and my ankle is sore but mentally, psychologically and emotionally I've never been better because I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.\n\n\"These things are here to help me in mental toughness, resilience, strength and this is another obstacle, probably the biggest one I've faced so far, but I will find a way to finish what I started.\n\n\"Why I feel in such good spirits is because I know how lucky I am to be alive. Being hit by a car at 70mph is a big deal to get hit that hard and to fly 50ft through the air so I know how lucky I am to be alive and I will make the most of it.\n\nJosh Quigley is undergoing an operation on his ankle\n\nMr Quigley was airlifted from the scene by helicopter. He said he was knocked down at night despite wearing reflective clothing and using strong rear lights.\n\nIt is Mr Quigley's seventh attempt at cycling around the world.\n\nHe said he was unsure when he would be able to return to riding his bike but that he hoped it would be in April.\n\nJosh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York for the latest leg of his trip. But after his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter, he changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse.", "The government says it will not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Tottenham on Sunday after Antonio Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry following the alleged abuse.\n\n\"Racism of any kind has no place in football or anywhere else and we must confront this vile behaviour,\" said a Downing Street spokesperson.\n\n\"Clearly there remains more work to be done by the football authorities in tackling this issue and we are committed to working with them on this to stamp it out.\n\n\"The FA, Premier League and English Football League have significantly stepped up their efforts, but we expect them to continue to prioritise this issue and to consult with both players and supporter groups, and we will be monitoring how the football authorities implement their plans through the season.\n\n\"We will continue working with the authorities on this, including the Professional Footballers' Association and we don't rule out taking further steps if required.\"\n\nTottenham, who have been working with the Metropolitan Police to investigate what happened on Sunday, have promised to \"take the strongest possible action\" against anyone guilty of racist behaviour.\n\nSpurs say their initial findings regarding the alleged racist abuse of Rudiger are \"inconclusive\".\n\nMeanwhile, a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams said he had held positive talks with Tottenham, the Premier League and the PFA, adding: \"I am in no doubt that Tottenham are doing all they can to identify anyone responsible, and that they will take the strongest possible action.\"\n\nChelsea centre-back Rudiger reported the alleged racist abuse from the crowd to his captain Cesar Azpilicueta, who told referee Anthony Taylor and the game was stopped.\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n• None 'It's disgusting, the PFA need to act'\n\nIffy Onuora, the Professional Footballers' Association's equalities coach told BBC Sport that racism has increased in the UK since Brexit referendum.\n\n\"There is upheaval following the [Brexit] referendum and the election and that's caused this fracture,\" he said.\n\n\"That emboldens people. It's been legitimised by some of the language from the politicians. We lost an MP only four years ago and we think that was such a seminal moment but that's been and gone and we've used that as a moment to think what are we doing here.\n\n\"Things have got worse if anything and how can that be? Somehow we have to look at this differently and be bolder.\"\n\nThe FA said: \"We are working with the match officials, the clubs and the relevant authorities to fully establish the facts and take the appropriate steps.\"\n\nSpeaking in August, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the organisation was \"determined to tackle discrimination\".\n\n\"One incident is one incident too many,\" added Masters. \"We want to encourage fans when they see other supporters making discriminative comments, abusing other people they do report it and that's important.\"\n\nSpurs defender Jan Vertonghen says anyone responsible for racist abuse are \"idiots\" and do not identify with the club.\n\n\"I have got no idea how people still, or ever, thought this way,\" said the Belgium international.\n\nVertonghen says he \"loves\" and the UK because its multi-cultural society and that reports of racism \"hurts\".\n\n\"I didn't hear anything, but if these things are still happening it is a disgrace and we should act strongly against it,\" he added.\n\n\"Sometimes you think people are smarter than this. I am very convinced it is just a minority, but it is very wrong.\n\n\"I don't know if it is getting worse. It shouldn't be there in any way. I just can't get my head around how people still do this. I have got no words for it.\n\n\"If any of their players or our players are affected then I apologise in the name of Spurs, but they are minority idiots. We don't identify with these people.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho: \"I feel very sorry every time something happened and I will always support every decision the authorities can make.\n\n\"Society needs help. And then football is a micro-society. Do we need help? Yes. But society needs help. We need to eradicate any form of discrimination and this case we are talking about racism. Football and society needs help.\"\n\nNew Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti: \"It is a problem everywhere. I had a big fight last year in Italy (as Napoli manager) when Kalidou Koulibaly was abused in the stadium in Milan. We have to be strong.\n\n\"Football cannot allow people to abuse others. Every federation in the world has to be strong against this.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"I don't think [racism] will be completely eradicated. We have to fight but we will need a lot of time to eradicate it. It is a battle we have to fight it every day, in schools especially, in the families at home to try to do a better society in the future for the next generation. It is a battle day-by-day.\"\n\nSheffield United boss Chris Wilder: \"I have always thought that it's a societal problem and is attached to football grounds.\n\n\"If you are sat next to someone who is doing it, saying terrible, terrible things, just out them. Out the people next to you. Be brave and police your own football ground. Isolate them and let's get them out.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: \"I think I'm like everybody else, you're sickened and saddened by it.\n\n\"We criticise Europe and parts of it, and unfortunately it's creeping back into our game. Really, it's a society thing and I don't think it will be long before we see teams walk off the pitch. Nobody wants to see it.\n\n\"You just can't come to terms that somebody wants to go to a football match and do that to an individual. I'm like everybody else, let's find out whoever it was and ban them for life.\"", "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.", "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...", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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\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\"", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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", "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.", "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\".", "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.\"", "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.", "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", "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?\"", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.\"", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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 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 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?", "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.", "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 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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.", "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", "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\".", "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.\"", "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.'\"", "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.", "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.", "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", "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. 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 Taylor Swift 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\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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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 .", "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 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).", "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.", "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'.\"", "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.", "* 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", "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 \"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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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The 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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.”", "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", "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.", "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?", "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'", "Clive Lewis: Labour needs to change itself\n\nWe told you half an hour or so ago that Clive Lewis has been setting out his leadership pitch. Writing in the Guardian , he says he is standing \"for the simple reason that if I don’t, certain necessary truths may go unspoken during the debates of the coming months\". \"The truth is that to change our country, we have to change ourselves,\" he says. The shadow treasury minister goes on to praise Jeremy Corbyn for his “enormous achievements in inspiring a new generation of members.” But he says the party was “never democratised on the scale” that members expected. He also distances himself from the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years saying that the party often had “the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces.” Of Labour's election defeat he says:\"We never painted a rich and textured picture of life in the society that we proposed to build - instead we offered a shopping list of rather disconnected policies.\"", "Camila Cabello has apologised for racist language she says she used when she was younger.\n\n\"I used language I'm deeply ashamed of and will regret forever,\" the 22-year-old wrote.\n\nScreenshots posted on Twitter this week accused the Senorita singer of using the N-word on an old Tumblr account.\n\n\"I apologised then and I apologise again now,\" she added, without being specific about any accusations.\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 camila 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\nCamila, who's now 22, said that she would \"never intentionally hurt anyone\" and regrets her previous language \"from the bottom of my heart\".\n\n\"When I was younger, I used language I was deeply ashamed of and will regret forever.\n\n\"I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible and hurtful language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it. I apologised then and I apologise again now.\"\n\nWe've not been able to see the Tumblr posts - with the account now deleted - but it reportedly shared racist jokes and memes between 2012 and 2013.\n\nCamila, who's had two number one singles in the UK since splitting from Fifth Harmony, says the \"mistakes\" she's made \"don't represent the person I am\".\n\n\"I'm 22 now, I'm an adult and I've grown and learned and am conscious and aware of the history and the pain it carries in a way I wasn't before.\"\n\nThe apology comes a week after the Havana singer released her second album, Romance.\n\nShe says she's \"only ever\" stood for \"love and inclusivity\".\n\n\"My heart has never, even then, had any ounce of hate or divisiveness. The truth is I was embarrassingly ignorant and unaware.\"\n\nShe added: \"I use my platform to speak out about injustice and inequality and I'll continue doing that.\n\n\"I can't say enough how deeply sorry and ashamed I feel, and I apologise again from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Mohammed Ali Sultan, Mohammad Rizwan and Amjad Hussain were convicted by a jury\n\nUpdate 21 December 2020: The conviction of a fourth man, Shafiq Younas, for indecent assault was overturned at the Court of Appeal on 30 July.\n\nFour men have been jailed for sexually abusing a vulnerable girl who was \"passed around like a piece of meat\".\n\nThey were found guilty earlier this week of abusing the girl, who was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard and was raped above a shop.\n\nOne of the defendants, Mohammed Ali Sultan, 33, had previously been jailed following the Operation Chalice inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford.\n\nAn independent inquiry is ongoing into child sexual exploitation in the town.\n\nAli Sultan, formerly of Telford, who was convicted after the trial at Birmingham Crown Court of rape and three counts of indecent assault, has been sentenced to eight years, with an extended licence of two years. He is already serving a sentence of six years for previous sexual offences.\n\nShafiq Younas, 35 of Regent Street, Wellington, has been sentenced to four and half years for indecent assault, as has Amjad Hussain, 38, of Acacia Drive, Leegomery, Telford.\n\nMohammad Rizwan, 37, of Mafeking Road, Telford, received a prison sentence of five and a half years for the same offence.\n\nJudge Melbourne Inman QC said Mohammed Ali Sultan was \"clearly, a very dangerous man\"\n\nSentencing the men, Judge Melbourne Inman QC said they had abused a \"helpless\" victim, who had been groomed until she was \"no longer in effective control of her own life\".\n\nAddressing the ringleader, Ali Sultan, the judge said: \"The victim was clearly extremely frightened of you, and you exercised significant control over her.\n\n\"When last at liberty, you clearly attacked a number of victims over a prolonged period.\n\n\"Now the full extent of your offending is apparent, you've shown no remorse in relation to the present allegations and no insight as far as I can see into the offending.\n\n\"You remain, clearly, a very dangerous man.\"\n\nTelford's MP Lucy Allan says the way the issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has been highlighted in Telford has encouraged more victims to come forward\n\nThe offences took place in the Telford area between 2000 and 2003, when the girl was in her early teens.\n\nThe victim said she was assaulted by other as-yet unidentified males, with the abuse continuing until she was in her mid teens.\n\nShe told the hearing how she was forced to perform sex acts and violently abused when she tried to refuse.\n\nJurors were told the vulnerable victim was sold for sex, first by a man named Tanveer Ahmed, who delivered for Perfect Pizza in the town and \"befriended her\" during a low point in her life.\n\nAhmed, formerly of Urban Gardens in Wellington, was not on trial alongside the other defendants, having been deported to Pakistan, the court heard.\n\nAn independent inquiry is taking place into CSE in Telford\n\nHe was jailed for two and a half years after admitting a charge of controlling a child sex abuse victim following West Mercia Police's Operation Chalice inquiry.\n\nProsecutor Michelle Heeley QC had said the victim was \"passed around like a piece of meat for the sexual gratification of several young men\".\n\nShe told police that, years after the abuse ended, she recognised photos of Ali Sultan and Ahmed from press reports on the Telford sex ring.\n\nDuring the trial, the victim said no action was taken by teachers when rumours of the abuse circulated at her school and she had \"lost count\" of how many men she was forced to have sex with.\n\nIn response to the claims made by the defendant about her teachers, Telford & Wrekin Council said it had no further comment to make \"on issues which we expect will be covered by the independent inquiry currently under way\".\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel said West Mercia Police encouraged victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel, of West Mercia Police, said it had been a very complex and challenging investigation.\n\n\"The victim has shown real courage and determination to see this through to its conclusion,\" he said.\n\n\"No doubt the heinous offences that have taken place will have a lasting impact on the victim.\"\n\nDet Insp Rondel added: \"This investigation was part of Operation Vapour, which continues today.\n\n\"We encourage victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward, engage with police and find support with our partner agencies.\"\n\nTelford's MP, Lucy Allan, who had called for the independent inquiry to be held after claims thousands of girls may have been abused in the town since the 1980s, said: \"The way that we have been able to shine a light on the issue over the last few years has encouraged others to identify what happened to them as children and for them to come forward.\"\n\nA fifth defendant, Nazam Akhtar, 35, of Victoria Avenue, Wellington, was cleared of rape.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First things first, I want you to know this is a safe space, free from feline puns. There'll be no talk of fur-from-purrfect performances that don't scratch the character's surface or give you paws for thought. That's not happening, not in this review - not a cat-in-hell's chance.\n\nWe all know about the social media hoo-ha the trailer caused when it was released in the summer. \"Urgh!\" was the general reaction. \"Cats with furry breasts, that's gross! And the scaling, that's rubbish.\"\n\nWell, those issues remain in the finished, full-length feature, although the director - Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables) - has spoken about throwing a large chunk of cash at fixing the more glaring problems made evident to him by the Twitterstorm.\n\nMoney has been spent. You can see that.\n\nCats the movie is a slick, computer-enhanced celeb-fest with meticulously choreographed set-pieces taking place in a version of London that sits somewhere between Dickensian squalor and Soho glamour. It is a shiny, colourful, sung-through piece with luxury hotel production values.\n\nThat the cats are still gendered and sexualised is not such a big deal. The geriatric bodies of the de-aged stars in Scorsese's film The Irishman are far more disconcerting and off-putting. Anyway, the figure-hugging outfits allow Francesca Hayward - a Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet - to treat us to her best moves playing Victoria, the white cat.\n\nShe is not exactly verbose, but her eyes talk plenty, wearing a nonplussed expression throughout as she tries to figure out what in the name of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is going on.\n\nThis is a thin tale (see, I can resist) about a gang of feral cats called the Jellicles, who gather once a year to see which of their number will be given the opportunity to ascend to the Heaviside layer.\n\nDame Judi Dench, who plays wise Old Deuteronomy, has the task of making the Jellicle choice under heavy lobbying from pantomime baddie cat Macavity (Idris Elba).\n\nA simple story based on the poems of T.S. Eliot, which Andrew Lloyd Webber illustrated with some very catchy numbers in his hit 1981 musical Cats. I saw that original production as a Clash-mad teenager and surprised my grumpy self by loving every single second. I really do have the T-shirt. Brian Blessed was wonderful as Old Deuteronomy.\n\nMore recently, I saw Nicole Scherzinger as Grizabella knock it out of the park in a 2014 revival, where she left absolutely everything in the auditorium with an unforgettable rendition of Memory.\n\nNicole Scherzinger as Grizabella (front left) starred in a West End production of Cats in 2014\n\nJennifer Hudson gives a strong performance as Grizabella in the film\n\nThat job falls to Jennifer Hudson in the film, who is convincing as the ostracised Grizabella, and - more importantly - nails the famous song with aplomb, as you would expect from such a talented individual.\n\nIt is a reflection of the singing throughout, which rarely dips below excellent, although both Dame Judi and Elba are clearly primarily actors not singers. That's fine, they know how to sell a song. As does Taylor Swift, who has a welcome cameo playing the mischievous Bombalurina.\n\nSir Ian McKellen rocks up for a turn as Gus the Theatre Cat, while Rebel Wilson and James Corden pitch in to bring a little light-hearted comedy to proceedings. Oh, and Ray Winstone makes an appearance too, just like he does in those betting ads.\n\nIt is a roll-call of stars that's a testament to Hooper's well-deserved standing as a top-notch, Oscar-winning director.\n\nBut you can't always hit the bullseye, and the helmsman has missed the spot with Cats.\n\nThe sum is a great deal less than the parts, however famous and gifted the people playing them happen to be. The story takes forever to get going, and when it does - eventually - it lacks any real conviction or emotion.\n\nThe harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another.\n\nIt's not terrible, it's certainly got more going for it than the trailer, but it is some way short of Lord Lloyd-Webber's original.", "The boy was found wandering along the M6 on Wednesday night\n\nA 15-year-old boy was found on the M6 after police responded to reports of a pedestrian on the motorway.\n\nThe Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said they found the child, who had allegedly illegally entered the UK, on Wednesday night.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was understood that the boy was from Iraq.\n\nHe was found walking on the central reservation towards junction 7 for Great Barr at about 22:00 GMT.\n\nThe teenager was picked up by a patrol car and taken into emergency care for the night.\n\nThe Home Office said Immigration Enforcement was contacted by West Midlands Police and the boy was taken into the care of social services.\n\nHis case will be dealt with according to the immigration rules, it added.\n\nIn a tweet, CMPG said: \"He was split up from his parents a few days ago, and doesn't know which country they're in.\n\n\"It's impossible to imagine how scared someone would be, not knowing where they are, not knowing where their parents are, unable to speak the language.\"\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 CMPG 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\nLiz Clegg, from the Meena Centre in Birmingham which supports refugee women and children, said while she was not involved in this case, there was a \"huge challenge\" in reuniting children separated from their parents.\n\nShe said she expected the authorities and charities would be working to trace the family and hoped \"the system in place would kick in quickly\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A radio host has lost his job after saying he would like \"a nice school shooting\" to interrupt the \"never-ending\" coverage of US President Donald Trump's impeachment.\n\nChuck Bonniwell apologised on Twitter for his \"inappropriate comment\" before deleting the post.\n\nThe station, based in Denver, Colorado, has confirmed it has now axed the news programme, the Chuck and Julie Show.\n\nA student was killed in a Denver school shooting earlier this year.\n\nThe right-leaning station, 710 KNUS, said it was cancelling the show \"given the history of school violence that has plagued our community\".\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 Kyle Clark 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 know, you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the monopoly,\" Mr Bonniwell said on air of the impeachment news coverage.\n\nHis wife and co-host of the show, Julie Hayden, hit back: \"No, don't even say that! He didn't say that.\"\n\n\"No one would be hurt,\" he clarified.\n\nJohn Castillo, whose son Kendrick was killed in a shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch near Denver in May, said the comments were \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke. I'm sorry it was not received that way,\" Mr Bonniwell said on Twitter, before the post was deleted.\n\nDenver's Columbine High School marked the 20th anniversary of a shooting that killed 13 people in April.\n\n710 KNUS has replaced the Chuck and Julie Show with America First, presented by Sebastian Gorka - a former aide to President Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students around the world on US school shootings and their biggest fears", "Magdalena Lesicka and Peter Chilvers had been in a relationship since 2010\n\nA woman stabbed her 23-month-old son to death following a mental breakdown triggered by her controlling pilot boyfriend, a court has heard.\n\nRyanair pilot Peter Chilvers repeatedly threatened to kill Magda Lesicka, 33, before she attacked their son, James, at her home in Wythenshawe in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 15 years last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter.\n\nChilvers, 33, has now been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Lesicka, who met Chilvers while also working for the airline, was sentenced on the basis her mental illness emerged suddenly and without any warning, and she had no memory of committing the offence on 26 August 2017.\n\nThe couple had been in a relationship since 2010 but Chilvers cheated on Lesicka from 2014 with another cabin crew member, jurors heard.\n\nChilvers, from Northwich, Cheshire, warned Lesicka in a \"visceral\" phone call, which was played in court, that she did not have the financial resources to win a custody battle.\n\nHe had repeatedly threatened to kill her if she removed James from his care and demanded they continue to live together at a new home in the Cheshire village of Wincham.\n\nIn the days before the killing, Lesicka made internet searches about \"killing in self defence\" and contacted domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, the court heard.\n\nThe Crown accepted her defence that she killed James following a breakdown induced by the \"deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment\" inflicted by Chilvers who had portrayed a \"landscape of unending misery if she did not comply with his demands\".\n\nJames Chilvers was killed at Magda Lesicka's home in Beaford Road, Wythenshawe, in August 2017\n\nChilvers' controlling or coercive behaviour, between December 2015 and August 2017, included using or threatening physical violence, forcing her into degrading sexual acts, isolating her from her friends and restricting her finances.\n\nAs part of the evidence, the court heard a 33-minute phone call made by Chilvers on the morning of 26 August to Lesicka - before the killing - in which at times he screamed profanities at her.\n\nRob Hall, prosecuting, said such behaviour confirmed his \"bullying, controlling, self-centred nature\".\n\nLesicka, a Polish national, was jailed in July last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nAt her sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court, Mr Justice Dove said James was \"dearly loved and cherished\" by those around him and had been \"caught as a tragic innocent victim between two warring parents\".\n\n\"Whatever the rights and wrongs of that dispute, the last thing that should have happened is he lose his life - killed by a parent,\" he said.\n\nJames's grandmother, Hilary Chilvers, read out her victim personal statement in court and described her grandson as being \"full of potential and promise\".\n\n\"We have all been deprived of James's presence in our life,\" she said. \"He was adorable, beautiful, inquisitive and loving.\"\n\nLesicka gave evidence in the prosecution of Chilvers, of Hewitt Grove, and parts of her victim personal statement composed in prison were read out.\n\n\"It's hard to see myself as a victim given the tragic outcome. I know my life has been changed forever and there is nothing I can do change it back,\" the statement said.\n\n\"When I started a relationship with Peter Chilvers I had absolutely no idea he would be the controlling monster I discovered him to be.\n\n\"It is important that the public understand what Peter Chilvers' abuse did to me. It destroyed me.\"\n\nMark Ford QC, defending, said character references for Chilvers provided to the court painted a \"very different picture\" to that given by Lesicka.\n\nHe said his partner Lisa Spencer had attested to a supportive, co-operative and loving relationship with him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Model and racing driver Jodie Kidd has told the BBC her anxiety in her teens was fuelled by claims in the press about her weight.\n\nKidd quit modelling as a 19-year-old, and is now hoping to raise awareness around mental health.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal.\n\nMaya Forstater, 45, did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender.\n\nMs Forstater believes trans women holding certificates that recognise their transgender identity cannot describe themselves as women.\n\nBut that view is \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\", a judge said.\n\nMs Forstater, who had worked as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development, was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the \"enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering\", employment judge James Tayler said.\n\nMs Forstater was \"absolutist\" in her view, he concluded in a 26-page judgement.\n\n\"It is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,\" he continued.\n\n\"The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.\"\n\nMs Forstater had argued \"framing the question of transgender inclusion as an argument that male people should be allowed into women's spaces discounts women's rights to privacy and is fundamentally illiberal (it is like forcing Jewish people to eat pork)\".\n\nAuthor JK Rowling is among people who have come out in support of Ms Forstater.\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 J.K. Rowling 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\nMs Forstater, who raised more than £85,000 through crowdfunding to pay her legal bills, said in response that she was \"blown away by the support and interest in her case\".\n\n\"All I ever wanted on this was for people to be able to talk about the policy questions around sex and gender identity in a normal, open, democratic way\".\n\nGender identity is a matter of enormous public interest and there are a range of different and strongly held views.\n\nSome will regard this judgment as preventing people from expressing their honestly held belief that a person born in a male body cannot become a woman, without the threat of being dismissed from their job for doing so.\n\nOthers will see it as much needed protection for the rights of those who wish to identify as the gender they feel themselves to be.\n\nEmployment tribunal rulings are not binding legal precedents, but they do have weight, and this ruling could deter others who share Maya Forstater's views from bringing such cases in the future.\n\nMs Forstater's solicitor Peter Daly, of Slater and Gordon, said: \"The significance of this judgment should not be downplayed.\n\n\"Had our client been successful, she would have established in law protection for people - on any side of this debate - to express their beliefs without fear of being discriminated against.\"", "The government has laid out its legislative plans for the year in the Queen's Speech. From Brexit to health, trade to the environment, it gives us a sense of what politicians will be debating over the next few months.\n\nOur experts analyse what was, and wasn't, said and what it all means for you.\n\nAs well as the withdrawal agreement bill, which will pave the way for the UK's departure from the EU on 31 January, the government will have to pass a series of bills next year in other policy areas as a direct result of Brexit.\n\nSome of them will be major undertakings:\n\nThere will also be bills covering trade, financial services and cross-border legal disputes.\n\nBut passing legislation will be the easy bit - implementing it all will be the big challenge.\n\nNew systems will need to be up and running by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in just over a year's time, new staff will have to be trained, and businesses and consumers will have to be ready too.\n\nCivil servants will be under enormous pressure to deliver everything that is required under the tight timetable the government has imposed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will be among the busiest departments under Boris Johnson's new administration - a reflection of the importance he attaches to law and order.\n\nA number of measures, including those relating to domestic abuse, victims and policing, have been put forward before, but there are also new proposals on sentencing which could lead to a significant increase in the prison population among those jailed for violence, sexual assault and terrorism.\n\nPlans to extend the use of \"whole-life\" tariffs, where offenders can be ordered to spend the rest of their lives behind bars, are vaguely worded, indicating ministers are open-minded about the range of crimes for which offenders should be locked away for ever.\n\nThe idea which has the most potential to alter the criminal justice landscape is for a Royal Commission to examine the process from arrest to sentence. The last time there was such a review was in 1991.\n\nThe terms of reference and the chairperson have not been announced - they will be key to understanding which destination the government wishes the commission to steer towards. Interesting times lie ahead.\n\nEnvironmentalists have welcomed many of the provisions of the new environment bill.\n\nBut they point out that ministers are still committed to North Sea drilling, building roads that experts say will generate traffic, and blocking onshore wind power.\n\nThey have stayed silent on aviation expansion, and have imposed a moratorium on fracking, rather than the permanent ban which some in the north of England were demanding.\n\nCritics point out that the planned new green watchdog won't have the sort of powers to take legal action that prompted the UK to improve air quality under the threat of fines.\n\nAction on business rates was billed as a measure to \"keep town centres vibrant\" - but what's on the table for now will only bring limited relief.\n\nBusiness groups have long been calling for a revamp of the rates system, which raises more than £31bn for the government each year. A quarter of that burden falls on retailers, who pay regardless of profit, says the British Retail Consortium.\n\nSo a one-year extension of a discount for some retailers and an extension of the scheme to pubs, music venues and cinemas - with a saving of £320m - may feel tokenistic.\n\nThis is especially so as the cancellation of planned corporation tax rate cuts means that business across the country will have to fork out £3.2bn more in bills next year than envisaged prior to the election, rising to more than £6bn by 2024.\n\nFor greater relief, retailers will be looking ahead to the Budget and the much-touted overhaul of the rates system. However, it is questionable whether the government will be able to afford to relinquish much of what's become a key revenue raiser.\n\nMeanwhile, both business and the public sector will have to grapple with the government's plans to raise the national living wage to two-thirds median earnings by 2025 (projected to be £10.50), and lower the eligible age for the main rate.\n\nWhile the plans would in theory benefit more than four million people, alleviating in-work poverty, they have been given a cautious welcome by business groups and low-pay campaigners alike, who urge careful implementation and monitoring.\n\nWhile the increase in minimum wage to date hasn't had an impact on employment growth, these plans go into uncharted waters - at a time when there are already signs that the hiring spree of recent years is levelling off.\n\nSchools in England are promised more funding, rising by £7.1bn by 2022-23, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank says will reverse the budget cuts of the austerity years.\n\nMinimum levels of per pupil spending are increasing to £5,000 in secondary and £3,750 in primary schools, and then £4,000 in the following year.\n\nMost schools already get significantly more than this - for instance, the average for secondary schools is currently about £6,200 per year and £5,000 in primary.\n\nOnly about one in five primary schools and a third of secondary schools are below the proposed new minimum, with the biggest number of these in the South East and South West and the lowest number in London.\n\nBut the overall increase should mean an uplift across schools which have been complaining loudly about funding shortages.\n\nSo far there is no decision on whether to cut university tuition fees, other than a promise of \"better value\" for students.\n\nThe future of the NHS in England has been put front and centre of the Queen's Speech.\n\nThis is understandable given that, behind the scenes, ministers and advisers are saying there has to be an improvement in English NHS performance for the government to keep hold of the voters that backed it at the election.\n\nMinisters are making big play of the extra funding, but experts within the health service have warned even with the above-inflation sums going in, it will take years to turn the NHS around and get it back to where it was a decade ago in terms of waiting times and performance - perhaps even a decade.\n\nThe idea of enshrining into law the multi-year NHS funding settlement sounds more significant than it actually is. Ministers want to put a law in place compelling them to keep to their promises, but it makes little difference in reality.\n\nThere are also measures promising to make it easier to recruit doctors from abroad, and the government knows it faces a tough task filling the vacancy rates and growing the workforce.\n\nThere is little detail about social care - despite Boris Johnson's promise to fix the \"crisis\" in the system in his first speech as PM.\n\nInstead, he wants to seek cross-party agreement on the way forward - something that is unlikely to happen quickly, given both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been plunged into leadership races following the election.\n\nRead more from Nick here.\n\nThere are no big surprises in the busy environmental agenda outlined by the government.\n\nThe headline commitment to reduce the UK's carbon emissions to \"net zero\" by 2050 is there, as are the key elements of an environment bill and new measures on animal welfare. Left unspecified, so far, are the details of many of the initiatives.\n\nA plan to increase the power of local authorities to tackle air pollution makes no mention of whether there's new money to go with it (which is what many councils have been clamouring for).\n\nCampaign promises of new cash for flood defences, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency in homes, schools and hospitals are repeated - a key test will be how they are delivered.\n\nOpposition parties are already saying the government is failing to take the radical action needed.\n\nFor ministers, here's a moment of intense scrutiny on the horizon - COP26, the massive UN climate summit planned for Glasgow next November, when the eyes of the world will judge the sincerity of the UK's green ambitions.\n\nThe government has announced the first Royal Commission on the criminal justice system since 1991.\n\nThe last one met 44 times, took evidence from more than 600 organisations and groups, commissioned 22 research studies and lasted for more than two years.\n\nIt was part of a response to the miscarriage of justice cases, which included the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six and led to the establishment of Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nThese are different times. Many will welcome the new commission addressing the problems of what is widely seen to be a criminal justice system under extreme stress, if not in crisis.\n\nMuch of the blame for that is put down to swingeing cuts to the police and Crown Prosecution Service, as well as modern-day challenges such as getting on top of vast amounts of digital evidence obtained from mobile devices.\n\nHowever, there is real fear that the commission could be a way of kicking immediate and solvable problems into the long grass and delaying across the board investment, which many lawyers see as critical to improving a complex system in its entirety.", "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.", "Helen McCourt was murdered as she walked home from work in Merseyside\n\nProposals for a law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies have been included in the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe Prisoners (disclosure of information about victims) Bill, known as Helen's Law, recently ran out of time when the election was called.\n\nHowever, it has been resurrected in the new Conservative government's agenda.\n\nThe bill is named after Helen McCourt, whose murderer Ian Simms has never revealed where her remains are.\n\nSimms, 63, was jailed for life in 1989 after killing Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in Billinge.\n\nHe was told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nHelen's mother, Marie, has campaigned for him not to be released until he says where her body was left.\n\nEarlier in December, she spoke of her relief that the Parole Board's decision to sanction his release was to be reviewed.\n\nShe had previously said she feared the law would come too late for her, as Simms was likely to be freed before it was passed.\n\nThe inclusion of Helen's Law in the Queen's Speech will be a bitter-sweet victory for Marie McCourt, who has fought a tireless campaign to see it introduced.\n\nShe was deeply disappointed that it was dropped at the last Parliament, ahead of the snap general election.\n\nA change in personnel at the top level of government has also been frustrating. David Cameron was prime minister when the campaign to introduce the legislation began.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke later backed Helen's Law, but he then quit the cabinet over Brexit.\n\nMore than 500,000 people signed the petition Marie McCourt started to introduce Helen's law in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, St Helens North MP Conor McGinn introduced the Unlawful Killing (Recovery of Remains) Bill 2016-17 under the Ten Minute Rule.\n\nIt did not go anywhere then, but his wish that it eventually be drafted into law by the government appears to have finally come true.", "Next year will continue the global warming trend with temperatures again likely to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, 2020 will likely be 1.11C warmer than the average between 1850-1900,\n\nThe year ahead is set to extend the series of the warmest years on record to six in a row.\n\nScientists say the strongest factor causing the rise is greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe world first broke through one degree above pre-industrial temperatures back in 2015.\n\nEach year since then has seen temperatures close to or above this mark.\n\nThe warmest year on record is 2016 when a strong El Niño made a significant difference.\n\nWarming in the Arctic is more pronounced than in other parts of the world\n\nThis weather phenomenon sees sea surface temperatures increase in the central and eastern Pacific and it's associated with a range of impacts around the world, including the overall global level of warming.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, the chances of a strong El Niño in 2020 are low.\n\nThey forecast that the global average temperature next year will be in the range of 0.99C to 1.23C with a central estimate of 1.11C. The researchers say that the key factor will be emissions of CO2 and other warming gases.\n\n\"Natural events - such as El Niño-induced warming in the Pacific - influence the climate system, but in the absence of El Niño, this forecast gives a clear picture of the strongest factor causing temperatures to rise - greenhouse gas emissions,\" said Professor Adam Scaife, the Met Office head of long-range prediction.\n\nAccording to researchers, 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\nThe scale of emissions has a direct bearing on temperatures, scientists say.\n\nProvisional figures released earlier this month by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest 2019 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 on record.\n\nThe Met Office say they have confidence in their prediction for 2020 based on what's happened in previous years.\n\nThis time last year they estimated that 2019 would be 1.10C above the 1850-1900 mark. The actual temperature recorded this year from January to October shows a global mean 1.11C.\n\nThe BBC Briefing is a series of downloadable online guides to the big topics in the news. Click here if you want more context and facts about UK energy policy and the road to our net zero goals.\n\n\"The forecast for 2020 would place next year amongst the six warmest years on record, which would all have occurred since 2015,\" said Dr Doug Smith, a Met Office research fellow.\n\n\"All of these years have been around 1.0C warmer than the pre-industrial period.\"\n\nWith temperatures keeping close to the one degree mark, there will be renewed concern from scientists that the world is on track to breach the 1.5C limit that many researchers say is the threshold of increasingly dangerous impacts.\n\n2020 will see a major push to get countries to ramp up their plans to ensure the world stays below the 1.5C mark.\n\nThe recent COP25 summit in Madrid saw several key issues kicked down the road to Glasgow where countries from all over the world will meet next November.\n\nThe critical issue of increasing ambition to curb emissions is set to dominate the discussions, which will be presided over by the UK.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change has warned the government that Britain needed to do better to meet its own targets if it wanted to have credibility with negotiators in Glasgow.", "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.\"", "Universities in England have been told to be more transparent about how they recruit students and not to make exaggerated marketing claims.\n\nThe Office for Students' annual report warns against sales tactics such as financial inducements or \"unconditional\" exam-grade offers.\n\nThe higher education watchdog's chief executive, Nicola Dandridge, has promised a review of admissions.\n\nThe OFS warned increasing competition between universities was raising concerns about unfair pressure being put on students looking for places.\n\n\"Students can be offered enticements and inducements which are often not in their best interests, at a time when they may be especially vulnerable,\" Ms Dandridge said\n\nAnd they could face a \"sales pitch with questionable incentives\" - exaggerated claims about degree courses or the promise of bursaries for students looking for places in the clearing system after A-level results are released.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where students' expectations are raised unrealistically before they go to university, only to be dashed when they get there,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nThe concern over admissions also includes unconditional or so-called \"conditional unconditional\" offers, when students are promised a place whatever their eventual A-level grades, as long as they accept an offer as their first choice.\n\nThis has raised worries about students not trying hard and ending up with poor A-level grades - or that they will take a course that does not suit them, just to guarantee a place.\n\nDespite warnings, including from the OFS, figures this week showed unconditional offers were increasing - with a quarter of applicants receiving such an offer this year.\n\nMs Dandridge called for more openness in the admissions process - such as whether students were being given accurate information about what A-level grades were really needed to get on to a course.\n\nThe OFS could impose fines - and, in recent years, a number of universities have been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for marketing claims that could be misleading.\n\nThe annual report also reveals a number of universities do not have adequate plans in place for students in the event of a university, or a department or a course, having to shut down.\n\nThe watchdog's review of the admissions system will begin next year - with the aim of making recommendations before the end of the year.\n\n\"To the extent that the existing system is not serving students' needs in a fair, transparent and inclusive way, it must change and we will consult widely with students, schools, providers and others to understand their views and perspectives,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nThe admissions review will also consider whether there is fair access to universities, including for disadvantaged youngsters.\n\nFigures from the Department for Education published this week showed 26% of young people eligible for free school meals went into higher education, compared with 45% of those better-off students not eligible for free school meals.\n\nWhite British boys eligible for free school meals had among the lowest entry rates, with 13% progressing to higher education.\n\nThe proportion for girls eligible for free school meals from black African families was 67%.\n\nWhite British boys eligible for free school meals have among the lowest entry rates to higher education\n\n\"There is work to do to dispel wider, persistent myths and misperceptions about access and participation,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nUniversities Minister Chris Skidmore said the higher sector's \"world leading\" reputation could be harmed by poor practice.\n\nHe said the OFS should hold universities to account and could use \"financial penalties or deregistration in the most serious cases\".\n\nUniversities UK, which has launched its own review of admissions, said it was \"already engaging with the Office for Students on the issues raised in this report\".\n\nA spokesman for the universities' group said this included \"ensuring the fairness of the admissions process, being more transparent in how students' university fees are spent and committing to ending grade inflation\".", "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", "Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has become the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, he said he feared \"necessary truths may go unspoken\" if he didn't put himself forward.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry is also standing, and others are expected to join the contest.\n\nMr Corbyn will stand down \"early next year\" after Labour's election defeat.\n\nOthers who have said they are considering a pitch for the leadership include Sir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Lisa Nandy.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, thought to be the favoured candidate of the current party leadership, has yet to say whether she will stand.\n\nIt comes as Laura Parker, the most senior staff member in the Momentum group which backed Mr Corbyn's leadership bid, said she is stepping down.\n\nIn an email to members, she said she would not be leaving the group but wanted to spend more time with her family.\n\nIn the article announcing his candidacy, Mr Lewis praised Labour's outgoing leader for \"inspiring a new generation of members\".\n\nBut he said \"indecisiveness\" on the issue of Brexit and \"disconnected policies\" were behind the party's poor election performance, its worst since 1935.\n\nHe added that Labour was \"never democratised on the scale\" that members expected after Mr Corbyn won the leadership in 2015.\n\nThe party, he wrote, needs an \"army of activists\" who have a \"serious democratic stake in the movement\".\n\n\"I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it,\" he added.\n\nHe distanced himself from the Blair and Brown years, saying that the party often had \"the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces\".\n\nMs Thornberry became the first official Labour leadership candidate\n\nAn early supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Lewis became a shadow energy minister shortly after Mr Corbyn became party leader.\n\nHe has been an MP since 2015, after taking the previously Liberal Democrat-held seat of Norwich South.\n\nHe rejoined Labour's frontbench in January last year, having resigned in February 2017 in order to oppose the bill triggering the Brexit process.\n\nAt the time, he said he could not in \"all good conscience, vote for something I believe will ultimately harm the city I have the honour to represent\".", "The Cap of Maintenance and the Sword of State precede the Queen into the House of Lords chamber\n\nIt may have been billed as a less ornate affair than usual, but even a dressed-down State Opening of Parliament is hard to mistake for a casual do.\n\nThe twinkling of the tiaras and clip-clop of horses' hooves were gone, as the Queen swapped her traditional horse-drawn carriage for a Bentley.\n\nBut with the glittering gold throne and bejewelled crown sitting on a velvet cushion, there was still more than enough pomp to go round.\n\nThe Queen normally arrives by horse-drawn carriage\n\nThis time she travelled the short journey to Parliament by Bentley\n\nThe day begins in the gentle drizzle outside Parliament, as patient police officers redirect irate commuters around the cordoned-off streets, while sleek BMWs and Jaguars with personalised number plates and national flags affixed to the bonnets transport diplomats to the building.\n\nThe foreign dignitaries pack out their small section of the House of Lords - a contrast to the ample elbow room available to peers on the rest of the red benches.\n\nPerhaps the relatively sparse attendance is not surprising - it is, after all, only two months since the last Queen's Speech.\n\nOn that occasion, the Queen read out the list of her government's priorities - but it was far from clear if any of the proposed laws would be passed by such a divided Parliament.\n\nThings are very different now. After last Thursday's general election, the government has a healthy majority of 80 and is likely to have no trouble getting its policies into law.\n\nThe Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Charles, who sits on an imperceptibly smaller throne\n\nThe snap general election meant less time to prepare for the ceremony and, therefore, certain elements were dropped - the Queen wore a day dress instead of sparkly court dress and tiara.\n\nThe 93-year-old monarch no longer wears the heavy, jewel-encrusted Imperial State Crown for state openings, describing it in a documentary last year as \"unwieldy\".\n\nShe also arrived by car rather than horse and carriage - a sort of Cinderella in reverse.\n\nDespite these changes, the event, which can be traced back to the 16th Century and marks the formal start of the Parliamentary year, is still governed by tradition, and there is certainly nothing casual about the House of Lords chamber.\n\nStained glass windows line the walls, ancient coats of arms hang below the balcony, while the golden throne wouldn't look out of place in a fairy tale castle or a Donald Trump hotel.\n\nThe bright crimson robes trimmed with snow white ermine, worn by members of the House of Lords, gives the whole place a Christmassy feel, like a Santa Claus convention - appropriate for a rare December Queen's Speech.\n\nWatching the speech from the gloom of the upper gallery of the House of Lords\n\nThe grandeur of the lower part of the Lords chamber distracts from the comparatively drab upper half, where the dark statues of those lords who signed the Magna Carta, hands resting on their swords, are just about visible through the gloom.\n\nFor the Queen, it must be a slightly strange experience to read out a speech setting out your government's priorities beneath the stern gaze of those men who demanded the monarch of the day - King John - share more of his powers with them.\n\nNevertheless, Her Majesty is treated with absolute reverence as she enters the chamber. The audience rises and only sits down again when the Queen grants permission.\n\nThere is total silence as she sits awaiting the arrival of the MPs. A sign outside the Strangers' Gallery - \"all demonstrations are out of order and will be treated accordingly\" - offers an ominously vague warning to would-be hecklers.\n\nAs the elected politicians - from both the victorious party and those that were defeated - arrive in the chamber, the Queen begins her eponymous speech.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing politicians passionately repeat their election pledges in the hurly burly of the campaign trail, it feels strange to hear those same phrases filtered through the clipped, neutral tones of the monarch to a solemn, respectful audience.\n\nShe concludes her speech, picks up her black handbag and heads for the exit.\n\nAnd with that Parliament is officially opened, the tricky business of getting to power is over, the even-trickier business of governing begins.", "Mark De Kretser said he faced 'relentless' racism during his time serving in the armed forces\n\n\"Racism is prevalent\" within the armed forces, the independent ombudsman overseeing complaints has warned.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC, Nicola Williams, the first person to hold the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman, said \"incidents of racism are occurring with increasing and depressing frequency\".\n\nShe urged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to do more to root it out.\n\nThe MoD has insisted it has a range of measures in place to tackle racism.\n\nCases of bullying, harassment and discrimination account for 25% of all the complaints the armed forces receive, and Ms Williams says a \"disproportionate\" number of those come from ethnic minorities who make up just 7% of service personnel.\n\nThe BBC has interviewed one former soldier whose complaint of racism was at first dismissed by the Ministry of Defence, but then upheld by the Ombudsman.\n\nMark De Kretser, whose father came from Sri Lanka, served as a regular soldier and then as a reserve for nearly 30 years.\n\nHe did tours of both Iraq and Afghanistan. But it wasn't combat which left him with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, it was racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former soldier Mark de Kretser: \"People called me Apu from The Simpsons\"\n\nHe describes it as \"relentless\". He says he was asked whether someone in his family ran a corner shop.\n\n\"I'd be referred to as Apu, out of the Simpsons, I'd be referred to as Gary Coleman, Buddha… and there's a common theme to all of them.\n\n\"It got to the point where I wasn't worried about how I performed at work. I was worried about what was going to be said to me next\".\n\nMark had a breakdown and was medically discharged from the Army in 2017. He sued the MoD and has now received a financial settlement.\n\nHis solicitor, Ahmed Al-Nahhas, the head of military claims at Bolt Burdon Kemp, says he sees many more servicemen and women who ask about their legal rights, but who don't make a formal complaint \"because they're afraid for their careers or they don't have faith in the system\".\n\nHis point was reinforced in a report by MPs earlier this year which expressed \"concern\" that pressure had been put on some complainants not to proceed.\n\nThat lack of trust in the system was highlighted earlier this year when two former paratroopers took their complaint of racism to an employment tribunal instead.\n\nHani Gue (L) and Nkululeko Zulu claimed they were subjected to racial harassment\n\nThe court found that Hani Gue and Nkululeko Zulu has been working in a \"degrading, humiliating and offensive environment\" at their Colchester barracks with racist graffiti written across personal photos.\n\nMr Nkululeko said he believed the army suffered from \"systemic racism\".\n\nNicola Williams says she \"would not go as far\" as to describe the army as \"institutionally racist\".\n\nBut she adds \"I would absolutely say the Army and the armed forces have issues with racism which need to be tackled\".\n\nDespite improvements she says the complaints system is still not operating efficiently and fairly. Her office is still short staffed.\n\nShe's still waiting for the MoD to follow up on a number of her recommendations.\n\nNicola Williams said the armed forces have racism issues they must tackle\n\nMs Williams has repeatedly called on the MoD to commission an independent report to find out why so many people with BAME backgrounds and women are making complaints.\n\nThe MoD insists it's committed to stamping out racism.\n\nIt says it has a range of measures to ensure the issue is tackled including regular diversity and inclusion training. The Army has also set up a unit and a help-line to deal with \"unacceptable behaviours\".\n\nLt. Colonel Jonathan Buxton , who runs the unit, says the fact the Army has invested in his team of six shows \"it is taking the problem seriously\".\n\nIn a statement the MoD said \"racism has no place in the military and anyone found to be behaving in such a way can expect to be disciplined, discharged or dismissed\".\n\nSolicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas says he's seen no evidence that any action was taken against those responsible for bullying Mark De Kretser.\n\nAs for Mark himself, he's still trying to put his life back together.\n\nHe says the Army \"broke me. I was really quite a strong character. But I'm a mouse now\"", "The A5 dual carriageway scheme would link Dublin to the north west of Northern Ireland\n\nEleven major capital projects in NI have not been completed on time and have run millions over budget, according to an Audit Office report.\n\nThey include the A5 road upgrade, Casement Park, Ulster University's (UU) new Belfast campus and the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital.\n\nSeven of the 11 were identified by the executive in 2015 as flagship projects.\n\nThe report highlights funding, planning and legal issues, and a lack of construction industry interest.\n\nA spokeswoman for UU said the new campus would \"deliver a progressive student experience in a state-of-the art city centre campus\".\n\nShe added: \"An independent assessment of this project's overall regeneration impact details benefits to the NI economy of £1.4bn, through this significant investment in the aspirations of our young people, the city and beyond.\"\n\nThe Audit Office report also says the Strule Shared education campus in County Tyrone will be further delayed until at least 2024 and has also gone about £45m over budget.\n\nThe biggest school building project in Northern Ireland will eventually see six schools built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh.\n\nAlthough work began on the Strule campus in 2013, only one school is currently open despite the original target date of 2020 for the entire project.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Education (DE) said it remained fully committed to delivering the programme.\n\nShe added: \"The next phase of construction for Strule Shared Education Campus has been delayed as a result of tendering issues in appointing a contractor.\n\n\"In light of this delay the campus go live date has been revised, and the Department is provisionally working towards September 2024.\"\n\nThe 11 projects identified by the Audit Office:\n\nKieran Donnelly, auditor general, said major capital projects are complex and delivery problems are not unique to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Existing, cumbersome governance and delivery structures within the Northern Ireland public sector can be a barrier to achieving value for money,\" he added.\n\nThe campus is being built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh\n\nThis is not the first report that has raised questions around how capital projects are delivered in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2013, a review of commissioning and delivering major infrastructure projects found that \"the system as a whole is not fit for purpose\".\n\nThe report did not receive universal support. Proposed reform stalled and consequently some of the improvements were not realised.\n\nThe Audit Office echoes previous reports that highlighted the need to eliminate duplication, improve project prioritisation, reduce bureaucracy, and drive better deals by increasing innovation.\n\nAn aerial view of the proposed stadium at Casement Park\n\nCapital projects are identified in the Investment Strategy, a rolling 10-year plan prepared by the Strategic Investment Board on behalf of the executive.\n\nThe original strategy ran from 2005-2015, and was updated for the period 2011-21.\n\nA further update has been put on hold following the collapse of devolution in Northern Ireland.", "Natalie McGarry was jailed for 18 months but then released pending an appeal\n\nFormer MP Natalie McGarry has had her conviction for embezzlement quashed after judges ruled she had suffered a miscarriage of justice.\n\nMs McGarry, 38, burst into tears at the appeal court in Edinburgh after the ruling was announced. She now faces a retrial.\n\nIn June the former SNP Glasgow East MP was jailed for 18 months for embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups.\n\nAt the time Ms McGarry was freed on bail after lodging an appeal.\n\nJudges Lord Carloway, Lord Glennie and Lord Turnbull quashed the ex-politician's embezzlement convictions following a hearing at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh.\n\nThe judges made their ruling after hearing submissions, which cannot be reported for legal reasons, from defence advocate Gordon Jackson QC.\n\nMs McGarry started weeping as Lord Carloway, Scotland's most senior judge, told her of the court's decision and informed her she would have to stand trial again.\n\nShe made no comment as she left court.\n\nMs McGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 but did not seek re-election in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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. 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 Network Rail Kent and Sussex 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 Network Rail Kent and Sussex\n\nPeter Kyle, the Labour MP for Hove and Portslade, was caught up in the disruption. 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:", "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.", "Trains were delayed as a result of issues\n\nTrains have been delayed at one of Manchester's main railway stations after workers left platforms when a customer threatened staff.\n\nNorthern said workers withdrew from the concourse at Victoria \"for a short period\" at about 17:00 GMT.\n\nServices were delayed up to 30 minutes with others cancelled and disruption is expected until the end of the day, according to Network Rail.\n\nChris McKeon, of the Local Democracy Reporting Service, said he was on a train to Liverpool when he heard an announcement about \"a threat of serious assault against a member of staff\".\n\n\"The driver said we were waiting for a despatcher and they've all walked out,\" he said.\n\n\"He said earlier one staff was abused and he walked out and there was another incident just before we got on the train and they all walked out.\"\n\nIt led to issues relating to platform allocation for trains, Northern said.\n\nThe disruption was expected to last until the end of the day\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.\"", "The mother of a British teenager accused of lying about being raped by Israeli tourists has said the British embassy failed to provide adequate support.\n\nHer daughter is on trial for falsely claiming to have been attacked at an Ayia Napa hotel in July.\n\nThe 19-year-old has said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it \"continues to support\" the woman.\n\nThe teenager claims she was gang-raped in a hotel room in the resort.\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home.\n\nProsecutors say she willingly wrote and signed a statement retracting her initial claims.\n\nBut she says this happened under duress with the threat of arrest and she had been denied access to a lawyer.\n\nHer mother, \"Jenny\" - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the past few months had been a \"living nightmare\".\n\n\"The hardest part of it is being absolutely sure your daughter is telling the truth and then to see a group of men in court say that she's lying,\" she said.\n\nThe trial began at the start of October but the verdict has been delayed until 30 December.\n\nThe 19-year-old has post-traumatic stress disorder and her mother said a psychological assessment had determined the symptoms had become \"much, much worse\" since the alleged rape.\n\n\"[Initially] being in prison and the ongoing uncertainty means she had not been able to get appropriate medical attention or treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"She sees things, she hears things and is jumpy and uncertain about whether things are there or not.\"\n\nJenny also criticised what she sees as a lack of government support.\n\nShe said after the alleged rape \"a consular officer went to see my daughter a few times and helped me get into the prison\" but at a higher level \"I've seen nothing\".\n\n\"You have to question what they're there for,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand there is a judicial process but the issue is her human rights have been violated the whole way through [by the Cypriot authorities].\n\n\"I'm shocked that neither the EU or the Embassy or the government through my MP have stepped in to ensure fundamental rights under European law are observed.\n\n\"You have this concept that if something goes wrong, you'll be helped by having a British passport - but that's not my experience.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Our staff continue to support a British woman and her family following her arrest in Cyprus.\n\n\"We have made a number of visits to her in detention, attended court hearings, and are in contact with her legal representatives and the local authorities about her case.\"\n\nThe family's lawyer, Michael Polak, told BBC News he was \"shocked about the failings\" of the Cypriot police's rape investigation and \"how determined\" they were \"to get her to retract her statement\".\n\nHe said his main aim was to stop the woman being convicted and then \"she will be a victim again\" and police \"would have a discretion\" as to whether to investigate the alleged rape.\n\nA police spokesman has previously told newspaper Philenews that \"police handled the case with professionalism from the beginning.\n\n\"The 19-year-old British woman asked to make additional statements, by which she withdrew the allegations she had made the first time.\"\n\nNir Yaslovitch, a lawyer representing some of the Israelis, has previously said video clips made by at least one of those initially accused of rape had contradicted the woman's account.\n\nJenny said the family were optimistic about the outcome of the trial, but were also \"preparing for the worst\".\n\n\"I have no life, I don't see my friends and family and both of our normal lives are on hold,\" she said.\n\n\"Being out here over Christmas is a nightmare.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Mia Austin lost her power of speech and movement after a stroke in 2009\n\nA woman with locked-in syndrome died at a holiday park after choking on a marshmallow, an inquest has concluded.\n\nMia Austin, 30, from Lower Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, died at The Warren in Abersoch, Gwynedd, in June.\n\nThe inquest in Caernarfon heard Ms Austin had lost her power of speech and movement after a stroke 10 years ago and was unable to cough up the sweet.\n\nMs Austin's mother Carol told the inquest Mia had noticed some large marshmallows during a lunchtime visit to a shop.\n\n\"Apparently on Love Island they did a marshmallow challenge, you put marshmallows in the mouth. That's what she wanted to do with two friends,\" she said.\n\nMs Austin returned to her accommodation with her carer, who then put a marshmallow in her mouth.\n\nShe had shaken her head to say \"no\" when the carer had suggested it needed cutting.\n\nShe began choking and panicked. She lost consciousness and paramedics attended the scene.\n\nMs Austin's mother told the inquest her daughter was Merseyside \"woman of the year\" and won the award posthumously the day after the tragedy.\n\nShe also described her daughter as \"perfectly well and healthy\" before having the stroke at home in November 2009, and since communicated through a spell chart and a computer.\n\nThe coroner said the result of the stroke meant Ms Austin did not have the ability to cough up the marshmallow, which had blocked her airway and caused her to suffocate.\n\nDespite having locked-in syndrome, Ms Austin continued to travel and undertook lots of charity work, including sleeping out on the streets of Liverpool to raise money and awareness of homelessness.\n\nShe went to Africa to support communities, visit orphanages and schools and deliver donations of stationery and toys.\n\nMs Austin also wrote a book, called In the Blink of an Eye, which was published in 2018 and describes short snippets of her memories after her stroke and documents her journey from hospital to returning home.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, organisers of the Merseyside Women of the Year awards said: \"Mia was a truly inspirational young woman and an extremely popular and deserving winner of two Merseyside Women of the Year awards, Inspirational Woman and overall Woman of the Year.\n\n\"Her legacy will live on in the fantastic work that she did and the lives that she touched.\"", "Stormzy has praised a school in Stoke-on-Trent for the reworking of his hit Blinded By Your Grace in their nativity play.\n\nThe children at Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy tweeted the rapper the new version of the song and he retweeted saying they \"smashed it\".\n\nThe school has now invited him along to see a performance for himself.", "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.", "Mohammed Shah Subhani had been missing for nearly eight months\n\nThe body of a man feared to have been murdered has been found in woodland.\n\nMohammed Shah Subhani, 27, was reported missing after failing to return home in Hounslow, west London, on 7 May. He is thought to have had thousands of pounds on him when he disappeared.\n\nThe father of one's remains were found near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, about 15 miles from his home.\n\nSeven men and one woman have been arrested in connection with the death of Mr Subhani, who was known as Shah.\n\nMr Subhani's sister Quirat Subhani said: \"We kept our faith high and believed our beloved brother will return.\n\n\"It broke our hearts and shattered our world when we were told Shah's body was discovered in an abandoned woodland 15 miles from home.\n\n\"Someone maliciously killed the apple of our eye, turned our world upside down and dumped him in an isolated woodland for his body to decompose, and for us to be left with nothing but his bones - this will haunt us for a lifetime.\n\n\"Someone must know something... they must come forward and help us get justice for Shah. Our hearts will never heal but what our brother does deserve is for justice to be served.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh, from the Metropolitan Police, said Mr Subhani had \"everything to live for and was loved by everyone\", adding: \"Not only was he murdered, he was prevented a decent and dignified burial.\"\n\nPolice revealed for the first time that they were searching at Hedgerley Lane, near Gerrards Cross, because a stolen black BMW X5 on cloned plates had been seen in the area in the days after Mr Subhani disappeared.\n\nThis vehicle had two occupants who \"appeared to be loitering\", Mr McHugh said.\n\nHe said he believed the killers were \"confident [this search] would never happen\" and that Thursday's discovery presented a \"significant springboard for our investigation\".\n\nMr McHugh described the land officers have been searching as \"very challenging terrain\", and said those involved had to \"build bridges and walkways, and divert significant volumes of water\".\n\nThe crime scene is expected to be examined for a further three weeks.\n\nThe discovery was made in a wooded area near Gerrards Cross\n\nPolice say they know Mr Subhani went to Acton police station on the afternoon of 7 May where he may have picked up a set of number plates and two mobile phones.\n\nThey say he possibly intended to have £3,800 returned to him, although this did not happen.\n\nHe then went to Hounslow where he was due to collect £5,000 at a business premises on Derby Road, police said.\n\nOfficers believe he drove his white Audi Q3 there but that someone else drove it away.\n\nThe Met previously said Mr Subhani might have become \"out of his depth in some kind of criminal activity\".\n\nA reward of £20,000 remains on offer for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First things first, I want you to know this is a safe space, free from feline puns. There'll be no talk of fur-from-purrfect performances that don't scratch the character's surface or give you paws for thought. That's not happening, not in this review - not a cat-in-hell's chance.\n\nWe all know about the social media hoo-ha the trailer caused when it was released in the summer. \"Urgh!\" was the general reaction. \"Cats with furry breasts, that's gross! And the scaling, that's rubbish.\"\n\nWell, those issues remain in the finished, full-length feature, although the director - Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables) - has spoken about throwing a large chunk of cash at fixing the more glaring problems made evident to him by the Twitterstorm.\n\nMoney has been spent. You can see that.\n\nCats the movie is a slick, computer-enhanced celeb-fest with meticulously choreographed set-pieces taking place in a version of London that sits somewhere between Dickensian squalor and Soho glamour. It is a shiny, colourful, sung-through piece with luxury hotel production values.\n\nThat the cats are still gendered and sexualised is not such a big deal. The geriatric bodies of the de-aged stars in Scorsese's film The Irishman are far more disconcerting and off-putting. Anyway, the figure-hugging outfits allow Francesca Hayward - a Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet - to treat us to her best moves playing Victoria, the white cat.\n\nShe is not exactly verbose, but her eyes talk plenty, wearing a nonplussed expression throughout as she tries to figure out what in the name of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is going on.\n\nThis is a thin tale (see, I can resist) about a gang of feral cats called the Jellicles, who gather once a year to see which of their number will be given the opportunity to ascend to the Heaviside layer.\n\nDame Judi Dench, who plays wise Old Deuteronomy, has the task of making the Jellicle choice under heavy lobbying from pantomime baddie cat Macavity (Idris Elba).\n\nA simple story based on the poems of T.S. Eliot, which Andrew Lloyd Webber illustrated with some very catchy numbers in his hit 1981 musical Cats. I saw that original production as a Clash-mad teenager and surprised my grumpy self by loving every single second. I really do have the T-shirt. Brian Blessed was wonderful as Old Deuteronomy.\n\nMore recently, I saw Nicole Scherzinger as Grizabella knock it out of the park in a 2014 revival, where she left absolutely everything in the auditorium with an unforgettable rendition of Memory.\n\nNicole Scherzinger as Grizabella (front left) starred in a West End production of Cats in 2014\n\nJennifer Hudson gives a strong performance as Grizabella in the film\n\nThat job falls to Jennifer Hudson in the film, who is convincing as the ostracised Grizabella, and - more importantly - nails the famous song with aplomb, as you would expect from such a talented individual.\n\nIt is a reflection of the singing throughout, which rarely dips below excellent, although both Dame Judi and Elba are clearly primarily actors not singers. That's fine, they know how to sell a song. As does Taylor Swift, who has a welcome cameo playing the mischievous Bombalurina.\n\nSir Ian McKellen rocks up for a turn as Gus the Theatre Cat, while Rebel Wilson and James Corden pitch in to bring a little light-hearted comedy to proceedings. Oh, and Ray Winstone makes an appearance too, just like he does in those betting ads.\n\nIt is a roll-call of stars that's a testament to Hooper's well-deserved standing as a top-notch, Oscar-winning director.\n\nBut you can't always hit the bullseye, and the helmsman has missed the spot with Cats.\n\nThe sum is a great deal less than the parts, however famous and gifted the people playing them happen to be. The story takes forever to get going, and when it does - eventually - it lacks any real conviction or emotion.\n\nThe harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another.\n\nIt's not terrible, it's certainly got more going for it than the trailer, but it is some way short of Lord Lloyd-Webber's original.", "History was made when Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi banged the gavel and made the impeachment of President Donald Trump official.\n\nAfter hours of debate, the House had voted 231 to 197 on the first charge of abuse of power.\n\nBut as members of her party began to clap in celebration, Ms Pelosi shot them a glare to cut it out.\n\nShe has always maintained that impeaching a president was a solemn exercise.", "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:", "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.", "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.", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"We will continue to pursue the democratic case for Scotland's right to choose\"\n\nScotland's first minister has called on the UK government to negotiate a transfer of powers to Holyrood to allow another referendum on independence.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said there was an \"unarguable\" mandate for a new vote after her SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in last week's general election.\n\nA document containing her arguments and draft legislation to transfer powers has been sent to the UK government.\n\nHe has argued that the result of the independence referendum in 2014 - when voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% - should be respected.\n\nAnd the government used the Queen's Speech at Westminster to say that the \"integrity and prosperity\" of the UK is of the \"utmost importance\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon warned the prime minister that a \"flat no\" to her request for another referendum would not be the end of the matter.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a document outlining her case for another referendum to be held\n\nThe first minister says she wants to hold indyref2 in the second half of 2020, and believes the election result has made the case for this \"overwhelmingly clear\".\n\nBut she wants the UK government to agree to a so-called section 30 order, which would give the Scottish Parliament the power to hold a referendum and put its legality beyond doubt - as happened ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon has ruled out the possibility of holding an unofficial referendum similar to the one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nThe argument over Scottish independence will not be settled anytime soon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will not stop pursuing her case, no matter how many times she is rebuffed by Westminster.\n\nAnd she clearly believes that if she keeps arguing that Scotland's democratic voice is being ignored she will build the case in voters' minds not just for another vote, but for independence itself.\n\nThe longer she has to wait, the more convinced she is that she will win. She may be asking for a vote before the end of next year, but she is really playing a much longer game.\n\nThe pro-independence SNP won a landslide in Scotland in the general election, while the Conservatives lost seven of their 13 seats north of the border despite winning a big majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a paper arguing that \"consensus is growing by the day\" in Scotland for a second referendum, and that there is a \"clear mandate for this nation to choose its own future\".\n\nIn a statement at her official Bute House residence, she said: \"We are therefore today calling for the UK government to negotiate and agree the transfer of power that would put beyond doubt the Scottish Parliament's right to legislate for a referendum on independence.\n\n\"I anticipate that in the short term we will simply hear a restatement of the UK government's opposition. But they should be under no illusion that this will be an end of the matter.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon wants Boris Johnson to agree to hold a new referendum - but the prime minister \"remains opposed\"\n\nThe paper published by Ms Sturgeon includes draft legislation which would give Holyrood the power to call referendums, although she said she was open to negotiations about the details of how this would work.\n\nShe said: \"It is a fundamental democratic principle that decisions on Scotland's constitutional future should rest with the people who live here.\n\n\"The Scottish government has a clear democratic mandate to offer people a choice on that future in an independence referendum, and the UK government has a democratic duty to recognise that.\n\n\"The mandate we have to offer the Scottish people a choice over their future is, by any normal standard of democracy, unarguable.\"\n\nAnd in a letter to the prime minister, Ms Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"committed to engaging seriously with our proposals\" in their telephone conversation last Friday.\n\nShe added: \"I believe that on this - as on any issue - you have a duty to do so in a considered and reasonable manner. I therefore look forward to discussing matters further with you in the New Year.\n\nThe move comes on the same day as the devolved Scottish Parliament passed legislation that could help pave the way to a referendum.\n\nThe Referendums (Scotland) Bill passed on Thursday afternoon with the backing of the SNP and Scottish Greens, although Holyrood's three pro-union parties - the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems - voted against it.\n\nThe legislation sets the general rules for any referendum, but a separate bill would need to be passed for any new independence ballot.\n\nA series of pro-independence rallies have been held across Scotland in recent months\n\nWhile the polls have narrowed in recent months, they still generally give a slender lead to the pro-UK side.\n\nThe Conservative election campaign in Scotland was centred on opposition to independence and a referendum, and the prime minister told Ms Sturgeon in a telephone conversation last week that he \"remains opposed\" to a new vote.\n\nMichael Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said Ms Sturgeon and the SNP \"should concentrate on improving Scotland's hospitals and schools rather than trying to re-run an independence referendum they promised would be a once in a generation event\".\n\nMr Gove added: \"I think on that basis we should respect the referendum result and politicians across the United Kingdom should be concentrating on the issues that really matter to people: improving the NHS, fighting crime and helping to improve education.\n\n'The Scottish government have a lot on their plate. My friends and family in Scotland want them to concentrate on improving the NHS, making sure Scottish schools are better. I want to work with the Scottish government to make sure that Scottish people's lives are better.\"\n\nBut his colleague Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative MP and former government minister under David Cameron, told the BBC it would be \"extremely difficult\" for the prime minister to continue to \"resist the strong argument\" for people to have another vote on independence,\n\nHe added: \"I think it will stand for now, and I think it will stand until the end of the Brexit process and the new settlement is clear. They can resist it for a bit, but it would not be possible to resist it forever.\"", "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?", "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.", "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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and five wounded in a shooting at the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russian media say.\n\nA gunman who opened fire with an automatic weapon at the entrance of the building was killed by an armed officer, Interfax news agency reports.\n\nSecurity forces cordoned off the area and moved bystanders into buildings.\n\nThe shooting came hours after President Putin's annual press conference.\n\nArmed officers ushered bystanders into nearby buildings for their safety\n\nDetails of the incident, which began shortly after 18:00 (15:00 GMT), remain unclear.\n\nThe FSB denied earlier reports suggesting there were three gunmen in the attack on its headquarters. The unconfirmed reports said two had been killed in the lobby while the third ran off to a nearby building where he was later killed in a shootout with police.\n\nAmong the injured were two seriously hurt officers, the Health Ministry told Russian media. Shortly afterwards, the intelligence agency itself confirmed the death of one FSB officer - though it is not clear if he is one of the two reported injured in the earlier report.\n\nPolice vehicles blocked the streets outside the FSB building in Moscow\n\nRussian investigators have opened criminal proceedings into the attempted murder of law enforcement officers.\n\nThey are looking into whether the attack was timed to coincide with Vladimir Putin's four-hour press conference, which ended during the afternoon.\n\nThe area around the FSB's two main buildings in central Moscow has been completely sealed off with large numbers of police and special forces - some armed with assault rifles - in the area.\n\nEyewitness Vladimir Adyasov told the BBC that he was in the vicinity of the FSB's main building on Lubyanka Square when he heard loud bangs. Mr Adyasov said he initially thought it was fireworks, but quickly realised that it was gunfire. Police officers shouted for people to flee, he added.\n\nVideos on social media appear to show the attacker firing an assault rifle indiscriminately at the heavily-guarded building.\n\nThe attack took place on the eve of security services day - a special holiday for security staff - in Russia, and Mr Putin was addressing a meeting at the time to mark the occasion.\n\n\"We must not reduce the intensity of your work... and above all it applies to counter-terrorism,\" Mr Putin said, a short distance away from the attack in Moscow.\n\n\"Terrorism is an insidious and dangerous enemy, and the fight against it must continue systematically and decisively... with an emphasis on the prevention of terrorism, on preventive, offensive operations.\"\n\nSome footage posted on social media appeared to capture the sound of gunshots in the area of the attack, while other video showed armed men running away from the FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square.\n\nFive ambulances were also seen leaving the scene.\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\"I saw a member of the traffic police running down the road, hiding behind vehicles,\" one eyewitness told Reuters news agency.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing five ambulances at the scene in the Russian capital", "None of the original members of the breakaway group remains an MP\n\nThe Independent Group for Change is being disbanded after failing to win any seats at the general election, leader Anna Soubry has said.\n\nThe party was founded last March by Labour and Tory MPs unhappy with the direction their parties were going in.\n\nThe 11 MPs aimed to create a new centre ground force in politics.\n\nBut some left to join the Lib Dems, quit politics or run as independents, and the remaining three lost to candidates from their former parties.\n\nEight Labour MPs left the party to form the breakaway group, citing Labour's Brexit policy and record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three Remain-supporting Conservative MPs, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen.\n\nDr Wollaston later joined the Lib Dems - and lost her seat to a Tory candidate last Thursday - and Ms Allen did not stand for re-election.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger stood as Liberal Democrat candidates but were also defeated in last Thursday's election.\n\nIndependent Group for Change leader Ms Soubry came a distant third in Broxtowe, which was won by the Conservative candidate.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes, who stood as Independent Group for Change candidates, also lost their seats.\n\nGavin Shuker, who quit Labour to join Change UK before deciding to run as an independent in the Luton South poll, also failed to be elected.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the group, which was briefly known as Change UK, tweeted: \"We came together & took a stand when others wouldn't.\n\n\"It was right to shine a spotlight on Britain's broken politics. But having taken stock and with no voice now in Parliament, we begin the process of winding up our party. Thanks to all who stood with us.\"\n\nIn a statement to members, Ms Soubry said the party's failure to make an impact at May's European elections, and the subsequent defection or retirement of most of its MPs, made it \"harder for us to cut through as a distinctive political force in our own right\".\n\nBut, she added, \"we nevertheless believed it was important for us to have the courage of our convictions and to stand in the general election so that our constituents would have a full choice\".\n\n\"Whilst there is clearly a need for massive change in British politics,\" Ms Soubry went on, \"now that we no longer have voices within Parliament, a longer-term realignment will have to take place in a different way.\n\n\"Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.\"\n• None The party that didn't quite change UK politics", "The boy was thrown five floors in the attack\n\nA six-year-old boy who was thrown off the 10th floor of the Tate Modern has started to speak again, his family has revealed.\n\nThe French national, who had been visiting London when he was attacked on 4 August, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain in the fall.\n\nHis family wrote on their fundraising page: \"Our little knight begins to speak.\"\n\nThe boy's family said the six-year-old was making \"wonderful progress\"\n\nThe boy sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures, when he fell five floors from a 10th floor viewing platform.\n\nHis injuries have been described as life-changing but his family said he was making \"wonderful progress\".\n\n\"He pronounces one syllable after another, not all of them, and most of the time we have to guess what he means but it's better and better,\" they wrote on their GoFundMe page, which has raised more than €169,000 (£143,500).\n\nThey also said he was now able to move his arms and legs but it meant \"he feels more pain\" as he regains sensation in his body.\n\n\"It is very difficult to see... but he is very courageous and we stay strong for him.\"\n\nBravery, from Ealing, told police he carried out the attack because he wanted to be on TV news to highlight his autism treatment.\n\nHe will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in February.\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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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...", "* 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 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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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. 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.", "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", "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. 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.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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. 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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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'.", "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.", "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.", "About 30,000 children in care live outside their local area, with nearly 12,000 placed 20 miles or more from friends and family, a report suggests.\n\nIt says 2,000 are housed more than 100 miles from wherever they call home.\n\nA growing number are isolated from support and at increased risk of going missing, says children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield.\n\nThe government says children are moved away only as a \"last resort\", with \"safety and suitability\" the priority.\n\nAccording to the Department for Education, there were 78,150 children in care at 31 March.\n\nThe commissioner's report, titled Pass the Parcel, identifies a 13% increase in the number of minors housed outside their English local authority area over four years.\n\nA rise in numbers of older children in care has also left cash-strapped councils without enough suitable places locally, meaning many end up in privately run children's homes in cheaper areas but without the family structure of a foster place, it adds.\n\n\"Some children in care have told me they feel like parcels - passed from pillar to post, unsure where they even are on a map,\" Ms Longfield said.\n\n\"We wouldn't want this for our own children, and we shouldn't accept it either for those children who rely on the state to look after them.\"\n\nThe post of children's commissioner for England was created to act as an independent representative of young people, with the aim of influencing policy that affects them.\n\nThe report says the London boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Tower Hamlets send the most children out of area.\n\nIt acknowledges some need to be moved owing to the risk of violence, sexual predators or of being groomed by gangs, but says a lack of suitable council places is often the reason.\n\nMark Russell, chief executive of charity the Children's Society said: \"It is simply not good enough that so many of these vulnerable children are being placed because that is where a bed is free and not because that is where the child is most likely to receive the care, support and sense of belonging they deserve.\"\n\nMs Longfield is calling for an independent review into the children's social care system, in particular looking at their emotional and safety needs.\n\nA government spokesman said placements were approved by local authority children's services directors and that Ofsted would challenge poor decisions.\n\n\"We know there are challenges in finding the right placements, and we've already pledged an extra £1.5bn for child and adult social services, as well as a review of the system so children receive the best possible care,\" he said.", "The winning number for Spain's annual Christmas lottery was 26590\n\nA Spanish TV reporter who told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\" while clutching a winning lottery ticket had only won a fraction of the total prize.\n\nNatalia Escudero, who works for public broadcaster RTVE, started screaming on camera - before later learning she had won just €5,000 ($5,550; £4,285).\n\nThe Christmas lottery's top prize is €4m, but can be shared among winners.\n\nMs Escudero later apologised over the way she reacted during the broadcast.\n\nShe said she regretted behaving in such an \"emotional\" manner and wanted to explain her actions to viewers who \"felt cheated\".\n\nMs Escudero's response came after she was accused of a lack of professionalism over the footage, which was widely shared on social media.\n\nIt showed her jumping for joy while champagne was sprayed into the air as it was announced that the winning number for the top prize in the Christmas lottery known as El Gordo (The Fat One) was 26590.\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 TVE 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\nViewers criticised her for giving the impression that she had won the maximum prize and for appearing to suggest that she was quitting her job, Spanish media reported.\n\nShortly after the initial broadcast, Ms Escudero reappeared on TV screens and made the gesture of zipping her lips.\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\nResponding to criticism on Twitter, Ms Escudero said she had recently had a \"difficult\" few months \"for personal reasons\", but that - in her 25 years working as a professional journalist - she continued to have a \"clear conscience\" and was proud of her \"rigorous and proven work\".\n\n\"It is sad that Natalia Escudero is today [known as] the manipulative and lying journalist from RTVE,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe apologised for any confusion caused, but said she was being honest about taking time off because \"I am going on holiday\".", "PC Shazad Saddique's family said he \"had a real passion for the outdoors and helping others\".\n\nA policeman drowned after being sucked into a whirlpool during an adventure holiday in Scotland, an inquest heard.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique, 38, died while swimming near the Fairy Pools waterfall on the Isle of Skye on 19 July.\n\nTourists including a French policeman pulled the father-of-three, of Oldham, Greater Manchester clear but they could not revive him.\n\nThe Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer's wife was expecting their fourth child at the time.\n\nRochdale Coroner's Court heard PC Saddique, who was a student officer based in Ashton-under-Lyne, was involved in outreach work with local youths to get them into the countryside.\n\nHe had arranged the Scottish trip for 30 people including his brother and 13-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard that he jumped into the water at Fairy Pools - a natural waterfall phenomenon in the Cuillin Mountain Range in Glen Brittle - with goggles, wetsuit and swimming shoes.\n\nHe had been swimming for about an hour when tragedy struck.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique was also a keen runner who ran marathons around the world and hiked\n\nFamily friend Temour Ahmed said: \"I heard people shouting and went to the pool I could see Shazad was unresponsive in the water.\n\n\"I tried to get into the water but there was a very strong undercurrent which was pulling my trousers down so I got out.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was looking like a whirlpool effect.\n\n''Eventually we were able to get to Shazad from the water but sadly his lips where blue and he was totally unresponsive.\"\n\nPC Saddique, who joined GMP in 2018, was praised by the coroner for being a \"role model\"\n\nRecording a conclusion of death by drowning Coroner Joanne Kearsley recorded a conclusion of death by drowning and said it was a \"very, very sad case\".\n\nShe added: ''More likely than not he became caught up in a strong current which created a vortex effect.\"\n\nThe coroner also praised PC Saddique for touching \"the lives of many\".\n\nHis family said he was \"the most selfless person you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"He was the best dad, and his wife and kids were his absolute world.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teresa Xu said she felt she was representing many other single women too\n\nA woman in China is suing a hospital after doctors refused to freeze her eggs because she is unmarried, in line with a law on assisted reproduction.\n\nTeresa Xu visited Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital last year with the aim of freezing her eggs while she focused on her career.\n\nThe freelance editor, 31, said hospital staff had urged her to have a child instead of freezing her eggs.\n\nShe said she had been told later she could not proceed with treatment.\n\n\"I came here for a professional service, but instead I got someone who was urging me to put aside my work and have a child first,\" Ms Xu told Reuters news agency.\n\nChao Wei, a spokesman for the hospital, said the facility was complying with government regulations on assisted reproductive technologies, the New York Times reported.\n\nOn Monday, a court in Beijing heard Ms Xu's lawsuit against the hospital. The case, which is expected to go on for several months, has been widely discussed on Chinese social media, where many have voiced support for Ms Xu.\n\nSpeaking after her hearing, Ms Xu said: \"For me I didn't feel like I was at court as an individual. I felt I was standing there with the weight of many other single women's expectations.\"\n\nA woman's eggs deteriorate in quality as she ages, making it more difficult for older women to have a child. There is a high demand for egg freezing in China, while women who can afford to tend to travel overseas for the treatment.\n\nIn 2013, popular Chinese actress Xu Jinglei announced that she had frozen nine of her eggs. She travelled to the US at the age of 39 for the treatment.\n\nMs Xu said she had considered going abroad but it was too expensive. She said she had been quoted prices of 100,000 yuan (£11,016) for the treatment in Thailand and 200,000 yuan (£22,032) in the US.\n\nMany users of China's social media site Weibo voiced their support for Ms Xu using a hashtag that translates as \"China's first unmarried frozen egg case\". One person wrote: \"Fertility should not be the sole value of women. Apart from being a mother, you are first and foremost an independent person.\"\n\nAnother said: \"If Chinese law changes, make sperm banks open to unmarried women! The population problem can be solved a little bit. There are still many people who don't want to get married and want to have a baby.\"\n\nChinese women's bodies have been subjected to stringent strict control by the state since a birth control policy was introduced in the 1970s. China replaced its one-child policy with a universal two-child policy in 2015, but there are still significant restrictions on fertility treatments and unmarried women are still not allowed to freeze their eggs.\n\nSome Weibo users asked why the woman was suing the hospital. \"I don't think there is any problem in the hospital's affairs and work. The parties should not sue the hospital but the State Family Planning Association,\" one person said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Melania Geymonat (right) and Christine Hannigan both needed hospital treatment\n\nA teenager who abused a same-sex couple on a London bus is to attend diversity lessons as part of his punishment.\n\nThe 15-year-old had pleaded guilty to abusing Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan.\n\nThey were injured with pelted coins and had a handbag stolen while on a Camden night bus on 30 May.\n\nThe youth was given an eight-month youth referral order, extended from six due to the homophobic nature of the attack.\n\nHe and two other youths, aged 16 and 17, had surrounded the women and asked them questions such as: \"How do you have sex?\", Highbury Corner Youth Court was told.\n\nThey each admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress against the two women.\n\nThe court heard the 15-year-old had handed the eldest teenager coins which he then pelted at the couple, prompting a scuffle between Ms Hannigan and one of the teenagers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was and still am angry at bus attack'\n\nHe had also made \"degrading gestures\" towards the pair, including references to the sex act of scissoring.\n\nA second charge of handling stolen goods, related to Ms Geymonat's bank card, was included in his sentence.\n\nHe was also sentenced to do 20 hours of community reparation.\n\nDistrict Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: \"You need the close supervision of the youth offending service to think carefully about your behaviour.\n\n\"This will include diversity sessions which will make you think about hate crime, the protected characteristics and minority groups.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old boy was previously given a four-month youth rehabilitation order while the 16-year-old was given an eight-month youth referral order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dany Cotton stepped down in the wake of criticism in the Grenfell inquiry\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner who was forced to retire early following the Grenfell Tower blaze inquiry has had tributes paid on her last day.\n\nThousands of firefighters formed a \"guard of honour\" for Dany Cotton, the first female LFB commissioner.\n\nMs Cotton was due to retire in April 2020 after 32 years of service.\n\nIn response to the parade, which came after she revealed on 6 December she would step down, the Grenfell Action Group dismissed it as \"a street party\".\n\nBut as Ms Cotton joined the parade she was hugged by supporters and met with bagpipes and applause.\n\nThousands of firefighters, and a dog, lined the streets to pay tribute to Dany Cotton on Monday\n\nTaking to an impromptu stage on top of a 1937 Leyland Metz fire engine, she said: \"Things have been a bit difficult recently, but the messages of support I've received, the emails, the messages on social media, have just made everything okay.\n\n\"It makes me feel proud, the fire service looks after each other.\"\n\nShe said she thought all the work over three decades were her legacy, \"but especially recently [on] mental health awareness.\"\n\n\"I'm very very sad to be leaving but I think the legacy of all these people here shows that I must have done something alright,\" she added.\n\nFirefighters held up a sign saying 'We Are Dany'\n\nBut Joe Delaney, from Grenfell Action Group, said: \"Given the findings of the recent inspection, LFB would be better off if efforts were directed at providing its personnel with the training they have been denied and its funding were directed at providing them with the equipment they desperately require.\"\n\nMs Cotton will officially step down on New Year's Eve and will be replaced by Andy Roe, who has served with the LFB since 2002.", "Floral tributes to \"Sandy\" and \"Amy\" have been left outside the house where the women were killed\n\nTributes have been paid to two women murdered outside a house in a West Sussex village.\n\nThe victims were found dead in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, on Sunday morning.\n\nOne woman, aged 76, has been named locally as Sandy Seagrave. Floral tributes have also been left at the scene to a woman called Amy.\n\nA 37-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder is in a \"very unstable condition\" in hospital, after he was found injured inside the property.\n\nA double murder investigation was launched after the discovery of the dead women, one of whom was known to the suspect, Sussex Police said.\n\nThe force confirmed a 76-year-old woman and a 32-year-old woman had died.\n\nAmong the flowers left at the scene was a handwritten card dedicated to \"Amy\"\n\nA marked police car and uniformed officers were outside the house on Christmas Eve, as people laid flowers and paid their respects.\n\nA candle with the message \"RIP Sandy XX\" on its glass holder was placed near a small cuddly toy bear among the collection of flowers, while a red rose had been drawn on the front of a handmade condolence card marked \"Amy\".\n\nIt read: \"To Amy, Rest in peace. You were such a lovely neighbour to us and the rest of the village. We wish the best to all of the family.\"\n\nAnother card alongside the flowers said: \"A beautiful lady. Taken far too soon. So many fond memories of Amy growing up and blossoming into a fine young lady. Our thoughts are with you at this sad time.\"\n\nOfficers from Sussex Police continued their inquiries in the area on Christmas Eve\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nBaby Archie has made his first appearance on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's annual Christmas card.\n\nA black and white photograph shows the seven-month-old crawling towards the camera, while his parents smile in the background.\n\nThe message reads: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe greeting was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, although hard copies were sent to family.\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 The Queen's Commonwealth Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by The Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nHarry and Meghan revealed their greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nThe couple are taking a break from royal duties and are spending some time in Canada with their son, born in May.\n\nIn September, they revealed during their tour of southern Africa that they were struggling with media attention\n\nMeanwhile the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to say 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\", following a year of intense political division and a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.", "Loch Duart co-founder Andy Bing said he had to take action to protect his company's brand\n\nA high-end Scottish salmon producer is taking on the illegal food fraud trade with forensic science, ahead of a big push into the US.\n\nLoch Duart has used the technology to launch sting operations on outlets suspected of selling inferior fish, falsely bearing the company's brand.\n\nThe Sutherland-based firm says it prides itself on farming salmon in an ethical and sustainable way.\n\nFood fraud is estimated to cost UK firms up to £12bn a year.\n\nThe practice of intentionally mislabelling cheap products as premium brands led to the 2013 horsemeat scandal, and has also hit the olive oil and coffee industries.\n\nAndy Bing, who co-founded Loch Duart 20 years ago, said: \"It's illegal, but people are very rarely caught. We want to change that.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It normally happens in big cities where you get less scrupulous fish wholesalers who will go to a high-end restaurant, say they've got Loch Duart salmon, but they're selling something from a cheaper provenance and invoicing it as Loch Duart salmon.\"\n\nMr Bing said his company now exported its fish to 20 countries and protecting the brand was vital, given its ethos of farming salmon on a smaller, greener scale, using more expensive fish feed.\n\nLoch Duart teamed up with New Zealand-based firm Oritain, which uses science to find out exactly where products come from.\n\n\"Nature gives everything specific markers that is unique to its origin,\" said Mr Bing, who has been in the salmon business for 30 years.\n\n\"This technology can take trace elements from the loch in which it's farmed. You have a bank of information and you can match our salmon taken from any market in the world to that bank, and work out whether it's ours.\"\n\nThe technology used to spot fake products is based on forensic science\n\nMr Bing added: \"We've tried to do a couple of stings. We've been led to somewhere by a loyal customer who says, 'I think I've been delivered something which is not the real deal'.\n\n\"We've gone down there with our sample bags and tried to apprehend them.\n\n\"We've been doing several checks in the south of England over the last few months. A couple of restaurants refused to give us samples. You can draw your own conclusions from that.\"\n\nMr Bing said the science, which requires 100 grams of uncooked salmon for a test to be carried out, could be used as evidence in a court case.\n\nAnd he said the science could be used across the food and drink industry.\n\n\"Next year we're gong to make a push into America where our brand's very strong, and we're taking this technology with us,\" said Mr Bing.\n\nHe added: \"We're heavily export-orientated, but we've got to get through Brexit.\n\n\"We've got to get the right trade deal, but we believe people want our salmon, they want Scottish whisky and, on a trade level, we'll find a way.\"\n\nFor the latest business news as it happens, follow BBC presenter Andrew Black's updates each weekday morning on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme between 0600 and 0900.", "Winona Jane Langford, 17, and Hayden Bryan Marshall-Inman, 40, have been missing since the eruption\n\nNew Zealand police are calling off the search for two bodies still missing after the White Island eruption.\n\nThe volcanic eruption earlier this month killed 19 people, including two people who were never found.\n\nIt's thought the bodies of Winona Jane Langford, 17, and Hayden Bryan Marshall-Inman, 40, are in the water off the island.\n\nPolice said their decision \"follows extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches\".\n\nBut despite those searches, \"no further items of significance have been located\".\n\n\"The families of the two missing people have been informed of this decision,\" said Superintendent Andy McGregor. \"Police remain ready to respond if new information comes to light.\"\n\nThe eruption on White Island - a popular tourist destination - happened on 9 December.\n\nThere were 47 people on the island, with 24 from Australia, nine from the US, five from New Zealand, four from Germany, two from China, two from the UK, and one from Malaysia.\n\nLast week, police released the names of 17 victims - all of them from Australia, New Zealand, or the US.\n\nThey said Mr Marshall-Inman, a local tour guide, and Ms Langford, who was visiting the island with her family from Sydney, were missing but presumed dead.\n\nThe eruption killed Ms Langford's parents, Anthony and Kristine, but her brother, Jesse, survived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Toxic gases and ash\": The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil flies around White Island\n\nAfter the eruption, a helicopter pilot who flew to White Island to rescue survivors said he saw Mr Marshall-Inman \"beyond help\".\n\nTom Storey - who knew Mr Marshall-Inman - told Newshub: \"I just pulled him out from where he was and made him as comfortable as I could, just so he's there as we go back to get him.\"\n\nAfter moving his friend, Mr Storey carried on saving other tourists. He wanted to go back but, with the volcano still erupting, was told not to, which he found \"pretty hard to take\".\n\n\"You kinda want a bit of closure for the families and yourself,\" he said. \"You never want to start a job and not finish it.\"\n\nWhen Mr Marshall-Inman's family confirmed his death, a local supermarket said he would regularly leave $5 ($3.30US, £2.50) to help pay for others' shopping.\n\nThe Langford family were passengers on the Ovation of the Seas cruise ship and visited White Island on a day tour.\n\nThe surviving son, Jesse, is believed to have suffered severe burns.", "Marley keeps a close eye on the near fatal festive feast\n\nMarley, a five-year-old Staffie from Stoke-on-Trent, was found by his owner Polly Bloor \"with the remains of the Christmas pudding and an empty box of chocolates\".\n\nShe had left her pet with the puddings while picking up her granddaughter from school.\n\n\"We had just been shopping and left the bag on the side while we went to pick my granddaughter up from school,\" Ms Bloor said, when Marley entered the Christmas spirit, via the bag.\n\n\"This is our first Christmas with Marley and I thought we were going to lose him,\" Ms Bloor said.\n\nElsewhere in Staffordshire, a two-year-old Labrador, Ozzie, snaffled a mulled wine-soaked Christmas pudding at his home in Uttoxeter.\n\nOzzie was also unable to resist a Christmas pudding\n\nHe needed activated charcoal to absorb the toxic substances in his stomach.\n\nVets have warned pet owners that a lot of traditional Christmas fare is harmful to dogs and \"should be kept safely out of paws' reach\".\n\nAmong the cautioned against Christmas cooking is mince pies, stuffing, Christmas cakes and pudding as well as chocolate, onions, raisins, grapes and nuts.\n\n\"We see a big rise in poisoning cases involving raisins and alcohol at this time of year,\" Laura Playforth, from Vets Now, said.\n\n\"Largely due to dogs eating things like mince pies, Christmas puddings and fruitcake.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has returned to Sandringham in time for Christmas after four nights in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, was taken to the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had returned to the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Tuesday and thanked people for \"their good wishes\".\n\nIt comes after the revelation the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge 2019 has been \"bumpy\".\n\nThe monarch herself travelled to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nThe palace, meanwhile, said the duke's hospital admission had been a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHis last public appearance was Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was a \"precautionary measure\" in relation to a \"pre-existing\" condition\n\nThe Prince of Wales said on Monday his father had been \"looked after very well\" by hospital staff.\n\nBut Charles, who was visiting flood-hit communities in South Yorkshire, added: \"When you get to that age things don't work so well.\"\n\nRoyal commentator Caroline Aston told the BBC it was \"entirely in keeping with the man\" for Prince Philip to have seemingly had no visitors during his hospital stay, because he likes to make \"no fuss about anything\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual Christmas Day message before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn the message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, the monarch will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II recorded her annual Christmas message from Windsor Castle in Berkshire\n\nAfter a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family, the Queen will say: \"Small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding.\"\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near Sandringham. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nAnd last month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nAs is customary, family photos can be seen positioned near the Queen for her annual speech.\n\nAddressing speculation about the absence of a photo of the Sussexes, the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was not in the Queen's nature \"to snub anybody\", adding: \"Certainly not her grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said that the photos on the Queen's desk focus on the line of succession.\n\nThere has also been speculation surrounding which members of the royal family will attend the church service tomorrow morning.\n\nBBC news correspondent Charlotte Gallagher said it was believed Prince Andrew would be at the service, as well as Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a collision with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "This koala was filmed drinking from a water bottle offered by firefighters tackling bushfires in south Australia.\n\nAfterwards, the animal was seen running back into an area of unburnt scrub.\n\nRead more: The sacrifices of Australia's unpaid firefighters", "Firefighter Anthony Knott was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nA firefighter who went missing on a Christmas work night out \"may have come to some harm,\" police have said.\n\nAnthony Knott was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, with a group of 12 London firefighters on 20 December.\n\nSussex Police said there were no signs the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nHis partner Lucy Otto said: \"I just feel numb... it's very strange. It's the not knowing, it's terrible.\"\n\nExtensive inquiries and searches of CCTV recordings have been carried out to find Mr Knott, from Orpington.\n\nVolunteers have been helping emergency services with the search, which has included scouring the nearby River Ouse.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said police were \"grateful\" for the assistance, but, for their own safety, asked that \"the ongoing search is left to the emergency services\".\n\nThe River Ouse is being search by the coastguard\n\nPolice described him as a \"family man\" and Ms Otto told BBC Radio Sussex he had been in a happy mood before he disappeared, adding: \"He loved his job, he loved his family, it was just simply a Christmas night out.\"\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeve top, dark denim coat, dark denim jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe group were moving between various pubs, but he was last seen at 19:30 GMT in The Lamb in Fisher Street.\n• None Concern for firefighter missing after night out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sophie Skill, from Sheffield, spent days on life support after she swallowed a coin-sized button battery.\n\nBattery acid burned through her gullet (oesophagus) and into her lung, causing agonising pain and putting her life in danger.\n\nDoctors say her case is not unique - about two UK children a year die from swallowing batteries.\n\nButton batteries are used to power many gadgets and toys that will be opened as gifts on Christmas Day, experts warn.\n\nThey can be found in gaming headsets, fitness trackers, some robotic toy bugs or fish, key fob finders and light-up yo-yos.\n\nFestive lights, flameless candles, TV remotes, singing Santas and musical Christmas cards and jumpers may also contain them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See what a battery can do to a child's throat\n\nShiny, silver button or coin batteries can be very attractive to small children. If swallowed, they can cause catastrophic burns and choking.\n\nSophie's mum, Clare, is warning other parents about the dangers.\n\nShe says she still has no idea where her daughter got hold of the battery from that she swallowed. Sophie was two when the accident happened.\n\nClare recalls: \"She was still breathing all right and crying. But she was really, really screaming. I'd never heard anything like it before.\"\n\nClare immediately took Sophie to hospital and once the doctors there discovered what was wrong, they took the toddler to the operating theatre to remove the battery.\n\nAlthough Clare acted fast, the injury the battery caused to Sophie was severe.\n\nClare said: \"Within two hours it had already done the damage. They did an X-ray and found it had burned through her oesophagus and her lung. She had to go on a ventilator.\"\n\nSophie, now six, made a full recovery after spending days on life support and weeks in hospital.\n\nSaliva in the body will react with the battery, creating caustic chemicals and so time is very much of the essence in these cases, say experts.\n\nDead or flat batteries can still be dangerous and contain enough electrical charge to badly injure a child.\n\nAshley Martin, from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, warned people to:\n\nNHS England Medical Director, Prof Stephen Powis, said: \"For toddlers, button batteries can look like sweets.\n\n\"We want to ensure parents are aware of the dangers of these potentially lethal batteries.\n\n\"The best way to protect children is simply by keeping batteries out of reach for children, and ensure that any toys that require the batteries are firmly locked into the battery compartment.\"\n\nIf you think a child has swallowed one, seek medical advice immediately - take them to A&E.\n• None Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has confessed that he is yet to get a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.\n\nDuring a Christmas Eve video conference with American military personnel stationed overseas, the president was asked what gift he had bought for the First Lady.\n\nMr Trump said he was \"still working on\" on a present, but had picked her \"a very beautiful card\".\n\n\"There's a little time left\" to buy a present he added. \"Not too much, but there's a little time left.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary and The Cricket Social on the BBC Sport website\n\nBen Stokes did not train with England on Tuesday because his father had been admitted to hospital in South Africa after suffering a serious illness.\n\nStokes' father, Ged, was in a critical condition after being taken to hospital in Johannesburg on Monday.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes, 28, did not attend England's training session at SuperSport Park so he can be at his 64-year-old father's bedside.\n\n\"It puts things in perspective,\" said England captain Joe Root.\n\n\"We're here to play good, hard cricket, but it's important as a squad that we want Ben and his family to have all the support they can get.\"\n\nRoot said he did not know whether Stokes would be available for the first of four Tests against South Africa, which begins on Thursday (08:00 GMT).\n\n\"What's most important is we support him and his family. It's crucial that comes first,\" he added.\n• None England need intelligence in South Africa but I expect them to win - Agnew\n• None 'The greatest game of cricket ever' - England's World Cup winners recall thrilling final\n\nMeanwhile, all-rounder Chris Woakes is the latest player to miss training because of illness in the England camp.\n\nBowlers Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad and Jack Leach all missed the warm-up matches but have returned to training.\n\n\"We're trying to manage it as best we can,\" said Root.\n\n\"We have some very talented players who, given an opportunity, will be desperate to prove a point and stand their mark on this series.\n\n\"We will probably have to pick a side at the last minute.\"\n\nEngland's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson, 37, is set to feature against South Africa in what will be his 150th Test appearance.\n\n\"It's a phenomenal achievement - but to do it as a fast bowler, putting your body through that for that amount of time, shows incredible stamina,\" said Root.\n\n\"He physically looks in as good a shape as I have ever seen him. He is a great example to any young player and the rest of our squad.\"", "The Queen has arrived in Norfolk to begin her Christmas break at Sandringham.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London King's Cross, arriving in King's Lynn just after 12:30.\n\nShe was escorted from the station to a Range Rover to complete the 30-minute journey to her private estate.\n\nHundreds of people are expected to gather at Sandringham on Christmas Day as the royals make their way to the traditional morning church service.\n\nIt is unknown if the Duke of Edinburgh will be with them as he has travelled to King Edward VII Hospital in London for treatment on a pre-existing condition.", "Zipporah Kuria met with the European Aviation Safety Agency about the Boeing 737 Max\n\nBoeing is not a trustworthy company anymore, according to Zipporah Kuria, whose father was killed when a 737 Max plane crashed earlier this year.\n\nMs Kuria, who met with Europe's aviation watchdog on Wednesday, said: \"I wouldn't even use the word trust anywhere near Boeing.\"\n\nBoeing is fighting for its reputation while the 737 Max remains grounded.\n\nA company spokesman said: \"The safety of passengers and crews flying on our aircraft is our absolute priority.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are truly sorry and we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"We know we have a deep responsibility to everyone who flies on our airplanes to ensure that the 737 Max is one of the safest aircraft ever to fly.\"\n\nMs Kuria met with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) along with other family members who lost loved ones, to gain reassurances that the Boeing 737 Max will not return to the skies until rigorous tests are carried out.\n\nThe British woman's father, Joseph Waithaka, died with 156 others on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March.\n\nIt was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max following the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia which killed all 189 people onboard.\n\n\"They are not trustworthy anymore - if they had been in the past,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nShe said the EASA's executive director Patrick Ky had reassured her that \"he would not be caving\" to either the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US regulator, or Boeing in terms of reclassifying whether the 737 Max is safe for European air travel.\n\nBoeing will temporarily stop making the 737 Max in January\n\nBoeing is hoping that the FAA will allow the Max back into the air in the early part of next year but the FAA's close relationship with Boeing has been under intense scrutiny.\n\nIt recently emerged that the FAA allowed the 737 Max to keep flying after the first disaster in October last year despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nMs Kuria said: \"I think the more discovery is done, the more reason we are finding not to trust [Boeing] when it comes to the 737 Max.\n\n\"There are so many things that were hidden that shouldn't have been, so many things that were bypassed that shouldn't have been and I think every time we sit down and have a hearing or hear from an aviation authority on documents of discovery we just find out how preventable the death of our loved ones was.\"\n\nMr Ky said that the European regulator will \"take their time to recertify\" the plane.\n\nMs Kuria also said her safety concerns not only relate to the plane's automated flight control system which malfunctioned before both crashes but other critical safety systems on board the 737 Max.\n\nDuring the meeting, EASA said \"they would reassess all the critical safety systems that are on the 737 Max\", according to Ms Kuria.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk\n\nResidents of villages in the Falkirk area were left without power after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 07:00 on the A905 at Airth.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said a 29-year-old male casualty was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital. His condition was described as \"stable\".\n\nThe road is closed between Bowtrees and the approach to Airth, with local diversions busier than usual.\n\nIt is understood that the road is likely to remain shut for most of the day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the closure was to enable repairs to be carried out to the pole.\n\n\"Inquiries are continuing in to the cause of the crash,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe road was closed while the emergency services dealt with the incident\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had sent an ambulance, its special operations team, and an air ambulance to the scene.\n\n\"We transported one male patient to Forth Valley Royal Hospital by road,\" it said.\n\nLocal councillor Laura Murtagh said it was a \"very sad incident\" and her prayers were with anyone who may have been injured.\n\nShe said the power had been cut to a number of local villages as a result of the crash but most had now been restored.\n\nThe councillor advised HGV drivers \"not to attempt\" the A905 due to other local diversions.", "Sniffer dogs are used in anti-terrorism programmes in a number of countries\n\nThe US says it has stopped sending explosive-detecting dogs to Jordan and Egypt after the deaths of a number of animals due to negligence.\n\n\"Any death of a canine in the field is an extremely sad event,\" a US state department spokesman said.\n\nIn September, a US report highlighted cases of negligence in the care of more than 100 dogs sent to Jordan, Egypt and eight other countries in recent years.\n\nThe US-trained dogs were provided as part of anti-terrorism programmes.\n\nJordan and Egypt have so far made no public comment on the issue.\n\nThe US announced its temporary ban on Monday. The US state department official said the measure was aimed at preventing any further deaths.\n\nTwo of the malnourished sniffer dogs found in Jordan\n\nThe dogs \"play a critical role in our CT (counter-terrorism) efforts overseas and in saving American lives,\" the official said.\n\nThe official added that the dogs already sent to Jordan and Egypt would remain there for the time being.\n\nThe report by the US state department's Office of Inspector General said that one dog died in Jordan in 2017 of hyperthermia (heat stroke).\n\nAnother two dogs \"were returned to the US in critically ill conditions\", the document said.\n\nUS officials \"ultimately had to euthanize one of those canines... and had to nourish the other back to health... because it was severely underweight\".\n\nAll three dogs were of the Belgian Malinois breed.\n\nA follow-up report earlier this month found that two more dogs sent to Jordan died of \"unnatural causes\": one due to heat stroke and the other after insecticide was sprayed by police, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nJordan is by far the biggest recipient of US-trained sniffer dogs, with nearly 100 sent to the Middle East kingdom.\n\nThe US report also said that three of the 10 dogs sent to Egypt succumbed variously to lung cancer, a ruptured gall bladder and heat stroke in 2018-19.", "Prince Philip was once described by the Queen as \"my strength and stay all these years\" and his lifetime of public service is testimony to that.\n\nWhen the Duke of Edinburgh does finally stand down from his royal duties this autumn, it will bring to a close the decades of him being at Her Majesty's side at all kinds of events at home and abroad.\n\nAnd that is not to mention the 22,191 solo engagements he has undertaken in his role as the longest-serving consort in British history.\n\nHe is involved with more than 780 different organisations. When he reached the grand old age of 90, his only concession to his passing years was that he gave up his connections to about a dozen of them.\n\nOne of the most successful associations has been with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a youth self-improvement scheme, which began in 1956.\n\nBut in an interview with the BBC's Fiona Bruce when he turned 90, the Duke said he could not take credit for the highly successful scheme.\n\n\"I don't run it - I've said it's all fairly second-hand the whole business. I mean, I eventually got landed with the responsibility or the credit for it.\n\n\"I've got no reason to be proud of it. It's satisfying that we've set up a formula that works - that's it.\"\n\nHis reluctance to claim credit for that scheme resonates with what the Queen said of him in a speech when celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in 1997.\n\nShe described him as \"someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I and his whole family, in this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know\".\n\nIn 1961 the duke became the first president of the World Wildlife Fund UK, but then faced criticism over his shooting of a tiger while in India that same year.\n\nHe eventually became the organisation's international president in 1981.\n\nPart of Prince Philip's distinguished naval career was spent in Malta\n\nThe Greek-born prince's life of service to the UK began when he joined up with the Royal Navy in 1939.\n\nHe saw active service in World War Two, from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, being mentioned in despatches for his service on battleship HMS Valiant in 1941.\n\nBy that time he had met his distant cousin, Princess Elizabeth. Their friendship blossomed into love and they married in 1947, at which point he renounced his Greek title to become a naturalised British subject, and was made Duke of Edinburgh by King George VI.\n\nPrince Philip's naval career, which saw the newly-married couple stationed in Malta, ended when George VI died in February 1952, and the princess became Queen.\n\nNow Prince Philip had a new role, accompanying Her Majesty around the world, on Commonwealth tours, state visits and trips across the UK.\n\nThat globetrotting has seen him visit 143 countries in an official capacity in the decades that followed.\n\nAnd the prince is credited with helping to save engineering in Britain in the 1970s, being described as playing a vital role in creating a national engineering academy.\n\nIn 2015 he told the BBC that after World War Two the UK was \"completely skint - it seemed to me that the only way we were going to recover was through engineering\".\n\nThe prince has been at the Queen's side for nearly 70 years\n\nWhen talking about a footman training programme which he began at the Palace, he said: \"I tried to find useful things to do.\"\n\nAnd he oversaw the modernisation of Buckingham Palace, as well as reorganising the Balmoral and Sandringham estates and becoming ranger of Windsor Great Park.\n\nHe played polo regularly until 1971 and then took up four-in-hand carriage driving, representing Britain at several European and world championships. He competed at international level carriage events until the age of 85.\n\nAnd he became a qualified pilot, gaining his RAF wings in 1953, helicopter wings in 1956 and private pilot's licence in 1959. He also kept up his love for the sea, competing regularly at Cowes Regatta.\n\nHis public statements have been rare over the years and even rarer has been any direct dealings with the media.\n\nWhen he did agree to take part in an ITV documentary last year to mark 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh's award, he only spent a very small amount of time on screen with host Phillip Schofield and famously asked ahead of their last meeting \"How many more times have we got to do this?\".\n\nChristopher Lee, a historian who wrote the radio documentary series This Sceptred Isle, said the prince was the first man in Buckingham Palace to put computers in his office.\n\n\"He will want to know about the big issues. He will know every single touch, nuance on Brexit, for example. He is briefed on everybody he is likely to meet, even people he will never meet and he takes it in.\n\n\"I think he's never stopped being an admiral. Admirals are like that, they have to be, and admirals never retire.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Caudwell: \"Nearly every wealthy person I know, including me, is thinking of leaving the UK if Labour get in\"\n\nThe Conservative Party received £1.4m in donations in the final two days of the general election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe SNP got £14,929 and the Brexit Party £50,000, according to the register of donations above £7,500.\n\nThe biggest donor was Phones4U founder John Caudwell, who gave the Conservatives £500,000.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and other parties did not get any donations above £7,500 in the final two days.\n\nBillionaire businessman and philanthropist Mr Caudwell told the Daily Telegraph he decided to make the donation on the Monday before the general election over fears that Labour would get in.\n\nHe said he had never donated to a political campaign before, apart from to Tory MP Sir Bill Cash's campaign for Brexit.\n\nIn total, across the six pre-poll donations reports, political parties in the UK reported receiving a combined total of £30,721,998 in donations, the Electoral Commission said.\n\nJust £231,333 was donated to parties in the final two days of the 2017 general election campaign, with most going to the Conservatives.\n\nThe second biggest donor in the final two days of the 2019 campaign was Sir Ehud Sheleg, the Conservative Party's co-treasurer, who gave the party £375,000.\n\nSir Ehud, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who owns an art gallery in Mayfair, has donated more than £3.4m to the party in recent years.\n\nHedge funds and property companies also splashed out big money on Boris Johnson's campaign for Number 10, the Electoral Commission figures reveal.\n\nThe SNP received a £14,929 donation from one individual, Moira Louise Stratton, in the final two days.\n\nFormer Tory Donor Christopher Harborne made two gifts of £25,000 to the Brexit Party in the final two days, having already handed the party more than £3m since the summer.\n\nMr Harborne is the boss of private plane dealers Sherriff Global Group and the owner of AML Global, which sells jet fuel.\n\nThe latest figures put the Conservatives on nearly £20m in registered large donations, compared with £5.4m raised by Labour, although this does not include small donations from party members and supporters.\n\nThe biggest non-individual donor across the entire reporting period was the union Unite, which has given £3.2m to the Labour Party.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have both paid tribute to NHS staff and other public sector workers in their Christmas messages.\n\nMr Johnson used his first festive message as prime minister to thank those staff working over the holiday.\n\nHe also expressed \"solidarity\" with Christians around the world who face persecution for their beliefs.\n\nLabour's Mr Corbyn said it was a time of year when \"the scale of injustice and inequality\" is in \"plain sight\".\n\nHe praised people working in food banks and emergency shelters over Christmas.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also thanked volunteers and those working in the public sector over the festive period.\n\nIn his message, the PM wished the public \"a merry little Christmas\" and thanked those working in the NHS, the police and other public services as well as military personnel on deployment with the armed forces.\n\nBoris Johnson spoke to British troops stationed in Estonia during a one-day visit at the weekend\n\nMr Johnson, who will be spending his first Christmas as PM in Downing Street with his partner Carrie Symonds, said the government \"stands with\" Christians around the world who are facing persecution for their beliefs.\n\n\"For them, Christmas Day will be marked in private, in secret, perhaps even in a prison cell,\" he said.\n\n\"As prime minister, that's something I want to change.\n\n\"We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practice your faith.\n\n\"So as a country let us reflect on the year, and celebrate the good that is to come.\"\n\nIn his sign off, he urged the public to enjoy the festive period, joking: \"Try not to have too many arguments with the in-laws - or anyone else.\"\n\nMr Johnson and his partner are due to see in the New Year on the private Caribbean island of Mustique, the BBC understands.\n\nIn what is likely to be his last Christmas message as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn reflected on his general election defeat, while expressing his hope for a \"better world\".\n\nHe said: \"This has been a difficult year for many of us.\n\n\"We didn't succeed in delivering the change that so many people so desperately need,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn helped at a food bank during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in September\n\n\"But Christmas is a chance to listen, reflect and remember all the things that bind us together: our compassion, our determination to tackle injustice and our hope for a better world.\"\n\nMr Corbyn praised those working in food banks and emergency shelters, helping the less fortunate.\n\n\"While we celebrate being together, we are reminded of the many who will be alone and sadly lonely at Christmas,\" he said.\n\n\"But our communities are built on generosity and the solidarity that comes from that.\n\n\"So we do not walk by on the other side.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has previously said he will stand down as leader \"early next year\".\n\nThe race to replace him has already begun, with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry the first MP to officially throw her hat in the ring.\n\nIn her Christmas address, Ms Sturgeon praised those who give up their time to help others and urged people to \"spread some Christmas cheer\" by volunteering or \"by being a good neighbour or friend\".\n\nThe SNP leader called for Scots to be \"especially thankful\" for those working in the public sector over the Christmas period.\n\n\"For many Christmas isn't a holiday at all - for example, for the people in our NHS and indeed all of our public services,\" she said.\n\n\"Your efforts are appreciated all through the year. But they are particularly appreciated at Christmas time.\"\n\nIn his message, acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey spoke about his Christian faith and the \"hope, joy and love\" of Christmas.\n\nHe said: \"What could possibly represent hope, joy and love better - than a newborn baby.\n\n\"When I held my first child, in the crook of my arm in Kingston Hospital, just minutes after he'd been born, that was the first time I really understood how my own father and mother must have loved me.\n\n\"So you don't actually have to believe in Jesus to recognise that for Christians, Christmas has a deep, profound meaning.\"", "Boeing has fired its chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, in a bid to restore confidence in the firm after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max plane.\n\nMore than 340 people died in the disasters, prompting accusations that Boeing put profit before safety.\n\nFamilies of the victims welcomed Mr Muilenberg's resignation as overdue.\n\nBut they said Boeing's decision to replace him with a long-time board member raised questions about its commitment to change.\n\nBoeing named David Calhoun, who has served on the firm's board since 2009 and is its current chairman, as chief executive and president.\n\n\"While the resignation of Mr Muilenburg is a step in the right direction, it is clear that the Boeing Company needs a revamp of its corporate governance,\" said Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three children and mother-in-law when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in March.\n\nMr Calhoun \"is not the right person for the job\", he added.\n\nZipporah Kuria, whose father was also killed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, said Mr Muilenburg should have been replaced \"a long time ago\" but responsibility for the crashes is shared.\n\n\"I feel as though a lot more people should have resigned including the person who's becoming CEO,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBoeing has been under intense scrutiny since two 737 Max planes crashed within five months of each other, first in Indonesia and then in Ethiopia.\n\nThe 737 Max fleet has been grounded worldwide since March.\n\nWhile the company had been hoping to have the best-selling jet back in the air by the end of this year, US regulators have made it clear that it would not be certified to return to the skies that quickly.\n\nLast week, Boeing said it would halt production of the aircraft.\n\nThen on Friday, the company's reputation took another hit when its Starliner spacecraft suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nBoeing's board said it had \"decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders\".\n\nMr Calhoun, a private equity executive, will take over from 13 January.\n\nLawrence Kellner, a board member since 2011, is to become non-executive chairman immediately.\n\n\"Under the company's new leadership, Boeing will operate with a renewed commitment to full transparency, including effective and proactive communication with the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], other global regulators and its customers,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator says he \"would walk before I got on a 737 Max\"\n\nDespite the ouster, some of the firm's harshest critics in Washington said they still had questions about the firm's commitment to change.\n\nSenator Richard Bumenthal said: \"The company needs new leadership across the board who will take safety seriously.\"\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 Blumenthal 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\nMichael Stumo, who lost his daughter Samya Rose on the Ethiopian Airlines flight and has organised victims' families against Boeing, called the resignation a \"good first step toward restoring Boeing to a company that focuses on safety and innovation\".\n\n\"The next step is for several board members who are underperforming or unqualified to resign,\" he said.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the tragedies have identified an automated control system in the plane, known as MCAS, as a factor in both crashes.\n\nBoeing has said the MCAS software system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nIt has said it is fixing the software and has overhauled its review procedures.\n\nBut US lawmakers, who are investigating the company, have said the firm was aware that the software system could be unreliable. They have accused the company of trying to hide the risks and rush the plane back into service.\n\nDennis Muilenburg had faced calls or his resignation\n\nCongressman Peter DeFazio, who leads a committee investigating Boeing, had called for Mr Muilenburg's resignation in an interview with the New York Times, published over the weekend.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said the shake-up was \"long overdue\".\n\nMr Muilenburg first joined Boeing in 1985. He led the company's defence, space and security division prior to his appointment as chief executive in 2015.\n\nHe was stripped of his role as chairman of Boeing's board of directors in October and later agreed to give up his bonus. However, Boeing, including Mr Calhoun, had continued to express confidence in him.\n\nDennis Muilenburg's departure was inevitable, although the timing was unexpected.\n\nSince the two accidents, he has faced intense criticism over the corporate culture that existed at Boeing on his watch, and over the company's relationship with regulators.\n\nQuestions have been asked about how a seemingly flawed aircraft was allowed into service in the first place, and why it was allowed to continue flying after the first accident. There have been claims - emphatically denied by the company - that it prioritised profits and speed of production over safety.\n\nHis response to the crisis has also come under fire. Although he insisted that Boeing \"owned\" its failures, he also repeatedly said that the crashes were the result of a chain of events. This was seen by some as an attempt to divert blame away from the aerospace giant.\n\nThe final humiliation came last week, when Boeing announced it would have to suspend production of the 737 Max, because regulators had yet to clear the aircraft as safe to fly again. For months, Mr Muilenburg had insisted the plane would be back in the air by the end of the year.\n\nHe had lost credibility, and the board decided he had to go.", "Police remained at the scene of the incident overnight on Monday\n\nA murder inquiry is under way following the discovery of two bodies in a flat in north Belfast on Monday.\n\nThe victims were a 37-year-old woman, Frances Murray, and 47-year-old Joseph Dutton.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered at the property in Kinnaird Close at about 12:55 GMT, after a report was made by a member of the public.\n\nA 35-year-old man arrested on Monday evening on suspicion of murder remains in police custody.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said police believed \"some form of altercation took place within the flat where Frances and Joseph were found\".\n\n\"I also want to locate a bag of blood soaked clothing that I believe was discarded in the local area,\" he said.\n\n\"The bag is described as being a white carrier type bag with orange lettering on it. If you see a bag matching this description please do not touch it and contact police immediately.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Montgomery appealed to anyone who was in the area at the time or who may have information about the incident to contact police.\n\nHe added the deaths were being treated as murder even though a post-mortem examination had yet to take place.\n\nSDLP councillor Paul McCusker said it was \"horrific news\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bodies of two people have been found in a flat in north Belfast\n\n\"There is a sense of shock across the community, a lot of anger, a lot of sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"Lots of children and lots of families live in this area. It is fairly settled.\"\n\nSinn Fein councillor JJ Magee said it was a \"tragic scene\".\n\nA police forensic officer at the scene in Kinnaird Close\n\n\"Absolutely shocked, the community is shocked by the news that has come from this very, very serious situation,\" he said.\n\nMr Magee said there would have been many children in the area around the time of the incident due to the Christmas holidays.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police asked photographers to \"move back\" as they helped Ms Flack to a waiting car\n\nFormer Love Island presenter Caroline Flack has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her boyfriend with a lamp.\n\nPolice found her partner Lewis Burton covered in blood after being called to reports of a man being assaulted at the 40-year-old's home in north London on 12 December, a court heard.\n\nHowever, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court was told tennis player Mr Burton did not support the prosecution.\n\nMs Flack will stand trial at the same court on 4 March.\n\nThe court heard the alleged attack occurred after Ms Flack found texts on her boyfriend's phone while he was asleep, leading her to believe he was cheating.\n\n\"He said he had been asleep and was hit over the head by Caroline with a lamp, causing a visible cut to his head,\" prosecutor Katie Weiss said.\n\n\"She had also smashed a glass and she had sustained an injury.\"\n\nThe court heard how Mr Burton made a call to 999 in which he was \"almost begging the operator to send help\".\n\nWhen a police officer arrived at the Islington flat, both Ms Flack and Mr Burton were covered in blood and the officer \"likened the scene to a horror movie\", Ms Weiss said.\n\nMs Weiss told the court Ms Flack was disruptive while in police custody, saying she flipped over a table and had to be \"restrained on the ground\".\n\nHer solicitor Paul Morris told the court Mr Burton had \"never supported\" the prosecution's case, adding: \"He is not the victim, as he would say, he was a witness.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Weiss replied: \"Mr Burton is a victim, he received significant injury to his head.\"\n\nMs Flack put her head in her hands as the judge refused an application to remove bail conditions preventing her from contacting Mr Burton\n\nMs Flack was released on bail on the condition she does not contact Mr Burton directly or indirectly or attends his address.\n\nMr Morris had made an application to have these bail conditions lifted, arguing that they \"remain a couple\" and wanted to spend Christmas together.\n\nCaroline Flack struggled to get through a scrum of photographers as she walked into the court building. Once in, she burst into tears.\n\nIn the courtroom itself she was accompanied by a security officer who walked her to the dock.\n\nShe passed her boyfriend, the man she's accused of assaulting, who was sitting in the packed public gallery.\n\nThey're still a couple, the court heard, and he insists he isn't a victim.\n\nWhen asked how she would plead she quietly said \"not guilty\".\n\nAs the case was laid out against her there were moments when she cried.\n\nTowards the end, when she was told her bail conditions would remain and that she couldn't contact her boyfriend, she burst into tears again and turned to look at him.\n\nHe was looking down with his head in his hands.\n\nMs Flack 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\nShe stood down from the show after she was charged last week, saying it was the \"best thing I can do\".\n\nMs Flack was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore will take over hosting duties on Love Island and its companion show Aftersun when filming starts in South Africa in January.\n\nMs Flack's trial is expected to last one-and-a-half days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mossman Farm was losing around 30 animals after each TB test - but around 170 were culled who did not need to be killed\n\nA Welsh dairy farm described as a \"sinking ship\" after being plagued by bovine TB is trialling an innovative new test for the disease.\n\nThe developers claim it is a faster, more effective way of identifying infected cattle.\n\nMossman Farm near Llangrannog, Ceredigion has lost more than 300 cows over the last three years.\n\nWales' chief vet has given permission for the experimental test to be tried out on the remaining herd.\n\nTB testing is always a real stress on everybody, a big operation\n\nDescribing the moment he was first told one of his cows had tested positive for TB, farmer Chris Mossman said \"quite literally your stomach falls through the floor\".\n\n\"You know things are going to change dramatically, but even then I could never have guessed how significantly it would have impacted on our business and not just our lives but the lives of our staff.\n\n\"No-one wants to get onto a sinking ship every morning and that's how it feels when we're constantly losing animals - between 25 to 35 every test.\"\n\nHe is now paying to try out the new test in the hope it will lead to fewer cattle being removed.\n\nKnown as Actiphage, it can detect the presence of bTB bacteria directly in the animal's blood or milk, within a matter of hours.\n\nCurrent tests used on cattle look instead for an immune response - which is not always as obvious.\n\nIt means that at the moment some diseased cows slip through the net, continuing to spread infection on farms.\n\nTo try to get on top of the situation, the Welsh Government has insisted that all animals with inconclusive results from farms with long-standing problems have to be removed.\n\nFarmers say this means significant numbers of potentially healthy animals are being culled.\n\nA record 12,799 cattle were slaughtered in the year to August, a 28% increase compared with the same period in 2018.\n\nMossman Farm is the first in Wales - and one of only a handful across the UK - to trial Actiphage.\n\nThe developers, Suffolk-based agri-tech firm PBD Biotech, said they wanted to work with other Welsh farms in TB hotspots as they attempt to get the test validated by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).\n\nIt could then be adopted more widely as part of the government's TB eradication strategy.\n\nFarm vet Robert Price-Jones from Llandysul, Ceredigion is preparing a paper on the findings from the Mossman Farm trial, to be published in early 2020.\n\n\"The potential here is to be far more certain of test results. When you can show that there's bacteria present in the animal's blood you're 100% sure it has TB,\" he said.\n\n\"We tested 30 cows that had just come up as negative on the normal skin and blood tests and found that over half were in fact positive.\n\n\"It offers some hope to vets because at the moment we often feel like we're fighting against this disease without seeing much improvement across the country.\n\n\"This offers us a way forward towards eradicating TB in cattle\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say their initial findings following the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are \"inconclusive\" - but a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Spurs on Sunday after Chelsea's Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs said they are \"exhaustively investigating\" the incident.\n\nMeanwhile, police arrested a Chelsea fan for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs' Son.\n\nA total of six arrests were made as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture but none were linked to the incident involving Rudiger.\n\n\"We have engaged lip readers to study the footage and contacted Chelsea for further information from their players,\" Spurs said in a statement. \"The police will be reviewing our evidence alongside us.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Please be assured we shall be exhaustively investigating this matter.\"\n• None Players should be empowered to walk off - Neville\n\nSpurs said they are able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism will \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\n\"This club has a proud track record of anti-racism work across all our communities and we are determined to ensure that we conduct a thorough investigation,\" the club added.\n\n\"At this time however we should point out that our findings are inconclusive and would ask that comment is reserved until the facts are established.\"\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it would support both clubs \"in their pursuit of any perpetrators and call for appropriate action to be taken by the authorities and the clubs\".\n\nChelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta told referee Anthony Taylor of Rudiger's complaint during the second half of Sunday's fixture.\n\nThree announcements over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\" between the incident and full-time.\n\nThe Uefa protocol says if a message over the public address system does not stop the racist abuse in a stadium, a second announcement should follow and the temporary suspension of play should be enforced.\n\nIf discriminatory behaviour continues, authorities can decide to abandon the fixture.\n\nSpurs said the fact they repeated the announcement created a \"misconception\" that the issue was ongoing in their stadium.\n\nThe club added: \"In respect of protocols - when the incident was conveyed to the referee Anthony Taylor, he took the decision to call for the implementation of Stage 1 of the Uefa protocol - rather than the Premier League protocol - and asked for an announcement to be made, as well as requesting a further announcement which created a misconception that any issue was ongoing.\n\n\"The Premier League protocol differs from Uefa protocol in that it does not call for an announcement rather that the individual(s) be dealt with by the Safety Team in the first instance.\n\n\"We have asked that the Premier League clarifies the position regarding the use of these protocols to all stakeholders going forward.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, the Professional Footballers' Association called for a government inquiry.\n\nThe government has not ruled out taking \"further steps if required\".\n\nOn Monday, a host of Premier League managers were asked about the issue, with Newcastle's Steve Bruce stating he was \"sickened and saddened by it\", while Manchester City's Pep Guardiola said it will take \"a lot of time\" to \"eradicate\" the issue.", "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.", "A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas then threw the money in the air and enthusiastically wished passers-by a merry Christmas, witnesses have said.\n\nPolice said \"an older white male\" robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs on Monday lunchtime.\n\n\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" witness Dion Pascale told Colorado's 11 News.\n\n\"He started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!'\"\n\nWitnesses said the hirsute suspect then wandered over to a nearby Starbucks coffee shop, sat down in front of it, and waited to be arrested.\n\nIn a particularly festive gesture, the passers-by are reported to have scooped up all the money from the street and taken it back inside the bank.\n\nColorado Springs police named the suspect as David Wayne Oliver, 65. He is not believed to have had any little helpers.", "The net independence plan is seen as a way for Russia's government to get more control over online life\n\nRussia has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet, its government has announced.\n\nDetails of what the test involved were vague but, according to the Ministry of Communications, ordinary users did not notice any changes.\n\nThe results will now be presented to President Putin.\n\nExperts remain concerned about the trend for some countries to dismantle the internet.\n\n\"Sadly, the Russian direction of travel is just another step in the increasing breaking-up of the internet,\" said Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey.\n\n\"Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.\n\n\"It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own country, they will be kept within their own bubble.\"\n\nThe initiative involves restricting the points at which Russia's version of the net connects to its global counterpart, giving the government more control over what its citizens can access.\n\n\"That would effectively get ISPs [internet service providers] and telcos to configure the internet within their borders as a gigantic intranet, just like a large corporation does,\" explained Prof Woodward.\n\nSo how would the government establish what some have dubbed a \"sovereign Runet\"?\n\nCountries receive foreign web services via undersea cables or \"nodes\" - connection points at which data is transmitted to and from other countries' communication networks. These would need to be blocked or at least regulated.\n\nThis would require the co-operation of domestic ISPs and would be much easier to achieve if there were just a handful of state-owned firms involved. The more networks and connections a country has, the more difficult it is to control access.\n\nThen Russia would need to create an alternative system.\n\nIn Iran, the National Information Network allows access to web services while policing all content on the network and limiting external information. It is run by the state-owned Telecommunication Company of Iran.\n\nOne of the benefits of effectively turning all internet access into a government-controlled walled garden, is that virtual private networks (VPNs), often used to circumvent blocks, would not work.\n\nAnother example of this is the so-called Great Firewall of China. It blocks access to many foreign internet services, which in turn has helped several domestic tech giants establish themselves.\n\nRussia already tech champions of its own, such as Yandex and Mail.Ru, but other local firms might also benefit.\n\nThe country plans to create its own Wikipedia and politicians have passed a bill that bans the sale of smartphones that do not have Russian software pre-installed.\n\nOne expert warned that the policy could help the state repress free speech, but added that it was not a foregone conclusion that it would succeed.\n\n\"The Russian government has run into technical challenges in the past when trying to increase online control, such as its largely unsuccessful efforts to block Russians from accessing encrypted messaging app Telegram,\" Justin Sherman, a cyber-security policy fellow at the New America think tank, told the BBC.\n\n\"Without more information about this test though, it's hard to assess exactly how far Russia has progressed in the path towards an isolatable domestic internet.\n\n\"And on the business front, it remains to be seen just how much domestic and foreign pushback Russia will get.\"\n\nLocal news agencies, including Pravda, reported the deputy head of the Ministry of Communications had said that the tests of the scheme had gone as planned.\n\n\"The results of the exercises showed that, in general, both the authorities and telecoms operators are ready to effectively respond to emerging risks and threats, to ensure the stable functioning of both the internet and unified telecommunication network in the Russian Federation,\" said Alexey Sokolov.\n\nThe state-owned Tass news agency reported the tests had assessed the vulnerability of internet-of-things devices, and also involved an exercise to test Runet's ability to stand up to \"external negative influences\".", "The Queen was accompanied by the Countess of Wessex\n\nThe Queen has attended a carol service in Sandringham after the Duke of Edinburgh spent a second night in hospital in London.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen was at St Mary Magdalene with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nShe is expected to attend the same church on Christmas Day.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.\n\nViscount Severn watches as the Queen, his grandmother, steps out of the car at St Mary Magdalene\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBut it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nPrince Edward was pictured after the service with his son\n\nPolice have been stationed outside King Edward VII hospital during Prince Philip's stay", "Several people were injured in a balloon drop at Westfield Parramatta mall in Sydney.\n\nHundreds of shoppers tried to grab balloons which were stuffed with prizes. The incident took place at the end of a marathon Christmas shopping event.\n\nThere were children among those injured in the crush and several were sent to hospital.\n\nThe mall's owners have said they will investigate the incident.", "Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, is not one of the characters in the scene\n\nDisney has cut a brief scene of two women kissing in the Singaporean version of its latest Star Wars film.\n\nThe Rise of Skywalker features the first same-sex kiss in the franchise's history - described by reviewers as \"a brief flash of two women kissing... among a crowd of characters\".\n\nBut the version released in Singapore omits the scene.\n\nSingapore's media regulatory body told the BBC that Disney cut the scene so it didn't get a higher age rating.\n\n\"The applicant has omitted a brief scene which under the film classification guidelines would require a higher rating,\" said a spokesperson from IMDA.\n\nWithout the kiss, the film is rated PG13 in Singapore.\n\nIt is not clear if Disney - the owners of Lucasfilm, the Star Wars production company - cut the scene in other countries. It was reportedly shown in China but not in the UAE.\n\nDisney has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nA supporter attends the annual \"Pink Dot\" event in a public show of support for the LGBT community in Singapore\n\nFilms in Singapore are typically classed under six different ratings:\n\nIt is not clear what rating the film would have had if the same-sex scene was included. A previous gay teen rom-com, Love Simon, was rated R21 by the IMDA.\n\nIn comparison, Love Simon is rated PG13 on movie listing site IMDB.\n\nBrokeback Mountain, which featured two gay cowboys, was aired in Singapore in its entirety in 2006 - but was similarly hit with an R21 listing.\n\nSame-sex marriages are not recognised in Singapore and gay sex is illegal - though the law is not enforced.\n\nThere are gay bars and clubs in Singapore, as well as an annual pride rally.\n\nIn 2018, a gay Singaporean man won a landmark case allowing him to adopt a child he fathered through a surrogate.", "Three members of the same family are reported to have drowned at a holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain.\n\nThey were found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola, a statement from the owners said.\n\nIt has been reported that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was assisting a British woman in Spain.\n\nIt is understood the father and daughter were both British while the brother was American.\n\nHotel firm CLC World Resorts said first response teams and emergency services attended and administered first aid.\n\nA local journalist, Fernando Torres, told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nThe sprawling resort near Fuengirola has several pools\n\nCLC World Resorts said it offered its \"heartfelt condolences to the family affected by the loss of three family members on 24th December 2019\".\n\n\"The management are assisting the authorities fully with their investigation into the deaths.\n\n\"We would like to thank our first response team and the emergency services for their quick and appropriate responses, and our staff for the continuing support of the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"We are offering assistance to a British woman following an incident in Spain.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers search for survivors after the bus plunged into the ravine\n\nAt least 26 people have been killed and 13 injured after a bus plunged down a steep ravine and landed in a river in Indonesia.\n\nAbout 50 passengers were on board the bus in South Sumatra province when it plunged some 150m (500ft) on Monday night.\n\nThe bus had left Bengkulu city and was heading for Palembang, a journey of several hours.\n\nAbout 120 rescuers are searching for survivors.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nThe accident happened in the Liku Lematang area at about 23:15 local time (16:15 GMT).\n\nPagar Alam police chief Dolly Gumara said officers were currently prioritising evacuating survivors.\n\nThe police chief also called for victims' families to identify their relatives at the hospital.\n\nRoads around the site of the accident have been closed and police say they have issued warnings to motorists.\n\nSerious road accidents are common in Indonesia with roads and vehicles often poorly maintained.\n\nLast year, 27 people died after a tourist bus ran off a road and overturned in West Java province. It had been taking 40 passengers to visit thermal springs.\n\nTwo months later, two accidents in West Java killed at least 15 people.", "Elsie has a number of epileptic fits each day\n\nA three-year-old girl with a rare form of epilepsy will be home for the first time in a year on Christmas Day.\n\nElsie has Dravet syndrome, which can cause seizures thought to be linked to developmental delays and learning difficulties.\n\nShe has been on the children's ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor since having a seizure on Christmas Eve last year.\n\nDoctors hope her temporary release on Christmas Day will be a first step to eventually returning home full-time.\n\n\"We need the house to have space for two carers to come live with us, more or less 24-hours,\" said her mother Gwennan Owen, who has five other children.\n\nThe family has had to move to a new house near Caernarfon which is better adapted.\n\nOnly about two or three people out of every 500 with epilepsy have Dravet syndrome and life expectancy for those diagnosed is short.\n\nElsie has a number of seizures every day and she is currently being treated with cannabis oil to improve her quality of life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elsie has a rare form of epilepsy which can cause seizures thought to be linked to developmental delays\n\nJo Douglas, the hospital's clinical services manager for paediatrics and neonatal services, said staff were pleased Elsie would have Christmas with her family.\n\n\"We're very happy - it feels like, eventually, a light at the end of the tunnel for Elsie,\" she said.\n\n\"We can see her developing, we see her growing in confidence, she attends school from here.\n\n\"It's just a fantastic transition to take her home and we can't wait for that to happen.\"\n\nMs Owen calls the staff at the ward her \"rock\" and said that Elsie \"wouldn't be where she is now\" without them.\n\nBut coming to see Elsie daily and caring for the rest of the family is a difficult balance.\n\n\"I've had to give up working, but [partner] Dave obviously is still working,\" she added.\n\n\"It's just... we had no choice and you've just got to carry on.\n\n\"A lot of sweat and chocolate, and you keep going.\"\n\nHaving Elsie at home for Christmas will be the return of \"normality\" for the family.\n\n\"It will be magical for her,\" her mother 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.\n\nA bagpiper has surprised a terminally ill man outside his home on Christmas Eve.\n\nTony Occleshaw, who worked for Nottinghamshire Police, is having end-of-life care at home for cancer.\n\nHe wanted to see the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August but was too ill so his daughter organised for a piper, who plays for the same force to perform.\n\nMr Occleshaw, from Arnold, said he and his wife were \"both in tears\" during the performance.\n\nHe said: \"I absolutely love pipers. I heard something and opened the front door- it was a real surprise.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw said about 30 people came out to watch.\n\n\"It was really wonderful. The best surprise I have ever had.\"\n\nTony Occleshaw has been in a lot of pain over the last few months after developing another tumour\n\nSally Bates said her dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer about a week after her wedding in August 2018, and a couple of months later was told he only had a year to live.\n\nMrs Bates said: \"It was a huge shock to my dad. He had just turned 63 and was looking forward to retiring.\"\n\nHe has since developed another tumour, she said.\n\n\"He was discharged from hospital about one month ago to have end-of-life care at home.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw worked as a station assistant for Nottinghamshire Police for 20 years\n\nMrs Bates put out an appeal on Facebook looking for a bagpiper to play for her dad and a man got in touch saying his 14-year-old son would be happy to do it.\n\n\"It was an absolute miracle,\" she said.\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 dhow was spotted by Sailors and Royal Marines\n\nThe Royal Navy says it has seized 11 \"mailbag-sized\" sacks of crystal meth in the Middle East, worth an estimated £3.3m.\n\nHMS Defender spotted the \"suspicious\" ship while patrolling the Arabian Sea for smugglers and traffickers.\n\nSailors and Royal Marines boarded the ship, and found a total haul of 131kg.\n\nHMS Defender's commanding officer said he was \"proud\" they had seized a \"significant quantity\" of drugs that could have potentially reached the UK.\n\nCdr Richard Hewitt added: \"This has been a real boost for the ship's company as they face Christmas away from their loved ones.\"\n\nThe Navy said the drugs contained in the bags would have had an estimated street value of £3.3m in the UK.\n\nHMS Defender has been deployed to the Middle East since August\n\nThe Portsmouth-based warship HMS Defender carried out the day-long search of the boat - a dhow - after being alerted by the destroyer's helicopter.\n\nThe Navy said the Wildcat helicopter discovered a solo ship without a flying flag and could not find evidence it was carrying out fishing.\n\nThat prompted the destroyer to investigate, sending Royal Marines to secure the ship and its crew.\n\nHMS Defender is one of more than a dozen British warships, submarines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels on duty over the Christmas period.\n\nThe vessel has been deployed to the Middle East since August, safeguarding merchant shipping entering and leaving the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said about 11,000 troops are involved in operations in more than 30 countries across the world over the Christmas period.\n\nThey include personnel serving in Somalia, South Sudan, Estonia, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands and the Caribbean.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families at this time of year.\"", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died while on a school trip to New York.\n\nThe sixth form student at Bristol Grammar School was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December, New York police said.\n\nShe was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice said there were no suspicious circumstances, but they understood the teenager may have been ill during the trip.\n\nThey are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged 4-18 enrolled.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evidence of the strike at the centre of the stone circle was found during a geophysics survey\n\nEvidence of a \"massive\" lightning strike has been found at the centre of a stone circle in the Western Isles.\n\nA single large strike, or many smaller ones on the same spot, left a star-shaped magnetic anomaly at the 4,000-year-old site in Lewis.\n\nScientists made the discovery at Site XI or Airigh na Beinne Bige, a hillside stone circle now consisting of a single standing stone.\n\nThe site is at the famous Calanais Standing Stones.\n\nScientists said the lightning strike, which was indentified in a geophysics survey, could show a potential link between the construction of ancient stone circles and the forces of nature.\n\nThey said the lightning struck some time before peat enveloped the stone circle at Site XI 3,000 years ago. The discovery is detailed in new research published online.\n\nThe stone circle may have attracted the lightning, say the scientists\n\nDr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews, said: \"Such clear evidence for lightning strikes is extremely rare in the UK and the association with this stone circle is unlikely to be coincidental.\n\n\"Whether the lightning at Site XI focused on a tree or rock which is no longer there, or the monument itself attracted strikes, is uncertain.\n\n\"However, this remarkable evidence suggests that the forces of nature could have been intimately linked with everyday life and beliefs of the early farming communities on the island.\"\n\nThe discovery was made by the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, a joint venture led by the University of St Andrews with standing stones trust Urras nan Tursachan and the University of Bradford and supported by funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.\n\nThe same project has also produced a 3D virtual model recreating another of the area's \"lost\" stone circle, Na Dromannan.\n\nIts stones are today either lying flat or buried under peat.\n\nThe new discovery was made at the famous Calanais Standing Stones", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Savoretti offers help to girl with cancer\n\nA girl's Christmas wish to receive a new cancer treatment has been granted after an anonymous donor helped her campaign reach its funding target.\n\nAnna Drysdale, eight, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, when she was five years old.\n\nHer family launched a crowdfunding page four months ago to pay for immunotherapy treatment in New York to prevent the cancer returning.\n\nTheir £460,000 target was reached after \"an incredible anonymous donation\".\n\nAnna's mother Keeley, from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, said the family \"just couldn't believe it\" when they heard of the funding.\n\n\"We wondered, is it true? Is it really happening? It's definitely the best Christmas present we could ever have wished for,\" she added.\n\nAnna Drysdale will travel across the Atlantic for treatment in the new year\n\nAnna's campaign hit the headlines when Oxfordshire-based singer Jack Savoretti backed her campaign.\n\nOther stars, including Lewis Capaldi, Ricky Astley, Jo Whiley and Olly Murs also gave their support.\n\nAnna was first diagnosed in February 2017 and is currently in remission for a second time.\n\nHer family said the risk of the cancer returning was \"extremely high and very likely\", which is why they started their campaign for her to get new preventative treatment, which costs $500,000 (£386,600), at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.\n\nAnna will head to New York for the treatment in the new year.\n• None Jack Savoretti backs campaign for girl with cancer. Video, 00:02:06Jack Savoretti backs campaign for girl with cancer", "Around 11,000 troops are serving on operations in countries including Iraq and Afghanistan\n\nThousands of UK troops will spend Christmas away from home in more than 30 countries this year.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace praised the \"selflessness\" of the armed forces personnel and their families.\n\nAround 11,000 Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel are serving on 35 overseas operations in countries including Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nThe troops have already begun sending messages to loved ones, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nMore than 1,000 personnel are stationed in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, while in the Caribbean the air force remains on alert over the hurricane season, the MoD added.\n\nThe Royal Navy will have 14 ships at sea on Christmas Day, including HMS Defender, which was used to seize £3.3m of crystal meth in the Arabian Sea on Monday.\n\n\"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families,\" Mr Wallace said.\n\n\"This Christmas, like any other day, our servicemen and women will be displaying their unique professionalism around the world and at home.\"\n\nMr Wallace, who was an officer in the Scots Guards before entering politics, said he knew what it was like to work away from home over Christmas and New Year.\n\nMeanwhile, the MoD has donated more than 14,000 unused ration packs to food waste charity FareShare, which will distribute the packages to charities running homeless outreach programmes in London over the Christmas period.\n\nThe packages do not need to be refrigerated and include ingredients for breakfasts, lunches and dinners such as porridge, sausages, pasta and baked beans.\n\nOn Thursday, the defence secretary confirmed that there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when the chancellor announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-21.\n\nBut a defence spending squeeze between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the House of Commons' spending watchdog reported the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.", "Bethany Haines spoke to officers from the YPG who showed her places her father had been\n\nThe daughter of a Scottish aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State group in Syria has vowed to return there to recover her father's remains.\n\nBethany Haines is convinced she has worked out the location of her father's grave near the Turkish border.\n\nDavid Haines, 44, who lived in Perth, was abducted by IS in 2013 while working in a Syrian aid camp.\n\nHis execution was filmed and released in 2014 as part of IS propaganda footage.\n\nHe was murdered, with fellow aid worker Alan Henning, by the so-called \"Beatles\" cell of four British militants.\n\nEarlier this year, the 22-year-old mother-of-one made the journey out to Syria to retrace her father's last movements.\n\nShe met aid workers at the camp where her father worked. She spoke to \"Isis brides\" and saw the spot in Raqqa where her father's executioner Mohammed Emwazi - dubbed Jihadi John - was killed in a drone strike in 2015.\n\nMr Haines was working for a French aid agency when he was captured by Islamic State militants\n\nShe spoke to officers from the YPG - the People's Protection Unit, the home-grown defence force of the Kurdish area of Syria.\n\nHowever, it was not safe to travel to the spot where she believes her father's remains are buried.\n\nBut she has vowed to return until his remains are located. She says she will not rest until she finds out where he is.\n\nMs Haines told the BBC: \"Since the word go, I was never told anything substantial or accurate.\n\n\"It made the situation much more difficult, my dad being taken and having to fight for information.\n\n\"I watched the videos and I looked at Google maps and I was pretty sure I had found the location from features in the landscape I saw on the video and located on the map.\n\nMs Haines spoke to IS wives at a camp in Syria to understand more about what happened and to ask if they knew anything about her father's execution\n\n\"The area they were executed in wasn't entirely safe. But I wanted to go and even see it from a distance to know it was really there.\"\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was going to be the last piece of the puzzle to my research and it seemed the logical thing to do, to go out there and speak to people who were involved.\"\n\nWhile there, she visited the site of a mass grave and saw Syrian people conducting digs and recovering victims.\n\nIt made her feel close to her father.\n\nMs Haines visited a mass grave where Syrian people were helping to excavate and recover other victims' remains\n\nShe said: \"For that short time I felt like I had him back, I felt so close to him.\n\n\"Returning to Scotland, I have found it hard to settle back into normal life. But knowing his possible remains were only a few miles away has been really difficult.\n\n\"The story's not finished, I need to go out again, speak to more people and see what they think.\n\n\"The YPG agreed with me that he was in that area. I would want to do a dig to see.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "The tiny emerald ash borer arrived in the US in 2002 and has since killed tens of millions of ash trees\n\nFor the first time, a study has attempted to assess the devastation caused by the emerald ash borer in US forests that shape river systems.\n\nResearchers discovered a range of ways that the ecologically vital habitat is being systematically changed at a landscape level.\n\nSince it was discovered in the US in 2002, the invasive insects have wiped out tens of millions of ash trees.\n\nThe findings will appear in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.\n\nSince it was first recorded in Michigan, the tiny wood-boring beetle has spread across the north-eastern reach of the US, killing tens of millions of ash trees.\n\nThe cost to the nation's economy has been estimated to exceed $10bn.\n\nHowever, a team from Michigan State University saw that little attention had been paid to how the invasion was changing the face of riparian (water/river system) forests.\n\n\"In North America, green and black ash [trees] are two very important species, ecologically speaking,\" explained co-author Patrick Engelken from the university's department of entomology.\n\n\"The wetland habitats are often inundated during spring wet months. The tree species that grow there have to be really tolerant of having lots of water on their roots,\" he added.\n\n\"And they are functionally linked to these waterways where the nutrient supply within these stream systems is directly mediated by these surrounding forests\"\n\nGreen and black ash trees dominate riparian forests in Michigan, but are vulnerable to the invasive beetle\n\nMr Engelken also said that other factors were also regulated by these forests, such as nutrition distribution, leaf litter depositions, temperature moderation and shading.\n\nWhen the team examined the impact of 15 years of the invasive emerald ash borer across forests in three watersheds, although there was widespread mortality, the legacy on the ground varied widely.\n\n\"The trees in south east Michigan had begun to really decay and break down and accumulate,\" Mr Engelken told BBC News.\n\n\"We were climbing over piles of dead ash trees in open canopy areas that used to be dense overstorey (the uppermost canopy level of a forest, formed by the tallest trees).\n\n\"And about 120 miles to the west, we would see the standing dead trees. These were going to have really large scale impacts on the environment; the riparian forest floor and in the streams as well.\n\nThe researchers also found a lot of log jamming in the water system, which had the potential to change the way the river systems behaved during periods of flooding.\n\nHowever, they said that some of the other effects that they encountered were not what they had necessarily expected to see.\n\n\"Ash trees still remain highly abundant in the sapling strata, in the understory. By far, the dominant species - in canopy gaps at least - were species of ash, primarily green ash.\n\nMr Engelken explained that this was probably the result of emerald ash borer densities being much lower than they were during the invasion's peak. This was primarily a result of the insects' food source, mature ash trees, being gone.\n\n\"We have this healthy cohort of ash in the understory (a layer of vegetation below the forest's main canopy) where if the (ash borer) pressure remains low on them, you might start to see some ash begin to recover and begin to create a new overstorey of ash in the coming years,\" he said.\n\nAnother thing that surprised the researchers was the dense growth of herbaceous (non-woody) plants in the places where the canopy had gone.\n\n\"We had expected to see invasive plant species move in and dominate,\" Mr Engelken explained.\n\n\"But what we saw in almost every single site was that the understorey is completely covered in dense herbaceous masses. Sedges that not only seemed to be outcompeting seedlings but invasive species as well.\"\n\nMr Engelken warned that the conversion of these areas of habitat to open sedge meadows from ash-dominated riparian forests could have lasting effects as far as providing shade or nutrients to watercourses.\n\nHe said that riparian forests had been overlooked or neglected when it came to the effects of the emerald ash borer invasion.\n\nHowever, he said that if policymakers placed a little more urgency on these important habitats then the legacy from the emerald ash borer will have been much reduced.\n\n\"Ash trees are really good mass trees; they put out a lot of seeds and they grow fast or hardy,\" he observed.\n\n\"It would just take a little bit of foresight to try to keep some big, mature trees to perhaps maintain these habitats.\n\n\"Restoration is difficult. It's a lot more difficult than thinking about them beforehand. I would say just think about these riparian corridors and the species occupying them, as they are... really important ecosystems.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "Bieber said he was \"excited\" to perform and tour with his new material\n\nJustin Bieber has given fans an early Christmas present - confirmation he is to make a 2020 comeback.\n\nThe Canadian pop star chose 24 December to announce he will release a new single, called Yummy, on 3 January - the debut track from an upcoming, as yet untitled fifth album.\n\nThe 25-year-old also revealed he is to tour the US and his home nation between May and September.\n\nThe singer announced as well he is to appear in a new documentary TV series.\n\nBieber took an extended break from music in 2017 after cancelling the last 14 dates of his Purpose World Tour.\n\nYet this year saw him appear as a guest vocalist on Ed Sheeran's I Don't Care and a remix of Billie Eilish's Bad Guy.\n\nThis - together with an appearance with Ariana Grande at Coachella in April - led to speculation that he might be about to return with new solo material.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"As humans we are imperfect,\" he can be heard saying in a teaser \"super trailer\" for his New Year plans.\n\n\"My past, my mistakes, all the things that I've been through… I believe that I'm right where I'm supposed to be and God has me right where he wants me.\"\n\nEarlier this year he wrote about his struggles with drug use and depression in an emotional essay, in which he described himself as \"the most hated person in the world\".\n\n\"I feel like this is different from the previous albums just because of where I'm at with my life,\" he goes on in the video. \"I'm excited to perform it and to tour it.\n\n\"We all have different stories, I'm just excited to share mine. It's the music I've loved the most out of anything I've done.\"\n\nThe promo video finds Bieber, wearing his trademark baggy hoodie and woolly hat, sitting outside a petrol station and wandering around a trailer park near Los Angeles as he contemplates his next move.\n\nBieber shot to fame as a teenager after impressing manager Scooter Braun with his cover versions online.\n\nWith his first EP, 2010's My World, he became the first act to have seven tracks from a debut in the US top 100.\n\nThroughout his career the star has amassed more than 50 billion streams and shifted more than 60 million album equivalents worldwide.\n\nHis North American tour begins in Seattle, Washington, on 14 May and concludes in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on 26 September.\n\nHis tour dates make it unlikely - though not impossible - he will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nThis will be Bieber's first album and tour since marrying girlfriend Hailey Baldwin.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl from Bristol Grammar School who died while on a school trip to New York has been named by police.\n\nAnastasia Uglow, from the Redland area of Bristol, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December.\n\nA New York Police spokeswoman said there were \"no signs of trauma and no criminality was suspected\".\n\n\"The medical examiner [coroner] will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing,\" she said.\n\nHer family has been notified.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe sixth form student was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged four to 18.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's Panorama investigated London's child begging, connected to the police probe, in 2011\n\nA Romanian court has upheld the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation.\n\nThe men were arrested in 2010 as part of a large joint operation with British police - where children were rescued in London raids.\n\nThe men were accused of running a scheme where children were sent across the continent to beg and steal.\n\nHuman rights groups have criticised Monday's ruling, which puts an end to the almost-decade long legal saga.\n\nThe men were previously acquitted by a lower court in February and the appeal court, based in Targu Mures, said prosecutors had failed to present evidence.\n\nThey were originally arrested in 2010, along with another man who has since died, in raids with the help of UK police.\n\nThey had faced charges for trafficking and criminal exploitation of more than 160 unnamed children, being members of an organised criminal network and money laundering.\n\nThe case centred around the village of Tandarei in south-eastern Romania. The victims and suspects were members of the Romanian Roma community.\n\nBernie Gravett, who led the British investigation, told the BBC that he had personally seen \"truckloads\" of evidence being sent to Romanian officials in 2010.\n\n\"I know the evidence is there, I've seen it with my own eyes...\" he said.\n\n\"We convicted 120 people in the UK of child trafficking, child neglect, child exploitation, money laundering, benefit fraud and a range of other crimes. Yet Romania have not convicted a single individual.\"\n\nAccording to Europol, their Joint Investigation Team worked with London's Metropolitan police as well as the Romanian National Police force from 2008.\n\nThe 2010 operation involved 300 Romanian and British police officers and about 30 raids, AFP reports.\n\nAfter one raid in Ilford, east London, 28 children aged between three and 17 years old were placed in protective custody.\n\nPolice at the time said proceeds from the criminal enterprise were being sent back to fund luxury lifestyles in Tandarei.\n\nSilvia Tabusca, coordinator of the Human Security Programme at the European Centre for Legal Education and Research, was quoted as saying the case represented a \"huge failure\" of the Romanian justice system.\n\n\"We are talking on the one hand about an extremely vulnerable group of people that need to be protected, a very large group of Roma children. On the other hand, this is cross-border organised crime that puts in jeopardy the entire security of Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe initial acquittal, issued nine years after the men's initial arrest, caused a number of NGOs to ask international bodies to \"remind Romania of its responsibilities\" regarding trafficking.", "Josh Quigley fractured his skull during the accident\n\nA cyclist badly injured after being hit by a car in the US says he feels like the \"luckiest guy in the world\" for surviving the 70mph crash.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, was attempting to cycle round the world when he was struck by a vehicle in Temple, Texas on Saturday.\n\nHe suffered fractures to his pelvis, 10 ribs and his skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nHe was due to undergo surgery on a broken ankle and heel.\n\nMr Quigley began his round-the-world trip in Edinburgh in April. He was 2,000 miles short of his 18,000 target when he was hit.\n\nSpeaking from his hospital bed, he said: \"It hurts to talk, it hurts to breath, it hurts to lie in this bed, my ribs and my back are in agony and my ankle is sore but mentally, psychologically and emotionally I've never been better because I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.\n\n\"These things are here to help me in mental toughness, resilience, strength and this is another obstacle, probably the biggest one I've faced so far, but I will find a way to finish what I started.\n\n\"Why I feel in such good spirits is because I know how lucky I am to be alive. Being hit by a car at 70mph is a big deal to get hit that hard and to fly 50ft through the air so I know how lucky I am to be alive and I will make the most of it.\n\nJosh Quigley is undergoing an operation on his ankle\n\nMr Quigley was airlifted from the scene by helicopter. He said he was knocked down at night despite wearing reflective clothing and using strong rear lights.\n\nIt is Mr Quigley's seventh attempt at cycling around the world.\n\nHe said he was unsure when he would be able to return to riding his bike but that he hoped it would be in April.\n\nJosh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York for the latest leg of his trip. But after his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter, he changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse.", "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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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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 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.", "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 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.", "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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "* 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 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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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", "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. \"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.", "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", "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.\"", "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.\"", "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?", "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.", "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.\"", "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?", "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.", "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.", "* 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 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "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.", "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.\"", "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 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.", "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. 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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\".", "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. 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 Keri Lewis Brown 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 Jane Scullion 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\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.", "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. 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 Taylor Swift 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\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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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?", "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.", "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'", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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", "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:", "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", "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 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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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?", "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", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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?'", "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.", "(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", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.\"", "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 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.\"", "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.", "Didier Lombard had denied his reforms led staff to take their own lives\n\nThe ex-boss of France Télécom and two former executives have been jailed over a restructuring policy linked to suicides among employees in the 2000s.\n\nDidier Lombard was jailed for a year, as were Louis-Pierre Wenès and Olivier Barberot, although eight months were suspended.\n\nThe company, since renamed Orange, was fined €75,000 ($83,000; £64,000).\n\nThe court examined 39 cases of employees, 19 of whom had taken their own lives and 12 who had attempted to.\n\nThe others had lived with depression or had been otherwise unable to work.\n\nIt happened during a major restructuring of the company that affected thousands of employees.\n\nFour other executives were found guilty of complicity and given four-month suspended sentences and €5,000 fines.\n\nLombard, the former president and chief executive officer; Wenès, his deputy; and Barberot, the former director of human resources, were also given fines, of €15,000.\n\nLombard's lawyer, Jean Veil, said his client would appeal against the conviction.\n\nIt is the first time that a French court has recognised \"institutional harassment\".\n\nThe BBC's Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, says the trial has been seen in France as a landmark case for relationships between workers and management.\n\nJean Perrin, whose brother Robert took his own life in 2008, expressed satisfaction at the verdict, but told Libération: \"They never had any remorse during the trial; they constantly put the blame on subordinates. I have only disgust and contempt for them.\"\n\nAt the time, the newly privatised company was in the throes of a major reorganisation. Lombard was trying to cut 22,000 jobs and retrain at least 10,000 workers.\n\nSome employees were transferred away from their families or left behind when offices were moved, or assigned demeaning jobs.\n\n\"I'll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door,\" Lombard was quoted as telling senior managers in 2007.\n\nHe accepted that the restructuring had upset employees, but rejected the idea that it had led to people taking their own lives.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nYou might be interested in watching:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William and Lady Gaga's video call discusses how important it is to talk about mental health", "Heathrow has said its project to build a third runway has been delayed by \"at least 12 months\" after the aviation regulator rejected its spending plans.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has refused Heathrow's request to lift spending from £650m to £2.4bn before it even gets planning consent.\n\nThe CAA is concerned passengers will end up shouldering the cost if Heathrow does not win permission to expand.\n\nThe airport now expects to complete a third runway between 2028 and 2029.\n\nIn a consultation published by the CAA, it said \"the best approach in the interest of consumers\" is to limit certain early construction costs to £1.6bn.\n\nThe consultation also said an assessment by an independent fund surveyor of Heathrow's plan to open a new runway by 2026 was an \"aggressive schedule\" which would require \"maximum activity\" even before the airport knew whether it had been granted a development consent order.\n\nPaul Smith, group director of consumers and markets at the CAA, said: \"We believe that more runway capacity at Heathrow will benefit air passengers and cargo owners.\n\n\"Its timely delivery is required to prevent future consumers experiencing higher airfares, reduced choice and lower service quality.\n\n\"However, we have also been clear that timeliness is not the only factor that is important to consumers.\n\n\"Passengers cannot be expected to bear the risk of Heathrow Airport Limited spending too much in the early phases of development, should planning permission not be granted.\"\n\nThe CAA has approved Heathrow's proposal to increase its spending on planning costs from £265m to £500m.\n\nHeathrow said the CAA's announcement was \"an important milestone\" in the expansion of the airport.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We will now review the detail to ensure it will unlock the initial £1.5bn to £2bn of private investment over the next two years at no cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"While this is a step forward, the CAA has delayed the project timetable by at least 12 months. We now expect to complete the third runway between early 2028 and late 2029.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Boeing company has cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule.\n\nThe Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but then suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nIt appears the capsule burnt too much fuel as it fired its thrusters, leaving an insufficient supply to complete its planned mission.\n\nStarliner came back to Earth on Sunday.\n\nIt landed in New Mexico's White Sands testing range, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft touchdown on desert terrain.\n\nIt marked the first US land-landing for this type vehicle. Past crewed capsules have always made splashdowns in the ocean.\n\nBoeing and the US space agency (Nasa) must now review the truncated mission before deciding when to allow crew to fly aboard future Starliners.\n\nWhile this automated demonstration ticked off many of its objectives, such as a safe entry, descent and landing - it failed to achieve other key ones, the most significant being a rendezvous and docking with the space station.\n\nArtwork: The capsule ticked off many of its mission objectives - but failed to get to the ISS\n\nThe Administrator of Nasa, Jim Bridenstine, said in a press conference on Friday that Starliner had experienced a timing \"anomaly\" shortly after launch. This led the capsule to become confused over where it was in its mission sequence. Starliner then expended an excessive amount of propellant trying to maintain very precise pointing, or attitude.\n\nFlight controllers recognised the problem but were unable to intervene quickly enough because the capsule was passing between satellite links.\n\nMr Bridenstine remained upbeat, taking the positives out of the day's events.\n\n\"A lot of things went right,\" he said. \"This is why we test.\"\n\nThe Administrator then suggested that had astronauts been in the capsule, they could have helped re-direct the craft to the space station.\n\nNasa astronaut Mike Fincke, who has already been selected to fly on a future Starliner, agreed with this assessment.\n\n\"Had we been on board, we could have given the flight control team more options on what to do in this situation,\" he said.\n\nNot since 2011, when the shuttles were retired, have Americans launched from their own soil; US astronauts have been hitching rides in Russian Soyuz capsules instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The capsule launched on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida\n\nThe Starliner, and another capsule called Dragon from the SpaceX company, have been developed to reinstate the capability.\n\nThe business model will be different from the past, however.\n\nInstead of owning and operating the new capsules, Nasa will simply buy seats in the craft. And Boeing and SpaceX will also be free to sell any spare capacity to others - to other space agencies and commercial concerns.\n\nThe agency \"seeded\" Starliner and Dragon under its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The companies were given milestone payments to encourage the development of their capsules.\n\nThe vehicles are late, however; they should have been flying in 2017.\n\nMike Fincke and Nicole Mann are looking forward to flying in Starliner\n\nThat they are still at the demonstration stage is due in part to Congress squeezing the amount of money Nasa could spend on the initiative. But also because of technical set-backs, such as the explosive destruction of a Dragon capsule on a test stand.\n\nThe SpaceX craft does look closer to entering service, though, after completing its own uncrewed trial in March. Whether Boeing will now have to repeat its test flight, going all the way to the station, before it can join Dragon on the \"taxi rank\" is uncertain. \"I think it's too early to make that assessment,\" Mr Bridenstein said.\n\nIt's still possible Boeing and Nasa may decide to move directly to crewed flights.\n\nMike Fincke's Nasa astronaut colleague on the upcoming Starliner mission will be Nicole Mann. \"We are looking forward to flying on Starliner. We don't have any safety concerns,\" she commented.", "Magdalena Lesicka and Peter Chilvers had been in a relationship since 2010\n\nA woman stabbed her 23-month-old son to death following a mental breakdown triggered by her controlling pilot boyfriend, a court has heard.\n\nRyanair pilot Peter Chilvers repeatedly threatened to kill Magda Lesicka, 33, before she attacked their son, James, at her home in Wythenshawe in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 15 years last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter.\n\nChilvers, 33, has now been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Lesicka, who met Chilvers while also working for the airline, was sentenced on the basis her mental illness emerged suddenly and without any warning, and she had no memory of committing the offence on 26 August 2017.\n\nThe couple had been in a relationship since 2010 but Chilvers cheated on Lesicka from 2014 with another cabin crew member, jurors heard.\n\nChilvers, from Northwich, Cheshire, warned Lesicka in a \"visceral\" phone call, which was played in court, that she did not have the financial resources to win a custody battle.\n\nHe had repeatedly threatened to kill her if she removed James from his care and demanded they continue to live together at a new home in the Cheshire village of Wincham.\n\nIn the days before the killing, Lesicka made internet searches about \"killing in self defence\" and contacted domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, the court heard.\n\nThe Crown accepted her defence that she killed James following a breakdown induced by the \"deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment\" inflicted by Chilvers who had portrayed a \"landscape of unending misery if she did not comply with his demands\".\n\nJames Chilvers was killed at Magda Lesicka's home in Beaford Road, Wythenshawe, in August 2017\n\nChilvers' controlling or coercive behaviour, between December 2015 and August 2017, included using or threatening physical violence, forcing her into degrading sexual acts, isolating her from her friends and restricting her finances.\n\nAs part of the evidence, the court heard a 33-minute phone call made by Chilvers on the morning of 26 August to Lesicka - before the killing - in which at times he screamed profanities at her.\n\nRob Hall, prosecuting, said such behaviour confirmed his \"bullying, controlling, self-centred nature\".\n\nLesicka, a Polish national, was jailed in July last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nAt her sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court, Mr Justice Dove said James was \"dearly loved and cherished\" by those around him and had been \"caught as a tragic innocent victim between two warring parents\".\n\n\"Whatever the rights and wrongs of that dispute, the last thing that should have happened is he lose his life - killed by a parent,\" he said.\n\nJames's grandmother, Hilary Chilvers, read out her victim personal statement in court and described her grandson as being \"full of potential and promise\".\n\n\"We have all been deprived of James's presence in our life,\" she said. \"He was adorable, beautiful, inquisitive and loving.\"\n\nLesicka gave evidence in the prosecution of Chilvers, of Hewitt Grove, and parts of her victim personal statement composed in prison were read out.\n\n\"It's hard to see myself as a victim given the tragic outcome. I know my life has been changed forever and there is nothing I can do change it back,\" the statement said.\n\n\"When I started a relationship with Peter Chilvers I had absolutely no idea he would be the controlling monster I discovered him to be.\n\n\"It is important that the public understand what Peter Chilvers' abuse did to me. It destroyed me.\"\n\nMark Ford QC, defending, said character references for Chilvers provided to the court painted a \"very different picture\" to that given by Lesicka.\n\nHe said his partner Lisa Spencer had attested to a supportive, co-operative and loving relationship with him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal.\n\nMaya Forstater, 45, did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender.\n\nMs Forstater believes trans women holding certificates that recognise their transgender identity cannot describe themselves as women.\n\nBut that view is \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\", a judge said.\n\nMs Forstater, who had worked as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development, was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the \"enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering\", employment judge James Tayler said.\n\nMs Forstater was \"absolutist\" in her view, he concluded in a 26-page judgement.\n\n\"It is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,\" he continued.\n\n\"The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.\"\n\nMs Forstater had argued \"framing the question of transgender inclusion as an argument that male people should be allowed into women's spaces discounts women's rights to privacy and is fundamentally illiberal (it is like forcing Jewish people to eat pork)\".\n\nAuthor JK Rowling is among people who have come out in support of Ms Forstater.\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 Forstater, who raised more than £85,000 through crowdfunding to pay her legal bills, said in response that she was \"blown away by the support and interest in her case\".\n\n\"All I ever wanted on this was for people to be able to talk about the policy questions around sex and gender identity in a normal, open, democratic way\".\n\nGender identity is a matter of enormous public interest and there are a range of different and strongly held views.\n\nSome will regard this judgment as preventing people from expressing their honestly held belief that a person born in a male body cannot become a woman, without the threat of being dismissed from their job for doing so.\n\nOthers will see it as much needed protection for the rights of those who wish to identify as the gender they feel themselves to be.\n\nEmployment tribunal rulings are not binding legal precedents, but they do have weight, and this ruling could deter others who share Maya Forstater's views from bringing such cases in the future.\n\nMs Forstater's solicitor Peter Daly, of Slater and Gordon, said: \"The significance of this judgment should not be downplayed.\n\n\"Had our client been successful, she would have established in law protection for people - on any side of this debate - to express their beliefs without fear of being discriminated against.\"", "The government has laid out its legislative plans for the year in the Queen's Speech. From Brexit to health, trade to the environment, it gives us a sense of what politicians will be debating over the next few months.\n\nOur experts analyse what was, and wasn't, said and what it all means for you.\n\nAs well as the withdrawal agreement bill, which will pave the way for the UK's departure from the EU on 31 January, the government will have to pass a series of bills next year in other policy areas as a direct result of Brexit.\n\nSome of them will be major undertakings:\n\nThere will also be bills covering trade, financial services and cross-border legal disputes.\n\nBut passing legislation will be the easy bit - implementing it all will be the big challenge.\n\nNew systems will need to be up and running by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in just over a year's time, new staff will have to be trained, and businesses and consumers will have to be ready too.\n\nCivil servants will be under enormous pressure to deliver everything that is required under the tight timetable the government has imposed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will be among the busiest departments under Boris Johnson's new administration - a reflection of the importance he attaches to law and order.\n\nA number of measures, including those relating to domestic abuse, victims and policing, have been put forward before, but there are also new proposals on sentencing which could lead to a significant increase in the prison population among those jailed for violence, sexual assault and terrorism.\n\nPlans to extend the use of \"whole-life\" tariffs, where offenders can be ordered to spend the rest of their lives behind bars, are vaguely worded, indicating ministers are open-minded about the range of crimes for which offenders should be locked away for ever.\n\nThe idea which has the most potential to alter the criminal justice landscape is for a Royal Commission to examine the process from arrest to sentence. The last time there was such a review was in 1991.\n\nThe terms of reference and the chairperson have not been announced - they will be key to understanding which destination the government wishes the commission to steer towards. Interesting times lie ahead.\n\nEnvironmentalists have welcomed many of the provisions of the new environment bill.\n\nBut they point out that ministers are still committed to North Sea drilling, building roads that experts say will generate traffic, and blocking onshore wind power.\n\nThey have stayed silent on aviation expansion, and have imposed a moratorium on fracking, rather than the permanent ban which some in the north of England were demanding.\n\nCritics point out that the planned new green watchdog won't have the sort of powers to take legal action that prompted the UK to improve air quality under the threat of fines.\n\nAction on business rates was billed as a measure to \"keep town centres vibrant\" - but what's on the table for now will only bring limited relief.\n\nBusiness groups have long been calling for a revamp of the rates system, which raises more than £31bn for the government each year. A quarter of that burden falls on retailers, who pay regardless of profit, says the British Retail Consortium.\n\nSo a one-year extension of a discount for some retailers and an extension of the scheme to pubs, music venues and cinemas - with a saving of £320m - may feel tokenistic.\n\nThis is especially so as the cancellation of planned corporation tax rate cuts means that business across the country will have to fork out £3.2bn more in bills next year than envisaged prior to the election, rising to more than £6bn by 2024.\n\nFor greater relief, retailers will be looking ahead to the Budget and the much-touted overhaul of the rates system. However, it is questionable whether the government will be able to afford to relinquish much of what's become a key revenue raiser.\n\nMeanwhile, both business and the public sector will have to grapple with the government's plans to raise the national living wage to two-thirds median earnings by 2025 (projected to be £10.50), and lower the eligible age for the main rate.\n\nWhile the plans would in theory benefit more than four million people, alleviating in-work poverty, they have been given a cautious welcome by business groups and low-pay campaigners alike, who urge careful implementation and monitoring.\n\nWhile the increase in minimum wage to date hasn't had an impact on employment growth, these plans go into uncharted waters - at a time when there are already signs that the hiring spree of recent years is levelling off.\n\nSchools in England are promised more funding, rising by £7.1bn by 2022-23, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank says will reverse the budget cuts of the austerity years.\n\nMinimum levels of per pupil spending are increasing to £5,000 in secondary and £3,750 in primary schools, and then £4,000 in the following year.\n\nMost schools already get significantly more than this - for instance, the average for secondary schools is currently about £6,200 per year and £5,000 in primary.\n\nOnly about one in five primary schools and a third of secondary schools are below the proposed new minimum, with the biggest number of these in the South East and South West and the lowest number in London.\n\nBut the overall increase should mean an uplift across schools which have been complaining loudly about funding shortages.\n\nSo far there is no decision on whether to cut university tuition fees, other than a promise of \"better value\" for students.\n\nThe future of the NHS in England has been put front and centre of the Queen's Speech.\n\nThis is understandable given that, behind the scenes, ministers and advisers are saying there has to be an improvement in English NHS performance for the government to keep hold of the voters that backed it at the election.\n\nMinisters are making big play of the extra funding, but experts within the health service have warned even with the above-inflation sums going in, it will take years to turn the NHS around and get it back to where it was a decade ago in terms of waiting times and performance - perhaps even a decade.\n\nThe idea of enshrining into law the multi-year NHS funding settlement sounds more significant than it actually is. Ministers want to put a law in place compelling them to keep to their promises, but it makes little difference in reality.\n\nThere are also measures promising to make it easier to recruit doctors from abroad, and the government knows it faces a tough task filling the vacancy rates and growing the workforce.\n\nThere is little detail about social care - despite Boris Johnson's promise to fix the \"crisis\" in the system in his first speech as PM.\n\nInstead, he wants to seek cross-party agreement on the way forward - something that is unlikely to happen quickly, given both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been plunged into leadership races following the election.\n\nRead more from Nick here.\n\nThere are no big surprises in the busy environmental agenda outlined by the government.\n\nThe headline commitment to reduce the UK's carbon emissions to \"net zero\" by 2050 is there, as are the key elements of an environment bill and new measures on animal welfare. Left unspecified, so far, are the details of many of the initiatives.\n\nA plan to increase the power of local authorities to tackle air pollution makes no mention of whether there's new money to go with it (which is what many councils have been clamouring for).\n\nCampaign promises of new cash for flood defences, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency in homes, schools and hospitals are repeated - a key test will be how they are delivered.\n\nOpposition parties are already saying the government is failing to take the radical action needed.\n\nFor ministers, here's a moment of intense scrutiny on the horizon - COP26, the massive UN climate summit planned for Glasgow next November, when the eyes of the world will judge the sincerity of the UK's green ambitions.\n\nThe government has announced the first Royal Commission on the criminal justice system since 1991.\n\nThe last one met 44 times, took evidence from more than 600 organisations and groups, commissioned 22 research studies and lasted for more than two years.\n\nIt was part of a response to the miscarriage of justice cases, which included the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six and led to the establishment of Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nThese are different times. Many will welcome the new commission addressing the problems of what is widely seen to be a criminal justice system under extreme stress, if not in crisis.\n\nMuch of the blame for that is put down to swingeing cuts to the police and Crown Prosecution Service, as well as modern-day challenges such as getting on top of vast amounts of digital evidence obtained from mobile devices.\n\nHowever, there is real fear that the commission could be a way of kicking immediate and solvable problems into the long grass and delaying across the board investment, which many lawyers see as critical to improving a complex system in its entirety.", "Helen McCourt was murdered as she walked home from work in Merseyside\n\nProposals for a law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies have been included in the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe Prisoners (disclosure of information about victims) Bill, known as Helen's Law, recently ran out of time when the election was called.\n\nHowever, it has been resurrected in the new Conservative government's agenda.\n\nThe bill is named after Helen McCourt, whose murderer Ian Simms has never revealed where her remains are.\n\nSimms, 63, was jailed for life in 1989 after killing Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in Billinge.\n\nHe was told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nHelen's mother, Marie, has campaigned for him not to be released until he says where her body was left.\n\nEarlier in December, she spoke of her relief that the Parole Board's decision to sanction his release was to be reviewed.\n\nShe had previously said she feared the law would come too late for her, as Simms was likely to be freed before it was passed.\n\nThe inclusion of Helen's Law in the Queen's Speech will be a bitter-sweet victory for Marie McCourt, who has fought a tireless campaign to see it introduced.\n\nShe was deeply disappointed that it was dropped at the last Parliament, ahead of the snap general election.\n\nA change in personnel at the top level of government has also been frustrating. David Cameron was prime minister when the campaign to introduce the legislation began.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke later backed Helen's Law, but he then quit the cabinet over Brexit.\n\nMore than 500,000 people signed the petition Marie McCourt started to introduce Helen's law in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, St Helens North MP Conor McGinn introduced the Unlawful Killing (Recovery of Remains) Bill 2016-17 under the Ten Minute Rule.\n\nIt did not go anywhere then, but his wish that it eventually be drafted into law by the government appears to have finally come true.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooding is causing travel disruption across the south east of England after heavy rain overnight.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nOn the railways, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express passengers have been advised not to travel, with disruption on the Brighton mainline.\n\nSoutheastern said there were no trains between Strood and Maidstone West, and between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings.\n\nMotorist Ellis Hart was on his way to a work Christmas meal, but missed it when he got stuck in the M23 backlog for more than two hours.\n\nThe 26-year-old stone restorer said: \"We were all going for a curry in London, paid for by the boss. It was our Christmas bonus.\n\n\"I was looking forward to that, but I've missed it now.\n\n\"I'm just glad I didn't bring my three kids with me. I was going to drop them off with my mum on the way.\"\n\nHighways England said the stream of water on to the M23 had to been stemmed and pumps were on the scene.\n\nSoutheastern posted on its website: \"A tree blocking the railway between Strood and Maidstone West means all lines are blocked. Train services running between these stations will be suspended.\"\n\nDisruption had been expected until the end of the day, but Southeastern later tweeted that the line would remain closed until Sunday due to the damage and repair work required.\n\nServices through Tonbridge have been disrupted due to a failure of the electricity supply.\n\nA subsequent landslip at Robertsbridge meant there were no trains running between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, with replacement buses serving the route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads and trains in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are closed after heavy rain caused flooding\n\nSoutheastern said it would be introducing a phased reintroduction of trains on the line in both directions from about 17:00 GMT.\n\nIssues with flooding at Frant had been resolved, the rail company said.\n\nAlmost 50mm (2in) of rain fell in some areas in 36 hours, and the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain, saying water on roads would cause delays in some areas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\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 Highways England 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\nDetails of Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services affected have been posted on Southern's website.\n\nIt said all lines had reopened but services may be cancelled, delayed or revised, with disruption expected until the end of the day.\n\nEarth is still at risk of moving following a landslide in the Guildford area, Great Western Railway says\n\nSouth Western Railway said all lines between Guildford and Godalming were blocked after a landslip, but the lines had later reopened. Lines were also blocked between Epsom and Ewell West.\n\nGatwick Airport is \"running as usual\", but it advised customers to allow extra time for their journeys due to the flooding on the M23 and the disruption to rail services.\n\nA fallen tree and landslip at Halling has closed the Medway Valley line between Strood and Maidstone West\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said crews were helping a man who had become stuck after driving through floodwater in Coppins Road, Leigh, near Tonbridge.\n\n\"Firefighters in water-safety suits are working to release the man from his vehicle and people are asked to avoid the area due to the floodwater,\" a spokesman 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 Bishop’s Stortford 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 service warned drivers: \"Floodwater is often deeper than it looks and may be moving quite fast. Your vehicle could be swept away or become stranded.\n\n\"If you see a sign to say that the road is closed due to flooding, remember the sign is there for a reason and find an alternative route.\"\n\nDaniel Grimmett Batt took these photos of flooding in Burgess Hill, West Sussex\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued flood warnings and alerts across England.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for large parts of the south of England until midday on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will there be more flooding?\n\nA Met Office spokesman warned that more rain was \"coming from the south through the night and tomorrow\".\n\nIn Leatherhead in Surrey horses were left stranded in a flooded field after the River Mole burst its banks.\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 Adrian Harms 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 Cornwall, the A30 was closed on Thursday due to flooding, with Devon and Cornwall Police declaring a major incident in Hayle.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said there could be up to 30mm of rain in the south on Saturday, with localised flooding.\n\nThe village of Cardinham in Cornwall saw 52mm of rain over 36 hours, while Bastreet Downs got 53mm.\n\nDevon & Cornwall Police said flooding across the force area had made \"a number of roads impassable\", and Great Western Railway services between Exeter St Davids and Taunton have been disrupted.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk Police said roads in both counties had been affected by floodwater.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued about 60 flood warning across England - where flooding is expected - as well as 200 flood alerts, which warn of possible flooding.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the floods? 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Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A5 dual carriageway scheme would link Dublin to the north west of Northern Ireland\n\nEleven major capital projects in NI have not been completed on time and have run millions over budget, according to an Audit Office report.\n\nThey include the A5 road upgrade, Casement Park, Ulster University's (UU) new Belfast campus and the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital.\n\nSeven of the 11 were identified by the executive in 2015 as flagship projects.\n\nThe report highlights funding, planning and legal issues, and a lack of construction industry interest.\n\nA spokeswoman for UU said the new campus would \"deliver a progressive student experience in a state-of-the art city centre campus\".\n\nShe added: \"An independent assessment of this project's overall regeneration impact details benefits to the NI economy of £1.4bn, through this significant investment in the aspirations of our young people, the city and beyond.\"\n\nThe Audit Office report also says the Strule Shared education campus in County Tyrone will be further delayed until at least 2024 and has also gone about £45m over budget.\n\nThe biggest school building project in Northern Ireland will eventually see six schools built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh.\n\nAlthough work began on the Strule campus in 2013, only one school is currently open despite the original target date of 2020 for the entire project.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Education (DE) said it remained fully committed to delivering the programme.\n\nShe added: \"The next phase of construction for Strule Shared Education Campus has been delayed as a result of tendering issues in appointing a contractor.\n\n\"In light of this delay the campus go live date has been revised, and the Department is provisionally working towards September 2024.\"\n\nThe 11 projects identified by the Audit Office:\n\nKieran Donnelly, auditor general, said major capital projects are complex and delivery problems are not unique to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Existing, cumbersome governance and delivery structures within the Northern Ireland public sector can be a barrier to achieving value for money,\" he added.\n\nThe campus is being built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh\n\nThis is not the first report that has raised questions around how capital projects are delivered in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2013, a review of commissioning and delivering major infrastructure projects found that \"the system as a whole is not fit for purpose\".\n\nThe report did not receive universal support. Proposed reform stalled and consequently some of the improvements were not realised.\n\nThe Audit Office echoes previous reports that highlighted the need to eliminate duplication, improve project prioritisation, reduce bureaucracy, and drive better deals by increasing innovation.\n\nAn aerial view of the proposed stadium at Casement Park\n\nCapital projects are identified in the Investment Strategy, a rolling 10-year plan prepared by the Strategic Investment Board on behalf of the executive.\n\nThe original strategy ran from 2005-2015, and was updated for the period 2011-21.\n\nA further update has been put on hold following the collapse of devolution in Northern Ireland.", "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", "Revellers in the bar rushed to the aid of two women who were trapped after a car crashed through the window\n\nRevellers lifted a car off two women who were trapped when it smashed through the window of a wine bar.\n\nPolice believe the driver of the car, a man in his 70s, had \"a medical episode\" before crashing into Twelve All Saints in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on Thursday night.\n\nOne woman was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening, police said.\n\nThe driver sustained minor injuries and was also taken to hospital.\n\nWitness Helen Scarr said: \"There was rubble and glass everywhere, it was pretty scary.\n\n\"So, all the guys in the bar managed to lift the car clean off them and push it back out into the road.\"\n\nRevellers moved the car back into the road\n\nPolice believe the driver of the car had a \"medical episode\" before the crash\n\nBar owner Stephen Miskell said: \"Thankfully, they were both conscious and talking - so we are hoping and praying they are fine.\n\n\"It is times like this you see the good in people.\"\n\nThe bar has now been boarded up\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 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.", "The Cap of Maintenance and the Sword of State precede the Queen into the House of Lords chamber\n\nIt may have been billed as a less ornate affair than usual, but even a dressed-down State Opening of Parliament is hard to mistake for a casual do.\n\nThe twinkling of the tiaras and clip-clop of horses' hooves were gone, as the Queen swapped her traditional horse-drawn carriage for a Bentley.\n\nBut with the glittering gold throne and bejewelled crown sitting on a velvet cushion, there was still more than enough pomp to go round.\n\nThe Queen normally arrives by horse-drawn carriage\n\nThis time she travelled the short journey to Parliament by Bentley\n\nThe day begins in the gentle drizzle outside Parliament, as patient police officers redirect irate commuters around the cordoned-off streets, while sleek BMWs and Jaguars with personalised number plates and national flags affixed to the bonnets transport diplomats to the building.\n\nThe foreign dignitaries pack out their small section of the House of Lords - a contrast to the ample elbow room available to peers on the rest of the red benches.\n\nPerhaps the relatively sparse attendance is not surprising - it is, after all, only two months since the last Queen's Speech.\n\nOn that occasion, the Queen read out the list of her government's priorities - but it was far from clear if any of the proposed laws would be passed by such a divided Parliament.\n\nThings are very different now. After last Thursday's general election, the government has a healthy majority of 80 and is likely to have no trouble getting its policies into law.\n\nThe Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Charles, who sits on an imperceptibly smaller throne\n\nThe snap general election meant less time to prepare for the ceremony and, therefore, certain elements were dropped - the Queen wore a day dress instead of sparkly court dress and tiara.\n\nThe 93-year-old monarch no longer wears the heavy, jewel-encrusted Imperial State Crown for state openings, describing it in a documentary last year as \"unwieldy\".\n\nShe also arrived by car rather than horse and carriage - a sort of Cinderella in reverse.\n\nDespite these changes, the event, which can be traced back to the 16th Century and marks the formal start of the Parliamentary year, is still governed by tradition, and there is certainly nothing casual about the House of Lords chamber.\n\nStained glass windows line the walls, ancient coats of arms hang below the balcony, while the golden throne wouldn't look out of place in a fairy tale castle or a Donald Trump hotel.\n\nThe bright crimson robes trimmed with snow white ermine, worn by members of the House of Lords, gives the whole place a Christmassy feel, like a Santa Claus convention - appropriate for a rare December Queen's Speech.\n\nWatching the speech from the gloom of the upper gallery of the House of Lords\n\nThe grandeur of the lower part of the Lords chamber distracts from the comparatively drab upper half, where the dark statues of those lords who signed the Magna Carta, hands resting on their swords, are just about visible through the gloom.\n\nFor the Queen, it must be a slightly strange experience to read out a speech setting out your government's priorities beneath the stern gaze of those men who demanded the monarch of the day - King John - share more of his powers with them.\n\nNevertheless, Her Majesty is treated with absolute reverence as she enters the chamber. The audience rises and only sits down again when the Queen grants permission.\n\nThere is total silence as she sits awaiting the arrival of the MPs. A sign outside the Strangers' Gallery - \"all demonstrations are out of order and will be treated accordingly\" - offers an ominously vague warning to would-be hecklers.\n\nAs the elected politicians - from both the victorious party and those that were defeated - arrive in the chamber, the Queen begins her eponymous speech.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing politicians passionately repeat their election pledges in the hurly burly of the campaign trail, it feels strange to hear those same phrases filtered through the clipped, neutral tones of the monarch to a solemn, respectful audience.\n\nShe concludes her speech, picks up her black handbag and heads for the exit.\n\nAnd with that Parliament is officially opened, the tricky business of getting to power is over, the even-trickier business of governing begins.", "The last time the Duke of Edinburgh was seen in public was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital as a \"precautionary measure\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to the King Edward VII Hospital in London on Friday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said it was for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition on the advice of Prince Philip's doctor.\n\nHe was not taken by ambulance and it was a planned admission.\n\nThe duke, 98, retired from public life in August 2017.\n\nHe spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties, he has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nThe duke has not been seen in public since attending Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nPolice officers are stationed outside the hospital in Marylebone where the duke has been admitted\n\nPrince Philip's other public appearance in May was at the Order of Merit lunch, with Sir David Attenborough among the guests\n\nIn the statement, the palace said: \"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition.\n\n\"The admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness' doctor.\"\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nIt comes as the Queen arrived at her Sandringham Estate on Friday for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nGiven his age, Prince Philip is in pretty good shape. He walked away from a car accident in January - that sent his car spinning - shaken but uninjured, bar a few cuts and bruises.\n\nHe has had a series of health challenges in the past few years.\n\nHowever, the suggestion coming from the palace is that there is no immediate cause for alarm.\n\nThe Queen arrived at Sandringham this morning as planned; the duke went to hospital in a car rather than ambulance.\n\nThe hope and expectation of the Royal Family must be that he will spend Christmas back at home in Sandringham.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "Adolfo Martinez, 30, admitted to his crimes in a jailhouse interview\n\nA US judge has handed down a sentence of at least 15 years to a man who stole an LGBT pride flag from a church and burned it outside a strip club.\n\nAdolfo Martinez, 30, admitted to the media that he took the flag from Ames United Church of Christ due to his animosity towards homosexuals.\n\nHe was found guilty last month of hate crime harassment, reckless use of fire and being a habitual offender.\n\nThe incident occurred around midnight on 11 June in downtown Ames, Iowa.\n\nPolice say the crime spree began at Dangerous Curves, a strip club, when police were called because a man was making threats. By the time they arrived, he had already been kicked out by bar staff.\n\nAfter leaving the club, Martinez then travelled to the church and ripped down its flag. He then returned to the strip club where he used lighter fluid to burn the flag in the street. He also threatened to burn down the bar.\n\nHe was arrested later that day, and told local media in a jail house interview that he was \"guilty as charged\".\n\n\"It was an honour to do that. It's a blessing from the Lord,\" he said, explaining that he did it because he \"opposed homosexuality\".\n\n\"I burned down their pride, plain and simple,\" he told KCCI-TV. The interview was entered into the trial as evidence against him.\n\nChurch pastor Eileen Gebbie, who identifies as gay woman, says she agrees that Martinez' actions were motivated by hatred.\n\n\"I often experienced Ames as not being as progressive as many people believe it is, and there still is a very large closeted queer community here,\" she told the Des Moines Register when he was convicted in November.\n\n\"But 12 people that I don't know, who have no investment in me or this congregation, said this man committed a crime, and it was a crime borne of bigotry and hatred.\"\n\nStory County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said Martinez was the first person in the county's history to be convicted of a hate crime.\n\n\"The hard reality is there are people who target individuals and commit crimes against individuals because of their race, gender, sexual orientation,\" she told the Ames Tribune.\n\n\"And when that happens it's so important that as a society we stand up and people have severe consequences for those actions.\"", "Claudine Auger, pictured in London in 1968, shot to global stardom in Thunderball\n\nFrench actress Claudine Auger, best known for her role alongside Sean Connery in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, has died at the age of 78.\n\nShe died on Wednesday in Paris following a long period of illness, her agency Time Art said.\n\nAuger started out as a model, representing France and coming first runner-up in Miss World in 1958.\n\nBut she quickly developed a talent for acting, and landed roles including one in the 1962 film The Iron Mask.\n\nA few years later in 1965, she shot to global stardom as Domino in Thunderball, the fourth film in the Bond franchise.\n\nShe was the first female co-star to the James Bond character, known as a \"Bond girl\", to be from France.\n\nClaudine Auger, pictured with Sean Connery on the set of Thunderball, went on to have a fruitful career in French and Italian cinema\n\nIt was later revealed that the production team had rewritten the character for Auger. Domino was initially supposed to be Italian, but she became French.\n\n\"Bond girls\" were rarely given recognition for their acting talents, with the focus at the time instead being on their physical appearance and swimsuits.\n\nHowever, Auger approached the role as she would if she were \"playing Molière\" at a prestigious theatre, she told a TV interview in 1965.\n\nIt was \"a game, the same thing\", she said.\n\nAfter Thunderball, Auger went on to have a fruitful career in French and Italian cinema throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAmong her best known films are crime thrillers That Man George and Flic Story, and the romantic tragedy A Few Hours of Sunlight.", "Lawyers for the Security Service told a court that the rules were \"critical\" to national security\n\nRules allowing MI5 informants to commit crimes are lawful, a tribunal has ruled.\n\nHuman rights groups had argued that the government's policy was unlawful and could hide serious abuses.\n\nBut the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), in a 3-2 ruling, said MI5 has \"an implied power\" to allow crimes under the Security Service Act, although not to grant immunity.\n\nCampaigners said they will appeal the \"knife-edge\" ruling.\n\nThe case came a year after the government confirmed the existence of a previously secret document, dubbed the \"Third Directive\".\n\nSigned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, it confirmed that MI5 officers could allow their informants and agents to commit crimes in the national interest, without any duty to tell police and prosecutors.\n\nAnnouncing the decision, IPT president Lord Justice Singh said: \"This case raises one of the most profound issues which can face a democratic society governed by the rule of law.\"\n\nUnder the Security Service Act 1989, Lord Singh said MI5 had \"implied power ...to engage in the activities which are the subject of the policy under challenge\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to appreciate that this does not mean that it has any power to confer immunity from liability under either the criminal law or the civil law ...on either its own officers or on agents handled by them.\n\n\"It does not purport to confer any such immunity and has no power to do so.\"\n\nThis case reveals a fundamental tension between two vital interests: preventing crime and protecting national security.\n\nGovernment lawyers were insistent that MI5 needs to be able to send agents deep inside terror networks, and, in practical terms, how else could they appear to be credible if they were not seemingly prepared to go along with the plotting?\n\nSecondly, if the rules around such criminality were published, would the targeted suspects not just use them to sniff out the rat?\n\nThe IPT, behind closed doors, is thought to have examined records of crimes dating back to October 2000 - around the time the Human Rights Act came into force.\n\nThis raises a question: are there records of crimes that occurred before these important safeguards were introduced?\n\nIn Northern Ireland there are unresolved allegations of collusion by the security forces in serious crimes during the Troubles.\n\nAnd while security chiefs will welcome this case as protecting the work of brave agents - it doesn't provide answers to the secrets of the past.\n\nThe legal action was taken against the government by four human rights groups.\n\nPrivacy International, Reprieve, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and the Pat Finucane Centre asked the IPT to declare the policy unlawful and grant an injunction \"restraining further unlawful conduct\".\n\nThey argued that the policy \"purports to permit (MI5) agents to participate in crime\" and effectively \"immunises criminal conduct from prosecution\".\n\nA redacted document shows some of the guidance governing how MI5 can authorise its agents to commit crimes\n\nDuring the tribunal, lawyers for the Security Service had said: \"This is not a 'nice to have power'... it is critical.\n\n\"The whole point of the agent involvement is to avoid loss of life and limb.\"\n\nResponding to the ruling, Maya Foa, director of Reprieve, said the narrow 3-2 majority ruling showed \"just how dubious the government's secret policy is\".\n\n\"Our security services play a vital role in keeping this country safe, but history has shown us time and again the need for proper oversight and common sense limits on what agents can do in the public's name.\"\n\nIlia Siatitsa, a legal officer at Privacy International, said the group would seek to appeal what it called an \"abusive secretive power\". She added: \"We think the bare majority of the IPT got it seriously wrong.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and five wounded in a shooting at the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russian media say.\n\nA gunman who opened fire with an automatic weapon at the entrance of the building was killed by an armed officer, Interfax news agency reports.\n\nSecurity forces cordoned off the area and moved bystanders into buildings.\n\nThe shooting came hours after President Putin's annual press conference.\n\nArmed officers ushered bystanders into nearby buildings for their safety\n\nDetails of the incident, which began shortly after 18:00 (15:00 GMT), remain unclear.\n\nThe FSB denied earlier reports suggesting there were three gunmen in the attack on its headquarters. The unconfirmed reports said two had been killed in the lobby while the third ran off to a nearby building where he was later killed in a shootout with police.\n\nAmong the injured were two seriously hurt officers, the Health Ministry told Russian media. Shortly afterwards, the intelligence agency itself confirmed the death of one FSB officer - though it is not clear if he is one of the two reported injured in the earlier report.\n\nPolice vehicles blocked the streets outside the FSB building in Moscow\n\nRussian investigators have opened criminal proceedings into the attempted murder of law enforcement officers.\n\nThey are looking into whether the attack was timed to coincide with Vladimir Putin's four-hour press conference, which ended during the afternoon.\n\nThe area around the FSB's two main buildings in central Moscow has been completely sealed off with large numbers of police and special forces - some armed with assault rifles - in the area.\n\nEyewitness Vladimir Adyasov told the BBC that he was in the vicinity of the FSB's main building on Lubyanka Square when he heard loud bangs. Mr Adyasov said he initially thought it was fireworks, but quickly realised that it was gunfire. Police officers shouted for people to flee, he added.\n\nVideos on social media appear to show the attacker firing an assault rifle indiscriminately at the heavily-guarded building.\n\nThe attack took place on the eve of security services day - a special holiday for security staff - in Russia, and Mr Putin was addressing a meeting at the time to mark the occasion.\n\n\"We must not reduce the intensity of your work... and above all it applies to counter-terrorism,\" Mr Putin said, a short distance away from the attack in Moscow.\n\n\"Terrorism is an insidious and dangerous enemy, and the fight against it must continue systematically and decisively... with an emphasis on the prevention of terrorism, on preventive, offensive operations.\"\n\nSome footage posted on social media appeared to capture the sound of gunshots in the area of the attack, while other video showed armed men running away from the FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square.\n\nFive ambulances were also seen leaving the scene.\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\"I saw a member of the traffic police running down the road, hiding behind vehicles,\" one eyewitness told Reuters news agency.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing five ambulances at the scene in the Russian capital", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThey voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nThe bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nThe PM said the country was now \"one step closer to getting Brexit done\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU - but six of them backed the government.\n\nMr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.\n\nThe bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election.\n\nMPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess - on 7, 8 and 9 January.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\n\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill, as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous PM Mrs May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "Model and racing driver Jodie Kidd has told the BBC her anxiety in her teens was fuelled by claims in the press about her weight.\n\nKidd quit modelling as a 19-year-old, and is now hoping to raise awareness around mental health.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Alun Cairns has already been replaced as Welsh secretary by Simon Hart\n\nA former Welsh secretary has been cleared of breaking the ministerial code over claims he knew a former aide had collapsed a rape trial.\n\nAn inquiry found it \"unlikely\" Alun Cairns had not been made aware of Ross England's role in the collapse.\n\nThe investigator said those involved said they did not inform Mr Cairns of Mr England's role, and there was \"no direct evidence to contradict this\".\n\nMr Cairns insisted he did not know the details of the case.\n\nHe resigned from the cabinet in November after the row broke out, just before the official start of the general election campaign.\n\nThe position of Welsh secretary remained vacant during the campaign, in which Mr Cairns successfully defended his Vale of Glamorgan seat.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson named Simon Hart as the new Welsh secretary following the Conservative victory.\n\nIn his resignation letter to the prime minister in November, Mr Cairns said: \"I will co-operate in full with the investigation under the ministerial code which will now take place and I am confident I will be cleared of any breach or wrong-doing.\"\n\nIn April 2018, as a witness at the rape trial of his friend James Hackett, Mr England told Cardiff Crown Court he had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant - which she denied - despite the judge making it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nRoss England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservatives' conference in 2016\n\nJudge Stephen John Hopkins QC said to him: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\n\n\"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nHackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nMr England was chosen in December 2018 as the Vale of Glamorgan candidate for the 2021 Welsh assembly election.\n\nAt the time of his selection, Mr Cairns endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nIn October this year, BBC Wales discovered an email sent on 2 August 2018 to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser. It was also copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nWhen the story came to light, Welsh Conservative party chairman Lord Davies of Gower said he could \"categorically state\" he and Mr Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public\".\n\nMr England was suspended as a candidate and as an employee after details of the court case emerged, with the party saying a full investigation would be conducted.\n\nAlun Cairns endorsed Ross England as a \"friend and colleague\" after his selection as a Welsh assembly candidate\n\nThe rape victim previously said Mr England's selection \"shows how little respect they have for me\" and she called for Mr Cairns to quit.\n\nA UK Government Cabinet Office investigation was launched following Mr Cairns' resignation from Boris Johnson's cabinet in November.\n\nSir Alex Allan, the prime minister's independent adviser on ministerial standards, has concluded that the evidence does not uphold the allegations against Mr Cairns.\n\nIn his report, Sir Alex said: \"I find it unlikely that Mr Cairns would not have been told something about Mr England's role when he was told about the collapse.\n\n\"But all those involved state that they had not informed Mr Cairns of Mr England's role, and there is no direct evidence to contradict this.\n\n\"On that basis, I do not find that the evidence upholds the allegations of a breach of the Ministerial Code.\"\n\nThe rape victim told BBC Wales that she was \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the investigation's conclusion.", "Fardin Kazemi had been delivering raisins when his lorry broke down in central Poland\n\nA Polish crowd-funding initiative has raised nearly 250,000 zlotys (£50,000) to buy a new lorry for an Iranian driver, who was stranded when his vehicle broke down.\n\nFardin Kazemi was delivering raisins to Poland, and was due to continue to the Czech Republic to pick up goods for import to Iran.\n\nHe had to sleep in his vehicle, when he was unable to afford repairs.\n\n\"The Polish people have been angels for me,\" said Mr Kazemi.\n\nBased in Khoy in north-western Iran, Mr Kazemi has been driving to Europe for more than a quarter of a century.\n\nHowever, before he can return home in the new vehicle, he needs to obtain permission from the Iranian authorities to import the lorry, waiving sanctions Iran has imposed on certain goods from the European Union.\n\nFardin Kazemi's problems began on 3 December, when his 30-year-old lorry broke down in the central Polish town of Koziegłowy, north of Katowice.\n\nRepairing the lorry turned out to be uneconomic\n\nPolish lorry drivers launched an online appeal to raise money to repair the vehicle, as well as providing the Iranian with food and a place to sleep.\n\nThe initial target of 100,000 zlotys was reached within 24 hours and the total now stands at more than double that, with donations still coming in.\n\nHis mother has yet to hear about Fardin Kazemi's adventures\n\nIt has proved uneconomic to repair the lorry, so the plan is now to buy a new one.\n\nUnder Iranian law, only vehicles less than three years old can be imported, so the Polish fundraisers intend to buy a secondhand 2017 DAF XF 106 tractor unit to pull Mr Kazemi's lorry trailer.\n\nHowever, the plan may yet fall foul of Iranian sanctions against certain imports from EU countries. An exemption is now being sought for the replacement vehicle.\n\n\"I have travelled all over Europe for 27 years… so far I have not had the chance to get to know Poles better, although they have always been nice. Now it turns out that they are wonderful people, and it is difficult for me to believe their help,\" he told Dziennik Zachodni.\n\n\"We didn't tell my mother any of the details of this, so as not to worry her. She just thinks I'm at work.\"", "An armed police officer accidentally shot a driver in the arm while trying to stop his car, a police watchdog report has concluded.\n\nOfficers stopped the Mercedes car in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, on 7 August 2018.\n\nThe officer put their hand on the driver's door but accidentally fired their Glock pistol when the car pulled away, the report said.\n\nThe two people in the car later had proceedings against them dropped.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry concluded the officer had not committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.\n\nInvestigators also looked into the planning and safety of the operation by Dorset Police.\n\nThe police watchdog said the stop was carried out in line with national guidelines\n\nThey concluded it was carried out where no members of the public were in the immediate vicinity and the Mercedes had slowed to a crawl close to a roundabout.\n\nCatrin Evans, IOPC regional director, said: \"We are satisfied the shot fired by a Dorset Police officer into the car window was unintentional, and brought about by the Mercedes moving off.\"\n\nThe officer has been advised to complete a refresher armed response training course before returning to full firearms duties.\n\nDorset Police Assistant Chief Constable Julie Fielding said a \"full debrief\" would be held into the events of the night to see if there were any \"learning points\".\n\nThe passenger in the Mercedes was later charged in connection with a stabbing but no evidence was offered on the first day of his trial and a not guilty finding was returned.\n\nThe driver was charged with dangerous driving in relation to the police stop and assisting an offender. His case was discontinued and not guilty verdicts returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nAt home, no-one's ever really spoken about Johnsonism.\n\nHe's maybe been too busy facing challenges and dangers day-to-day, hour-to-hour, for a guiding philosophy to take shape, let alone find a name.\n\nBut the PM's goal of ending austerity and reuniting the country, north and south, richer and poorer, behind the Tory flag could fairly be described as a new. highly ambitious, political idea.\n\nEven so, giving a political mission a name - calling it Johnsonism - is a lot easier than pulling it off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US woman will be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had started extradition proceedings through the Home Office.\n\nUS officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\nOutside the CPS headquarters she said: \"We feel that we have made a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to Harry that we made.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton where her husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said that at the time of the crash Mrs Saccolas had \"status that conferred diplomatic immunities\" and added the foreign secretary \"stated the same in Parliament\".\n\nIt added: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an egregious abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\n\n\"We do not believe that the UK's charging decision is a helpful development.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nA statement via her lawyer said Mrs Sacoolas had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nThis has been a tortuous, raw, unrelenting, four months for Harry Dunn's family.\n\nThey cannot bear to be at the centre of what they regard as an prolonged, unnecessary, international spat between lawyers, diplomats and politicians over what, to them, was a tragic family road accident.\n\nMeeting presidents, foreign secretaries and chief constables has been an alien, disorientating experience for them.\n\nThey sometimes feel that Harry has been forgotten amid all their efforts to keep his case prominent in the minds of those who carry influence.\n\nThey know that the Home Office will now start the extradition process. They realise that although extradition may take some time, their efforts on behalf of their son now have some meaning.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab previously urged Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK voluntarily\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said a review into the immunity arrangements at Croughton for US personnel and their families had concluded.\n\nIt found that it was an \"anomaly\" that family members had \"greater protection from UK criminal jurisdiction than the officers themselves\".\n\nHe said he welcomed the decision to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Raab added: \"I hope that Anne Sacoolas will now realise the right thing to do is to come back to the UK and cooperate with the criminal justice process.\"\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said it had authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nShe said the director of public prosecutions had met Mr Dunn's family to explain the decision.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's parents Tim Dunn and Mrs Charles had previously been critical of the lack of communication from the CPS.\n\nHis father said on Friday he was \"overwhelmed\" by the CPS's decision.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Mrs Sacoolas at the White House in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which will take the UK out of the EU on 31 January, has passed all its stages in Parliament and been given Royal Assent.\n\nThe WAB turns Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement, which is a draft international treaty, into UK law and gives the government permission to ratify it.\n\nNo new clauses or amendments were passed by MPs, who also rejected changes made in the House of Lords.\n\nWhat does the WAB actually cover? Among other things:\n\nA number of clauses in the previous version of the bill have been removed. They include:\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, 426 unaccompanied children came to the UK in this way.\n\nAfter the WAB becomes law, the withdrawal agreement also needs to be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThen the stage will be set for Brexit on 31 January, when the post-Brexit transition period will begin.\n\nFor 11 months, the UK will still follow all the EU's rules and regulations, it will remain in the single market and the customs union, and the free movement of people will continue.\n\nThe challenge for the government will be to get all its new rules and policies in place by the end of this year.\n\nThis article was originally published on 21 October and has been updated to reflect changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and its passage towards becoming law.", "Boeing has launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station. It was aboard an Atlas rocket which took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.\n\nThe test flight has a dummy on board but, if it is successful, Nasa hopes that astronauts will be able to start using the craft from 2020.\n\nAstronauts haven't launched from US soil since 2011.\n\nThe capsule is due to return to Earth in New Mexico, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft landing on desert terrain on 28 December.", "The ringleaders of a nationwide drug gang who lived a lavish lifestyle which included gambling in Monte Carlo have been jailed.\n\nLiam Cornett, Michael Rice and Kieran Eves headed up the gang which spread across Hull, south Wales and Cornwall.\n\nGang leader Cornett was jailed for 26 years, while Rice was sentenced to 12 years and eight months and Eves was jailed for 13 years and nine months.\n\nTwenty-five others were also jailed at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a grenade exploded at a property on Beresford Road in Dingle, Liverpool, in March 2017.\n\nA search of the house led police to discover 160kg of amphetamines and 11kg of heroin.\n\nThis lead to an investigation led by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit featuring Merseyside Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, South Wales Police and Humberside Police.\n\nMembers of the group were seen transporting drugs and money in a County Lines operation, trying to take funds out of the country to fund Cornett's lifestyle and buying expensive cars with money.\n\nRice and Eves were stopped by armed police in Liverpool\n\nRice, 26, and Eves, 28, both of no fixed address, were stopped by police in December 2017 in a car on Smithdown Road, with a Glock handgun found in the vehicle.\n\nPolice said Cornett, 29, of Huyton in Merseyside, lived a life of luxury in Spain and gambled in Monte Carlo.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2018.\n\nDet Insp Paul McVeigh, from Merseyside Police, said: \"For a time, Cornett enjoyed a lavish lifestyle off the back of the misery of others, living most of the year in Spain, driving expensive cars and wearing expensive watches. But his web of conspiracy and deceit quickly unravelled.\n\n\"While he made some last ditch efforts to pretend he dealt only cannabis and no Class A drugs, in a desperate attempt to reduce his sentence, he failed to pull the wool over the eyes of police or the courts.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is going to be tricky - though not impossible - for Clive Lewis (pictured) and some other candidates to be the next Labour leader to get on to the ballot in the first place.\n\nUnder former leader Ed Miliband's reforms, MPs were the gatekeepers in the process - the sole nominees of candidates, with no role for the unions nor the grassroots.\n\nBut under Mr Corbyn, two more criteria were added.\n\nA candidate now also has to be nominated by \"5% of affiliates\" - translated, this means basically two of the dozen affiliated unions, or one big union and a \"socialist society\" such as the Fabians.\n\nIf this proves impossible then 5% of constituency parties would have to nominate - that is, more than 30 local groups.\n\nMr Lewis has told me that, so far, he has no union nominations, but would expect some left-led constituencies to come behind him if they want a debate.\n\nHis championing of Remain from the left and not the Blairite/centrist wing of the party endeared him to many grassroots activists.\n\nBut his difficulty is he will be fishing in the same waters as Rebecca Long-Bailey, another left-winger who is more likely to get union support.", "The use of Taser stun guns by police and England and Wales reached a record high last year, Home Office figures show.\n\nThey were deployed in 23,000 incidents in the 12 months to the end of March - up by more than a third on the previous year and double the 2016 total.\n\nIn most cases, the devices were aimed at a suspect without being fired.\n\nCivil liberty campaigners say Tasers can be lethal, but the police argue they are vital to ensure safety.\n\nThey have the support of the Home Office, which is providing funding to enable an extra 10,000 officers to carry them.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us and it is vital we give them the powers and equipment they need to fight crime and stay safe on the job.\"\n\nThe weapons - which deliver a high-voltage electric shock - were fired on 2,500 occasions between April 2018 and March 2019, which is thought to be the highest number recorded.\n\nConductive Energy Devices (CEDs) - known by their brand name, Tasers - were first trialled in UK police forces in 2003, and their use by specially trained officers was authorised five years later.\n\nThe roll-out to all forces was completed in 2013, when they were used 10,000 times.\n\nThe latest figures (23,000 deployments) represent a significant increase on the numbers recorded the previous year (17,000 deployments) and in 2016 (11,000 deployments).\n\nThe Home Office report in which the statistics were published says the increase in recent years may reflect the rise in \"the number of CED-trained officers and CEDs available\", or \"officers dealing with more incidents with the potential for conflict\".\n\nThe report looks more broadly at the use of force by police in England and Wales.\n\nIn total, there were 428,000 recorded incidents in which a police officer used force.\n\nRestraint tactics, such as handcuffing, were the most common type of force - and were used 401,000 times.\n\nThe statistics also reveal that specially trained firearms officers in England and Wales discharged baton rounds, sometimes known as plastic bullets, 43 times last year.\n\nThey were fired twice at children aged between 11 and 17.\n\nTo be issued with a Taser, police officers must have completed 18 hours of training and are then required to undergo a compulsory refresher course every year.\n\nA petition demanding all police officers in the UK are issued with Tasers has reached more than 113,000 signatures.\n\nJohn Apter, national chair of the Police Federation, told the BBC in August that officers say they feel \"vulnerable and often isolated due to the lack of this vital protective equipment\".\n\n\"Ultimately, having a Taser gives them the capability to defend not only themselves but also the public they want to protect,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Taser use remains controversial. According to Amnesty International, 18 people in the UK have died after a Taser was discharged against them by police since the device was introduced 16 years ago.\n\nOliver Feeley-Sprague, Amnesty UK's police and security programme director, said: \"A large number of officers fail the Taser training course, either in the proficiency of using it or their judgement about when to use it. This demonstrates very clearly that a Taser is not suitable for every officer.\"\n• None Should all frontline police officers use Tasers?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson 'Now is the moment to reunite our country'\n\nMPs are voting on whether to back the PM's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill would also ban the government from extending the transition period - where the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would allow the UK to \"move forward\".\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill, and there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timetable is unrealistic.\n\nThe result of the Commons vote is expected at about 14:30 GMT.\n\nThe withdrawal bill, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The sorry story of the last three years will be at an end and we can move forward.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it also \"paves the way\" for a \"ambitious free trade deal\" with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nThe bill's second reading is the first chance MPs have had to debate its main principles in the House of Commons.\n\nWith the Conservatives having won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election, the bill is expected to pass easily, before it moves on to further scrutiny by MPs and the House of Lords.\n\nMPs have been given a further three days - 7, 8 and 9 January - to continue their debate.\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nIt was back in January that Theresa May embarked on a series of Commons defeats as she tried and failed to begin the process of getting her Brexit plans approved.\n\nIt was only in October that Boris Johnson paused his own efforts when MPs rejected the proposed timetable for getting the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament.\n\nBut now, following the general election and with an 80-strong Conservative majority, things look very different.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson knows it, claiming that it's time for \"certainty\" after years of \"delay and rancour\".\n\nBut the bill will come in for criticism. Gone are clauses about workers' rights - Downing Street says that will be dealt with in separate legislation.\n\nAnd added: a provision ruling out any extension to the transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nThe process of ratifying the Withdrawal Agreement Bill will continue in the New Year but Friday's vote is, in part, designed to signal that the UK is now motoring towards that January 31 departure date.\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nHe said there had to be something better than this \"terrible\" Brexit deal that would not \"sell out public services\" or \"sacrifice hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process\".\n\nHowever, Labour MP for South Shields, Emma Lewell-Buck, said she would vote for the bill, adding: \"The party opposite have a mandate they did not have before.\n\n\"It is with the heaviest of hearts that I cannot vote with my party today but I will always put my constituents first.\"\n\nThe Queen outlined the government's agenda at Thursday's State Opening of Parliament\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour 's Lord Dubs said it was \"appalling and deeply distressing\" that his amendment to the previous Brexit bill, which proposed that the UK would continue to enable unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with their families, had been removed.\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 Alf Dubs 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\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"We remain proud of our work in receiving unaccompanied children. We'll continue to support fully the purpose and spirit of the Dubs amendment but this is not the place, in this bill, to do so.\"\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "Laura Whitmore took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2016\n\nLaura Whitmore is to step in as host of ITV2's winter edition of Love Island after Caroline Flack stood down after being charged with assault.\n\nThe broadcaster will front the show when the contestants move into a new villa in South Africa in January.\n\nShe previously replaced Flack as host of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here's ITV2 spin-off in 2011, and has a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nFlack was charged after police were called to an incident on 12 December.\n\nPaul Mortimer, head of ITV's digital channels and acquisitions, said: \"I'm delighted that Laura is able to step in this winter on ITV2's biggest show.\n\n\"She is the best person for the job and is a popular and experienced presenter of live television. Whilst Caroline is away, we know that Love Island will be in very safe hands.\"\n\nFlack had hosted Love Island since it returned to screens in 2015\n\nWhitmore said she was \"excited\" to step into the role but wished her opportunity had come under \"better circumstances\".\n\n\"Caroline is a brilliant host and also a friend,\" she said in a statement. \"We've spoken a lot in the last few days since she stepped down. She has been very kind to me and strongly pushed me for this role. I've watched her host every series and know I have big boots to fill. I will try and do it justice.\"\n\nShe added: \"Above all, I am a massive fan of this show. I've never been to a Love Island villa, and I can't wait to get in there to meet all the new Islanders looking for love. The Love Island team are the best in the business… including the voice and heart of the show, Iain. He thought he was getting a holiday away from me… not a chance!\"\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 iaindoesjokes 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 incoming Love Island host is guaranteed to be greeted in South Africa by one familiar face at least, in the form of boyfriend and Scottish comedian Iain Stirling - who does the voiceovers on the show.\n\nHe greeted the announcement of her arrival by joking: \"I wonder if she's single...\"\n\nCaroline Flack has given her approval online over the decision to replace her with Laura Whitmore\n\nFlack gave her approval to the decision to appoint Whitmore too, via her Instagram story on Friday.\n\n\"She loves the show as much as I do,\" she noted.\n\nFlack was charged with assault by beating following an incident at her Islington home in north London.\n\nPolice were called to her house, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT last week.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nThe 40-year-old will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nAnnouncing her decision to step aside, she said: \"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life.\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\nShe added: \"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\nITV announced the winter spin-off in July following the show's success over the past five summers. The company said the 2019 series reached more than six million viewers and was the most-watched programme of the year at the time among adults aged between 16 and 34.\n\nIn November, Whitmore took up her new role as a BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster, as part of the station's shake-up to their weekend line-up, which also saw Scott Mills join.\n\nThe 34-year-old had previously filled in on occasion and said at the time she was \"thrilled\" to return on a permanent basis with \"big name guests from the worlds of politics, music and showbiz\".\n\nThe Bray-born star studied at Dublin City University and made her breakthrough as a TV presenter with MTV Ireland from 2008 onwards.\n\nShe hosted I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! NOW; a companion series to the popular ITV reality show from 2011-2015, before appearing as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.\n\nUnlike Flack, who won the competition in 2014, Whitmore was voted off the show following a dance-off with eventual winner Ore Oduba.\n\nWhitmore has also worked as a model and as a co-commentator for BBC Three on the Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Finals in 2014.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Glen Sannox is one of two ferries being built to serve CalMac routes\n\nTwo CalMac ferries at the centre of a political storm over cost and delays should be scrapped and work started again, it has been claimed.\n\nIndustrialist Jim McColl has spoken out against the Scottish government's plan to spend at least £110m on the part-finished ferries.\n\nHe was in charge of the shipyard where the ferries were being built before it collapsed and was nationalised.\n\nManagement of the yard has been sharply criticised in a new government report.\n\nThe ferries were being constructed at Ferguson shipyard in Inverclyde to replace old ferries on Clyde and Hebridean routes operated by CalMac.\n\nThey are more than a year overdue.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Scotland, the former chairman of Ferguson Marine Engineering said he was taking legal advice on whether the Scottish government's attack on his management was defamatory.\n\nHe said the report into the ferry fiasco, drawn up for the government after it took ownership of the yard, was \"outrageous\" and a \"snow job\" to cover up the role of the government agency involved in procuring the ferries.\n\nMr McColl said Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited, which required numerous design changes, was the key reason why the budget and timetable went out of control.\n\nJim McColl is taking legal advice on the Scottish government's report\n\nThe ship design uses a novel hybrid power system, using marine diesel for getting in and out of ports, and liquefied natural gas while at sea. The need for new safety certificates also caused delays.\n\nMr McColl challenged the Scottish government's plan to continue building the two ships, after months of neglect. One has been moored at the quayside and the other sits on the slipway at the Port Glasgow yard.\n\nThat would effectively write off more than £80m already spent on them, while more than £45m in loans from the Scottish government have been written off.\n\nThe businessman said some materials could be used in new hulls, but that it would be better value for taxpayer money to start building again, to a simpler design. He suggested three smaller ferries could be built for the same original £97m budget.\n\nThe report published this week was strongly critical of the management of Ferguson Marine while Mr McColl was chairman, saying it lacked project and financial controls.\n\nInternal controls were reported as poor or non-existent. It said that there had been a \"major departure from the specification\" and as a result of defects, most of the pipe work would have to be removed from the engine rooms.\n\nThe attack on Mr McColl's competence is despite his success in running engineering companies around the world. He gets closely involved in management and is reckoned to be a billionaire. His advice was sought by the Scottish government as a member of its Council of Economic Advisers.\n\nThe report went on to estimate a £13m bill for remedial work on the hulls taking seven months, including removal of rust and a dry dock inspection of the first ferry's hull. There would then be a £95m bill to complete the vessels.\n\nFerguson Marine in Inverclyde was nationalised by the Scottish government in August\n\nWhereas the ships were due to be delivered in summer 2018, the first one, the Glen Sannox, is now scheduled for delivery by December 2021 and the second, known as Vessel 802, by October 2022. But that is with only an 80% probability.\n\nThere is, in addition, a warning of \"significant challenges\" to get the yard working effectively, to improve productivity, recruiting the right people and it flags up a problem in \"controlling and managing\" the sub-contracted design firm.\n\nMr McColl, who accurately predicted the doubling in cost, said: \"It'll become more than that and the vessels will take longer than they're saying.\n\n\"You'd be better building from scratch and to a design that's more suited to what's needed. They could probably build three smaller vessels for less than £100m and it would give them more flexibility.\"\n\nFacing criticisms for his own management, Mr McColl drew attention to the reports commissioned by Scottish ministers from an expert adviser over the past two years, which he says were \"damning\" of the role of the government-owned procuring company, CMAL.\n\nLuke van Beek was appointed by economy secretary Derek Mackay to report back on the state of the project, with advice on whether government loans should be released.\n\nIn a private report to ministers released under Freedom of Information law in October, Mr van Beek said that the breakdown of relations between the client and the shipbuilder should be addressed through mediation, and he advised against nationalisation of the yard.\n\nMr McColl said the minister was \"trying to put people off the scent\". Criticism of his management team was \"outrageous and unacceptable - the team selected were some of the best in the UK, and head and shoulders above those in there now. I've asked if we can sue them for defamation of character\".\n\nHe added: \"There needs to be an inquiry. The way they've handled this is incompetent\".\n\nThe Holyrood committee for the rural economy and connectivity is to carry out an inquiry into ferry procurement, looking into the contract that has gone so badly wrong and at the implications for future ferry services.\n\nThe committee convener, Conservative MSP Edward Mountain, said the aim would be to avoid mistakes being made with future orders.\n\nHe said: \"These developments clearly have important implications, not only for the completion of the two vessels but also for future plans for the replacement and refurbishment of vessels to meet the ongoing needs of the Clyde and Hebrides ferries network more generally.\n\n\"The committee wants to find out not only what has gone wrong and how things will be put right but how these problems can be avoided in the future.\"\n\n\"We need to make sure that the relevant lessons from this saga are learned for the procurement and construction of new ferries in future.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Our efforts saved Ferguson Marine from closure, saving over 300 jobs, ensured that the two vessels under construction will be completed, and secured a future for the yard.\n\n\"Scottish ministers are committed to transparency on these issues. We have kept parliament informed of progress and have proactively published information on our website.\n\n\"We welcome the opportunity to respond to any additional inquiries that the committee might wish to raise.\"", "There was a \"gross failure\" in the care of a women who died from sepsis after a three hour ambulance wait outside A&E, an inquest has found.\n\nSamantha Brousas, 49, from Gresford, Wrexham, died on 23 February 2018, two days after she was forced to wait outside Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nCoroner Joanne Lees issued a prevention of future deaths report to the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\nBut she said the failings did not cause Ms Brousas's death.\n\nMs Lees recorded a narrative verdict at the inquest in Ruthin.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) said \"lessons must be learnt\" from Ms Brousas's death.\n\nMs Brousas's daughter Sophie (centre), a medical student, questioned paramedics as to why her mother had not been given antibiotics\n\nThe inquest previously heard Ms Brousas had been suffering from a common cold over the New Year period of 2017, but her condition deteriorated around 19 February 2018.\n\nThe next day, she went to see her GP and said she felt as if she was going to die.\n\nOn 21 February, she was assessed at home and taken to hospital by ambulance, but she was forced to wait outside for three hours after being told there were no hospital beds and that the A&E department was \"under siege\".\n\nMs Brousas's daughter, a fourth year medical student at the time, said no staff came out to see her and she was not given antibiotics.\n\nSepsis, sometimes called septicaemia or blood poisoning, happens when the body's immune system goes into overdrive in response to an infection.\n\nWrexham Maelor Hospital was \"dangerous and unsafe\" because it was so busy the day Samantha Brousas came in\n\nProf Solomon Almond, an expert witness to the inquest, said Ms Brousas was already \"desperately sick\" by the time she was taken to hospital.\n\nHe said she was \"destined to die\" and the \"point of no return\" had been reached prior to her calling an ambulance on the afternoon of 21 February.\n\nThe inquest was previously told paramedics should have pre-alerted A&E staff that a severely ill woman was on her way to hospital under the guidelines.\n\nParamedic Steffan Jarvis told the hearing ambulance staff knew the hospital was so busy it was \"dangerous and unsafe\" and had not pre-alerted the hospital, despite having assessed Ms Brousas as \"high-risk, critically ill\".\n\nThe inquest also heard from Dr Kate Clark, a consultant in emergency medicine, who revealed coroners had issued a total of six regulation 28 reports aimed at preventing future deaths involving ambulances having to queue outside hospitals in north Wales.\n\nConcluding the inquest on Friday, Ms Lees said she had seen some improvements to the Wrexham Maelor A&E department, but issued a regulation 28 report to the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust citing issues regarding pre-alert policy, whether paramedics can issue antibiotics and \"absence of a meaningful escalation policy\".\n\nMs Brousas' partner Simon Goacher and her daughter Sophie Brousas said they were frustrated by what happened\n\nIn an interview with BBC Wales, Ms Brousas's long-term partner Simon Goacher said: \"They immediately recognised how ill she was and that she had sepsis.\n\n\"It isn't a case they simply don't diagnose it quickly enough, they did diagnose it straight away they just didn't treat it at all, let alone effectively.\n\n\"I didn't realise how bad it was... I knew it was dangerous but I still thought 'they can't think it's that bad otherwise they would have got her in to hospital, they wouldn't be leaving her in the back of an ambulance, they'd be treating her'.\n\n\"It's impossible to describe it if you've not been through it. It's just a nightmare. To have to be there and watch someone you love go through that is just indescribable.\"\n\nSimon Goacher and Samantha Brousas had been together for eight years before her death\n\nHer daughter, Sophie Brousas, said: \"As soon as I saw her I was just shocked at how ill she looked. Mum was quite a glamorous, well put-together lady and she looked about 20 years older, she was grey - I was really just shocked by the sight of her.\"\n\nShe said there was \"no sense of urgency\" in trying to treat her mother.\n\n\"The most frustrating thing is it wasn't a misdiagnosis. Everyone knew how ill she was and still no action was taken. I just don't understand how that could happen.\"\n\nStephen Jones, clinical negligence solicitor at law firm Leigh Day, added: \"The evidence that we have heard over the course of the inquest has been truly shocking.\n\n\"The absolute tragedy of this case is that all those healthcare professionals who came into contact with Sam on 21 February recognised at the time that she had sepsis and understood that sepsis is a potentially fatal time critical condition.\"\n\nDr Brendan Lloyd of the Welsh Ambulance Service said: \"Our ambulance service exists to preserve life so it was with a heavy heart that we learned of the death of Miss Brousas.\"\n\nHe said there were lessons to be learned for the service and health board and they had been working to reduce the risk of anything similar happening again.\n\nA number of steps have already been taken, including giving advice for paramedics to pre-alert a hospital to a patient's condition.\n\n\"We accept the conclusions of the coroner and would once again extend our thoughts and sympathies to the family of Miss Brousas,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: \"We fully accept the coroner's verdict today and we would like to extend our deepest condolences to Miss Brousas's family.\n\n\"We know that lessons must be learnt. Over the past 18 months we have worked with our partners in the ambulance service to improve the way patients are transferred when they arrive at hospital.\n\n\"This has already brought about significant improvements.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUpdate 21 December 2020: The conviction of a fourth man, Shafiq Younas, for indecent assault was overturned at the Court of Appeal on 30 July.\n\nA woman who was sexually abused and raped by men in Telford as a child says she believes young girls are still at risk in the town.\n\nFour men were jailed on on Thursday for sexually abusing Sarah - not her real name - in the latest conviction in the town's child sexual abuse scandal.\n\nAn independent inquiry is ongoing into child sexual exploitation in Telford.\n\nSarah said: \"It makes me feel sad that some girls could be out there right now going through what I did.\"\n\nSarah, who spoke to the BBC anonymously after four of her abusers were convicted, said her life was \"ruled by them\" when she was raped and abused in her early teens between 2000 and 2003.\n\n\"Every day, getting picked up, taken here there and everywhere, meeting so many men - I can't even put a number on it - it was living hell,\" she said.\n\n'Sarah' was abused in Telford in the early 2000s when she was a teenager\n\nDuring the trial, which ended in the convictions of Mohammed Ali Sultan, Shafiq Younas, Amjad Hussain and Mohammad Rizwan, jurors heard how Sarah was \"passed around like a piece of meat\" and violently abused if she resisted having sex with numerous men.\n\n\"It's gone through my mind every day and I've suffered every day,\" Sarah said.\n\n\"These men, they're vile, they're dangerous, they don't care about what they did.\"\n\nShe said she is \"very sure\" young girls are still being abused in Telford.\n\n\"These men, they're clearly all linked, and I suppose maybe because they've got away with it for so long it's still going on,\" she said.\n\nSentencing the men, Judge Melbourne Inman QC told Ali Sultan, who was already serving a sentence for previous sexual offences, \"you remain, clearly, a very dangerous man\".\n\nMohammed Ali Sultan was described as \"a very dangerous man\"\n\nFor nearly 20 years Sarah felt too frightened to come forward, having been threatened by her abusers.\n\n\"They said if I ever told anybody they would burn my house down with my family in it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was too scared to say anything to anyone\".\n\nAfter coming forward, Sarah said she feels relief, although she doesn't know how she found the strength to face her abusers in court, which she said was \"very, very hard\".\n\n\"It brought all those feelings and everything back but I have no regrets,\" she said.\n\n\"I was just determined to finally stand up to these men for what they did. Why should they get away with it?\"\n\nNow, she wants other victims to come forward.\n\n\"It feels like now I can have peace and move on. I want to put this behind me as best I can, and I want to help others to tell their story.\n\n\"I know they must be feeling scared, I know how that feels, but they've just got to be brave and they've got to speak.\n\n\"We've got to put a stop to it.\"\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel encouraged victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward\n\nDame Vera Baird QC, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, told the BBC there is a sense within the authorities that exploitation is ongoing within the country.\n\n\"The likelihood of trying to trigger a [police] operation to try and detect this is when someone discloses, so it's absolutely vital that we make it as easy and as safe as possible for people to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"[It is] highly unlikely a girl who has been brought into drink and drugs is going to go to the police because they don't expect to be believed. Furthermore they expect to get into trouble themselves.\n\n\"We have to have a very good set of support services, so we need third sector organisations properly funded so wherever a disclosure comes from there is a pathway to get people the support they need, which sometimes is life-long.\"\n\nShe said covert work, engaging a community and using organisations like Barnardos and Child Line will help build up a picture of abuse.\n\n\"In a way you need that same sort of 'see it, say it, sorted' approach to keep a vigilant watch on anything that's off that we have now got all used to with terrorism,\" she added.\n\n\"The most important thing is that when there is a disclosure we move very quickly to protect people.\"\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel, from West Mercia Police, said: \"Our enquiries as part of Operation Vapour continue and will continue as we look to bring to justice those responsible for sexually exploiting others, even if that exploitation took place years ago.\n\n\"We encourage victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward, engage with police and find support with our partner agencies.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands have demonstrated against the controversial reforms, with some brandishing EU flags and copies of Poland's constitution\n\nPoland has approved a controversial law which makes it easier to dismiss judges critical of the governing party's judicial reforms.\n\nThe legislation passed by 233 votes to 205 in the lower house of parliament in Warsaw on Friday.\n\nIt came just hours after the European Commission urged Poland to reconsider the proposed changes.\n\nDemonstrators rallied in their thousands across Poland earlier this month to protest against the law.\n\nOn Wednesday, the country's Supreme Court warned that Poland could be forced to leave the EU over its reforms.\n\nThe law now goes to the Senate after passing on Friday. The upper chamber cannot block the legislation, though it can delay it.\n\nUnder the legislation, championed by the socially conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party government, judges can be punished for engaging in \"political activity\".\n\nAny judge that questions the legitimacy of other judges nominated by the National Council of the Judiciary might be handed a fine, have their salaries cut, or in some cases be dismissed.\n\nThe PiS changed the law in 2018 allowing the lower house of parliament - which it controls - to choose the members of that council.\n\nDemonstrators have called for a judge who was suspended for questioning another judge's independence to be reinstated\n\nPiS alleges that Poland needs the reforms to tackle corruption and make the judicial system more efficient, arguing it is still haunted by the communist era. The party also insists that other EU countries allow politicians to take part in selecting judges.\n\nBut critics fear it has curtailed the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The EU has accused the party of politicising the judiciary since it came to power in 2015.\n\nEarlier on Friday, European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova wrote to Poland's president, prime minister and parliamentary speakers, calling on them to consult legal experts before proceeding with the law change, and asking them not to break EU legal norms.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the law \"risks further undermining the already heavily challenged independence of the judiciary in Poland\".\n\nThe governing party fast-tracked the bill in a little over 24 hours during an often stormy parliamentary session.\n\nOpposition MPs cried out \"Shame!\" as Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro called judges a privileged caste who ignored citizens' interests.\n\nThe minister said judges could not have the right to question the status of hundreds of newly appointed judges selected by a council which is now controlled by the governing party.\n\nSome judges have already done so after Poland's Supreme Court ruled the council was no longer an independent body.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFuneral services have taken place to remember the two victims of the London Bridge attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan at a prisoner rehabilitation event on 29 November.\n\nFamily and friends celebrated Mr Merritt's life at his funeral at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge.\n\nA memorial service for Miss Jones also took place at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nHer mother Michelle Jones, her grandmother and other family members had earlier attended a private funeral.\n\nMr Merritt and Miss Jones were at a conference organised by the University of Cambridge programme called Learning Together when Khan attacked them with a knife in Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge.\n\nMr Merritt's girlfriend Leanne O'Brien told his funeral service the pair had been \"inseparable\" and that he gave her \"the best two and a half years of my life\".\n\n\"I'll miss your big heart and how loved you made me feel. Most of all I'll miss a future that we had planned together,\" she added.\n\nMr Merritt's father David said the family had received letters from prisoners praising his son who worked for the rehabilitation programme Learning Together.\n\n\"Jack's death was a tragedy but his short life was a triumph,\" he added.\n\nAmong the mourners was musician Nick Cave, who performed Into My Arms at the end of the service.\n\nLeanne O'Brien (second from left) at the funeral service for her boyfriend\n\nFriends and family of Miss Jones, who volunteered for Learning Together, were among 500 people gathered at a private memorial service.\n\nThere were readings by her uncle Phil Jones, who read Psalm 121, and her mother who recited Nicole Lyons' I Hope That Someday When I Am Gone.\n\nRev Michael Price, deputy headteacher of Bloxham School where she had studied, said Miss Jones was a \"life-shaper\" and a woman of \"courage\".\n\n\"She made me laugh - she could be funny, she could be very funny,\" he said.\n\nA performance of I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, was followed by the James Blunt track The Greatest to conclude the service.\n\nThe front cover of the booklet given to mourners at Jack Merritt's funeral\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nIn his end-of-year message, Cambridge University vice-chancellor Stephen Toope said the \"unspeakably tragic loss\" of Mr Merritt and Miss Jones had \"hurt us deeply\".\n\n\"I ask that we do not let the manner of Saskia and Jack's deaths eclipse the manner in which they lived their lives and helped others to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"As we prepare for the holiday period, let us instead remember the values they embodied.\"", "Police were called to Bromley Road at about 19:15 GMT on Thursday\n\nTwo men have been stabbed to death and two others injured in separate attacks across London.\n\nA man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene in Bromley Road, Walthamstow, at about 19:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nIn an unrelated incident, a man in his 30s died after being attacked and was found dead in a car near Scratchwood Park in Barnet at around 20:30.\n\nAnother man in his 20s suffered stab wounds in the same incident and was taken to hospital.\n\nAn arrest has been made in connection with the Walthamstow stabbing, police said.\n\nThe Met added that a man in his 20s who was also found injured in Bromley Road, was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\nIt is the third killing in London in as many days after Albert Amofa, 33, died in hospital on Tuesday 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. Watch the explosive performance that won Camille Schrier the Miss America crown\n\nA Virginian biochemist has been named winner of Miss America 2020 after performing a live science experiment that defied stereotypes of the contest.\n\nCamille Schrier defeated 50 women to take the crown at Thursday's final in Uncasville, Connecticut.\n\nWearing a lab coat, the 24-year-old impressed judges with a chemistry demonstration in the talent show.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Ms Schrier said she hoped to \"break stereotypes about what it means to be a Miss America in 2020\".\n\nMs Schrier has two undergraduate science degrees and is studying a doctorate in pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University.\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 The Miss America Org This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by The Miss America Org\n\nShe reportedly told the celebrity panel, comprised of Kelly Rowland, Queer Eye's Karamo Brown and Superstore actress Lauren Ash, that \"Miss America is someone who needs to educate\".\n\nIn her role as Miss America, Ms Schrier will spend a year advocating for Mind Your Meds, a drug safety and prevention programme.\n\nMs Schrier's victory is expected to be viewed as another progressive step away from Miss America's traditional beauty contest format.\n\nCamille Schrier defeated 50 women to take the crown at the final in Uncasville, Connecticut\n\nSince 2018 the competition has attempted to re-brand its image, scrapping its swimwear segment and appearance-based judging criteria.\n\nInstead, contenders showcase their talents and are interviewed about their passion, intelligence and understanding of the Miss America role.\n\n\"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outwards, physical appearance. That's huge,\" said former Miss America winner Gretchen Carlson, who announced the reforms in 2018.\n\nOrganisers say the changes have encouraged more young women to participate.\n\nEarlier this year Ms Schrier, a self-confessed \"quirky scientist\", told the BBC she wanted to \"break people's stereotypes\" of those competing for the Miss America title.\n\nShe said her science experiment - the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide - was a \"big factor\" in her winning Miss Virginia in June this year.\n\nWhile acknowledging there was still \"controversy\" over these types of competitions, Ms Schrier said Miss America has \"re-branded\" and was being more \"progressive\" by focusing more on women's achievements than appearances.\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.", "Councillor Saskia Hogbin said she joined the council \"partly to put something back\" into the community\n\nA town councillor has called for rules to be changed to allow parents to claim for the cost of babysitting or childcare while they attend meetings.\n\nAs a town councillor, she cannot apply for a carers allowance payable for the care of children under 14 that is offered by Devon County Council.\n\nThe National Association of Local Councils said it would like to see the law \"reviewed and changed\".\n\nThe national body said it wanted more people from \"all backgrounds\" to stand for election but \"the current law is a barrier\" and has resulted in councillors having to stand down.\n\nThe mother of three told the BBC she had to pay £100 for childcare in order to attend meetings in August, which she had not predicted when she volunteered for the role.\n\n\"My motivation to join the council was because there wasn't any representation of young families,\" Ms Hogbin said.\n\nThe councillor said she agreed a change would encourage more people to get involved in local politics.\n\n\"Although I raised the issue initially because of my personal circumstance, I believe that all councils, whatever level they are, should be a representation of the communities that they serve.\"\n\nCouncillor Hogbin said her colleagues in the council \"are trying to do all that they can\"\n\nThe Ashburton town clerk said the legislation allowing a councillor to claim these allowances only applied at a county and district level.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman said: \"Allowances paid to elected and unelected council members are decisions for individual councils.\"\n\nThe carers allowance is not applicable to town and parish councillors but other allowances such as \"basic allowance and travelling and subsistence allowance\" would be.\n\nThere were currently no plans to review the legislation governing parish councillor allowances, the government spokesman said.\n\nDevon County Council's carers allowance would also apply to an elderly person or a councillor with a \"recognised physical or mental disability\" who should not be left unsupervised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race for 2019's Christmas number one has been won by LadBaby, who is top of the UK's festive chart for the second year in a row.\n\nThe YouTube star, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, beat Stormzy and Wham! to claim the title with his sausage roll-themed cover of I Love Rock 'n' Roll.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it was the year's fastest-selling download.\n\n\"How have we done this again?\" said Hoyle, whose song is raising money for food bank charity The Trussell Trust.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for supporting us once again, and all for an amazing cause.\"\n\nLadBaby is only the third act in chart history to score consecutive Christmas number one singles. The others were The Beatles and the Spice Girls.\n\nHoyle, from Nottingham, found fame making YouTube videos about his journey from \"lad to dad\" after the birth of his two sons with wife Roxanne.\n\nHis single I Love Sausage Rolls racked up 93,000 chart sales this week - 18,000 more than his Christmas number one last year, We Built This City On Sausage Rolls.\n\nMore than 90% of this year's sales (approximately 85,000) came from digital purchases, making it the fastest-selling download since June 2017's Artists For Grenfell charity single.\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. 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In an era when the charts chiefly measure consumption via streaming services like Spotify and YouTube, it is incredibly hard to break into the top 40 with a charity record, particularly at Christmas.\n\nMore than a dozen attempts were made to scale the chart this year, raising money for causes including The Children's Society and The British Heart Foundation - but only LadBaby reached the top 40.\n\nA Facebook campaign to propel Jarvis Cocker's Running The World into the countdown, organised by people disappointed with the result of last week's general election, also fell short, with the song landing at number 48.\n\nAs the number one was announced on BBC Radio 1, LadBaby livestreamed his reaction on YouTube.\n\nHoyle was overcome with emotion, burying his head in his hands, while his wife screamed and jumped up and down - both wearing sausage roll-themed jumpsuits they'd had printed for the occasion.\n\nAsked by Radio 1's Scott Mills if they planned to make a third attempt on the charts next year, Hoyle replied: \"Who knows? I don't want it to become a joke. It needs to still be funny and it needs to still be right. I don't want people to start boycotting it next year if we go for it.\"\n\nAt the age of 74, Rod Stewart is the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK\n\nDespite losing the chart race, Stormzy had a stellar week, placing three tracks from his new album Heavy Is The Head in the top 10.\n\nThey included Own It, which ended the week at number two, followed by Audacity at six and Lessons at nine.\n\nBut the Glastonbury headliner missed out on the top spot in the album chart, where he was pipped to the post by Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nWith Stormzy in second place, while Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line, is a new entry at three.\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. 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?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIdris Elba has been given citizenship of his father's native Sierra Leone.\n\nThe British film star landed in the capital Freetown on Wednesday for his first visit to the country.\n\nElba told the BBC's Umaru Fofana that citizenship was \"the biggest honour I could get from my country\".\n\n\"I'm no stranger to Africa: I've been in Africa, I've made films in Africa, I've championed Africa,\" he said. \"But Sierra Leone, it's a very different feeling because it's my parent's home.\"\n\n\"The welcome has been incredible, and I've plugged straight into that energy that I think Sierra Leone is rising with.\n\n\"The son of the soil is coming back to fertilise the soil.\"\n\nAs part of that commitment, the Avengers actor said that he wanted to invest in developing tourism, but also spoke about boosting the entertainment industry.\n\n\"America or England cannot house my ambition. Africa can house my ambition, I can create another Disney here [and] I can't do that in America.\"\n\nElba was born in London in September 1972. His late father grew up in Sierra Leone, and his mother is from Ghana.\n\nThe son of the soil is coming back to fertilise the soil\"\n\nThe star, who was named People magazine's \"sexiest man alive\" in 2018, is best known for his work in Marvel films, including the Avengers, as well as for the lead role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.\n\nHe also starred in a Netflix movie about child soldiers, Beasts of No Nation, which was filmed in Ghana.\n\nSierra Leone was hit hard by a civil war between 1991 and 2002, and between 2014 and 2016 nearly 4,000 people died in an Ebola outbreak which also damaged the economy.\n\nElba said he wanted to help rejuvenate and \"rebrand\" the country.\n\nHe believes that a Sierra Leonean entertainment industry has the potential to tell its own stories to the rest of the world.\n\n\"There are a lot of bright kids here who are techno-heads, [they're] really really smart. I feel like I could contribute to building a workforce that supports other nations in film and that's part of my journey.\"\n\nThe passport, Elba told the BBC, would allow him to \"come back home as a son of the soil\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Idris Elba proposed to his then-girlfriend (now wife) in London", "Bears are not just for markets where Andrew Bailey is concerned\n\nThe appointment of Andrew Bailey as the 121st Bank of England governor is a safety-first move from the government after its re-election.\n\nThe former deputy governor has long-standing experience at the Bank and takes over at a tumultuous moment in the UK's economic history.\n\nAs the current chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), he is well known internationally for his role in the regulation of the banking system and helping clean up the financial crisis.\n\nMr Bailey's challenge now will be keeping inflation low and maintaining the stability of the banking system, particularly through the Brexit process. Both require co-operation with the government, but on occasion, having to stand up to them.\n\nFocus not on the fact that Chancellor Sajid Javid has a rescue puppy coincidentally called \"Bailey\", but the reality that the new governor once helped his wife Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey fight off a grizzly bear, albeit from a distance.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, Ms Schonhardt-Bailey, a professor and head of the government department at the London School of Economics, was confronted by the bear in 2007, after it wandered into their home in New Meadows, Idaho.\n\nMr Bailey gave her \"moral telephonic support\" on the line from London, where he was trying to halt the collapse of Northern Rock.\n\nMr Bailey was the \"stand-out candidate\", Mr Javid said when making the announcement, which was confirmed after Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the recommendation to the Queen to appoint Mr Bailey.\n\nThe chancellor said it was one of the most important decisions he would have to make, denying that Brexit views were a consideration in the process. For example, Gerard Lyons, a key ally of Mr Johnson, was overlooked for the post.\n\nMr Bailey has, however, stressed the importance of being a public servant, and while applying Bank of England modelling which assumes the economy could have faced a severe hit from a no-deal Brexit, he has also suggested new options for the UK from greater regulatory freedom outside the European Union.\n\nBut the FCA, the City misconduct watchdog, has also been right at the heart of a number of some recent financial controversies, such as the closure of the Neil Woodford investment funds and the \"mini-bond\" scandal.\n\nThe government was not tempted down the path of creating a more compliant, less independent central bank, as is an emerging pattern elsewhere. It is difficult to see Boris Johnson tweeting abuse at Andrew Bailey for not cutting interest rates, as does now occur in the US.\n\nI asked the chancellor if he would welcome the Bank continuing to make frank and occasionally unflattering assessments of its Brexit plans.\n\nMr Javid said the Bank needed to be completely independent. Indeed, he chose on purpose to host the announcement in the same room where 22 years previously, Gordon Brown had announced the Bank would be responsible for setting interest rates.\n\nAt that time, Mr Bailey was the private secretary to Eddie George, a key official in the \"Ken and Eddie show\" that had decided rates up until then with Chancellor Ken Clarke.\n\nSetting interest rates and avoiding financial crises is now his show, alongside the Bank's expert committees for the next eight years. He will take over in mid-March, as Mark Carney has agreed to extend his tenure by a few weeks.", "Glenda Kenyon owns \"Gwen's house\", one of the main locations on Gavin and Stacey\n\nWhen a letter from a TV company scouting for locations in Barry came through Glenda Kenyon's door in 2006, she thought it was a wind-up.\n\nBut she phoned to check, and after a few visits the company confirmed they would like to film a new BBC comedy in her home - a terraced house, set on a steep street overlooking the Bristol Channel and the hills of Somerset.\n\nGavin and Stacey was about to change Glenda's life, after she had spent several years signed off work with chronic and severe depression.\n\n\"It was a lonely life - I was going through hell with the depression,\" she said.\n\nOriginally from England, she settled in the seaside town in south Wales and worked for 28 years in a factory assembling fruit machines.\n\n\"I used to go to the pub, out for meals, but all that stopped. I never went out; I never had many people to talk to.\"\n\nGlenda says she knew exactly what was occurring when Ruth Jones visited with her niece in April\n\nDuring filming of the first series - which told the story of a couple who fell in love during a whirlwind romance - she was put up in hotels around the Vale of Glamorgan town.\n\nSo she was not sure what to expect when she settled into her sofa in her front room to watch the debut episode.\n\n\"I kept saying, 'That's my house, that's my ornament'. I really got into it and absolutely loved it.\"\n\n\"Gwen's house\", one of the main locations of the show, is really Glenda's house - and as the show became a massive hit, people started to arrive to take photos.\n\n\"I started to talk to people, something I'd not done in a long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I still have ups and downs - but it brought me out of this silence I was in.\"\n\nGlenda leaves out a frying pan so visitors can pretend to cook one of \"Gwen's omelettes\"\n\nThe house is part of an official Gavin and Stacey tour, and 66-year-old Glenda calculates she has welcomed thousands of visitors.\n\nShe no longer has \"Gwen's\" cream sofa because the seats began to collapse - she thinks because so many people sat on it.\n\nThe living room is decorated in Gavin and Stacey memorabilia and photographs of the cast and crew, with thank you cards from guests on the shelves.\n\nGlenda calculates thousands of fans have signed her visitor book\n\nWhile she is not a fan of Gwen's signature omelettes, she leaves a frying pan on the kitchen hob which visitors can use as a prop for pictures.\n\nA stack of visitor books have been signed by people from as far afield as Australia and Hawaii.\n\nGlenda was not expecting to see the show's creators again, but Jones suddenly appeared on her doorstep in April this year, accompanied by her young niece, which the writer and actress has since admitted was a ruse.\n\n\"Ruth said, 'Hope you don't mind if I bring my niece in - can I sign your book? Can I get your phone number?'\"\n\nGlenda's memorabilia includes this photo of her from over 10 years ago on Barry Island with show creators Ruth Jones and James Corden\n\n\"I'd not seen anyone from the show for 10 years. I knew exactly what she was doing, but I never let on,\" added Glenda.\n\n\"Having said that when she was leaving, there was a couple outside who asked me if it was her and I said yes. She smiled, called me a snitch, and got out of the car to have a photo with them.\"\n\nThe cast took over Glenda's street in Barry - where Stacey's mother lives - in the summer\n\nThree months later, on a hot and sunny Friday in July, the crew began to dress the street for Christmas.\n\nIt was quiet to begin with, but the crowds began to build in the afternoon, possibly because residents in the immediate area were given notice of the filming and someone had posted the dates on a local community Facebook group.\n\n\"I don't think they were expecting those crowds,\" said Glenda, who spent the first day of filming in an upstairs bedroom. \"To be honest, I was bored stiff because I had to keep quiet.\"\n\nHowever, she did watch the actors coming and going in the street, and met James Corden, who gave her a hug and showed her pictures of his children \"because he was missing them\".\n\nMost of the rest of the filming she spent in a hotel, and she does not know any details of the storyline. Like everyone else she will find out on Christmas Day.\n\n\"I can't wait. I'm going to be glued to it from 8.30pm.\"\n\nOh! Look who's back: Ruth Jones returned as Nessa\n\nThe Christmas special was completed in the summer, and the tours and visitors have continued.\n\nGlenda said she would be prepared to open up her home again for filming, if required.\n\n\"The visitors are fantastic,\" she said. \"I love it - it has changed my life for the better.\"\n\nMatthew Horne and Joanna Page will be back on Christmas Day as Gavin and Stacey", "After a lengthy search for the next Bank of England governor, the Treasury has gone back to the candidate it first thought of.\n\nAs far back as June, Andrew Bailey was being spoken of as the favourite for the job.\n\nHowever, his time as head of the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has been marked by a number of high-profile controversies.\n\nThese included the FCA's handling of complaints into the Royal Bank of Scotland's treatment of small businesses in the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nThe FCA has also faced criticism in recent months over the demise of the flagship fund of one of the UK's best known money managers, Neil Woodford.\n\nMany thought these issues might have harmed his chances for the top job. But in the meantime, other big names cited as possible candidates for the governorship fell by the wayside and Mr Bailey emerged as the victor.\n\n\"Mr Bailey has played a slow and steady campaign,\" Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, told the BBC.\n\nMr Bailey, 60, is married with two children. He was born in Leicester and went to Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys.\n\nHe studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA First Class Honours in history and PhD in economic history.\n\nHe then became a research officer at the London School of Economics, before working at the Bank of England from 1985 to 2016.\n\nHe was chief cashier from January 2004 until April 2011, which meant his signature appeared on billions of UK banknotes.\n\nDuring the financial crisis, he was also responsible for the Bank's special operations to resolve problems in the banking sector. As a result, he was involved with the 2008 government rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS.\n\n\"The [RBS] treasurer, John Cummins, came in and I thought he was going to have a heart attack… and he looked at me and said, I need £25bn today, can you do it? I said, 'Yes, I can do that,'\" Mr Bailey said in an interview.\n\nHe then served as the Bank's first deputy governor for prudential regulation from April 2013 to July 2016.\n\nHe is highly thought of by colleagues and civil servants. Mark Carney, the man he will be succeeding as governor, has described his work in helping to manage the financial crisis and then to develop the post-crisis regulatory framework as \"exemplary\".\n\nFormer Permanent Treasury Secretary Lord McPherson described Mr Bailey as the most able and competent Bank of England official he had ever worked with.\n\nLord McPherson added that while Mr Bailey would not make waves for the government, he had the backbone to stand up to it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has revealed he was diagnosed with diabetes shortly before the general election.\n\nThe 62-year-old MP learned he had the condition, most likely Type 1 diabetes, after losing three stone\n\nSir Lindsay was urged by his family to visit doctors after becoming ill.\n\nHe said the symptoms had been so severe that he was advised to stay in hospital, but he refused to miss the election campaign.\n\nSir Lindsay was elected as Speaker shortly before Parliament was dissolved for the general election, succeeding John Bercow.\n\nHe added: \"I'm on tablets, as well as having to inject insulin, but it doesn't stop me carrying on and nothing is going to be a barrier to me.\n\n\"I'm going to cope with it. I'm going to manage it. I'm going to get through this.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also said: \"The fact is I feel really well. We know what it is - that's the good news - and of course, I have got to get over it and get on with my job.\n\n\"The House of Commons elected me to be the Speaker and there's nothing that's going to stop me from doing that.\"\n\nSir Lindsay cited former Prime Minister Theresa May as inspiration for dealing with the condition. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2013, when she was home secretary.\n\nType 1 diabetes is a result of the pancreas failing to produce any insulin, which causes deregulated blood sugar levels.\n\nSymptoms can include feeling thirsty, losing weight, blurred vision, tiredness and urinating more often than usual.\n\nSir Lindsay revealed his condition during an interview with filmmaker Rob McLoughlin for the forthcoming documentary series Mr Speaker.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, he discussed the decision to reveal his diagnosis in the documentary.\n\nHe said: \"What I wanted to do is show where I'm at and the fact I have to get on with the job I've got. And I'll live with this, I'll manage it and I want to inspire others.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also said it had been \"hard to accept\" and that the initial diagnosis had come as a \"shock to the system\".\n\nHe encouraged viewers to go their doctor if they were concerned about their health and added that he now felt \"great, full of energy and ready to get on with my role.\"\n\nChris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: \"Living with type 1 diabetes can be hard, but as Sir Lindsay's experiences have shown, with the right support from your healthcare team - and careful management - people can live full and healthy lives following their diagnosis.\"", "The family of a retired school teacher murdered during a burglary at his house in Crumlin in 2018 have said his killer should spend longer in prison.\n\nMichael Gerard Owens, 35, of Lisburn Road, Glenavy, pleaded guilty to the murder of Robert Flowerday in October and was given a life sentence.\n\nOn Friday at Belfast Crown Court, Owens was jailed for a minimum of 16 years.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Flowerday's brother Alan said: \"Life should mean life.\"\n\nOwens killed Mr Flowerday at his home on Mill Road in Crumlin during a burglary he carried out to help clear a drugs debt.\n\nThe body of 64-year-old Mr Flowerday was found in January 2018.\n\nHis family said they would never be the same again.\n\nSpeaking outside Belfast Crown Court, Alan Flowerday and his sister Pat said: \"No sentence could ever make up for the devastation Owens has done to our family.\"\n\n\"The family have been devastated by Robert's murder and our hearts ripped apart,\" added Alan.\n\n\"Today, after almost two years, we hear the judge committing this brutal murderer to a life imprisonment with a tariff of 16-and-a-half years.\n\n\"This is not justice for taking our brother's life so cruelty. Life should mean life.\n\n\"Robert's house - which was once the happy, warm, welcoming family home - is now a cold, desolate shell that presents constant reminder of the heinous crime, the tragedy, the cruelty and the torture and pain.\"\n\nThe body of Mr Flowerday was found in his home in January 2018.\n\nA hammer, hatchet and poker were used in the murder.\n\nOwens had initially denied the murder, but later pleaded guilty.\n\nMr Flowerday, who lived alone, was still involved in tutoring after he left his job at Antrim Grammar School.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 28 January 2018 after he failed to turn up for a tutoring session, something that was very out of character.\n\nThe parents of his pupil went to Mr Flowerday's home to find an \"unknown male\" inside.\n\nThey knocked the door but no-one answered and the lights were turned out.\n\nPolice then gained access to the property and found his body sitting on an armchair, covered in a duvet and one cushion.\n\nThe court was told Owens had owed money because of his cocaine addiction.\n\nThe judge said his \"attempt to steal money escalated into a violent assault\" and Mr Flowerday had suffered a \"vicious and prolonged attack in his own home\".\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Flowerday had 18 lacerations to his scalp, face and neck and 20 bruises on his hands, arms, legs and torso.\n\nHis nose and jaw were also broken.\n\nThe judge said Mr Flowerday had led a \"worthy and blameless\" life.\n\nOwens also admitted one charge of burgling Mr Flowerday's home on an unknown date between 27 January and 30 January 2018.\n\nHe was sentenced Owens to a minimum of 16 years and six months for the murder, and two years for burglary, to be served concurrently.", "At Thursday's US Democratic debate, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren criticised rival Pete Buttigieg for how he funds his campaign.\n\nShe said that Mr Buttigieg held a fundraiser in a wine cave where $900 (£690) bottles of wine were served.\n\nSeven candidates took part in the debate, as they seek the nomination to take on President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have appointed their former captain Mikel Arteta as head coach on a three-and-a-half-year deal.\n\nThe 37-year-old won the FA Cup twice in a five-year career with the Gunners and succeeds fellow Spaniard Unai Emery, who was sacked in November.\n\nArteta had been working as a coach under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, joining the club in 2016 after retiring as a player.\n\n\"We need to be competing for the top trophies in the game,\" Arteta said.\n\n\"That's been made very clear to me in my discussions with [owners] Stan and Josh Kroenke and the senior people from the club.\"\n• None 'A move Arteta has prepared all his life for' - Balague analysis\n• None 'This is a good decision' - Emery backs Arteta as Gunners successor\n\nHe will take over as Gunners boss on Sunday, leaving Freddie Ljungberg in interim charge for the trip to Everton - another of Arteta's former clubs - on Saturday (12:30 GMT kick-off).\n\nArsenal are 10th in the Premier League with 22 points, seven points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea and a potential Champions League qualifying place.\n\n\"We all know there is a lot of work to be done to achieve that but I am confident we'll do it,\" added Arteta.\n\n\"I'm realistic enough to know it won't happen overnight, but the current squad has plenty of talent and there is a great pipeline of young players coming through from the academy.\"\n\nArsenal's head of football Raul Sanllehi said the Premier League club met \"several top-class candidates\" before choosing Arteta as Emery's replacement.\n\n\"Mikel stood out to every single one of us as the perfect person for us,\" he said.\n\nArteta's coaching team has not yet been announced.\n\nLjungberg has won once in five matches since being appointed on a caretaker basis on 29 November, and the Swede called for some clarity on the situation after Sunday's 3-0 home defeat by champions Manchester City.\n\nThe Gunners have now gone six games without a win at Emirates Stadium, their longest run without a home victory since 1995. Arsenal are seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, after five victories in 17 matches this season.\n\nFormer midfielder Arteta, who made 150 appearances for the Gunners between 2011 and 2016 and captained the side, was linked with replacing Arsene Wenger at the Emirates in 2018 before the club appointed Emery.\n\nBefore joining Arsenal, Arteta spent six years at Everton, making 209 appearances. The Toffees are without a permanent manager since Marco Silva was dismissed on 6 December and also showed interest in the Spaniard.\n\nEarlier in his career, Arteta spent two years at Scottish Premiership side Rangers before joining Real Sociedad in 2004.", "Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has become the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, he said he feared \"necessary truths may go unspoken\" if he didn't put himself forward.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry is also standing, and others are expected to join the contest.\n\nMr Corbyn will stand down \"early next year\" after Labour's election defeat.\n\nOthers who have said they are considering a pitch for the leadership include Sir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Lisa Nandy.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, thought to be the favoured candidate of the current party leadership, has yet to say whether she will stand.\n\nIt comes as Laura Parker, the most senior staff member in the Momentum group which backed Mr Corbyn's leadership bid, said she is stepping down.\n\nIn an email to members, she said she would not be leaving the group but wanted to spend more time with her family.\n\nIn the article announcing his candidacy, Mr Lewis praised Labour's outgoing leader for \"inspiring a new generation of members\".\n\nBut he said \"indecisiveness\" on the issue of Brexit and \"disconnected policies\" were behind the party's poor election performance, its worst since 1935.\n\nHe added that Labour was \"never democratised on the scale\" that members expected after Mr Corbyn won the leadership in 2015.\n\nThe party, he wrote, needs an \"army of activists\" who have a \"serious democratic stake in the movement\".\n\n\"I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it,\" he added.\n\nHe distanced himself from the Blair and Brown years, saying that the party often had \"the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces\".\n\nMs Thornberry became the first official Labour leadership candidate\n\nAn early supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Lewis became a shadow energy minister shortly after Mr Corbyn became party leader.\n\nHe has been an MP since 2015, after taking the previously Liberal Democrat-held seat of Norwich South.\n\nHe rejoined Labour's frontbench in January last year, having resigned in February 2017 in order to oppose the bill triggering the Brexit process.\n\nAt the time, he said he could not in \"all good conscience, vote for something I believe will ultimately harm the city I have the honour to represent\".", "Three years late and £100m over budget. The deal to build two new CalMac ferries for Arran and the Hebrides has run into serious trouble.\n\nBack in 2015, the £97m order was seen as a lifeline for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow - the last commercial yard on the Clyde which had been rescued by industrialist Jim McColl the previous year.\n\nThat contract ended up dragging the yard back into administration. The yard has been nationalised and the final cost of building the ferries will be at least double the original estimate.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? You'll get very different answers to that question, depending on who you're talking to.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay visited the shipyard after the Scottish government stepped in\n\nMinisters have published email correspondence and a report by marine engineer Tim Hair - the \"turnaround manager\" appointed after they took the shipyard into public ownership.\n\nHe blames an \"immature design\" along with poor project management and cost controls. Here are some of the key points.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined Jim McColl and the Ferguson workforce for the slipway launch of Glen Sannox in 2017\n\nA self-made billionaire who transformed the ailing Clyde Blowers into a successful portfolio of engineering investment companies, Jim McColl claimed he was \"begged\" to step in and rescue the Ferguson shipyard when it went bust in 2014.\n\nOne of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum of that year, he enjoyed a close relationship with the Scottish government, sitting on its council of economic advisers.\n\nBut the ferry problems have strained that relationship, with Mr McColl laying the blame at the door of Caledonian Marine Assets Ltd (CMAL) the Scottish government-owned company that owns the ferries used by CalMac.\n\nCaledonian Marine Assets Ltd is the Scottish government-owned body that owns the ships and other infrastructure used by the state-owned ferry operator CalMac. CMAL - the customer in the ferry deal - emphatically rejects Jim McColl's versions of events.\n• None Call to 'scrap CalMac ferries and start again'", "Funerals have taken place for two people killed in November's attack on London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were at a prisoner rehabilitation event when Usman Khan stabbed them in Fishmongers' Hall. He hurt three others before being shot dead by police.\n\nServices were held for Mr Merritt at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge and for Miss Jones at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nThe pair were both graduates from the University of Cambridge.", "None of the original members of the breakaway group remains an MP\n\nThe Independent Group for Change is being disbanded after failing to win any seats at the general election, leader Anna Soubry has said.\n\nThe party was founded last March by Labour and Tory MPs unhappy with the direction their parties were going in.\n\nThe 11 MPs aimed to create a new centre ground force in politics.\n\nBut some left to join the Lib Dems, quit politics or run as independents, and the remaining three lost to candidates from their former parties.\n\nEight Labour MPs left the party to form the breakaway group, citing Labour's Brexit policy and record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three Remain-supporting Conservative MPs, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen.\n\nDr Wollaston later joined the Lib Dems - and lost her seat to a Tory candidate last Thursday - and Ms Allen did not stand for re-election.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger stood as Liberal Democrat candidates but were also defeated in last Thursday's election.\n\nIndependent Group for Change leader Ms Soubry came a distant third in Broxtowe, which was won by the Conservative candidate.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes, who stood as Independent Group for Change candidates, also lost their seats.\n\nGavin Shuker, who quit Labour to join Change UK before deciding to run as an independent in the Luton South poll, also failed to be elected.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the group, which was briefly known as Change UK, tweeted: \"We came together & took a stand when others wouldn't.\n\n\"It was right to shine a spotlight on Britain's broken politics. But having taken stock and with no voice now in Parliament, we begin the process of winding up our party. Thanks to all who stood with us.\"\n\nIn a statement to members, Ms Soubry said the party's failure to make an impact at May's European elections, and the subsequent defection or retirement of most of its MPs, made it \"harder for us to cut through as a distinctive political force in our own right\".\n\nBut, she added, \"we nevertheless believed it was important for us to have the courage of our convictions and to stand in the general election so that our constituents would have a full choice\".\n\n\"Whilst there is clearly a need for massive change in British politics,\" Ms Soubry went on, \"now that we no longer have voices within Parliament, a longer-term realignment will have to take place in a different way.\n\n\"Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.\"\n• None The party that didn't quite change UK politics", "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.", "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.", "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.\"", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.\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.\"", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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\".", "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 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", "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.", "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.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.", "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.", "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\".", "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.\"", "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.", "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.", "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.", "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", "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 come to the UK?", "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.", "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.", "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. 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.", "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. 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